Timer Club

A Timer Club is a cryogenics service corporation, also known as a "Deep Time Club" or a "Time Capsule Club."

Description (Specifications)

The idea behind the club is as old as the cold sleep technology; take a group of people and pass several decades or centuries, then awaken in a new world. The original clubs were formed by members suffering from various terminal illnesses beyond the ability of medical treatments at the time. The clubs become more prevalent when either economic or political events make people nervous about the future.

Frequently these groups would be started by a small group of wealthy individuals wishing to evade current events. Depending upon the notoriety of the group, the publicity would attract others wanting to make the same time jump. To serve these customers new corporations would form to set up and monitor the cold sleep berths.

• Unfortunately for many of these time travelers a combination of events would either cut their leap short or result in their deaths. For many of the medical cases, their illnesses prevented them from being revived successfully. In other cases the economic situations that prompted the formation of the club also drove the monitoring service to failure as well.

History & Background (Dossier)

One of the more famous timer clubs was the Timer Club of Terra, which started before first contact with the Vilani (cold sleep technology having been developed and used for STL colonization of various worlds, including Prometheus). The last of the original members died at some point during the Long Night.

• During the Rebellion, the number of Timer clubs expanded dramatically. A great many of these sleepers were killed by either the failure of their own equipment over the years or a Virus invasion of the control systems. In the Reformation Coalition the few survivors are know as remnants.

Known Clubs

Current Timer clubs include:

• Future Promise Enterprises
• Timer club of Ekel Glachith - the only licensed Timer club in the Shallows Subsector, Dagudashaag Sector.
• The Timer Club of Amsa LIC

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

Worlds known to have or have had Timer clubs.

World Listing: 1105

6 of 6 World articles in Timer Club

Amsa  •  Glachith  •  Laraa  •  Niirkhi  •  Tarterus  •  Terra (SR 1827)  •  

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