New Reality Seeds

[Astromancer]

Captain Future-2

The Captain Future designation covers worlds whose histories are highly similar to Homeline's but were science and technology have simply progressed faster than in Homeline's history with no explanation that the researchers can find. Some of these worlds, like Captain Future-1 explanations were found. In that case, it was simply improved teaching of math and science that gave scholars a better base to work from. Captain Future-2 remains the most mysterious.

This Q7 world simply began to advance faster in science and technology sometime in the mid-17 century. It's hard to pinpoint the actual change point because the kinds of records needed simply don't exist. However, this world seems to have entered TL5 about twenty years early and TL6 thirty years early. Grant ended Lee's army with massed machine gun fire. The Monitor and the Merrimack were airships.

The local year is 1932, the transition to TL8 is being seriously slowed down by the depression. Hitler is the social media darling of the German right with an enthusiastic following in France, Germany, Spain, England, and the Americas. British moon landings are being alternately denounced as fakes or blamed for bad weather. The Democratic presidential candidate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is proposing an American Space program. The Brits are announcing their exclusive ownership of the Moon. Meanwhile, the German and Soviet space programs chug quietly along.

Both Homeline and Centrum are pleased to notice the Atom Bomb hasn't been developed on this parallel. Homeline wonders if the Cabal has something to do with that as this parallel, weirdly for Q7, is low mana, and perfect for them and their magic style.

Basically, it's 1932 this TL8 parallel is perking along toward WWII, and a WWII that's likely to involve space battles. Meanwhile, occult conspiracies in the style of Dennis Wheatley novels is in the background. Space Opera, Occult Conspiracy, and 1930's style spy melodrama.