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CAIN chimes, 'I have received data on movements in three timeholes from the Monitoring Section.' The console screen flashes as CAIN presents a list of recent time trips.

Time now: 03.54

You ask CAIN who the unknown traveller could be and it replies that all the other time machines and TIME personnel are accounted for and that you may safely assume the traveller is Yelov. You ask for information on Thrix and Crecy and CAIN tells you that Thrix is a planet rich in Polybdenum, the rare mineral which the Variac Drives and Molecular Converters of Time Machines use as fuel. It is inhabited by strange intelligent rock-like life forms. Crecy is in Earth's past at the time of a battle- between mediaeval knights in armour which was the first in the Hundred Years War. Yelov has not been idle. Will you: