Saigonnus
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I had a thought the other day; based off a dream I had the night before. Basically, the idea is that an alien world is on the verge of destruction from a different alien race that attacked without provocation or warning (they didn't know they even existed). A scientist on the doomed world just perfected a process that would allow a person to take a certain serum that gives them the ability to mentally travel through time, leaving their body behind for their travels.
Since there is only enough serum developed for a single person, and there isn't time to find a better candidate, the scientist himself takes the serum and becomes the worlds' first time traveler.
The catch is that the traveler must "hitchhike" within another person/creatures' brain and that person/creature must basically give them permission to be there. This is the only way to be able to have any influence over the event around them and it is a slow process to actually have meaningful communication between the host and the traveler. Initially it is a single word or emotion that crosses to the consciousness of the host, but given enough time and willingness on the part of the host it could potentially reach a state of shared consiousness.
Basically the basic outline I had in mind (as part of the dream) is that the scientist hitchhikes in the mind of one of the aliens by exploiting the dreams of the alien to "trick" him into giving permission (since he thinks its a dream) and then goes back in time of THIER homeworld to a point where history could be changed to prevent the attack from happening.
There was a point in the history of the planet that it was also heavily peopled by a more docile race of creatures that these creatures attacked without warning and without just cause. He attempts to prevent the destruction of those creatures, teaching them what technology he can with the materials they have access to to help them overcome the more numerous "insert alien race here".
The logical conclusion is that the scientist suceeds in helping them, but the question nagging me is how far should he go to protect his future? To guarantee the survival of his own planet, he'd basically have to exterminate the evil race, lest they rebel against their eventual "captors". Could you sympathize with a guy who is responsible for the extermination of a race of creatures?
Since there is only enough serum developed for a single person, and there isn't time to find a better candidate, the scientist himself takes the serum and becomes the worlds' first time traveler.
The catch is that the traveler must "hitchhike" within another person/creatures' brain and that person/creature must basically give them permission to be there. This is the only way to be able to have any influence over the event around them and it is a slow process to actually have meaningful communication between the host and the traveler. Initially it is a single word or emotion that crosses to the consciousness of the host, but given enough time and willingness on the part of the host it could potentially reach a state of shared consiousness.
Basically the basic outline I had in mind (as part of the dream) is that the scientist hitchhikes in the mind of one of the aliens by exploiting the dreams of the alien to "trick" him into giving permission (since he thinks its a dream) and then goes back in time of THIER homeworld to a point where history could be changed to prevent the attack from happening.
There was a point in the history of the planet that it was also heavily peopled by a more docile race of creatures that these creatures attacked without warning and without just cause. He attempts to prevent the destruction of those creatures, teaching them what technology he can with the materials they have access to to help them overcome the more numerous "insert alien race here".
The logical conclusion is that the scientist suceeds in helping them, but the question nagging me is how far should he go to protect his future? To guarantee the survival of his own planet, he'd basically have to exterminate the evil race, lest they rebel against their eventual "captors". Could you sympathize with a guy who is responsible for the extermination of a race of creatures?