>> However, there must be some kind of rules preventing you from blowing
up worlds that become Capital, Hub, etc., killing Cleon, destroying all
the Cymbeline chips... :-)
> I gained an interesting perspective on this from, of all things, a time
travel novel called "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis, in
which
> a future time travelling society labors to save historical artifacts
from
> Earth's past without altering history in the process. They do so by
only
> grabbing things with have become "lost" to history, often at the last
second of their known existence.
That gives me an idea for some amusing one-off time travel scenarios.
Some PCs in Mileu 0 are going to kill Cleon, but that would prevent the
First Imperium from being established, so the Canon/Time Police have to
come in and prevent the players from doing so.
Or time-travelling PCs decide to wipe out the Cymbeline chips to prevent
Virus from happening. Or prevent the Solomani cruiser from ever crashing
there. But then it turns out that without Virus Lucan would have won, and
that was even worse, so the Canon/Time Police have to go back and prevent
that prevention from happening.
Like Laumer's Dinosaur Beach where all of the successive "corrections" to
the past riddle the "time fabric" with so many holes that it eventually
goes into heat death. I've always thought that Dino Beach was the last
word on time travel because it presents its logical conclusion.
up worlds that become Capital, Hub, etc., killing Cleon, destroying all
the Cymbeline chips... :-)
> I gained an interesting perspective on this from, of all things, a time
travel novel called "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis, in
which
> a future time travelling society labors to save historical artifacts
from
> Earth's past without altering history in the process. They do so by
only
> grabbing things with have become "lost" to history, often at the last
second of their known existence.
That gives me an idea for some amusing one-off time travel scenarios.
Some PCs in Mileu 0 are going to kill Cleon, but that would prevent the
First Imperium from being established, so the Canon/Time Police have to
come in and prevent the players from doing so.
Or time-travelling PCs decide to wipe out the Cymbeline chips to prevent
Virus from happening. Or prevent the Solomani cruiser from ever crashing
there. But then it turns out that without Virus Lucan would have won, and
that was even worse, so the Canon/Time Police have to go back and prevent
that prevention from happening.
Like Laumer's Dinosaur Beach where all of the successive "corrections" to
the past riddle the "time fabric" with so many holes that it eventually
goes into heat death. I've always thought that Dino Beach was the last
word on time travel because it presents its logical conclusion.