SOCIETY FOR TEMPORAL PRESERVATION
FIELD WEBSITE / VERSION 1.028
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DiscordThe Society for Temporal Preservation is a Burning Man theme camp staffed by Soviet time travelers. We have arrived in the present to stabilize history, conduct questionable experiments, serve food and drinks, broadcast unauthorized information, and prepare humanity for the 2028 Convergence.
Four units, and not one of them permanent. Everything the Society offers is temporary by design: raised on arrival, dismantled on schedule, and reassembled the following year with improvements nobody authorized.
The Society's forward hospitality post. Drinks are dispensed to any citizen of any era who presents themselves in person. Conversation is encouraged. Historical accuracy is not guaranteed and has never been promised.
A sporting apparatus recovered from an era that had not yet invented sport, rules, or scoring. Participants strike objects toward other objects. The Society records the results for reasons it declines to specify.
The broadcast and performance division. NyetPR transmits information the Society has not cleared, performs material it has not approved, and issues corrections to events that have not yet occurred. It operates without authorization and with enormous confidence.
Initiated in 2025 and immediately declared essential infrastructure. Food is prepared and distributed to the public at intervals determined by supply, weather, and the temperament of the kitchen. There is no queue theory. There is only the queue.
NyetPR transmits from the jump point throughout the event: announcements, interviews, corrections, warnings, and performances staged with no rehearsal and less permission. If the Society has denied something, NyetPR has usually already said it.
Request airtime through the secure message kiosk — NyetPR reviews all requests and honours some of them.
Signal meter — live carrier
Waveform shown for morale purposes. Actual transmission strength varies with dust, altitude, and administrative interference.
Principle 01
Visitors are encouraged to interact, improvise, ask questions, take a shift, invent a new rule, or make the situation more complicated in a constructive way.
There are no spectators on the record.
Principle 02
Ask before touching people, costumes, equipment, bicycles, instruments, tacos, or apparently dormant time machinery. Alcohol and altered states do not suspend consent or common sense.
This principle is not part of the bit.
Principle 03
Leave the playa as you found it, protect the Burners who come after us, and never abandon a tachyon in an open cup.
Leave no trace — including this one.
Principle 04
The Society exists because people build, cook, serve, repair, clean, perform, organize, document, and show up. There is no invisible workforce from the future. We checked.
Every hand on the record is credited.
Principle 05
A ridiculous premise becomes a real experience when everyone treats it with enough sincerity to make it work.
Total conviction. That is the whole method.
Founded the Society and has led every expedition since, including several that have not happened yet. Gives orders in the same even tone regardless of which century is currently outside the tent.
Gene Cushing — founded the camp, and is the reason there is one.
Directs Trotsky Takos. Maintains that the queue is a social experiment and refuses to elaborate further.
Kevin Foxcroft — senior engineering technician in Reno–Sparks, Nevada, specialising in pavement assessment.
Rules the tee. Designs the course, sets the hazards, and decides what counts as a stroke. Holds that recreation is the only defensible use of a working time machine.
Everest Cushing — architect of Caveman Golf and wrangler of hammocks.
Founded NyetPR and has been collecting noise complaints ever since — from neighbours, from rangers, and on one occasion from a decade that had not yet been settled.
Robby Schlesinger — marketing professional and artist from Reno, Nevada.
Mobile dance floors, wi-fi networks that go nowhere, car horns fitted to yellow bikes. Holds no brief and answers to no department, which is the arrangement everyone has agreed to stop questioning.
Josh Levine — responsible, in this timeline as in every other, for the noise.
Every timeline ends up here.
The Convergence is underway
The timelines have converged
Until gates open · · Black Rock City
In 2028 every timeline converges on Black Rock City, and so does every Society for Temporal Preservation that has ever existed — along with several that have not existed yet. One week, one camp, every version of us in the same place at the same time. It will be the most raucous celebration in any recorded history. Bring a cup.
The Society is built, fed, broadcast, and staffed entirely by volunteers. There is a job for every skill and several for none.
Path 01
Serve a shift at the bar or kitchen, keep the golf course prehistoric, or hold something heavy while someone else bolts it down.
Shifts assigned on arrival. No experience of this century required.
Path 02
Contribute construction labour, tools, shade structure, lumber, power, refrigeration, ingredients, or equipment the Society will describe as scientific once installed.
Material contributions are catalogued and credited in the record.
Path 03
Donations fund food, fuel, lumber, ice, and the continued operation of an unauthorized broadcast tower. Every contribution is filed against the 2028 Convergence.
Donation channel to be published by the records officer.
Filed in advance by the records officer, who has read them already.
No. It is recommended, but the Society will accept ordinary identification, a convincing story, or a strong personal belief that you belong here.
Our coordinates change with the historical record. The Society has previously operated from the 6:00 sector, including a jump point near G Plaza and 11:15. Check the current Burning Man directory, the playa map, and our field bulletin for this year’s verified position. If you find an empty lot where we were supposed to be, you may have arrived twelve hours early, twelve years late, or at the wrong Burning Man entirely.
The Society operates through gifting and communal effort. Bring your own cup, respect the bartenders, hydrate, and consider contributing time, supplies, or support to the camp.
No. The Society’s historical accuracy is classified, and its physics are mostly decorative. Enthusiasm is sufficient.
Check the posted rules and supervision requirements at camp. The course is primitive, the equipment is real, and the timeline has limited liability coverage.
Possibly. Contact the NyetPR bureau with your name, act, equipment needs, available times, and tolerance for unexpected announcements.
The Convergence is the Society’s planned 2028 operation in which multiple temporal branches of Black Rock City intersect. Participation is expected to be educational, theatrical, and logistically complicated.
Water, a cup, sunscreen, goggles, dust protection, lights, a way to carry your trash, and at least one useful skill. A passport is optional. A time machine is unnecessary and may violate camp placement rules.
Contact the Society before history contacts you. Messages are received at the field terminal, logged, and answered by whichever operative is closest to the desk.
Field radio, desk terminal, and one telephone of uncertain era. All three are monitored irregularly.
