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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 3761392" data-attributes="member: 4936">That sounds pretty interesting!One spinoff idea, that might address the issues with proficiencies and languages and so on (without resorting to the handwaving that the series does <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />), is to make the concept of 'leaping' a sanctioned one. Instead of being guided by apparently celestial forces and shepherded by a saucy hologram, we could be agents of a futuristic organization that acts to preserve continuity of the timeline.Since time travel exists, small perturbations caused by even the most careful travelers can have additive effects that threaten history (this is the 'go back to the dinosaurs and ruin the future by stepping on a bug' effect). Because the cat can't be put back in the bag, so to speak, an agency was assembled to repair the timeline damage when and where it becomes serious enough to change the course of recorded history. There's probably some temporally shielded archive of all recorded historical events as they ought to be up to the present somewhere, the 'Bible' from which they work.When projecting back, the agents' memories are modified. They retain knowledge of who they are, and what they do, but most of their 'future knowledge' is suppressed, to avoid further contamination. Communication can take place via some kind of wormhole that allows energy and information to travel, but not matter (the hologram from the future). The agents, with analysis and aid from the future, determine the precise deviation from the history Bible, and take what action is required to put things back on track. Normally it doesn't have to be EXACT. If Lincoln decides not to go to the play, the obvious fix is to convince him to go...but as long as he dies, that's the important thing. Of course, the small ripples of effect caused by the differences in how and where he died (if a-historical) could have additive perturbations of their own! It's entirely possible that a good deal of time is spent fixing issues stemming from incomplete repair jobs from other times. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />...That's a bit more involved than I intended. And potentially more complex than is warranted.Just brainstorming.Oh, and I'm interested. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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