mysterious loyall X posted:

In the year 4626, scientists from DarkUrth Martian Colony believe they have perfected time travel. As an initial test, a useless piece of 21st cemtury NormalEarth technology is sent 4 billion years into the past. In the early solar system, residual moisture as well as heavier elements are drawn to the massive, but fundamentally useless, technology from the martian colony, nearly doubling its size. Momentum from the time travel test causes the object to be ejected from the early Martian orbit. Its gravitational pull causes it to continue to accrete ice, methane clades, and residual metals as it escapes the coupier belt and heads toward the inner planets. The object, now nearly 5 times its original size, is caught in the orbit of the infant earth. The supermassive object slams into the surface of the earth. Its mass and velocity cause the still cooling mantle of the planet to eject a 3rd of its mass as debris and dust into orbit, eventually cooling and accreting into the moon.

4 billion years later, british scientists are secretly brought to Finnish Svalbard bbyFinn rseistance cadres fighting both stalinist and nazi forces. The fighters have found a mysterious balck object marked with an X embedded in strata dating from the precambrian. The object is excavated and taken. To britain, where it is studied by top physicists, engineers, and mathematicians. Although the object is incompletely understood, it is obviously an electronic device, for more advanced than any other available at the time. Preliminary research on the heavy, black, large object is used as a basis for the early computing industry, allowing British spies to crack the Nazi enigma cryptologic machine in early 1941.