That such a programme is open to abuse and manipulation soon becomes evident and as the year 2355 approaches in "the Company's" own era, it seems more and more likely that the indentured immortals they have created to do grunt work over the aeons are not likely to flourish. The sequence, whose implications gradually darkened, focuses on the actions of a cadre of twenty-fourth-century agents (see Time Police) working for "the Company" (properly the Zeus Corporation – Dr Zeus himself is finally revealed to be an AI) who use their limited access to Time Travel to visit previous epochs, where, through surgical interventions and the use of Nanotechnology, they transform selected small children (adults are untreatable) into Cyborgs whose Immortality does not come cheap, as they are required to fulfil the Company's remit: which is to preserve, for the good of all and for profit, the flora and fauna of Earth against the erosions of history, as well as saving those human artefacts which are deemed collectible. (1952-2010) US author who was born Mary Kate Genevieve Baker but had legally changed her name to Kage Baker by the age of twenty she worked in insurance and the theatre before publishing In the Garden of Iden ( 1997 vt In the Garden of Iden: A Novel of the Company 1998), the first in the series of Company or Dr Zeus stories, which occupied most of her career.
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