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Old 02-04-2011, 06:51 AM   #1
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Default [IW] Ordinary Worlds with valuables!

The whole point of this thread is to create fairly close parallels of Homeline with something worth getting/finding/stealing and a good deal of local color/flavor. These would be useful change of pace and/or quicky adventures, or maybe just worlds that need to be protected from Centruum or Reich-5, or maybe the Cabal.

Let me introduce one.

HP-1 Homeline reserves the Lovecraft designation for scary and twisted worlds, but HP is legitimately connected to H.P. Lovecraft, because he's alive and seventy-five years old on this quantum-6 world. He simply never got cancer. A young lawyer, who was a fan of Weird Tales managed to show up in Robert Howard's hometown on the day he suicided in most timelines and talked him into visiting New York instead.

Lovecraft took charge of Howard, and in adjusting his friend to life in the big city, HP cured himself of most of his phobias and bigotries (or at least as he himself admitted, "Learned not to visit them on others.") By 1940 Lovecraft was a successful Sci-Fi author, Howard mainly wrote Westerns (but collaborated with De Camp on further Conan stories) and Ashton-Smith was convinced by his friends to return to writing.

Like Holly, this timeline is a fan's dream. White Starline buys publishing rights and film licenses (Sci-Fi and fantasy film was more active in this timeline from the mid-40's on.) Centruum is confused as to why Homeline finds this world so interesting, but they want to take this place over.

Local year 1965.

Your turn. Have fun.

Thank-you for your attention.
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Old 02-04-2011, 10:38 AM   #2
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Actually, straight mirror parallels (with no discernable differance from Homeline other than the fact "it's in the past") have tons of valuable stuff.

Imagine plundering the cargo holds of the Titanic and the Lusitania before they sunk, or stealing weapons, ammo, and equipment from any number of Allied and Axis warships just before they are destroyed.

In the case of the USS Cinncinati, that would be an atomic weapon.....

Or pillage Alexandria before it's burned by *insert name here*.

Drop into Constantinople just before the Turks capture it.

The possibilities are endless.....
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Old 02-04-2011, 12:21 PM   #3
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In the case of the USS Cinncinati, that would be an atomic weapon...
Do you mean the USS Indianapolis? She'd delivered the bomb parts before she was attacked and sunk.
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Old 02-04-2011, 03:59 PM   #4
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Do you mean the USS Indianapolis? She'd delivered the bomb parts before she was attacked and sunk.
Yeah, I meant the Indianapolis. My bad.

So you steal the bomb parts before she makes delivery.....
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Old 12-06-2017, 02:54 PM   #5
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Yeah, I meant the Indianapolis. My bad.

So you steal the bomb parts before she makes delivery.....
A missing A-bomb in 1945 would cause the greatest search & investigation in the history of man -- really modifying the timeline.

This could be fun.
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Old 12-06-2017, 03:33 PM   #6
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Yes, I think the I-Cops would get involved with that one because it could be a Homeline terrorist group trying to get a nuclear weapon.
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Old 12-06-2017, 11:49 PM   #7
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A missing A-bomb in 1945 would cause the greatest search & investigation in the history of man -- really modifying the timeline.

This could be fun.
Considering the number of American and Soviet nuclear weapons that have been lost and were not recoverable there are easier ways to find a nuke.
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Old 12-14-2022, 10:05 AM   #8
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Yeah, I meant the Indianapolis. My bad.

So you steal the bomb parts before she makes delivery.....
Very bad idea. Indianapolis delivered the bomb parts 26 July and was sunk 30 July 1945. Removing the bomb parts would likely result in delays in the production of Little Boy and Fat Man which would likely result in a kind of cascade effect.

Krypton-1 is troubling even though it was not an echo of Homeline it was Centrum's first attempt to move a timeline to a closer Quantum....and it succeeded in Centrum year 2005 (local 1981). Centrum then tried to shift the reality back to Quantum 6 and use it as a base in its battle with Infinity. (Banestorming Infinity Unlimited (June 19, 1998); GURPS IST. 59)

I remember reading the reason Centrum nuke an alternate 1902 London was to end a cascade where a world moving out of its quanta would cause a world in that quanta to move and so on.
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Old 02-04-2011, 12:25 PM   #9
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On a close parallel world, an Oxford professor delighted the world with the fruits of his imagination.

Twice.

The Lord of the Rings is still popular reading on Scribner-7, one of a series of parallels marked by different authorial careers. But here, J.R.R. Tolkien actually got around to fulfilling his half of a bargain made with C.S. Lewis -- to write a time-travel story to go with Lewis's space travel novels (Out of the Silent Planet and its successors). Finally published in the 1960s after many delays, the resulting mix of fantasy and history known as The Lost Road proved to be every bit as succesful as LotR, and indeed many Tolkien fans will argue among themselves about which is the greater of the two works.

To all things, there is a price, though. The increased attention to The Lost Road meant even less time available for exploring the First and Second Ages of Middle Earth. The Silmarillion exists here only as a loose collection of notes and half-worked ideas that even Christopher Tolkien gave up on trying to organize ... though it has occurred to the occasional visitor that there could be some serious profits in introducing our own world's volume as a "lost work" now recovered.
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Old 02-04-2011, 12:46 PM   #10
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My personal geekish fantasy:

On Whedon 1 the science fiction show "Firefly" was given the full support and backing of the Fox network, and it's executives took a hands-off approach to Joss Whedon's show. As a result, Firefly built a solid following of fans over time and increased critical appreciation.

As of local year 2006, the show has eclipsed the popularity of the earlier "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Fans are eagerly anticipating it's 5 season.
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