Most versions of Earth advance technologically at about the same rate. This
is due to the fact that the majority of them are only c-branes, but I won’t
get into the specifics of how that works. The reality is that this can be
altered moderately by changing a few key conditions, or more dramatically by
something insane, like time travel. In Muxleyverse, an alien descended from
a group of Ansutahan who were expelled when The Crossover exploded, came to
Earth to decide whether it was worthy of being brought into the galactic
community. He brought with him highly advanced technology, which ended up
being sent backwards in time. This changed everything about human history.
This one little bit of tech transformed Earth from the youngest and weakest
civilization to the strongest, and most powerful. This was where the mess
began, and why most bulk travelers tend to avoid Muxleyverse, even the
Ochivari. Now the dominant race in the Milky Way galaxy, the humans went
around exerting their will upon all other worlds. They didn’t enslave
anyone, and they didn’t kill unless provoked by a resistance, but they
weren’t exactly pleasant either. They knew where they came from, and how it
happened. They knew that the aliens would do the same to them, if given a
chance. They felt that their only hope was to keep control of the situation
at all costs. Unfortunately, one you introduce time travel into the mix,
control becomes a laughable concept. Eventually, a rebel group of aliens
managed to steal time travel technology. They used it to go back to their
early days, and become the dominant race over all others. They were
especially ruthless against the Earthans, for obvious reasons. But it did
not stop there. An alliance of humans, and a different planet of subjugated
aliens, stole time travel technology, and went back so they could become the
dominant species. Can you guess where I’m going with this?
As you know, I have the ability to witness events in other universes, but
that gift gets complicated when alternate realities are in the mix. You see,
since each universe operates on a completely separate timeline, I’m actually
watching these other events having happened, not as they’re happening. The
past, present, and future don’t just happen all at once; they don’t even
exist from my perspective. It’s all just one giant picture to me, which
allows me to piece together stories. Alternate realities of all kinds make
piecing those stories together more complicated. Concurrent realites are all
but impossible for me to see through, because they add extra layers that
block each other from sight, but sequential timelines aren’t easy either.
The metaphorical picture of the universe is larger than a normal one when
that happens, but my perspective hasn’t changed, so every detail is smaller.
The point is that I don’t know how many loops these people went through. I
only know that it was bad. They just kept going, always trying to gain an
advantage over each other, until things got to be so messy that it all fell
apart. For the most part, unlike what you might hear in time travel movies,
the universe can’t be destroyed, even by a paradox. The paradox simply won’t
take place, and everything will be fine. You can overstrain the fabric of
spacetime, however, especially for a brane that was never meant to have
temporal manipulation in the first place. Everything that those people did,
it still happened. The end of the universe didn’t negate the past, also like
what you might see in movies. But it did end prematurely, and it’s a shame.
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