Forced to escape his homeless encampment with a time-travelling robot, Julian Lawson is the agency's newest recruit. The agency's objective: to protect the continuity of spacetime for Earth, and to destroy the continuity of spacetime for aliens. But as Julian settles down to his 9-5 job, he begins to question the agency's intentions, and soon finds himself at a crossroads that will determine the future of the agency, and the future of the spacetime war.