Shedding Some Light on the Prophecy
Amos: Thanks for stoppin' by on such short notice.
Amos: Ravenna? We heard you are a time traveler from the original world.
Ravenna: Yeah... I guess you could put it that way.
Amos: Here, have a look at these scrolls.
Ravenna: These are the same as at Grady's place!
Amos: You appeared in the ruins of the great ship and don't match the genetics of any known modern humans.
Amos: Do you know about what the legend says?
Ravenna: Yeah. Apparently my mother was the "angel" in the story.
Ravenna: I still don't get a lot of it.
Amos: To sum it up, someone took steps to make sure this legend survived Zetsfir's attempt to erase it.
Amos: Whoever did that was able to travel through time in order to know what would happen up until you arrived.
Ravenna: If that's true, that means... it was probably by using the V-CORE!
Amos: Unfortunately, they also knew what happened to your world.
Ravenna: Dr. Maxwell said that my planet's star system is missing from where it's supposed to be.
Ravenna: Does that mean... THAT's the result of the "calamity"?
Ravenna: So... even if I got back home... just how long would we have before...?
Pleione: Dad... you're scaring her...
Ravenna: I'm okay. Whatever happened could have been hundreds of years later.
Amos: If time travel is involved, then there's even more to it than that.
Eris: The research is very limited but we have a small underground organization here on Goliath working on something.
Eris: Some experiments are being conducted right now to confirm the existence of parallel worlds.
Ravenna: You've lost me. What does that have to do with time travel?
Eris: It's why we called Dr. Maxwell and his daughter to attend the conference.
Eris: We've determined that the 5-D gates allow more than just movement in higher spatial dimensions.
Eris: Ostensibly, these higher dimensions accessed by the gates can also be temporal.
Ravenna: Uhhhh.... still not quite getting what you're driving at.
Eris: 5-D gates aren't just wormholes and the V-CORE does more than generate those.
Eris: It allows more than simple time travel, too. What I mean is that, theoretically, it allows movement across world lines.
Ravenna: World lines... like, alternate timelines? Alternate histories?
Eris: Exactly. This is the true purpose of the legend. It's to let believers know that it's possible.
Ravenna: I wonder if Pop knew about this.
Malachi: It's all theoretical, though, right?
Pleione: Although our official purpose is to obtain or re-create a V-CORE in order to reach Zetsfir's domain...
Pleione: We were also commissioned to forward our findings here for research into the broader time travel applications.
Ravenna: If that's successful, not only can I go back home but we could check other timelines for ways to avert the disaster.
Pleione: It's at least a possibility. We just need to know more about how the V-CORE actually works.
Ravenna: Do we have any more leads on how to get our hands on one?
Saja: Supposedly, there are other copies around the world.
Amos: One possible location is in the Ice Plains, near the South Pole of Kaperth.
Amos: We've been told that a duplicate was built and hidden in that area a few hundred years ago.
Saja: The Kadmasian government's abandoned project!
Amos: Kadmas did have an outpost in the Ice Plains quite some time ago.
Saja: Why would they abandon such a thing, if it's true?
Malachi: I say we at least have a look around there, then.
Amos: By the way, Dr. Maxwell told me he wants to meet up with all of you in town.
Malachi: I guess we should head into town, then.
