"Maybe when Perceptor sees the future and something bad is in store he lies about it to everyone else, and then locks himself in his lab and reinvents it."

Sorry to butt into a conversation, but what if, conversely,by trying to change things he ended up accidentally causing them instead? (They did something similar in "RvB") Or, he knows it's bad to mess with the future and instead has to wait for all these tragedies come to pass cos he has no choice? (This comes up all the time in time travel movies/shows...)