Stealing Atahualpa's Ransom

"The Year of the Ransom."

The Exaltationists, based in Machu Picchu in 1610, would have sent some of their number to steal Atahuapla's ransom in 1533 and carry it to their base in 1610:

"'As isolated as Machu Picchu is at present, it will not be noticeably affected by changes in the near past - for instance, by such a detail as Atahualpa's ransom unaccountably disappearing one night.'" (p. 665)

Although Machu Picchu will not be affected immediately, it will nevertheless exist in a different timeline where the ransom did disappear and where consequences are propagating from that disappearance. Thus, any Exaltationists who remain at the base will be left in a deleted timeline. Those who did travel into the previous century to steal the ransom will carry it to a Machu Picchu where their base does not exist.

Machu Picchu

 

"The Year of the Ransom," 15 April 1610, pp. 655-667; pp. 719-722.

Machu Picchu, occupied from 1420 to 1532 but then abandoned, is a perfect hideout for time criminals. In 1610, the Exaltationists use force fields for roofs and doorways. Their timecycles arrive and depart on a platform attached high on a wall. Magical apparitions frighten the Indians and keep them away. The stories die out but the city remains shunned.

When Time Patrol agents, alerted to the Exaltationists' presence, observe Machu Picchu from space, they see the arrival of the prisoners, Castelar and Tanaquil/Tamberly and must time their own attack for immediately after the prisoners' escape. Thus, the Exaltationists remain safe in Machu Picchu until that later moment.

The Exaltationist Saga III

(The Ian M Banks novel has style but I am not yet sure about its substance.)

Poul Anderson, Time Patrol (New York, 2006).

As noted in the previous post, the first six pages of "The Year Of The Ransom" are headed "10 September 1987" and narrated by Wanda Tamberly. The next eight pages are headed "3 June 1533 [Julian calender]" and narrated in the third person from the point of view of the Conquistador Castelar who is in conversation with the Franciscan Esteban Tanaquil. Castelar and Tanaquil, like Wanda, are captured by someone on what we recognize as a timecycle.

Next, just over twelve pages, headed "15 April 1610", are narrated in the third person from the point of view of Stephen Tamberly, Time Patrolman, whose alias in 1533 had been Esteban Tanaquil. Captured by about thirty Exaltationists based in the deserted Machu Picchu, Tamberly, uncle of Wanda, is interrogated by Merau Varagan. If we read the series in the order of events as experienced by the characters, which is not the order presented in Time Patrol, then this is our first knowledge of Varagan. Knowing that Machu Picchu is unvisited until 1911, the Exaltationists can safely hide there - although they allow themselves to be seen arriving and departing by the locals in order to keep them away.

Castelar, escaping, stabs Varagan but "...wasted no time finishing him." (p. 666) "...Ransom" is carefully written as a prequel to the first published account of the Exaltationists so Varagan cannot be killed here although it would have saved a lot of trouble if he were. Similarly, Castelar stuns Raor. I do not think that Anderson would have known yet that she would later become the villainess of the last Exaltationist story.

About two thirds of p. 667, headed "May 2937 A.D.", are still Tamberly pov but now he and Castelar are alone, having stolen one of the Exaltationists' timecycles.

The next section, fourteen pages preceded by two lines at the end of p. 667, is headed "3 November 1885". At last, we are back on familiar territory. Not only is our point of view character Manson Everard but he sets of in a hansom cab from Dalhousie and Roberts, Importers, the Time Patrol London base, which he previously visited in 1894 on p. 21. We were told in that first story that the Time Patrol's Western milieu HQ for 1850-2000 is in London, 1890-1910. I had inferred that Dalhousie and Roberts was the HQ but here we see it existing before 1890 and referred to only as "...the Time Patrol's London base in this milieu..." (pp. 667-668).

Everard interviews Helen Tamberly about her missing husband and learns of a"'...favorite niece...'" (p. 676). The Tamberlys live on "...York Place [which] divided Baker Street." (p. 677) Everard meets two famous residents of Baker St in 1894.

On pp. 682-685, headed "30 October 1986", Wanda, again the first person narrator, is interviewed by "Mr Everard..." (p. 682) about her missing Uncle Steve. She mentions:

"'I've got a summer job lined up. Tourist guide in the Galapagos Islands.'" (p. 684)

- which is where we met her on 10 September 1987. After Wanda and Everard, we are back, for ten pages, with Castelar and Stephen Tamberly in 2937 B.C., and that is as far as I will take us at present. I summarize all this to demonstrate how skillfully Anderson alternates between points of view and dates in later Time Patrol stories.

