NXB SCHWARZCHILD DEPARTMENT OF METASCIENCE
ANOMALOUS MATERIALS RESEARCH DIVISION Karl Friede, Research Overseer NXB-SCH-RND-MTS-00451
I. THE NATURE OF TIME
Imagine a perfect world.
Imagine you as a God. You, the infinite self, existing across more than one timeline on more than one reality. Except this isn't God, it's you. We've long known the existence of parallel worlds and timelines and our successful track record in away missions is proof of that. We exist in more than one point in more than one time. How many points, and for how long? Our calculations say: everywhere, forever. We found God, and God is us.
Imagine disappearing the next time you blink. One moment you're here, reading this memo, and the next you just disappear. This doesn't mean a cessation of existence - we at NanoTrust discovered how to make people disappear without a trace years ago and harnessed it as a source of energy. No, imagine disappearing in your entirety - your past accomplishments, your future endeavors, your current self being scrubbed from all possibility. Imagine the infinite Yous blinking abruptly out of existence with no trace and no proof. Not even a bloody smear or a pile of ash or a memory half-remembered.
When our ancestors first discovered the power of the atom centuries ago, they said "We are now all bitches". Well, they didn't bank on discovering what we found. Why trade in the destruction of a city? Buildings can be replaced. People can be replaced. In another time they still exist. Why be that sloppy?
Gentlemen of the board, I present to you our latest discovery: acausal erasure. Temporal scrubbing. Or in layman's terms, fucking deleting someone out of reality.
No, God can't help you, and I can prove it. If our paratemporal telemetry is correct, we aren't the first to discover this. This means that someone, somewhere, found God and killed it.
We now live in the history god abandoned.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- "Glory to the Last-Born."
NXB SCHWARZCHILD INTRADIMENSIONAL RESEARCH
TIMELINE INTEGRITY INVESTIGATION DIVISION Emilia Zampano, Code Talker NXB-SCH-RND-IDR-02991
[SYS.ADMIN] START OF LOG [2.00.256] [SYS.ADMIN] RECONSTRUCTIVE OBSERVER LOG:
PULSE AT 00' 00" 00^ DETECTED FREQUENCY CRYPTOGRAM SAVED PREVIOUS SCAN SIMILARITIES: NaN
<< PAST / CURRENT / FUTURE >>
: There it is again
: second time this week
: been getting weird readings on the oscillobserver
: infinite similarities
: not possible
: how is a hypothetical more real than the sample?
: brought it up with Fred
: dumbass thinks its a bug in the code
: we have this thing hooked up to the wetware all day and night
: it can't be a bug in the code
: hypothetical infinitely similar to sample
: current trend means that the more we observe, the realer it gets
: how is that possible?
: we can't be getting realer than we were two days ago
: this needs further study
: unless the past is somehow becoming less real
: which is impossible, since the weapon hasn't been fired once
[SYS.ADMIN] END OF LOG [0.00.256]
NXB SCHWARZCHILD ARCHIVAL MAINTENANCE SERVICES
OFFICE OF THE MEMORIZER LORD MEATFLESH, Memorizer NXB-SCH-LIB-MEM-42069
MARTIN C. has entered chatroom S3CUR3 TALK FOR ASSHOL3S
Encryption key: TU5FTU9OSUMgVk9JRA==
MEATFLESH: hey asshole MARTIN C.: have you been changing your shit again? Jesus, Navy. You can't keep breaking SOP just because you're the Memorizer. MEATFLESH: i have to have fun somehow MEATFLESH: keeping track of all these records is boring MEATFLESH: especially since Redact McAsspants is pretty much big brothering everything MEATFLESH: even your porn MEATFLESH: you sicko MARTIN C.: I'd rather you not degrade the station VI like that. She is not "Big Brothering" anyone. MEATFLESH: [DATA CORRUPTED]
MEATFLESH: when I rememorize this document and see a blank entry MEATFLESH: you owe me 12 creds MARTIN C.: did you study that data core entry I sent you? MEATFLESH: yeah but idk why you needed me to lol MEATFLESH: there was nothing on it MEATFLESH: in fact the memory was in the negatives MEATFLESH: so I now have a few more bytes than if I just deleted it MARTIN C.: Nothing? As in... Nothing? MEATFLESH: yeah MARTIN C.: that's impossible. MEATFLESH: yeah MARTIN C.: but I remember reading it. MEATFLESH: maybe you've been staring into the shard for too long MEATFLESH: you probably have like.......................... MEATFLESH: space cancer MEATFLESH: [FILE: MARTIN_HAS_SPACE_CANCER.JPG]
MARTIN C.: update me when anything develops. MEATFLESH: whatevs MEATFLESH: make sure to say hi to Karl for me
chatroom S3CUR3 TALK FOR ASSHOLS closed.
NXB SCHWARZCHILD WEAPON'S RESEARCH DIVISION
METAMATERIALS FORGE Patton Strauss, Forgemaster NXB-SCH-WPN-MTM-00001
Shaping the past to protect the present.
A new age in the protectorate.
Stuff you can rely on.
jesus this shit gets boring. why do we even need a slogan for a death machine???
Delete your enemies, asshole.
Say goodbye forever.
Never know what hit em.
Time. Unyielding. Unbroken.
An unmoving wall.
Until now.
Be the hammer, not the nail.
NXB SCHWARZCHILD COMMAND PLATFORM
CAPTAIN'S OFFICE Roger Rogerson, Captain NXB-SCH-WPN-MTM-00001