By 2247, humanity's consumption has outpaced what the Earth can provide. Resources have become scarce, corporations have turned to war, and the gap between the wealthy and everyone else has grown into something uncrossable. Collapse appears inevitable. Then a mysterious substance called Flux appears, distributed seemingly at random across every class and social tier, with one extraordinary property: it allows people and objects to move through time. Access to the past means access to everything that was used up. Out of this discovery grows a new profession — Time Raider — for those willing to gamble their lives on what the past might offer.