The Time Lord Empire.
The Breakthroughs.
3 years after arriving 5,000 years in the past in the Andromeda galaxy, the Human race started to rebuild and explore their new home. Accepting the fact that one time was very much like another, they went about their own affairs. The scientists started studying the Dilgar cruiser, and the teleport technology to work out what had happened to send them into the past. It was found that the teleports needed to be stabilised before they were to be used, but since the technology had been rushed into service this hadn't been possible. All teleport drives fitted to various ships were now fitted with stabilisers, but each ship commander and computer was programmed and ordered to report any and all teleport malfunctions, no matter what.
Teleport drive technology, and the temporal displacement which sent them back through time, had brought out interest in time travel research. Dimension research brought out more facts about how it can be made truly possible, but since their breakaway from the Milky way, many scientists and engineers decided to stretch their imaginations to become better than the Minbari and the other ingrates in their original galaxy.
One of the scientists started exploring the theories of warp drive and wormhole technology, and mixed them with the jump engine technology they'd brought in with them, and they created a warp technology that created a warp field around their ships, propelling them faster than light. The warp engine, a purely human invention with only a miniscule aid from aliens, became the breakthrough that told everyone that humans were finally doing it, breaking away from aliens once and for all.
The warp engine speed increased, and as starships that were built journeyed outwards, looking for new worlds to migrate to and to mine, they had another problem. Power.
They needed new energy sources, and they found them in two ways; firstly Quantium 40, already seen as a unique mineral, but when they found a way to turn it into a power source they found an energy source that would, in theory, give them a greater energy output than the Centauri, and the Minbari. The second power source came from zero-point energy, discovered from subspace where they discovered quantum foam, the foamy substrate of space/time, where space/time broke down. The zero-point energy gave them a more superior power source. With fusion, Q-40, and zero-point energy giving them power, human ships became more and more advanced with power to match, and the Dilgar technology helped them develop their early gravimetric technology and they worked on it from there. The gravimetric science, small as it was, was more than enough for humans to learn more and more about the nature of gravity, and to discover more and more secrets that could help them. Quantum foam was easy to manipulate with gravity, and the zero-point field generators were primitive before the gravimetric breakthroughs, but with gravimetrics the Quantum foam was easy enough to harness for energy and study.
Gravimetrics eventually gave rise to inertial dampener technology and artificial gravity plating that used equations that manipulated the graviton. Dilgar technology, being Galactic age, meant that their biochemistry knowledge was incredibly advanced, and the human scientists and people who were ill benefited from it all. Cancer and other deliberating illnesses were conquerored, but also research was put into the science to make humans completely immune from diseases, and genetic engineering was put into action to, not remove the best of humanity, but to make it better.
Starships were built with warp engines, and they no longer looked like ships from a scrap pile. The warp factor was a priority, and exploration was a priority, new resources and new colonies were in high demand, and the ships needed a reliable engine system to make it possible. Starships were sent out, but this time they had new orders when it came to diplomacy.
Instead of barging in head first and risk getting shot at, the ship captains were taught diplomacy, but they were also psychologically screened to prevent accidents and incidents like the Minbari first contact.
Warp drive ships, the first ones that humans were aware of, needed to be pioneered from scratch when they learnt about the various layers of subspace, and new ships were capable of travelling at speeds of warp 9.9, about four billion miles. 0.0007 light years in a single second. Dimensional technology and subspace field research had discovered how to create temporal fields, spinning off on the accident that had sent the human race 5,000 years into the past, putting humans on the track to discovering time travel.
Quantum foam research was put into top priority, and it was because of the two factors, first, the quantum foam was riddled with wormholes, and were capable of being used to travel across space, allowing virtually limitless travel, opening new routes and planets to be opened to the human race. Second, the use of zero-point energy pockets.
An experimental starship with a warp engine capable of manipulating the quantum foam into becoming fully sized without the need for miniaturisation was developed for the drive, and it created a wormhole channel that could be shaped and took the ship at a distance of 15 light years, a distance any warp ship would need 2-3 days to reach there. The experiment gave scientists the chance and unprecedented opportunity to study wormholes.
The wormhole, a subspace phenomenon in itself, possessed none of the gravimetric anomolies of hyperspace. Research into the wormholes showed something else, time travel inside wormholes was not possible, but it could happen if there was a separate mechanism.
Simulations into a quantum warp field with temporal field interfacing took place, and a test ship was prepared with a temporal field generator powered by a ZPM, a zero-point energy module. When the quantum warp drive was opened, and the time field was generated the ship travelled over three hours into the past. The test ship was sent towards an outer colony of the new empire.
Time travel was possible, and the human race had discovered it, but the work carried on.
Quantum foam also had other properties that were discovered, since it could be warped and manipulated by gravity, it could also generate an artificial reality, a pocket universe and enclose it in a tiny space, as the people working on the science discovered. These pocket universes were fitted inside factories where starships were being built, and in massive numbers that could not be supported inside a solar system construction depot.
They also provided incredibly efficient laboratories and cloning facilities for study and the production and research into new technologies, and new weapons and technologies to develop the Human race into something more than the human race they had been before. Now the humans saw how stupid they had been, they realised that now instead of trying to show force, they should've developed themselves and their technologies, then they would develop their empire. Genetic engineering was researched, and augmentation into making the human race invincible was put into study. Since the Minbari war, where the Narns had started to exterminate humans, the soldiers had reported how strong different aliens were, and that was unacceptable.
The president and the senate wanted the human race to change, and tests were made to enhance the intellect and the body. Humans soon developed intellects of incredible power, even greater than they had ever been before, and humans became stronger, faster, and more durable than they had been before, and they also discovered that telepathy had been similarly augmented into humans, and that the genes for telepathy were already there, but had merely been enhanced by someone.
Angry at this, humans started to become telepathic, and they created telekinetic powers, but the humans wanted more and more.
A set of artificial genes were created, and a human geneticist, watching Star Wars and Superman, developed genes for molecular density and for powers no one would be able to distinguish from magic.
The basics for humanity, however, had not been taken away, there was no removal of the things that made them human, but humanity became stronger. Their molecular density and manipulation powers, which manipulated subspace on a quantum foam level, allowed humans to become unbelievably strong, able to teleport themselves, and to use their powers for levitation, for telekinesis, flight, and so on.
Although they did not know it yet, humanity's new steps into perfection were close to the Vorlons and the other ascended First Ones.
