The Silent Age |  Ep: 02 | Chapter 7 - The House
Channel: The Happy Radio
Date: 19/04/2019

The Silent Age |  Ep: 02 | Chapter 7 - The House | Rav3n | Manifesto
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Episode 2
Joe breaks into Dr. Lambert's house and eventually meets the younger Dr. Lambert, who initially takes him as a burglar and holds him at gunpoint, demanding an explanation. Once Joe explains how he comes by the time travel device, Mk II, Dr. Lambert recognizes it as an advanced version of his own prototypes, and explains what happened. Dr. Lambert had written a thesis which suggests the possibility of time travel, hence the company, then named Athena, hired him in attempts to develop time travel technology with the hopes of strangling communism in the past. However, the Law of Causality prevents them from traveling in the past before the invention of the time machine. Nevertheless, Athena secures a US military contract to instead use the time travel technology to travel into the future and bring back advanced weapons and technology to combat the Soviets; the company was renamed Archon at this point. Although the time machine Mk I was successful, many of their pilots never returned, and those that did had become deathly ill and went insane, raving about the barren cities, all traced to a deadly contagious virus that will be released at some point. Despite being offered incentives to stay and improve the technology, Dr. Lambert resigned and fled the city, preparing himself for the incoming disaster.

Dr. Lambert believes the way to avert the disaster is to have Joe travel the day before and destroy the computer that operates the Mk I, which will bring back the pilot along with the virus. Before Joe departs, Dr. Lambert cautions him that he may encounter his earlier version of himself and warns him to not make contact. Driving back to the city, Joe infiltrates into Archon with the aid of Mk II. While trying to find something in the nearby Cryo Labs to destroy the computer, he discovers Frank rifling through papers, who later disappears. Although Joe manages to destroy the machine, the Mk I has departed. Later, Joe discovers the elderly version of Dr. Lambert has arrived, having been accidentally shot by Joe earlier when he was infiltrating into Archon. Joe hides in the Cryo Labs to prevent encountering his earlier self, who finds Dr. Lambert and he is later taken away by security. He goes to see Dr. Lambert, who is actually barely still alive, having purposely diverted Joe's younger self's attention long enough to help program the Mk II to the same coordinates the Mk I went. Lambert attempts to tell Joe something important but eventually succumbs to his injuries.

Joe finds that he has travelled much further into the future, with the Mk II being destroyed on arrival. He finds the Mk I which has been deactivated. Exploring the ruins of Archon with the other pilots and the damaged Mk I machines, he finds a deathly ill Frank. Frank explains he was actually a Soviet spy, sent to infiltrate Archon which is believed to be developing some advanced technology, later discovered by Frank to be time travel. When he was discovered trying to access the papers so that he can bring them to the Kremlin as proof, he was dismissed by Archon. He decides to use the Mk I in an attempt bring it back to Moscow, but finds himself teleported into the far future and becomes deathly ill upon arrival. He gives Joe the generator needed to activate the Mk I to return to 1972, and assures him that they are, in fact, still genuine friends. Returning to 1972, Joe feels extremely ill, and immediately discovers that he is the one who brings back the deadly virus, activating the quarantine alert and security. With little time to spare, he manages to make it into a cryochamber to freeze himself, otherwise the security will come and arrest him, releasing the virus to them and to the outside world.

Joe wakes up in 2012 and meets a friendly doctor, Dr. Brown, who tells him that her group obtained the cryochambers after Archon went bankrupt in the 1970s. The doctor reveals they are able to remove the virus from Joe and other time pilots, which in fact is a rare avian flu discovered only in the 1990s. While the other pilots have gone insane from their ordeal and still believes the world is doomed, Joe is otherwise sane and offered the opportunity to return to the real world. The game ends with him discovering and trying on new technologies that have come about during his hibernation.
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silent_Age
Game: http://thesilentage.com