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Wolf began to explain; “Some of us had to learn her language; the head injury she suffered caused damage to her temporal region resulting in the loss of her telepathic abilities
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What is that force that attracted all the particles required to build men? How come they were free to be used in our composition and why will they, one day, part from us and join another organism? Why has the elusive intelligence that presided over our formation made us temporal? Is it a “use and discard” concept as some thinks of? Why does that powerful force that firmly held billions of particles together give up after 50, 70 or 100 years? Why does that force keep an interest in our organism only while it is living as a human being abandoning us afterwards?
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harmony, to create the moving picture of a temporal and
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Because we live in a temporal world and there is a delay
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However, these were temporal fragmentations
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‘Our existence will be erased from the universe, unless I remain alive long enough to create a temporal bubble
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Space around the field generated by the spherical device was being altered, hundreds of millions of stars thrown back tens of millions of years by the main temporal eradication wave
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Certainly, they could recreate life; except that would go against the most fundamental teachings of the Temporal Directive
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The Temporal Directive, however, had a loophole (at least in the most recent interpretation)
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The human male was speaking, demonstrating the effect of the temporal eradication process through the probe’s recording Zorandi himself had forwarded, speaking (according to the audio translator) as if he were central to the plan
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One theoretician surmised that information can never be truly lost, even after temporal eradication
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The knowledge was still there, right from that last moment when temporal disruption became eradication
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f temporal physics, who could interpret the data much better than he, and advise an appropriate course of action
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Sure, he knew there was temporal fracturing: pockets of time existing in a kind of uncertainty state, bits of the future and past breaking through, much like general quantum uncertainty but on a macro scale
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the temporal eradication wave
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‘You created me two hundred and twenty-eight years ago; a nano second of exposure over the designated time could cause a millennium of temporal eradication
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Where else would a temporal anomaly be held?’
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I will use the temporal modulator
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‘Surely I don’t need to quote you the Temporal Directive
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‘Anyway, there’s not time to discuss your temporal ethics
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This might come as a surprise – he once created a version of the temporal eradication wave
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‘Sure,’ responded Roidon, ‘provided they fit within the narrow parameters of the Temporal Directive,’
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‘He is someone who has had direct experience of the temporal eradication wave
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‘Of course, it’s nothing the B’tari have done,’ said Roidon, ‘because you have the Temporal Directive to ensure the universe does not become disrupted, whereas humans have no sense of their action’s consequence
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But when he replayed the sensor recording there was nothing visual or on any other frequency, although he could surmise they’d be able to circumvent the sensors by creating a temporal bubble
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The man thought he had a monopoly on their thought process, simply because he’d created a version of Temporal eradication
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‘Whatever happened to the Temporal Directive?’
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‘If we ignored the Temporal Directive we would not be employing humans
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‘You are not all powerful,’ he said to the TE device, which probably couldn’t hear him outside of the bubble, and in any case would not likely be listening once the temporal eradication wave was being generated
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He hoped the bubble would soon engulf the device and shrink the wave in the predicted time: a picosecond after full power, before it had time to destroy his surrounding’s temporal presence
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The wave must have already reached full power as Harvo – beyond the swirling haze of the bubble – vanished in an instant … at least that temporal version of Harvo
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When it reached the TE device there was a sudden halt in the surrounding activity: temporal eradication had stopped
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A large-scale temporal shield is exactly what is needed
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‘We sent her back using an isolation bubble within a temporal eradication field
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or more pertinently: The Temporal Directive
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At least concerning matters of space and time travel, and temporal eradication
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Nor would I have the approval of the council: The Temporal Directive is highly restrictive regarding the development and use of wormhole technology
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‘You know of the temporal uncertainties, and the possibility of total collapse
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The temporal anomaly must be
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He considered trying to manoeuvre the ship to see if it could shake off this strange temporal field
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He was unique in having gone through temporal erasure, the only B’tari out of his time – living it twice
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Roidon Chanley, though, did share a common view that their B’tari overseers were too reluctant to take the necessary action, hamstrung as they were by the increasingly irrelevant doctrine of the Temporal Directive
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‘The council has decided by a majority to suspend research into countering temporal eradication,’ said the oldest of the two elders
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He wondered if his destination would be affected by the temporal eradication wave
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Maybe he was simply insane; his mind conjuring up something to divert from the contemplation of death, and temporal eradication besides – the total ceasing of his existence; the mind going to the most extraordinary lengths to give him what mattered most in life: hope
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Perhaps there was some shared philosophy with the B’taris’ Temporal directive
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The answer: ‘At the current observed temporal distortion rate, 174 hrs, or about two weeks, give or take – and there was certainly room for correction to what was just a provisional projection
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Had you factored in the likely consequence of when it interacts with the temporal eradication field?’ He now had a small mind-voice transcription device attached to his tritanium head
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It shows a sixty-three per cent chance that my counter field – based on its current configuration – will slow the TE’s temporal spread by an exponentially increased factor
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They were already at orbital distance from the moon, still within the temporal dilation field, which meant events beyond were happening at a faster rate
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’ The being then told him about the temporal eradication wave
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Articles of faith, as well as all other spiritual matters, it is evident enough, are not within the proper department of a temporal sovereign, who, though he may be very well qualified for protecting, is seldom supposed to be so for instructing the people
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‘There is, however, an alternative that will not break the rules of the temporal Directive
