In an alternate version of 2017, the corporation Galston Agriculture developed seed-C589, a genetically modified seed designed to extract more nutrients from the soil. At first it was believed that the impact of asteroid Helios-685 was the primary cause, but the future remained essentially unchanged after the Travelers successfully deflected it. Over the centuries Earth has become uninhabitable due to the mistakes of humankind. You have two people that want the same thing, the two people fight over the one, and then there's none.' - Simon

This was a largely unknown fact up until this episode as Protocol 2 disallowed any talk about the future in the Present 'keep the future in the past'. This means that all the Travelers come from the year 2448 or further. We know from Grace Day (0027) in Protocol Omega that the Travelers program began with the arrival of 001 from 431 years in the future. In 2068, Robert Fraser discovers a new element which proves essential to the creation of a room-temperature superconductor used in quantum computing. Anna is eight years old as of 2017, therefore it is assumed that the election could not have been sooner than 2044 if the age requirement for President set by the United States Constitution has not been altered in the future. The country is said to have been torn apart by the election. This event was seemingly prevented by the Travelers as well when Andrew Graham mathematically proved the engine's catastrophic side effect.Īnna Hamilton is elected 53rd President of the United States by a slim margin her opponent is described by Grant MacLaren as 'another old white guy' (who in fact wins the election in an alternate timeline). However, the first use of the device resulted in a gamma ray burst that wiped out 1.4 billion people within hours and stripped away the Earth's ozone. The year 2038 saw the creation of the first singularity engine. It would not be built for another 19 years.Ī chemical compound designed to combat heroin addiction is invented at some point in the late 2030s.

The engine is a device capable of harnessing the rotational movement of a gravitational singularity - a power source that is 29 percent efficient, orders of magnitude greater than power source currently in existence. Samantha Myers and Amanda Burns (originally casualties from the impact) published research on the singularity engine later in 2018. In the timeline wherein the Helios disaster never occurred, Drs. The Director's initial version of the Grand Plan was centralized around preventing the impact, which the Travelers accomplished. The impact resulted in massive tidal waves Philip Pearson uses the simile 'like a Helios tidal wave' to describe emotion reaction to a drug overdose in Room 101. In an alternate version of 2018, an asteroid designated Helios-685 collided with Earth, killing nearly 91 million four hundred sixty-two thousand people. ( Ilsa) The shelters themselves resembled glass geodesic domes, which would allow sunlight to penetrate before they were completely covered by ice. ( Protocol Omega) The recycled water had been recycled 10,000 times. MacLaren recounts to Carly that the shelters were barely heated by failing nuclear reactors, and survivors subsided on a diet of yeast and recycled water. ( Protocol Omega)īy the year 2449, the remnants of humanity live in underground shelters. The survivors waged war over the remains of civilization which lead to the use of nuclear weapons and winter from the fallout. This resulted in mass death, governmental collapse, and the loss of resources.

Climate change became irreversible, which lead to mass migrations, severe overpopulation in urban centers, famine, and ancient diseases that were released from beneath receding polar ice-diseases for which humans had no immunity.

6.8 #2.01 : First Version 2 Timeline (Protocol Omega)Īccording to the history Grant MacLaren knew before being sent back in time, the 2010's and 2020's were the turning point for the eventual collapse of society.

6.7 #1.06 : Director Absent Timeline (Protocol Omega).

6.6 #1.05 : 001 Override Timeline (Protocol Omega).

6.5 #1.04 : Refuel and Cooperation Timeline (U-235 to Protocol Omega).

6.4 #1.03 : Director Reset and Shutdown Timeline (Grace - U235).6.3 #1.02 : Post Helios Aversion Timeline (Protocol 5 - Marcy).6.2 #1.01 : Pre Helios Aversion Timeline (Travelers - Helios 685).

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