“What?” Ken asks.
Bankrupt? I think back to the previous future, where Aether had fewer employees and less equipment, but still wasn’t that bad off. Something has changed the timeline again.
“How did this happen?” Adam asks.
“After Vincent Sharp shut Project Chronos down, Aether spent billions of dollars trying to re-create all the technology you brought back. The design for the synthetic water generator was particularly problematic. Vincent refused to give up on it, but they could never get it to work, and the shareholders lost all faith in him after that. Especially when Pharmateka released one that did work.”
Each of our heads snaps to look at Jeremy, who frowns. “s**t, that was my bad,” he says. “I guess I should give my father the real design for the generator.”
“You have the rea