The Good That Men Do

Pummairam, Luis Castelar and Wanda Tamberly all learn about time travel. Pum and Wanda are recruited by the Time Patrol whereas Luis' values are too different. Although he fails utterly in his intended new Crusade with the stolen timecycle, he does some good from the Patrol's point of view by:

escaping from the Exaltationists;
kidnapping Stephen Tamberly;
kidnapping Wanda Tamberly.

By interrogating Stephen, he learns that they had been held by Exaltatonists in Machu Picchu. By conversing with Wanda, he relays that information to her. She informs the Patrol who are therefore able to attack the Exaltationists at Machu Picchu immediately after Luis' escape. Unfortunately, Luis had wounded but not killed Merau Varagan so that two of Varagan's men were in the process of taking him elsewhere/when for medical care. Raor also escaped despite having been stunned by Luis.

Luis is convinced that he will go straight to Heaven if he dies fighting for Christendom. It amazes me that so many people are convinced that:

there is a hereafter;
they know what it is like;
they will be OK in it;
others will not.

And yet they differ: Evangelicals; Catholics; Muslims; some Hindus etc. Islam and Christianity, Jihad and Crusade, influenced each other. What Luis believed about his death in battle, we unfortunately hear from some people who commit suicide and mass murder now.

My view is:

a hereafter is unlikely;
if there is one, it is unknown till we get there;
it needs to be an opportunity for continued growth, not a good or bad final destination.

15 April 1610

How often do we see Manse Everard in a spaceship? At the Time Patrol Academy in the Oligocene, he is taught how to handle one. While fellow cadet Whitcomb chats to their instructor:

"Everard said nothing. He was too captured by the spectacle of Earth, rolling enormous against the stars." (Time Patrol, p. 14)

On 15 April 1610 (pp. 719-722), his timecycle materializes in the receiving bay of a ship in Earth orbit (very like a "transporter" arrival in Star Trek):

"It was orbiting dayside when Everard arrived, and the planet stretched vast, blue swirled with white around the ruddinesses that were continents." (p. 719)

(My lap top recognizes "ruddiness" although not the plural "ruddinesses." However, Anderson not only deployed a vast vocabulary but also used it creatively.)

This time, Everard is too busy to enjoy the view. His colleagues have, by orbital observation, identified the exact moment of Castelar and Tamberly's arrival at Machu Picchu (see image). The Patrol will strike the Exaltationists immediately after Castelar's escape.

"Not before, because that did not happen. We dare not undermine even this forbidden pattern of events." (p. 720)

But they do undermine another forbidden pattern. Castelar and Tamberly had disappeared from within a treasure house but the Patrol puts them back in there almost immediately after the Exaltationists had kidnapped them, thus canceling the experiences of the Patrol agent who had investigated the disappearance - and thereby also cancelling how many other related events? I suspect that the threads of the story might unravel at this point.

Back in 1610, the Patrol must strike immediately after Castelar's escape so that the Exaltationists have no time to think, "He has escaped. He might alert the Patrol. Flee!" Armed timecycles jump from within the spaceship to the "...enormous azure..." (p. 720) above Machu Picchu. Everard materializes near the permanently aloft Exaltationist sentry and Gunner Tetsuo Motonobu, sharing Everard's cycle, shoots him down. Everard power-dives, protected from wind by "...an invisible force screen." (p. 721) His fellow agents fire at the buildings occupied by Exaltationists and the battle is over when Everard arrives. Varagan has escaped because he was just about to go elsewhere/when for medical attention to a bad sword wound. Others who scattered randomly on timecycles might never find each other.

In the east, Everard sees:

"...the Gate of the Sun on its ridge, edged black against heaven." (p. 722)

The Exaltationists wear black. They will rise again.

Altering A Timeline

"The Year of the Ransom."

I am not 100% sure of the conclusion of the previous post. How much changes and how much remains the same if a timeline is altered?

Timeline A: the timeline guarded by the Time Patrol;

Timeline B: the timeline that would have resulted if the Exaltationists had stolen Atahualpa's ransom in 1533.

In Timeline B, the Exaltationists either will not exist in the thirty-first millennium or, even if they do exist then, will not travel to 1533 to steal Atahualpa's ransom. However, they will arrive/appear in 1533 and steal the ransom.

