: Certainly.
: The thick, solid-color lines running mostly downward represent objective
: timelines; up is past, down is future. The dotted black-and-white line
: running down and between those lines represents the player-character's
: subjective timeline. The white boxes with words in them are the levels,
: obviously. The green horizontal bars mark events in time, showing how they
: connect to different levels in different timelines; if a green bar passes
: fully behind a timeline, that indicates that that event occurs in that
: timeline, otherwise if it breaks before and then resumes past a timeline,
: that indicates that it does not occur in that timeline. (E.g. the security
: offices does not connect Durandal to the Pfhor network via two uplink
: chips in the timeline that begins with "Rise Robot Rise",
: because he's with Durandal at that point).
: The timelines are color-coded just by their relations to each other. The
: first timeline (M1->M2) is magenta just for contrast with the green
: horizontal bars. The timelines branching off from that where you go with
: Tycho get progressively warmer (rose, red, orange), while the ones where
: you go off with Durandal get progressively cooler (purple, blue, aqua).
: The breaks between timelines are determined by the dream level sequences
: (Electric Sheep levels and those immediately following them, which are
: shown rotated since they don't really occur at any point in time per se).
: The placement of individual levels in time (vertical placement) is
: determined based on references to events mentioned on those levels, which
: I began compiling back in this post , which was what originally was going
: to build up to this diagram, but I apparently got distracted from until
: recently.
: The relation between different timelines is just inferred by what appears to
: have happened in them: In the Infinity Prologue timeline, we may assume
: things went more or less as in M2 except as specified otherwise, which
: appears to be everything since Durandal arrived at Lh'owon, although the
: trih xeem was still deployed for some reason despite Durandal's crushing
: defeat. Similarly in the Ne Cede Malis timeline, except the space battle
: went different, and nevertheless Durandal ended up cornered on the Yrro
: station. Then we jump to a timeline where Durandal never took us from Tau
: Ceti and we ended up with Tycho instead, which ended up driving many of
: the same events from M2 to happen anyway, just with us on the other side.
: Then we jumped a timeline just like M2 (went with Durandal) except where
: we woke up early and helped in some of the earlier battles... but that
: ended up going straight back to M2 all over again. So we jump to a variant
: of the Tycho timeline, except do things differently so the same shit
: doesn't quite happen again... which still ends up failing somehow, so we
: jump back and try a slightly different variant of that timeline, and THAT
: ends up working.
Many thanks. I have added this to the Story page. It won't get lost this time. :-)
Cheers
Hamish
