11-06-2017, 07:51 AM | #81 | |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
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You think that in our parallel terrible secrets cannot be kept for long... because we do not know about terrible secrets existing in our parallel that are successfully kept? |
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11-06-2017, 08:32 AM | #82 |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
Just the opposite. If you treat people of other realities with the same care or lack of same that you would people from your own who pose the same perceived threat, then you aren't deprecating their validity. And the truth is Homeline could be a heck of a lot worse. They could just go full 18th century and virtually effortlessly take over hundreds of realities too underdeveloped to put up a credible fight while moving into the more developed places and playing the local powers against each other to establish dominance. Instead Homeline usually just trades with them, committing no local crime more serious than operating under false identities. The notable exception is an exception. The other adventurers who play "Man Who Would Be King" are handled as criminals when they can be found.
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11-06-2017, 09:06 AM | #83 | |
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11-06-2017, 05:31 PM | #84 | |
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Something always happens to spill the beans here.
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11-06-2017, 05:52 PM | #85 | |
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It also seems to be less than fully effective even on other worlds. |
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11-06-2017, 06:11 PM | #86 |
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They know of it, but the strangle hold on the technology, and how every nation goes along with it for "secret reasons" that the public and us don't know is a conspiracy.
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11-06-2017, 09:04 PM | #87 |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
They go along with it because everyone is making a butt ton of money looting infinity. In addition, there is probably an implicit threat that nuking from parallel realities would occur if any nation did not keep the pact. It is not that difficult to imagine a skilled Jumper dropping off a tactical nuke in the capital building of any non-compliant nation before jumping to another parallel.
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11-06-2017, 09:07 PM | #88 | |
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That's the nasty thing, or a nasty thing, about parachronics. If you know the location of your target on the other Earth, you just go to the matching location with a nuke, shoot it across in an automated conveyor, and goodbye to all that. If your target doesn't know about the possibility, his first warning of trouble is when the nuke materializes inside his fortress. Even AI reaction speeds won't help Overmind much if a nuke appears out of thin air in the middle of its AI citadel. Centrum could probably erase all the Zoneminds in one stroke that way. Orbital and Luna would be more work and time to get set up, but not any harder in principle. The only limiting factor, really, is data. Centrum (or Homeline) would want to make sure they had tagged the real locations of the AI complexes and the backup bases, if they were shooting for a decapitation strike. So they'd have agents on the ground confirming that stuff, but when the time came, unless somebody told the AIs about parachronics, the robots are effectively defenseless.
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11-06-2017, 10:52 PM | #89 |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
So regarding Centrum & Homeline, how will either react to finding out Merlin-1 is exploring the worldlines now?
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11-06-2017, 11:50 PM | #90 | |
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Threatening people with mass murder and destruction of all they love and know never cows them for long. They will find ways to fight back... to try to destroy everything you love and know. Humans are nothing if not consistent in that regard.
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