Or Cleon's little known rival Selcirep takes over Sylea and little net
change other than a bunch of names in old books a thousand years later.
Or different Terrans/Vilani whoever cause them later by leaving behind
their trash and the footnotes behind the discovery & development are the
only change.
Lucky/unlucky PC discover by tinkering with the doowacky on the thingamajig
that unrefined Droyne in the Jump Drive cause them to Slide into parallel
universes where the main PC's double is seen with a beard and eye patch (or
without if that's how he rolls)... Where the Ithklur's warrior servant
Hivers resist the domination of their emotionless masters & insist on
calling Soccer "Football" and have a large repertoire of Hooligan trivia in
between their warrior - brood larvae gestations.
- Sent from my SM-N900T
On Mar 26, 2014 12:09 PM, <> wrote:
>
>
> >> 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.
>
>
>
change other than a bunch of names in old books a thousand years later.
Or different Terrans/Vilani whoever cause them later by leaving behind
their trash and the footnotes behind the discovery & development are the
only change.
Lucky/unlucky PC discover by tinkering with the doowacky on the thingamajig
that unrefined Droyne in the Jump Drive cause them to Slide into parallel
universes where the main PC's double is seen with a beard and eye patch (or
without if that's how he rolls)... Where the Ithklur's warrior servant
Hivers resist the domination of their emotionless masters & insist on
calling Soccer "Football" and have a large repertoire of Hooligan trivia in
between their warrior - brood larvae gestations.
- Sent from my SM-N900T
On Mar 26, 2014 12:09 PM, <> wrote:
>
>
> >> 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.
>
>
>