It was decided that history would have
an 'A side' and a 'B side'. The former would be left as-is
uninterrupted and continuous. The latter would be an experiment, on
a grand scale – changing and influencing events, tracking the
consequences and people's 'best selves' would be rescued from the
timeline.
Fortunately for the timeline, a certain
kind of extraction resulted in a temporal echo of a person that would
continue – more or less in a predictable manner. This had a number
of beneficial side effects. One prominent one was that these echoes
tended not to notice any further temporal anomalies.
Another effect was that changes to the
timeline didn't propagate as much as one might assume they would.
Effects would have to be drawn out, either by additional energy or
direct observation – it wasn't changes 'flowing' through time, as
much as it was changes in a static painting – not affecting
anything more than the direct proximity. Even these new branches
were exactly that – a tangent away from the original timeline that
only influenced itself.
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