| Story involving Dieselpunk Earth that can be used to introduce Centrum to the Five Earths. |
Goldstein looked disbelieving at the books in front of her. Yes they were written in English but thanks to the differences in history the English of Secundus didn't make actual works from close analogs to that reality that easy to read. Her conversation with Mohammed Change was in one of them and she would swear it was word for word. It had unnerved her enough to have listening devices looked for but as would be normally expected they found nothing.
Normal. There was nothing normal about this...disaster? Windfall? Sure it would easily get her promoted to Grade 7 but the implications for Interworld were worrisome. Humans flying around with powers beyond mortal men wasn't that much a surprise. That world they had moved to Wave Minus One and then tried to move back to Wave Minus Two after finding Secundus had such humans on it. Pity the effort to move it didn't work as planned as they lost all contact with the reality likely due to it being moved out of range.
The really insane thing was this wasn't even native to Earth One as the natives called it but to another reality they called Earth Three which they didn't need a shuttle or projector to get to - somehow it and three other earths could be reached by spaceship. Five Earths all at different points of divergent history and one of them seemed to know everything there was to know about Infinity, Secundus, Centrum and Interworld and was happily sharing it with the others. More over this was an updated version of the book published some seven years before The Event as the natives called it.
She looked at the title and frowned. Odds were that the various earths were not in the same wave which mean they might be outside the range of Interworld's shuttles even with help from a projector. Suddenly she realized something. What if one of the worlds was on Wave Minus Three. From what little they had found out Earth Three had a robust space program even before The Event and now thanks to some "magical" force people were building spaceships that actually worked in their backyard with little more then some plywood, a bit of paint, and a concept of how the engine was supposed to operate.
If infinity got their hands on one one of those...Goldstein paled. That would give Infinity much easier access to Wave Minus One then according to the book they currently had. She quickly picked up the phone. This was bigger then her, bigger then her promotion, If one of those Earths shifted to their wave they would have serious problems.
As she waited for the phone to be picked up she looked at the book's title again. Who'd ever thought that GURPS Infinite Worlds: Five Earths Deluxe Edition could be the road map to possible open conflict.
Related Material[]
- Infinity is Coming: Homeline equivalent.
Notes[]
While the books themselves don't update Steve Jackson Games is making print expansions for Infinite Worlds like crazy as the book has become insanely popular for obvious reasons.
Reference[]
- GURPS Infinite Worlds pg 45-46 (flavor text tie in)