In There Will Be Time, time travellers are few and time travel across the centuries or millennia is difficult. For these reasons, the Eyrie agents find few fellow mutants to recruit on Crucifixion Day although Havig later thinks that there are probably more travellers there-then, harder to detect.
By contrast, in the Time Patrol universe, fanatics, freebooters and researchers crowd into Jerusalem in 69-70 AD for the Jewish War and the destruction of the Third Temple with their immense consequences for:
Judaism
Christianity
the Roman Empire
Europe
the world
the universe?
Everard speaks of a near-infinity of causes and effects. The presence of so many time travellers, some of them wanting to change events, increases the chance of temporal changes - which cannot happen in There Will Be Time although Havig ingeniously changes the significance of an event. One of his fellow recruits to the Eyrie has been sent by Havig's older self to infiltrate the Eyrie.
For more on the significance of events in Jerusalem in the Time Patrol universe, see Koch And Farness.
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