Timeloop

Although we have made the leap from purely theoretical science, The Jumper remains in its prototype stage. Atoms have jumped but we still fail to detect their signatures. We're close, we just need that final (if: $path is not true)[[[push->Sage]]](else:)[[[push->No Push]]].

Its only natural to try and (if: $path is not true)[[[fix our mistakes->Rebuilding]]](else:)[[[fix our mistakes->Holes]]]. We launched a few hours ago, yesterday's firework show fresh in our minds. Our capture pod did not rematerialize after launch. We reduced our Jump force down to the lowest bound which would still result in a tunnel. After launch we went to reprocess our measurements. Still don't know exactly where we went wrong... It should've worked? We're updating our calculations.

We lost a lot today. Our capture pod was obliterated, along with the surrounding Nanobots. I suppose it's natural we had to sacrifice at some level to achieve our first successful Jump. Our anchors and calculations were perfect. The information was tunneled exactly where it was supposed to. We simply overestimated the amount of (if: $path is not true)[[[force->Launch]]](else:)[[[force->Danger]]] that would appear on the other side. Tomorrow is our launch day so I suppose we've been spoiled of its results.

The team has worked hard to ensure the synchronization of our next Jump. I revised our anchors to be two orders of magnitude more precise. Our next launch is the day we capture the (if: $path is not true)[[[Jump->Brother]]](else:)[[[Jump->Sage Blame]]].

My brother visited the Atlas V today. I really didn't have much time to chat because of the launch tomorrow. He knows I'm busy. He was very insistent on drawing me away from my work... Just not the right (if: $path is not true)[[[time...->Jumping]]](else:)[[[time...->Dyson Sphere]]]

[[Holes. How many must now exist in the expanse because of me? How many more are now projected to appear in the near future?->Rebuilding]]

The new capture pod is complete! Shortly after we activated it we received the binary message: 01000110 01110010 01101111 01101101 00100000 01000001 01110100 01101100 01100001 01110011 00100000 01010110 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01111001 01100101 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100100 01100001 01111001 00101110 (if: $path is not true)[[[//From Atlas V to yesterday.//->Missing Mother]]](else:)[[[//From Atlas V to yesterday.//->Signals]]]

A new batch of Nanobots have been sent over to the Atlas V research space. With how much nano technology has improved, we should be able to repurpose most of the debris left from the previous pod to construct the (if: $path is not true)[[[new one->To Yesterday]].](else:)[[[new one->Mistakes]].]

[[It wasn't a mistake. The calculations were all correct. Whatever supposed error we discovered only exists as reminder of my failure to sabotage the experiment. I tried to erase the evidence of a successful Jump.->To Yesterday]]

The Atlas is all that remains. It postures itself as a beacon of light. In its wake only remains a fountain of darkness and destruction.

The last weeks have proven to be quite hectic. We've had a constant stream of messages Jump into our capture pod every few hours, each growing in complexity from the previous. At first it was binary encoded in the positions of a handful of atoms but now, we've received molecules and a few hours ago, a sequence of DNA was Jumped into the capture pod. I'm left to believe that the (if: $path is not true)[[[upper limit->Turning]]](else:)[[[upper limit->Where]]] for this technology might be far beyond our scope of understanding.

We successfully sent and received information today without our capture pod blowing up! With this development, the team now has their sights on Jumps of higher complexities. Maybe some day we'll be able to jump (if: $path is not true)[[[enough information->More Advances]] ](else:)[[[enough information->Fix]] ]to fix our mistakes of the past.

My Mother turns 92 today. I sent her the message we just received from the capture pod. A strange thing happend when I tried to send it. Communication has been so thoroughly solved within Atlas, it was extremely surprising when the message wasn't delivered the first time. I got a (if: $path is not true)[[[//Receiver Error//->Next Launch]]](else:)[[[//Receiver Error//->Go visit her]]].

[[I tried to shut down communications by Jumping matter into the receiver hub. With a system that never fails, an error of this scale should slow down progress for a little.->Next Launch]]

I heard that a high ranking government official visited our team. I was tasked with running the Jumper so I didn't get to hear much. Along with the usual strings, a strange line of binary was decoded early from the capture pod with a single word on it: [[//Speak//->Research]]. Since we've started receiving information from the new capture pod, the messages have been progressively more complex.

I don't know what to say... Today, the capital city of the Dokon Empire was erased. A spontaneous explosion appeared out of thin and leveled the city. The signature of the explosion is unlike anything that has been seen before and thus blame is being thrown everywhere. Many terrorist groups are taking credit for it; however, this can only be the work of a highly advanced society. Today is a [[dark day->Military]] for the system. War is inevitable now.

[[With the last of my power reserse, I click the button to Jump the time bomb into my old research lab.->Finish]]

This note was left on my desk: //Time Jumper, proprietary technology of Atlas, developed by the Atchron team headed by researcher's Rosemary and Sage shall be repurposed for the development of defense technology.//

[[Power is drained from the grid at such a rate that Jumping is now almost impossible on my own.->Missing Mother]]

[[The Military has begun funneling its resources and most talented scientists to the sole purpose of developing Jumper Bombs. With my interests long departed from those of the Atlas, my only hope to change this future is to use my own resources to try and change this outcome.->Jumping]]

They're building time bombs. Bombs that exist in the fourth dimension and can materialize anywhere at any time. The bombs that have already dropped are currently having their Jump coordinates calculated. An unstoppable weapon of this level of lethality has never been seen before. [[No one is safe->Go Back]] now that this technology exists.

Each day hundreds of thousand perish from a threat that doesn't even exist in our time frame [[yet->Try Go Back]]. This has to be stopped.

[[If only I could stop myself...->Early Development]] [[Maybe this is all there is...->All]] (set: $path to true)

I have to communicate to my past self. I have to stop this future.

I tried to tell her to //speak// to the officer. I only had enough power to send five characters. Those characters were clearly not enough to make any meaningful difference.

[[Everything I've done so far hasn't had an effect. My messages, to my Brother, the sabotage of the Capture Pod, the disruption of the Atlas communication service, all of it hasn't changed my present reality. Even if I Jumped a time bomb into the lab. Nothing would change.->Finish]]

I'm at my last resort. I have to destroy the lab and the information it has produced. Its the only way at this point. Its between [[me->Note]] and the lives of [[billions->Unstoppable]].

What we thought to be an isolated tragedy is turning out to be much worse that we initially thought. The Dokon Empire has been hit with a series of similar explosions, each targetting locations of strategic importance. Each with equal levels of magnitude. Dozens of metropolitans have been eviscerated and hundreds of millions of lives have been lost. [[The source->Matches]] of the explosions remains unknown.

This was

[[There should never have been a push. It should've stopped here.->Sage]]

[[With your seemingly infinite knowledge. After the pod was destroyed, even you couldn't see this outcome?->Brother]]

[[My brother was my first attempt. I jumped a message to his receiver through the capture pod. It must've elicited a response. Not enough stop the research...->Launch]]

Atlas reigns supreme. Billions of souls gone. The past can't be changed. [[The time bomb can't be stopped.->Finish]]

It took me far too long to draw the connection. The signatures match. What we once regarded as a miscalculation, is now being used as a weapon of mass destruction. My resignation comes far too [[late->Resignation]] to wash the blood from my hands.

[[Maybe this is all that could be done.->End]]

[[I'm getting the feeling that our reality strongly resists against the discontinuous movement of time. All the Jumps I've made have gone against our theory of discontinuous reality. I expected a fourth dimensional shift to occur but nothing has changed.->More Advances]]

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