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Parallel classification guide – an information brochure approved by the Defense Councilman’s Office
All known parallels are classified using the “Letter1Letter2-Number” system. The number is a catalogue number identifying how many parallels of that kind (including the one in question) were already known at the time it was charted. Due to civilizational progress and random events some parallels may be reclassified or classified wrongly. Please inform the Multiverse Charting Bureau if you found a parallel's classification to be outdated or outright incorrect.
Letter1 is the parallel's technology level category. It can be one of the following:
α - The dominant technology level so far sighted across the multiverse. In the past it used to apply to all industrialized pre-quantumtronic and pre-controlled fusion parallels but now it only applies to those in which the natives managed to: develop atomics, put satellites in orbit or develop basic electronic computers.
β – All parallels that posses significant detectable industry but are not advanced enough to be classified as Alpha belong to this category.
δ – Agrarian civilizations, too primitive to develop industry. Often the most barbaric of the savage parallels.
ε – Posses no civilization, usually post-cataclysm parallels. Occasionally humans never evolved in them. Rare in the known multiverse.
γ – Parallels with advanced technology, still centuries behind Atlantis but highly advanced compared to the typical barbarian civilization. Posses knowledge of advanced robotics, basic quantumtronics or advanced pre-FTL spaceflight. Very rare but present in the known multiverse. Possibly at risk of an automaton uprising. Travel to these parallels is highly unadvised. Anyone found opening rifts larger than a personal RGM one to a parallel of this type will be put on trial for the crime of technology smuggling. The punishment will be death by agonization.
ζ – Machine parallel ruled by automatons, currently none of this kind are known but classification remains in case Atlantis discovers such an abomination. TRAVEL TO SUCH PARALLELS UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES OTHER THAN FOLLOWING MILITARY ORDERS IS CONSIDERED TREASON AND IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH.
ω – UNCHARTED, DO NOT TRAVEL TO THESE PARALLELS UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES. Omega parallels do not possess an environmental influence grade for obvious reasons.
Letter2 refers to environmental influence grade, parallels are classified by how much impact a civilization has had on the earth’s (and beyond) environment with factors such as urbanization, geoengineering, or space colonization capability. Furthermore should the environment be unsuitable for human life or very hostile this rating will show it.
α – virgin world, human presence either limited to cave-dwelling troglodytes or non-existent
β – Low urbanization, common among parallels where just one civilization is industrialized and has not conquered the more primitive or shared the knowledge with them. Consult the technology level category to see if the parallel is industrialized at all or not. High odds of ending up in untamed wilderness.
δ – High urbanization, most of the natural environment has been subjugated. Common among the more industrialized parallels.
ε – Surface shows signs of significant geoengineering in addition to high urbanization.
γ – Post-cataclysm world, environment recovering from asteroid impact, supervolcano eruption, gamma ray burst or large scale thermonuclear war. Warning! Do not travel without sufficient clean water and food supplies. Equipping air filter masks or hazmat suits is highly recommended.
ζ - Environment unsuitable to human life due to toxic atmosphere, cosmic radiation or extreme climate.
ω – Civilization present in this parallel possess significant interplanetary or even interstellar colonization capability with terraforming. Parallels of this type are extremely rare and currently limited to possessing lunar and martian colonies. Native space warships vastly inferior to the even the smallest of corvettes in the Rift Armada. There are no known parallels with FTL technology based on rifts or other phenomena.
VOTING IS STILL OPEN
I'll post another piece of newspaper fluff when I will decide to close voting, but until then your votes do count unlike during the presidential elections in 2000 back in florida
Oh and while this will be helpful when you will be able to vote on the destination you will get some additional information on the parallels you may travel to when the time comes. But not more than you can expect our prestigiousplumber smuggler to know.
All known parallels are classified using the “Letter1Letter2-Number” system. The number is a catalogue number identifying how many parallels of that kind (including the one in question) were already known at the time it was charted. Due to civilizational progress and random events some parallels may be reclassified or classified wrongly. Please inform the Multiverse Charting Bureau if you found a parallel's classification to be outdated or outright incorrect.
Letter1 is the parallel's technology level category. It can be one of the following:
α - The dominant technology level so far sighted across the multiverse. In the past it used to apply to all industrialized pre-quantumtronic and pre-controlled fusion parallels but now it only applies to those in which the natives managed to: develop atomics, put satellites in orbit or develop basic electronic computers.
β – All parallels that posses significant detectable industry but are not advanced enough to be classified as Alpha belong to this category.
δ – Agrarian civilizations, too primitive to develop industry. Often the most barbaric of the savage parallels.
ε – Posses no civilization, usually post-cataclysm parallels. Occasionally humans never evolved in them. Rare in the known multiverse.
γ – Parallels with advanced technology, still centuries behind Atlantis but highly advanced compared to the typical barbarian civilization. Posses knowledge of advanced robotics, basic quantumtronics or advanced pre-FTL spaceflight. Very rare but present in the known multiverse. Possibly at risk of an automaton uprising. Travel to these parallels is highly unadvised. Anyone found opening rifts larger than a personal RGM one to a parallel of this type will be put on trial for the crime of technology smuggling. The punishment will be death by agonization.
ζ – Machine parallel ruled by automatons, currently none of this kind are known but classification remains in case Atlantis discovers such an abomination. TRAVEL TO SUCH PARALLELS UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES OTHER THAN FOLLOWING MILITARY ORDERS IS CONSIDERED TREASON AND IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH.
ω – UNCHARTED, DO NOT TRAVEL TO THESE PARALLELS UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES. Omega parallels do not possess an environmental influence grade for obvious reasons.
Letter2 refers to environmental influence grade, parallels are classified by how much impact a civilization has had on the earth’s (and beyond) environment with factors such as urbanization, geoengineering, or space colonization capability. Furthermore should the environment be unsuitable for human life or very hostile this rating will show it.
α – virgin world, human presence either limited to cave-dwelling troglodytes or non-existent
β – Low urbanization, common among parallels where just one civilization is industrialized and has not conquered the more primitive or shared the knowledge with them. Consult the technology level category to see if the parallel is industrialized at all or not. High odds of ending up in untamed wilderness.
δ – High urbanization, most of the natural environment has been subjugated. Common among the more industrialized parallels.
ε – Surface shows signs of significant geoengineering in addition to high urbanization.
γ – Post-cataclysm world, environment recovering from asteroid impact, supervolcano eruption, gamma ray burst or large scale thermonuclear war. Warning! Do not travel without sufficient clean water and food supplies. Equipping air filter masks or hazmat suits is highly recommended.
ζ - Environment unsuitable to human life due to toxic atmosphere, cosmic radiation or extreme climate.
ω – Civilization present in this parallel possess significant interplanetary or even interstellar colonization capability with terraforming. Parallels of this type are extremely rare and currently limited to possessing lunar and martian colonies. Native space warships vastly inferior to the even the smallest of corvettes in the Rift Armada. There are no known parallels with FTL technology based on rifts or other phenomena.
VOTING IS STILL OPEN
I'll post another piece of newspaper fluff when I will decide to close voting, but until then your votes do count unlike during the presidential elections in 2000 back in florida
Oh and while this will be helpful when you will be able to vote on the destination you will get some additional information on the parallels you may travel to when the time comes. But not more than you can expect our prestigious