==General Carter==
Carter cautiously lowers the gun, but still stays alert and ready to spring into action. He decides to let Daniel do the talking, and stays silent.
==Tyler==
"You're saying, what, time travel is possible? Ive been one of the greatest minds in theoretical physics. So unless you have possession of some tachyions, I'm afar aid I don't quite comprehend." After a short pause he added "thou if you do have a tachyion generator, this changes everything"
==Lord Regulus==
"We can produce...limited amounts. Part of the problem--and the reason we haven't taken full advantage of the device--is that the process by which we generate them is positively
ancient; the first iteration was
steam-powered! We've made a few advancements since then, but..." He shrugs.
"That's not the problem I was talking about, though. Remember how we have two copies of the same symbiont? It's a bit of a long story, but basically, the device can, for now, only project subjects into the future. Furthermore, those subjects...don't stay there. The cells in Dr. Cliffords' body keep growing increasingly temporally unstable; at a certain point, they'll be drawn inexorably back to his own time, to the moment of the accident. We've managed to slow it down, somewhat, by keeping the machine on but idling and keeping him within range of the associated electromagnetic fields, but it's still inexorable. The same thing happened when Bill Hawks and Dimitri Allen built their time machine well over a century ago; a young woman was transported to the future, and was drawn back to the moment of that machine's cataclysmic destruction. That's why we need
you."
"Of course, any and all contributions to this project would be highly useful--at this point, it's highly likely we'll need biotechnology to synthesize the componens we need for tachyon generation in any substantial quantities, as well as to properly regulate the reaction and dispersal--but our primary consern is with achieving permanent transit. If we can nullify the temporal anchoring effect--well, you can imagine the advantages. A bomb's about to go off? Time-travel to a point after the explosion and its afterefects. Infected with AIDS? Time-travel to a time when there's a cure. And as to revenge...let's just say that, if we can get the system capable of
reverse time-travel, some
judicious tampering with the past could prevent larger disasters, though of course the
utmost care would have to be taken to prevent alterations--we need to maintain stable time loops, rather than branching eventual outcomes. In the case with Infinitus, I think some early-childhood brainwashing, triggered by a specific audiovisual cue, might be
just the thing to deal with him."
"Of course, that sort of thing is still many years away. For now...I'd say shooting him a hundred years into the future should be most effective at neutralizing him in the present, wouldn't you agree?"
