04-28-2023, 08:33 AM | #21 | |
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An easy solution -- if I needed to keep the setting the same -- would probably be to have an incident where timeline meddling shifted something in a way that was so horrifying to Homeline that non-interference is really about them being scared witless. I think of it as the difference between Star Trek's "we're being benevolent" and Animorphs "we meddled once, and let planet-conquering brain-slugs loose". Though I should really be the last person to whine over following a genre convention "because genre convention". It certainly doesn't have to be official IW; I can easily make my own.
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04-28-2023, 08:35 AM | #22 |
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“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? Last edited by WholesomeMadScientist; 04-28-2023 at 08:43 AM. |
04-28-2023, 08:45 AM | #23 |
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Honestly I kind of assumed that the whole idea of putting in "future" dates in additions to settings was to be kind of a nudge to GMs as if to say, "Hey, you can work it in to your campaign if you wanna. This happens after our default start date, so you can bring it up as a recent event."
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04-28-2023, 09:04 AM | #24 | |
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04-28-2023, 09:28 AM | #25 | |
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Also, Traveller - Intersetellar Wars pg. 236: “The Infinite Wars The Centrum (see p. B523 or GURPS Infinite Worlds) has undertaken its most ambitious plan yet: to influence the outcome of the Interstellar Wars in favor of the Vilani Imperium! In many ways, Vilani culture is similar to Centrum’s, and there is much to be gained by influencing so vast an empire. Infinity, naturally, favors the scrappy Terrans and opposes Centrum on principle. Both sides try to influence the outcome of the Interstellar Wars, without tipping their hand and revealing the Secret to the technologically advanced civilizations of this alternate. The heroes might be members of an I- SWAT team, or locals who discover the cross-temporal meddlers and their plans.“ Also, the parallel “Transhuman” mentioned in IW Lost Worlds pg. 16 has to be Transhuman Space. Lands Out of Time pg. 38: “Within the GURPS Infinite Worlds setting, the World of Banded Night has been somewhat snidely christened Burroughs-6. It is found in the Quantum-3 band, but there is considerable debate over whether or not it qualifies as an ‘Earth.’ Most researchers consider it to be part of a wholly alternate universe. A small minority classify it as a ‘Future Echo,’ saying it could be Earth a billion or more years in the future. Some projections of stellar positions seem to bear this out, but the data is inconclusive, and such a hypothesis raises far more questions than it answers.” Last edited by WholesomeMadScientist; 04-28-2023 at 11:22 AM. |
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04-28-2023, 11:13 AM | #26 |
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04-28-2023, 11:39 AM | #27 |
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04-28-2023, 12:38 PM | #28 |
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Or Reich-5 is still figuring things out with the Chronobahn and developing what it has in the worlds it’s already meddling in and nothing important happened in that time? |
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06-12-2023, 11:16 PM | #30 | |
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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...) |
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