Talk:D-Mail/@comment-72.130.208.116-20180529033005/@comment-153.107.192.219-20181217232312

Yeah I thought so too, especially in Zero, where Okabe has to time leap 3,000 times to get back. But using D-Mail would be too risky and SERN could easily track them down too, converting staight back into the Alpha timeline - which Okabe had worked so hard to keep Mayuri from dying. Changing the past to make an Alpha timeline would make things much worse, as it would create a completely different situation - a dystopia. They need to reach Steins Gate, so sending D-mail would create an Alpha timeline dystopia which would be bad, and the Beta timeline is bad enough. In order to reach Steins Gate, he must change the future without creating an Alpha timeline, and they can't reach Steins Gate from an Alpha timeline - as the video that Okabe sent to his past self about the operation was from the Beta timeline in which Zero was set in; so using D-mail would completely change everything wheres the Time Leap machine would be the most logical thing to do as it doesn't have the same affect.