TIMEGATE Time stretches before and behind me in century long strands measur- ing the age of the stars, the age of men, but irrelevant to me. I am lost down the years, stuck in a limbo where I am unique: A man without age, an anachronism of the future thrown into the past. My ship is carrying me faster than light through the stars at a speed with no meaning; stars swirl around me, sometimes I feel I could reach out and touch them; other times I feel alone and lost, their light twinkling with malicious laughter. At these speeds lost in the distant past the only other beings I have any contact with are the Enemy. With the Enemy, their ships as fast as mine, I engage in macabre dances of death firing out energies at them until they are with me no more; their debris scattered and receding from me in time and space. That is my mission, to travel back along the trail of ravaged planets, following the Enemy back through the millenia to where their ag- gression was given birth and they first reached out to grasp and strangle the peoples of the Uni- verse, for the Enemy must be stopped. Stopped before the first blow was struck, before blood and tears flowed together under the hand of the Enemy. I search back through time by passing through the TIME-GATES, portals scattered throughout the fabric of time and space which link the future with the past. The TIME-GATES are the key to my mission. The TIME-GATES, enigmas which only lightly brush at the edges of reality, the bulk of their mechan- isms lost in some distant dimension. Through these I travel, flung this way and that by the capricious currents of Time. Spat out into a new sector of space, in a different era I can always be sure of the Enemy, they are constant, returning to attempt my destruction again and again. I fight my way through them to planets where I can rest briefly before continuing my mission. Each planet different, an adventure in itself if I only had more of that thing which has so little meaning for me: Time. Each planet unique but almost invariably scarred by the Enemy. I cannot rest when surrounded by the bitter fruits of the Enemy's conquest, I must force myself on in search of the Brood of the Enemy. I am confident that I will complete my mission and find peace at some time in the past, but until then I am one man against an empire, one man adrift in an ocean of time punctuated by the enigmatic TIME- GATES.