The complicating factor is that, in Timeline A, the Exaltationists first establish a base in Machu Picchu in 1610. They intend to steal the ransom in 1533 and then to carry their stolen goods from that year to their base in 1610. Merau Varagan points out that the isolated Machu Picchu will not be noticeably affected by an event, like the disappearance of the ransom, in so recent a past. However, the Exaltationists carrying the stolen ransom futureward from 1533 will travel forward into an altered timeline. It seemed to me that their base, and any of their comrades who had remained at that base, would not exist in the altered timeline. But might they still exist just as the Exaltationists who had stolen the ransom still exist?

Condor, Machu Picchu, Lucifer, Judge Dredd, Gate Of The Sun, Hamlet

"The Year of the Ransom," 15 April 1610.

"A condor wheeled afar." (p. 720)

"Machu Picchu was mightiness in stone. What would the civilization that had created it have done, if fate had allowed it to live?" (p. 721)

There is an alternative history, if you like. Answers can only be speculative.

A Time Patrolman shoots an Exaltationist sentry from his hovering timecycle:

"The man dropped charred from his mount and fell as Lucifer fell." (ibid.)

See Isaiah 14: 12-14: a Biblical reference.

Motonobu says that, if the Patrol agents had come sooner, then they could have prevented any of the Exaltationists from escaping. Everard replies that they could not do what they had not done and reminds his colleague that, "'We are the law...,'" (p. 722) thus making himself sound like Judge Dredd. (Scroll down.)

When Motonobu asks how they will catch Castelar, Everard does not reply but sees:

"...the Gate of the Sun on its ridge, etched black against heaven." (ibid.)

Blackness against heaven symbolizes the obstacles to catching Castelar.

Earlier in the narrative (22 May 1987), there was a Shakespearean reference:

"What dreams may come..." (p. 710)

To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause
-copied from here.

Two Places And A Sparrow

The Avatar, XXIV-XXV.

"'...a cold and brilliant night at Machu Picchu.'" (XXIV, p. 206)

A recording on a giant viewscreen of York Minster:

"...was not static but moved slowly around the delicate facades, soaring and intricate vaults, glowing windows of that loveliest of medieval churches." (XXV, p. 215)

Two places that are seen elsewhere in Poul Anderson's works. 

Are the Others who constructed the T machines:

"'Like God? 'His eye is on the sparrow.'" (XXIV, p. 208)

A Biblical allusion.

The Avatar shares the same rich background as Anderson's other works.

Memories Of Earth

Starfarers, 12.

Before dying on a planet of Delta Pavonis, old Michael Shaughnessy remembers:

Newgrange

a parish church

York Minster

Chartres Cathedral

the University of Salamanca

the portrait of the Empress Theodora at Ravenna

Michelangelo's Day of Judgment

the Parthenon

Egyptian tombs

Shwe Dagon

the Great Wall

the Forbidden City

Kyoto

Virginia hills known to Washington and Jefferson

Machu Picchu

We recognize some places from other Poul Anderson works.

Shaughnessy tells this to the winds of a planet where his wife was buried centuries before.

This character has given us a glimpse of Nansen's career before Envoy, an introduction to the Kith and now memories of the Earth that was.

The history continues.

Timecycles In Combat

Apart from time travelling, timecycles also hover and fly on antigrav and sometimes fight with built-in guns.

"Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks"

Seven Exaltationist cycles attack a Phoenician ship but are almost immediately englobed by forty Time Patrol cycles. Twenty are guncraft. The others aim to take prisoners. Attacking, Everard dodges a beam and draws his blaster. The gunners aim to kill the flying Exaltationists before they can escape into space-time whereas Everard and some others hope to capture the life-jacket-wearing spies aboard the ship. Everard approaches a bobbing figure who raises an energy pistol but the Patrolman shoots first, hauls up the semiconscious Exaltationist and finds that he has captured Merau Varagan.

"The Year of the Ransom"

A squadron jumps spatially from an orbiting spaceship to the sky above the Exaltationist base in Machu Picchu. Manse Everard and Gunner Tetsuo Motonobu, on a single timecycle, materialize near a hovering sentry and Motonobu shoots him down. Everard dives his cycle as his colleagues rake the buildings below them. When he arrives, the battle is over.

Earth

In Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series, Earth is seen twice from space and once from the Moon.

During training in the Oligocene:

"Everard said nothing. He was too captured by the spectacle of Earth, rolling enormous against the stars."

-Poul Anderson, "Time Patrol" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 1-53 AT 2, p. 14.

Before the attack on the Exaltationists in Machu Picchu in 1610:

"[The spacecraft] was orbiting dayside when Everard arrived, and the planet stretched vast, blue swirled with white around the ruddinesses that were continents."

