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Old 01-26-2021, 04:45 PM   #5341
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Yes, whatever the locals thought these people were, it wouldn't be "superheroes". :-)
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Old 01-26-2021, 04:50 PM   #5342
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In Brittany-3, supers started appearing worldwide around 800 AD, completely changing the course of history. The Kingdom of Brittany was one of the first politics in Europe to offer refuge to supers, giving it the ability to expand until it had conquered Western Europe, becoming the Empire of Brittany in 951 AD. The Byzantine Empire followed its example of couple decades later and started a domino effect where every nation that wanted to survive needed to embrace supers. Similar trends occurred in the Americas, where the super adopting Taino conquered the Caribs, where the Aztecs were crushed by the Mayans, etc.

It is now 1500 AD, and supers form the aristocracies of the majority of the existent nations. While the Empire of Brittany and the Byzantine Empire share Europe, the Xia Dynasty rules China, their supers having crushed the Genghis Khan early in his career. In the West Asia, Persia rules supreme, its Shahs having destroyed Sunni Islam with their super warriors.

Infinity is frankly terrified of the timeline, despite the fact that it is only TL4. With a superhuman population of 1%, the timeline has one of the highest populations of supers known to Homeline, despite having a population of only 500 million. While M-scale superhumans are nonexistent, 10% of superhumans are D-scale and 1% of superhumans are C-scale, meaning that there are the equivalent of 50,000 main battle tanks in human form running around the timeline. The only reason that things have not gone sideways is due to some very strict codes of honor, where supers only fight supers on the battlefield, except when defending the innocent.
<shrug> And why would Infinity be terrified of that? It's already aware of a bunch of worlds with supers, manifest gods, eldritch horrors, arch magicians and so forth. They end up on the restricted list of course but they have encountered this kind of thing to often with nary a serious problem as a result to be that fearful.
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Old 01-26-2021, 05:16 PM   #5343
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Try this one...

This Q6 low manna world both terrifies and attracts Homeline, Centrum, and the Cabal. Its inhabitants seem to be able to control reality quakes.

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Well, that could be an interesting setting to game in.
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Old 01-26-2021, 05:56 PM   #5344
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<shrug> And why would Infinity be terrified of that? It's already aware of a bunch of worlds with supers, manifest gods, eldritch horrors, arch magicians and so forth. They end up on the restricted list of course but they have encountered this kind of thing to often with nary a serious problem as a result to be that fearful.
It is more the sheer numbers of supers than the fact that they exist. A C-Scale super is individually as capable as manifest gods, eldritch horrors, archmages, etc., so finding a timeline with 50,000 of them active is more than a little unsettling.
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Old 01-27-2021, 11:51 AM   #5345
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Yellowstone: This name is used to mark any time the Yellowstone hotspot has erupted since the end of the last Ice Age.

Yellowstone-1: Erupts during the Seven Years War.

Yellowstone-2: Erupts during the Mexican American War.

Yellowstone-3: Erupts just before WWII.

Yellowstone-4: This hell parallel was named erroneously: it's actually the result of super-science "mega nukes" setting off a chain reaction of volcanoes around the world.
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Old 01-27-2021, 12:27 PM   #5346
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Yellowstone: This name is used to mark any time the Yellowstone hotspot has erupted since the end of the last Ice Age.

Yellowstone-1: Erupts during the Seven Years War.

Yellowstone-2: Erupts during the Mexican American War.

Yellowstone-3: Erupts just before WWII.

Yellowstone-4: This hell parallel was named erroneously: it's actually the result of super-science "mega nukes" setting off a chain reaction of volcanoes around the world.
Note that all those times were during wars or in the run-up to wars. Homeline is investigating the possibility that these worlds have natural catastrophies linked to the political temperature "heating up", probably via some psionic mechanism.
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Old 01-27-2021, 01:23 PM   #5347
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Note that all those times were during wars or in the run-up to wars. Homeline is investigating the possibility that these worlds have natural catastrophies linked to the political temperature "heating up", probably via some psionic mechanism.
Not only are they going off during wars, but wars involving the USA (or the potential USA, in the case of Y-1). While if only 1, 3, and 4 existed it could be chalked up to the international nature of those conflicts (assuming 4 is the Cold War), with 2 in the mix things start to become more suspicious.

(Real reason: My limited thinking assumed that these had to occur such that it disrupted North American history, when the reality is with enough ash in the atmosphere it would probably mess up other times via climate shift.)
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Old 01-27-2021, 07:43 PM   #5348
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Not only are they going off during wars, but wars involving the USA (or the potential USA, in the case of Y-1). While if only 1, 3, and 4 existed it could be chalked up to the international nature of those conflicts (assuming 4 is the Cold War), with 2 in the mix things start to become more suspicious.

(Real reason: My limited thinking assumed that these had to occur such that it disrupted North American history, when the reality is with enough ash in the atmosphere it would probably mess up other times via climate shift.)
How often isn't there a major war on Earth?
Yellowstone blowing would REALLY mess up EVERYTHING. It would make The Year Without a Summer look positively balmy.
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Old 01-27-2021, 09:31 PM   #5349
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Before TL7, Yellowstone blowing would pretty much kill everyone in North America (and likely most of the rest of humanity as well). Each time a VEI-8 eruption occurred in the past, humanity nearly went extinct. The most recent VEI-8 eruption of Lake Top reduced the human population to a few thousand individuals.
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Old 01-27-2021, 11:19 PM   #5350
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Before TL7, Yellowstone blowing would pretty much kill everyone in North America (and likely most of the rest of humanity as well). Each time a VEI-8 eruption occurred in the past, humanity nearly went extinct. The most recent VEI-8 eruption of Lake Top reduced the human population to a few thousand individuals.
Even now, at TL8, it would cause such havoc to the Northern Hemisphere that it would probably crash the civilizations, up here, and move the centers of human progress to south of Equator.
https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/fo...-supereruption

I'd certainly be dead, in Denver.
Hopefully, were it to happen in my lifetime, I'd be schlepping through Asia or Europe, on vacation. :)
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