When people hear tales of the Time Travel Trials they always imagine we’ll be dealing with idiots trying to kill their own grandparents, people heading back in time to set themselves up as gods, the congestion in nineteen thirty-eight Berlin as thousands of people planning to go kill Hitler trip over each other, or other such things.
But often it’s the less obvious crimes which are the most odious. Sometimes they’re mere pranks, at least in the minds of those who perpetrate them, but they have terrible consequences. The Star Wars Trial is one such. It sounds an innocuous enough thing to do. Bring some people forwards a hundred years to watch a film. What harm could that possibly do?
For the two hundred people the prank was played on, incredible harm. Fully half suffered complete m
