My friend Brandes posted about Time Travel stories for RPGs on Tribality. Which got me to thinking about Time Travel in the Sea of Stars, or, perhaps more precisely, the lack there of.
Time Travel, as it is usually thought of, is just impossible in the Sea of Stars. People cannot travel back into the past and interact with it. There is no way to change the past and cause changes to the present. It is quite simple, the past is past and thus immutable. If there ever was any way to travel into the past, the acension of the Empress shut such a doorway, completely and irrevokably. Yes, it is impossible, no loopholes, no debate, no time travel . . . into the past. Read the rest of this entry ?
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