-Poul Anderson, "The Year of the Ransom" IN Time Patrol, pp. 641-735 AT 15 April 1610, p. 719.

On the Moon:

"...heaven black but reigned over by an Earth nearly full. I lost myself in the sight of that glorious white-swirled blueness. Jorith had lost herself there, two thousand years ago."

-Poul Anderson, "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" IN Time Patrol, pp. 333-465 AT 2319, 375.

The Roaring Forties And Sechin Alto

Apart from reading Flecker, Alston wants to:

"Watch an iceberg heel in the Roaring Forties..." (p. 387)

What is it for an iceberg to "heel"? I tried googling this but found (see here).

Alston also wants to see condors above:

"...the towering painted pyramid of Sechin Alto in Peru." (p. 388)

In the twentieth century, this is an archaeological site. It reminds us, or at least me, of Machu Picchu, used as a hideout by Exaltationist time criminals in the Time Patrol series.

With a book and a laptop, I can:

read the text;
google the (to me) obscure references;
blog about them.

Thus, it takes forever to read a book or even a chapter. I still do not know how the sea battle in On The Oceans of Eternity pans out. Shortly, I will:

watch a Smallville dvd;
sleep;
check emails and blog over breakfast;
walk;
eat lunch;
visit Ketlan in hospital;
meditate;
maybe eat again before visiting Ketlan again;
maybe read and blog some more;
watch another Smallville;
and so on.

Life could be a lot worse.

Remembering Earth

Poul Anderson, Starfarers (New York, 1999), Chapter 12.

Old Michael Shaugnessy, having returned to the extrasolar planet where his wife is buried to die there, remembers Earth. He lists familiar place names but also says:

"Shwe Dagon recalled another faith..." (p. 90)

I wrongly took this to refer to the god Dagon.

The planet to which Shaughnessy has returned is called Feng Huang but has a valley of the Kshatriya. (This must mean that a river is named after an Indian caste?)

Of the Terrestrial places listed by Shaugnessy, we recognize two that appear in other works by Anderson, York Minster and Machu Picchu. He also mentions an Empress Theodora. Relying for the moment on memory, I think that one Empress Theodora, although maybe not this one, features in Anderson's The Last Viking Trilogy?

Chapter 12, just over two pages in length, mainly tells us that time is passing and also that times are not currently good on Earth. Meanwhile, the Envoy, with its massive time dilation factor, remains in flight...

When Not To Kill

There are times when a character could have been killed but wasn't and we think about what might have happened if he had been. In The Broken Sword, XIX, Skafolc could have killed Valgard in his sleep but it:

"...would too likely make a noise and thus cost him the sword." (p. 130)

"Castelar wasted no time finishing [Varagan]."

-Poul Anderson, "The Day of the Ransom" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, December 2010), pp. 641-735 AT 15 April 1610, p. 666.

Manse Everard has "already" met Varagan "later" so, although the latter could have been killed at Machu Picchu in 1610, we already know that he wasn't.

Lisbeth Salander:

"...opened the pistol and checked that she had one round left. and considered shooting Zalachenko in the skull. Then she remembered that Niedermann was still there, out in the dark, and she had better save it."

-Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire (London, 2009), CHAPTER 32, p. 562. 

So Zala survives into Volume III but Lisbeth does not wind up with a charge for murdering him.

You can probably think of other examples.

Varagan Returns

Poul Anderson, "The Year of the Ransom" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 641-735.

Manson Everard of the Time Patrol and Merau Varagan of the Exaltationists met for the first time in South America in 1826 in "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks." It was the first time for both. For time travellers, this need not have been the case but Poul Anderson avoided that complication. Everard and Varagan meet only twice. Both meetings occur in "Ivory..." although the second meeting was continued in The Shield Of Time.

But between his two meetings with Everard, Varagan also met Stephen Tamberly of the Time Patrol in Machu Picchu on 15 April 1610:

"'Will it help if I introduce myself? Merau Varagan. If you have heard of my race, it is probably under the name of the Exaltationists.'" (p. 660)

If we are to follow the four stages of the war between the Patrol and the Exaltationists, then this is the order in which they occur:

Everard and Varagan

Tamberly and Varagan

Everard and Varagan

Everard and Raor

Elaborate? Yes. Anywhere as near as complicated as it might have been? No. 

A Time Patrol War

Poul Anderson, Time Patrol (New York, 2006).

