Where did it come from?
The Quantum Recliner, actually first appeared on the Variance Space Station, a hotspot for a variety of Abnormality Objecrt appearances. The recliner first appeared in the den of an elderly retiree, who found it one evening sitting directly next to his actual recliner.
The two looked almost identical, and the man had a tough time discerning which was which. However, being a resident of the Variance he knew full well what the recliner likely was. But, the real question was. What did the recliner do? Bored with nothing better to do the man decided to test the recliner out.
What does it do?
The initial tests run by the man were cautious at first, he sat in the chair and nothing happened. He spent a few hours reading in the chair and nothing happened. No increased reading abilities, no amazing abilities of relaxation, and sadly no regeneration of youth. Nothing. In fact, it was a fairly uncomfortable chair to boot. On and on went his tests, until he was left with no choice but to test the one thing he had been too nervous to try. Pulling the recliner's recline lever.
The man took his place sitting on the recline, took a deep breath and pulled the lever....nothing happened. The man sighed and leaned back, the recliner shifting backwards now that the lever had been pulled. And the moment the recliner had reclined, it and the man vanished in a puff of musty-smelling air.
In just a moment the man found himself on his roof. Luckily the roof was flat and the recliner didn't move about or begin the fall. The man scratched his head, he supposed it was a neat effect but travelling only a few feet wasn't of much use to him. Not having anyone to call on and not having the strength to get down from his roof, he sat down once more and reclined, hoping that the recliner would warp back into place. Sadly, it did not, instead the recliner warped down the street. Though thankfully not on any roof.
At a loss as to what to do, the man tried to push the recliner home but didn't have much strength to do so. A passing man who had seen the event stopped the elder man and offered to take the recliner off his hands. For a modest sum. Flustered the elder man accepted the offer, wanting nothing to do with the annoying recliner anymore. It was a nuisance he thought. And while the man received a nice payout for a recliner, it was nowhere near its true value.
In reality, the Quantum Recliner as it would become known, can hypothetically warp anywhere it wants to in the known universe. At a moment, it can jump from the
The Variance Space Station to
Hack-5 in O.Sec F, to
Phorbaceus Imperia and back. All within a few moments. Taking along whomever decided to take a recline on it.
Who has it and where is it?
The Quantum Recliner has changed hands many times since its original owner on the Variance. It has passed through the hands of private owners and businesses alike, though oftentimes it does not change hands via legitimate purchase.
More often than not it has been stolen away by trickery, theft, and/or violence. All by people looking to exploit its incredible powers for their own gain.
Though again, even several years after it first appeared, nobody has figured out how to control its teleportation abilities.
In fact, as time goes on and mileage adds up on the recliner the further and more randomly it seems to travel.
At the current time, the Quantum Recliner is in the hands of a scrappy young thief named Toryn, who swiped it from an ExaBase Advanced Travel employee.
ExaBase had managed to keep hold of the Recliner for a number of months and had been conducting extensive testing with the object.
The ExaBase Advanced Travel logo
Sending an employee with a long-distance tracking device to sit on the chair and try and operate it to land somewhere specific. Nothing worked, however, and the chair always teleported to a random locale. But ExaBase kept track of its location and was able to retrieve it quickly due to their ease of access to
Probability Suspension Drive technology.
Toryn, the current 'owner' of the Quantum Recliner
However, Toryn who had been following rumours about the recliner for months, managed to overhear where the next launch location and date were.
She managed to sneak in, past guards and security, and the moment the reclined was laid back he sprung forward and jumped aboard.
Both she and the ExaBase employee rocketed off. They landed on a far-flung moon, somewhere in O.Sec F. The moment they landed, Toryn quickly kicked the ExaBase employee off and immediately pulled the lever and off she went as the lone rider of the recliner.
Toryn and the Quantum Recliner reappeared in a puff of dusty-smelling smoke in a tight back alley of the First Floor of the Variance Space Station. Back where all the madness of the recliner began.
Toryn has kept quiet. Luckily, the alley in which they reappeared was off the beaten path, so she's just hiding the recliner under some loose trash. So far no one has found her and the chair, including ExaBase. Her reasons for nabbing the Quantum Recliner, and her intentions with it, are currently unknown.
The Quantum Recliner, relieved of their rider and teleporting in to the void of space
That time it almost started a war
One of the most severe events tied to the Quantum Recliner was when it was in the possession of a Lupine researcher named Artlin Tux, who had come into possession of the recliner after its previous rider had perished. The rider had the misfortune to have been warped to a small satellite station, the misfortunate bit being that they arrived on the outside, in the void of space.
Artlin Tux, however, was on the other side, specifically meaning that he was on board the satellite station at the time of the incident. Seeing the scientific value of the recliner, he quickly absconded with it — Taking it with him on his ship back to his home territory of the Lupine Democratic Monarchy.
After arriving at his home research lab, he conducted various experiments on the Quantum Recliner. He was careful not to activate the reclining lever. Tux hoped that he could dissect the recliner, and potentially backwards engineer it, or at least figure out how to use it predictably. But it was all for not in the end.
Tux became frustrated with the recliner after weeks of research were fruitless and showed no signs of improvement. So he caved and prepared to conduct his first teleportation using the Quantum Recliner's recline lever. He equipped himself with a tracking device, and a gun, and dressed in a space suit equipped with extra air. Tux told his assistant to come pick him up once the tracking device activated and he was off.
He sat down on the Quantum Recliner and pulled the lever, in a puff of foul smoke he was gone. He would instantly reappear in the private meeting hall of the Imperial Emperor of the Imperial Council of Planets on
Phorbaceus Imperia right in the middle of an important defence meeting.
This was by far the worst place he could have appeared, far worse than any vacuum of space could be. It was as if the Quantum Recliner had a sick sense of humour. As the Lupine and the Imperials had been mortal enemies for generations. The two were always at each other's necks about one thing or another, and war was always a mere breath away it seemed. The sudden appearance of an armed Lupine in one of the most highly guarded rooms on Phorbaceus Imperia would not help the situation.
Tux tried to plead his case, that it was an accident during an experiment. But they wouldn't hear any of it and the Imperials would immediately take him into custody, assuming he was at least a spy sent from
Queen Galina Kos the Matriarch, the political head of the Lupine Democratic Monarchy. Or at worst, a failed attempt at assassinating the head of state of the Imperial Council of Planets.
The event kicked off an ugly stalemate between the two bitter rival states. The situation was tense, the Imperial Council of Planets threatened violence on numerous occasions. Threatening that the "weak-willed" Lupine had attempted an act of attempted murder against their emperor, and failed. While the Lupine Democratic Monarchy accused them of kidnapping a preeminent researcher to try and goad them into yet more conflict. War seemed inevitable.
Luckily, however, clearer heads prevailed. Or rather, the Imperial Council of Planets had accepted an alliance with the
The Ka’yar Colonial Governance and had to focus their forces on bombarding their shared border with The Representative Democracy of Liberation, in which the former were at war with. The Imperials didn't have the resources to conduct two separate wars on two separate fronts.
So, Artlin Tux would be let go under the condition that he leave the Quantum Recliner behind. Not wanting to put energy into a silly thing such as the Quantum Recliner the Imperial Council of Planets would quickly sell it to ExaBase Advanced Travel.
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