Neutron (Quantum 6)

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Originally Posted by Phantasm

So, the other usual suspects:

The Cabal probably wouldn't resort to advanced technological means such as a neutron bomb unless it was part of a scheme to raise the mana level via the instant deaths of millions. Presumably there is no evidence to indicate a rise in mana; furthermore I can't think of any magical artifact they'd need from there that couldn't just be stolen from a museum or tomb.

Reich-5 is probably the best contender, assuming the Chronobahn crosses quantum levels (not sure if it does or not); they'd use neutron bombs, but the lack of the rise of the National Socialist party in the German states seems to indicate that if they had a hand in it they're not gaining the foothold they want. They are also not moving in to take over in the chaos, so that's another strike against them being the culprit.

The Chronobahn seems to be limited to Quantum 3 but as the canonal Red Moon shows Reich-5 has gotten out of its Quantum 3 zone but Red Moon is a real oddball reality that breaks the rules with Infinity and Centrum operating in a Quantum 5 reality with neither seem to be aware of this fact (Reich-5 operates in secret playing the long game).

The Occam's Razor solution is that Red Moon is a Quantum Anomaly akin to Möbius that somehow coexists in Q3 and somewhere in the Q6-7 band as well as its native Q5.

Alternatively, Reich-5's actions could have caused a quantum shift. In canon, Centrum's first attempt at an intentional quantum shift was not with an echo but with Krypton-1 which was a close parallel.

Supplemental information suggests that this shift triggered a domino effect which only the nuking of London in unnamed echo in its 1903 stopped. Based on the blessing by Bob Schroeck gave to the idea combined with the idea Krypton-1 and Krypton-2 are now Quantum twins Centrum's efforts to shift Krypton-1 back to Quantum 6 (where they found it) spectacularly blew up in their face and it landed in Quantum 3.

So there is a president, in canon, for a four quantum shift in a reality. Such a shift would, obviously, eliminate any future tampering with the reality by Reich-5 with any of their agents in the reality when things went sideways cut off from their support network. The Nazi party was a product of a complex social political dynamic which given how long ago the world diverged and how things fell apart simply didn't exist.