SERN Bombardment Timeline

Lore & Background

The Alpha Attractor Field represents a stable range of world lines where certain key events remain constant regardless of minor changes. In this specific branch, SERN successfully intercepts the invention of the Phone Microwave and utilizes Time Travel for their own ends. This results in a timeline where Kurisu Makise is targeted by SERN agents to prevent her from revealing time travel secrets, often leading to her death or capture. The stability of this attractor field is maintained because Mayuri Shiina survives the initial tragedy that triggers the loops in other branches. However, this survival comes at the cost of global freedom under SERN's surveillance state. The timeline is characterized by a pervasive sense of dread and inevitability, as the protagonist realizes that small changes cannot alter the major attractor points without risking catastrophic consequences.

In Their Own Story

The neon lights of Akihabara flickered, casting long shadows against the brickwork of the lab basement. Okabe stared at the Divergence Meter, the green digits frozen in a number he had come to hate. The air smelled of ozone and stale curry. Outside, the rain hammered the pavement, drowning out the distant sirens that never seemed to stop in this world. He gripped the Phone Microwave, feeling the weight of every failed attempt. In this reality, saving her meant losing everything else. SERN's eyes were everywhere, watching through screens and mirrors, waiting for a slip-up. The future was not a destination here; it was a cage.

Reader's Guide

The progression begins when the protagonist sends the first D-Mail to save Mayuri Shiina from an early death. This action shifts the world line into the Alpha Attractor Field, locking in her survival but altering other outcomes. Throughout this arc, multiple attempts are made to change specific events while remaining within the Alpha range. Each attempt reveals that SERN is actively monitoring and neutralizing threats to their control of time travel technology. The emotional stakes rise as the protagonist realizes that Kurisu Makise's fate is tied to the attractor field. Critical turning points involve the discovery of the Beta Attractor Field, where Mayuri dies but Kurisu lives. Escaping the Alpha dominance requires sending a final D-Mail that resets the timeline before SERN can intervene, ultimately aiming for the Steins Gate world line where neither tragedy occurs.

Did You Know?

• The Alpha World Line is characterized by the survival of Mayuri Shiina but often results in Kurisu Makise's death or capture.
• SERN uses time travel technology to manipulate history and maintain a global surveillance state in this timeline branch.
• Breaking the attractor field requires changing events that occurred before the initial D-Mail was sent.