Post by Zelus on Oct 26, 2013 22:03:44 GMT -5
In August 27th 2020, Professor Jing Ma completes the first time machine whilst working for the UN’s Commission on Science and Technology. By opening a wormhole, one can pass to and from the future at the designated coordinates. After months of testing, the scientific community build a team of scientists ready to go on an expedition into the future.
However, just before their maiden voyage, ambassadors from the 23rd century arrive. With them they bring orders from the future to maintain the timeline, which dictated that the first “Time Hub” is built around the first Time Machine for security purposes, as well as to introduce the new form of travel to the public. Time Hubs, from their description of the ambassadors, work like a train station, only travelling in time, rather than space. Along with plans for the Time Hubs, the ambassadors bring technology back with them to accelerate the construction of the hub, along with scientific and engineering advisors and materials. By Christmas of that year, the Time Hub is completed and the first capsule is fired through the wormhole to coordinates given by the ambassadors.
Scientists from all over the globe, as well as security officials and diplomats find themselves two hundred years in the future, where they are briefed on the rules of the time hub.
Rule One: No one person can travel within their own timeline plus three generations, this is estimated to 150 years to save on the risk of temporal paradoxes.
Rule Two: No one is allowed to take technology or information back from the future, unless the “timeline” says it happens.
Rule Three: No one from the 21st century can access “the Timeline”, which is an archive of every known occurrence in history, from the initial invention of the time machine.
Rule Four: The attempt to access theorised parallel timelines is forbidden, due to the hazardous risk in altering the timeline.
Rule Five: No one can exist in two places at once, if you already exist in a time period, it is out of bounds.
There were quite a few more rules regarding travelling, though lots of them are quite like the rules on travelling via a plane, in regards to travel and tourism. People are expected to learn the laws of the time period they’re travelling into and no leniency will be given to those that break them. Any and all temporal criminals must be arrested and given to the respective time zone in which they committed the crime.
A few more years past, and by 2024, there are five Time Hubs across planet Earth. The furthest anyone has gone is the 30th century, and is as far as any of the scheduled capsules travel to. The locations in which the Time-Hubs are are Hong Kong, Washington DC, Paris, Genève and Moscow. Time Tourism is now the latest craze, and big companies have bought into the new market becoming sponsors for the Hubs themselves. As such Temporal Tourism has become as natural as flying has.
As time has gone on, the UN Security Council has built an information database about the timelines of the future. Due to the nature of the information, it is kept secret away from the public. The Security Council, started to look into the societies of the different time zones, after noticing the areas in which people of the past were allowed access to, became smaller and smaller as the time went on. As such, the UN Security Council became suspicious and ordered a few of it’s people to begin actively looking into the societies in which they travelled to.
Though none of the people could bring back physical proof, it soon became apparent that there was something wrong with the timeline, and that it was a little too militaristic the further down the road a tourist travelled. So the UN begins to build a task force, who’s aim is to locate the points in time in which the timeline begins to have a ‘regime change’ and work out a way to stop it.
However, just before their maiden voyage, ambassadors from the 23rd century arrive. With them they bring orders from the future to maintain the timeline, which dictated that the first “Time Hub” is built around the first Time Machine for security purposes, as well as to introduce the new form of travel to the public. Time Hubs, from their description of the ambassadors, work like a train station, only travelling in time, rather than space. Along with plans for the Time Hubs, the ambassadors bring technology back with them to accelerate the construction of the hub, along with scientific and engineering advisors and materials. By Christmas of that year, the Time Hub is completed and the first capsule is fired through the wormhole to coordinates given by the ambassadors.
Scientists from all over the globe, as well as security officials and diplomats find themselves two hundred years in the future, where they are briefed on the rules of the time hub.
Rule One: No one person can travel within their own timeline plus three generations, this is estimated to 150 years to save on the risk of temporal paradoxes.
Rule Two: No one is allowed to take technology or information back from the future, unless the “timeline” says it happens.
Rule Three: No one from the 21st century can access “the Timeline”, which is an archive of every known occurrence in history, from the initial invention of the time machine.
Rule Four: The attempt to access theorised parallel timelines is forbidden, due to the hazardous risk in altering the timeline.
Rule Five: No one can exist in two places at once, if you already exist in a time period, it is out of bounds.
There were quite a few more rules regarding travelling, though lots of them are quite like the rules on travelling via a plane, in regards to travel and tourism. People are expected to learn the laws of the time period they’re travelling into and no leniency will be given to those that break them. Any and all temporal criminals must be arrested and given to the respective time zone in which they committed the crime.
A few more years past, and by 2024, there are five Time Hubs across planet Earth. The furthest anyone has gone is the 30th century, and is as far as any of the scheduled capsules travel to. The locations in which the Time-Hubs are are Hong Kong, Washington DC, Paris, Genève and Moscow. Time Tourism is now the latest craze, and big companies have bought into the new market becoming sponsors for the Hubs themselves. As such Temporal Tourism has become as natural as flying has.
As time has gone on, the UN Security Council has built an information database about the timelines of the future. Due to the nature of the information, it is kept secret away from the public. The Security Council, started to look into the societies of the different time zones, after noticing the areas in which people of the past were allowed access to, became smaller and smaller as the time went on. As such, the UN Security Council became suspicious and ordered a few of it’s people to begin actively looking into the societies in which they travelled to.
Though none of the people could bring back physical proof, it soon became apparent that there was something wrong with the timeline, and that it was a little too militaristic the further down the road a tourist travelled. So the UN begins to build a task force, who’s aim is to locate the points in time in which the timeline begins to have a ‘regime change’ and work out a way to stop it.
Character sheet:
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Birthplace/country of origin:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b] Ages 18 and up, would prefer it if they had a bit of experience in their chosen field
[b]Appearance:[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]Specialisation/training:[/b] Are they a scientists, a hacker, a soldier, something that would be realistically needed on a team like the UN is setting up.
[b]Equipment:[/b] Be realistic, give them equipment based on their training and specialist field. Everyone will be armed however, in case of emergencies so keep that in mind.
[b]Background:[/b] Doesn’t need to be long, just enough to give their recent history, feel free to make up some minor military conflicts based on todays. No world war scale military expeditions though.