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Eventually, on Maltus:So I've noticed the database you gave me doesn't have anything on time travel.The Controller gave him a measuring look. "No. It does not."Isn't that an oversight? I've encountered two time travelers on my home world, at least one of which was attempting a major divergence. Admittedly it was a divergence in my favor, but..."You misunderstand. This is not one of the manytechnologies we are withholding because they are deemed too dangerous for underdeveloped civilizations. We do not study temporal trans-location."Um.. Excuse me?"We. Do not. Study. Time travel." The Controller's glare intensified momentarily before dying back. "Some time ago, we noticed that no species made extensive use of such technologies."But I've met-"Oh, there are always. Even the occasional organization, which is inevitably targeted at suppressing said individuals. But no star faring species has ever deployed it in any military, colonial, or economic capacity. The odds of this occurring naturally are staggeringly low. If a technology exists, there iscivilization taking advantage of it. Technological evolution has niches in much the same way that biological evolution does. What are the implications of anniche?"...Catastrophic."Indeed. We are uncertain whether the extensive use of such technology is merely inevitably self destructive or possesses intrinsic existential risk, but the last time a Maltusian researched it he caused."Okay, that's fair, but it's still something this Corps is going to have to deal with. Your rings are equipped with causal stabilizers . Reverting any changes will have to be done with local resources."