The Defiant Agents

Security officers discover that five important disks have been clandestinely copied by a sleeper agent, forcing Project Star's leaders to assume the worst about when the snooping occurred and to confront betrayal and loss of data. The narrative recounts prior time-agent operations in which agents traced alien wrecks, inadvertently voyaged to distant worlds, and recovered ancient tapes that unlock knowledge about a vanished galactic civilization. Those tapes function as both treasure and weapon, prompting secret sharing, mutual suspicion among rivals, and urgent measures to safeguard the time-travel program and contain compromised material.