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Tucked away into the far, far corners of the universe, legendary and laced in mythological storytelling, much sought after but never truly found, lies the Great Glass Pyramid. A vast, humongous structure of solid glass, from which the suns that orbit around the planet can bend and warp the specially made glass into strange and bizarre ways. From atop this vast pyramid with its thousands of stairs, lies a small tower, and inside this tower is the room known as the Hall of Mirrors. The Hall of Mirrors is seemingly an endless maze-like set of corridors, filled with mirrors across every wall. Going on and on, the size of the room seemingly completely at odds with the relatively small sized structure of the building on the outside, the light from the suns bounces off, reflects, and is beamed across into every mirror. The effect of this miraculous structure is to become a beacon, a singular structural point from which can be glimpsed through the mirrors a billion, billion worlds, infinite parallel universes stretching out infinitely, each one a shimmering reflection of the other. Some are so similar as to be almost indistinguishable, some so wild and different as to bare no resemblance to our own. Who made this structure is unknown, but it is rumoured to be another of the vast and colossal cosmic engineering projects by the Architects of Lost Dreams, that race of god-like super beings that supposedly existed at the beginning of our universe, who crafted miracles out of star dust, created art projects the size and span of galaxies, and tinkered with the building blocks of reality like children playing with toy bricks, then vanished, departing this universe forever and only leaving behind the littered remains of their craft. Why they made this structure we have no idea, but its immense power has made it one of the most potentially dangerous structures in existence, the ability to jump from world to world as if jumping in a pond, joyfully sprinting from parallel to parallel, could potentially enable anyone or anything to bring anyone or anything into our world, and vice versa. The collected potential energies of each world would be beyond anything imaginable if somehow harnessed together, and the chance for multiversal spillover, and the wars that might be waged *between* universes, would be destructive beyond imagining. For this reason it has long been sought over, the ancient Martians mapped and searched for it, the grand Empire of Sarkath spent trillions of men and the cost of their empire in a ruinous search for it, the legendary romantic pirate Captain Astro nearly died of disease and went half mad in the jungles of Arcadia supposedly trying to find clues to its whereabouts, and still it lives on, in the minds of conspiracy theorists, madmen and preachers, greedy and ambitious businessmen and Ancient Abomination worshipping Lovecraftian cults. All have dreamed of the Great Glass Pyramid, whose sacred Hall of Mirrors shimmers with possible worlds, gripping their minds in its potentially, its siren whisper drawing them from across the stars, all to see a glimpse into it's shimmering, reflecting mirrors.

Note: One of the stupidest and most exhausting things I've ever done, a project i probably started more or less in the summer. Tediously trying to track down and list almost every single alternate history, dystopia and post-apocalyptic work I could be bothered to find (there are many more, but i had to end it at some point), I've tried to make it at exhaustive as possible. Some are straight up alternate worlds, some are me bending the rules abit (I made a personal rule that any work of sci fi with a date that has now passed that exhibits a radically different world is now an alternate history), some dystopias and post-apocalyptic works which are not *technically* alt-histories (it's possible that 1984, The Hunger Games and zombie apocalypses all exist in one timeline, but it seems unlikely, and certainly, they can't *all* be right), and some are still somewhat undecided in their alt history nature (the Eugenic Wars in Star Trek were initially straight up sci fi when the '1990s' reference was made, but has since become rather obviously impossible to square with our world, if we presume Star Trek is meant to be our timeline. This has led ST fans to try and manage to square the events of the Eugenic Wars into our real world timeline, or else dump it into an alt-timeline. I've put it in the latter for fun, and to give even more variety to the map). I've tried to (somewhat awkwardly in some cases) lump the worlds together, I imagine it being abit like loads of bubbles that sort of clump together, split of and reform, some larger than others, so one can see if one looks carefully a (LARGE) Axis wins WW2 set of universes (like...alot, writers need to come up with alternate worlds), a Confederate wins US Civil War set of universes (again, enough with this scenario), and others like a magic set of universes (down the bottom near the left), a no-Christianity set of universes (bottom right), and obviously, a sea of post-apocalypses and possible dystopias clustered across the top (including all 5 potential Terminator scenarios, and at least 3 alternate War of the Worlds scenarios Yikes).

The map's not perfect, it's not the neatest thing I've ever made (i had to do it on Paint, so it was hard), but I did take alot of time, and I hope people appreciate it.

And no, I'm not even going to get into whether alternate timelines, different dimensions and parallel universes are the same thing, all different or whatever. Give me a break, this was hard enough, without me having to consider adding Narnia and the different Back to the Future futures into the mix.

