What types does the Time Patrol recruit?
Manson Emmert Everard
lieutenant, US Army Engineers;
design and production experience in America, Sweden and Arabia;
bibliophile;
likes sailboats, horses and rifles;
camper and fisherman on vacations.
Keith Denison
Ph.D. in archaeology;
collegiate boxing championship;
crossed the Atlantic in a thirty-foot ketch;
heroic service in Korea.
Carl Farness
Two years in the Army in peace time;
top scores on the target range;
outdoorsman - mountaineering, skiing, sailing, swimming;
college football;
grad school fencing and archery;
traveled a lot, not always to safe or standard places.
Janne Floris
Studied archaeology;
an athlete close to championship standards;
has traveled off the tourist routes into difficult and dangerous places.
Herbert Ganz
Recruited in middle age, already a Professor of early Germanic studies in nineteenth century Berlin;
usually time travels only to an office centuries uptime;
returns within five minutes to his pompous academic existence.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
WITH the exception of Herr Professor Ganz, I noticed that one things all of these persons had in common was an ability/liking to handling themselves in physically strenuous environments.
Sean
All those agents except Ganz -needed- to be physically capable and to be accustomed to environments without modern conveniences.
Note that Ganz doesn't stop being a 19th-century German academic because he's a Time Patrol agent; he maintains those tastes and customs and preferences.
Dear Mr. Stirling,
And Ganz himself said almost the same thing, and would agree with you. I remember how he said that he did not travel to the remote past because of lacking the necessary skills and aptitudes needed for surviving.
Sean
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