Anytime

undefinedThe Anytime was a time-travelling vessel. It was originally created by the inventor Zfalkin'Stav, who lost it when he attempted to travel before the universe was created. The Anytime was transported to Earth in 2025, where it was taken by Steven.

Description
A one-of-a-kind vessel with unique capabilities, the Anytime possessed the ability to travel through time at the will of its passengers. It had a sleek, angular design, with the external appearance of a silver-plated jet. It had a triangular nose with a flat front window. Its interior contained a control panel at the front of the vessel, with an open space for passengers.

The Anytime's time-travel ability was powered by a custom hypertime drive, but the vessel also possessed engines for movement in space or a planetary atmosphere. Its destination could be set manually or spoken verbally, though the latter system was not always accurate.

History
The inventor Zfalkin'Stav created the Anytime after fifty-six years of experimentation into constructing the hypertime drive. His first trip in the vessel was four hours and sixteen minutes into the future, testing the Anytime's time-travel abilities. Zfalkin'Stav subsequently traveled in the vessel for some time, visiting numerous locations and time periods.

After Zfalkin'Stav attempted to travel to a point before the creation of the universe, the Anytime landed in no-time. The malevolent entity known as I, who acted as the guardian of no-time, punished Zfalkin'Stav for breaching the point of the universe's creation. I activated the Anytime's hypertime drive, sending the vessel to a random point in time and leaving Zfalkin'Stav trapped. The Anytime was sent to the planet Earth in the year 2025, landing within a large crater in the desert of Northern Arizona.

Around the same time that the Anytime arrived on Earth, a majority of its population was removed by the Halifax, leaving seventeen survivors. One of the survivors, Steven, stumbled across the Anytime while fleeing from the others. Unaware of its true nature, Steven boarded the Anytime and attempted to activate its controls. His attempt mistakenly set the Anytime on a course for the planet Exelar Seven in the year 10007. The vessel crashed through the Screen of Exelar and narrowly missed a large crowd who were attending a judging of the Universal Courts. The Anytime and Steven were unharmed, though he was confused by his sudden trip through time. The Exelar Seven authorities subsequently arrested Steven for property damage, impounding the Anytime and sent it to the scrapyard planet Yagzar Alpha. With the help of the Orkawwian Larkenarkmark, who had witnessed his arrival on Exelar Seven, Steven was released from his charges, and the two retrieved the Anytime from Yagzar Alpha before it was scrapped.

Having deduced the Anytime's nature as a time machine, Steven wished to time-travel back to Earth before the disappearance of its population. With Larkenarkmark still aboard the vessel, Steven attempted to tell the Anytime his intended destination. The vessel registered his request, but interpreted his words of "Earth in 2025" as Erfin-2025, a small asteroid in the Erfin Belt home to a pirate gang led by Agden Laz. Upon the Anytime's arrival on the asteroid, Laz boarded the vessel and attacked Steven. Larkenarkmark subsequently panicked and attempted to activate the Anytime's voice recognition, sending the vessel to a number of locations in quick succession: Orkaww, Exelar Seven, the Qwert system, and Fzril. At Fzril, a planet that had collapsed into a miniature black hole several years prior, the Anytime became caught in its gravitational pull. Both Steven and Laz were knocked unconscious by the Anytime's sudden movement, and Larkenarkmark threw Laz out of the vessel.

Larkenarkmark used the Anytime's controls to travel to a random time and place, and Steven awoke while the vessel was in transit. The Anytime arrived on the planet Javood in the year 5073, where Steven and Larkenarkmark met Javoodan resident Stan.

Appearances

 * Anytime
 * Northern Arizona (First appearance)
 * Anytime, Nowhere
 * One Man's Trash
 * Gone Sideways
 * A Man, A Plan, And A Guy Named Stan