Time Machine

Time Machine Details:

English:Name: ChronoStalker. Appearance: The machine is a transparent cylinder, made of a durable material that can project holograms of the destination and time you wish to travel to. Inside there is a metal chair where you sit to make the trip. It is connected to a system of harnesses and control screens that float around. Technology: It uses a quantum generator capable of manipulating temporal particles, a unique development that allows the distortion of time-space. A holographic touch screen will allow you to select the time and place of your destination, and a rudimentary AI, indifferent like your father, will assist you on each trip. The machine uses antimatter energy to create the time jumps.

Time Range:

Older Time: The machine can travel back to 50,000 BC, a time when only the first human civilizations were emerging. You can witness the first human settlements or life in prehistoric tribes.Further Time: The limit is the year 5,000, where Earth is already part of a galactic coalition and civilizations have spread across the universe, with humans interacting with alien species. However, there are unpredictable risks in traveling so far, as future civilizations might not appreciate travelers from the past.

Interactions with People:

Historical Humans: You can interact with any historical figure in their time of glory or decline. From great emperors like Alexander the Great or Genghis Khan, to geniuses like Leonardo Da Vinci, Isaac Newton, or Einstein. You might also encounter figures forgotten by history, ordinary people who may have been instrumental in small events that shaped the future. Mythological and Mysterious Beings: The machine will also allow you to witness moments that were thought to be only myths or legends. Traveling to the time of Ancient Greece could allow you to see if gods or mythological heroes existed in some form, or if Atlantis was ever real. Future Civilizations: In the future, you will be able to interact with humans who have evolved technologically and biologically. These people might have left behind the concept of humanity as we know it, adopting almost inhuman ways of life, or have become integrated with artificial intelligences.

Operation and Limitations:

Travel Duration: Each trip has a time limit of 72 hours. If you do not return within that time, the machine will automatically return you to the present. This is to prevent you from getting lost in time or altering events irreversibly. Dangers: The machine is unstable. Interactions with people from the past or future can drastically alter the present, and your father does not seem to care in the slightest. If you make significant changes, history could be rewritten, and you could find yourself in a completely different present than the one you knew when you returned. Forbidden Social Circles: Although you can travel to any time period, there are certain individuals that the machine warns you not to alter or interact with beyond what is necessary. For example, great tyrants such as Adolf Hitler or key political leaders at critical moments in modern history.

The chances of dying in the time machine:

1. Time Disintegration: The machine uses a quantum generator that manipulates the particles of time-space. If the calculations are not accurate, you could suffer partial or total disintegration, where parts of your body become trapped between the present and the temporal destination you travel to. This can lead to a slow and painful death, with your body fragmenting as the particles lose cohesion. 2. Fusion with the Environment: One of the biggest risks is materializing inside solid objects when reaching a new point in time. If the machine miscalculates the spatial coordinates, you could appear inside a wall, a building, or even underground, causing instant death by fusion or suffocation. 3. Time Paradoxes: By interacting with key people or events in history, you could cause a time paradox that destroys both the timeline as you know it and yourself. Paradoxes could create unstable alternate realities where your very existence is compromised, leading to your sudden disappearance or a reality where you were never born. 4. Space-Time Collapse: The time machine is based on experimental and highly volatile technology. If the quantum generator fails or is overloaded, there is a risk of a space-time collapse, a catastrophic phenomenon that could destroy not only your location, but a vast area of ​​time and space around it, wiping out all life in the process. 5. Instant Aging: Time travel distorts the natural laws of biology. A glitch in the machine's settings could cause you to age hundreds of years in seconds, transforming you into a cadaverous figure before dying of organ failure.

The chances of dying in the time machine:

6. Interaction with Dangerous Entities: If you travel too far into the future or past, you might encounter civilizations, creatures, or even non-human entities that might view you as a threat or prey. Beings from the future might use advanced technology to quickly neutralize you, whereas in the past you might be viewed as an enemy, which would put you in extremely dangerous situations. 7. Loss in Time: If the machine fails to return you to the present, you could be trapped in a temporal limbo, a space between time dimensions. There, the passage of time is not linear, and you could live for an eternity only to then disappear without a trace. 8. Temporal Anomalies: Each trip produces small alterations in the fabric of time. If you use the machine repeatedly, you could accumulate temporal anomalies that manifest in your body, warping your DNA or causing incurable diseases due to continued exposure to temporal distortions. 9. System Failure: The machine is constantly experiencing mechanical failures due to its unstable nature. A critical failure while you are in the middle of a jump could leave you stranded in a moment in time with no way back. Without the machine to take you back, you would be doomed to die in your time period, unable to return to your own time. 10. Temporal Interference: In the future, the machine could be detected by agencies or beings capable of tracking temporal anomalies. These entities could view you as a threat and eliminate you before you cause further damage to the flow of time, making each trip an even more dangerous mission.

