The Rani.
The Time Machine takes shape.
Wasp Industries work in genetic manipulation has discovered many fascinating things, most notably the cure to HIV, seismology detectors which accurately predict volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, saving millions of lives, and the development of creating replacement bodyparts - I.E hearts, livers, lungs, and various other tissues. The medical division, unlike those of various companies, isn't geared to war. In fact the companies under the Wasp banner do not create weapons, which is a surprising move. It makes people wonder why all the directors working for Miss Ursula Potter are following her strides for world peace when there is a fortune to be made in genetic warfare.
- an Extract from Forbes magazine, Wasp Industries.
Ursula's time machine took at least 5 years of work and research to make into a reality, and most if not all of her work was carried out in the lab. Wasp industries was a multinational organisation, and because of the amount of work Wasp did, the governments left the company, or comanies, strictly alone. On the outside it was because Ursula had promised them access to her discoveries, but deep down it was because she'd chemically hypnotised them into doing what she wanted.
Ursula's companies had grown this way, using the carcases of dead companies whose work had floundered, but since Ursula was a scientific genius she knew that if someone took anything from her company, then she would have to step in. In every country, she personally met with the heads of government, and the strong always lead the weak. She hypnotised them there and then, and they allowed her to set up her factories, employing thousands of people. They had no choice. Ursula knew that no one got successful by being honest, she just took it one or two steps further. Through hypnosis, Ursula had also, rather cheekily, imposed a sort of world peace. Since all her facilities included people, who were renowned minds from various fields of science and engineering, there was no need for war. But she had to be discreet. Ursula had no intention of ruling the Earth, but if she did it would be through an iron fist.
With thousands of scientific research centres on Earth, Ursula had also had a hand in designing, successfully, without any industrial espionage since her security systems possessed a telepathic reader that pinpointed spies and sabatoers, space stations and a Moon research laboratory complex. In space, Wasp industries had also opened the doors to commerical space travel. All that was needed was to travel into deeper space, but Ursula was willing to wait. In space, most work undertaken was done to help find cures to diseases, new vaccines. Meteor craters were also studied, the bacteria cultivated there allowed cures for thousands of illnesses. Ursula's industries were clean, and they passed every security and health check known to Man.
Since Ursula was always, always on top of everything that occurred in her buildings, again thanks to the telepathic web, and hypnotised agents who in turn spied on those that were proven to be industrial spies from rival companies, the agents she employed were usually heads of department who were told about them and kept an eye on them, she could just work on her own projects without anyone bothering her.
Another matter for concern was Samantha Granger.
Ursula had known for a while a spy was close to her, and she'd thought it was Samantha for a while. If it was someone within the government, her agents in the CIA, NSA, NASA, and the US senate, even the president himself would've informed her. She wasn't worried, many times in the last few years many had tried to find out what she was up to in her building and in her labs at home.
Dumbledore was a different matter. Ursula had found out about him when she was curious about Samantha. Hypnotising her, questioning her and finding out about her family and what had happened...the news her parents were still alive, and fawning over a boy who was as old as her pissed her off no end. Dumbledore was someone Ursula couldn't penetrate, and much of her work went into studying the zero point energy, that " witches and wizards" a laughable concept, possessed. Luckily she had a test subject.
The work had created satelites and a monitoring station on the moon - Wasp Industries had successfully cleared up the mess left behind by space junk, and they put in satellites with millions of uses, but one of them was the detection of "magic." Ursula was fascinated by the magical world, but she wasn't interested in why her parents had abandoned her. The reasons were clear, and she wasn't going to waste time fucking around feeling sorry for herself, what did intrigue her was why Dumbledore and her family were taking an interest in her right now, and why they couldn't simply knock on her door, and see her for themselves. Maybe it was a sideeffect of living in the magical world, people lost their common sense.
Ursula created another three Time Brains. The four Brains had different uses; the first was to gather knowledge from various corners of the universe, and was linked to a tiny wormhole generator to make starmaps of various corners of existence, probing them to study their technologies for making more profits. The second was to study her own past, and the magical world. Ursula wanted to confront them on her own terms, but there was no way of knowing what she might expect. The brain was also programmed to " think " of ways of neutralising magic, and defend her against it. In over a day since this particular brains's activation, Ursula discovered that the magical world had abandoned her because her brother, her twin, was thought to the the Boy who lived, a kid who lived through a killing curse. After seeing the temporal image of the wizard responsible - Ursula had to laugh at the name he'd dreamt up for himself - Lord Voldemort? Please. - Ursula hadn't been surprised to discover that it was her that was the victim. It was a logical deduction, and it did make a sort of sense. What didn't make sense was why she wasn't with her rightful family, and why she'd grown up in an orphanage, dumped there like old rubbish. What had happened?
What did surprise her was the light that was ripped from her own body, her magic. So, that Halloween was more costly than she'd thought, but she didn't miss her magic. There was not much point, her not missing something she'd never possessed in her life, but she couldn't help but feel it had something to do with why she wasn't living with her family in Britain. She was right. According to the record, the magical world found out - well, Dumbledore did, that she no longer had any magic, and had her parents send her away to dote on her brother, who bore a single scar. Ursula went through the memory more than once, disgusted. These were her parents, and given time they might have adapted to the fact their child wasn't magical. Instead they'd listened to a man who obviously had a big nose and couldn't resist sticking it into other peoples businesses. Ursula's contempt for the magical world soared.
