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Originally Posted by SilvercatMoonpaw
7) Parachronic-Punk
Let's take the "power corrupts" aspect of parachronics, dial it up to 10*, and insert the PCs into an unenviable social strata.
Some group of oligarchs (governments, corporations, cults masquerading as religions with hair-trigger lawyers, etc) managed to restrict parachronics and the benefits and profits of it to themselves. Everyone else gets their scraps. Sure it's probably implausible**, but who doesn't love Sticking It To The Man?
*I'm working with modern premises that dystopias the protagonists can fix in their time, rather than earlier ones like 1984 where the protagonist just exists to get crushed.
**By which I mean I don't know enough dystopiopology to make a guess.
8) Parachronic Rebels
Homeline has all the firepower, and none of the other lines have more than mid-19th century war tech. Also we dialed "power corrupts" up to 10. Time to conquer.
This is basically #7 without The Secret and maybe with nobler protagonists.
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IMHO a Steampunk like Infinity might fit this better. At TL7-8 Infinity will basically curb stomp even later TL5 early TL6.