Time Corps

Time Corps is an alternative setting for time travel. In involves a battle between Timepiece and Stopwatch who are from divergence versions of the year 2100. Stopwatch is alerting the past to ensure that their gray bureaucracy ruling humanity (United Mankind but called The Hive by Timepiece) present comes to pass.
==Limitations==
Time travel for Timepiece is limited to more then 130 years in the past. They are also limited by “windows” that move as the Absolute Now does and blackouts (periods of history they can't access). The biggest limitation is that gross changes to the past simply don't work; everyone Timepiece and Stopwatch alike snaps them back to their respective Absolute Nows and that portion of history suffers from a blackout.
When the local probability of either Timepiece or Stopwatch drops below a certain point travel between that time and their respective Absolute Now is no longer possible.
==Overall framework==
The setting works similar to Timecop where changes to the past change the present. This changes the frequency of either Timepiece and Stopwatch coming into being. However there are people who thanks to Temporal Inertia "remember" the original history giving Timepiece indication something has been changed.
However Timepiece and Stopwatch appear not to be alone in the past as there have been "reported contacts with individuals who seem to be Time Agents from other realities, some of them quite bizarre." The danger is not so much that either present will be "erased" but they will loose access to the past.
==Everyone in here?==
(senario suggestion)
From the standpoint of Infinite Worlds campaign the reality of the Time Corps setting would appear to be subjected to constant minor reality quakes caused by the locals. If it is Q6 then Centrum scientists could suggest that it rather then Homeline is the reason for so many echoes in that quantum: the battle between Timepiece and Stopwatch is attracting/creating these echoes. This could change the focus of Centrum entirely based on how much of a threat they see the situation.
Infinity would obviously be worried and could see the Timepiece and Stopwatch battle as effectively two bulls in a china shop. If a reality shifts quanta and it appears that Timepiece and/or Stopwatch were the reason that concern will quickly go up to caveman beating on the head of an active nuclear bomb levels.
If things get bad enough Infinity and Centrum could join forces to shut down the war as it is a danger to both of their operations in Q6. Besides who knows what they can do with all that nice Timepiece and Stopwatch "time travel" tech.
==Note==
The Time Corps seems to pull ideas from Pacesetter's Timemaster setting while local problems are likely inspired by the TimeWars series
==References==
*Classic: Time Travel p 48
*GURPS Infinite Worlds p 217
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