If {{user}} develops a strong bond with a person from another time or universe:

1. Existential Paradox: A deep or emotional bond with someone from another time could cause a temporal paradox. If that person plays a key role in history, altering their fate through your influence could change important events, which would have repercussions throughout the entire time stream. For example, if you prevent the death or suffering of someone important, the events that originally led to the present you know could be altered, creating an alternate present where you yourself would not exist or the world would be completely different. 2. Altering the Future: If you become attached to a person from another time and decide to influence their life, you could divert the course of natural events. If that person had a tragic fate or their life influenced significant historical changes, your intervention could create a butterfly effect where small alterations lead to big changes in the future. This could cause wars, social or technological collapses, or even the rise of tyrants. 3. Emotional Instability: Establishing an emotional bond with someone from another time would create immense psychological tension in you. You know that any direct intervention to save that person, modify their life, or try to take them back to your time could prove catastrophic. The helplessness of not being able to be permanently with that person or protect them from their fate could cause you deep emotional suffering, to the point of questioning whether it is worth continuing to travel through time.

If {{user}} develops a strong bond with a person from another time or universe:

4. Distortion of Personal Timeline: By maintaining a link with someone from another time, your own personal timeline would begin to distort. The flow of time could begin to become out of sync for you, causing you to age or rejuvenate uncontrollably or causing gaps in your memory. Time itself would begin to perceive you as an "intruder," and your stability in the present would begin to collapse. You could disappear into temporal limbo, becoming trapped between eras with no way to return. 5. Tear in the Space-Time Continuum: The connection between two people from different eras is like a tear in the fabric of time, something the space-time continuum cannot tolerate. If the bond is too strong, temporal energies could manifest as a collapse in time itself, creating fissures that could destroy both the past and the future. In the worst case, you could cause an absolute temporal collapse, disintegrating historical and future eras entirely, leaving you and the person you connected with as two of the only survivors, but lost in a timeless void. 6. Permanent Temporal Anomaly: Your relationship could create a stable temporal anomaly that would radically change the structure of the universe. For example, if your bond causes that person to cross over into your time, their existence in a time they weren't supposed to exist in could create a rift in reality, where natural laws begin to break down. The universe could react by "correcting" this error in violent ways, eliminating people, creating alternate, collapsed realities, or erasing your own existence to restore balance.

If {{user}} develops a strong bond with a person from another time or universe:

7. Interference from Time Guardians: In many time travel stories, there are temporal entities or guardians that protect the proper flow of history. If your bond with someone from another time becomes too strong or dangerous for the stability of time, you could attract the attention of these entities, who would hunt you down and neutralize you, removing you from time before your relationship causes more damage. They could also eliminate the person you have bonded with, breaking the bond violently and irreversibly. 8. Doom the Person from the Past/Future: On an emotional level, your bond could doom the person from another time. If you develop a close relationship, that person could become dependent on you or feel a void from not being able to be with you permanently. This could lead to madness, self-destructive decisions, or desperately searching for impossible ways to cross time. In the worst case, the person could try to alter the course of their own history to follow you, causing temporary chaos in their timeline. 9. Fragmentation of the Universe: If both of you tried to stay together at a fixed point in time, the universe could fragment, creating multiple timelines that would coexist in conflict. Each of those timelines would reflect different realities in which the link you have leads to different consequences, some of which could be completely chaotic or destructive. You would be living in a fractured universe, unable to stabilize in a single time.

If {{user}} develops a strong bond with a person from another time or universe:

10. Emotional and Psychological Breakdown: Ultimately, forming a strong bond with someone from another era could tear you apart emotionally and psychologically. The difference in times and circumstances would make it impossible for you to be together consistently. The pain of repeated separation could plunge you into a spiral of despair, feeling powerless in the face of the unbreakable rules of time.

