I have seen much debate in this forum about this Paradox of sorts. I have stated before that Novus is a bootstrap paradox. There is no ALTERNATE timeline...The timeline that we have only loops back upon itself. If there was an alternate timeline created, we would have no Col. Telford in the timeline we follow in our story.
When Destiny dropped out of FTL. The solar flare had to have happened in the few second interval between when he went through and when everyone else did, or else they would have all ended up back on earth.
2000 years ago Novas ALWAYS get founded....technology develops the same as it does in any other brand new culture with the exception of the knowledge they already had. When they rushed through the gate there is no indication that they had anything more than a kino and the clothes on their back. So.....they develop their civilization the best that they can, and the leave it to their descendants when they die off. Just like us, they went from almost primitive to technological epicenter in 2 millennia. The drones COULD have been built by the Novasians....just not the founders (destiny's crew). Just because a couple young adults that were born in the expedition camps never have seen a drone, doesn't mean their people didn't build them...
Ok...moving on...2000 years ago Novas founded.....life goes on....2000 years later Destiny enters the galaxy, wants to try to dial home in the sun, tries, and fails....Telford goes through the gate, goes back home....solar flare happens...the rest of the crew does the same and gets thrust back 2 millennia, thus completing the loop....while destiny itself only gets thrown back 12 hours....meeting itself close to the moment where it was destroyed.
Destiny did not create an alternate timeline.....but only brought itself back to the point where time could move forward again....
When Destiny dropped out of FTL. The solar flare had to have happened in the few second interval between when he went through and when everyone else did, or else they would have all ended up back on earth.
2000 years ago Novas ALWAYS get founded....technology develops the same as it does in any other brand new culture with the exception of the knowledge they already had. When they rushed through the gate there is no indication that they had anything more than a kino and the clothes on their back. So.....they develop their civilization the best that they can, and the leave it to their descendants when they die off. Just like us, they went from almost primitive to technological epicenter in 2 millennia. The drones COULD have been built by the Novasians....just not the founders (destiny's crew). Just because a couple young adults that were born in the expedition camps never have seen a drone, doesn't mean their people didn't build them...
Ok...moving on...2000 years ago Novas founded.....life goes on....2000 years later Destiny enters the galaxy, wants to try to dial home in the sun, tries, and fails....Telford goes through the gate, goes back home....solar flare happens...the rest of the crew does the same and gets thrust back 2 millennia, thus completing the loop....while destiny itself only gets thrown back 12 hours....meeting itself close to the moment where it was destroyed.
Destiny did not create an alternate timeline.....but only brought itself back to the point where time could move forward again....
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