[ WP ] The lottery is an Institution designed to catch Time Travelers .

People think that today is awful, that the modern era is a grey and bleak mess with nothing to live for and little joy to be found. I know differently, for ten years now I've worked the Lottery beat defending our time against the greedy selfish will be masses of some of the worst of our future timelines. The Texcati expansion, the Oceanboilers, the NeoKwitzwalers. I know these names mean nothing to you, I hope they never will. 
 
 Most futures turn out pretty good, people are always surprised to hear that too, but your current age is always a golden era for someone else, the time they dream of and the era they ache to go back too and filled with their future knowledge make their fortune and settle down. 
 
 Before the lottos this was a mess. I bet you do n't know the story of the anti grav engine in 1920s New York, or the nano plasma guns in the Spanish Civil War. Other departments, old case records, and messes of just the sort we now try to avoid. 
 
 Criminals are greedy. Criminals are lazy. Offer them the chance at the big score for almost no work and they'll come to you every time. Here is the one lesson history should teach you, it's never easy and there's always a catch. Try to score on my watch, that catch is going to be you and you're taking a quick trip to the Zellawani, and trust me pal, that's even worse than the pit you crawled out of.