The Time Patrol is a police force, not an army. However, I think that the Patrol's extended campaign against the Exaltationists counts as a small time war - it certainly involves two battles, at Machu Picchu and in the Aegean - whereas Everard's and Van Sarawak's operation against two Neldorians at the Battle of Ticinus is more like a police action.

The Neldorians are motivated by gross self-aggrandizement whereas the Exaltationists are more refined and sophisticated egoists. Only individual time criminals, like Stane or Castelar, are idealists, motivated by something other than personal gratification. The Patrol never faces a well-intentioned oppositional organization. Imagine if Stane's guard had been not a local Jute but a disguised time traveler, able to stun Everard and Whitcomb as soon as Everard used the password, "'Man from tomorrow.'" (p. 36)

I would join such a group. I would not believe that, by generating a new timeline, we were causing our original timeline never to have existed. And it would be worthwhile to take the opportunity to work towards a twentieth century without either of the World Wars.

The Time Patrol Timeline

The Oligocene.	The Patrol Academy exists for half a million years in the American West, then is carefully demolished. Babylonian recruits cannot understand time travel and have to be given a battle-of-the-gods routine. An ancient Roman does not understand that a machine cannot be treated like a horse. Stephen and Helen Tamberly meet at the Academy. Everard meets Whitcomb and Elizabeth Gray. Wanda Tamberly meets Tu Sequeira, from Mars in the Solar Commonwealth, who will monitor early spacefaring. The Academy is the venue for an emergency conference to deal with the Punic timeline.
31,275,389 BC.	Wanda Tamberly, training at the Academy, is interviewed by Guion who is investigating the possibility of temporal changes not caused by time travellers.
Miocene-Pliocene transition.	A Patrolwoman from the First Matriarchy makes a full-sensory record of the Atlantic flowing into the Mediterranean. Tom Nomura rescues and marries her.
The Pleistocene.	A Patrol lodge in the Pyrenees employs Cro-Magnon guides. Half an hour after departing for 1960, Unattached Agents Everard and Van Sarawak return to the lodge from a timeline where Carthage won the Second Punic War.
18,244 BC.	The Pleistocene lodge is the venue for emergency conferences to deal with two divergent timelines. Wanda Tamberly and Keith Denison return from the European theocracy of 1989alpha AD.
15,926 BC.	A Patrol ranch in pre-human North America.
15,000 BC-900 AD.	Stephen and Helen Tamberly holiday in archaic Japan.
13,212 BC.	The Paleo-Indians cross Beringia, observed by Patrol Specialists Ralph Corwin and Wanda Tamberly.
2937-2930 BC.	Patrolman Stephen Tamberly, marooned in South America by Luis Castelar, duplicates contemporaneous Japanese pottery.
2930 BC.	Guillem Cisneros of the Universarium of Halla solves the archaeological mystery of the Valdivia ware and rescues Tamberly.
1765 BC.	A Patrol base in a vault under the Babylon of Hammurabi. Disguised and guided, Denison and Mikelian tour the city after tracking Indo-European migrations.
c.1550-1292 BC.	Unattached Patrol Agent Komozino investigates the disappearance of an expedition from her home millennium that was seeking cultural inspiration in the Egyptian Eighteenth Dynasty. Patrol bases in 1137 AD contact her about their crisis.
c.1300 BC.	Everard and Cynthia Cunningham holiday in pre-human Hawaii.
c.1040-597 BC.	Epsilon Korten from twenty-ninth century New Edom on Mars directs Jerusalem Base which is responsible for temporal traffic in Hebrew lands from the birth of David to the fall of Judah.
950 BC.	Exaltationist time criminals threaten to destroy Tyre. Zakarbaal (Chaim Zorach) and his wife are Patrol agents in Tyre. Everard recruits Pummairam, who expects to battle wizards in a strange realm, and captures Varagan but the latter's clone mate, Raor, remains at large.
500's BC.	Keith Denison, Patrol Specialist in East Indo-European Proto-History, traces the migration of Aryan clans.
578 BC.	Everard and Denison prevent the murder of the infant Cyrus, thus also preventing Denison's sixteen years as a surrogate Cyrus.
542 BC.	(Everard, investigating the disappearance of Keith Denison, receives hospitality from Croesus, then learns that Cyrus the Great is Keith Denison.)