Description
Tucked away into the far, far corners of the universe, legendary and laced in mythological storytelling, much sought after but never truly found, lies the Great Glass Pyramid. A vast, humongous structure of solid glass, from which the suns that orbit around the planet can bend and warp the specially made glass into strange and bizarre ways. From atop this vast pyramid with its thousands of stairs, lies a small tower, and inside this tower is the room known as the Hall of Mirrors. The Hall of Mirrors is seemingly an endless maze-like set of corridors, filled with mirrors across every wall. Going on and on, the size of the room seemingly completely at odds with the relatively small sized structure of the building on the outside, the light from the suns bounces off, reflects, and is beamed across into every mirror. The effect of this miraculous structure is to become a beacon, a singular structural point from which can be glimpsed through the mirrors a billion, billion worlds, infinite parallel universes stretching out infinitely, each one a shimmering reflection of the other. Some are so similar as to be almost indistinguishable, some so wild and different as to bare no resemblance to our own. Who made this structure is unknown, but it is rumoured to be another of the vast and colossal cosmic engineering projects by the Architects of Lost Dreams, that race of god-like super beings that supposedly existed at the beginning of our universe, who crafted miracles out of star dust, created art projects the size and span of galaxies, and tinkered with the building blocks of reality like children playing with toy bricks, then vanished, departing this universe forever and only leaving behind the littered remains of their craft. Why they made this structure we have no idea, but its immense power has made it one of the most potentially dangerous structures in existence, the ability to jump from world to world as if jumping in a pond, joyfully sprinting from parallel to parallel, could potentially enable anyone or anything to bring anyone or anything into our world, and vice versa. The collected potential energies of each world would be beyond anything imaginable if somehow harnessed together, and the chance for multiversal spillover, and the wars that might be waged *between* universes, would be destructive beyond imagining. For this reason it has long been sought over, the ancient Martians mapped and searched for it, the grand Empire of Sarkath spent trillions of men and the cost of their empire in a ruinous search for it, the legendary romantic pirate Captain Astro nearly died of disease and went half mad in the jungles of Arcadia supposedly trying to find clues to its whereabouts, and still it lives on, in the minds of conspiracy theorists, madmen and preachers, greedy and ambitious businessmen and Ancient Abomination worshipping Lovecraftian cults. All have dreamed of the Great Glass Pyramid, whose sacred Hall of Mirrors shimmers with possible worlds, gripping their minds in its potentially, its siren whisper drawing them from across the stars, all to see a glimpse into it's shimmering, reflecting mirrors.

Note: One of the stupidest and most exhausting things I've ever done, a project i probably started more or less in the summer. Tediously trying to track down and list almost every single alternate history, dystopia and post-apocalyptic work I could be bothered to find (there are many more, but i had to end it at some point), I've tried to make it at exhaustive as possible. Some are straight up alternate worlds, some are me bending the rules abit (I made a personal rule that any work of sci fi with a date that has now passed that exhibits a radically different world is now an alternate history), some dystopias and post-apocalyptic works which are not *technically* alt-histories (it's possible that 1984, The Hunger Games and zombie apocalypses all exist in one timeline, but it seems unlikely, and certainly, they can't *all* be right), and some are still somewhat undecided in their alt history nature (the Eugenic Wars in Star Trek were initially straight up sci fi when the '1990s' reference was made, but has since become rather obviously impossible to square with our world, if we presume Star Trek is meant to be our timeline. This has led ST fans to try and manage to square the events of the Eugenic Wars into our real world timeline, or else dump it into an alt-timeline. I've put it in the latter for fun, and to give even more variety to the map). I've tried to (somewhat awkwardly in some cases) lump the worlds together, I imagine it being abit like loads of bubbles that sort of clump together, split of and reform, some larger than others, so one can see if one looks carefully a (LARGE) Axis wins WW2 set of universes (like...alot, writers need to come up with alternate worlds), a Confederate wins US Civil War set of universes (again, enough with this scenario), and others like a magic set of universes (down the bottom near the left), a no-Christianity set of universes (bottom right), and obviously, a sea of post-apocalypses and possible dystopias clustered across the top (including all 5 potential Terminator scenarios, and at least 3 alternate War of the Worlds scenarios Yikes).

The map's not perfect, it's not the neatest thing I've ever made (i had to do it on Paint, so it was hard), but I did take alot of time, and I hope people appreciate it.

And no, I'm not even going to get into whether alternate timelines, different dimensions and parallel universes are the same thing, all different or whatever. Give me a break, this was hard enough, without me having to consider adding Narnia and the different Back to the Future futures into the mix.