Monday, 10 September 2018

Komozino And The Eighteenth Dynasty

See Unattached Agents.

(When checking past posts, I notice and correct errors so please tell me if you see any.)

We see only part of Manse Everard's career in the Time Patrol and know that this career in turn is a very small part of the history of the Patrol. An entire series could be written, e.g., about Komozino whose origin is so far futureward that Everard does not recognize her race:

seven-foot;
long-limbed, like a spider;
in a close-fitting coverall;
recognizably female;
blue-black crested hair;
deep yellow skin;
large blue eyes;
narrow face;
hook-nosed.

She was looking for a lost cultural expedition in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt when she was contacted from mid-twelfth century Sicily about a temporal catastrophe. Since then, in terms of her personal lifespan, she has spent possibly years traveling between Patrol bases and scanning databases to assemble a team of off-duty individuals led by two Unattached agents, herself and Everard, sealing off the Patrol lodge as their campaign headquarters:

"'...for a certain limited slice of time without affecting anything else too much.'"
-The Shield Of Time, 18,244 B.C., II, p. 302.

And this is just one incident in Komozino's no doubt lengthy career.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And in the back of my mind I was almost sure there was some mention of the XVIII Dynasty of Egypt in one of the Time Patrol stories. But not if that was the one stressing it's cultural influence.

And I think one reason Komozino was so anxious to seek out another Unattached agent like Manse Everard was because she needed a colleague who would not look as dangerously out of place in Norman Sicily as she would.

Sean