New Reality Seeds

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by johndallman

What happened from the point of view of the inhabitants? Did it all change suddenly, or gradually, or have there always been these disparities?

As far as the inhabitants are concerned the changes happened a few weeks ago. At first everyone thought they were not touched by the effect. Because they can still get telemetry from Mars rovers and the base that was placed in orbit around Mars for the Manned Mars flight that was planed, and other probes throughout the Solar system, the folks on the Moon think the phenomena might be limited to the Earth. But they can't know.

Most of Europe west of Russia's 1939 borders is in the years 1940, 1942, or 1943. Exceptions in Western Europe have been noted. Greece is in the later 1950's and the NATO bases have warned the Germans to stay out.

Russia, on the western side of the Urals, is scattered throughout the Soviet period. To the East of the Urals it's far more random but within the 1895-2027 limits.

The largest areas under single years are in the USA. The Eastern USA (Atlantic to Mississippi) is mainly in the year 1971. The USA between the Mississippi and the Continental Divide is in the year 1897. Between the Pacific and the continental divide most of the USA is in the year 2017, a highly prosperous Tech Level Nine version of that year.

Most of the rest of the planet in broken into time distortion areas roughly the size of Wales under one year or another. But smaller and larger time distortion areas exist, with lower population areas tending to be larger.