Description
The Black Veil is the Authority’s darkest secret: a temporal strike vessel built to match—and surpass—the Aetherion in raw power and responsiveness. Created in secret by Authority Black Labs, the ship was tailored for Agent Thalos, engineered to respond to his neural and bioelectric signature alone.
Where the Aetherion was graceful, responsive to thought, and symbiotic with its pilot, the Black Veil is brutal, parasitic, and aggressive. It doesn’t just travel through time—it pierces it, leaving scars in the stream it crosses.
The Temporal Systems
The Black Veil uses the same temporal systems as the Aetherion, at its heart pulsed a quantum singularity, stolen tech re-engineered to rip rather than slip through time. It drew power not from engines or fuel cells, but from the void of space itself feeding on the quantum foam between realities, giving the ship limitless energy and terrifying potential.
Anchored to the singularity was the Temporal Drive a mechanism capable of slipping the vessel through time, not along a fixed path, but across fractured possibility. It could bypass locked historical events, step sideways into parallel outcomes, or re-enter moments long since passed. Stabilizing it all was the Temporal Core, a precision system that balanced the ships immense temporal strain, preventing causality collapse and shielding the fragile timeline around it.
The Black Veil Crew
The vessel is operated by holographic crew, all born from a single AI that manifest as officers at command stations, sensor operators, and navigators. They moved, communicated, and interacted, yet none of them are genuine. The ship's systems were entirely automated, with the crew lacking emotions.