When you're talking 'changes', do you mean background or timeline?
(Missed this one before.)
If it helps, the GM in my superhero campaign (he's got something like a dozen superteams at different points, some of them actively played, others not) had 9/11 become different: he looked at the flight path and realized that both the NYC planes went right over two major superhero team bases, and there was no way the heroes wouldn't react...
...especially after the American Dream contacted them to tell them a CIA precognitive foresaw the attack. They were ready.
There's a five-hundred-meter-long gouge in a farm in Pennsylvania, too, where the Philadelphia superteam Freedomstrike managed to, against all odds, force a plane that was about to crash and explode to turn enough to scrape its belly along the ground.
The problem with the IST world is that there's known, reasonably reliable precogs. Of course, one of the best known of those, X, did commit suicide after not foreseeing an event... thus the comment about 'reasonably reliable'.
The IST world has walkertanks in Vietnam, working AIs, and reliable working fusion. That's already a major tech variance from mainline, and that's just the publically known. Who knows what the government black labs might have in them?
Plus the alien influences - is Meeranar cuisine growing in popularity? They're big cats - does PETA hate them for their predatory instincts? Have any other alien races overly contacted Earth? Or even covertly, so that only goverments know? Or worse, only groups with similar agendas? Imagine an alien race of theocrats secretly backing what we'd consider a bunch of radical religious lunatics - Islamists or Evangelical types, either way, doesn't matter.
Some of this may go far beyond what you were thinking about, Bob. I'm just sort of letting the brain run.Brazil has decided you're cute.Brazil has decided you're cute.
(Missed this one before.)
If it helps, the GM in my superhero campaign (he's got something like a dozen superteams at different points, some of them actively played, others not) had 9/11 become different: he looked at the flight path and realized that both the NYC planes went right over two major superhero team bases, and there was no way the heroes wouldn't react...
...especially after the American Dream contacted them to tell them a CIA precognitive foresaw the attack. They were ready.
There's a five-hundred-meter-long gouge in a farm in Pennsylvania, too, where the Philadelphia superteam Freedomstrike managed to, against all odds, force a plane that was about to crash and explode to turn enough to scrape its belly along the ground.
The problem with the IST world is that there's known, reasonably reliable precogs. Of course, one of the best known of those, X, did commit suicide after not foreseeing an event... thus the comment about 'reasonably reliable'.
The IST world has walkertanks in Vietnam, working AIs, and reliable working fusion. That's already a major tech variance from mainline, and that's just the publically known. Who knows what the government black labs might have in them?
Plus the alien influences - is Meeranar cuisine growing in popularity? They're big cats - does PETA hate them for their predatory instincts? Have any other alien races overly contacted Earth? Or even covertly, so that only goverments know? Or worse, only groups with similar agendas? Imagine an alien race of theocrats secretly backing what we'd consider a bunch of radical religious lunatics - Islamists or Evangelical types, either way, doesn't matter.
Some of this may go far beyond what you were thinking about, Bob. I'm just sort of letting the brain run.Brazil has decided you're cute.Brazil has decided you're cute.