It's been a long while since I've posted anything, but last night I came up with an interesting theory so I thought I'd share it. I don't know if this idea has been posted before, if it has I'm sorry for wasting your time, but if not yippee for me.
during the original telepod incident their were a few interesting things that you may have noticed. first off the gate disappeared after Crono's initial arrival, then marle disappeared when leene was put into a threatening situation which proves that Marle had no time travellers immunity despite having time travelled. interestingly enough throughout the rest of the game the characters seem to be immune to any drastic changes in the time line, in fact despite big things happening very little seems to change. based on Marle's lack of immunity to the time change i think the entity was not responsible for the original gate opening at the telepod exhibit, instead i think the entity only got involved after time changed because of Leene, hence the reappearance of the gate later.
whether the telepod is powerful enough to create a wormhole i don't know, but i think it's possible since the machine is capable of transferring matter into energy, so adding the pendant caused a stable wormhole to form temporarely. i say it was temporary because immediately after dumping Crono in 600 A.D. it disappears. I think the entity observed this event and since this being knows all that is to come it formulated a plan, the entity itself was unable to change history pyhsically so it influenced certain people to change it, since Crono and friends could both fight and stabilize the gates it decided to open up more wormholes, specifically linked to an event or time where the heroes could preferably alter history.
now think about later in the game, remember when Ayla decides to help the Crono gang and she leaves her time line? Ayla was an important figure in history, but her disappearance didn't seem to affect the time line like it should have. at this point in the game i think the entity has created certain unknown variables that act as placeholders in each time, these variables make the time line have the same outcome as if the person was there to fulfill it, but in reality that person was just temporarely replaced until their return to the time line. so in a way the entity causes the time lines to continue despite missing elements such as these important people, but these variables only apply to important persons and future events in history.
now think about these variables in the pendant situation, forget about timebastards theory for now. now in the original time line it is likely that Schala escaped the ocean palace incident alive and lived to pass down her pendant, ultimately resulting in Marle recieving it. but when the time line is changed and Schala is instead trapped in the darkness beyond time this part of history changes so that the pendant is missing from the time line, even though Crono and the gang still have the pendant. now think to later when serge frees Schala, since we don't know where Schala went after that we can assume that she was possibly returned to her correct time and thus continued the pendants existance in history, kid however stayed in serge's time since she was her own separate being.
so based on the pendants existance it is possible that the entity has the ability to predestine certain elements of the time line by adding an unknown variable to substitute for that person or object, such as, but this predestining happens only when neccassary. this accounts for why certain items and events are given the ability to exist despite certain changes in the time line, this also accounts for why Crono has the ability to die and not affect the time line. when an important history changing event happens the entity can either let it change the future, such as the Fiona's forest thing, or it can substitute that event or person with a variable in order to change the outcome.
now just in case i botched up the explanation completely I'll add an example to explain the basic principles of this theory.
say for instance at the age of 34 a doctor creates a cure for cancer, that cure would within the next century would save a billion lives. it goes without saying that this cure is a big factor in history, since out of that billion people several of them influence the time line in a big way. now lets say for some reason that the same doctor disappears from the time line at the age of 26, meaning that the cure is never created and that billion of people dies causing the time line to be completely different from what it was, it is here that the entity would place an unknown variable. this variable could be nearly anything such as another doctor of that time discovering the cure or another of endless amounts of potential solutions. now lets say that doctor reappeared again at the age of 27, since he returned the entity removes that unknown variable and allows the time line to proceed normally. that in a nutshell is what unknown variable theory is.
so what do you think? possible? not possible?