[IW] Ordinary Worlds with valuables!

[Kax]

Alexander-1

Alexander The Great has a competent doctor on his travels and survives past his thirties to his early 50s, long enough to consolidate his reign and settle his subordinates down and protect his son.

Heron's steam spinner is developed into something useful, in conjunction with many other mechanical devices that usef to be used to make temples more impressive.

Alexander's successors are competent, at least the first dozen or so, and keep the empire together. Those that are not so competent have the previous emperor's advisors, generally also competent.

Rome attempts to rise as its own force and is assimilated.

Roman and smaller kingdom's religions are allowed to do whatever as long as they don't interfere with society at large, and even then only the leaders are arrested for treason.


It is now about 400 years after the rise of Alexander; steam trains and rail expansion has got to China, approximately following the Silk Road, and Greek explorers had been taking advantage of the Chinese ships to broaden their explorations.

Indonesia and the Spice Islands are know known of, Australia is hinted at, and in a few years they will get to the Americas.


[yes, this is taken from an existing setting description]

[AlexanderHowl]

Imagine the ultimate dating/immigration service that matches Homeline billionaires with the most beautiful women/handsome men from crosstime for a fee of $10 million.

[Flyndaran]

Homeline isn't some utopia lacking any poverty. There will always be opportunities for mail order brides. No need to deal with the likely red tape and risks of cross time human traficking.

[Tomsdad]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Homeline isn't some utopia lacking any poverty. There will always be opportunities for mail order brides. No need to deal with the likely red tape and risks of cross time human traficking.

Yeah but with crosstime you can potentially match the same person more than once as well as increase the chances of finding a version who's up for it!

(I'm assuming it's a mutual consent version of matching)

[AlexanderHowl]

And there wil always be men who want to marry Helen of Troy, Mary Magdalene, Marilyn Monroe, etc and who will pay through the nose to have a service that legally finds and transports their beautiful bride.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Homeline isn't some utopia lacking any poverty. There will always be opportunities for mail order brides. No need to deal with the likely red tape and risks of cross time human traficking.

Ah but what price on crosstime duplicates of your deceased spouse who happen to be unattached in their universe?

[AlexanderHowl]

Or your high school sweetheart when she is 18, naive, and trusting?

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Ah but what price on crosstime duplicates of your deceased spouse who happen to be unattached in their universe?

Well that's got to be the most viscerally disgusting suggestion I've read on these forums in quite some time. Kudos for that at least.

We're still back to basic human traficking that just won't be profitable as anything more than a niche market on an individual psycho millionaire basis.

Even then, it sounds more like an aspect of a Homeline mafia than a specific world with valuables as this thread initially started for.

[Dr. Beckenstein]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

Or your high school sweetheart when she is 18, naive, and trusting?

Aaand here is another case for the competent, trigger-happy anti-slavery squad of the Patrol whose members all have lost friends and relatives to such scum.

Another suggestion for morally depraved cross-time smugglers - how much will a homeline millionaire pay for a new heart or kidney from a young, healthy, perfect fitting double from another timeline?

[Kax]

Bullseye-1 to about 6

The formation of the solar system is rather different in these alternates.

Jupiter is rather smaller or much further out. Hence the earth has been bombarded by a lot more of the asteroids that Jupiter protected the Earth from in the other alternates.

This makes these officially Hellworlds, as there's no life beyond lichens.

However, surface metal deposits on a planet come mostly from post-formation impacts--and these alternates have had a [I]lot[I] of impacts, several times to several dozen times as many as Homeline.

This makes them prime mining locations, even though some of them are only safe to mine while underground because they are early enough in the timeline that the asteroids and comets are still falling fairly regularly.