Because they know that in 200 years or so the planet Earth will be designated as an intergalactic ballroom for the trade federation talks. Most of humanity will be destroyed to make way for the pouring of the concrete.
Since they already tried and failed they had to go back in time so they could close the loop and prevent a paradox.
The fun things about backwards time travel is that if it’s ever used then it already has been.
you’re giving a set number of skill tokens at birth, making a time machine is very hard, so you must use all of your tokens towards that, leaving you with atrocious shooting skills
You’d think they would have the time to overcome their shortcomings with practice given, you know, the time travel. But maybe they took the impatience flaw for some extra points.
may be nature’s way to prevent paradoxes
I think time travelers wouldn’t fail
No. They have to fail. It’s literally physically impossible for them to succeed. If they succeeded, there would be no need to go back in time and do the deed.
I always loved the interpretation of the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand that it’s a historical event that has been repeatedly meddled with by time-travelers. So many folks want to go back and prevent the First World War and all the subsequent events. So they try to prevent the assassination. However, without the world wars, they would have no reason to go back in time in the first place, so they always fail.
That’s what happens if you try and go back in time to change the past. Your actions will always be thwarted, as if reality itself is conspiring against you. Go back to try and kill Hitler? Your gun jams when you try to pull the trigger. The fuse on the bomb fails to go off. Maybe you just have a random heart attack as you’re walking through Berlin on the way to intercept him. Maybe the time machine just breaks whenever you try and turn it on. Random fluke events just keep occurring in a way that prevents you from meaningfully changing the past.
And that’s why the Archduke Ferdinand assassination is so silly. It’s a fixed point in time; you can’t go back and prevent it. But so many people have tried that it’s now this jumbled mess of an event. Originally it was a simple assassination that worked on the first attempt. But reality kept impinging more and more improbable events that now the assassination is downright comical. People keep trying to prevent the arch duke from being killed, and reality has to invent ever-more ridiculous fluke events to make sure the assassination still happens.
we live in a simulation so it’s simply that reverse time travel simply spawns a new thread.
In the future the new ballroom is really ugly and it makes a lot of people angry. So they have been trying to stop it by using time travel, witchcraft, waffle house, etc.
If so, quite scary forshadowing that theyd target this guy over Hitler/etc
my dad, who was a history buff, always said he didn’t like the whole “kill hitler” thing, cause his idea of killing hitler meant Herman Guerring, hitler’s top military general, would come into power and not make the hundred mistakes hitler made and make us all live in a german hellscape
Wait, who the hell is Hitler? I went back and killed Hans Sprechter.
No matter how this ends, he’s going to leave the world a much worse place than before. No telling how this is all going to play out but some very very bad scenarios are definitely on the table.
The problem is that they’d cause a paradox by killing him, destroying their timeline and causing them to never travel back so their attempts are doomed to fail.
Even after he’s dead, there’s still going to be a lot of issues.
And it’s not even just the people traveling here from the future trying to do it, it’s also travelers from the past.
Some are even from the present!
We need more effective time travelers.
The sonsabitches ain’t pragmatically using their intended use of time that’s for sure!
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