4400-25,296 |
The time projector cannot emerge because it is enclosed by a
half mile high stone tetrahedron erected by Ixchulhi conquerors. |
25,296 |
Since the Ixchulhi wars, mathematical psychology has united the
Galactic Empire. Primitive landsmen at Sol. Barbarians
on the periphery and in the Magellanic Clouds. |
26,000 |
The pyramid has become a wooded hill. |
27,000 |
A small agricultural village. |
28,000 |
Men quarry the pyramid for stone. |
30,000 |
A small city has been built from the stones of the pyramid. |
31,000 |
The Solar Matriarchy pays tribute to the Empire which has
stopped expanding. |
34,000 |
The barbarians have moved in and the city has been destroyed. |
35,000 |
Peasant huts. |
36,000 |
The Empire declines. A small troop has been hired to defend
Earth. |
45,000 |
Maurco the Doomer, holding only three systems, is the last
Emperor anointed according to the proper forms. |
50,000 |
Saunders' time effect wins a space battle. Empire restored.
A rival sends Saunders onwards to prevent him from marrying Empress
Taury. |
60,000 |
Saunders stops the projector but salt
water seeps in. |
4 million years |
A city full of energies and a telepathic voice warning Saunders
that its forces will destroy him if he stays. |
100 million |
Snow. A being who agrees that he should go on. |
1 billion years |
Blue grass. A city that warns him away. The sea, then a
mountain, the sun changing and Earth spiralling towards it. |
100 billion |
The Sun is a red giant. |
Billions |
Darkness. The universe is dead. |
Many billions |
Light. The universe is reforming. |
Later. |
On a molten planet. |
Geological ages |
Rain on naked rock. Then seas, land, jungles. |
Millions. |
The Moon is recognisable. |
Later. |
He recognises the village. |
1936 |
He enters a bank and checks the date on a calender. |
1973 |
He returns, a little early. |
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