Friedrich Adata was an omniscient being in what shall be further referred to as Universe Prime. Then, he was born with the knowledge of all possible timelines within Universe Prime and was of genetic connection to the existence that lie outside of time known as The Pit, a living library of all life. He orchestrated the Radical-9 Incident and the eventual destruction of Earth per the will of the universe.
Friedrich’s life is as it wasn’t in Universe Prime. He is born without his omniscience and his connection to The Pit severed. Existence is no longer governed by a force that seeks to catalogue all life. Friedrich's life changes drastically because of this one change. He takes up a job at a paper mill that his father own by the time he’s thirteen, “...it was a job that would teach you to keep your chin to the pavement and your hands busy” his father had told him on more than one occasion. He works at the mill under his father for the better part of four years before the end of the 1930’s.
He begins to feel an insatiable feeling of unimportance working under his father, and so in an act of incredible bravery and incredible rashness he enlists in the army. He found purpose under a man who promised a better Germany. Friedrich is trained day in and day out on the home-front before finally being deployed out into battle in 1942—right on the hump of the war-front.
He and his squadron forge life-bonds through surviving tough battles after cold winters. He finds a sense of purpose fighting for the land he believed in and for the friends he had made along the way. His life comes to a tragic end when he and his rank are bombarded by mortar fire in an ambush—his corpse burnt to less than ash in mere moments. Germany later falls to the allied forces. This is similar to Universe Prime, but in this new universe the allied nations act more as a global union. The largest reason for this is that the Schröder Experiment never takes place since Friedrich died in battle.
In this new world Sonja Von Kleist is not torn apart by Friedrich to become the world’s first automaton. Because of this, she doesn’t infiltrate British rule and usurp the throne by assassinating the current queen. She instead spends her early years turning toward science for benevolent goals after the death of both her parents. Sonja inherits their fortune and uses the money to put herself through school; furthering her knowledge after the socioeconomic collapse of Germany past the second great war. She lives through copious struggles before she could escape the country and makes a home for herself in the Russian countryside. She slowly integrates herself back into society and continues her learning with the money she’s inherited. Sonja pretends to be a Russian citizen for almost fifty years and at the age of sixty-six she earns a nobel prize for her work in biochemistry.
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This follows suit that both Friedrich and Sonja would not be parents to Jack Adata. He’s not wholly absent from this new universe, as there always tends to be parallels to Universe Prime. This is also due to the fact that a person’s identity...their personality resides within their consciousness—their soul and not their genetics. It is true that genetics play a large role in how physically they may look and act, but the core personality of a person is one of our constants that is kept to the consciousness. You could say that everybody who ever will exist has always been kept stored like a book to a library inside of The Pit until it is their turn to be born into the universe. Now, The Pit is absent from this new universe, but all of that information—that personal data had to go somewhere when the universe began anew. Sometimes it would land in similar places and times as it remembered, but there were times when it simply didn’t. If you were born in 1960 in Universe Prime you may be born in 1960 in this new history—maybe even on the same day. Or you may be queued out to be born a week later, maybe a day, maybe even a year. The factors that determine when a consciousness is given a body all rely on constants and deviations.
My, I got off track there for a short moment. I do apologize for that. I felt the preface was important for our next consciousness we would be delving into because it is more of a deviation than what we’ve seen so far. They played a pivotal role in the undertaking of the Radical-9 Incident back on Universe Prime—a terrible tragedy that eventually lead to the destruction of the Earth and rebirth of the universe. And this was the less chaotic of the histories that they have affected.