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| "Second Level that had been civilized almost as long as the First, but there had been dark-age interludes. Except for paratemporal transposition, most of its sectors equaled First Level . . . . The Third Level civilizations were more recent, but still of respectable antiquity and advancement. Fourth Level had started late and progressed slowly; some Fourth Level genius was first domesticating animals long after the steam engine was obsolescent all over the Third. And Fifth Level on a few sectors, subhuman brutes, speechless and fireless, were cracking nuts and each other's heads with stones, and on most of it nothing even vaguely humanoid had appeared." | ||
| — Tortha Karf, Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen |
Modeled after the Traveller Mailing List (TML) Landgrab, Piper Development Claims are personal, non-commercial efforts to develop the timelines of Piper's fictional Paratime "multi-verse." Each background developer should report on the claimed timeline in great detail. The exact level of detail and degree of compliance with official canon is open to interpretation. Each background developer should survey his or her claim (including gathering the relevant canonical information) and submit a Developer's Report to the Piper Mailing List. The claims made thus far include:
| Timeline Claim | Developer | Date of Claim |
| First Level, Abzar Sector | Allen McDonnell | May 2003 |
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| Second Level, Triplanetary Empire Sector | Glenn "Gilmoure" Amspaugh | December 2007 |
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| Third Level, Esaron Sector, Slave Trust subsector | Allen McDonnell | May 2003 |
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| Fourth Level, Europe-American Sector, Hispano-Columbian Subsector, unnamed timelines | Jim "Rhino" Sparr | September 2009 |
| Fourth Level, Macedonian Empire Sector, Philip subsector | John W. Braue, III | December 2001 |
Background developers may lay their claim and/or provide links to their Developer's Report by posting an announcement to the Piper Mailing List. Developers may have their Developer's Report hosted at Zarthani.net by sending a request to the Zarthani.net Development Claims Bureau.
Further development of the Paratime universe
| "I'm working now on [a story], based on J. W. Dunne's time-theories, if you know what they are." | ||
| — Pierre Jarrett (H. Beam Piper), Murder in the Gunroom |
In addition to the above efforts to develop the Paratime canon a variety of other commercial products and informal efforts exist which are based upon or expand on the Paratime setting.
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Down Styphon! A Musket and Pike War Game, Mike Gilbert, Fantasy Games Unlimited, 1977. |
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John F. Carr's Paratime sequels. |
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Thousand Suns: Transmissions from Piper, John Appel, Vaclav G. Ujcik, and Greg Videll, Rogue Games, 2009. A science-fiction role-playing game supplement based upon Piper's Paratime yarn "Last Enemy" (plus the Terro-human Future History stories "Naudsonce" and "Ministry of Disturbance"). |
