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This is the number of realities known by Homeline and Centrum. Italics are extrapolated from both Classic and 4e material.

Table of Known Realities[]

Designation Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6/
Echos
Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Accessable Total
Classic Homeline (2015)[1] 25 87 68 377/
281
102 ~45 40 40 659 784
Classic Centrum (2015)[2] U U U ~410/
~308
~100 46 40-50 40-50 ~646 ~646
4e Homeline (2027)[3] 39 89 68 379/
281
128 45 43 52 703 843
4e Centrum (2027)[4] U U U 379/
281
~100 45 43-50 52 ~619 ~619
Described in sourcebooks 35 34 53 56 40 5 None None N/A 223

Echo Information[]

Until the discovery of Centrum Beta (apparently an Quantum 7 echo of Centrum), it was thought that only Homeline had echoes. Furthermore, it is theorized that some echoes "drift" into quantum range[5]. Echoes range from 12000 BCE to present, a few before 3000 BCE, and 19 in the 17th century[6]  Some echoes can shift to quantum when changes to their history occur while other echoes ("anchors") cannot be shifted. Anchor echoes are sometimes viewed as close parallels. Echoes that shift or are shown to be an anchor are usually given new names.[7] It is unclear whether former echoes are included in this total.

Twenty-Four Echoes have "vanished" from Quantum 6. Four shifted to Quantum 5; eleven have moved to Quantum 7 (six of which were due to Centrum influence); one (Engstrom) shifted to Quantum 4 and seven have not been rediscovered. One reality was shifted to Quantum 7 by Centrum but was returned to Quantum 6 by isolated I-Cops.

Quick Reference Table[]

Alpha is a proto version of Homeline that also had actual time travel and a limited WWIII in 1992.

Event 23 Skidoo Classic: Time Travel Infinite
Worlds
OTL Date N/G 1991 2005
Parachronic/Sideskipping
invented
1991 1994 1994
Invention Revealed 1999 1998 1998
Centrum learns
of Homeline
N/A 2003[8] 2015[9]
Homeline learns
of Centrum
N/A 2006[10] 2018[11]
Alpha/Homeline Present 2006 2015[8] 2027[12]
Centrum Present N/A 2015[8] 2027[12]

Notes[]

  1. Things have settled down to about 10 new realities discovered each year so Classic Homeline should have ~120 more timelines in its 2027 rather the ~59 4e Homeline does.
  2. Q5 totals include Homeline (Classic: Time Travel p. 87; Basic Set 526)
  3. Engstrom, formerly an echo from Q6, is not included in the above counts.
  4. Quantum 6 numbers are total/Echos (B544)
  5. Four Quantum 6 echoes have moved to Quantum 5.[13] Two of these were due to Centrum efforts to move the reality closer to them but the calculations weren't correct.[14]
  6. Information about Quantum 7 and higher comes from captured Centrum agents.

References[]

  1. Classic: Time Travel p. 87
  2. Knows of ~600 realities total; Classic Alternate Worlds 2 pg 115
  3. Basic Set 526; 544-545
  4. Infinite Worlds p. 48-53; no firm numbers given
  5. Infinite Worlds p. 21
  6. Classic: Time Travel p. 87-88
  7. Infinite Worlds p. 85
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Classic: Alternate Earths 2 pg 121
  9. GURPS Infinite Worlds p. 48
  10. Classic: Time Travel p. 104
  11. GURPS Infinite Worlds p 8
  12. 12.0 12.1 GURPS Infinite Worlds p. 46; 23 years "ahead" of OTL's present
  13. Classic: Time Travel p. 88
  14. Infinite Worlds pg 54
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