[Time Travel] Idea: party short-ranged amnesiac time-travellers

[vicky_molokh]

Greetings, all!

For many months I'm carrying this vague idea that I'm in no position to realize anytime soon. Inspired somewhat by - Timeshift, but intended to be Darker And Edgier (brutal and short).

A group of characters wake up, obviously after some sort of explosion on a large sealed vehicle (preferably a divergent-tech one to add to the confusion, net TL around 7 to 8, and preferably with a reactor onboard). They are all clothed in futuristic enviro-suits with HUDs, obviously experimental. With minimal effort, they find out that:

• Unsealing the suits will break the isolation from the current timestream, is highly dangerous until the circumstances change, and for safety reasons disabled by the onboard computer.
• The suit has intuitive controls for activating one of its abilities (each of which requires some amount of a limited chrono-resource).
• The resource is slowly 'leaking', and if it reaches zero, effects will be equal to unsealing the suit.