Destiny's Spacemage (Imperium Spacemage Book 9) by Timothy Ellis

Author:Timothy Ellis [Ellis, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-25T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty Six

“What else is on your list?”

“If you want easy, there’s a hundred billion people to choose from before the time line shift.”

“I’m not sure that classifies as easy. We’re on the shifted side. I was able to hold onto people during the shift itself, but I’m not at all sure I can go back in time before the shift. Just back in time after the shift.”

Her eyes crossed, and I chuckled, which she then did as well.

“So instead of easy, you’d prefer uncomplicated?”

“Uncomplicated should be easy.”

“You hope.”

“I do.”

“Okay. The obvious candidates are the Hercules and Goliath crews.”

“Too high tech. But remind me where they ended up?”

“I wouldn’t consider them high tech. Middling tech at best. Hercules was found underwater on Atlantis, and Goliath broke her back on a huge asteroid in the War system. And if you could go back before the shift, Prometheus was found in the Death system. So all three crews would fit your parameters.”

“But as I said, too high tech.”

“How do you define high tech then, in this context?”

I thought about it.

“Space travel. Air craft. Anything later than sailing ships.”

“So super low tech then.”

“I guess you could say that. Nothing more advanced knowledge wise than the mages we just put there.”

“That cuts out a lot. The two histories are fairly similar up until the twenty first century, during which they diverged radically.”

“I did pay attention in midshipman history lessons.”

Her look suggested I hadn’t, but I ignored her.

“So a lot of the groups which went missing are the same on both sides of the shift. As well as a lot of individuals. But there isn’t a lot of history to rifle through though. Less than six thousand years of actual records, and for what you want, a lot of that is more myth than fact.”

“Such as?”

“Various sailing ships found with no crews on them. A few colonies which just vanished. Several civilizations which also vanished, but left behind some evidence that baffled historians, usually indicating someone killed them off, or especially in one case, they probably killed themselves. There was one city which was supposedly destroyed by a nuclear explosion more than a thousand years before atomics were discovered. Most of these are myths, with just a hint of evidence, but not enough to know anything.”

“So you want to visit each one and find out what really happened?”

“How much time do you want to waste on this?”

“Waste?”

“We could spend a whole day mucking around trying to find the exact time of the disappearance of each myth, and when we do, we find the explanation was both a letdown, and that the bodies were found by someone, meaning they were not actually vanishing, just not recorded as dead.”

“And if the bodies were not found when they were supposed to, then history gets changed.”

“Exactly. Is it worth trying to chase down myths? Or is there a better way of doing it?”

I gave her the look. The one which says you’re holding back. She laughed for a moment.

“You have an idea?” I asked her.

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