08-04-2019, 09:19 AM | #1501 | |
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08-04-2019, 09:47 AM | #1502 | |
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08-04-2019, 12:36 PM | #1503 |
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Why would star positions change? What happens on Earth should have no effect out there.
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08-04-2019, 02:51 PM | #1504 |
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Dramatica
This is one of the silliest worlds known. Dramatica appears to be an ordinary near-parallel dated around 1990. But everyone speaks in Ye Olde Style Dramatic Stage-Speak (the way everyone thinks Shakespeare and his contemporaries spoke). Typical dialogue: Man on Street: "Good day. sirrah! And how art thou this eventide?" Other-Guy: "F**keth off, thou scurvy ****!" One of the main exports is tv shows and movies. An episode of Law and Order takes on a hilarious tone when everyone is talking like a Jack Kirby Asgardian. It's rather tricky to send agents in, though. (All these worlds are serious adventure material, I felt a change-of-pace was needed.)
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08-04-2019, 04:24 PM | #1505 | |
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Being chronologically further along by itself is not enough as Z is generally used for Worlds that pose a danger to Homeline, or to The Secret. It isn't a "hell" parallels unless there is evidence that humanity once did exist there and even that is iffy. Now if the world is like the Planet Eden out of Star Trek then a Z would make sense. |
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08-04-2019, 04:30 PM | #1506 |
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The most I can imagine is restricted access until they determine how else it differs from known parallels.
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08-04-2019, 04:49 PM | #1507 | |
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08-04-2019, 06:40 PM | #1508 | |
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R: "Set aside for special study, but not immediately threatening. Such worldlines usually have strange physical laws or wildly variant cultures, dinosaurs or other exotic ecologies, or pre-Bronze Age human populations" |
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08-05-2019, 07:28 AM | #1509 | |
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But yes even if the only change is on Earth, what happens on Earth can and will have a gravitational effect on the stars. Not a big one, but perturbations to a chaotic system don't need big to produce noticeable changes with this sort of timescale to work with. You don't actually even need to change the motions of the stars to see different ones, just perturbing the sun a tiny bit puts it somewhere entirely different in the galaxy.
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08-05-2019, 07:50 AM | #1510 |
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In a truly chaotic system, that Earth wouldn't be in the exact same orbit or galaxy position.
There has to be some spooky similarities for the whole world jumping system to work.
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