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The Doclopedia #1,627
Odd Temporal Breakpoints: Earth 1-E
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The timelines of all universes have many possible breakpoints, but some have important breakpoints in the oddest, often most mundane situations. This is one of them.
On Earth 1-E, if Millie Van Post, of Dallas, Texas, loses her bid for Homecoming Queen, she will become very angry and go for a long high speed drive in the car her father got her when she turned 16.
During that drive, she will take a corner way too fast in the wrong lane, causing another car to go down a steep embankment and crash into a barn, seriously injuring the two men in the car. When the men are taken to a hospital and treated, both of whom require some surgery, one of the men begins babbling about killing the president in Dallas. The date of admittance to the hospital is November 19th, 1963. The man is not Lee Harvey Oswald, but his handler. Oswald is the other injured man.
The surgeon notifies the Secret Service, who question both men under the effect of “more sedation”. As a result, the Secret Service and other agencies not only arrest several other people, they up President Kennedy’s security and he is not assassinated on November 23rd. In fact, he gets re-elected and after leaving office serves on the Supreme Court from 1973 to 1999.
Millie Van Post finishes her anger fueled drive by attempting to burn down her high school. She does 26 months in a mental institution.
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The Doclopedia #1,628
Odd Temporal Breakpoints: Earth 21-O
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The timelines of all universes have many possible breakpoints, but some have important breakpoints in the oddest, often most mundane situations. This is one of them.
On Earth 21-O, Abid al Hassam is a night security guard at an important space port in North Africa. His job is to patrol the Eastern Storage Area, where wealthy people and several governments store their space planes. He drives the perimeter in a small car. Another guard, Farouk, sits in a small booth by the gate. They have linked comm units. A full trip around the perimeter usually takes Abid 30 minutes.
If, on the day of May 11th, 2048, Abid’s wife buys imported tomatoes from Europe instead of locally grown tomatoes, then cooks them in the dinner stew, the following events will happen.
Fours after dinner and 2 hours into his shift at work, Abid will be hit with severe diarrhea. This will stretch his usual 30 minute perimeter to more like 50 minutes. Since his every 30 minute stop to report in is all that keeps Farouk from falling asleep, he will not be awake when a team of 12 Free Mars revolutionaries arrive at the gate.
Seeing that the gate guard is fast asleep, they also note that the other guard is late. Rather than use force to get in, they simply open the guard shack door and press the button that opens the gate. They drive their two trucks in and the gate automatically closes behind them. Ten minutes later, Abid arrives at the gate, awakens Farouk and reports in.
The next perimeter tour takes a mere 40 minutes, during which the Free Mars people load the contents of their trucks onto a brand new Egyptian government Blue Star space plane, completely unnoticed because the interior of the lot is huge and not what Abid is supposed to watch.
Abid’s next trip is interrupted by first another trip to the bathroom, then the sound of alarms and sirens as the stolen space plane takes off on Runway 9.
Six weeks later, the space plane drops Chaos Bots onto the Martian surface near Grand Dome, home of the corporate rulers of Mars. This starts the Martian Revolution. One week later, the Corps give up and Mars is declared a Free Planet. Two months later, the United Earth acknowledges the new government.
Abid and Farouk are cleared of any conspiracy charges, but fired for gross incompetence.
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