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out of the shadows and into the night
Apr. 10th, 2006 11:24 amApril 10, 2006
Technological Intelligence Movement Monitoring (Foliage Census) Secured Facility
Three Miles Underground
Somewhere Outside Chevy Chase, MD
The report, when it came, was twenty pages long. Every entry in it was cross-indexed, correlated, and neatly summarized. There were photographs. There were video still frames. There were documents from the Patent Office. There were illegally obtained emails. Red had watched every second of the existing Stantz footage minutely, read every document, and analyzed the ever-loving daylights out of it all.
Right now, Jannot was reading the executive summary.
In the past two years Dr. Raymond Stantz has obtained patents for unprecedented power cell technologies, impossibly advanced techniques in crystallography, weapons-grade laser shielding, atomic accelerator shielding techniques, particle beam generation devices, and several preliminary types of standing energy field generators. There has been no corresponding increase of any kind in his purchase of the necessary parts or resources for the development of these technologies. Neither has there been any form of precedence in existing technologies to which he could reasonably be expected to have access, with the exception of the laser shielding, which his own documentation admits was inspired by medical-grade laser shielding already in use in hospitals in 2004.
More disturbing are the technologies Dr. Stantz possesses that he has not attempted to patent. Despite the size of the potential market for stable high-speed four-legged robotic walkers, he has shown no signs of attempting to duplicate the robotic 'dog' that recently began making appearances in the vicinity of 14 North Moore Street. Neither have any of the associated internal systems appeared in the Patent Office's files. Similarly, no attempt has been registered anywhere to market the systematic improvements that have taken place to the performance of his company vehicle, despite the undeniably large customer base for high-performance engines capable of moving a vehicle of that weight at the speeds and turning radii covered on Disc 7.
Jannot had watched that section of Disc 7 several times. There was no way he would have given it credit if he didn't know it had bee taken from an ordinary traffic-cam that had never been hacked or altered.
It was the next part of the summary that he found truly hard to swallow.
No blame should adhere to my predecessor on this case. I believe that the reason O'Connell was unable to trace the roots of Dr. Stantz's technological innovations is because they do not have any- in our time, at any rate. There is very little indication in any journal or paper that he has actually developed any of this material himself. The K-14 power cell patents in particular bear suspicious hallmarks of 'reverse engineering' from a far more efficient model.
It is my personal belief, supported by the evidence of this report, that Dr. Raymond Stantz has access to some form of time travel device and has been using it to filch material from the future that supports his own somewhat unclear ends. Careful study of the material on disc 41-
There hadn't been a Disc 41 before. Jannot frowned and dropped the disc into his computer. Moments later the footage began to roll- security camera images from the American Museum of Natural History's entrance area. It took him a moment to pick Stantz's face out of the crowd.
-correlation of the timestamps for Dr. Stantz's entrance to the museum, his path through the Museum, and the A9138.mov file in particular-
A9138.mov was digitized handheld camera footage. Jannot stared at the sight that had the Museum scientists clearly squealing like girls.
-the juvenile Deinonychus corpse could not possibly have been produced through any genetic means currently known to science or in development at any corporation or university. This agency would know if such cloning technology existed, and it doesn't. The later files from the Museum indicate the corpse's morphology is too similar to fossils of the Cretaceous to be a survivor species; evolutionary changes would have taken place over the span of millennia. The corpse is not the only evidence of living dinosaurian specimens in the possession of AMNH scientists, according to emails from-
Recently deceased dinosaurs. Specimens of dinosaur shit with pollen grains and protein strains completely unobtainable in the modern world. Sealed Petri dishes containing what turned out to be spittle. They were all documented and attested to by scientists who had no clue that their words were being read by outside eyes. It was, Jannot had found, the easiest way to get honest information out of people.
Dr. Stantz is the only person who appears on the Museum's security cameras every time such a specimen has fallen into the Museum's hands. He is already known for the use and production of what ought to be scientifically impossible technology. It is my contention that the simplest explanation of the gaps in our surveillance lies in time-travel technology. Dr. Stantz has the use of it somehow. He uses it to obtain devices from the future, unravel their secrets, and make himself and his colleagues both prosperous and unacceptably dangerous. His jaunts into the past are some form of perverted amusement at the expense of the paleontological community. Either way, he's far, far outside the normal spectrum of scientific development. In the interests of national security, either that time machine ought to be in our hands- or he should.
