Should probably post the mech sprites I coloured for our LANCER campaign here.

The sprites are made using a hodgepodge of assets from Retrograde Minis, but Retrograde's colouring system leaves a LOT to be desired, so I colour them manually in CSP.

Below are the mechs my character has piloted so far. The Suffice and The Vessel. Did a little kitbashing by having my character peek out of Vessel to sell its 1/2 size.

Mars in the Loop
Between Sep 2024 and May 2025, Mars traced a retrograde loop through Gemini and Cancer. This apparent reversal happens when Earth, moving faster in its orbit, overtakes Mars. Around Dec 8, Mars seemed to pause near the star cluster M44, drifted westward, then returned by May. At its closest on Jan 16, it was just 96 million km away.
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Tunc Tezel / NASA APOD
#APOD #Mars #Retrograde #Astronomy #NightSky #stellarsnap

   
#TimeTravelTuesday #ThoughtExperiment: Many #Worldlets?

or in other words, fractions of #World, not the whole World. #TimeTraveler #theories often involve splitting or multiplying #universes. Time Travel events divide #spacetime into two near-identical clones. Grandfather lived or did not, you did not meet yourself or you did. But if we think this through further, its scope might not be quite so universal as typically presented.

Take 3 heavenly bodies: Mother #Earth, the #AlphaCentauri triple star system (at 4+ light years away), and #Polaris, the #NorthStar (at 400+ light years away).

Now we program our #TimeMachine to take us back one year (#retrograde) where we meet ourselves. Hi selves! This all takes place in one year. There's the original us, there's us leaving the present, and there's us meeting our past/original selves a year earlier — standard #boilerplate #scifi #movie #script.

Alpha Centauri will have to wait another 3 years before any of this information can get to there. This is related to the concept of a #lightcone which expands at the speed of light. This doesn't sound quite so much like birthing a twin universe, does it? Now what about the North Star? It will have to wait 433 years for news of our Time Travel event(s). And that's still pretty much in our tiny #celestial neighborhood.

The point is that the effects of such events are largely localized and rapidly diluted as we move farther away. This still has its paradoxical problems, but it doesn't quite feel like the whole universe dividing into two — maybe part of it (a universelet? a subuniverse?) Possibilities are that in moving further out in space-time, the effects of a Time Travel incident may be 'blurred out', as are anomalous numerical samples in the law of large #numbers. If one pours a cup of coffee into a lake, it doesn't change the color of the lake. There is a brief chaotic #glitch before it is no longer measurable.

It is tempting to imagine space-time as "stitching" itself back together. (Glitch & stitch?) Such speculations are related to #StephenHawking's "chronology protection conjecture" of 1992. And along with #blackholes, #entanglement, and other #quantum phenomena, if Time Travel is possible, then we should be looking for it at every scale. We could be surrounded by time-traveling particles everywhere all the #Time.

https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation … #ManyWorlds
https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_paradox#Consistency_paradox … #GrandfatherParadox
https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone … #LightCone
https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel#Absence_of_time_travelers_from_the_future … #TimeTravelTheory
https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers … #LawOfLargeNumbers
https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_protection_conjecture … #ChronologyProtectionConjecture