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Old 12-30-2018, 02:20 PM   #70
malloyd
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Default Re: Alternate Versions of Inifinite Worlds

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Originally Posted by SilvercatMoonpaw View Post
I do wonder why, if someone wants that for their Infinity, they don't just move up the date of gaining parachronics? There's a lot of adventure potential there.
There is absolutely a lot of adventure potential in the first few years after the discovery of parachronics, and it could go in all sorts of directions. The problem with using the Infinity setting there is that if you move back that far (or move of the discovery to quite recently) you don't have most of the background

Stuff that disappears include the Icops and ISWAT, Miracle Workers, the global agreement on an Infinity monopoly, massive established trade that makes the Infinite Worlds really important, agreements on how imported intellectual property works, a long enough contact with Centrum or the Cabal for everybody to regard each other as established rivals with sort of known intentions.... A lot of the IW background hinges on the fact that cross-time travel has been around for a while and is now substantially *regularized*. Sure the details of any particular mission may be surprising, but you know how things work in general - starting from the fact that these trips can be "missions".
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