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The Temporal Security Agency (also referred to as the Temporal Security Annex) is a fictional organization from Presto Studios' Journeyman Project series. The Temporal Security Annex was created after the invention after the first time machine in order to preserve the space-time continuum. Following the events of the TSA agent Michelle Visard's malicious use of time travel technology, world leaders requested the shutdown of the TSA, as well as the immediate handing over of all time travel jumpsuit cores. Due to the world-saving efforts of the remaining employees of the TSA, however, the TSA is once again allowed to operate.

Over the course of the Journeyman Project series, the Temporal Security Agency develops more advanced forms of time travel. Each game in the series presents the TSA with a new method of time travel. The original time machine used by the TSA, Pegasus, is used in the first game of the series (The Journeyman Project). Individual time travel jumpsuits are used in The Journeyman Project 2, and the Chameleon Jumpsuit (a time travel jumpsuit that can assume the guise of any individual met) is used in The Journeyman Project 3.

Divisions

The organization was first known as the Temporal Security Annex, a top secret organization created to prevent people from meddling with history through the newly-discovered time-travel technology.

When it was revealed to the public in the aftermath of the first game, the name and purpose of the organization changed. It became the Temporal Security Agency and added another division, the Deep Time Research Unit. The Deep Time Research Unit consisted of 5 agents, among them Agent 5 (Gage Blackwood) and Agent 3 (Michelle Visard). The other 5 agents of the TSA remained in the Security division, carrying out the traditional role of guarding history.

Deep Time Research Unit

Time travel allowed the study of history by actually studying it, but the opportunity was never used before the formation of the Deep Time Unit because of the dangers of accidentally or intentionally altering history. The Deep Time Unit consisted of experienced and dedicated agents who would not meddle with history, and would be able to record it impartially.

The data they gathered would be used both to add to mankind's knowledge of history, a worthy goal in itself. Their fieldwork also helped the Security division by increasing knowledge so the TSA could be more certain of the context of any historical revisions.

Administration and Support

Dr. William Daughton was the main technical support for the TSA. He designed the JumpSuits which the agents use to travel through time from the second game onwards.

Commissioner Jack Baldwin was the highest authority within the TSA. He handpicked all of his agents, including Agent 3.

Sources: Internet Movie Database (IMDB, )

Journeyman Project 3 manual

Procedures

The TSA's historical presveration duties were always dependent upon the scanners, automated machines which searched history for any alterations. If they detected an alteration, then, in the early days of the TSA, an agent would need to hurry to prehistoric days to retrieve a backup record of history that was kept hidden by the TSA. The agent would then return to the changed present day, and compare the changed history to the uncorrupted, backup record of history. Then the agent would use Pegasus to visit the moment of alteration and restore history to its proper course.

In later days of the TSA, the agent would be able simply to don a JumpSuit instead of using the Pegasus time travel machine. The scanners had also become sophisticated enough to pinpoint themselves the moment of alteration, instead of requiring a comparison of changed to unchanged history. Presumably the JumpSuit had enough memory that it could contain the unchanged record of history, meaning the agent could go directly to the moment of alteration and ensure that it occurred as the unchanged record stated. A history record in the JumpSuit can only be assumed since it was never fully demonstrated in the actual games.

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