A young man, Duncan Moran, learned that a nuclear war was coming in 2020. He was researching a way to provide guidance for interstellar travel based on the Alcubierre Theorem. In his research he stumbled upon the means to look forward in time. (To get useful data while travelling in a ship moving faster than light this became a necessity. When he realized he was getting data from the future he refined his research to develop a useful image. What he saw was the city he was living in lying in nuclear ashes.
Once he received his warning he geared his efforts toward physical time travel. Despite his young age of 20, he held a postgraduate research position at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. UNM was better known for its medical center, but as New Mexico is known as the Energy State, it should not be surprising that it covered other disciplines like geology, metallurgy, astronomy and engineering. He had also built his own businesses. One of these was a think tank. It is there where he built his time portal.
The time portal filled up about half of a 1 million square foot warehouse. A large part of that space was occupied by portable fusion powerplants and other equipment. And they would all be gone in a little over 3 months. Even now he was trying to make sure they could survive a nuclear holocaust. But truthfully, he needed a place deep underground - a bunker - in which to hide them. And there simply wasn’t time to create one, move the equipment, then reassemble and recalibrate it. The complexity of anchoring the portal to the local gravity of Earth, the shape and changing geography with the movement of any specific point on the planet through space had been a nightmare. He had finally found a way to do this through the application of a gravitic anchor and begun a topological mapping of the Earth’s surface for the past billion years and developed a coordinate mapping system similar to latitude and longitude as well as a chronologically localized calendar to allow for changes to the Earth’s rotation.
There was still more work to do before he could travel through safely. One thing he had to do was choose a time and calibrate carefully - unless he wanted to come out of the portal in the past over a ravine or a mile underwater or the vacuum of space. Heck, it was possible to use the same portal to reach the Moon or Mars. At least he was pretty sure it was. And once he had created the Membrane to make sure he wouldn’t allow biocontaminants to pass through - or toxic gasses - he had actually locked on to the Moon and measured pressure differentials.
I am looking for a writer with good skills, and not expecting to be heavily sidetracked by RL stuff like school. If you don't honestly have the time, do not apply. Also, please don't just reply with "interested". PM me with your ideas for a character. Also, let me know your preferences - PM or Forum, etc. This is, in part, a romance. But I do not want that to be at the expense of a plot.
The Plot and Setting
This will be determined by both characters, largely by you. Duncan will only travel to times in the past that he can research thoroughly and blend in. He has no interest in being worshipped as the pale skinned god. Time travel doesn’t magically confer the ability to speak the language. He is looking for a place to set up shop again and work on a way to stop the war by either affecting the past, or by developing a technology that can stop it in the future.
He is quite capable of scanning the arrival point before a jump, so accidents are pretty unlikely. He can’t jump right back out. A jump muddies the local time stream preventing this option.
His base is located in Albuquerque, NM. If he stays in the couple hundred years when modern English is spoken, he will stay there. He might opt for NYC if he hits the 1920’s, but would aim for the very beginning of that timeframe. Around WWII, he has to be far more careful. In the later 1800’s, he has more leeway.
If he goes further back, he could meet the Native Americans before the arrival of Europeans. Not really his interest, but it has uses. But he would chose his arrival location based on mineral wealth so he can rebuilt 21st century technology.
If he travelled to the Middle Ages, he’d likely aim for the time of Mary Queen of Scots.
Ancient times would require he chose a place like the Roman Empire, probably near Ephesus - a region he knows first hand as he has visited the ruins.
Any earlier and he might go for Egypt before the time of the pyramids. But like I said, he isn’t looking to be a god. And he wants to speak the language. But he can work around that and learn the language in a matter of days - by your reckoning.
Traveling into the future would mean accepting that the war is inevitable. He would have to travel centuries into the future to get to a point where the world has begun to recover. The world would likely resemble that of the TV series ‘The 100’ - minus the technology. Their apocalypse takes place in 2054. The 100 travelled to Earth in 2149. I am planning this apocalypse much sooner. Recovery will still take at least a century. So, it could be the early 22nd century. (Nothing in orbit would survive that long.)
