New Reality Seeds

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Gedrin

Prime Directive - X: The "Prime Directive" worlds are named for the fictional Prime Directive from the StarTrek television show common on worlds close to Homeline. Homeline has recently uncovered a string of worlds where a, yet unknown, party has deliberately introduced technologies vastly in advance of the development of that parallel. While the pattern of introducing disruptive tech is shared, nothing else seems to be in common among these worlds. This has lead Homeline to speculate the PD worlds represent a series of experiments.

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PD-3: Near the height of its power, Rome has been given the steam engine.

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The steam engine requires far more than knowledge to work. You need TL 5 metallurgy as well as thermodynamics.

The Prime Directive is about NOT interfering. Why would they name worlds that based on its overt violation?

Homeline would assume some strange experiment by Centrum or worse other Crosstime culture. Especially if the technology given isn't above 8 or so requiring extraterrestrials.