Hyper-decade

To the casual observer, a hyper-decade appears to be a regular decade. However, the truth of the situation is usually far more horrifying.

A hyper-decade occurs when a group of bastards 'have a blast' over the span of a decade, then use time-travel to return to the start of that decade to keep the binge going. The process is repeated at least four hundred times, in cases where the perpetrators do not get killed. In effect, thousands of years of history are compressed into the space of ten years.

This behaviour causes splitting of the timeline into hundreds of strands. By some trick of modern physics, these are recombined at the end of the hyper-decade, so that the events of all of the timelines are reflected in the time beyond. As a result, mass panic and confusion, along with earth tremors and meteor impacts are often observed as the hyper-decade comes to a close.

Notable hyper-decades

• It is thought that both the Great Depression and the Great Fire of London were caused by timeline convergence at the end of hyper-decades.

• The Murder Hyper-decade is characterised by the similarity between the thousands of timestrands, in which the same ten people are murdered over and over again. At the point of convergence, the mountains of identical dead bodies protruding above sea level over the Marianis Trench cause the killings to gain the label 'Holocaust 2'.