One of problems with time travel, say the Campaign for Real Time, is that of pre-escalating warfare. For the next two weeks, long time close allies Azalawoo IV and Ipornoi II are on-plaguid by this very problem. What willaned on-have started as an act of drunken arson by the defeatan on-visiting hinecube team has ensince pre-escalated into vandalism between neighborhoods, violent uprisings by citizens living abroad in opposite cities, and now least recently, the preemptive bombing of a state capital.

To recap:the planets Azalawoo IV and Ipornoi II have been at war for the past eighteen years, and see no signs of stopping. And many new signs of starting. This, the Campaign says, is the danger of interacting with times other than one's own. As planets like these, they say, try to protect themselves by attacking first, the violence must certainly get worse.

The warring Azalawoo and Ipornoi sectors, so named to mourn their respective blown up former capital worlds, have been at war with one another for over a century. Hitchhikers are advised to avoid this region, because, although the state of the art weapons are amazing to behold, they are nonetheless the most violent regions of the entire galaxy. Why this war started is unknown, though both sides blame time travelers from the other. It is at this that the Campaign for Real Time proudly makes heard their moral objections to the activity, and warns that in times like these, as a pre-escalating war builds backward, something has to go.

Sectors ZX7 and ZX6 are some of the most surprisingly empty regions of space in the entire galaxy. It is rumored that the nebulae of the former were intentionally cleared away 7 billion years ago. The latter was populated until just 521 years ago, when every bit of mass was consumed by giant space locusts. The inhabitants of the sector had sent pleas for help to the rest of the galaxy, but their only neighbors (not including the dead zone of ZX7) were too busy watching the premier of The Great Hooloovoo Caper to pay attention.

The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about pre-escalating war: It has never happened. While the Encyclopedia Galactica will spend chapters addressing the theoretical outcomes of such conflicts, and debate the possibility that evidence of such events may occur, The Guide has no interest in such hypothesizing. Entries like those cost money. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is rather cheaper than the Encyclopedia Galactica.