Time Jumpers

Time Jumpers Episode 12: First TD lands on a world they’ve seen before. M’Bela seems dead but the locals have unique healing powers. She ‘returns’ to life but skirmishes develop between the Seomish and the Umans over the Time Twister, now destroying their world. A revived M’Bela helps negotiations and the time jumpers depart, but the Coethi re-appear, ready to infest yet another world.

Time Jumpers Episode 11: First TD lands on a world where Coethi first evolved. They try to strand the Coethi there but the crew is infested with bots. Cygnus jumps to its own time but into the midst of an assault. Using a daring tactic, 1st TD tries to decoy the swarm from where they landed, in order save the crew. But they wind up fighting on a battlefield unlike any they ever encountered before.

Time Jumpers Episode 10: Plucked from court-martial by order of Time Guard, Nathan Golich rejoins the crew of Cygnus. Their mission: engage the Coethi now moving on the heart of the Alliance, the Urth-Sol system. To stop the Bugs from eliminating Man’s first appearance, the time jumpers travel three hundred million years ago. What they find upon arriving is something they never expected.

Time Jumpers Episode 9: Haunted by memories of a murdered wife, Nathan Golich goes AWOL and ends up with time pirate Kisan Malakel. He tries to alter the time stream and stop the murder but is thrown back in time to an earlier incident, a jumpship headed for close passage by a neutron star. Golich is rescued but now faces court-martial for desertion. Only the hated enemy Coethi can save him.

Time Jumpers Episode 8. First TD is part of a large tactical operation but when she fires her Twister, catastrophe occurs. Thrown deep into the gravity well of a red-giant star, the only way Cygnus can be repaired is with help from the nearby homeworld of one of her crew. That will only happen if the crewman can overcome a frayed relationship with a one-time lover he left behind to join The Guard.

Time Jumpers Episode 7. 1st TD returns home but sixty years earlier, at a time when Umans first encounter the Coethi. They engage, despite serious effects on the worldline. As before, the Bugs are driven off but the time stream is altered. The exec wants to resign from the Guard but if he does, the captain may threaten all of Uman space with his continuing interference in the time streams.

Time Jumpers Episode 6. A new threat faces the Alliance. The Bugs are trying to alter the evolution of the Universe. 1st TD is given the mission of stopping them. The battle is fought across the strangest battlefield ever faced by human beings. With new tactics, the time jumpers leapfrog across eons and think they have the Bugs trapped, until the primordial Universe itself interferes.

Time Jumpers Episode 5. 1st TD is trapped at Landfall. They have an idea: use the Rift to get home. When they try, they end up centuries earlier, in the midst of a probe by the Bugs, just outside Earth’s solar system. 22nd century troopers encounter time jumpers from the 29th century. And the problem is made worse when one of the time jumpers becomes romantically involved with an ancestor.

Time Jumpers Episode 4. First TD must set up a new Time Twister on a world called Outtawhack. The Battery commander is a Coethi spy. The Twister causes a nearby temporal Rift to erupt, imperiling Landfall. The time jumpers cannibalize the ship to shield their work from the Rift. If they succeed, Landfall will be spared but they will be trapped in the time stream. If they fail, millions may die.

Time Jumpers Episode 3. The jumpers have escaped the Bugs through a fissure in time and come to a derelict ship, one that Captain Dringoth once commanded in an earlier fight. Dringoth wants to re-fight an old battle, hoping for a different outcome but the crew mutinies. After another Coethi attack, they wind up alone and adrift in voidtime. Only an impossible maneuver can save them.

Time Jumpers Episode 2. First TD has a new mission: deploy closer to home, on a moon around K-World. But there are secrets buried here: an alien ship, human remains, and a fissure in spacetime. The enemy Coethi have been using the fissure for centuries and now threaten the most vital world in Uman space. Trying to fend off the Bugs, 1st TD may have to turn its most fearsome weapon…on itself.

Time Jumpers Episode 1. First Time Displacement Battery has a critical mission: deploy a new weapon on a backwater world called Storm. But the enemy Coethi are making life difficult and Storm is not uninhabited. One crew member is sympathetic to the indigenous life. When the Battery is ordered to re-deploy, the locals object and Captain Dringoth is faced with a mutiny and a decision.