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The darkness was absolute inside the device. She held her breath as the hatches sealed around her. An electrifying buzz filled the cabin and suddenly she felt her body stretch in all directions.
A second later, she emerges into a glowing tunnel that seems to have no end. Flashes of light surround her, millions of fleeting images from the past and future parade around her.
She presses the controls, steering the ship towards a specific date: 14 April 2077. A luminous portal bursts open in front of her and the ship is sucked into a radiant vortex.
She is violently ejected out the other side. Blinking, she looks out of the hatch: a ruined city is dying before her eyes, crumbling buildings and a sky tinged red with nuclear ash.
He has arrived 59 years in the future, in the post-apocalyptic world he has studied so well. Now all that remains is to find the survivors and fulfil his mission: to avert disaster.