Sauria-2
So, unlike Sauria-1, this place is much saner. There's one sapient species, it seems to have followed a normal evolutionary path.... I've got some great spy bug footage from their Museum of Natural History... on their Manhattan Island...on its Upper West Side...with the same floorplan as Baseline's...and if you'll excuse me, doctor, I'm going to the Speckled Zebra
It's Life, Jim, Too Much As We Know It
Unlike many similar alternate dominant worlds, the Cretaceous meteor came right on schedule, wiping out the dinosaurs and leaving the way clear for something new. But there were no mammals here, patiently waiting their turn for tens of millions of years. Their niche had been filled with a variety of smaller reptiles, and it was this humble stock that world was remade, culminating, 65 million years later, in world of skyscrapers, jet planes, nuclear bombs, cell phones, and political scandals, populated by slightly over 8 billion bipedal reptiles.Other than their language (which uses different sounds) and their writing (which must match those sounds), the world of Sauria-2 is ridiculously close to that of Baseline. They prefer more grubs and insects, but if there's an ethnic restaurant on Baseline at a given address, there's one at the same spot on Sauria-2, with as close a menu as possible. (According to some courageous BREACH culinarians, General Tso's Cricket is quite good.)
The fact their young are hatched, that they have tails, that they're hairless and have very slight (to human eyes) secondary sexual characteristics has had no obvious effect on their culture. One anthropologist said "It's not the Butterfly Effect; it's the Flintstone Effect. Every society looks like modern Earth."
While anthropologists and evolutionary biologists are sneaking around as best they can to gather artifacts and look for some kind of explanation, including 'this is some sort of joke being played by cosmic gods', there's also been interest in media, in particular, a subset of the "Star Wars" franchise. In "The Empire Strikes Back", the bounty hunter Bossk (a reptilian creature on Baseline) is, on Sauria-2, wearing a mask and makeup that makes him a dead ringer for George Lucas. There's a demand for cuts of the film, toys, and comic books featuring this character, and where there's demand, there's criminals willing to supply it.
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