SFC WHAT-NOTS 52: TIME TRAVEL SYSTEM

WHAT-NOTS
The purpose of this series of activities is to introduce scenarios where people can share their own experiences in the Sonic Fan Character world. Each month we introduce a new topic for people to share their input on. You can find the rest of the What-Nots HERE.

TOPIC
SFC WHAT-NOTS # 52: Time Travel System



Considering we as a people have yet to actually crack time travel, we can only speculate on how it works. We’ve come up with terms like “paradox” and “Space-time continuum” but in the realm of science fiction and fantasy, the rules of time travel tend to differ.

The question today is “How do you use time travel?”  How strong are your time travel rules? How often has it been used in your lore? How do you relate it to the multiverse? What kind of positive and negative effects have happened because of it?

HOST’S EXAMPLE
My form of time travel works like a computer program. When someone manages to travel back in time, they do not create an alternate timeline as this is only possible in the PRIME zone, with all non-prime zones having no ability to create alternate universes. Two options remain: paradox correction or modification.

Paradox Correction simply has the time-travelling undone, and at the point when time travel is attempted, it will simply fail: a sort of universal firewall blocking the attempt as if to say “You do not have permission to do that”.

Modification means that whatever happens in the past as a result of time travel (or the present after going to and returning from the future) will replace the original timeline. The time traveler(s) involved will either have their memories modified accordingly, or remain unchanged. This in of itself splits off into two final results.

This has the new timeline existing, and the version who time travelled existing remain, and everything to and past the future time travel point being replaced. Despite there being a clear sign of time travel, the timeline will remain in this new version. When the time traveler arrives at the point when they originally time travelled, they will either merge with their original self and only have the new memories, or have both.