![]() ![]() ![]() So the stub timeline branched off from the main timeline in the early- to mid-2020s, or even earlier depending on when The Peripheral's Research Institute made its earliest incursion into the past. As Grace tells Flynne in The Peripheral season 1, episode 5, "What About Bob?", the Research Institute set up its shell defense contractors early enough to install futuristic haptic technology in soldiers' bodies by 2028. ![]() However, from what's been shown in the first six episodes, it must have been earlier than 2028. ![]() The Peripheral season 1 has yet to divulge when the Research Institute of 2100 first alters Flynne, Burton, and Conner's timeline. Related: The Peripheral Is Avoiding The Problem That Killed Westworld The 2020s or Earlier - Birth of the Stub Timeline Here's The Peripheral's full timeline explained. This book entered my life when I was at the gym riding a stationary bicycle (technically a unicycle), pretending I was being pursued by a horde of hungry zombies, and listening to a CBC Ideas podcast in which Nahlah Ayed interviews Andrew Potter for an update on his book, On Decline. The Research Institute of the future refers to the branching timelines as " stubs," and the show's earlier 2032 setting is actually in one such stub. Thus, while their own timeline stays intact, The Peripheral's future-era characters can toy with the past and never worry about affecting their own reality. The Peripheral avoids the causation paradoxes that plague many time travel stories by specifying early on that communications from the future to the past create branching alternate timelines. ![]()
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