
“The ability to travel through space and time is enormously valuable… There is no limit to where you can go or who you could bring here”
Gryffen is absorbed in an experiment with a strange piece of alien technology, a Space Time Manipulator (S/TM). The department wants professor Gryffen to get it operating properly.
“Nobody thinks and nobody gets hurt” A message from Stark Reality
Starkey or Stark Reality as he liked to be known is an orphan and rebel who ultimately plans to bring down the system but for the time being he is prepared to simply slip through the cracks. Starkey is always getting himself into trouble. While evading the police he takes refuge in a large detached house, now the residence of reclusive scientist, Professor Gryffen.
“They track down aliens, lock them up and none of them ever come back out… They’re not all like Jixen, most of them are completely peaceful, they’ve just happened to have wound up on this planet”
Starkey is followed by Jorjie an adventurous girl who partly admires Starkey’s dissident stance, but mostly wants to share whatever excitement is afoot.
“You’re a trouble maker and the Prof doesn’t need that, thats my problem.”
Darius is an artful dodger who, among his many occupations, runs errands for Gryffen. He also looks out for the professor.
“Well whatever it is the department wants it tracked down, captured and handed over”
June Tuner works for the department, she’s in charge of the Space Time project.