Tech Valuations: Who Has What... and When?

“Time is like a freeway with an infinite number of lanes” — Virgil

Those “in the know” widely debate technology valuation as an integral part of R&D management, as the topic has been subject to research for some time. Nonetheless, there are still gaps in Earth’s body of knowledge, and technology transfer is hotly contested amongst practitioners trying to understand and properly develop anti-grav/superluminal, CHRONO, and other non-market technologies.

  It is known that several factions within the United Planets concordat have possessed these technologies but consider Earth under a ‘technological quarantine’ with the exception of certain organisations under the Orville Corporation umbrella. Limited disclosure informs us that Project: HORLOGE is one such operation engaged in R&D as well as surgical “chrono-corrections” of the “current” timeline.
  “I’d call it a fool’s errand but it’s much more dangerous than that,” points out long-time Orville critic Dr Allende Benton. “Remembered History has been extruded, kneaded, and repaved repeatedly by parties known and unknown. It’s a mess.”
  The good doctor is correct. The current timeline is but a temporal offshoot of a pre-existing timeline, due to repeated chronological meddling by various agents.
  Research into the origins of this inevitably leads to paradoxes, dead ends, and Oneirophrenic Venn Conflicts. Even timebots and field chrononauts can do little to enforce the oft-ignored Rules of Causality. In addition to that, Dr Hasslein’s points of “infinite regression” further complicate many CHRONO excursions (Meta-Scope, and Meta-Scope Once Removed). But one facet scientists can agree on is that a main Point of Divergence occurred during the mid-20th century.
  Theories and rumours have abounded for years — gifted tech (more likely stolen), desert encounters, classified test vessels — all interesting, but all paths traced backwards lead to fractured and contradictory timeframes.
  But the fact still stands that the tech currently exists.

Apocrypha of Current Timeline — Testimony of Courier Prime
DATELINE: [REDACTED] Ship Yards, Stratum -XXIX

“...I stood on the slip at the salvage yard as the crew took their break. The weather was warming up. I was looking across the harbor at a docked destroyer escort wondering what the thick cables draping up to it were for — they weren’t fuel lines. I could hear a low hum and noticed the smell of ozone. A mist began enveloping the ship, obscuring it from sight. I could no longer see it but it had to be there, right?
  “The hum increased to a sizzling sound — then, suddenly there was a blue flash, like lightning. Klaxons on that side of the shipyard began sounding and all hell broke loose. Personnel began scurrying alongside the dock in a panic — they were Navy, not salvage. I really couldn’t tell what was going on. I glanced at my wristwatch and noticed that it had stopped...” [end transcript]