time travel

Twenty years into the Great Galactic War, maverick Jedi Knight Korian Nightstrider and servant of the Republic, is convinced that his Nemesis DARTH TEMPORIS has completed a Time Machine. His belief endures despite the fatigued skepticism from the Jedi High Council. Playing factions of the SITH...

Lois Lowry's 1993 novel, The Giver, portrays a collectivist, futuristic, altogether-foreign society simply known as The Community. Its residents live sanitized, planned-out lives and by stringent (even dictatorial) laws dictated by the Chief Elders. Precision of language, telling one's family...

Inspired by this AH.com thread, an inquisitive ROB decides to try the same experiment a few decades into the future this time. As of January 1st, 1980, all TV sets suddenly receive full access to modern YouTube, as well as joystick-like controls and keyboards that downtimers can use to navigate...

Pastfuture 1 Stargate Command, Cheyenne Mountain June 2022 Brigadier General Cameron Mitchell felt old. It didn’t used to be that way, but it’d hit hard when someone pointed out that there were fresh recruits that were born the same year he’d fought Anubis’ forces in Antarctica. When he’d...

Some are largely symbolic and respectful of the status quo regardless of outcome, others representing gravitic shifts in the paradigm. But none have explicitly defied the laws of nature by pitting candidates operating in much different times and circumstances against one another to see how they...

Despite his march across the continent ultimately ending in defeat, Napoleon Bonaparte left behind a legacy as one of Modernity's great conquerors and statesmen, with the wars that became his namesake having profound consequences of their own. Increasingly centralized states and the spirit of...

Having racked up an unprecedented string of presidential victories already, Franklin D. Roosevelt aspired to win a fourth consecutive term in 1944. An election that, at least IOTL, he narrowly won. But in an alternate 1943, Roosevelt has reluctantly given up on that goal, as an ASB compels him...

It started off as a silly little science-fantasy whose creator thought at it would flop. But with its story of a farm boy with a greater calling, a princess in the clutches of evil, a cynical space smuggler and his beastly first mate, and a tug of war between a liberal-democratic Rebellion and a...

With its rise around the Mediterranean Sea giving way to a rich and centuries-long legacy that remains with us to this day, the Greco-Roman world stood tall as a bastion of science, art, law, and high culture until its tragic decline following the sacking of Rome in 410 A.D. But for all the...

Beyond Good and Ego “-. .-“ Summary: There are people and powers in the Cosmos that notice and look into the shadows of possible futures and times undone as a matter of course. One doesn’t even need to travel beyond Earth to find them. Sadly for all but one of the parties involved, one wholly...