Time Travel

Time Travel, also known as, Void Travel, is the name given to the rare process of travelling through time, or history, as the name suggests.The process of travelling through time, in any direction, was not a common form of travel within the 2024 universe. Time travel was mainly operated by those within the Time Agencies of Earth and it's colony planets, sometimes, though rarely, even accepting those of non-terrestrial origin. In the 20th Century, those that were Time Agents, in secret, were sometimes known as Meta-Temporal Locksmiths. Travelling through time was known to take a lot of power, draining even Anderson Winters' Void Operator on a regular basis.

Earth
Earth was the birth place of Time Travel within the 2024 Universe, and Edward Lester is the Father of Time Travel. Edward Lester spent over 60 years of his life, cracking the code to Time Travel, and used Nuclear power to achieve his goals. After fifty years of experimenting and inventing, he was able to combine alien technology that had fallen on the coast of Plymouth in 1763, with nuclear-fission energy of the 20th Century. It was believed that the alien technology consisted of a "fallen star", which resembled the elemental products of Uranium, but was far more powerful.

At this point, in 1989. Lester was able to build a primitive time machine modelled on Earth Technology. The Time Machine was the size of a large room, and used mirrors to direct light into the "Fallen Star" product. After many years after, he finally met Anderson Winters, a time traveller from the future, who offered him the secrets to time travel, and therefore allowed Edward Lester to invent the Void Operator. Anderson claimed this was the "Boot-strap Paradox" as Edward Lester had invented the Void Operator, but Anderson had offered him the information he needed to build the Operator, but Anderson was wearing the Void Operator, etc.. Etc.

By 1999, the first Void Operator was built, and used by Angela Hardy, who was the first time travelling pioneer in history. Sadly, she returned seconds later, and dissolved into ash in front of Edward Lester. It was revealed that the properties of the first Void Operator heated up too quickly, and needed a stabilising agent. After a few more years, Edward Lester met Martin McFly, who referred to the Void Operator as "rather limite in it's temporal range" and claimed that a single fission core could help concentrate the heat, intern, taking in the excess heat as energy, rather than letting the heat potentially overheat the apparatus, and kill it's user.

By 2002. the second Void Operator was created. It was a great clunking device, and was nicknamed the Quantum Viewer, enabling them to observe and experience time travel for a limited time. Using more alien technology, in this case a warp drive, they were able to cement the properties for the fusion core, by syncing human technology to the alien technology. It was a crude time travel device, but finally it could allow people to travel in history.

It wasn't until 2014, where the Void Operator had many updates and changes to make it much more functional, that Anderson Winters was finally given the Void Operator. Edward Lester died during 2013, meaning that Martin McFly offered all his research to the secret Smallworlds Facility, intern, allowing them the benefits and secrets of time travel, which Director John Netherwest intended to use for nefarious reasons.

Functions
All time travel technology had an Emergency Quantum Travel setting, which caused the user to escape to a random point in time and space.

The Legacy of Time Travel
Before he died in 2013 due to natural causes, at 94 years old, Edward Lester's time travel project allowed Earthlings to achieve time travel. After some major adjustments, the Void Operators were able to be disassembled easily, preventing others from discovering time travel, and even allowed many other volunteers to become brilliant time agents. Time Agents became near extinct after the destruction of Earth, and after 2020, only Anderson Winters and Arno Frey were presumed to be the last remaining Time Agents within the universe, as no one else had presented themselves.

Time Travellers
Those who travelled through time on a near-daily basis were given the name of Time Travellers, or Paragon Travellers. Time Travellers were a rare occurrence within the 2024 Universe, and many were thought to have been dead throughout the times of 2020 until 2048. Finding a time traveller was something many saw as a blessing; Deacon Vozlow claimed that he would accept having a time traveller's head on display.