Time Travel Game

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In this game there are basically two ways to do things: 1) affect events with less impact. 2) affect events with tremendous impact and create an alternate timeline.

The first could undo specific things, like preventing the death of a loved one.

The second could erase all events afterward or significantly alter history.

Decide how you want to play, and whether you wish to undo the work of others or forge things for yourself.


Example: I travel back to the first century BC and give Augustus Caesar a copy of the Principia by Newton.

I'd go back in time and give the primates TV (solar-powered powered, and self-replicating), in order to intellectually stunt their development so that intelligent aquatic life would end up taking over. It would be like "2001" except with the monolith trying to make primates dumber instead of smarter. (I'm not saying they'd run the world any better, it would just be cool to do that.)

I for one welcome our aquatic overlords.

The latter of these: http://www.noob.us/humor/robot-chicken- ... -machines/

i go back in time to teach the Saxons how to make single edge swords that are oval in cross section with differential hardening. Then watch the looks on the Vikings faces.

In an alternate reality, I would save
the 2000 and 2004 elections from the Republicans.

I go back and assassinate Al Gore, replacing him with Gaius Octavius Caesar for the 2000 election. (Yes, I know he's not an American citizen, so what?)

I go back in time to the early 1970s, to the BBC archive, and steal about 108 reels of videotape, plus some cans of film.

Then when I return to the present, I ring the BBC and present them with all the missing episodes of Doctor Who. The Restoration Team gets to work on the videotapes and the original film inserts before releasing them to DVD. Finally, some new Patrick Troughton repeats...

And if I feel particularly smug, I might go back and do the same with some of the Jon Pertwee stories that are only held in monochrome...

I want to start with two minor changes:

First, I go back to 1970, keep Jimi Hendrix from ODing (maybe see if I can get him to kick the smack, too), and enjoy the music of Hendrix Emerson Lake & Palmer.

Then I jump back to 1985, and use the difference in popularity over time of the first three Star Wars films (the most popular, The Empire Strikes Back, was written by sf author Leigh Brackett) to convince George Lucas that while he is an awesome director and producer, he has the scripting abilities of a brain-damaged minnow. I convince him to hire Timothy Zahn to help script the prequel trilogy, which will then be amazingly mindblasting, rather than being the saga of a whiny little emo boy who grew up to be whiny little emo Darth Vader ("NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!")

If you're going to get Lucas to hire Timothy Zahn, can't we have the trilogy of sequel novels he writes instead of a prequel?

I'd go back and stop Saul of Tarsus.

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I'd bring about the timeline from Command and Conquer.
By bringing about the timeline from Red Alert.

Well I've always been tempted to go back and invent something before the real inventor did, I mean unless someone else had a time machine and traveled back at the same time as you, nobody would know.

I go back 251.4 million years and prevent the Permian extinction.

There, how's that for creating an alternate timeline?