06-19-2022, 10:48 AM | #11 | |
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Re: Our timeline gets parachronics in 2022
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That restriction is very important. If it did not exist, then nuclear-armed conveyors would be an unstoppable weapon, rather than just a very dangerous one.
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06-19-2022, 10:48 AM | #12 |
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Re: Our timeline gets parachronics in 2022
But remember this whole quantum-projector-and-conveyor is the way it works in the "official" Infinite Worlds Setting. The original post looks like it would be a totally new campaign world, so other ways (wormholes? fairies?) are possible.
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06-19-2022, 01:56 PM | #13 |
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Re: Our timeline gets parachronics in 2022
It occurs to me that in our real world there were parts of the Earth that weren't settled until fairly late TL3. If you had large temperate climate islands, that were isolated enough to be hard to reach at TL3, and this parallel lacked equivalents to the Polynesian navigators, then you might have an area to have a safe base.
For maximum scandal have the USA get these.islands. For sinister plot elements allow a dictatorship to get these islands.
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06-19-2022, 01:56 PM | #14 | ||
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Yes it changes everything. The whole MAD strategy of nuclear deterence bases on the idea that the attacked can strike bake and kill the attacker too. If there is no warning, a attacker can strike at the target eliminate the whole nuclear potential of the emeny in on beheading strike with impunity. At the end of the old cold war the US and the Russians knew where every nuke of the other side was. Now we have better surveilance equipment and satellites and it is 100% clear that this is still true nowadays. The actual real ultrasonic missiles are not a real problem because they are difficult to intercept, but because they reduce the time we have to decide how to react. The old 30 min warning was barely enough, 7 min are nearly impossible, 0 seconds means the other side is dead before knowing it. For this reasons russia is reported to have a system called dead hand aka a dead mans switch on a part of his arsenal. So yes conveyors would be a gamechanger making the whole world totally instable. Quote:
I thought I read somewhere that conveyors can change local positions with a little help, but are unsure if it was in Infinite Worlds or in the old 3rd Ed books. Last edited by Willy; 06-19-2022 at 02:08 PM. Reason: added quote |
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06-19-2022, 02:14 PM | #15 | |
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Step2: inside the other world, transport your conveyor with the bomb to the corresponding location on Homeline that you wanna nuke. For example, enter the new world into the Beijing area, and move to the area o New York. Step3: move back to homeline Step4: detonate the bomb. |
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06-19-2022, 02:24 PM | #16 |
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Re: Our timeline gets parachronics in 2022
Lets be real here:
China and Russia would move nuclear bombs inside any new world in order to resurface them back into Home World as soon as they got their hands in that technology. And they would use it to destroy all other world nuclear powers (including each other). Other than that, there is ZERO doubt that Russia and China would use this to conquer and enslave HUNDREDS of worlds as soon as they got to them. Those worlds would become mere sources of raw materials and slave labor to them; more advanced worlds would become sources of tech to be reverse engineered. |
06-19-2022, 02:26 PM | #17 |
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Re: Our timeline gets parachronics in 2022
Exactly. It's more work than it would be if it was possible to use conveyors as instant bomb-delivery-to-anywhere systems. Travelling from Beijing to New York on an undeveloped world is not trivial.
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06-19-2022, 02:28 PM | #18 | |
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Few of these nations would face much criticism for it either.
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06-19-2022, 02:36 PM | #19 | |
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If they had a chance to get to an uninhibited island with a viable climate, they'd go to survive. Picture a corporate CEO, an Elon Musk type, with a soft spot for the Islanders and a desire to have a reputation for nobility and charity, who gets a projector and conveyor to the Maldives so they can flee to safety. How would you get them back? How would you quiet the fury? It would be a vast screaming fest for months.
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06-19-2022, 05:30 PM | #20 |
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Re: Our timeline gets parachronics in 2022
I was thinking the new world is on our quantum (or equivalent).
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