Once accomplished, the discovery of time travel can no longer be canceled by any paradoxes: this is the core dogma of the Holy Church of the Chronotic Empire. Empires whose inhabitants tirelessly live the same life, turn after turn, within the temporal Node allotted to them, an Empire controlled by artificial intelligence, created by no one and accountable to no one. It seems that the well-being of the chronotic state is unshakable: after all, if all its competitors are content with hegemony over the earth’s surface in space, then the Empire achieved it in time, capturing an entire millennium. But if this is so, then why is the main competitor of the Empire separated from it in the future by a century of desolation on an Earth scorched by atomic wars? If so, then why on earth does the ancient sect of traumatists make cruel sacrifices to the enemy of all living things, hidden in the depths of the temporal sea? And if so, is the inventor of the time machine himself capable of turning the hierarchs of the religion he founded from the collision course?© FixedGrin