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fandomhigh_ooc2008-03-13 12:17 pm
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Explaining Time Travel - Once More, With Feeling
Hi guys. There has been some confusion about who remembers what, why and how this timeline thing all works. We've given it a few attempts (including the shiny and very dirty diagram you can find on fandomhigh_ooc) but this will hopefully clear things up and stop cerebrospinal fluid from dripping out of my ears. Huzzah!
In order:
Timeline A will occur. This will result in the victims living out their lives without interference from the future. The away teams will encounter some of these people and gather information that will lead to the angels being stopped.
Harriet Jones and Sarah Kerrigan will return to Fandom with information about a stasis machine and Alexander Hartdegen (from The Time Machine) who will build it. Letters will then be sent back to the victims in the past on Saturday. At the point in time that they receive the letters with information about getting to Hartdegen and the stasis machine, Timeline B begins.
Timeline A does not cease to exist at this point. It still happens, but not for the people who will be returning to Fandom. By receiving the letters, an alternate universe is formed named Timeline B. This is the one we all deal with from that point on.
Timeline B involves the victims getting to Hartdegen and going into stasis, where they will be oblivious to time changes and remain the same age until 2008, when they are retrieved by a rescue team.
At this point, with the plot resolved, everyone now in Timeline B (the good one/our intended one) and (using temporal physics that work for the purposes of the plot) the timeline corrected after the angels' interference, references to Timeline A will start to fade from memory as the timeline tries to heal itself.
What This Will Mean:
* Victims in the past will not remember any of their future lives since that didn't exist for them.
* Away teams will remember their adventures, but their final encounters with people from Timeline A will become blurred and faded. They may have some idea of what went on, but will not remember much beyond "Didn't we meet a guy?" and know that they got their information back to Fandom.
* People in Fandom who received letters from Timeline A will become hazy and eventually forget the contents.
This is ICly the side-effect of the timeline healing itself after unauthorized surgery (for lack of a better metaphor). Timeline B will be pulling away from Timeline A without causing Timeline A to stop existing. This separation will cause memories of Timeline A to fade away. IC reason is that's how the timeline works in this case. OOC reason is because this is the form of temporal physics that we're rolling with for the purposes of this plot. That's what it comes down to.
In order:
Timeline A will occur. This will result in the victims living out their lives without interference from the future. The away teams will encounter some of these people and gather information that will lead to the angels being stopped.
Harriet Jones and Sarah Kerrigan will return to Fandom with information about a stasis machine and Alexander Hartdegen (from The Time Machine) who will build it. Letters will then be sent back to the victims in the past on Saturday. At the point in time that they receive the letters with information about getting to Hartdegen and the stasis machine, Timeline B begins.
Timeline A does not cease to exist at this point. It still happens, but not for the people who will be returning to Fandom. By receiving the letters, an alternate universe is formed named Timeline B. This is the one we all deal with from that point on.
Timeline B involves the victims getting to Hartdegen and going into stasis, where they will be oblivious to time changes and remain the same age until 2008, when they are retrieved by a rescue team.
At this point, with the plot resolved, everyone now in Timeline B (the good one/our intended one) and (using temporal physics that work for the purposes of the plot) the timeline corrected after the angels' interference, references to Timeline A will start to fade from memory as the timeline tries to heal itself.
What This Will Mean:
* Victims in the past will not remember any of their future lives since that didn't exist for them.
* Away teams will remember their adventures, but their final encounters with people from Timeline A will become blurred and faded. They may have some idea of what went on, but will not remember much beyond "Didn't we meet a guy?" and know that they got their information back to Fandom.
* People in Fandom who received letters from Timeline A will become hazy and eventually forget the contents.
This is ICly the side-effect of the timeline healing itself after unauthorized surgery (for lack of a better metaphor). Timeline B will be pulling away from Timeline A without causing Timeline A to stop existing. This separation will cause memories of Timeline A to fade away. IC reason is that's how the timeline works in this case. OOC reason is because this is the form of temporal physics that we're rolling with for the purposes of this plot. That's what it comes down to.
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"Victims in the past will not remember any of their future lives since that didn't exist for them."
By "future lives," what exactly do you mean? I see it, and I think: "Okay, so the people in the past aren't remembering who they were in the future (aka 2008)?"
But then I thought about it and wondered if perhaps "future lives" could also mean the life that will be lived in their new future (aka the years following the currently established ones of the past). That matches up with what I was thinking when I thought I had it all figured out. heh.
But the first thought I mentioned has me all discombobulated.
I DON"T KNOW WHO I AM ANYMORE!!! *SOBS*
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The victims will not remember the lives they lived out in the past aside from the time leading up to when they get a letter about Hartdegen and the stasis machine. Anything that WOULD have existed after that? They won't remember it.
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Okay, good. Right on track with my current understanding of it. Hallelujah! Identity crisis averted! Pie for everyone!