Yes, I enjoy that approach as well. History saying, "look, I'm playing out
the way I play out. Individuals and details and events don't matter. Silly
organic lifeforms. 'Cause and effect.' How droll."
I like the Ithklur/Hiver reversal, just can't think of a rejoinder yet.
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>
the way I play out. Individuals and details and events don't matter. Silly
organic lifeforms. 'Cause and effect.' How droll."
I like the Ithklur/Hiver reversal, just can't think of a rejoinder yet.
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>