After they had killed off the defective agents, they began setting up the project to dig up the relics of the future as they called them. It was the other items they had transported with them. The post-apocalyptic organization and all the other agents thought that time travel was only capable of sending people’s minds and memories back in time, but this was actually not true. After many lifetimes of trying to figure out humanity's problem and a way to fix it, Tidanos had also secretly found these people to try and develop it and also succeeded in the last timeline. He did it by bringing knowledge from the previous timelines each time and through that accumulated knowledge successfully brought future technology to the past.
Still, the time travel they used didn’t allow matter or energy to travel to a different moment in time. What it did was rearranging matter and energy at a different point in time in the past to be arranged in the same way as an object in the present. As for the mind and memories time travel, the memories and knowledge traveled back by rearranging the mind and nerve cells to be arranged like one’s were in the future or that’s how they thought the machine worked. As for how the mind could go back, one theory of theirs was that it worked by taking someone’s consciousness back in time but how that worked was still debated. Another theory was that rearranging something in the past caused the universe to reset itself to that point in order to adjust future events in the timeline to match up with the change done in that past point in time. The idea was that the universe had to replay itself from that moment in time in order to correct future events according to the new change and thus all living and conscious creatures had to re-live it once again along with the universe. Thus some in his group thought that maybe it wasn’t that they specifically were the ones traveling back in time, but everyone or no one or however you would like to interpret it. But of course, these were just their theories.
Regardless, the results were the same. The other people who didn’t have their memories altered or updated to their future knowledge as well as the rest of the world that wasn’t altered from a future point in time would still continue their lives exactly the same way they did the original timeline. Not until they were affected by something that behaved differently due to time travel, either directly or indirectly, would their lives be different.
Anyway, what this meant was that if one had enough power and technological advancement it would be possible to alter more than just people's nerve systems and brain cells. With enough influence and precision one could for example construct all kinds of things in the past, given that one had enough power and that the energy level equilibrium didn’t change as the energy levels had to be equal afterwards to what it was before the alteration, one could construct whatever one wanted in the past. The thing about the future technology they brought back though was that as these things were mostly made from materials found in the ground like different metals, they were constructed far into the ground where most of the elements they were made of could be found.
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In theory it should be possible to assemble them above ground where the materials could be found in for example industrial settings, but that would just make other people in the past notice them. On top of exposing these things to the world, the governments in the countries which they were made in would get their hands on them before they ever could, something they couldn’t allow to happen. Therefore they opted to have them made underground. Thus they now needed to dig them up and that was a project that would cost quite a bit of money and time. As the other people were more science and engineering oriented and Tidanos was the experienced one in management and the one leading their temporal operation, they focused on making a safe extraction process to make sure it wasn’t damaged. He, on the other hand, was the one who set up the connection with different rich and influential people to gather funds and make way for them to obtain their future tech. He also made sure to find people to help him keep things under wraps so no uninvolved people could find out what they were up to.
As these future relics were located in relatively remote areas, they didn’t draw any notable attention. Some year later they had finally dug deep enough, carefully and safely extracted them and gathered them in a giant warehouse which they had set up as their center of operations.
What they had dug up was mostly things like portable production sets of different future technology. Among them were things like brainwashing devices, mind reading and manipulation tech, tech interfering devices, satellites, communication towers, camouflage field producers and coverings, tech related to artificial and technological reproduction which was still in its early development stages as well as accompanying equipment, reactors and accompanying equipment, advanced medical equipment and machines, robots and androids, 23rd century weapons and armor and army robots, rockets, mini rockets and accompanying equipment, fuel production sets, powersuits, 23rd century information and communication devices, 23rd century cutting edge computing chips, special food and drinks that gives the body all the nutrients it needs in optimal intake formats, all kinds of special equipment, etc.
Other than production they also had boxes that contained special high end and super compressed AI, software, spyware and other programs they would need and things to make them compatible with 21st century tech. They had also made sure to bring a lot of data and useful knowledge that humanity hadn’t acquired yet. Second thing on the list, extracting and setting up the future tech production set without anyone uninvolved finding out. Check.