Timeline, List of Societies
- 2058 Boston, Massachusetts. Matt discovers the time machine.
- February 2, 2059: Matt's first time jump - 39 days. Appears in the middle of the street, still in Boston. He is then arrested for murder and grand theft auto. He is bailed out of jail by a mysterious figure.
- May 15, 2060: 465 days later. Appears in the middle of a highway, quickly time travels again to avoid being crushed by a truck.
- 2074: 15 years later. Matt appears in the middle of a stadium called the "Matthew Fuller Sports Centre". The society is fairly futuristic (with trends like facial scarring), but they do not fully understand the time machine. However, scientific theories are being rewritten because of Matt's time machine.
- 2252: 177 years later. Matt finds himself by the New Hampshire border in a theocratic society. There had been an event billed as the Second Coming of Jesus, followed by a nuclear civil war between those who believed its veracity and those who doubted it, and with the former group taking power in the eastern part of the US. History has essentially been erased and restarted. The locals refer to the year as 71.
- 4346: 2094 years later. Matt and Martha arrive in what appears to be a Utopia. The society is based on bartering, is focused on material wealth and there is no poverty or illness. It is highly futuristic/technological and is controlled by an entity called La.
- 24,000 years later. Martha, La, and Matt land in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Indonesia, and eventually encounter bioengineered dinosaurs. They continue south to Australia where they are greeted by a hologram, which doesn't allow them to enter the society because they are afraid of disease transmitted by travelers from the past. They travel to America and meet strange bear-like people.
- 320,000 AD. Travel to the moon because there is no life left on Earth. There is only a strange mechanical creature there when they arrive.
- Another undetermined jump. The couple meet up with six time travelers who send Martha and Matt back to 1898, and La continues forward.
- 1898. Martha and Matt are back in Boston, from which point they would live out the rest of their lives with no further time traveling.
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