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I think that neglects a rather important thing: the already existing British Empire was both one of the reasons why the French Revolution had happened and why the British were able to weather that crisis. If the British had come out worse for wear during the Second Hundred Years war, the French may have been able to find a less revolutionary resolution to their financial crisis or perhaps even avoid the crisis entirely.
I mean, given the have timeline alteration down to a science with Cliodynamics, I think it's safe to say they would understand this better than any of us. They might even be able to split the greedy jerks you need to build an empire from the greedy jerks who would destroy an empire, but that might be a little far.

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Cavorite

This Q5 low Mana parallel is fairly interesting to Homeline. The local USA has a monopoly on an antigravity technology and has Vacuum Tube based Polywell Fusors. This world is a combination of TL6 and TL6+2^. The antigravity tech doesn't work in most parallels but since the local year is 1924 flights to the moon are pretty easy to come by and not particularly regulated.

This means that White Star Lines has been able to smuggle conveyors to Covorite's moon. This has allowed the set up of a moonbase at the South Pole of the Moon on Homeline.

Basically, multiple Homeline nations want control of the moon. Large numbers of Homeline people are sneaking around Cavorite's equivalent of the USA in a world a great deal like Homeline's USA in 1923 and trying not to seem suspicious. Note: It's understood in Cavorite's USA that foreigners want to steal the rare minerals that make spaceflight possible. Suspicious people interested in space can get into serious hot water fast.

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This is one of those timelines where the implications rapidly become insane the moment you let someone with a basic knowledge of physics know the assumptions. I mean, just within the timeline, you have perpetual motion machines and planet-killer weapons. Then, once out-timers finally manage to acquire an antigravity ship and install a conveyor, you can putter around any accessible solar system at whim. And build those planet-killer weapons.

Do not use this timeline in a game with any players who take science half-seriously. Because they will abuse it, in one sense or another.

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For what? What's special about Homeline's Moon that makes them want it so badly, when they could instead be going after, say, empty Earth number 7?

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Empty Earth #7 doesn't have easy access to orbit over Homeline.

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You win the prize!

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I've always thought an infinite worlds space game would be fun. There are around a half dozen ways for infinity to access orbit, but none of them are simple.

Actually, I mostly just want to go in as a world builder and check all the methods, and make up a bunch of space infrastructure.

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OK, but there's very little resources you could exploit on the moon. Just Silicon, Aluminum, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Titanium and Sodium. It's so dry, concrete would be a good source of water on the Moon. Yes, it's easier to get to a geostationary transfer orbit (3221 m/s vs. 11696 m/s), or escape Earth (2635 m/s vs. 12468 m/s), but how hard is it going to be to build an industrial base when you're limited to what you can smuggle across from a world that runs on variant physics?

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'Trotsky wins in Warsaw' is Reality Seed from GURPS Alternate Earths 2 - though it imagines him as an alternate Napoleon, bringing The Revolution to The Continent by force.

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Now I am picturing an Orion Drive ground launch spaceship which is also a conveyor, so you shift to a hellscape Earth before launching.