[OOC][PLOT] Galaxy Building (Where we make Magrathea look like small potatoes)

[Labster]

I didn't mean to imply that the evidence was wrong, just that the current universe itself didn't exist until the segfault.  Then an entire universe was written to the coredump universe with every particle's quantum state; the people living inside would have no way of knowing that they were a copy of an existing universe.  I think it's fair to say that Yggdrasil's code can know quantum state without measuring it.  And then state from another universe was written on top, and then another, and then you eventually get a Metacontinuity.  But the reality beginning to exist in this way isn't a deception, or even wrong.  It's just that most time travel effects would raise ENOTIMELINE on Yggdrasil, because the memory describing the previous timelines is at a different memory address, that of the base timeline.  (It's a handled exception, of course, and not a segfault, because they all decided to go over the time travel code very closely to make sure it doesn't die.  No one understands how it works, though.)

The other alternative is that this just happened to be reality where everyone got placed.  It's because it was somehow a "base" reality, or maybe just by matching an error code to a setting.  As if #define EREALITYBREAK 17741 and somehow that turned into goto midgard[17741];, and all sorts of stuff got rewritten there.  So the timeline itself exists, but does not represent the history that all of the newcomers to the reality remember.

I think those are the simplest case, unless you want to deal with the past and future being rewritten.

In theory, Yamato can travel inside the Local Group, as can the various Galaxy Express lines.  The thing is, galaxies are so unimaginably large that having more than one in a story often just isn't necessary.

Also, Baby Universe.