Post by Chaldea-san on Sept 29, 2015 20:30:49 GMT
Ray Shift
With the cause of the extinction properly identified, the issue became how to advert it. All evidence suggested that these “Time Singularities” were a repeating pattern, a form of cancer to the world’s timeline. Repairing something that occurs in the past, means dabbling in what is a very dangerous field of study - Time Travel.
Chaldea’s immense resources were not wasted, and a method to reach the project’s goals was quickly designed. A forbidden ritual, so taboo that just attempting to research it would usually cause a magus to be ostracized and persecuted. Although thaumaturgy and science are almost always religiously separated, this method made use of both in what many would consider a profane union.
Agents enter a form of cryogenic conservation pod, known as a “Coffin”, which allows their souls to be tampered with. This brings forth the process known as “Ray Shift”, a method by which the user is recreated in a past age through a sort of thaumaturgy close to “Astral Projection”. Servants will feel exactly the same, since for them this is essentially akin to going in and out of spirit form, while Masters will feel slightly disconnected for a while after being shifted, almost like they’re in a very lucid dream.
Agents can request to be disconnect from this projected form at any time, being pulled back into their own bodies, but the process takes a couple of minutes to set up and needs the agent to inform Chaldea first.
With the cause of the extinction properly identified, the issue became how to advert it. All evidence suggested that these “Time Singularities” were a repeating pattern, a form of cancer to the world’s timeline. Repairing something that occurs in the past, means dabbling in what is a very dangerous field of study - Time Travel.
Chaldea’s immense resources were not wasted, and a method to reach the project’s goals was quickly designed. A forbidden ritual, so taboo that just attempting to research it would usually cause a magus to be ostracized and persecuted. Although thaumaturgy and science are almost always religiously separated, this method made use of both in what many would consider a profane union.
Agents enter a form of cryogenic conservation pod, known as a “Coffin”, which allows their souls to be tampered with. This brings forth the process known as “Ray Shift”, a method by which the user is recreated in a past age through a sort of thaumaturgy close to “Astral Projection”. Servants will feel exactly the same, since for them this is essentially akin to going in and out of spirit form, while Masters will feel slightly disconnected for a while after being shifted, almost like they’re in a very lucid dream.
Agents can request to be disconnect from this projected form at any time, being pulled back into their own bodies, but the process takes a couple of minutes to set up and needs the agent to inform Chaldea first.