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Posted: June 8th
From: Asclepius
Something I've found myself quite interested in over the last few weeks has been a question of...well, I suppose our existence.
Pardon me if this question has been asked before, I haven't seen it. I'd appreciate a summary of that particular conversation, if it has happened before.
Now, as a bit of background--I am from...a fairly significant amount of time in the future. I state that vaguely because there are rules against discussing it, we accidentally time travel often enough that there's protocol in place. But I feel fairly confident after my research that I am also in what I would consider a parallel universe. Those are also fairly well-documented in my time. (I must say this is far more pleasant than the last one I was in.)
Anyway. If all that is the case, I have to wonder: why do the divisions of god and shinki fall as they do? Whatever power brought us here evidently can reach through time and both physical and metaphorical space. Infinite realities mean infinite possibilities that in one or the other reality, we are either alive or dead.
Please keep all specific instances and examples private if you wish to give them. I don't want this discussion to be the cause of harm to anyone.
From: Asclepius
Something I've found myself quite interested in over the last few weeks has been a question of...well, I suppose our existence.
Pardon me if this question has been asked before, I haven't seen it. I'd appreciate a summary of that particular conversation, if it has happened before.
Now, as a bit of background--I am from...a fairly significant amount of time in the future. I state that vaguely because there are rules against discussing it, we accidentally time travel often enough that there's protocol in place. But I feel fairly confident after my research that I am also in what I would consider a parallel universe. Those are also fairly well-documented in my time. (I must say this is far more pleasant than the last one I was in.)
Anyway. If all that is the case, I have to wonder: why do the divisions of god and shinki fall as they do? Whatever power brought us here evidently can reach through time and both physical and metaphorical space. Infinite realities mean infinite possibilities that in one or the other reality, we are either alive or dead.
Please keep all specific instances and examples private if you wish to give them. I don't want this discussion to be the cause of harm to anyone.
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[Understatement of the year there, Simon.]
As far as I'm able to determine, if this timeline differs from mine we won't know for certain for another five years or so. There was no rampant genetic experimentation in my history books, and humanity managed to avoid finding other reasons for another world war.
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That is, historically, what we've been best at. It didn't get much better for us until after First Contact.
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I assume you're speaking of finding alien life? I suppose that isn't as unusual as being gods...how did things improve?
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In...almost uncountable ways. War on Earth ceased, all of humanity is unified now. We were also able to eliminate almost all disease and poverty, reverse the trend of pollution that was on track to make the planet uninhabitable. We started exploring the stars.
There's been wars and skirmishes with other peoples, but most encounters have been peaceful. Not all, unfortunately...
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Though it sounds like your 'version' of Earth has advanced further than mine in several ways. We left Earth to settle on another system but had to do so without the aid of faster than light travel. There was an entire generation that never saw the outside of a space ship, as historians like to put it.
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We didn't really leave Earth until after breaking the warp barrier. There were a few sleeper ships that left, but they were lost.
[It's sort of macabre once you think of it. There could still be sleeper ships out there, lost...and space is so large that they might never be found.]
Now, we can travel from Earth to the farthest reaches of Federation space in a few days. It'd take lifetimes otherwise.