Reich-5

Reich-5, on Quantum 3, was the
fifth “Nazi victory” parallel discovered
by Infinity. It is presently in its year
2010, ruled by a brutally efficient
world government dominated by
Germany, Japan, and a Nazified
United States. It is TL8 in most
respects, but advanced in space tech-
nology and a twisted form of genetics
– and possibly in psionic technology.
Naturally, Infinity strictly prohibit-
ed travel to this world, and hid its exis-
tence in order to prevent it from
acquiring The Secret. But after a
decade of containment, the unthink-
able happened: Nazi parapsychologists
in the SS-controlled province of
Burgundy discovered a psionic world-
jumper (or captured such a visitor
from another timeline – Infinity isn’t
sure which) and gained expertise in
harnessing and exploiting the power.
By the time Infinity learned of this,
the Nazis had approximately two-
dozen world-jumpers, of highly vari-
able power and reliability (several had
to use dangerous cocktails of drugs to
unlock their powers), and were creat-
ing more through selective breeding,
cloning, and bio-psionic technology.
Worse, working in concert and using
experimental psibernetic linkages, it
seemed that some of these world-
jumpers were able to transport loads
of four or five times their own weight
– sufficient to move squads of troops
and even small armored vehicles.
Reich-5 soon began its first
crosstime invasion: an infiltration of
Nostradamus,
a
post-apocalyptic
world where prophecy shaped reality.
That the locals foresaw the invaders’
coming did them little good; in fact, it
reinforced the conquerors’ sense of
destiny. And matters only got worse.
Nostradamus proved to be at the
junction of a “dimensional road”
which the Nazi world-jumpers were
able to detect and exploit. This road,
which
the
Nazis
call
the
“chronobahn,” seems to span at least
half a dozen dimensions as it wavers
in and out of existence . . . And the
Nazis have begun to explore it. They
can still only shift small loads at some
risk, but they may be learning more.
Reich-5 lags far behind Centrum
and Homeline in parachronic theory
– a weakness that is compounded
by the fact that all of its researchers
are highly eccentric “Aryan mystics”
who seem intent on keeping secrets
from the “materialists” in Berlin.
Hence, Infinity has not yet activated
contingency plans – for instance,
to transport nuclear warheads to
known Reich-5 military bases and
government centers – and is instead
focusing its efforts on destabilizing
the regime. In any case, the “transdi-
mensional SS” are already scattered
across bases in an unknown number
of dimensions.
As Infinity is slowly realizing,
Reich-5 has the potential to dominate
all of Quantum 3 – and perhaps move
beyond, especially if it finds allies.