Denesh/Keith Denison's charioteer, Agop Mikelian, recruited into the Time Patrol after the massacre at Van in 1908, trades on William Saroyan's publicity in 1930's California. I found these references obscure but have googled them. Because of his background, Mikelian helps to trace Indo-European migrations, thus including the origins of the Armenians. Mikelian is one of many such "spear carrier" characters in the Time Patrol series.
This is all a build-up to Denison's departure from Babylon in 1765 BC and arrival in Paris in 1980alpha AD. When Mikelian departs a moment before Denison, which timeline is he going to arrive in? He might be one of the larger number of time travellers who arrive at their expected destination. It is pointless to say that "now" all time travellers are bound futureward into the alpha timeline. We already know that most of them are not.
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Kaor, Paul!
I would have liked to have seen more about those "spear carriers." E.g., what happened to Patrol agents irretrievably lost to time lines the Patrol could no longer access?
Ad astra! Sean
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