The Time Lord Empire.
The Time Vortex.
" As you can see with this status report, our TARDISes require a new medium to travel in time, and I think we've found the answer," Dr. Carter was saying to the Scientific council of the Time lords whom she was speaking too. The light from the ceiling lamps was reflecting on Carter's blond hair as the temporal physicist touched another control on the monitor and a 3-D hologram appeared, showing a spherical mass with what the scientists recognised as a subspace pocket, a warped domain of subspace similar to the pocket universes created for TARDIS technology. Only this one had some adjustments; this sphere had something inside it, and it warped the upper levels of the subspace stratas, and there was a definite link with the Time's Eyes.
In the centre of the bubble was a cylinder, and the scientists watched as one piece of the cylinder broke away and moved further away from the other segment of the cylinder. A line of blue joined the two pieces together, and the sensory information showed temporal information on the screen.
" What is it?" One of the council asked.
Carter smiled, " A version of the Tipler cylinder, a variant that does not mean warping space in the hope time travel will be made possible. This version is far superior, and our tests and models indicate it's more than possible. Tipler's theory was basically that if you warp space then you can travel through time, and theoretically he was right, but our practical experiments hint otherwise. This is a warp tunnel generator, a much more powerful form of warp engine, and the key of the new TARDIS technology we intend to create. Our modern theory is to develop a subspace pocket where subspace's lower levels are warped, and send one half of the cylinder through time using a warp engine with a time dilation device." Carter nodded as the image enlarged, and everyone saw the vortex generator segments. They saw the time corridor generated between the two pieces. " The time vortex was originally planned a long time ago, and since our TARDISes are not capable of traversing time properly without help, the development of some kind of medium is essential."
" What about the temporal drives of the TARDISes already built?" One scientist asked.
" They can easily be modified to use the Vortex, but when the first TARDISes were constructed they used the Time's Eyes for temporal displacement. That was not a happy day for us because it meant we needed more than one power source to make time travel possible, but with the Time Vortex generator we can actually use the Eye's more viably and practically. We can have the three eyes inside the TARDIS temporal drives and the two halves of the generator at the same time."
" How does the generator work?" Another voice asked.
Ever since the first TARDISes were produced, the Time lords had learnt the painful way their desired time travel machines were not perfect, they lost power, or they suffered from dimensional collapse due to the levels of energy they needed for time travel and space travel. Theories like the generator were not new, but there were drawbacks to using such a device. You couldn't create air for aircraft to fly in, nor could you create an artificial sea for oeanic travel, and the Time Lords had not wanted to develop a medium for time travel unless they needed to.
One of the ideas was to create a wormhole and place it outside normal time and space, and whilst the idea had some attraction, it was met with problems. The first one being the universal shift of planets, solar systems, making stabilising the wormhole difficult. The other issue was the need to use the three Time's Eyes for powering the wormhole, and whilst they were prepared for it, it also meant depowering the TARDISes, and there were still temporal exploratory teams out there in the universe, albeit disappointed ones that their technology was causing so many problems even though the first tests had been more than adequate.
This idea was more attractive, not only could the development of time travel be made more accessible, it would also make things easier for the humans to develop time machines that could travel more freely.
" The generator will be sent back through time, at least as close to the beginning of the universe as possible. Then we submerge the generator inside the subspace layers and domains, and then establish the subspace fields for the generator to activate. The generator will send the other half through time, using a time dilation field and a warp engine to take it as far away as possible. Then the generator will activate, creating the time corridor. It'll run from the point in time it was created to the end of the universe itself, and it will be powered by the Time Eyes. All three of them, and they will power the TARDISes."
For ten minutes, the council deliberated, and they authorised the building of the generator.
It took the Time Lords three years to build the generator, and it was given a send off as the three massive Galaxy class starships opened the temporal conduits to tow the generator through time. When the generator was taken into the very far past, they activated the command that would submerge the ship into subspace, and the generator sank, for lack of a better term, and when it was submerged to the level it was stated to, it started to generate a warp field around itself, powered by the connection to one of the Time's Eyes.
Then the process began, it sent off the future section, and it sped off powered by a warp engine with a time dilation field. Since the device had been carefully programmed to stop at the very end of the cosmos, it did and the warp tunnel was activated, creating the corridor which would grant humanity the mastery of time.
Meanwhile, back in their original galaxy, the Human legacy lived on and not in a good way...