218 BC.	Neldorian time criminals intervene, and the Patrol counter-intervenes, in the Battle of Ticinus.
213 BC.	Plautus' Asinaria is first performed. The date and the exact text do not agree with what later scholars recorded. Guion thinks that this indicates instability in that section of history.
209 BC.	Patrolman Benegal Dass has spent and will spend widely separated decades watching the growth and death of a city now threatened by Exaltationists. However, Everard captures the remaining Exaltationists, including Raor.
c.5 BC - 30 AD.	The Patrol must know what happened but we are not told. However, Carl later reflects that he cannot in honesty argue either for heathenism or for Christ. On the other hand, it is possible that Koch is a sincere Catholic.
22-37 AD.	Patrol Specialist Janne Floris lives for fifteen years with the Frisii, marries and bears two children.
43 AD.	Patrol intervention accidentally initiates a Goddess movement that, without further Patrol intervention, would prevent Northern Europeans from converting to Christianity. Everard visits Carl and Laurie Farness at the Patrol's Polynesian resort.
49 AD.	Patrol ethnographer Jens Ulstrup has spent twelve years as Domar among the Langobardi.
70-95 AD.	After Everardus the Goth has initiated peace negotiations between Civilis and Cerialis, Janne Floris, appearing as the goddess, helps the pagan prophetess Veleda to re-conceive her deity as peaceful.
Early 100's AD.	Time travelling sociologists studying Rome find a copy of Tacitus' Histories that differs from the standard version.
300-372 AD.	Carl visits four generations of his Gothic descendants.
372 AD.	Wodan appears and betrays his followers as described in the Volsungasaga.
458-461 AD.	Stane from 2987 tries to re-organise post-Roman Britain. Killed by unknowns, he is buried with his belongings in a barrow.
900's.	Jean-Louis Broussard from the 24th century is a Patrol observer in France.
985 or 986 AD.	Everard accompanies Bjarni Herjulfsson to Vinland.
The Middle Ages.	Stalemate in church-state conflict prevents either theocracy or autocracy, allowing the growth of freedom and science.
1137 AD.	Patrol milieu headquarters for the Holy Roman Empire are in Mainz. The director is Otto Koch whose "servant"/assistant is Karel Novak.
1137AD (and 1137alpha AD).	Space-time-energy fluctuates as Guion feared. (Events occurring in divergent timelines would have to be listed separately. Also, although they were visited, very little is known about the divergent timelines.)
(1137alpha AD.)	(King Roger of Sicily dies in battle. Emil Volstrup, Patrolman in Palermo, knows that Roger should live for nearly twenty years...)
1140 AD.	The Patrol base in Palermo is expanded from a one-man operation when Norman Sicily gains importance.
1146 AD.	The Patrol kills a knight who interacts with so many important figures that small changes in his career have major effects on medieval politics.
c.1160/65-1225 AD.	Ma Yuan, Chinese painter. The exact objects depicted on one of his scrolls are another of Guion's instabilities.
1196 AD.	Stefan Nemanya, Grand Zhupan of Serbia, abdicates. Another of Guion's instabilities.
1198 AD.	Patrol milieu headquarters move from Mainz to Rome.
1200's AD.	Amerindian Patrol Specialist John Sandoval traces Native American history, including Athabascan migrations.
1280 AD.	Mongol expedition to North America.
1287-1307 AD.	Boniface Reynaud establishes himself as Reinault Bodel, wool dealer in Harfleur, chief seaport of Northern France, where he directs Patrol operations headquarters. Timecycles arrive in a locked dockside shed.
1295-1307 AD.	Patrolman Hugh Marlow rises in the Knights Templar.
1307 AD.	The Templars are suppressed but their fleet escapes.
1524 AD.	Exaltationists try to prevent the civil war that made it easy for Pizarro to conquer the Incas.
1533 AD.	Exaltationists try to steal Atahualpa's ransom but instead kidnap Conquistador Luis Castelar and Patrolman Stephen Tamberly.
1536 AD.	Time vehicles are glimpsed above the siege of Cuzco.
1589-1613 AD.	Everard and Cynthia Cunningham go to the theatre in London.
1610 AD.	At Machu Picchu, Castelar and Tamberly escape from Exaltationists on a timecycle. The Patrol attacks the Exaltationists.
1638-1715 AD.	Reign of Louis XIV. An agent recruited from this period is assigned to the same milieu. The Patrol has few recruits from before the First Industrial Revolution.
1731 AD.	On Good Friday, a time traveller records Bach's St Mark's Passion in Leipzig Cathedral.
