Crosstime Recruitment

Homeline and Centran crosstime organizations often employ locals,
but they do so through front organizations – the outtimers have no clue
that they’re working for extradimensional bosses. In fact, it’s a serious
crime for anyone to divulge The Secret to an outtimer. However, the
Infinity Patrol has limited authority to recruit talented outtimers. Its
Centran equivalent, Interworld, enjoys similar powers.
Crosstime recruitment is supposed to occur only when an outtimer’s
talents are deemed to be a significant asset to the organization. A field
agent who recruits a local will have to justify his actions to a board of
inquiry. In practice, tolerance depends on the situation. World-jumpers
(p. 544) are an exception. They’re so valuable that every effort will be
made to recruit them, no matter where they’re from.
On the other hand, there have been cases where recruitment was ini-
tiated for personal reasons. For instance, an undercover Time Scout
might fall in love with a talented outtimer and use his influence to recruit
her into the service. In a case like this, Infinity might go along in order to
keep a good agent . . . but it is more likely to court-martial the offender
and send both lovers off to Coventry (p. 540).
The Patrol expects all recruits to go through training and indoctrina-
tion, and watches them carefully to ensure that they remain reliable. An
outtime recruit whose true loyalties remained with his homeworld would
be a great liability.