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[pasuuli]

Another mystery that likely will never get an answer is what was the point of departure between the OTU timeline (now overwritten by Mongoose Charted Space timeline) and the GT ATU timeline. Loren always said he would one day reveal it. He never did.

To a certain degree, this doesn't really matter: the point of departure of the LTU from the OTU is below the resolution of the setting, so it's enough to know that GURPS indicates it in its core book when it has a TNS entry noting the explosion of Dulinor's craft.

Close enough, I say, and there's more important things to bother with: namely, when they can inflect, and my money is on 1450.

 

[pasuuli]

Also, Marc wanted the Wave out of the way for other reasons, and at FTL speed it departs Charted Space in just a few centuries (c. 1450) instead of nearly a millennium (c.2000).

And I need it out of the way by 1450 in order to allow a reasonable time for the LorenVerse to inflect back with the OTU -- for those who like to keep that option open -- and well before the Galaxiad may begin in 1900.

1450 has the benefit of being a "hazy" point in time where not much, if anything, is officially written about it. We can potentially make it a time where the previous history becomes legend and becomes a little fuzzy. This also permits some open freedom with the timeline without coupling the "history before" with the "history after".