: First Time Displacement Battery is a new outfit in Time Guard, with a critical mission: deploy a new weapon called a Time Twister on a hellhole backwater world called Storm. The Twister is needed to block the advance of the Coethi from intruding on Uman space, threatening Uman settlements, using their own temporal weapons to change time streams and prevent Umans from ever settling worlds in the Lower Halo of the Galaxy.
Two obstacles are working against 1st TD and its commander, Jump Captain Monthan Dringoth: the Coethi continue to prowl around the frontiers of the Alliance and could pop out of voidtime at any moment, preventing the Twister from being deployed. But the greater complication is local; Storm is not uninhabited. And one crew member becomes quite smitten with the indigenous life, threatening both the mission and the very lives of the crew.
In the end, Dringoth is faced with a stark dilemma: Coethi assaults have irretrievably damaged the sun Sigma Albeth B and she's going supernova in days. The Battery has been ordered to breakdown their new weapon and re-locate to another world. But the locals have different ideas and Dringoth finds he can't even control his own crew.
First episode in the Time Jumpers serial.