FNOTI
From Axalon RPG
Abbr. for Fractured Nature of Time Itself
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Summary
Shorthand (coined by Tarry over IM, as yet not used in-story) for a crisis that began in the Cybertronian Alpha RPG universe and is gradually fingering its way to other universes, including those of Predacon Base RPG and Ultimate RPG. Essentially, the timeline is breaking apart. Temporal anomalies and unchecked time travel are splitting it up into loops and trees, the laws of causality are stretched and in more and more cases totally broken, and holes to other universes, known as Time Shards, are jumbling things up all the more, and spreading the problem like a disease throughout the multiverse.
Current Status
On Cybertronian Alpha RPG, the FNOTI crisis has been contained, but not resolved, for about three months. Stable Time Shard portals to other times and places are peppered throughout the space station, and travel through them is routine. New Time Shards are rare though, and there haven't been any random anomalies, appearances, disappearances or time storms like there were before.
Clearly though, things aren't "back to normal". Many are convinced that the universe is still coming apart, just more slowly or in ways we can't see yet.
History
The FNOTI was set off by the destruction of the CA universe's Axis of Time, a sort of central control station for the timeline. The culprits were the Endless, thirteen body snatching demigods from an ancestral universe. It was a last ditch effort, it seems, to avoid defeat and enable them to hide in various places throughout the timeline, finding themselves ideal host bodies. It is suspected that the Endless have some greater purpose to embroiling reality in temporal chaos, maybe even more than the simple fact that chaos is what they thrive upon. Smart money is on some sort of universal, or even multiversal domination scheme.
The one band-aid on the FNOTI is the Temporal Flux Generator, aka Time Generator, aka Time Doohicky, aka McGuffin. It is wired into the central engineering core of Cybertronian Alpha Station (CA3). The engineering section of the station is consumed in darkness and inhabited by an unknown monstrous entity, and the station as a whole is lorded over by the Predacon Cage, who is suspected to be in league with the Endless, if not posessed by one of them himself. Cage was the guy who led the effort to unlock the Endless in the first place, and then was posessed by their leader, and then was destroyed. When the Time Generator was installed, a bunch of goofy things in the timeline reset themselves, and Cage was back, in this new timeline never having done anything with the Endless. We think.
Cybertronian Alpha station (CA3) is currently a stable, mostly anomaly free zone-- the eye of the storm, so to speak. It is also, for inexplicable reasons, a magnet for travelers and refugees from far flung, places, times, and universes.
A small band of bots and beings on CA are on a crusade to fix the FNOTI. How? They honestly have no idea, but Step 1 is pretty clearly to give Cage the boot. Cage's disgruntled subordinate and station security commander Tiron, has decided to aid them. Unfortunately the two core members of the band, Cyan and Jungle, left the station via Time Shard to go recruit the bots off Predacon Base RPG, leaving Icerunner as leader.
Meta
This thing started as a seemingly minor plot point, then kicked off a new CA plot arc that was successful for a few missions. CA then went cold, along with a bunch of other boards, but we're now using the FNOTI as a vehicle to bring together the most enduring characters of Predacon Base RPG, Ultimate RPG and Cybertronian Alpha RPG together on one board. Also a wacko fractured timeline more closely mirrors how a lot of us toss characters around back and forth regardless of continuity.
