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qbicle

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\'time travel\' agency

Hi,
I'm doing research on time-travel for a story I'm(trying) to write, and I've got a little problem:
If it would be possible, which agency(in America) would have jurisdiction over a crime-scene involving time-travel? Or is there no such agency?
I have searched the web and came with these three solutions:
1)N.S.A. 2)C.I.A. 3)F.B.I.
At the moment I'm considering all three of them. I couldn't find other close candidates... /ttiforum/images/graemlins/frown.gif
My personal guess is that they(all 3) should operate together.

The "crime" is a total black-out of the electrical-grid that lasts for about forty-two weeks due to a very big(huge!) EMP. Several hospitals(and other other places) are unable to start their emergency-generators(during this period) resulting in the death of several hundreds of patients all over US,Canada and Mexico.
The protagonist is an agent of one of these three agencies, for now its referred to as The Agency(but this sounds a bit lame to me). He investigates this(with a team of scientists) and soon finds that it should be impossible for an EMP to last that long and so on...

So if anyone has a solution, let me know...
THX
Qbicle
 
Re: \'time travel\' agency

Since your story involves various countries, the agency that came to mind was Interpol. As stated on the Interpol website, one of their area's of jurisdiction is International Financial AND High-Tech Crimes.

Official Interpol Website
 
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Hi.

Story line sounds like Jack Bauer meets the X-Files.

It would be the agency that would normally handle such things. The aspect of time travel, in the governments' view, would be purely hypothetical. So the answer is, the agency which would have jurisdiction in such a case. It would probably involve Homeland Security.

There is one other possibility. If there were an agency that actually investigated such things, it probably would be covert and not generally known to the public. Why not have a super secret agency that one of the others, F.B.I., or whatever, passes the case to? /ttiforum/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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qb,

Welcome back.

For the US the FBI would have primary jurisdiction for a criminal investigation. The CIA doesn't investigate crimes. Assuming that the US government doesn't return to the days where it is a crime for the CIA and FBI to share any information, the CIA would funnel relevent information to the FBI. That can become a plot element. If in the story the CIA and FBI are forbidden to share information and the CIA is in possession of such information you can run with that idea...just how does the CIA get the critical information to the FBI without its agents risking their career, food on the family table and prison?

Kerr is correct about Interpol. They are an international clearing house for cross national jurisdictions. They don't have any real police authority but they do facilitate investigations through the flow of critical information and putting different country's local, state and federal investigators together when they are working on a common case or hunting a fleeing felon who has entered another country if that country is a member of Interpol.
 
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Hey thanks,
I should have thought about interpol(thx for the link KerrTexas) international police(duh!)
I didn't know the CIA didn't do stuff like that(i thought they did it all?)lol

The thing about the super secret agency would not work in the plot, but thx anyway, and i've seen and read enough see-through stories that have such agencies(to me it sounds unreal).

To reveal a bit more of the storyline(I will stay on-course or this post will have to go somewhere else, if not already):
After he discovers it's not possible for an EMP to last that long, he, the physicists and others figure out that the generators are (ALL) placed in a kind of sub-temporal zone(they actually do work, but not in our time) rendering an image of them(nuclear plants, windmills, car batteries, etc)
that shifts constantly back to the moment of the EMP, enabling the effect to last longer than normal.
In the other time(when they do work) they are used to feed a neurological computer system. The energy is transferred via an unknown effect(I'm thinking about quantum-entanglement or -teleportation)to this system, which needs an astronomical energy supply for creating a full fledged 'digital' galaxy.

It is difficult to explain, since the story is far from finished. But it certainly will not have the 'classic' time travel theme in it(humans going back and forth in time).

So i think I'm going for Interpol assisted by the FBI, it seems logical now that i think about it.

Thank you all for the input. If I'm done writing the thing, it will be posted somewhere (more appropriate)on this board. :D
 
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The thing about the super secret agency would not work in the plot, but thx anyway, and i've seen and read enough see-through stories that have such agencies(to me it sounds unreal).
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If you're talking about the inability to share nformation, it's real. At one time long ago I chaired a milti-agency intelligence committee that included local, state and federal agencies. It was during the Carter Administration. Under the same federal law that prevented inter-agency sharing of information regarding what was to become 911, the Federal agencies would sit in on the meetings while the local and state agencies were legally and legitimately coordinating information. All they could do was listen, take in information but couldn't share anything - not even among themselves. If it wasn't so tragic it would have been hillarious. They had information that other agencies needed but all they could do was sit and listen.
 
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Lol Mister Darby...

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