Quote:Changes from the real world's history, in the period not yet formally documented. It's also possible (tho not likely) that I might revise the 1990s timeline now that I have a little more hindsight available to me.
When you're talking 'changes', do you mean background or timeline?
I certainly don't want 9/11 to happen exactly as it did IRL. A) that's still a sensitive issue to some people, B) it provides too much built-in player knowledge, and C) as you and others note, there's enough other things different that this, too, ought to be perturbed into a different course.
Quote:And there's The Wall, right in the middle of 2000. The long range precogs aren't going to get anything, at least before the middle of 2000. (And just to play Devil's Advocate here, who's to say the Bad Guys don't have antipsis or some other variety of super shielding their plans all the way up to moment of execution?)
The problem with the IST world is that there's known, reasonably reliable precogs.
Quote:No problem at all, Geoff. Some of those questions are certainly things I haven't thought about at all, and should. PETA vs. the Meeranar, oh, jeeze, that's rich. Drive the poor wackos even more so; I can just see hours and hours of confused policy-discussion, trying to decide if because they're big cats they're thus allowed to eat meat, or if the fact that they're sentient beings trumps the fact that they're furry children of mother nature... I can see some serious institutional schizophrenia forming there...
Some of this may go far beyond what you were thinking about, Bob. I'm just sort of letting the brain run.
-- Bob
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It's spelt "Frodo Baggins" but it's pronounced "Throat-wobbler Mangrove."