Overview

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay

     The pressure to provide rendered human products for a wide variety of needs and growing civilian unrest over culling procedures found a new outlet with the development of viable time travel in 2042.
     Project Trawl consisted of sending USO agents back in time to gather up groups of humans. Over time, the project went back in further leaps, meaning that the last missions occurred furthest back in time. Later in the project, preprocessing facilities were established at certain points in time and space, which helped cut down on manpower and logistical difficulties.
     Beyond simple resources, the project had a number of other purposes. It was a test of time technology and advanced deployment in general. A great deal of reconnaissance on past events, particularly the ancient civilizations of Serpent Folk and others, provided valuable information to the USO. Though extended expeditions caused heavy losses due to these ancient races, the missions were judged a success.

     Normally, USO used Nordic agents (or agents disquised thus) with standard hypertech, and with hypertech small support craft. In some missions, agents from different periods of time collaborated. This caused some stress on agents, but not to the serious detriment of mission effectiveness.

     The presence of Nordics on these missions is responsible for a number of repercussions through time. Several prominant components of time portals are shaped like swastikas. The descriptions given to natives were along the lines of 'We are warriors in the sky, fighting the last war against evil'.
     The apparant temporal causality problems with these missions only bothered the scientists involved. For the agents and officers, such abstractions were unimportant.

     There were other missions, even more covert. Agents were transported to various time periods. Details of these missions were not need to know for any officer directly attached to Project Trawl.