To start, I do not take seriously anything I’m about to say; that’s why I’m posting it in a thread about fictional stories. However, history does have pivot points where crazy, unexpected things happen that change life as we know it. As Monty Python warned us - no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
I still use Twitter; and since Elon Musk “unlocked it”, I have seen much of this long lived Qanon-sense showing up in my feed. There’s been an uptick lately as the long awaited big event is expected to be imminent. “Buckle up”.
The idea here is that there has been a clandestine military operation in effect for years gathering evidence and holding secret tribunals amassing sealed indictments to release all at once. At last tally, these sealed indictments are over 700,000. Everyone from politicians to celebrities to royalty are included.
The date of note has now leaked. On Saturday, the emergency broadcast system will be activated telling everyone to stay in their homes as martial law is declared and mass arrests across the world begin. The EBS will take over all television and phones and broadcast the evidence along with live executions 24/7 until all corruption is eliminated. As part of this, the US Dollar and financial systems will change as well; and that’s supposed to begin tomorrow with an announcement from the BRICS summit in Russia.
What if this actually did happen? What if the Sliders land on a world as this begins? What if the EBS on the store window tv shows one of our Sliders being arrested as part of the 700,000 indictments? How do they explain they are a different person who did none of those things? How do the Sliders themselves reconcile that there is some part of their friend that would do these crimes if history gave them the opportunity?
This is what Sliders is made for. Exploring the unlikely things that can ever so briefly be seen as plausible because unlikely things do happen. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
