All five time travellers have read L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall and one, McCladden, is familiar with Marvel superheroes. (There was a reference not to a Marvel character but to their competitor, Clark Kent, in a very different time travel novel, There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson.) It is a safe bet that Marvel will still be making films in 2032.
Here is a completely unexpected (to me) piece of merchandise for a time travel team: a solar-charging kit for phones, tablets, laptops with a translator AI and their external drives. With equipment like that in addition to their own knowledge and skills, this team just has to make a difference. The powers that be have to learn that these are guys to work with, not to enslave, brutalize etc. Maybe they have been sent to just the right destination date? Only time will tell.
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Kaor, Paul!
Small solar powered devices are not new--I have both a solar powered Seiko wristwatch and a Radio Shack pocket calculator.
First Artorius and his grad students have to recover from the shock of being dumped in the past and start learning the ins and outs of a very strange, to them, society.
Ad astra! Sean
The time-travelers are lucky in who they first meet! Though they quickly make a rule not to show electronics to anyone (except Josephus). They'd look supernatural to 2nd-century people.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Absolutely! They were dang lucky Josephus was a devout and upright Jew.
Yes, electronics would look dangerously like magic to second century AD people. I think Artorius later showed some electronics to Marcus Aurelius.
Ad astra! Sean
He did.
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