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01-21-2021, 09:16 AM | #22 |
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Re: [Infinite Worlds] Compiling a list of canonical ways to cross quanta
With some of those methods the Centrum agents may not be able even to return much less send information back in a timely manner. An usable agent needs a practical route back to his bosses.
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Also the "Secret in the Storm" piece detailed how Reich-5 is in Stormbomb-1: the people Reich-5 found on Rache-Welt were used as loadstones to get to Stormbomb-1 on Q4 using their mules but the effect only lasts about an hour (the time the loadstones live for) "and then they fade back to Rache-Welt, like phantoms." If getting to Q4 was that much of a PITA for Reich-5 then how are they getting to Red Moon on Q5?
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01-21-2021, 08:22 PM | #24 | |
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-> Red Moon cell drops message on Earth-Beta -> Homeline cell recovers message from Earth-Beta and dead drops it to an accomplice traveling to Q6/7 world. -> Accomplice travelling to Q6/7 world drops message for pickup by Centrum Central (try saying that 10 times fast) It's obviously a mistake; wallpaper over it with a Nexus portal, move it to Q3 (and possibly drop Centrum), or drop Reich-5. And let's be honest; it's not as if Red Rockets' Glare with Infinite Worlds. Centrum's plan hinges on turning the Russian Mars lander into a conveyor and automatically teleporting it back to Centrum; even if it was in Centrum projector range, and Centrum had a project on Mars, it still wouldn't work, because the timing's the important thing. |
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01-21-2021, 08:42 PM | #25 | |
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I think the real intent is for GMs (and supplement writers!) to basically do whatever they want. And I just stumbled across a quote from IW204 that appears to confirm this: The default Infinite Worlds campaign sets up some fairly ironclad rules: conveyors can only travel along the same quantum without a projector (i.e., without the GM’s permission); there isn’t really reliable time travel; the quantum structure keeps trouble-some worlds away from your home base. It then sneaks around hinting at loopholes, should the GM wish to explore them: nexus portals, Gates of Thoth, and banestorms blowing Communist penguin mana and Argentine Nazis everywhere, for example. |
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01-21-2021, 09:20 PM | #26 |
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Re: [Infinite Worlds] Compiling a list of canonical ways to cross quanta
One thing that's frustrating about the presentation of nexus portals in the canon Infinite Worlds we have is that on the one hand, they seem to be common enough—Infinity is said to have encountered them on every worldline except Coventry, and presumably there are ones they haven't discovered yet, but on the other hand they seem to be a disfavored means of travel in most cases. Maintaining that balance seems tricky, and concrete examples of how to maintain it would be nice.
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01-21-2021, 11:45 PM | #27 | |
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Besides for step one the Red Moon cell would have to have a world jumper as per canon machine based Parachronic transport only works on two worlds (four if you count Time Travel): Homeline and Centrum (Homeline-2 and Centrum-2 are the other two). And if Centrum has a world jumper able to reach Red Moon why would they need to go through this complicated process? The fewer moving parts the better.
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Infinity does put effort into policing nexus portals and dimensional highways - that's what Nexus Oversight does - but to me this feels more like Infinity trying to control (or at least monitor) all parachronic travel rather than making significant use of it itself. There is an example on IW54 which gives a mission to Q8 as a reason Infinity would use a nexus portal for travel, but I'm struggling to find more. |
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01-22-2021, 05:40 AM | #29 | |
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In Infinite Cabal, which was mainly set in the UK, the characters knew of a site that was a nexus in many worlds (Wookie Hole Caves) but they never went there.
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There's a logic to it. It's probably doable for a team of Centrans to swipe a conveyor from organized crime, and thereby have a run of several Q5 timelines. There are several timelines that have lots of traffic with Homeline. A mail route that goes: -> Q5 World of Interest -> Q5 World (i.e. Earth-Beta, Gallatin) -> Homeline -> Q6/7 World (i.e. Armada-2, Brittanica-3 both have high Infinity Class) -> Centrum This would co-opt much of Infinity's infrastructure (lowering costs), and it's not as if they need to rebuild the whole system if they add another world of interest; just add more mail traveling through the Q5 World. |
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