The timeline is immutable.
The Pacific-based Maurai Federation, forming during the twenty-first century, will become the ruling world power for three or four centuries but Caleb Wallis, founder of the Eyrie, an organization of time travellers based in North America in the twenty-first century, hopes to bring about the eventual restoration of white supremacy.
Can Wallis travel far enough into the future to confirm or disconfirm the restoration of white supremacy? He can travel into the further future but society and indeed the entire Earth have by that time become so unlike anything previously experienced by Wallis or by anyone else that he has to interpret what he sees and can only hope that his favoured white race really does wield power behind the scenes. Nor can he spend too much time trying to understand that further future because most of his finite lifespan must be devoted to just the first phase of his plan, covering two hundred years of the history of the Eyrie before it moves from its original stronghold to a more powerful underground base elsewhere. The time travelling Wallis meets his very old self at the end of Phase One and does not have much time left for any further explorations.
This demonstrates the limits of the knowledge even of a time traveller.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Nonsensical ideological motivations of any kind like this are absurd. Caleb Wallis should have been satisfied with building up the Eyrie into a reasonably halfway decent state and society.
Ad astra! Sean
Well, 19th-century dreamers tended to dream grandly: that's why they accomplished so much. Cecil Rhodes comes to mind, or for that matter Andrew Carnegie. Not to mention Bismarck.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
And I admire that kind of grand dreaming! Esp. when compared to the "dreams" of our wretched, decadent age.
I'm glad we still have some big dreamers, such as Elon Musk.
Ad astra! Sean
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