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wasn't strictly necessary since the computer was already programmed to lower its now rejuvenated shield for the sixteen picoseconds required – or rather estimated – to expose Scott to the temporal eradication wave
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particular baronies or manors, were equally independent, and equally exclusive of the authority of the king's courts, as those of the great temporal lords
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The Elusivers had not succeeded in destroying the temporal field device despite how close their adapting salvo had got, close enough to destroy everything but the very foundations on which they were fixed
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The hospitality and charity of the clergy, too, not only gave them the command of a great temporal force, but increased very much the weight of their spiritual weapons
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The gradual improvements of arts, manufactures, and commerce, the same causes which destroyed the power of the great barons, destroyed, in the same manner, through the greater part of Europe, the whole temporal manufactures, and commerce, the clergy, like the great barons, found something for which they could exchange their rude produce, and thereby discovered the means of spending their whole revenues upon their own persons, without giving any considerable share of them to other people
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But the temporal power of the clergy, the absolute command which they had once had over the great body of the people was very much decayed
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Zardino brought the craft to a halt two hundred kilometres from the temporal field device; it was now almost totally bereft of any moon remnant, just a fragment of rock under its dark conical form
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’ The device was fully aware that the temporal eradication wave had now reached as near as the Kuiper belt (the distance of Neptune), and would not have been such a problem whilst currently slowed down two thousand times
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‘This time I will be true to the temporal directive
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‘Bound by the temporal directive
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Torbin approached a pyramidal object nearly the same height as him, covered with cones: a smaller scale version of the temporal eradication device
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And for security reasons (again the risk of Elusiver infiltration into the base) only he could know what the numbers meant, how they translated into the amount of temporal erasure he’d be exposed to
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‘It worked, don't you see, Torbin? You have been exposed to local temporal eradication
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Even the position of the compound was marked; he wondered if it could have simply been programmed in to navigate automatically, but perhaps that contravened some rule of the Temporal Directive
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‘That fucking temporal directive,’ he mouthed
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All Torbin could do now was focus on the task of stopping the temporal eradication wave
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He was sure, though, that if he ever found a physical copy of the Temporal Directive he would rip it to pieces
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‘I do not want to hear about the council or the Temporal directive,’ Torbin said, his voice almost hysterically shrill
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If it worked as he hoped, it would create specifically modulated graviton pulses, essentially disrupting the temporal eradication field
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The last few minutes had been a matter of fine tuning based on data from those who’d actually been exposed to temporal erasure – but only for microseconds
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‘Torbin, I am fully aware of the temporal eradication wave’s progress
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Armion had sent his own data virus to arrive as near to that time as temporal physics would allow
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How odd to think that it may have already been broadcast before he’d sent it; that was the paradoxical way of completing a temporal circle
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They took as their doctrine a strict set of rules and guidelines know as the Temporal Directive, devising rules for minimal intervention and interference, which then had to be adapted for each assignment
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’ Zolla then went on to explain the process of temporal acceleration: ‘It’s done simply by creating a self-contained gravitational field shrouding the entire ship,’ he said, as if describing some every day occurrence
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‘Well, suffice it to say that the process of your temporal reversal would in actual fact remove the events that took place in and to your mind and body – as you are bound up to that particular time-line
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Now, imagine temporal reversal as creating a stronger gravitational field at the top of the hill, from where you had started
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Inside the observation deck Jimmy prepared for the temporal acceleration process
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Unfortunately since the Temporal Directive forbids any CC federation fleet from observing from within their solar system, the details of how this led to a full scale nuclear war remain unclear
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The Council held extensive meetings, reviewing and debating the tenets of the Temporal Directive until what seemed to be a loophole allowed the possibility of action
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If he was being kind on himself he could always blame his failure on the constraints of the Temporal Directive
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Even in this dark hour he gave a chuckle thinking of the way this temporal intervention had to be done without violating the directive and how, as a result, even greater damage could potentially be done to this time-line
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Now, the Temporal Directive had been violated
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temporal directive
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He could believe, now, the great power of the universe would not allow such a temporal discontinuity to exist
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And due to the strictures of the Temporal Directive it had to be a true outsider, removed from a different Earth
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He said after a while, ‘entering TIAR and communicating with its controller would surely have been a fascinating experience, however the Temporal Directive prevents such action
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He would have to study the Temporal Directive for answers
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The policy of minimal intervention had originally set the foundation for the Temporal Directive, and remained enshrined in their doctrine for millennia; the change in philosophy only as a result of the invasion of Earth by their established foe, the Darangi
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The failure of their mission was cited by historian and Temporal Directive scholar Paradic Ramazo as the catalyst for Central Council's change in policy
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The chosen operative, of course, complied with the rules of the Temporal Directive: he was not from the time of Earth's crisis, and his role did not allow him to effect a [noticeable] change in the predicted time-line; his apparent mission was merely to assist a captive (Gerrid Lytum, former employee of the Darangi via the Nine committee) who had been subjugated within an artificial reality of his own creation by an oppressive Artificial Intelligence
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As Paradic Ramazo pointed out: If the CC had decided sooner on high level intervention (such as before the war), the breech in the Temporal Directive may not have needed to have been so extensive, with the possibility of success greatly improved
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Maybe this will give me some appreciation of what it is like to be L-Seven-Six, to not be in acceptance of a soulless temporal existence
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The Temporal Directive had become a naive ideal belonging to a time when the known worlds were isolated or at least autonomous, a time when the troubles of a world could be observed
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The great thinker of the third age, Almani Zolandric, who has been credited as the primary contributor to the Temporal Directive, had not envisioned such extraordinary events brought about by the corrupting influence of technology