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It occurs to me that not only does the earth spin backwards, but it rotates around the sun the other direction, and the rest of the planets probably do too.
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04-11-2019, 02:04 PM | #1402 | |
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04-11-2019, 02:21 PM | #1403 | |
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The most intricate effects are probably those involving battles and handedness. Every Battle where the defenders have a hill securing their left flank is now a battle where a hill secures their right flank. In ancient battles right and left have small but meaningful differences due to basically every soldier being right handed. The most obvious effect is to bewilder outtimers who are in mostly familiar terrain. I'd get seriously weirded out visiting salt lake city, facing north, and having the lake on the right and the towering mountains on the left.
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04-11-2019, 03:26 PM | #1404 | |
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04-11-2019, 04:20 PM | #1405 |
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I find the more interesting scenario being one where the planet rotates the same way, but is still topologically mirrored. Climates would be dramatically changed, as would wind currents.
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04-11-2019, 04:38 PM | #1406 | |
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04-11-2019, 05:08 PM | #1407 |
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Because all of the landmarks that were previously north are still north. In the case of Salt-Lake city, antelope island is still to the north, and the Jordan river is still to the south. The mountains still have their distinct "Skylines", just reversed and on the wrong side of the sky.
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04-12-2019, 04:16 AM | #1408 |
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The sun at noon will be behind you.
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04-12-2019, 11:40 AM | #1409 |
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That still doesn't tell if Britain is across the Channel from France or Korea.
Let's try another analogy. In the original Battlestar Galactica the most common (due to massive re-use) special effects sequence was <Cylon Raider Bank right><three pairs of laser blasts><Cylon Raider explode>. The second most common sequence started with <Cylon Raider bank left>. The second sequnce was created by flipping the film so the right side was the left and vice-versa. Is this what happened to the Earth? If so the relative position of _nothing_ has been changed. Note that this does require that the Earth and possibly the whole Solar System to have been rotated through a 4th physical dimension of space. Also note that if conveyors visiting this world are not similarly rotated they will arrive going c. 2000 mph per hour in the "wrong" direction. If there is no rotation this would explain at least one version of Reality Vanish but has little roleplaying utility. If rotation does occur all passengers of the conveyor must undergo rotation as well or they go "boom" by themselves. In a "no-boom" situation where people are described as not being "flipped" it is there sense of right and left that would have to be not rotated while their physical bodes were rotated. No Earthbound instrument would support this perception but if the stars weren't rotated I guess that the sidereal chronolog would give funny results. So the "weird" aspect is how do PCs _know_ that the Earth/Solar System has been rotated? I can't think of any other effects though since the physical world was rotated symmetrically..
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