1800's.	Everard and Cynthia Cunningham waltz in Vienna.
1826 AD.	Simon Bolivar receives bad advice - from an Exaltationist. Everard's first meeting with the Exaltationist leader Merau Varagan who escapes in a causal loop.
1843 AD.	Everard and the Farnesses see Lola Montez in Paris.
1850-2000 AD.	The period covered by Patrol headquarters 1890-1910 with smaller offices in other decades.
1850 AD.	Charles Whitcomb, formerly of the RAF and the Time Patrol, and his wife Mary settle down in Victorian England.
1856 AD.	Helen Tamberly born in Cambridge.
1858 AD.	At the Friedrick Wilhelm University in Berlin, Carl, reporting to Patrol agent Professor Herbert Ganz, displays a 3D recording of his meeting with Ulfilas, the Arian Apostle to the Goths.
1864 AD.	Emil Volstrup born in Copenhagen.
1873 AD.	Helen Tamberly orphaned, studies classics, later recruited by the Patrol.
1875 AD.	Cowboy Jack Hall recruited by the Patrol.
1880's AD.	Because Helen Tamberly would not like Stephen's birthtime, they live on York Place (crossing Baker St) in Victorian London, Stephen as an American employee of Dalhousie and Roberts. Helen studies the Ionic colonies in the seventh and sixth centuries BC, interpreting reports from Patrol observers. Next, they might live as Spanish colonials while he directs other researchers for several decades.
1885 AD.	Everard, investigating the disappearance of Stephen Tamberly in 1533, visits Dalhousie and Roberts for a second time.
1890's AD.	Everard knows a New York saloon that sets out a magnificent free lunch.
1890-1910 AD.	Patrol milieu headquarters in London, Moscow and Peiping.
1891 AD.	Otto Koch born in Germany.
1894 AD.	Time shuttle fuel chest discovered in an ancient British barrow. Dalhousie and Roberts, Importers (the Patrol's London base) must prevent assassination of Queen Victoria. Mainwethering of the Patrol would like to engage a private inquiry agent but the only worthwhile one is too clever and might detect time travel.
1895 AD.	Ralph Corwin born.
1908 AD.	Agop Mikelian recruited by the Patrol after the massacre at Van.
1910 AD.	Will Rogers teaches Everard lassoing.
1912 AD.	The Irish-American Altamont penetrates a German spy ring but might also uncover the Patrol military studies group and must be diverted.
1914 AD.	Otto Koch, studying medieval history, is called into the German army.
1917 AD.	German steals time machine and goes to 1894 to murder Queen Victoria.
1918 or 1919 AD.	Otto Koch, adrift after the war, recruited by the Patrol.
1920's-1930's AD.	Corwin studies American Indian anthropology before joining the Patrol.
1924 AD.	Everard born in the US Midwest.
1925 AD.	Wanda and Manse have dinner in Paris and a drink in the Deux Magots two tables away from two of Wanda's literary idols.
1927 AD.	Keith Denison born.
1930's AD.	After Carl is recruited to the Patrol, he and his wife opt to live in 1930's New York. Carl's visits to 300-372 are supervised by Everard from 1980.
1930 AD.	John Sandoval born.
1936-1945 AD.	Patrollers studying the earliest stages of spacefaring work their way into Peenemunde.
1936 AD.	Stephen Tamberly born.
1941-1982 AD.	Patrollers monitoring early spacefaring work their way into White Sands.
1942-1945 AD.	Everard is a lieutenant in the US Army Engineers.
1943 AD.	Everard knows a girl in Streatham who later marries someone else.
1944 AD.	Everard defies the Patrol and the Danellians by helping Whitcomb who has gone to London in a recovered Ing time shuttle to prevent his fiancee, Mary Nelson, from being killed in an air raid. A Danellian intervenes and Everard is promoted to Unattached status in the Patrol.
1945-1954 AD.	Everard, a mechanical engineer, has design and production experience in America, Sweden and Arabia before responding to a job ad for "Engineering Studies Co."
1947 AD.	Tom Nomura born.
c.1950's-1960's.	Everard and Cynthia Cunningham visit bars in "Tom Lehrer's New York."
1950's AD.	John Sandoval fights in Korea, goes through college on the GI bill and joins the Patrol.
1950 AD.	Denison completes his PhD in Anthropology after taking a collegiate boxing championship and crossing the Atlantic in a thirty-foot ketch. Drafted to Korea. Karel Novak, on the run from the Czechoslovakian government, is hidden by an acquaintance who persuades him to take curious tests and recruits him to the Patrol. A young black woman recruited in Jamaica will be part of the team that rescued Everard from Exaltationists at a temple outside Bactria, 209 BC. Janne Floris born.
