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To Boldly Go | RPG Community (boldlygomod) wrote in toboldlyrpg,
@ 2017-09-25 19:40:00

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Welcome to Traveler Research HQ

Bi-monthly, the research teams will meet altogether to discuss recent discoveries, compare notes, and perhaps cause unintended mischief. All research team members are welcome to attend and to give their input. While it's expected that each member will want to talk amongst their own team, they are welcome to join the conversations going on at other tables.

OOC Information

These semi-weekly posts are for IC third-person comment war opportunities, to help encourage conversation and potential arguments. Starter topics will be provided below to help you. Threads are also welcome, but should be separate from the topics provided below. Threads or comment wars that extend to 10 total good-sized comments can be counted for activity check. If you have any questions, please let Ashley know. The hope is that you will use this opportunity for topical development that can lead to further plots.

P.S. No one is expecting anyone to be physics geniuses. Feel free to make stuff up as you go along.

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	Table 2 boldlygomod 2017-09-26 02:34 am UTC (link)
	Would it be possible to pinpoint an alternative reality and pull a specific person through the nebula? If so, who would we want to invite? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Table 2 daretodobetter 2017-09-26 04:34 am UTC (link)
	Are we talking only Star Trek alternative realities? Because from what Ambassador Spock said, having alternate Kirk here might be interesting, but would probably also lead to trouble. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	killerfrostbite 2017-09-26 05:56 am UTC (link)
	Two Kirks? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	daretodobetter 2017-09-26 06:03 am UTC (link)
	Theoretically possible. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	killerfrostbite 2017-09-26 06:08 am UTC (link)
	True. And it sounds like the other timeline's Kirk is more amicable than my doppelgänger was. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	daretodobetter 2017-09-26 06:11 am UTC (link)
	You have experience with alternate versions of yourself? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	killerfrostbite 2017-09-26 06:13 am UTC (link)
	Unfortunately. She's dead now—made her bed with the wrong villain—but we did not exactly hit it off. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	daretodobetter 2017-09-26 06:14 am UTC (link)
	That sounds unfortunate. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	killerfrostbite 2017-09-26 06:15 am UTC (link)
	Yes, well, I suppose some good came of it ultimately. When we met, she had powers and I did not. When my powers started to show up a year ago, at least meeting her helped me recognize what they were. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	daretodobetter 2017-09-26 04:17 pm UTC (link)
	Was it useful in helping you control them as well? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	killerfrostbite 2017-09-27 03:49 pm UTC (link)
	Not even a little bit, unfortunately. Our encounter served more to help quell the surprise more than anything. If anything, it actually made it harder to control my powers, because I assumed the powers were what made her the way she was. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	torpedoed 2017-09-27 12:15 am UTC (link)
	This timeline does not need two Kirks. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Table 2 jadzia_dax 2017-09-26 04:46 am UTC (link)
	I'm not sure if this is related enough, but I feel like I need to bring up what we've come to call the Mirror Universe. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	killerfrostbite 2017-09-26 05:55 am UTC (link)
	I'd love to hear more about this Mirror Universe. Where I'm found we've discovered multiple Earths, and we've dubbed a couple of the others we've found as Earth-2 and Earth-3. Terribly original, I know. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jadzia_dax
2017-09-26 06:19 am UTC (link)

There are technically an infinite number of quantum realities. Every major decision and even many smaller ones can create offshoots from the flow of time. The reality we're in right now splintered from mine thanks to an incursion from my timeline.

But the Mirror Universe seems to basically be opposites. Where the worse parts of humanity thrived, and they conquered the galaxy. An Empire, instead of a Federation.

Evil twins. More or less.

My Kirk was swapped with their Kirk due to a freak transporter accident. A hundred years later, DS9 had several run ins with that universe. The Empire had been defeated, and humans enslaved by an alliance of Klingons and Cardassians. Apparently, our Kirk convinced their Spock to attempt to reform the Empire. Weakened, they were overrun by the Alliance.

A lesson in consequences. There were several attempts by a human rebellion to use our technology and people to try to overthrow the Alliance.

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	killerfrostbite 2017-09-27 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	Fascinating. I think I'm glad we're here and not there. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jadzia_dax 2017-09-28 01:25 am UTC (link)
	It was pretty awful (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Table 2 jadzia_dax 2017-09-26 04:49 am UTC (link)
	On another note, too bad it's not as easy as it is to ask the Guardian of Forever to show us a time and place. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	narvinthespy 2017-09-26 04:21 pm UTC (link)
	Not with the equipment we have. Theoretically if you have a star or similarly powerful energy source you could do it, but even in that case, the circuitry in this starship is woefully under capacity for the task. Though if you could bring another Time Lord through, I'd appreciate it. Theoretically. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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