Personal timeline: 25th Year, 280th Day
I must do this thing properly, if at all.
Poor Herbert seems to have been taken in by my "accident;" he believes me dead or lost forever in some distant time. It is for the best, I keep telling myself; the Machine must remain my secret alone if I am to have even the remotest chance of success.
I do not know, even, if it can be done. Can the future be changed? Can the future that I have been to, have experienced myself, be changed, and what then will become of me?
And yet I must try. For the sake of generations yet to come, I must try.
All the tools and knowledge of the future are potentially available to me. I shall become a Scavenger, then, improving my situation and my Machine to the point where I may become an effective force of change.
If it is within my power, the future of Morlocks and Eloi will not come to pass.
If...
This is the story of the first Time Traveler.
The story of what he sought to accomplish, and how he went about it; of where and when he traveled, and above all, of who he became along the way.
This is the story of the First, who would in due course be known as the Last.
THE TRAVELER'S JOURNALS
Part 1: The Scavenger of Time
I must do this thing properly, if at all.
Poor Herbert seems to have been taken in by my "accident;" he believes me dead or lost forever in some distant time. It is for the best, I keep telling myself; the Machine must remain my secret alone if I am to have even the remotest chance of success.
I do not know, even, if it can be done. Can the future be changed? Can the future that I have been to, have experienced myself, be changed, and what then will become of me?
And yet I must try. For the sake of generations yet to come, I must try.
All the tools and knowledge of the future are potentially available to me. I shall become a Scavenger, then, improving my situation and my Machine to the point where I may become an effective force of change.
If it is within my power, the future of Morlocks and Eloi will not come to pass.
If...
This is the story of the first Time Traveler.
The story of what he sought to accomplish, and how he went about it; of where and when he traveled, and above all, of who he became along the way.
This is the story of the First, who would in due course be known as the Last.
THE TRAVELER'S JOURNALS
Part 1: The Scavenger of Time