The year was rapidly approaching ^())
- with the prevalence of time travel though, it was more of a
signpost than a inevitable date. Still, in a sense it was
unavoidable. Past that marker, things were organized for a different
epoch, another refocus. It was his job to go through the branching
timelines, to pluck the best ideas from each and help consolidate the
results.
Time travel itself wasn't uniform yet.
Vehicles were different, of course, but on a level deeper than
aesthetics too. Each has it's own way of anchoring itself in a
stream of time that could be called 'fluid' at best and 'chaotic' at
worst. The AI associated with each craft would draw on similar
timelines to stabilize the one it was in, as well as contribute to
how each reaction would branch. Care was taken to not disorient
either people in the timeline or the visitors to it, though this
could be overridden at the users request. Such disregard for the
fail-safes would be rumored to produce time loops, paradoxes and
other things of that nature. The truth was less spectacular, as
momentary disorientation was usually the worst side effect.
Certain nodes could be amplified to
cause an influence on parallel timelines, ensuring, or as least
improving the chances that similar events or inventions would occur –
providing a similar catalyst helped to shape lives and inventions to
compatible outcomes. While the results and methods would differ, the
end results could be intertwined without much trouble.
It was a check-in day. He took his
organic pouch drive up to his colleague's time machine. It was
obviously used to dealing with devices of higher capacity, as it
filled his to 12, indicating it has exceeded it's normal capacity and
was being encoded with a more efficient algorithm. The gel inside
foamed, then glowed as it downloaded the data. He went through two
more pouches that way before his colleague handed him a different
type of storage vacuole - “Try this.” This one had the gel
aready foamed before use and had no trouble downloading the rest of
the data from the craft.
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