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The Jumper
Microfiction
In the days Before, there were too many times where time-traveling became a way of commodity. Only the elite could do it — time jumps were so much more expensive than even spacefare — but they chose the easiest means they had to improve the world. What better way than to jump back in time and try to see what threads in time could be rewound in some way?
Time travel was the first great frontier that, though it had been widely explored in science fiction, had yet to be traversed as far as the people who could use it on a daily basis.
The Corporation deemed the first test subjects as Jumpers.
They were people chosen at random, all across the world, to do one thing: go back in time and fix the mistakes humanity had gotten themselves into over the course of a ten-year span. The world wouldn’t sustain itself anymore if the mistakes continued.
The Jumpers were nondescript people, easily falling into the background, even though they often came from the upper levels of society. The first Jumpers were trust fund babies who knew no better than their parents’ wallets.
Not the best people to send out into the world, perhaps, to try and fix mistakes that had been made by the rich in the first place.
