232 (iteration)

Iteration 232 (or alternately, universe 232) is the universe where a mass-catalysmic event threatens to destroy the entire earth, and human beings with specific genetic traits are evacuated by unknown alien spacecraft. This is the universe that is home to one of the many variants of the EMP gun.

Background
After experiencing various fragments of memory of other iterations where earth ends and evacuation spacecraft lands, Josh develops the EMP gun in anticipation of the electromagnetic class 9 spacecraft, realising a potential weakness in they are used to naturally occurring electromagnetic oscillations and not to the sudden burst of EM energy from an EMP pulse (with the outer metal hull as the ideal conductor).

A basic design is drafted up, but due to limited resources, Josh is forced to find a collaborator with the necessary equipment to help build the unit.

After a collaborative effort with an unknown person or organisation (likely the US military) the blueprints are drawn up and the unit built, with the agreement Josh gets to keep the first prototype off the production line, and whoever and whichever keeps the rest. As the EMP gun is a new weapon, it's not legally recognised as a weapon within the UK and thus carryable (with the weapon appearing as a sci-fi esque weapon and thus readily disregarded by the police as some sort of non-working prop - the designs of the unit, are of course, secret and ergo not in public domain).

Eventually, the catalymic event occurs and militarisation and martial law quickly follow. There is a fragmented memory of an M1 Abrams tank being readily disabled due to it's high tech but it's universe of origin is unknown.

Eventually, Josh re-encounters the scene where a spacecraft lands to take the unknown female onboard. Taking the previous iteration's rejection to heart (where he was denied passage as he was deemed genetically 'impure'), Josh opts to disable the spacecraft, which is arrogant enough to assume it's immune and unphased by his warnings. The supercapitance bank used in the electromagnetic energy storage systems overload and cause a chemical explosion resulting in the destruction of the spacecraft, freeing the female from the telepathic hold but also denying the opportunity for both of them to escape.

The earth's crust tears up the land of which stand shortly afterwards, resulting in alive burial and thus death.

Relevant Iterations
232 is the sub-iteration of 231 (the evacuation of specific genetic individuals before earth is destroyed), and produces iterations 233 (which is the hijack attempt of the spacecraft) and 234 (which is the subversion of the genetic scanner by a total blood exchange with an individual who has 'acceptable' genetics). Another iteration of unknown numbering, the war with the aliens, is also produced but is clearly a later revision.