Apart from time travelling, timecycles also hover and fly on antigrav and sometimes fight with built-in guns.
"Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks"
Seven Exaltationist cycles attack a Phoenician ship but are almost immediately englobed by forty Time Patrol cycles. Twenty are guncraft. The others aim to take prisoners. Attacking, Everard dodges a beam and draws his blaster. The gunners aim to kill the flying Exaltationists before they can escape into space-time whereas Everard and some others hope to capture the life-jacket-wearing spies aboard the ship. Everard approaches a bobbing figure who raises an energy pistol but the Patrolman shoots first, hauls up the semiconscious Exaltationist and finds that he has captured Merau Varagan.
"The Year of the Ransom"
A squadron jumps spatially from an orbiting spaceship to the sky above the Exaltationist base in Machu Picchu. Manse Everard and Gunner Tetsuo Motonobu, on a single timecycle, materialize near a hovering sentry and Motonobu shoots him down. Everard dives his cycle as his colleagues rake the buildings below them. When he arrives, the battle is over.
1 comment:
This action points out the advantages of superior reconnaissance, surprise, and striking by surprise from ambush.
And the Patrol has superior numbers to start with.
As I've said, the Exaltationists are suicidally overconfident.
Their scheme in Tyre is grotesquely risky. It involves actions which necessarily make them accessible to the Patrol.
They should be strictly avoiding any contact with the Patrol, anything that would draw attention and provide a lead for the agents to track them down. Since they're grossly weaker, any confrontation is unlikely to go well.
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