Well, I had to end my chat with my SoC mentor early because it's 2AM and I have to be up early tomorrow for school.
It looks like even the simplest part of my proposed project is a major problem according to an ACM paper I found recently titled "Achieving Convergence, Causality Preservation, and Intention Preservation in Real-Time Cooperative Editing Systems."
It turns out I had only thought up to the command serialization problem, which is only the very beginning.
