Saturday, 1 November 2025

Time Patrol Unattached Agents

Manse Everard is one of the most important Unattached agents working in the past three millennia but the Patrol covers a million years so there must be Unattached agents very unlike him operating in future millennia. We are shown one.

Just as Poul Anderson's Technic History extends from post-Chaos recovery to the period of the Commonalty, the Time Patrol history extends from the Academy in the Oligocene period through other past periods visited by Everard and future periods guarded by agents like Komozino to the civilization of the Danellians.

The most remarkable fact that we learn about Komozino is that she might have spent years of lifespan in research and preparation between learning of the temporal upheaval and contacting Everard. Dealing with the upheaval is a matter of urgency but a time traveller can spend years on something urgent.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul

Guion was also a Patrol agent who came from Everard's remote future. And Carl Farness consulted a Patrol physician in a secret base on the Moon of the 23rd century.

Ad astra! Sean