(IW) Infinity getting to Yrth

[CoyoteGestalt]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Then Infinity doesn't understand how the Ministery of Serendipity works.

Nope! They probably don't even know it exists. Won't that be a fun discovery for them?

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Then Infinity doesn't understand how the Ministery of Serendipity works.

No one understands how it works. It must in part operate on a weird law of the Banestorm universe to make such an unlikely conspiracy workable at all.

[arcanus]

Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire

Infinity's operations on Yrth should be as utterly minimal as they can manage while still keeping tabs on anything that might endanger Homeline. That White Star is there at all is pure stupidity from an in-world perspective. White Star isn't Patrol. Even if you retain the R2 classification, White Star shouldn't be there.

Of course it could have been White Star who found Yrth first, getting there through their own means. By the time they inform Infinity of their little discovery they've established themselves and its too problematic for Infinity to root them out.

As well as a Merchant house is probably Infinity's best cover.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire

Yrth has an Infinity Class of R2 ("Research, Patrol Personnel Only"). It shouldn't. It has open magic. It should be a Z2 ("Closed, Patrol Personnel Only") at best.

Infinity's operations on Yrth should be as utterly minimal as they can manage while still keeping tabs on anything that might endanger Homeline. That White Star is there at all is pure stupidity from an in-world perspective. White Star isn't Patrol. Even if you retain the R2 classification, White Star shouldn't be there.

Maybe White Star was there first. And by that I mean, before Infinity existed. Also the thought strikes me that they may be doing research on magic there because magical means of planar travel don't work there any better than technology.

[Phil Masters]

Originally Posted by CoyoteGestalt

The one thing that's always worried me a little is that if the old GURPS Tredroy is in the same chronological order with the other books, then there were mysterious traders at the Sign of the White Star rather earlier than they should have been.... ;}

3rd edition Yrth material is not automatically canonin 4th edition. We tinkered with some stuff.

[Phil Masters]

Note that though White Star may not, technically, be part of the Patrol, the two organisations are pretty much permanently in bed. White Star trading houses are just too useful as fronts for Patrol ops, and a lot of data exchange goes on. Dropping a team onto a world that should technically be closed to them may just be a cost-efficient tactic sometimes.

[CoyoteGestalt]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

3rd edition Yrth material is not automatically canonin 4th edition. We tinkered with some stuff.

Oh, I know, it's just fun to scheme. (I am very glad you fixed the constellations, by the way.)

[dcarson]

Given that dimensional travel is hard in some fashion the more the local agents can "live off the land" the better. A White Star merchant house lets them do that.

[arcanus]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Maybe White Star was there first. And by that I mean, before Infinity existed. Also the thought strikes me that they may be doing research on magic there because magical means of planar travel don't work there any better than technology.

That's a really interesting idea, IW canon states that Van Zelde started White Star to to finance Infinity through mercantile commerce.

What if he encountered a Plane Travelling Merchant dynasty called White Star, formed a partnership and imported the brand to Homeline?

Especially if said dynasty originated from a magical world rather than a technological one.

[Sunrunners_Fire]

Originally Posted by dcarson

Given that dimensional travel is hard in some fashion the more the local agents can "live off the land" the better. A White Star merchant house lets them do that.

Sending stuff to Yrth is easy (as these things go). Infinity can do that without issue. Getting stuff away from Yrth is the difficult part.