A parallel Earth of 2008 . History of this Earth is very similar to the one we experience today up until the 9/11. No one has destroyed the towers on this Earth.However,massive population growth in China becomes unbereable as no law exists that allows one child per person. The Chinese government is forced to start populating Siberia which enrages the Russians who threaten a nuclear response if the former does not stop sending their troops onto Russian soil. India is beginning to suffer from overpopulation as well and threatens Pakistan with nuclear annihilation if the latter does not stop its radical Islamic government from warmongering. This stirs up the Middle east which causes the isolasionist policy of North America to be nullified as Iran threatens Israel with obliteration. Diplomatic efforts bring no results and separationists in various regions of the planet take advantage of the situation and bomb the UN building in New York as a sign of common cause among them. Before anyone can do anything, Russia loses patience. ICBMs are exchanged around the planet with no one knowing anymore what is going on. Every group that has access to any kind of missile technology uses them : terrorist groups, religious whackos, individual countries, power-hungry billionaires..it is a total laissez-faire.

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There are also groups around the world who have been considered ‘’delusional’’ for a long time and have kept building massive underground shelters. There even has been a project involving a space arc but it is abandoned.

These groups are the only ones who have managed to survive the inferno on the surface. In an ultimate twist of fate, the delusional become the sane ones. After circa six months, different groups have started commmunicating with other cells around the planet. The overall population of the known groups combined has been estimated at circa ‘’twenty thousand individuals worldwide’’ level. No one even dares to go above the ground.

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Year 2553. Time travel technology has been developed. The Earth is now what Michio Kaku would dub a ‘’Type Two civilization’’ meaning humans have colonized a couple of solar systems and utilize the sun’s energy by directly interactin with it. Despite sounding utopian, human civilization is very much dystopian and has been ever since the mayhem of 2008. What has become a necessity back then, has turned into a way of life after five hundred years.  A group of dissidents plans to create  another, parallel universe. The universe where history is much different. In 2553 it has been well-established that time travel relies upon Occam’s razor . There are an infinite number of universes in existence. Thus, anything that can happen, does happen. Going further, time travel is simply moving via different dimensions where outcomes tend to differ due to various factors. If so, the dissidents want to use the machine in their possession to save as many genius minds as possible throughout the millenia : the mystery behind the brain is still there. Why ten percent only ? Even in 2553 people have not been able to find the answer. Time travel is strictly prohibited , it can only be done by mind-controlled zombies who will not rebel and decide to escape. The dissidents possess the technology which allows them to see the outcome of tampering with the timeline ; they also possess the device capable of scanning the thought patterns of the population and determining who can be classified as a ‘’genius.’’ The principle the dissidents utilize is very simple : let us assume that person A is about to be drafted and sent to Vietnam. It is known to the dissidents that person A is very gifted when it comes to astronomy. Unfortunately, no one ever recognizes fact as he is turned into cannon fodder and dies in Vietnam. The dissidents then determine if the person A is important to the timeline by projecting a simulation of a new timeline in which the person A has gone before being drafted to Vietnam. If the verdict is ‘’timeline unchanged’’ then the person A is ‘’snatched’’ from his reality to that of the dissidents. Still, it is not even the same reality but a very close one – the dissidents left from one reality and will have arrived in another one, whereas some other group of dissidents is likely to take their place. By saving the brilliant minds the dissidents want to uncover the mystery behind the brain’s full capacity as well as finding out what the timeline would be like if these individuals were returned to their realities with proper ‘’tools’’ to survive and flourish unharmed.