Planet Pluto - Chronal Watchtower
After some minutes, she resumed her search with renewed vigor. She found the hard line and snipped it in two with her cutters. "There!" she said, relaxing. "That's that." Now to put the blasted thing back together again, and first I have to replace the broken hard line with a new one.

She slid out and got to her feet again. Cutting the hard line to the main drive would completely wipe the memory of the chronometer. At the same time, however, all the fail-safes installed by Dark Mercury would be lost as well. Most of the old information in its database was useless due to the new timeline anyway. Once she replaced the cut line, she could start anew and enter her own instructions back into the computer. ... Continue