Earth-196169

You think you know how the world works? You think that this material universe is all there is? What is real? What mysteries lie beyond the reach of your senses?

— The Ancient One, Tilda Swinton, Doctor Strange

Earth-196169 was born with the rest of the Multiverse when the Celestials shattered the First Firmament. This reality formed the Nexus of all Realities, where it gathered the parts of other universes as they were constructed and reconstructed. It became a Crossover Earth, fashioned from its unique place in the incomprehensible expanse of the multiverse. Earth, Asgard, Krypton, and more rest out in the galaxy's depths and more mysteries beyond even the borders of the observable universe.

Will you take on organized crime and superpowered thugs?

Will you enter the world of international espionage and warfare to confront would-be tyrants and doomsday devices?

Will you take up the fight for the rights of oppressed peoples, like mutants and stranded extraterrestrials?

Will you travel the universe for glory and face threats beyond Terran experience?

Or, will you travel to worlds through your mind's eye in the study of mysticism and go beyond the borders of reality?

There are many roads laid out before you. You are not limited by where you came from. Heroes often find themselves outside of the realms of the known and asked to do things that should be beyond their means. Yet, heroes somehow do amazing things that no one would ever expect. Who are you in the universe Earth-196169? And what is it that you are made of, hero?

Earth-1218 versus Earth-196169

The reality you're familiar with is similar to the reality of Earth-196169 with some exceptions. Often we think the existence of people with exceptional abilities would create dramatic changes in our history but even Superman, Kal-El of Krypton could only be in 1 place at 1 time. Even with dozens of superpowered heroes, hundreds, or thousands, they do not outweigh the millions or billions of ordinary people in a given world at a given time. And when an enhanced individual or metahuman with mal intent only reduces the impact of a Captain America, a Statesman, or a Defender on history. The effect of superheroes and villains in history has had more of an additive effect on the events of Earth-196169 than it has had any kind of corrective effect.

Well, you can forget it. I am Iron Man. The suit and I are one. To turn over the Iron Man suit would be to turn over myself, which is tantamount to indentured servitude or prostitution, depending on what state you're in. You can't have it.

— Tony Stark, Robert Downey, Jr., Iron Man 2

Even the existence of highly advanced and fringe technology has not permeated throughout reality to the benefit or detriment of all peoples with some exceptions. For instance, most vehicles that are still on the road run on fossil fuels as they do in reality Earth-1218 but the existence of Godzilla and his attacks on polluting fossil fuel and nuclear power plants has caused a renewable and arc reactor power renaissance. The intervention of extraterrestrial and extradimensional forces and the fear of some of the greatest minds of dying before they have reached their full potential has led to the development of chemical DNA demethylation medication that has significantly reduced age-related diseases and extended lifespans for the majority of people. And yet another example of super-science invading everyday life is the existence of superluminal communication after contact with extraterrestrial empires became common and Terra became a player on the galactic stage.

Advanced aircraft, weaponry, and other sensitive technology have been kept close to their creator's chests. Whether it's because the inventor is a would-be tyrant like Lord Recluse or Dr. Doom, or out of a sense of responsible stewardship by a hero like Tony Stark or Cyborg, technology that could endanger the whole of humanity or the universe has not spread to every government or every world. That doesn't mean dangerous advanced technology never falls into the wrong hands.

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What Is Reality?

Reality is the independent nature and existence of everything knowable, whether it is knowable by logical inference, empirical observation, or some other form of experience. Reality’s existence and nature are independent because reality does not depend on our mind’s apprehension of it to continue to exist or to maintain its character.

— Craig Payne, Philosophy Now, 2,007 CE

As most living beings in the universe exist in 3-dimensional space, moving along the 4^th dimensional time axis linearly, we largely perceive just one single aspect of reality. One begins to see more dimensions that formed under the same starting conditions as their own and they discover new spatial and temporal dimensions when they expand beyond the 5^th dimension. The 7 Hells, The Dark Dimension, The Mirror Dimension, The Negative Zone, The Quantum Realm, The Heavens, The Dream Dimension, and the Earth Realm open up to a 5^th dimensional observer. When one expands beyond the 5^th dimension into the 6^th dimension, they find themselves in the Macroverse where they can see across the multiverse and into all realities. Realities with radioactive spiders, children of Krypton, Wells of the Furies, sorcerers, Amazons, devils, saints, cities lost, cities found, sunken cities, and realities of the mundane where superpowered beings never emerge. All of these realities exist as they are not as they are imagined to be. Every reality has 26 dimensions in some combination, but the multiverse knows no hard and fast rules.

Universes versus Realities

A dimension is an axis. A universe consists of a fabric of interwoven wormholes known as spacetime. Spacetime consists of 4 dimensions represented by 'X⁴' whereas an entire reality is represented by 6 spacetimes plus the 5^th and 6^th dimension, or x²⁶. A reality is all things that exist as they are inside of its 26 axes, abiding by that reality's fundamental laws. The 26th axis or 6th dimension is always the bridge between realities and the path to the nexus of all realities. Imagine each reality as a bundle of 6 twisted cables insulated to separate each space-time. From the 5^th dimension, you can look up and down a single bundle of cables as they move from a common starting point to a common terminating point, while observably in isolation but logically intertwined. From the 6^th dimension, an observer can see many bundled dimensions forming many individual realities with their own individual starting and terminating points.

Current Date on Terra

1st March 2,018 CE

Three-dimensional beings measure their existence by the change in their position along the x⁴ axis, and track this change by matching it to the change of the closest astrological body to their own. On Terra, the closest body was the single moon of Luna. Over time, this begins to show significant inaccuracies that have to be adjusted for. Terrans saw that their equinoxes and solstices kept changing dates, and this affected agriculture. Eventually, Terrans created an algorithm that eventually led to a solar calendar that was off by a little less than a Terran day. Cultures across the universe will then make more adjustments to better match changes across the x⁴ axis more accurately until it is no longer connected to astrological bodies, but something much, much smaller. Caesium atoms.

Time as a Product of Quantum Mechanics

The evolution of the understanding of time inevitably transitions from the astrological bodies to the oscillation of atoms. For Terrans, time has transitioned to being measured by leveraging the precise and consistent frequency of microwave radiation emitted by caesium atoms when they transition between energy states. This creates a universal standard for measuring time that isn't dependent on the phases of their moon, the timing of Terra's equinoxes and solstices, or the progress of the planet's rotation around Sol. Atomic time for Terrans works out as the following:

• 9,192,631,770 microwave oscilations equals 1 second.
• 60 seconds equals 1 minute.
• 60 minutes equals 1 hour.
• 24 hours equals 1 day.
• 7 days equals 1 week.
• 52 weeks equals 1 year.
• 365 days equals 1 year with exceptions.

Using this atomic standard, all events across any space-time inside of reality Earth-196169 can be communicated in terms of the measurements used by Terrans. The creation of the universe happened approximately 13.8 billion years before the current era, whereas the present day is so many days, months, and years inside the current era.

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