Homeline/Dupe-1

Key Information

Quantum
5
Status
Open, of course.
Divergence Point
Not applicable. Dupe-1's divergence point is not detectable.
Summary

Description

[Picture of lit-up city.] Homeline is the "baseline" world for this game. It's essentially the world of Cyberpunk 2020, except not nearly as "dark". A world teetering on the brink of economic and environmental collapse was reinvigorated by the discovery of parallel worlds that could be used to bring natural resources and new trade goods to the economy. Big corporations stopped trying to gouge the little guy, realizing that the little guy didn't have that much anymore anyway, and there was plenty to go around.

The local year is 2039, four years after the discovery of parachronic travel and three years after the alliance with the other timelines of the Big Four. The UN and Infinity Unlimited (the largest private parachronic travel corporation) both have their parachronic headquarters on Homeline. (The I-cops work out of an adjacent Dupe, in order to prevent one terrorist strike from getting them both.)

Points of Interest

More or less the same as you would expect the world to have in about forty years time. The maps haven't changed that much. Asia has gotten richer, the EC has finally gotten moving, now that South America is no longer being viciously exploited, it is getting back on its feet. Africa was hit hard by AIDS and AIDS-2 and needs a lot of help but finally has some breathing room and a respite from the constant civil wars

The only people that aren't happy about the new developments are the Mideasterners whose oil is now next to useless since fusion gave cheap energy to everyone, and the former SSRs, whose economies are still floundering between the EC and Russia.

Big Four Influence

Homeline and Dupe-1 are part of the Big Four.

Centrum Influence

None known, although a Centrum agent was caught on Homeline once.

OOC Origin

Take me back to the Alternate World list.