Jannot leaned back and considered the report for a long, long time.
Technological Intelligence Movement Monitoring (Foliage Census) Secured Facility
Three Miles Underground
Somewhere Outside Chevy Chase, MD
The report, when it came, was twenty pages long. Every entry in it was cross-indexed, correlated, and neatly summarized. There were photographs. There were video still frames. There were documents from the Patent Office. There were illegally obtained emails. Red had watched every second of the existing Stantz footage minutely, read every document, and analyzed the ever-loving daylights out of it all.
Right now, Jannot was reading the executive summary.
In the past two years Dr. Raymond Stantz has obtained patents for unprecedented power cell technologies, impossibly advanced techniques in crystallography, weapons-grade laser shielding, atomic accelerator shielding techniques, particle beam generation devices, and several preliminary types of standing energy field generators. There has been no corresponding increase of any kind in his purchase of the necessary parts or resources for the development of these technologies. Neither has there been any form of precedence in existing technologies to which he could reasonably be expected to have access, with the exception of the laser shielding, which his own documentation admits was inspired by medical-grade laser shielding already in use in hospitals in 2004.
More disturbing are the technologies Dr. Stantz possesses that he has not attempted to patent. Despite the size of the potential market for stable high-speed four-legged robotic walkers, he has shown no signs of attempting to duplicate the robotic 'dog' that recently began making appearances in the vicinity of 14 North Moore Street. Neither have any of the associated internal systems appeared in the Patent Office's files. Similarly, no attempt has been registered anywhere to market the systematic improvements that have taken place to the performance of his company vehicle, despite the undeniably large customer base for high-performance engines capable of moving a vehicle of that weight at the speeds and turning radii covered on Disc 7.
Jannot had watched that section of Disc 7 several times. There was no way he would have given it credit if he didn't know it had bee taken from an ordinary traffic-cam that had never been hacked or altered.
It was the next part of the summary that he found truly hard to swallow.
No blame should adhere to my predecessor on this case. I believe that the reason O'Connell was unable to trace the roots of Dr. Stantz's technological innovations is because they do not have any- in our time, at any rate. There is very little indication in any journal or paper that he has actually developed any of this material himself. The K-14 power cell patents in particular bear suspicious hallmarks of 'reverse engineering' from a far more efficient model.
It is my personal belief, supported by the evidence of this report, that Dr. Raymond Stantz has access to some form of time travel device and has been using it to filch material from the future that supports his own somewhat unclear ends. Careful study of the material on disc 41-
There hadn't been a Disc 41 before. Jannot frowned and dropped the disc into his computer. Moments later the footage began to roll- security camera images from the American Museum of Natural History's entrance area. It took him a moment to pick Stantz's face out of the crowd.
-correlation of the timestamps for Dr. Stantz's entrance to the museum, his path through the Museum, and the A9138.mov file in particular-
A9138.mov was digitized handheld camera footage. Jannot stared at the sight that had the Museum scientists clearly squealing like girls.
-the juvenile Deinonychus corpse could not possibly have been produced through any genetic means currently known to science or in development at any corporation or university. This agency would know if such cloning technology existed, and it doesn't. The later files from the Museum indicate the corpse's morphology is too similar to fossils of the Cretaceous to be a survivor species; evolutionary changes would have taken place over the span of millennia. The corpse is not the only evidence of living dinosaurian specimens in the possession of AMNH scientists, according to emails from-
Recently deceased dinosaurs. Specimens of dinosaur shit with pollen grains and protein strains completely unobtainable in the modern world. Sealed Petri dishes containing what turned out to be spittle. They were all documented and attested to by scientists who had no clue that their words were being read by outside eyes. It was, Jannot had found, the easiest way to get honest information out of people.
Dr. Stantz is the only person who appears on the Museum's security cameras every time such a specimen has fallen into the Museum's hands. He is already known for the use and production of what ought to be scientifically impossible technology. It is my contention that the simplest explanation of the gaps in our surveillance lies in time-travel technology. Dr. Stantz has the use of it somehow. He uses it to obtain devices from the future, unravel their secrets, and make himself and his colleagues both prosperous and unacceptably dangerous. His jaunts into the past are some form of perverted amusement at the expense of the paleontological community. Either way, he's far, far outside the normal spectrum of scientific development. In the interests of national security, either that time machine ought to be in our hands- or he should.
Jannot leaned back and considered the report for a long, long time.
