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Thanks, Bill for the feedback. It was just something I threw together for no purpose whatsoever. I was just in a very rare creative mood.

I will change it to Admiral Hirihito.

Jim

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> Very creative and very promising story!
>
> However, you may want to substitute "Emperor Hirihito",
> "General Tojo" or "Admiral Yamamoto" for "Mao-Tse-Tung", since
> Mao was the Communist Chinese leader who opposed the Japanese.
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> Of course, maybe you have more back-story to write as to why
> the Japanese came to revere Mao, in which case it should be the
> "Japanese Red Army" rather than the "Japanese Imperial Army".
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> 1. History of the Time Repair Agency (jdunaway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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> Subject: [Chrononauts] History of the Time Repair Agency
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> Ever wonder how the Time Repair Agency came into being? Well,
> wonder no more...
>
> History of the Time Repair Agency
>
>
>
> In the year 2184 an American team of Archeologists
> discovered a secret room underneath the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
>
>
>
> Within this room was a large, strange-looking cylindrical
> chamber which glowed eerily. Along one wall of the room was an
> object that
> vaguely resembled a control console from an old Sci-Fi TV show.
> The chamber and
> the object, along with several lines of what appeared to be
> fiber-optic tubing
> connecting the two, were painstakingly removed and transported
> to a top-secret
> research facility for study.
>
>
>
> After many, many years of intense study, the true function
> of the chamber was discovered: Time
> Travel.
>
>
>
> With the early 22nd century invention of the
> transforometer and transforometer physics, creating a duplicate
> of the Time
> Chamber, as it came to be known, and its control and support
> systems, became
> possible. After many difficult and trying years - and numerous
> failures - the
> Time Chamber became a reality. The applications are staggering.
> A whole new
> form of tourism came into being. For a considerable fee, a �Time
> Tourist� could
> go back in time and witness historical events first hand.
>
>
>
> Holding to the theory that the past could not be changed, no
> one paid much attention to the non-interference clause in the
> contract that
> everyone was required to sign prior to departure.
>
>
>
> Suddenly, without warning, tourists returning to the present
> found an entirely different world than the one they had left. As
> they stepped
> out of the Time Chamber, they were immediately apprehended by
> soldiers of the
> Japanese Imperial Army. Apprehended, interrogated, and
> imprisoned. They where
> shipped off to Ellis Island, where an even
> greater shock awaited them. As they flew over New York Harbor,
> the prisoners were stunned into silence. For rising from its
> base on Liberty Island was not their beloved Statue of Liberty,
> but a grotesque statue of Mao Tse-Tung.
>
>
>
> What had happened? Someone had gone back in time to 1943 and
> somehow prevented the creation of the atomic bomb. As a result,
> Japan went on
> to conquer the world.
>
>
>
> Many years went by. Those who remembered the true history of
> the world began to get together and plan how to return to 1945
> and set history
> straight. Revolution occurred. Many people died, entire families
> wiped from
> existence. Eventually, �The Few� as the revolutionaries called
> themselves,managed to gain control of a Time Chamber. A small
> team of former elite Special
> Forces returned to 1945 and prevented the lone assassin from
> sabotaging the
> Manhattan Project, thereby restoring the timeline. Those who
> died during the
> revolution were mourned and remembered only by �The Few�.In
> every revolution, heroes are born. A former NASA
> scientist by the name of Andy Looney became the hero of the
> revolution that
> never happened, for he did not return from the past empty-
> handed. He had
> brought back artifacts which, when studied by the same team of
> scientists and
> engineers who had studied and re-created the original Time
> Chamber, offered
> incontrovertible proof that the timeline had indeed been altered
> and somehow
> miraculously restored.
>
>
>
> Numerous high-level meetings with top government officials
> followed with many debates, more often heated than not, about
> how to prevent
> any more changes to the timeline. An immediate ban on all time
> travel was
> strictly enforced.
>
>
>
> With the exception of the prototype, all Time Chambers were
> shut down. Key components, without which the Time Chambers could
> not function,
> were removed and stored in top secret, highly guarded government
> vaults at
> undisclosed locations.
>
>
>
> But that wasn�t enough. How did anyone know if and when the
> timeline was altered?
>
>
>
> When the original timeline had been altered, the only people
> who knew about the alteration were those who were in the past
> when the timeline
> skewed. �The Few� were located and brought in for detailed
> study. Some were
> outfitted with extremely sophisticated sensor arrays and
> recording devices,
> then sent on several trips through time.
>
>
>
> When the sensor data was analyzed it was discovered that the
> travelers where surrounded by a cocoon made up of as-yet-unidentified
> particles. These particles where analyzed further and eventually
> a device was
> created that could generate and control them. The
> �chronomagnetic� cocoon could
> only be made large enough to surround a small building. Attempts
> made to overlap
> two cocoons resulted in the destruction of an entire lab and the
> unfortunatedeaths of all those within the lab when the two
> cocoons canceled each other out
> violently.
>
>
>
> Back to square one.
>
>
>
> After many more meetings, it was decided that a special agency,
> answering only to the Department of Justice, would be formed to
> monitor the
> timeline and repair any alterations. This agency would be housed
> in a recently
> completed, self-sustaining building that would be protected by a
> cocoon and
> manned by former military and law enforcement personnel. A
> director was
> appointed and the Time Repair Agency was born.
>
> (this is just a short story I wrote during some downtime at work
> - no copyright infringement is intended)
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