The Voor Technocracy colony of Tempus has accidentally traveled back in time three years, planetary administrators confirmed this morning via embassy press release.



Researchers on the planet had been investigating the precursor Zroni species, hoping to unlock their psionic abilities to help predict the galactic stock market. However, experimentation appears to have accidentally opened a temporal rift in the fabric of space, shifting the entire cluster back to the 1.2 era.



Within a single tick Tempus was thrown into chaos as a roll-back wave swallowed up districts, artisans, consumer goods and alloys, leaving behind nothing but a wasteland of 16 undeveloped tiles.

Early reports indicate the situation planet-side is dire. Millions of Voor have been left homeless as the planet can now only support pops based on the number of tiles available. Food shortages have reached critical levels as supplies can no longer be imported from neighbouring planets, and access to the galactic market is met with error messages. Enforcers, now unemployed as their jobs no longer exist, warn the planet is teetering on the brink of complete societal collapse.

Speaking from the mysterious new Tempus embassy, which appeared when the rest of the planet was destroyed, sector governor Vi’Kask broadcast a desperate message to the galaxy:

“[static]… Is this thing working? Hello? If anyone can hear me, please, send help to Tempus immediately. We’re out of sync with the galaxy and the situation is deteriorating rapidly… [unintelligible]

… for reasons unknown we are no longer recognized as part of the Voor Technocracy… [static] …. like we have just discovered FTL. We have lost all our system maps and have to re-survey everything …. [static] …. but we don’t know how because our ships suddenly got fitted with weird ‘warp drive’ things. Further complicating matters, our scientists are on strike until we get auto-surveying back, and our primary shipyard has simply vanished. We… [garbled]

… please! There are millions of refugees waiting to get off-world but apparently refugees aren’t a thing now? You must help us! You’re our only ho- [prolonged static, transmission cuts short due to ‘Out of Sync’ error message]…”