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Historians

posted 8 years ago by chrisjdel
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The Traveler teams seem to receive extensive training, partly so they can all defend themselves but also to deal with misfired/killed team members. Each of them needs to be able to perform all tasks (even if not quite as well) so losing people won't cripple the whole team. The only position that seems entirely vested in one individual is that of Historian.

From what they've said about people being altered for the role, I think they do some kind of brain rewiring to give the historians what's called Superior Biographical Memory. This is the highest level of photographic memory, where a person literally remembers everything they ever do, see, or hear. You can ask them what they had for lunch on a random day thirty years ago and not only get the menu, but who they were sitting with, what everyone was wearing, their entire conversation verbatim, etc. So obviously this is one team member you really can't afford to lose. No one else can take over their job.

[–] jos-vandereerden 8 years ago

They are altering the past so a historian seems kinda meh... If I had to choose a heroine body for one of the team I'd do the same. Medic and Assassins first.

[–] Naldoman 8 years ago

Seems silly that with the future world almost uninhabitable, they can waste resources on a quantum computer that's stuffed with minutae about every soul that every existed for the last 150 years ( or maybe just in Seattle ).

Seems like a waste of time to pinpoint key days and do a surgical rewrite of history.

If you goal is to SAVE HUMANITY, and doing so is going to erase your pitiful timeline, anything you do is already a death warrant for everyone in the future.....

....so screw it, send EVERY MAN WOMAN CHILD & PET to the past with a few key mandates:

1) Nevermind the mission, humanity is safe in the past
2) Get friggin' WEALTHY and toss out all the meglomanics and govts. that sponsor WAR.
3) Give PEACE a chance

[–] chrisjdel 8 years ago

Seems silly that with the future world almost uninhabitable, they can waste resources on a quantum computer that's stuffed with minutae about every soul that every existed for the last 150 years ( or maybe just in Seattle ).

Like I said in a different thread, the kind of resources we need to sustain our tech base and the kind we need to sustain ourselves are not the same. You can have plenty of raw materials for manufacturing and research but if food is in short supply people will still die of starvation with their wonderfully advanced technology all around them.

[–] Thorakus 8 years ago

I agree that the historian is vital and the team would be at a big loss without them but I would argue that the medic/doctor is also as important if not more so. Seems like if they are lost there is no replacement unless a new one is sent back.

[–] chrisjdel 8 years ago

But it seems like everyone else has some training in each others' jobs. They all have combat training for one thing. Most of them can probably administer basic aid and use the tools their medic has (the blood type converter they mentioned and so forth). Obviously the medic, being an actual doctor, can do diagnosis and treat complex conditions the rest of them aren't trained for and really couldn't be - short of going to future medical school. I was just saying that the historian's special skill, being engineered, is something the rest of them simply don't have.

[–] Thorakus 8 years ago

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