The unacknowledged Infinite Worlds timeskip

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Originally Posted by WholesomeMadScientist

“In 2032, however, the collapse of the Austrian government touched off a gigantic scandal in the EU: Startling amounts of money flowed from various pharmaceutical and biotech companies to Social Democratic Party politicians in at least four countries. And the byzantine, convoluted money trail led – eventually – to Gothic-2.”

Could be a typo? Unless, hypothetically, somebody has a way of asking Kenneth Hite to clear it up?

That is what I'm hoping-against-hope for. That it was meant to be 2022.


I noted in another thread here (http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=188513) that the Reich-4 nuclear war seemingly occurred before Infinity contact, given the dates of contact for Reich-5.

But then discovered that Reich-1 was less than 10 years after divergence, despite all the 10+ years on Reich-5.

It was determined that there was some change-ups between GURPS Time Travel, GURPS Alternate Earths, and GURPS Infinite Worlds, resulting in the confused timelines.

And I (unilaterally) resolved it all by saying that Reich-5 was actually the first Reich timeline discovered, but has had its number pushed back whenever another Reich world is discovered (because Reich-5 is secret).


Of course, none of this resolves the unacknowledged Infinite Words timeskip.


The only thing that would do it definitely is:

An updated edition of GURPS Infinite Worlds

(hint, hint, hint...)