Once he received his warning he geared his efforts toward physical time travel. Despite his young age of 20, he held a postgraduate research position at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. UNM was better known for its medical center, but as New Mexico is known as the Energy State, it should not be surprising that it covered other disciplines like geology, metallurgy, astronomy and engineering. He had also built his own businesses. One of these was a think tank. It is there where he built his time portal.
The time portal filled up about half of a 1 million square foot warehouse. A large part of that space was occupied by portable fusion powerplants and other equipment. And they would all be gone in a little over 3 months. Even now he was trying to make sure they could survive a nuclear holocaust. But truthfully, he needed a place deep underground - a bunker - in which to hide them. And there simply wasn’t time to create one, move the equipment, then reassemble and recalibrate it. The complexity of anchoring the portal to the local gravity of Earth, the shape and changing geography with the movement of any specific point on the planet through space had been a nightmare. He had finally found a way to do this through the application of a gravitic anchor and begun a topological mapping of the Earth’s surface for the past billion years and developed a coordinate mapping system similar to latitude and longitude as well as a chronologically localized calendar to allow for changes to the Earth’s rotation.
There was still more work to do before he could travel through safely. One thing he had to do was choose a time and calibrate carefully - unless he wanted to come out of the portal in the past over a ravine or a mile underwater or the vacuum of space. Heck, it was possible to use the same portal to reach the Moon or Mars. At least he was pretty sure it was. And once he had created the Membrane to make sure he wouldn’t allow biocontaminants to pass through - or toxic gasses - he had actually locked on to the Moon and measured pressure differentials.
I am looking for a writer with good skills, and not expecting to be heavily sidetracked by RL stuff like school. If you don't honestly have the time, do not apply. Also, please don't just reply with "interested". PM me with your ideas for a character. Also, let me know your preferences - PM or Forum, etc. This is, in part, a romance. But I do not want that to be at the expense of a plot.
The Plot and Setting
This will be determined by both characters, largely by you. Duncan will only travel to times in the past that he can research thoroughly and blend in. He has no interest in being worshipped as the pale skinned god. Time travel doesn’t magically confer the ability to speak the language. He is looking for a place to set up shop again and work on a way to stop the war by either affecting the past, or by developing a technology that can stop it in the future.
He is quite capable of scanning the arrival point before a jump, so accidents are pretty unlikely. He can’t jump right back out. A jump muddies the local time stream preventing this option.
His base is located in Albuquerque, NM. If he stays in the couple hundred years when modern English is spoken, he will stay there. He might opt for NYC if he hits the 1920’s, but would aim for the very beginning of that timeframe. Around WWII, he has to be far more careful. In the later 1800’s, he has more leeway.
If he goes further back, he could meet the Native Americans before the arrival of Europeans. Not really his interest, but it has uses. But he would chose his arrival location based on mineral wealth so he can rebuilt 21st century technology.
If he travelled to the Middle Ages, he’d likely aim for the time of Mary Queen of Scots.
Ancient times would require he chose a place like the Roman Empire, probably near Ephesus - a region he knows first hand as he has visited the ruins.
Any earlier and he might go for Egypt before the time of the pyramids. But like I said, he isn’t looking to be a god. And he wants to speak the language. But he can work around that and learn the language in a matter of days - by your reckoning.
Traveling into the future would mean accepting that the war is inevitable. He would have to travel centuries into the future to get to a point where the world has begun to recover. The world would likely resemble that of the TV series ‘The 100’ - minus the technology. Their apocalypse takes place in 2054. The 100 travelled to Earth in 2149. I am planning this apocalypse much sooner. Recovery will still take at least a century. So, it could be the early 22nd century. (Nothing in orbit would survive that long.)