JG Enterprises, Inc.
Time Travel
Over the past several years, JG Enterprises has developed many different time machines. Time Travel was at one time JG's strongpoint, but in recent years, time travel has been cut back on in order to prevent damaging the Space-Time Continuum.
One Large Step For Time Travel
The first of JG's time machines was built out of a washing machine and a dryer. It worked quite well, but kept breaking down and falling apart. Plus, on top of that, the vibration of the machine could often cause indigestion. It could carry three to four passengers, and got three months to the gallon. It had a jury-rigged plutonium core that it used to warp the Space-Time Continuum. Overall, it was a pile of junk and a disaster waiting to happen. After two months service, the vehicle was scrapped. But it did its job well and paved the way for a much better type of vehicle.
Practice Makes Perfect.
The prototype washer-dryer time machine, with all its faults and danger, served its purpose well, for a few months after it was scrapped, the engineering was being applied to a new generation of vehicles. An advanced time travel system was developed. The prototype had basically a large globe of Plutonium that powered a temporal reactor that, when engaged, would warp the fabric of Space-Time, and allow the craft to jump from one point in time to another almost instantaneously. In the new model, the plutonium core was replaced with a temporal initiator. It was hooked to the temporal reactor, and the rest functioned nearly the same way as the prototype did. The prototype for this reactor system was developed. The vehicle was a revolutionary machine, and the next generation was to be based off its design.
THE BETTER TIME MACHINE
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The Amusement Park Ride That Changed History.
(Above) JG Time Machine, port profile
The new generation of time machines were aesthetic, safe, reliable, and able to hold several passengers. Yes, JG's Time Division was setting up an amusement park style attraction in which passengers could travel back to the age of the Dinosaurs, and then ahead to the future to marvel at the technology. Of course, the future was carefully monitored so that the passengers couldn't see much of anything in particular and thus cause damage to the outcome of future events. But it was the thrill of it that was intended to attract potential time travelers. But the vehicle itself was perhaps the most important part of it. The vehicle had to look like a tour vehicle. The vehicle itself was designed off an amusement park tour vehicle where they put a bunch of people into an oversized golf cart-like vehicle and drive them around pointing out attractions to the left and to the right. This was the basic concept. Except that it wasn't open air. The passenger compartment had to be pressurized. Passengers would see the surroundings via a large screen in the foreword passenger compartment. The image would be relayed to the screen via cameras mounted on the vehicle's exterior. Two pilots would command the vehicle from the cockpit foreword of the passenger compartment. The vehicle was approximately ten feet long, seven high, four wide, and could carry four passengers at a time along with the two pilots. It traveled on a set of hoverpads and had a set of three fold-down landing gear installed for setting the craft down. Also, in addition to the six passenger model, a two passenger "Time Pod" was in use. It was simply a scaled down version of the larger model and used for scientific expeditions. A ten passenger model was used for all of three months before it was decommissioned after having been deemed "A less than useful investment" by the Board of Directors. It was too large to be of much use.
All in all, the Time Travel Tour Program was quite successful in the long run. But recently it was decided to shut the program down due to a few security leaks and other dangers that could result in severe damage to the Space-Time Continuum. But JG continues to run its time machines privately, often only six trips per year. They are usually for scientific purposes, and little of their work is ever published.
JG continues to be at the top of the Time Machine industry, in this year or any other.
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This page engaged 8 July 1999.
Last updated 14 November 2002.
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