Editing GURPS Infinite Worlds (section)

=== Notable Known Timelines ===

* '''Armada:''' The Spanish Armada doesn't get pwned in 1588, leading to a Spain-dominated Europe.
* '''Atilla:''' [[Genghis motherfucking Khan]] decides to destroy the cities of Europe and Asia instead of ruling them, leading to a world of shitty barbarians where only Japan and the Congo have something resembling a medieval civilization.
* '''Burton:''' Arabian Nights up in this bitch. Very, very meta: everything from the tech level to the few non-Muslim kingdoms seems to be designed to act as set dressing, and the world itself is trapped in a stable time loop where the coolest stories repeat themselves endlessly while everything that isn't part of those stories ages and dies normally. What's more, the locals are ''aware'' of this and hope to "write themselves in" so they can be immortal within the time loop.
* '''Britannica''': The British Empire manages to avoid being broken by the American Revolution and continues to rule the world. Centrum loves these assholes, since their world was also run by limey fucks before the bombs dropped.
* '''Caliph:''' Literally "the historical progress lost by the Christian Dark Ages." Starts off with much wank about the Abbassids inventing the printing press 500 years early and reaching a "enlightened Islamist" TL11 by the 17th century, immediately redeems itself by exploding into war with a radical secularist state. This is about the upper limit of the level of technology Infinite Worlds can support without breaking; both Centrum and Infinity are torn between trying to loot as much ultra-tech as they can and just boarding up the timeline so they don't get any hints about parachronics existing.
* '''Centrum:''' The [[wikipedia:White_Ship_disaster|White Ship]] doesn't sink in 1120, leading to the second most horrible state imaginable: a world ruled by an Anglo-French alliance. After they blew themselves up in classic Cold War fashion, the Centrum took control, slowly rebuilt, and found time to invent parachronics along the way. Centrum is ''the'' most horrible state imaginable: a world ruled by statist, militantly rationalist ''Australians''. (Hey, that sounds familiar...) Their society can be best described as [[Paranoia|Alpha Complex]] if it actually worked, and offers almost perfect meritocracy and equality at the expense of a vibrant culture and anything remotely resembling human rights. They expand into other timelines to save them from themselves, as anyone who doesn't have a stick far enough up his ass to come out the other end is an existential threat in their eyes; naturally Homeline freaks the shit out of them.
* '''Campbell:''' John Campbell dies in a car accident before he starts his science fiction magazine. History ends.
* '''Dixie:''' The Confederacy won the Civil War, and they didn't even need jumped-up Afrikaaners with AKs to do it. The US is usually further balkanized or or a European puppet in Dixie worlds.
* '''Ezcalli:''' Fuck yeah Aztecs. In this world Carthage discovered America two thousand years early, soon enough for a bunch of pissed off jungle fighters with sharp glass to not be instantly wiped out, while Europe once again gets buttfucked by Mongols thanks to Rome collapsing more completely than usual.
* '''Lenin:''' The decadent forces of capitalism wither away, clearing the way for a glorious worker's paradise. Lenin-1 is well on its way to World War III, and Lenin-2 is so polluted the atomsphere is about to lose its oxygen.
* '''Shikaku-mon:'''  The Jesuits successfully turn Japan Christian, leading to the Meiji Restoration happening three centuries early and a bizarre kind of cyberpunk world. Brazil is an atomic superpower, Sweden a totalitarian nightmare and mass surveillance is so pervasive it's become a popular hobby. Oh, and the local present is the same as Homeline's, meaning parachronics might work there.
* '''Gernsback:''' Nikola Tesla gets hitched to J.P. Morgan's daughter, leaving him both rich enough and stable enough to build all the insane shit Reddit insists he had on the drawing board before the [[/v/|Templars]] geeked him. Think ''The Rocketeer'' and you won't be that far off, with the complication of the world being ruled by a technocratic cabal backed by a monopoly on broadcast power. Infinity has its work cut out for it here, not just because the World Science Council is about three steps away from becoming Centrum already but because every schlub on Homeline with an electrical engineering degree wants to be the one to invent the transistor.
* '''Gotha:''' Zombies? Zombies. These are more the ''28 Days Later'' berserk-cannibal kind than the half-dead Romero kind. The really scary part is that Gotha parallels seem to be multiplying over time.
* '''Madland:''' ''GURPS Fantasy: Adventures in the Mad Lands''.
* '''United States of Lizardia''': If you take a look at the history books in this timeline it wouldn't seem that odd at first. Sure, the names are all wrong, but the countries are all the same, they had two World Wars, and so on... except everyone's a talking dinosaur. The sheer amount of [[lolwut]] required to make something like this possible drives Homeline scientists mad.
* '''Johnson's Rome:''' The tourist trap Rome, which thanks to Marc Antony winning the battle of Actium never quite fell. The tourism company Johnson Crosstime practically owns the Empire and tries very hard to keep this timeline stable and convenient for Homeline visitors.
* '''Merlin:''' GURPS [[Technomancer]]. Needless to say, ''nobody'' wants the timeline with killer penguins getting access to parachronics. (It's too late; the CIA already figured out Gate spells and has spies in Homeline, and fascist Argentina has made early contact with Reich-5.)
** Technomancer has parallels of itself as well. Merlin-2's Hellstorms come from two terrorist nukes in Jerusalem and Galveston that have the Western world running scared, since they've figured out a third nuke would destroy the universe. Merlin-3 is just ''GURPS Weird War II''.
* '''Enigma:''' The Ramones never tour England, meaning Mick Jones never formed The Clash. In retaliation, God destroys humanity.
* '''Reich-5:''' FDR gets ''The Man in the High Castle''-ed in 1933, America is too busy shitting itself and watching Betty Boop cartoons to kick Hitler's ass, a fascist ([[wikipedia:William_Dudley_Pelley|William Pelley]], a screenwriter and professional crank who actually existed and even ran for President) gets elected President and more or less lets the Germans in. Genocide ensues. It would just be the worst of several Reich timelines if not for a Spetsnaz team taking a conveyor for a joyride and getting dumpstered by local Waffen-SS, plus Nazi occultism actually sort of working here. Now Reich-5 has a paramilitary group with limited access to world-jumping psychics and actively seeking new timelines to conquer. They also want to find another Hitler to replace the one that died in their time.
* '''Yrth:''' It's [[Banestorm|Yrth]]. Despite the massive hassle of getting anything ''out'' of Yrth (though it helps if you know where to look) Infinity is very interested in studying the banestorms to figure out which Earth they connect to.

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