#22 The Neverlost Time Vault

Age: Time Is Relative

Hidden or Lost?: Located In the Nothing Between A Moment

History: As any time traveler will tell you, there are some moments so important, so singular and sacrosanct, that they should never be tarnished or altered. Neither for the sake of temporal unity or out of ethical imperative. But protecting those moments is easier said than done. That's where the timemasters at the Neverlost Time Bank come in.

The Neverlost Time Bank is a one-of-a-time vault facility located in the space between seconds safeguarding the most important moments. Within the Neverlost main vault there are moments of cosmic significance like the Big Bang and the inception of the first chronal drive, as well as bits of time that shape worlds, such as the invention of the wheel, the dawn of language, and the birth and death of tyrants.

They also operate a private vault for those with approval from the governing temporal body, or who can pass enough money under the temporal table. Here clients can store moments in time of their choosing, whether it's something as innocent as the moment they met their true love or something more sinister, such as a hidden assassination or the discovery of a dangerous weapon. Once a moment has been vaulted, anyone trying to visit that time period will be unable to appear, viewing it as a blip of lost time.

To access vaulted moments, travelers must go through Neverlost or find a way to disable the Minute Gates that are used to cordon off moments. The time vaults within Neverlost are guarded by strange and deadly security measures including an armory filled with eons of time machines and temporal weapons, and a cadre of warriors that have been frozen in the state of battle, forever on guard and ready to attack. In addition, Neverlost employs time fields that can age intruders 100 years in a second and Forgetting Drones that will travel to the past and clip entire family trees at the root.

There's only ever been one successful robbery of the Neverlost Time Bank, but that event, and exactly what was stolen, is stored deep within the vaults. It is the bank’s most closely guarded secret.

1. Temporal Anchor Pad

2. Remembrance Deposits

3. Recollections and Withdrawals

4. Bank Manager’s Moment

5. Viewing Booths

6. Private Memory Stations

7. Nowsoldat Barracks

8. Momentary Armory

9. Vault Zeitgeist

10. Vault Nostalgia

11. Vault Never

12. Pinned Innovations

13. Unmade Works

14. Forever Young

15. The Passions

16. The Golden Hour

17. (REDACTED)

18. The Mistakes

19. History Restricted

20. Cosmic Truths