The Time Lord Empire.

Time's Eye.


Sol, Earth's old star, was an ancient sun, and it was now long past its prime. Millions of years before, the sun had exploded and became a supernova and eventually gravity crushed the old star in and in and in until it became a black hole. The location of the black hole was the reason why humans chose it in the first place for the newest power source.

For years, Earth's energy surplus had used Quantium 40, black hole and antimatter reaction technology, but it was black holes that allowed humans to learn more of gravimetric energies, but it was the natural black hole formed in Earth's old system which attracted their attention. Using gravimetric fields and a temporal field sent from the past, humans sealed the black hole into a temporal pocket, which was then placed inside a pocket universe. The pocket universe contained superspace, a kind of space that broke down at a mass energy level. The black hole power source was called Time's Eye.

This project was one of two for the ultimate prize, the mastery of time.

Africa had undergone many changes since Earth had moved to the Andromeda galaxy, it was no longer an arid land in some areas. Manipulation of the tectonic plates and the structure of the Earth itself had allowed terraformation to take place. Instead of desert, Africa had become a vast rainforest, a tropical utopia. Cities had sprung up powered by geothermal power. It was also, because of its size, the location of industrial complexes and institutes like Australia, America, and Europe, but the most important was the Tempus Fugit institute.

Tempus Fugit, time flies in Latin, was the largest institute in the Empire, and the most important of them all because it was responsible for the discoveries of wormhole technology. Wormholes in the past had been considered viable for time travel, but when humans made contact with the Centauri the discoveries were forgotten until they had moved to Andromeda. Wormhole technology, developed from subspace and quantum foam allowed for space travel with a temporal displacement field to allow time travel, and that was the focus of the institutes research. The humans had learnt and known for a long time that quantum foam could be manipulated, moulded like clay, which was unusual for the structure of the cosmos to be so malleable. For years since the development of the first wormholes and time fields, sensors had discovered echoes of temporal energy inside subspace and quantum foam, and the energy also had gravitational energies as a property. It was almost like it time energy was a natural effect, but tests made showed the energy was being sent through time itself, and tests indicated it was being transmitted back through time from the end of the universe itself. Was it a message? Was the energy being sent deliberately, or naturally from the future? Were humans from the future trying to send a message back through time to the present time? These questions had been boggling scientists back and forth for a century, and it wasn't until the creation of Time's Eye that the messages made sense.

Time's Eye had been in the plans for years, it was only the search for a suitable nova that was about to collapse into a black hole that was essential, a temporal energy source allowing time travel freely and offering both a power source and a means of navigating through time and space without needing to be concerned about loss of energy or getting lost. The activation of Time's Eye answered the scientists questions; like the progenitor paradox, Time's Eye was a paradox created by themselves in the future.

The creation of Time's Eye led to the most essential discovery in temporal physics; it wasn't a physical object like a Tipler cylinder, a massive cylinder postulated by Frank Tipler in the 20th century that created closed timelike curves, or wormholes that people hoped led to either the past or the future. Time's Eye led to the realisation that it wasn't the method of time travel that was important, it was temporal energy. Manipulation of temporal energy may seem like a fairly stunted form for time travel, but it was more feasible than creating a massive cylinder or wormhole.

Time's Eye possessed dozens of properties; it was powerful, it existed inside its own space/time continuum and pocket universe, which in turn allowed it to exist outside space/time, and it generated temporal energy on a massive level. Since Time's Eye existed at the end of the universe, it had millions of years to send time energy through the universe. All a ship in a wormhole would need to do would be to be powered by the Eye through a tap that gathered the temporal energy. The temporal energy would then be manipulated by the temporal drive, and deposit the ship at the target date. Quantum foam helped accelerate the process, being as it was the foamy substrate of the cosmos, and contained the right elements for space/time travel.