Technology and Prevention of War Through Time Travel :: Exploratory Essays Research Papers

Prevention of War Through Time Travel My name was Randy Elliot. I was born twenty-six years ago in 2003. I spent my childhood in a small town in Nevada. I joined the Marines right out of high school. About three years ago I was informed of and asked to join an elite group working for the United States Marine Corps and Federal Bureau of Investigation. We are identified as H-1. There are five other people in my team known as H-1. We have no individual names. We exist only as a team. We are the first, and most qualified, team working on Project Hillyer. When I was first asked to join in this project, I had no idea what the significance of the name "Hillyer", but I had little knowledge of literature. Once I discovered the origin of the name, I was quite amused. The appropriateness of the name is great. Hillyer is the narrator and inventor of the machine in the H. G. Wells novel, The Time Machine. The idea of this project is centered on the obvious: a time machine. The original machine was invented three years ago and perfected about a year later. All I know about how it functions is what I see when entering. The area I am in is five hundred feet below the surface of the earth to help in preventing damage in case of nuclear war. It is a spherical room about twenty feet in diameter. There is a small platform in the center of the sphere where the departing team is transported. My team is the first of nine teams. Teams H-1, H-2, and H-3 are CHE prevention. CHEs, or Catastrophic Human Events, are events that create massive devastation and are the fault of humankind. Teams H-4, H-5, and H-6 are CNE warnings. They warn any effected country, state, or city of impending disaster due to a natural event such as an earthquake or tornado. These six teams are only allowed to go back a maximum of one month, but have full privileges to interact with whomever is necessary. The other three teams can go back as far as needed, but they cannot, under any circumstances, interact with any person or thing while timing, as we call it. They are the information gatherers. They go back and figure out the truths of our history books. At one point team H-8 discovered the truth about the extenction of the dinosaurs.