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Originally Posted by SilvercatMoonpaw
5) Alien Earths
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I'm happy to see someone else come up with this as well.
I wrote an article for the online Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society ("Time Traveller," 2007) that was a cross-over between
GURPS Infinite Worlds and
GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars. Now I use the concept for my
Traveller-inspired home brew campaign,
Picaresque.
As you note, it makes sense of some fairly common science fiction tropes. It takes a not-inconsiderable amount of work, though, if you're bringing all your timelines up to a consistent present. Most "hey, look at the dinosaurs!" approaches don't ask what they would look like with 66 million additional years of non-catastrophic evolution.