1952 AD.	Everard visits Amsterdam. Denison, discharged from the US Army, recruited to the Patrol.
1954-1990 AD.	Everard maintains an apartment in New York for at least this long. It acquires Bronze Age spears and a helmet, also a polar bear rug given to Everard by Bjarni Herjulfsson. Cynthia Denison (nee Cunningham), John Sandoval and Guion visit the apartment.
1954 AD.	Manson Everard recruited. Just back from training at the Academy, he reads about "...the singular contents of an ancient British barrow."
1955- AD.	Patrollers studying early spacefaring work their way into Tyuratam.
1965 AD.	Wanda Tamberly, Stephen's niece, is born. Wanda Tamberly from 1990 visits Corwin in Berkeley.
1968 AD.	Stephen Tamberly takes tests and finds that he has been recruited into the Patrol.
1970 AD.	Following advice given by Shalten in 1987, Everard posing as a tourist reconnoitres the terrain in preparation for his mission to the Greek kingdom of Bactria in 209 BC.
1971 AD.	Chaim Zorach, working as an archaeologist in Israel, meets his future wife, Yael.
1972 AD.	Tom Nomura recruited to the Patrol in San Francisco. Physicist Elizabeth Gray recruited.
1975 AD.	The Zorachs are recruited into the Patrol.
1980 AD.	Carl Farness, who must play the role of Wodan, is recruited by the Patrol.
1980-'81 AD.	Keith and Cynthia Denison start new identities in Paris.
1985 AD.	Laying a trap for the Exaltationists, Shalten of the Patrol plants fake evidence about Bactria, then, later in his experience, removes the evidence so there are records of mutually inconsistent events in Afghanistan.
1986 AD.	Everard re-visits Amsterdam on a Patrol case. Willem Ten Brink manages the export-import firm that fronts for the Patrol's Amsterdam office and is chief of Patrol operations in that corner of Europe.
May, 1987 AD.	Everard rescues Wanda from Castelar and recruits her to the Patrol.
September, 1987 AD.	Castelar kidnaps Wanda Tamberly from the Galapagos.
1998 AD.	Everard lends his apartment to an operative who needs such a base.
1990 AD.	A Danellian reveals the real meaning of the Patrol to Manse Everard and Wanda Tamberly. Manse and Wanda begin a holiday, interrupted by Manse's mission to 1307.
2000's.	Mainwethering from Victorian London visits the twenty first century. Hassan, an Iraqi recruited to the Patrol, will work at the ranch in 15,926 BC.
2100's.	Andean Resurgence; Inca revival. Andean Patrol agent Julio Vasquez born.
2200's.	Insulsynth.
c.2207.	Boniface Reynaud born.
2300's.	Van Sarawak born in a pioneer society on Venus. Birth of Jean-Louis Broussard, a Patrol observer in tenth century France.
2319.	A hospital with artificial gravity on the Moon.
2800's.	New Edom on Mars; Second Asteroid War.
2900's.	Rozher Schtein (Stane) and Guillem Cisneros born. Interplanetary wars; Venus attacks Earth; blast-ray guns; synthrope; trade with the Saturnian System.
2987.	Disappearance of a trader from the Ing Empire and his time shuttle; Patrol notified.
post-2987.	Interregnum; secret of synthrope lost; Ing Empire; trader leaves for 2987 to barter raw materials for synthrope.
3100's.	Genetic engineering in the Saturnian System.
3700's.	Coordinator Stanel V, the Great Experimenter; colonies reproducing past societies.
3890.	Martian War; Guidance Corps on Earth; First Matriarchy soon.
9573.	Dard Kelm, Patrol Academy tutor, born.
11511.	The Morennian Triumph.
19352 AD, the 7841st year of the Morennian Triumph.	The Chorite Heresiarchy breaks up. Commercial and genetic rivalry on a galactic scale. The Nine discover time travel. The Danellians appear and found the Patrol.
30,000's.	Exaltationist princes, genetically engineered for adventure on the cosmic frontier, seize power, lose it and flee on stolen timecycles.
204,000's.	Neldor; an age of time bandits.
Undated:	Everard's viking Scandinavian mission. Chrysopolis on Mars. Venusian Renaissance. Scientific Renaissance. Three Technological Renaissances. Patrol suppression of the Trazon matter transmuter during the third Technological Renaissance. Three Matriarchies. Solar Commonwealth. The Cold Centuries; weather control systems. The Universarium of Halla. Home eras of Komozino, Guion and Shalten.
pre-1,000,000.	Era of Oneness.
post-1,000,000's.	Danellians, our evolutionary successors, the High Command of the Time Patrol.

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