Status Check: Time Machine Project

It has been a while since Time Div. has issued any sort of report on their findings and goings-on, and Dr. Lucas is famous for skipping department head meetings, so a progress team was dispatched to investigate and create a summary, shared here.

Since 1997, Dr. Elaine Lucas and her team have been working on a multi-use, retrievable vehicle for movement forward and backward in time. Success is difficult to quantify, but the cost has not been insignificant. Dates and financial details have been withheld. 

Launch One: Two-person crew electrocuted, vehicle lost. [Further details redacted.]

Launch Two: Two-person crew killed for reasons undetermined, vehicle unharmed. [Further details redacted.]

Launch Three: Vehicle disappeared, along with crew of two yellow labradors Daisy and Disco. Retrieval unsuccessful.

Launch Four: Vehicle disappeared, along with crew of two persons and three dogs. Retrieval unsuccessful. [Further details redacted.]

Launch Five: Vehicle disappeared, along with crew of two persons and three dogs. Thirty-one minutes later, the vehicle and one dog, a Havanese named Princess, returned. Both unharmed. [Further details redacted.]

Launch Six: Vehicle disappeared, along with crew of three men. Seventeen minutes later, duplicate Princess appeared with neither crew nor vehicle. [Further details redacted.]

Launch Seven: Princess Two demonstrated unwillingness to enter vehicle for this launch, and had to be brought aboard in a carrier. Vehicle and Princess Two disappeared then reappeared nine hours later. Princess One and Princess Two were dissected. [Further details redacted.]

Sizable monetary expense and loss of crew was always a likelihood for this project, and has so far remained within the expected parameters. But examination of Dr. Lucas’s notes concerns about the personal motivations of herself and her crew. (This includes the theoretical “seeding” of a word into the English language sometime in the past for the purposes of winning a Scrabble game in 2023.) [Further details redacted.]

Status: Ongoing