Yeah. Different timelines, but yes. Spacetime Human Internal Fluctuating Transfer. SHIFT.
It was convoluted in the sense that someone really had to know what they were doing. The purpose, we learned, was so that the guy who set it up would be born, and to set up a timeline so that a few of the participants would come back in time to join the experiment we were all doing so that they wouldn't trigger a future where a virus breaks out and kills 6 billion people.
[...] We found the right timeline to SHIFT to, but because we're in the one where the virus didn't leave the bomb shelter, we have to find someone who's going to start a nuclear war and kill eight billion people. So. I don't know.
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It was convoluted in the sense that someone really had to know what they were doing. The purpose, we learned, was so that the guy who set it up would be born, and to set up a timeline so that a few of the participants would come back in time to join the experiment we were all doing so that they wouldn't trigger a future where a virus breaks out and kills 6 billion people.
[...] We found the right timeline to SHIFT to, but because we're in the one where the virus didn't leave the bomb shelter, we have to find someone who's going to start a nuclear war and kill eight billion people. So. I don't know.
[Can they be out of it if it just keeps going?]