Genetic Time Travel

After Rome got her gun, she and Rei continued down the Meson tunnel deep within the Tevatron, following the signs of battle. At last they came to the concrete barriers that Jack Henry had set up to prevent the Erklirte from getting a straight shot. They noted the bullet holes in the concrete baffles.

Here is what they found:

     “We’re getting close,” Rei said. “It looks like this is where they had their big battle.”
     MINIMCOM strode around the blocks and called out to them. They hurried through the maze to see where the livetar was pointing. There were two large stains on the ground, covered in dust. Rome cocked her head and stared at the closer one. She sank to her knees and gently wiped the dust away. There, in the center of the black stain, was a circle scratched out with the initials JH in the middle. A single stroke cut all the way through it.
     Rome touched it in a loving way then put her fingers to her lips. She looked up at Rei. “This is where Hanry Ta Jihn died,” she said. “I can feel it in my heart. This was the beginning of the end of the Erklirte.”
     “The black stain is dried blood,” MINIMCOM said, taking a sample with his fingertips.

We have always suspected that Rome had extraordinary psychic powers but it was this incident confirms it. Just by touching the 600-year-old blood stain, her mind traveled back into the past and contacted her ancestor. In fact, all of the historical records that were portrayed in The Ark Lords were courtesy of Rome's genetic time travel. She speculated that perhaps time was like a river and that under some circumstances, your mind can travel up or down the river when freed of the body. Kind of like Quantum Leap but without occupying a body in the past. I guess she knew what she was talking about.