Time Travel and The Vril Generator

[weslyfe]

The talk of teleportation and time travel, in the Teleporters thread, started me thinking about COTD. The vril generator, or golden rod, is used to transport the O4 through time. 

Does anybody think that maybe Richtofen still has access to the vril generator? If he does, he could be using it to transport the O4 through time over and over because he keeps creating drastic changes in the timeline each time. The chapters of the story in Moon, and BO2 could be just different periods in between time travel. 

One detail that I know cannot be found, and therefore makes the theory incomplete, is that whether or not the person holding the vril generator retains some or all of his memory  post-time travel.

I believe this could be the case based on the comments of the O4. Nikolai, Takeo, and Dempsey are always clueless at the start of the rounds; whereas, Richtofen clearly demonstrates some knowledge of what is going on. Could it be because he is in control of the time travelling?

If so, what is his REAL hidden agenda? Also, why did the team become younger in the past two leaps? (Origins, and it's cutscene.) Does the answer to this have something to do with Richtofen escaping the Aether?

 

If this theory were true, then zombies would not be just the imagination of little children and the wild science-fiction storyline that has been shown since Shi No Numa and Der Riese would be true, and could continue.

Who knows, maybe the next game will have Maxis, child Richtofen, and two others from group 935 as the playable characters. The end scene in Origins leads me to think that maybe Richtofen was not originally a scientist but a friend of Samantha's and was under Maxis' care at the time of the outbreak, and Samantha's death. There are a lot of gaps, but in my opinion, at least this theory shows some hope that the story lines could still be connected. If the next maps were set in the period directly after Samantha's death then we could expect a full circle zombies timeline. 

I am clearly hoping that Treyarch has a complete story that makes sense while staying interesting and that they haven't just been creating zombies 'on the fly'. 

 

I hope this isn't too far out in left field, but I thought it could be a potential reason for the end of Origins that was a little bit more interesting than a storyline set in a child's imagination.

 

[Matuzz]

Vril generator is not needed for telepportation but to change bodies. As for who has the Vril generator? No one I believe. Richtofen can't have it at least because he is in zombie body or in Samuel depending on the side the player chose. Both Vril generator and Focusing Stone were probably destroyed in the body switcheroo progress in Moon.

 

Origins in itself is separated from the story arch prior to it. It's alternate universe sort of in the game of Samanths and Richtofen.

[InfestLithium]

When looking into the [Moon] Easter Egg steps, it's noted that the Focusing Stone's energy becomes focused within the Vril device. The device itself is nothing more than a container that can hold such tremendous energy without being obliterated. With what @Matuzz said, it was used to swap souls once the MPD went online.

 

What we do know is that Richtofen - as an overlord - has the power to teleport people (such as moving the N4 crew from Hanford to Shanghai), and that he's omnipotent.