Stasis

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The suspended animation technology that allowed me to survive until today.

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This entry is for something that hasn't happened yet in the story, but I'm hoping to build toward as I keep writing. It's a rough outline of what could come to pass. Click the button below to travel to this potential future, or use the top navigation bar to retreat to safety.

— Note from the author

Consent to time travel

• nobody alive today knows how protag and other Travelers slept for so long, how they survived that sleep, or why they woke up when they did
• possibly through working with another Traveler who's done some investigating, our protag learns the answer is Statis
• it's a form of suspended animation, not dissimilar to cryo sleep or the like but not using freezing the way cryo implies
• it had something to do with an injection and gas inside a sealed, air-tight container
• the goal of it was to suspend certain people's lives until a designated future time, which could be after a specific number of years or after a certain event comes ot pass
• it was very expensive and generally considered a luxury
• the other Traveler may have figured out the gas and such by exploring an old "tomb" (stasis facility) and finding evidence of gas tanks and tubes to the "coffins"
• they could have done this previously and we see them telling protag about it, or protag could join them on this expedition, whichever makes more sense
• the other details (the goal, expense) could be snippets of memory from one or both of them
• few stasis facilities remain accessible. in some that are (to varying definitions of "accessible"), human remains can sometimes be found in stasis chambers that clearly failed in their duty
• Travelers are very lucky that their facilities remained intact enough that apparent failsafes kept them alive through the centuries
• as for how/why they woke up how/when they did, there's only theories like maybe a time-delay mechanism triggered, or the stasis gas ran out, or some other system failed in a way that allowed for a safe wake-up
• this first entry would likely end with neither Traveler knowing exactly why they were afforded this luxury

Summary

• TBD