The Rollback Machine

A safty mechinism used when death is a possible risk.

Description and history.
Origionally built by an unknown Cylish engineer, the purpose of the Rollback Machine was to prevent death from occuring with the use of teleports.

For years, during the rare cases where teleports were used, it would 'kill' the origional rider and produce a clone at the exit end. This went unknown until a study done on the teleporter devices went underway. The whole systim was shut down for years, until the unknown Cylish enginner designed the Rollback Machine.

It worked by storing the location of each atom of the rider's body. Storing it's time, location, and age. If the subject died, the Rollback attachment would activate. Designed to bring the atoms back in time to a point where the rider was alive, and then bring him or her forward to their proper time period. A 'save' point for the miracle of life.

But it had faults, most of the time it would send the rider back too far, the unlucky few were sent back a few thousand years.

Relation to the pets.
So far, only Sem has had any relation to the Rollback machine. During one of his attempts to regain his fire, something caused it to activate, sending him fifteen years back in time.

There is also an early version of the Machine in Sem's room, as he is trying to construct his own time machine. (See Story Archs)