[Space/Thaumatology] Stargate: Fantasy - Worldbuilding thread

[TGLS]

NO, but if you are you should put all the questions up at once so we can just answer the ones we feel like answering.

[Prince Charon]

Something that I was going to ask much earlier, but kept getting distracted:

Time Travel Question I

Should time travel (beyond what can be done in Real Life) exist in this setting at all?

Please answer with YES in all caps or NO in all caps.

(I'm doing this as a binary choice because while there are plenty of options if we decide we want to have time travel, there's only one option if NO wins, so I might as well check that first, before trying to write them up.)

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Answer: There's two NO votes to one YES, but both of the NO votes are conditional, which means I do need a second Question on this.

[ericthered]

I mean, is prophecy and alternate timelines time travel?

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Prince Charon

Something that I was going to ask much earlier, but kept getting distracted:

Time Travel Question I

Should time travel (beyond what can be done in Real Life) exist in this setting at all?

Please answer with YES in all caps or NO in all caps.


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Answer: .

NO.

To elucidate slightly that is "NO" in any usual, regular or repeatable form. If the PC's SG team has an equivalent of Carter a Time Travel story as a one-off event would probably be okay.

[Kesendeja]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

NO.

To elucidate slightly that is "NO" in any usual, regular or repeatable form. If the PC's SG team has an equivalent of Carter a Time Travel story as a one-off event would probably be okay.

I'm going to throw my vote behind this version.

[Prince Charon]

Originally Posted by ericthered

I mean, is prophecy and alternate timelines time travel?

I'd say no, they aren't. Alternate timelines are interdimensional travel, and prophecy has a range of possible explanations.

[TGLS]

YES, limited time travel to spice things up.

[Prince Charon]

There's two NO votes to one YES, but both of the NO votes are conditional, which means I do need a second Question on this. I've been trying to come up with a new Question based on that, but RL has been very distracting and I still don't have access to the most recent versions of my files. I want to have a new Question for you tomorrow or Monday, but I'm not sure that I will.

[Prince Charon]

Sorry it took me so long to have this ready, Real Life has been frustrating recently, but I have it ready, and waiting until Sunday would just be procrastinating.

Time Travel Question II

Due to the previous question, time travel is rare and should have some caveats, but how rare?

1. Time travel (to the past) is so rare that the PCs will most likely encounter it once or not at all, and will be unlikely to find any references to it beyond legends and fiction.

2. Time travel is quite rare, but has happened just enough to have useful accounts and some theoretical and a little applied data about it, if they can find the right places to look. It is still extremely difficult and likely unrepeatable, as well as being obscure enough that G'Annan or another Teal'c expy is unlikely to have heard of it.

3. As 2, but most of the accounts are of interdimensional travel to worldlines which have an earlier or later 'present.'

4. Something else (please specify).

Please remember to include the number(s) of your preferred option(s) when you vote.

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Answer: Five votes for 1, which wins, and one vote for 3 as a secondary to 1.

[Kesendeja]

Number 1 is about as high as I'd go.