


The End of Time marks a permanent Zero State in everything is frozen, with the exception of Chronon-active individuals (people who had direct interaction to Chronon particles) and Shifters (creatures who live within Zero State). So what you can expect to find at the End of Time? Well, not a lot. It's in these closing moments that we learn that they had prevented the fracture from occurring in 2016, as they were always scheduled to do, but the 2021 threat still looms. In the end, after a final battle over the CFR, William and Jack uses the device to fix the fracture. Jack wants to use it to prevent the End of Time from ever happening, whereas Paul, accepting that time is fixed, needs it to operate the Lifeboat Protocol.Īs the game progresses, more of Quantum Break's complex story reveals itself we learn that William Joyce had built two time machines, that Beth experienced the End of Time alongside Serene, and that Jack and Beth had been involved in the same accident that caused Paul's Chronon Syndrome. While working towards the same goal, the two had vastly different plans, while both needing the power of the Countermeasure (also known as the Chronon Field Regulator). Following his experiences during this period, he travelled back to 1999 to start work on Monarch Solutions, a company dedicated to rebuilding and resuming time after the break.

For Paul, it was the result of the failed experiment which led to him travelling forward in time to witness the End of Time first hand. For Jack, his introduction to the End of Time is through his brother, William Joyce, after the collapse of the Meyer-Joyce field during the illegally-ran Project Promenade experiment. In Quantum Break, it is the greatest threat and one that both Jack Joyce and Paul/Monarch are trying to prevent. It was on this date that Paul Serene and Monarch Solutions predicted would be the End of Time, a permanent Zero State in which everything and everyone will be frozen. If you've played Quantum Break, January 5th 2021 is a date that might have been in the back of your mind.
