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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BlackJaw" data-source="post: 1132867" data-attributes="member: 888">Before I get into the whole idea, let me hit you with the back story bits in their current simplified timeline format...TimelineAncient times (pre-history through dark ages)Unsubstantiated tails abound of rare beasts, magic, and nature of heaven and hell.  Among the supposed powers that some people have is ability to teleport vast distances instantly, to summon strange beasts from the pits of hell, and to extend their mental forms into another world to commune with strange entities.  Wizards, witches and similar magicians are eventually “exterminated” during centuries of witch hunts.Project Sprung des Riesen (1938-1942)“Leap of the Giant” The Nazi fascination with the occult results in his support of “scientific and archeological” projects for secret weapons.  Based on an arcane text unearthed from ancient digs, the Nazis begin designs for a device to allow instant transport of troops, tanks, and aircrafts.  The project leader defects to the US when his heritage is questioned.Philadelphia project (1943)Using the Nazi plans, the US attempts to teleport a naval ship but the results are horrendous as people on the ship are left embedded in the hull, ripped apart, or missing all together.End of the World War II (1945)Allied and Soviet troops push into Nazi Germany and capture many key instillations.  The soviets then refuse to yield any of the territory captured during that war and claim as many Nazi research labs as they can.Project Ñåâåðíûé Ïðîõîä (1970s) (The Rusian text doesn't work correctly)“Northern Pass“ A remote Siberian outpost makes a mistake when testing a teleportation system intended for nuclear bomb delivery.  Of the nearly four dozen scientists and security troops present on the base, less ten survive the eight day wait for help. Fall of Communism (1989)The Soviet Union collapses, and many former scientist and professionals begin immigrating to other countries, including two surviving researchers from the Siberian outpost.International Space Station (2015)Graviton experiments are some of the earliest projects studied in the new space station’s labs.  Scientist of the time point out the advanced uses they may eventual provide in space propulsion.Encounter at Mars Base (2049)A supply craft destined for the fourteen year old Mars polar research facility is loaded with elite marine core troops after evidence of some sort of armed attack on the FLT engine laboratory reaches earth.  Five months latter the troops arrive on a deserted facility and find signs of carnage and slaughter.  None of the base’s staff or the troops sent to the base return, and the event is publicly referred to as catastrophic crash of the supply ship into the base.Science Vessel UES Prometheus Lost (2103)After two successful tests of the First Space Fold drive, the global press is invited to see a demonstration of the new drive system that would take mankind to the stars.  Unfortunately the third run did not go well, and the fully crewed vessel was lost in void.</blockquote>

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