How does a war through time work in am immutable timeline? Why do the Wardens or Rangers not guard time portals to apprehend enemies trying to go through them? Maybe they do guard some. Maybe they have checked and found that the portals are not guarded and therefore do not try to guard them what with known events being immutable? Maybe both sides tried to guard the same portal, got into a fight about it and had to back off? Storm is able to escape from the twentieth century because, as she thinks, her enemy, Brann, had not thought to guard the Danish portal. However, it turns out that he had known that she would go through that portal and that he would apprehend her after she had done so. ("After" on her world-line, not chronologically "after.") So Brann had a good reason to leave the Danish portal unguarded. When Wardens and Rangers go into battle against each other, how much does either side already know about the outcome of the battle and to what extent can they take that knowledge into account from the outset? They would be able to accept any number of losses if they knew in advance that the eventual outcome was going to be victory for them.
Malcolm Lockridge chooses to fight for his friends in the past as Carl Farness does in the Time Patrol story, "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth."
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Kaor, Paul!
Complexities indeed, involving questions it may be impossible to answer.
Eventually, of course, Carl Farness had to accept orders to no longer assist his descendants and friends in the past.
Ad astra! Sean
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