The basis of the Beyond War technology, a body of fiction supporting the Beyond War video game by Raccoon Technologies Incorporated, is an energy source known collectively as the QSR: Quantum Singularity Reactor. A QSR acts as a device capable of collecting matter regardless of space or time, burning its potential energy, and venting that energy while adjusting the probability and causality mechanisms of quantum mechanics to omit the outcome of the particle which was "plucked" from the space-time path. In essence, it burns the fuel source and then the matter which was consumed is re-set and exists thereafter rather than being consumed.

At least, that is how a QSR is designed to work - in theory.

Like an engine, however, tolerances and material defects, environmental factors, and flaws in design can cause "anomolies" which fail to effectively carry out the intended harmless destruction of non-essential matter and energy with no persistent consequences.

Anyone familiar with "Schrodinger's Cat" will imediately recognize the concept of a QSR in function, as the arguement regarding the cat proposes that the cat is not really there if nothing can perceive it. Likewise, the matter is "not really destroyed" if no observer can detect the minute slice of time in which reality was literally "burned" to produce fuel for the QSR process. The efficiency of the QSR, or other factors such as competition between selected matter among multiple QSR devices - each attempting to carry out minute changes in space-time independent and oblivious to one-another - may render unpredictable results. As the very nature of the QSR is outside the linear or relativistic flow of time, the potential for something "very bad" is therefore inherent in the system.

The efficiency of the QSR may also pull differently-sized slices of time, making some designs much less disruptive than more primitive (longer span) models which are fundamental to the development cycle of any civilization which experiments with this technology. The potential to weaponize the capability of the time and probability shifting mechanism is likely more menacing than the potential side-effect of the actual event, or failure to carry out this "conservation of linear time" process at all. However, it is easier to "heal time" than to "specifically select the relative chain of events or matter involved in such events with anything but random chance spanning all physical material in our Universe, or any potential alteration of our Universe to an infinite number of branches. Threfore, to date, no species has been known to have "weaponized" the QSR functionality to this end - other than the potential impact of "The Great Cataclysm" in which 95% of all life in the known Universe utterly and suddenly disappeared.

Awareness of this fact, in concert with the discovering and true understading of QSR technology and its overwhelming role in the conflict prior the Great Cataclysm, eludes most species until they are exceedingly close to extinction. The relative risk of the technology does not end at the potential for abuse of causality, as many anomylous areas of damaged spacetime near major battles of the last great war indicate.

When QSR systems are utilized - travel over great distances and across parallel dimensional contact is possible, as well as weapon discharges that are so far beyond the density of energy per span of our spacetime that they "rise" or "fall" through the fabric of reality - leaving tears in all matter and energy fields that are contrary to the laws of physics and interaction of waveform energy in our Universe. This "high energy" discharge has polarity, and can be used for multi-light year range weapons capable of anti ship and anti planetary impact. Significant power can be generated to decimate a star or even a black hole.

Slightly more disturbing is the relative size of a QSR device. While some have been found that are the size of solar systems, others have been located that are of equal capability and no larger than one centimeter tall by one-eigth of a millimeter thick - no larger than a very small coin. This means that the power to eliminate a planet or shoot down a starship the size of a city can be compressed to personal sidearm or concealed in a vending machine. The implcations for a people only now crawling out of the aftermath of the last Great War are deeply disturbing.

Prior to the end of The Great War, twelve species were involved. Many were genetically engineered as weapons for use in The War, and existed solely for that purpose - including genetic predisposition to conflict and conquest. Of those, none possessed control over QSR technology beyond the use of direct energy or propulsion and power systems.

The requirement to manage the calculations of operating a QSR beyond those levels demanded a living intelligence in excess of material artificial intelligence then in production, and integration into the structure of the QSR to insullate the user against self-altering actions that would negate the existance of the device itself. QSRs have been known to explode, taking entire solar systems out of material space - possibly when their matter was accidentally sampled by another QSR causing a cascade failure in the ongoing process and unfinished dimensional transactions to remain. Anomolies such as the paranormal have been attributed to this activity since the discovery of QSR technology.

It is rumored that near The End of The Great War, just prior The Cataclysm, a 13th species was developed that might be superior to natural species and use QSR technology more effectively as a weapon. One capable of using not only the energy output of the device, but the ability to re-arrange time and causality itself with purpose and objective.

However, as no clear 'victor' remains, this theory is largely dismissed as one of the more paranoid delusions behind the mass extinction of all life in the known Universe. There are many other potential offshoot technologies of altering spacetime and blowing holes in parallel dimensions with contrary laws of physics to imagine a sinister evil force is simply waiting on life to replinish itself silently in the void for thousands of years... while having the ability to alter reality out of sequence... in essence just "killing time" by even waiting. Or so one might hope.