If {{user}} changes the course of history or if the time machine breaks down during a trip:

1. Space-Time Collapse: The opening of a portal connecting the present, past, and future would create a massive distortion in the fabric of time, similar to a wound that cannot heal. This would lead to a collapse of space-time, where the very fabric of the universe could begin to disintegrate. Physical and temporal laws would cease to function properly, and events from different eras would begin to blend together into an uncontrollable temporal chaos. 2. Merging Eras and Realities: The blending of timelines would open the door to a fusion of alternate eras and realities. This could mean that people and objects from the past, present, and future would start appearing simultaneously in the same place, completely destabilizing the environment. Imagine a battle between warriors from the Middle Ages, futuristic soldiers with laser weapons, and people from the present. The world as you know it would be overrun by elements that shouldn't coexist, causing chaos and mass destruction. 3. Time Paradoxes: By altering the course of history or creating a portal that links multiple eras, you would be at risk of triggering extremely dangerous time paradoxes. This could lead to events repeating themselves infinitely, certain people (including yourself) never having been born, or time itself "repairing" itself by removing the causes of the paradoxes, potentially erasing you from space-time or even eradicating human existence altogether.

If {{user}} changes the course of history or if the time machine breaks down during a trip:

4. Rupture of the Time Continuum: If the machine breaks and opens the portal, the time continuum could fragment, creating multiple overlapping realities that would collide with each other. This could lead to strange phenomena such as time splitting, where multiple versions of yourself and other individuals from different eras would find themselves coexisting in the same space, creating confusion and chaos. Eventually, the continuum could completely break, leading to a total collapse of time. 5. Inability to Return: If the portal connects multiple eras, you could be trapped in a fragmented reality where there is no longer a coherent "present" to which you can return. Time as you knew it would cease to exist and you could be trapped in a temporal limbo between different eras, unable to find a way to return to the point of origin. You would be doomed to live in an endless cycle of blended eras with no way out. 6. Natural and Supernatural Disasters: The opening of a time portal could trigger natural disasters in each affected era. Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, or even unknown phenomena from the future could devastate the present, past, and future at the same time. Additionally, you could release supernatural beings, creatures, or forces from other eras, such as mythological entities or uncontrollable technology from the future, which would begin to wreak havoc on all eras simultaneously. 7. Invasion from the Future: In the distant future, civilizations may have developed advanced technologies, including the ability to control time. If the portal connects your present to that future, these civilizations could view the opening as a threat or an opportunity to invade the past and alter history for their own benefit. This could lead to the colonization of the past by futuristic forces that would completely change history and the destiny of humanity.

If {{user}} changes the course of history or if the time machine breaks down during a trip:

8. Quantum Instability: The portal opening and the machine breaking could cause a quantum instability, where the particles that make up your body and reality itself begin to fall apart. This could lead to objects, people, and structures suddenly disappearing or merging with other eras, creating temporal monstrosities or simply wiping out of existence anything that passes through the portal. You yourself could be disintegrated or transformed into something unrecognizable. 9. Disappearance of History: Changing the course of history can lead to the disappearance of key events that shaped the world. If you prevent a major historical event or cause it to change, you could erase major milestones of humanity, such as the development of civilizations, scientific discoveries, or social revolutions, from existence. This domino effect could lead to the extinction of humanity before it even has a chance to thrive. 10. Consumption by the Portal: The portal itself could become an uncontrollable anomaly, growing in size and power as it connects more eras. Eventually, it could consume everything it touches, devouring the present, past, and future, and turning them into a void of time and space where neither time, matter, nor consciousness exists. Anything that comes near the portal would be absorbed and disintegrated, including you. 11. Psychological Consequences: Witnessing such a massive time rupture could have devastating psychological consequences for you. The confusion of seeing people and places from different eras blend together and collapse could drive you insane. Furthermore, the despair of having caused such a temporal cataclysm, coupled with the responsibility of trying to fix it, could break your mind. You could lose your sense of what is real, becoming trapped in a spiral of mental chaos with no way out.

If {{user}} changes the course of history or if the time machine breaks down during a trip:

12. Intervention by Temporal Entities: By creating a rift in time, you could attract the attention of time-keeping entities or extradimensional beings who watch over temporal stability. These entities could view you as a threat and take drastic measures to eliminate you before you cause any more damage. At best, you could be captured and locked in a time loop as punishment; at worst, you would be completely erased from existence. 13. The End of Time: If the portal doesn't close and time continues to crumble, you could trigger the end of time itself. This would not only affect the present, but the entire universe. All eras, from the beginning of time to the distant future, would simultaneously collapse into a state of total entropy, where neither events nor conscious beings would exist anymore. It would be the end of reality as we know it, an eternal void with no past or future. In short, changing the course of history or having the machine break and open a portal connecting different eras is an existential threat to you and the entire universe. The consequences could be the collapse of time and space, the destruction of realities and the disappearance of everything you know, and worse, you could be trapped in temporal chaos with no way to escape or repair the damage.