AssCreed handwaving for time travle

In response to a post on tumblr I was thinking of a way to have time travel or AU or stuff without having to worry about all the save the world business.

So a handwavy idea I had, if you want to have some sort of AU or time travel thing but don’t want to deal with the headache or paradoxes, is that the fist civ only had to get it right once.

The Eye didn’t just protect the earth it was activate one, it was much more powerful than that. It protected all the earths the flare hit.

Hello parallel universes.

Or maybe they were hedging their bets and while the were working on manipulating history to get the right guy in the right place at the right time there also had something running on the side to take advantage of a universe next door if their plans ever fell through.

Maybe there’s even a universe out there somewhere where they used time travel & alternative universes to make it so they were protected from the first flare. So there at least one world where they weren’t all wiped out.

Which gives you a convoluted reason for having time travel exists in a fic without having explain why they never used it to fix their own mess. They did but because they need Desmond to active the Eye, it means the whole of human history had to exist somewhere so everything had to happen as per the games at least once.

So maybe the fist civ are only looking at the game timeline because once you start look at outside variables it gets too confusing. Or maybe it that if they see a different path, it means that they are no longer in the game timeline so they can no longer affect it. So they concentrate on the use-another-universe’s-success-to-fix-our-own plan.

So maybe it’s less they can’t see after the eye or if Desmond time travels and more that they don’t care, since a still living or time traveling Desmond isn’t their problem/solution anymore.

 (I hope this make sense to other people, I’m not sure I can explain this very well)