Wildfire

A phoenix class fast ship retrofitted as a time-travel "prep ship" prototype by Dr. Cook for Maytec. Most of the final testing was performed at the observation platform E11 due to the station's unique properties (no one giving a shit if it got accidentally blown up).
When Gates appears on the Inglorious seemingly out of nowhere, he demands to see Cook, because he wants to have Cook explain the "Philadelphia project" to understand why a 400-year-old man on a 50-years missing ship are suddenly outside the E11. Cook initially feigns ignorance, but Commander Adams pulls out Mr. Gun and demands an answer.
== The Philadelphia Project==
Cook's life's work, an experimental drive that uses an artificial space anomaly to manipulate space-time and thus be able not only to jump to any point in space but also time. It can also jump between alternate dimensions at will and move other objects in the same way.
==Usage==
As the Anarchists couldn't possibly have built a Philadelphia device on their own, to avoid a paradox, the crew of the Inglorious tries to steal the Wildfire in order to create the Inglorious in order to steal the Wildfire. However, Tessa manages to stop them until she encounters Gates and is nearly killed by him until Commander Adams shoots Gates in the head. Seeing that the Anarchists will kill them for killing Gates, Cook suggests escaping on the Wildfire.
Tessa takes the pilot seat and notices the Anarchists lock weapons on the Wildfire. Cook tells Tessa to ignore it as the Anarchists shooting the Wildfire would only destroy themselves. The Oracle thinks otherwise and takes out the hydraulic pressure to the docking clamps, preventing the Wildfire from leaving. Cook freaks out at this turn of events, because it puts the Wildfire tonnes overweight from his calculations and throws the trajectory off by miles, and the reactors cannot be stopped once started without risking an artificial black hole feeding from them instead of from the reactors. As the E11 is about to be split open anyway, Cook activates the time machine and permanently sends the crew back in time to the current day, as the Wildfire was never designed for atmospheric travel and cannot take off again.
==Paradoxes==
"If we are going to go back in time to before all of this happened and save the day etc.... why haven't we seen ourselves already? Not only that but if we go back and save the day, then who is going to come back and save the day if the day has already been saved... I mean if we sort things out then why would we go back to fix what's already fixed..."
"Ah the age-old question of paradoxes! I wish I could give you a straight answer commander but I don't really know. There are three things that could happen here:
"The first is that we create an alternate dimension where none of this happens but this dimension remains as is.
"Second, the time line is fixed suggesting we fail to go back.
"Third, the time line can be changed and this literally never happens! You then spend the rest of your life trying to figure this stuff out and give yourself a terminal headache trying to think how X happened if Y killed their mother's budgie or whatever."
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