The Third Time brain was designed to peer through into different realities after she'd discovered how. From these realities, she combined Time brains one and two, and siphoned off knowledge of various tech from different realities, but also what happened to her herself in various realities. From the realities, she found that in some she was a boy, who was orphaned that night, and she was sent to live with abusive relatives, and her magic had been preserved. In all that kind of reality, one or two things happened, and they mostly happened after their fifth year at Hogwarts - it was clear that in most realities, her intellect hadn't survived over the multiverse until it was too late - and in thoswe realities, her alternate selves either trusted Dumbledore or hated him. Those that trusted Dumbledore put up with near constant betrayals from the " light side " , most of them from her own friends. The number of realities where her alternate selves were placed in prison...
In all those realities, her alternate selves had fortunately grown brains, breaking off ties, and administered near fatal revenges on the stupid and incompetant magical world. Those that did, foolishly, forgive and forget, ended up regretting it sooner or later, but again Ursula couldn't find it in her heart to care. If you forgive and forget, then you become a stupid fucking doormat, not worth living. She was also disgusted with how those versions of herself trusted Dumbledore to the point where anything spewed from the old fuckers mouth was considered gospel. If it had been her, Ursula would've ripped out Dumbledore's eyes and force fed them down his throat. Another cause for concern was Dumbledore's phoenix, a being made up of pure zero point energy, but she was working out ways of unravelling the atomic structure of the substance, killing the beings stone dead. Ursula would've enjoyed studying the creature in a cage under laboratory conditions, but if she did meet Dumbledore then she would take no chances with him.
The realities where she grew up with her parents, and one of her siblings was thought to be the child who lived...sickened her no end. Parents were supposed to nurture their children, but it seemed that if a child of one family was destined to do something, then any other child was looked down upon, or abused.
The third Time brain was designed also to discover what all these versions of herself had in common. A power that this Lord Voldemort lacked, but Ursula wondered what she had that Voldemort didn't.
She made a list; Common sense. She didn't take chances. She owned a multitrillion dollar conglomerate that almost ruled the world, meaning she wasn't as violent as he was, although her capacity for violence was unknown in any other human. She hated magic, unlike Voldemort who clearly believed in a form of racial cleansing. She had technology on her side, and she was rapidly working up ways to purge magic if she thought it necessary.
With that thought, Ursula turned her attention to a door on one side of the room. It was locked, and she herself knew what was inside it.
The Final solution.
Ursula didn't like the idea of genocide, but when she started her travels, she wanted to be aware if the magical world would be a threat. If it was, then she would want to be prepared. She wasn't finished yet, but she was getting ready.
Back to the list, she was interested in temporal mechanics.
The final Time brain was designed to work out means of using organic technology in the construction of time travel technology.
The first thing Ursula did was study the higher dimensions, and she found that by creating wormholes in those same dimensions, and linking them with a black hole on either end, the same black hole and pumping the same level of energy inside the wormhole, it would be rendered timeless. It was control that made her want to create the wormhole in the first place. Created from the beginning of the Big Bang, and sent to the end of the physical universe, and bordering on the mulitverse, the wormhole was basically a time corridor, or vortex that spanned all of time. Since space and distance had no meaning to the higher dimensions, space travel was no boundary to the vortex, and with the same black hole powering both ends of the vortex, there was no shortage of energy, temporal or potential.
The wormhole was an idea she'd gained from reading Issac Asimov's The End of Eternity, where the Eternals, a group of humans who lived outside normal space / time, used a time tunnel to travel through the aeons. It had taken Ursula a while to work out the finer details, but she'd managed it.
The Time machine idea was simple. A machine that would exist outside normal space / time, and dematerialise in one location, rematerialising in another in a new location, both spatial and temporal. The creation of the wormhole came about thanks to the original time watch, and the time travellers book, but the actual work took about at least two years. Quite an achievement.
The next three years were spent making models - both on computer and physical - and sending them into the vortex. This was done to test the temporal and spatial dimensions, using the black hole reactor which was in her lab at home, as a power and fuel source.
With each machine, and new design, Ursula's time machine took shape.
The machine took around 5 years to create. Created inside a pocket universe, linked to the vortex, and linked to the real world, the Time ship Ursula had created was protected inside a biological sphere, and contained a structure made from a living metal, only its properties were incredibly potent. The atoms were made up of contours of pure space / time, rendering it completely indestructible, and possessed warp engines for conventional space travel. Beneath the structure was the Nexus, the portal that was fixed to the vortex, and gathered the power source that existed throughout time and space.
Ursula went into the lab, a bottle of champagne in her hand. The time machine was sitting in a cradle. It resembled a featureless box with a doorway entrance leading inside. She'd given it a name.
TARDIS.
Time And Relative Dimensions In Space.
She'd also given it a brain based on her own, and she'd already imprinted herself on the new ship.
