[color=f7941d]"We are replaceable, Rhia. Especially after we make it work."[/color] Lisa replied tiredly.[color=f7941d]" Sure we are the leading people in the project, but we aren't alone. All the additional staff we work with, all of them are experts in the field also. The theories, the idea and the execution, those are all us, but the people we work with, they know enough so they will be able to maintain the machine's state and maybe in teh future even improve some aspects without us around also. Also those interns? Yeah, all of those are young raising scientists with PHDs that are being groomed, just as how we were. You enver thought it was weird how the governement just suddenly popped up when we graduated and offered us a frankly too good to be true deal? Government will want sole control over the time machine and we do not facture into that control." [/color]

 She sighed and tiredly drove off the side of the road, stopping there and walking outside, letting the cool air hit her face as she waited for Rhia to join her by the front of the car. She softly sat on the edge of the front of the car, looking at the science complex in the far distance.[color=f7941d]" Look at it. What do you see? A place of learning? Place of advancement?[/color]" SHe asked and shook her head."[color=f7941d] I knew something was up from the moment they approached us all those years back, Rhia. I've been carefully monitoring everybody that got assigned to the project, checking their backgrounds, educations. Granted we needed people of such education to complete our work, but... I've noted an increase in activity from some of our colleagues. Have you noted how some of them are studying the project a lot more intently than others? Some of the fresh recruites, young people straight out of university... I've gotten polite requests from the Research Complex Management that I require a proper assist team and I should handle their training. That's the lil group that follows me around lately, they ask a lot of quests... very specific questions. They even askemed if you've got a preference when it comes to your 'interns' they plan to hire. Somethign about ensuring the next generation of minds or some nonsense like that. I checked some of the intern's graduation projects... they were on very familiar topics too..."[/color] She rubbed her temples.

 [color=f7941d]"We've seen it happen, I mean history is filled with it, our quantum physics professor was kicked out of his project after making it work for crying out loud. Sure they gave him all credits back then and he was famous for it, but his research was made a state secret and he was under strict non disclosure agreements about it... the same type of agreements we signed back then, blinded by our enthusiasm."[/color] Lisa let out a dark chuckle.[color=f7941d]" I've backed all the date up, you know... Every thing for the last decade, I've backed it all and if they knew, I'll likely end in prison. It was part of the agreement we signed, all research stays as secret with them unless the state approves it's full disclosure, we get credit of course, it might be publically mentioned in some capacity what we've acomplished. Fuck... it's the atom bomb all over again."[/color] She added and bit her lip.

[color=f7941d] "I MAY be paranoid, I'd love to just be paranoid about this and it will all be fine, but... I don't see it, Rhia. The small clues are all there, the very capable senior staff that's serving us our helpers while we lead the project, staff we didn't hire ourselves. Strick monitoring at the complex, frequent inspections, detailed research logs, shifty nature of our government when it comes to powerful and or useful inventions. Hell one of the newer members last week had an idea that I shot down, lil shit must have called somebody cause half an hour later I recieved a call from the government that I should use the guy's idea and check the results. That was the reason why we nearly blew half the lab by the way. Fact is, the more we advance and get near completetion, the more authority and control we are losing."[/color]