Compiler's Preface

I remember sitting wide-eyed in school, a mere teenager during a physics class on some Monday. I hadn't particularly wanted to be there; it was a Monday and I was a fourteen-year-old girl and naturally I loathed school. For the first ten minutes of the lesson I had stared out of the window, watching the gravcars fly past, envious of the adults flying to work.

Then the teacher, Mrs Cartwright I think her name was, began to introduce the subject of the Infinitum.

'The Infinitum,' she began, 'otherwise known as the Multiverse in some cultures is the overall encompassing of the many parallel universes.'

She began teaching us about all of the multiple dimensions that existed within the Infinitum; about how every permutation of reality existed out there, somewhere.

I'll admit that I zoned out when she began to explain the physics of it, something about axis's and probabilities. I was already daydreaming about the dimensions I wanted to visit. There were other 'mes' out there. I wondered what they were like. How different would they be?

Over the years my fascination with the Infinitum grew and I studied it in college, going on to university, devouring everything on the subject I could find.

I graduated with honours, gaining a BSc in Multidimensional Sociology and I found work in the Arcanum Agency.

My job was to study the multiple dimensions; to catalogue those discovered and label them, categorise them and study them.

I started that job almost a decade ago and I've never looked back. I've even been fortunate enough to visit several of them and study them first hand.

In that time I've collected an unfathomable amount of data and learned so much but closer to my heart, I have so many stories to tell. You see, the merging of dimensions and universes isn't merely something man-made (although for the fascinating story of how first contact was made with us from the "Virgo Universe" you can find it in H.S. Geigar's The Birth of Times, 2004) but something which has been known to occur naturally. Thankfully my colleagues tend to be burdened with investigating the causes of these "crossovers" while I have usually been tasked with documenting their results.

With that in mind, I would like to set some of those stories to dataslate, to tell the stories of the worlds out there as they mingle, mix and collide. From a sociological stand point the results have seldom failed to be fascinating (if somewhat dangerous at times) and it pleases me to relay a few of these stories to you.

I have opted to set out these stories in a narrative (partly because the raw reports make for vexing reading and partly because I enjoy it) although I may occasionally interject with the occasional source text or comment.

And so without further ado, I present:

The Infinitum ad infinitum.

Magnus Weller, BSc.