[THE TOURISM BOARD IS ABOVE ALL]

[REGRESSION MACHINE]

‘Imagine, you could destroy any competitor without lifting a finger.

You can’t detect traces of the technology.

As far as we can tell it works but only on a specific location.

A…contractor of ours discovered an old CAMPIN research facility.

Hidden deep in the mountains, there was a broken portal and a barely functional thing called a Machine Mind.

One of the early attempts of the CAMPIN program to turn humans into drone workers.

We took it, rebuilt it and learned enough. Barely anything but enough to figure out three things.

One. The technology exists. Two, how to send someone back far enough.

Three. It works. There’s a reason the hidden facility was breaking down.

He targeted his own facility with a time travel weapon he called a Regression Machine. Dumb name.

So are you available for hire or not?

[Antares Cybenetics offering work contract to individual known as The Engineer. A counteroffer from Synapse Systems soon followed.]

Corporations on Belphus have deep set rivalry against each other. With the permission and blessing of the world government they alternate between marketing stunts and mild events of corporate sabotage.

An isolated, remote abandoned and heavily degraded CAMPIN research facility is discovered. Word spreads as multiple companies bid for the right to own newly discovered technology which has a single valid use.

The technology, when dropped back to a fixed point in time can degrade current technology and stagnate innovation.

A severe video game addict is given an opportunity to wipe his debts clean and a fresh start as long as he goes back to retrieve the original device as long as he undergoes a medical process to connect him to a weapons systems platform.

Experimental CAMPIN technology is applied to build Machine Minds, early prototypes of converted human consciousness into programmable intelligences.

A Private Mlitary Corporation plans to locate the original device first and sell it to the highest bidder.

Who will be the first to locate The Regression Machine?