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.
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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
The Patrol probably selects culturally compatible people for joint missions.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Which makes simple sense. The Patrol would want its agents to be able to work together with the minimum possible mutual "culture shock."
Ad astra! Sean
My 21st-century Americans get a fair amount of culture shock in 2nd-century Rome... even though they're specialists in that period of history. That specialization lets them function there, though.
Also, if you're isolated in a different culture, you either go nuts or (unconsciously) assimilate.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I sure as heck know I would not manage anywhere as well as Arthur/Artorius and his grad students did in Antonine Rome.
Ad astra! Sean
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