The History of SBFP

Vol. II

Or, A brief account of the origination of the NTO

       The original National Time Organization was created 1964, and was located in a small apartment in Philadelphia. It's only known member was Frank Schwartzberg, a noted eccentric. In fact, he was so eccentric that he had no other friends, or anyone who would listen to him, for that matter. He died alone.
       In fact, it's merely coincidence that the official and more internationally acknowledged organization goes by the same name. The official NTO (the subject of this article) was started in 2015 by Roger Kennedy, a time traveling pioneer. His gifts and insights into the world of time distortions inspired him to create the original NTO. After registering the organization in 2015, he hired a few more employees. At this point the name was more in farce than anything, as excluding a few successful time distortion attempts, the organization was nothing more than a hobby for a half dozen middle aged men.
       It was during this time that the first edition of "Time Travel: An Instructional Guide" were first written, at first just a collection of theoretical articles based on their successful tests, later evolving to include the rules and regulations regarding distortions of time. It's interesting to note that the word "Time" appears no less than 4,312 times in the latest edition of the guide. But not that interesting.
       In 2016 the group achieved their first successful time dilation. 5kg of aluminum were sent 59.87 seconds into the future.
       One of the minor problems faced by the group was convincing people that they were indeed sending the aluminum forward, instead of merely rendering it invisible for the amount of time instead.
       In 2020 KYRA (a major aeronautics company started in 2010)  bought the technology, intent on creating a time traveling vehicle. (note: their original campaign slogan was ridiculous. So ridiculous that I'm not even going to say it here). Before the vehicles could be released, however, the national government got involved. They declared that the vehicle could not be released until more tests had been done into the nature of time travel. During their research their major source was the now slightly famed NTO. After their brief interaction, the NTO earned government funding for continued research into the extended plausibility and theoretical profitability of time travel.

       The NTO decided that unregulated time travel would indeed be world threatening, but if regulated and contained time travel could be a valuable tool. Due to their knowledge on the subject, the NTO itself was absorbed into the government to become a special government agency. Now, acting as more of a flight control center than anything, the NTO boasts of a force of 1,000, with a fleet of 32 time ships in operation at all times. Most of their objectives now revolve around the correction of minor continuity offenses before the next time cycle.

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