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A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF

THE TIME WARS

April 1. 2425:

Dr. Wolfgang Mensinger invents the chronoplate at

the age of 115, discovering time travel. Later he would

construct a small-scale working prototype for use in

laboratory experiments specially designed to avoid any

possible creation of a temporal paradox. He is hailed as the

"Father of Temporal Physics."

July 14. 2430:

Mensinger publishes "There is No Future," in which

he redefines relativity, proving that there is no such thing as

the future. but an infinite number of potential future

scenarios which are absolute relative only to their present.

He also announces the discovery of "non-specific time"

or temporal limbo, later known as "the dead zone "

October 21. 2440:

Wolfgang Mensinger dies. His son, Albrecht. perfects

the chronoplate and carries on the work. but loses control of

the discovery to political interests.

June 15. 2460:

Formation of the international Committee for

Temporal Intelligence, with Albrecht Mensinger as

director. Specially trained and conditioned "agents" of

the committee begin to travel back through time in order

to conduct research and field test the chronoplate

apparatus. Many become lost in transition, trapped in the

limbo of nonspecific time known as "the dead zone." Those

who return from successful temporal voyages often bring

back startling information necessitating the revision of

historical records.

March 22. 2461:

The Consorti Affair—Cardinal Lodovico Consorti is

excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church

for proposing that agents travel back through time to

obtain empirical evidence that Christ arose following His

crucifixion. The Consorti Affair sparks extensive inter-

national negotiations amidst a volatile climate of public

opinion concerning the proper uses for the new technology.

Temporal excursions are severely curtailed. Concurrently,

espionage operatives of several nations infiltrate the

Committee for Temporal Intelligence.

May 1, 2461:

Dr. Albrecht Mensinger appears before a special

international conference in Geneva, composed of political

leaders and members of the scientific community. He

attempts to alleviate fears about the possible misuses of

time travel. He further refuses to cooperate with any

attempts at militarizing his father's discovery.

February 3, 2485:

The research facilities of the Committee for Temporal

Intelligence are seized by troops of the TransAtlantic

Treaty Organization.

January 25, 2492:

The Council of Nations meets in Buenos Aires, capital of

the United Socialist States of South America, to discuss

increasing international tensions and economic

instability. A proposal for "an end to war in our time" is

put forth by the chairman of the Nippon Conglomerate

Empire. Dr. Albrecht Mensinger, appearing before the

body as nominal director of the Committee for Temporal

Intelligence, argues passionately against using temporal

technology to resolve international conflicts, but cannot

present proof that the past can be affected by temporal

voyagers. Prevailing scientific testimony reinforces the

conventional wisdom that the past is an immutable absolute.

December 24, 2492 :

Formation of the Referee Corps. brought into being by

the Council of Nations as an extranational arbitrating hotly

with sole control over temporal technology and authority

to stage temporal conflicts as "limited warfare" to resolve

international disputes.

April 21, 2493:

On the recommendation of the Referee Corps, a

subordinate body named the Observer Corps is formed,

taking over most of the functions of the Committee for

Temporal Intelligence, which is redesignated as the

Temporal Intelligence Agency. Under the aegis of the

Council of Nations and the Referee Corps, the TIA

absorbs the intelligence agencies of the world's

governments and is made solely answerable to the Referee

Corps. Dr. Mensinger resigns his post to found the

Temporal Preservation League, a group dedicated to the

abolition of temporal conflict.

June, 2497 -

Referee Corps presides over initial temporal confrontation

March, 2502:

campaigns. accepting "grievances" from disputing

nations, selecting historical conflicts of the past as "staging

grounds" and supervising the infiltration of modern

troops into the so-called "cannon fodder" ranks of ancient

warring armies. Initial numbers of temporal combatants are

kept small, with infiltration facilitated by cosmetic

surgery and implant conditioning of soldiers. The results

are calculated based upon successful return rate and a

complicated "point spread." Soldiers are monitored via

cerebral implants, enabling Search & Retrieve teams to

follow their movements and monitor mortality rate. The

media dubs temporal conflicts the "Time Wars."

2500-2510:

Extremely rapid growth of massive support industry

catering to the exacting art and science of temporal conflict.

Rapid improvements in international economic climate

follows, with significant growth in productivity and

rapid decline in unemployment and inflation rate. There

is a gradual escalation of the Time Wars with the

majority of the world's armed services converting to

temporal duty status.

Growth of the Temporal Preservation League as a peace

movement with an intensive lobby effort and mass

demonstrations against the Time Wars. Mensinger

cautions against an imbalance in temporal continuity due

to the increasing activity of the Time Wars.

September 2. 2514:

Mensinger publishes his "Theories of Temporal

Relativity," incorporating his solution to the Grandfather

Paradox and calling once again for a cease-fire in the Time

Wars. The result is an upheaval in the scientific community

and a hastily reconvened Council of Nations to discuss his

findings, leading to the Temporal Strategic Arms

Limitations Talks of 2515.

March 15. 2515:

T-SALT held in New York City Mensinger appears

before the representatives at the sessions and petitions

for an end to the Time Wars. A cease-fire resolution is

framed, but tabled due to lack of agreement among the

members of the Council of Nations. Mensinger leaves

the T-SALT a broken man.

November 18, 2516:

Dr. Albrecht Mensinger experiences total nervous

collapse shortly after being awarded the Benford Prize.

December 25, 2516:

Dr. Albrecht Mensinger commits suicide. Violent

demonstrations by members of the Temporal

Preservation League.

January 1. 2517:

Militant members of the Temporal Preservation

League hand together to form the Timekeepers, a

terrorist offshoot of the League, dedicated to the

complete destruction of the war machine. They

announce their presence to the world by assassinating

three members of the Referee Corps and bombing the

Council of Nations meeting in Buenos Aires,

killing several heads of state and injuring many

others.

September 17, 2613:

Formation of the First Division of the U.S. Army

Temporal Corps as a crack commando unit

following the successful completion of a

"temporal adjustment" involving the first serious

threat of a timestream split. The First Division,

assigned exclusively to deal with threats to

temporal continuity, is designated as "the Time

Commandos.”

October 10. 2615:

Temporal physicist Dr. Robert Darkness

disappears without a trace shortly after turning over

to the army his new invention. the "warp grenade,"

a combination time machine and nuclear device.

Establishing a secret research installation

somewhere off Earth, Darkness experiments with

temporal translocation based on the transmutation

principle. He experiments upon himself and

succeeds in translating his own body into

tachyons. but an error in his calculations causes

an irreversible change in his sub-atomic structure,

rendering it unstable. Darkness becomes "the man

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