[IW] Ordinary Worlds with valuables!

[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Note that the problem there is that the players just disregarded the Secret and worse, did it in a world more technologically sophisticated than they are and worse did it in a setting faced with imminent annihilation.

True, I picked an extreme example, but it was in response to Pursuivant's comment about above-board deals between Infinity and various parellels. I picked the Robotech example because someone else, a while back, mentioned that scenario.

But the general principle does apply, once the crossed-over setting with Infinity knows about the parallels (or meets the Doctor), it will affect their outlook and behavior. How it will affect them depends on the details of the situation, but the crossover setting will be a different place afterward.

Just for one example of the general thing, imagine someone with the tech to make conveyors, once s/he knows about them, and the prospect of empty Earths. Empty worlds, with arable land and where you (usually) know exactly where the useful resources are before you arrive (gold in South Africa, coal in Appalachia, the Permian Basin, uranium in Canada, oil in Texas and Arabia and the North Sea, etc). The opportunities are almost numbing to contemplate.

Or the trade possibilities with inhabited worlds. Or possible ideological allies against mutual foes on both time lines. Or the possibility of having a conversation with/sex with/interacting with yourself (there's a certain kind of personality that would find that fascinating). Or a time line where your dead girlfriend/boyfriend is still alive, and single...

The point is that the knowledge is so profound and important that it would be transformative.

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

There's also the question of whether or not The Desperate Local has the _ability_ to steal the conveyor. Does Gloval have anyone with the elite EOD skill level to neutralize the conveyor's security? Someone on Earth might but why would they be on Gloval's aricraft carrier?.

Oh, I imagine he does. The bulk of the best military skill in the RDF is already aboard the SDF-1, and he had Doctor Lang, and an entire city of people, some of whom likely include former military EOD people too (remember that Gloval's Earth just went through a third world war in the 1990s). Or, given how high the stakes are, he might bribe/coerce the Infinity/Centrum people to unlock the security.

As I said, he might fail, but he would most certainly try, given the stakes.

(Honestly, I wouldn't be too shocked to find out the SDF-1 could world-jump on its own already, given Protoculture and Zor. Though that ability might have gone away with the spacefold generators.)