MEMbrane.

MEMbrane - The alt.worlds expeditions.

Imagine Stargate but dimensional.

It is the mid 2020's and the world is in a bad way, with evolving brushfire wars, resources conflicts, world famines and increasing political unrest. Amongst the programs backed by the UN is a research team that claims a practical use for three branches of hi energy physics. Through the creation of a micro event manipulator, a stable window between different possible universes 'branes' are created. Brian Greene heads up the Micro Event Manipulator project that allows the existence of the Membrane - a passage to the world next door. A very secret research project (private, but with heavy oversight from the UN) MEM has hired specialists to aid them in the next stage of their research - sending humans through the membrane.

When a final breakthrough is made, a stable harmonic is created with other worlds. All electronics shut down while penetrating the membrane, though communication can be carried out. More robust, primitive electronic tech can survive the passage through the brane, but delicate microchips, etc will not.

Plotlines: Earth, our Earth, is Home. MEM intends to find a means to use membranes to aid Home. First of all, exploration and research needs to be done. This will be the job of the teams assembled to go through the branes to other worlds.

Branes come in 'states' - collections of worlds with similar conditions. Other states still reflect the same physical laws, but may have wildly divergent local conditions. Changes back in the Earth of that brane cluster.

Other possiblities.

Branes with other laws/conditions. Base physics holds across all branes, but some branes tap more easily into n-dimensional energies, allowing things like the three laws of thermodynamics to be broken by sourcing energy external to the system.

Other sentients. Most will be, initially - alt.humans or primates. Other sentiences will be found, deeper into the branes.

Hi tech. some of these sentients will have branetech of their own - which will be useful to MEM. Others - the nomads (generational) move from world to world, drain, move on.

Brane clusters.

• The Empties. A range of Earths where humans seem not to have evolved.
• The Parallels. A range of Earths that reflect our own, though often wildly divergent in history and culture. So far, none of those monitored have technology as advanced as Home.
• The Mids. A range of Earths centred around an Earth with a thinner atmospheric and a reduced axial tilt. The Equator boils, the poles never rise above freezing. The only inhabitable areas are the mid-latitudes.
• The Mirrors. A range of Earths that reflect Home, but with relatively minor detail changes.
• The Alts. Worlds that are an unusual take on our own - generally associated with the basis behind some human myths and legends.