Eschaton by Andrew Hastie

Author:Andrew Hastie [Hastie, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1916474705
Publisher: Here Be Dragons Ltd
Published: 2018-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The reactor sat in the middle of a vast chamber. A large iron sphere surrounded by metal cylinders with wires and pipes winding out across the floor.

Bartholomew’s men had already taken out the guards who lay unconscious on the floor, their arms and legs bound together and their mouths gagged. Killing them wasn’t an option he’d explained before they left; this mission was to have a zero impact on the timeline.

‘Levels at thirty millisieverts and rising,’ reported one of the team, holding up the Geiger counter.

‘We have less than thirty minutes,’ warned Bartholomew, ‘let’s get this over with.’

The others began to scour the room, rifling through documents and journals looking for anything that directly referred to Schumann.

‘What happened to them after the war?’ asked Caitlin, as she walked around the reactor.

‘Operation ALSOS — in 11.945 the allies seized anything to do with the Nazi nuclear weapon project, including materials and personnel. Most were caught at Hechingen and shipped off to England.’

‘Why?’

‘To keep it out of the hands of the Russians. It was ground-breaking technology, and they all wanted a piece of it.’

‘And Schumann?’

‘That depends on the outcome. In this timeline he’s ridiculed as an incompetent, in another alternate he’s a hero whose weapon brings the western world to its knees before the Third Reich.’

‘And how do we make sure that doesn’t happen?’ asked Josh.

‘We find the reason and protect it.’

One of the team handed Bartholomew a well-thumbed journal, which he began to flick through. ‘It appears that Heisenberg has made more progress than he’s been reporting to his boss.’ He held up the page for them to see. ‘These calculations go far beyond the formula for Nuclear fission. They’re the basis of quantum mechanics, so whatever Heisenberg was developing it was more than a nuclear weapon.’

‘Forty millisieverts,’ intoned one of the team.

‘We need to go,’ Bartholomew said, moving to put the journal into his rucksack.

‘Aren’t you going to follow it?’ Josh asked, putting his hand on the book.

Bartholomew shook his head. ‘We recover the evidence. There’s a whole department back at base who need to analyse it and determine the best course of action.’

‘I don’t think we have time for that,’ Josh said, opening its timeline.

‘But the protocol dictates…’

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