<strong>Paradox</strong><br/><br/>Paradox smiles as he points to the TV to interface with. Windows start popping up we he talks, just showing images to back it up but just images.<br/><br/>"<strong>Heh, why not. Going to put this all on the internet anyway. Here's the short version.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>First thing you have to know is that the Laws of Physics you have are incomplete. Right now, you think Time Travel is extremely difficult at best and impossible to go backward beyond when you turn the device on.<br/><br/>You're wrong. Nice try though. There's a few things you haven't seen yet that will lead to better Laws of Physics. By 2284, we'll develop a working Space-Time Relocation Device. I have the metahuman attribute of immunity to the negative effects of atomic radiation, so I was the pilot.</strong>"<br/><br/>Which he proves by popping up pictures. The image search ends showing faces the computers are convinced are J7's. One is a picture of a young man watching a V-E Parade in 1945 New York. Another shows J7 dressed as crewman on the Titanic. Another pair show J7 pack in the early days of photography, one as a Union Calvaryman and another as a Confederate Infantryman. In the background of a Hitler Speech. At the fall of the Berlin Wall. A secret serviceman at the attempted assassination of Reagan. At least a dozen more dead ringers for the man who claims to be a time traveler. Even a suspicious looking partial match on a fresco recovered from the ruins of Pompeii.<br/><br/>"<strong>So, here's the next 270 years of human history in a nutshell. Bad. Genocide, War, Oppresion. The Metahuman Registration Act. The Sterilizations. The Work Camps. The Second Civil War. The Purity Councils. The Global Riots of the 2030's. The Beast. World War 3. The Purgings.<br/><br/>We called it Ragnarok Highway. In 1900 about 90% of Americans would be considered Self-Employed by your standards. By 2050 it's about 2%. In 1945 a corporation would pay about 50% in federal taxes. By 2050 it will be about 5% on paper and .2% in practice. That's called Consolidation. Power and resources systematically being taken from individuals and put in the hands of a small number of corporations. When only a handful of people are the ones making the decisions, it's not hard to picture someone killing us all. Some head of state looks at some CEO the wrong way, some phonecalls are made, bombs fly- and we pay the price. March 23rd, 2077. The Half-Hour War. Almost half of the human race dies instantly, over 2/3rds by the end of the year. This, is the World.</strong>"<br/><br/>The images are replaced with images of a dead barren world with a burnt sky, orange along the edges but usually black as night. What clouds there are look like angry thunderstorms, beyond anything Earth has ever seen.<br/><br/>"<strong>By 2284, the World Population is only about 4 thousand and still going down. The most generous estimates put complete human extinction by 2350. The only survivable areas are the decedents of cities. New York City is known as Complex 4.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>And yes, I'm well aware that if I prevent this future I'm wiping myself from the timeline. I figure it's not a future worth having anyway. I'm a walking Time Paradox. And since the metahuman tradition is to take codenames- well, Paradox.</strong>"