Thursday, 20 August 2020

Everard's Early Patrol Career

In "Time Patrol," Everard is recruited into the Time Patrol in New York in 1954. In "Delenda Est," he is in the Time Patrol Lodge in the Pleistocene Pyrenees but was most recently in New York in 1960. Thus, six years have elapsed for his public persona but more for Everard himself. In that time, he has:

trained at the Patrol Academy in the Oligocene;
worked with Charles Whitcomb;
trained as an Unattached agent;
accompanied Keith Denison on a mission;
dated Cynthia Cunningham;
rescued Denison from his Cyrus role;
been given a polar bear rug by Bjarni Herjulfsson;
worked with John Sandoval;
worked with Piet Van Sarawak;
once worked in Alexandrine times.

We have not read either about Everard's encounter with Herjulfsson or about his previous mission(s) with Van Sarawak. Thus, there are details that remain unknown, and potential additional stories, about Everard's early Patrol career. As the series progresses, events become more consecutive in terms of Everard's experience of them.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Anderson, of course, was indicating that a MUCH longer time had passed for Everard personally than simply six years. Some of those other missions, tasks, journeys might very well haven more than six years of Manse's personal time to carry out.

Ad astra! Sean