Time Walking

Time Walking is the phenomenon in which two or more individual entities can swap places across any distance within the Crunkiverse. It is the primary means of long-distance transportation for the Space Police.

## Origin

When the space police were founded, one of the first Corporeals among them, Son of Ben, hypothesized about the existence of the phenonmena after officially partnering with the Time Engineer in an effort to reduce timeline-related anomalies within Crunkiverse 00A.

Soon after this, research put into the subject revealed that it was indeed possible to Time Walk with perfect accuracy. The ATC Project was an initiative across the entirety of the Space Police involving the construction of the Actionable Timewalking Control. This set up the means necessary for frequent and accurate time walking, which outclassed the efficiency of the best long-range teleportation Sacred Arts. This drastically increased the Space Police efficiency and remains their primary means of transport.

## Method

In short, Time Walking is a temporary break in the timeline in which the main timeline is split into two or more timelines occurring simultaneously. The break is centered around the two or more entities that caused the break, which is exclusively done through a high-level Sacred Art, "Chrono-Beacon". This Sacred Art is the most effective way to cause the stress necessary to break the timeline. If performed correctly, the timeline will split into as many separate timelines as there are users of Chrono-Beacon. During this time each of the users are now within multiple timeline superpositions.

In layman's terms, one entity in the exchange is now present in both timelines in both locations at once, and this is also true for the other entity/entities in the process. This is only the truth for a moment, as the split is quickly corrected by the Time Engineer to maintain stability. However, the method of correction is such that one of the splits is chosen as the timeline to continue. In this correction, if the chosen timeline is one where the individuals are in different location, the amended timeline will reflect that. This results in a quasi-teleportation with an infinite range.

## Complications

While the method of time walking works in theory, there are some issues that must be accounted for in order to reach a desired outcome.

1. Without intervention, the amended timeline chosen could be the same as the timeline before the time walk, resulting in no change at all. The chances of this are reflected in the number of timelines created in the break, meaning a time walk involving two individuals has a 50% chance of the desired effect. This scales based on the number of participants, such as a three-way time walk having a 33.33% chance the desired outcome. The Space Police have the advantage of having direct intervention in the chosen outcome via the Time Engineer, but others don't have this luxury and must rely on luck.

2. Time Walking can be interfered with by an unknown participant time walking at the same time as another. For example, if two individuals performing a time walk are unaware of another individual also performing it at the exact same point in time, the total number of participants will be anyone who performs the Sacred Art regardless of intention. This can be particularly annoying for the Space Police, as this potential interference has a universal range.

This interference has been mitigated throughout the past millennia with the creation of the ATC, the criminalization of illegal time walking, and the complexity of performing the Chrono-beacon.

## Illegal Time Walking

Any time walk not scheduled with the ATC can be considered an illegal time walk, even if done by a Space Police officer. This crime is taken seriously, and the threat of arrest by the Space Police is enough to keep most away from attempting it.

Due to the unparalleled efficiency of the method, there are usually a few cases per year of an illegal time walk, often found by the illegal time walkers interfering with a scheduled Space Police time walk and subsequently teleporting to the location of the Space Police. The dangerous potential of an illegal time walk has made updated copies of the ATC Manifest an expensive product on the black market.