Cuicuilco

I do not remember reading about Cuicuilco before but I find that I have posted about it four times. See here. (Scroll down.) And now a fifth.

There is a finite number of time travellers on Earth in 209 BC - including in Cuicuilco. When all of these time travellers have completed their business in that year, that will be the end of the matter and there will be no further need or occasion for anyone to travel to 209 BC. That year can be regarded as closed, completed and done with - and the same applies to every other year.

Everard learns that the time travel traffic in 209 BC includes himself leading the capture or killing of the last of the Exaltationists - not a routine task like the work of the Patrol base staff or of the historical investigators but nevertheless a single finite operation that, once completed, can be left when it is as part of the fixed past and need not be revisited. In that sense, the entire history of the Patrol is complete, including the retirement and death of the last graduate of the Academy. Reading the series might generate an impression of endlessness but that would be misleading.

Life really is busier here. Maybe only one post today.