01-18-2018, 04:43 AM | #3131 |
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Re: New Reality Seeds
But the I-Cops (and the US equivalent) would have to have agents on every corresponding point to the White House in every Q5 timeline. And the White House is not the only high value target. For example, North Korea would just have to pace an aircraft battle group on Homeline with a ship on another timeline and send over a drone with a nuke when its path intersects with the target. Within a moment, $20 billion of military hardware is vaporized and 12,000 military personnel are dead. It does not take that many crosstime attacks to escalate to WW III on Homeline.
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01-18-2018, 05:47 AM | #3132 | |
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It's also worth remembering that since it isn't relevant to any *cross time* adventure plots we don't really know what defenses if any Homeline governments have against conveyers. A defense system that causes one trying to materialize in restricted space to end up in Vanish wouldn't matter a bit to anything in the published material if it cost enough (or didn't work on lines that couldn't build projectors so Infinity has basically no use for it off Homeline). If you are trying to make the setting make sense you really will need people to have parachronic detection and defense technologies they haven't necessarily shared with Infinity.
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01-19-2018, 01:41 PM | #3133 |
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Re: New Reality Seeds
According to the book I'm reading, John Fisher had planed to get Margaret Beaufort declared a saint. This is rather wild, Henry VIII's grandmother might have been declared a saint.
Try this campaign. Catholics in late Elizabethan England are trying to convince people that they can be Catholic and loyal. Elizabeth is inclined to allow this, until groups of harebrained fools try to kill her, then everyone panics for awhile. That much is like our history. Mean while, John Fisher had escaped to France and Henry VIII couldn't kill him. He published his biography of Margaret Beaufort and the pope later advanced her to the status of Beatus. Now proof of a miracle is needed to allow Margaret Beaufort to become a saint. The Catholics are trying to find that miracle in England. Meanwhile protestants hold that the age of miracles has past. Thus finding a miracle and declaring a woman who was the mother and grand mothers of English monarchs a saint would pose a problem. The PCs could be either trying to find a miracle, prevent the finding of a miracle, calm everyone down so no one gets killed, create a phony miracle in hopes of reward, or simply record the chaos for an out time symposia on religious violence.
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01-19-2018, 01:56 PM | #3134 | |
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I think the creators of Infinite Worlds intentionally wanted to parallel parachronics and nukes. The fear isn't states using parachronics in war, but terrorists - like how IRL we're more worried about terrorists getting nukes than even North Korea. North Korea has nukes and, it seems like, missiles that could reach the U.S., but is constrained by the response to using them. |
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01-19-2018, 10:17 PM | #3135 |
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Re: New Reality Seeds
Try this idea...
Victorian England had a strong republican movement in the midcentury period. Basically Victoria morbidity and reactionary politics took away respecy for the monarchy. In our world the Prince of Wales got desperately sick and sentimentality kicked in. On this Q6 world it happened differently. The Prince never got sick and got into a nasty sex scandal. The monarchy stayed unpopular long enough to convince Britain's elites that it will have to go. Centrum is freaked. Sure they've no use for monarchs, and Victoria was a deadweight, but what will losing the monarchy do to the Empire? Centrum agents are acting badly. Some seem to think a few well placed assassinations will fix everything. The Cabal gets wind of this. An early death for Victoria would foul up their plans. They reach out to Homeline. Can the PCs keep Victoria and her kids alive? What about the Cabal's motivations? It is March of 1888 in this world, is Red Jack part of the Cabal's plans?
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01-20-2018, 07:48 AM | #3136 |
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Why would it do anything? The establishment of the Third Republic didn't do anything in particular to the French empire after all. Centrum might even see it as a potentially huge step forward - if it could somehow be manipulated to allow some representation of the colonies in the new legislature....
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01-20-2018, 09:33 AM | #3137 | |
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01-20-2018, 11:55 AM | #3138 | |
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Officially, Kruschev-1 is one of the nuclear holocaust worlds - a Q5 parallel. Sometime in the Cold War, probably local year 1967, things went hot and there were no survivors. The worldline is heavily restricted, and mostly ignored; there's nothing worth exploiting there what with all the fallout. The current local year is 2012. The truth is considerably worse, at least in Infinity's eyes. The first scouts on Kruschev-1 found the irradiated remains of a projector in Mumbai. Further investigation revealed that Kruschev-1 developed parachronic travel in the early '60s. It spread, quickly, to all the major powers, and the Cold War became a parachronic Cold War. As far as Infinity can tell, Kruschev-1 was only able to discover a dozen or fewer worldlines, and exploited only a couple before one side initiated a cross-time nuclear strike. The resulting war destroyed Kruschev-1 and appears to have wiped out all of its colonies. Infinity would like to believe that's the end of things, but there a number of nagging questions:
Among those who know the secret of Kruschev-1, there are further theories that tend to come to mind.
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01-20-2018, 12:15 PM | #3139 |
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It isn't. But it is egalitarian on a group level. Centrum doesn't want an empire (a bunch of distinct peoples governed by a metropol), it wants a monoculture. At some point those peoples must be brought into the power structures and made not-distinct, and Centrum knows it.
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01-20-2018, 01:42 PM | #3140 | |
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I could see the survivors of a failed parachronomic colony discovering a Homeline colony. As people from a near contemporary world they could be excellent infiltrators. Heck, have them take out a crosstime human trafficking ring and claim not to know what worlds they're from. They could join the anti-human trafficking squad and become respected allies of the PCS.
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