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would be answered in the process. causal seed. This technology identifies the most probable inter- Anne: Okay, then tell me what BST is. Given what the vention points and ranks their priority. It enables focus of the acronym stands for, I assume it means something like...wipe out —_ remaining technologies. an event and change the course of history...right? The fourth technology is related to the third. It's the scenario- Dr Anderson: Let me try to explain it this way. Time travel modelling technology. This technology helps to assess the vari- can be observational in nature. In this regard, the ACIO and other ous intervention points as to their least invasive ripple effects to organisations, even individual citizens, have the ability to time- the recipients; in other words, which intervention point—if travel. But this form of time travel is passive. It's not equivalent applied to a scenario model—produces the desired outcome with to BST. the least disruption to unrelated events. The scenario-modelling In order to precisely alter the future, you have to be able to technology is a key element of BST because, without it, BST interact with vertical time, paging through it like a book until you could cause significant disruption to a society or entire species. find the precise page or intervention point relevant to your mis- The fifth and most puzzling technology is the interactive time- sion. This is where it gets so complex, because to interact with travel technology. The Labyrinth Group has the first four tech- vertical time means you will alter the course of horizontal time. nologies in a ready state, waiting for the interactive time- travel And understanding the alterations and their scope and implication technology to become operational. This technology requires an requires extremely complex modelling. operative, or a team of operatives, to be able to physically move This is why the Labyrinth Group aligned itself with the into vertical time and be inserted in the precise space and time Corteum: its computing technology has pro- where the optimal intervention point has cessing capabilities that are about 3,200 been determined. From there, the operatives times more powerful than our best supercom- must perform a successful MRP and return puters. to their original time in order to validate This enables us to create organic, highly mission success. complex scenario models. T ese models tell The Corteum come from : Anne: I've been listening to this explana- us the most probable intervention points once . tion and I think I even understand some of we've gathered the relevant data, and what a planet that Is 15,000 it, but it sounds so surreal to me, Dr the most probable outcomes will be if we light years away. Anderson. I'm...I'm at a loss to explain how 3 invoke a specific scenario. I'm feeling right now. This is all so strange. Like most complex techno! ogies, BST isa and yet they can come It's so big...enormous...I can't believe this is carmel hevme esse | and go between their | crsuewecen te an Nant ht The first technology is a specialised form planet and our planet ried about balancing my checkbook and of remote viewing. This is the technol- 4 A A when my damn car would ever be ogy that enables a trained operative to In the time it takes us fixed... This is just too strange... mentally move into vertical time and to travel to the Moon— Dr Anderson: Maybe we should observe events and even listen to con- a mere 250 000 take another break and warm up our 3 miles away. versations related to an inquiry mode. coffee. The operative is invisible to all people Anne: Signing off for a coffee within the time they are travelling to, so reak... it's perfectly safe and unobtrusive. The (Break for about 10 minutes... intelligence gained from this technology Resume interview...) is used to determine the application of Anne: If the Labyrinth Group has the other four technologies. This is the four of the five technologies ready to equivalent of intelligence-gathering. go, and is only awaiting the interactive The second technology that is key to art, they must have scenario models BST is the equivalent of a memory implant. The ACIO refers to _ and intervention points already established for how they plan to this technology as a Memory Restructure Procedure, or MRP. deal with this alien race. Do they? MRP is the technology that allows a memory to be precisely elim- Dr Anderson: Yes. They have about 40 scenario models and inated in the horizontal time sequence and anew memory inserted _ perhaps as many as five to eight intervention points defined. in its place. The new memory is welded to the existing memory Anne: And if there are that many, there must be a priority structure of the recipient. established. What's the most probable scenario model? You see, events—small and large—occur from a single Dr Anderson: I will be brief on this point because it's such thought, which becomes a persistent memory, which in turn classified information that only the 14x personnel and Fifteen becomes a causal energy centre that leads the development and know this. My classification is 12x, and so I get diluted reports materialisation of the thought into reality...into horizontal time. and quite possibly misinformation with regard to our scenario- MRP can remove the initial thought and thereby eliminate the per- modelling. sistent memory that causes events to occur. About all I can tell you is that we know—from both the prophe- The third technology consists of defining the intervention point. cies and our remote-viewing technology—a significant amount of In every major decision, there are hundreds if not thousands of information about this race. For example, we know that it hails intervention points in horizontal time as a thought unfolds and from a galaxy that our Hubble telescope has examined as thor- moves through its development phase. However, in vertical time, oughly as possible, and we've charted it as extensively as possible. there is only one intervention point, or what we sometimes called We know that it is 2.6 million light years away and that the the "causal seed". In other words, if you can access vertical time species is a synthetic race: a mixture of genetic creation and tech- intelligence, you can identify the intervention point that is the nology. It possesses a hive mentality, but individual initiative is a planet that is 15,000 light years away, and yet they can come and go between their planet and our planet in the time it takes us miles away. APRIL — MAY 1999 NEXUS - 53 to travel to the Moon— a mere 250,000