12-02-2015, 04:50 AM | #1 |
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Shikaku-mon, Elisha Gray and the Secret
I think the the Secret is doomed in worlds like Shikaku-mon. Centrum got crosstime travel without Van Zandt, and focusing on him in Shikaku-mon will miss the true inventor for that world.
Nature cannot keep secrets. If you prevent Bell from inventing the telephone, Elisha Gray invents it. If you prevent Van Zandt from inventing parachronics in Shikaku-mon, Joe Shlabotnik invents it instead. |
12-02-2015, 01:03 PM | #2 | |
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Re: Shikaku-mon, Elisha Gray and the Secret
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Shikaku-mon's focus on electronic sophistication may have left some critical element Van Zandt or the nameless fellow (or research team) from Centrum used not in place yet. Indeed, there is some reason to believe that Van Zandt made his discovery well before the point of its' inevitability i.e. he got lucky. The worry with a true Echo timeline is that he'll get lucky again at the same time and in the same place. Shikaku Mon may not even have a Van Zandt never mind its' other divergences from Homeline..
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12-02-2015, 10:17 PM | #3 | |
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Perhaps Infinity would be better off not tryng to find Van Zandt, but trying to subvert technologies that are prerequisites for parachronics. Eliminating or suppressing them might be hard, but providing new technologies to "leap frog" developments that would eventually spin off into those prerequisites. |
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12-03-2015, 12:35 AM | #4 |
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Re: Shikaku-mon, Elisha Gray and the Secret
I don't remember it being stated outright that parachronics work there. Only that it's the only known parallel other than Centrum with the "current" date. And that only Centrum and Homeline allow full parachronic technologies.
Those two facts could be simple coincidences or due to incomplete understanding.
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12-03-2015, 01:07 AM | #5 | |
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12-03-2015, 08:00 AM | #6 |
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Re: Shikaku-mon, Elisha Gray and the Secret
Alternate Earths 2 page 111. The book where centrum is explored in detail
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