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Old 12-28-2018, 10:30 AM   #62
malloyd
 
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Default Re: Alternate Versions of Inifinite Worlds

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Originally Posted by PTTG View Post
So pick a dictator, give them some time and a stolen conveyor, and have them start a nuclear war on Homeline.
The problem here is much the same one as the problem with any Homeline criminals having access to conveyers. If Infinity's controls on them are that sloppy, why aren't the militaries and intelligence services of every nation on Homeline already operating everywhere? Only worse because this actually *is* a government that scored one.

If crazed dictator can put this together to steal enough nuclear weapons to start a war, the plan may end up failing when it runs up against the stealth ABM satellites, nuclear dampers and deflector shields all those other nations have stolen from somewhere else.

Any time you allow *any* non-Infinity Homeline power to play a role in a cross-time adventure plot, or indeed even have one that has any significant motivations from, or ramifications on Homeline at all, you risk highlighting the key logic hole in the setting - where is everybody else and why do the powers of Homeline let Infinity play this big a role? It's deliberately glossed over in the setting, because what's happening on Homeline is not the point, but if you are going to violate that by starting to pay attention to events at home, you are going to need to think it through somehow, and its really hard to do that in a way that leaves anything like Infinity (or even the concept of the Secret) intact. Piper sort made it work because the Paratime Police effectively were a major arm of a universal government, that also operates a universal brainwashing ministry, and even then there are cracks and hints that they don't *always* have it their way vis a vis various other licensing authorities, but it doesn't make even that much sense for Infinity.
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