Hi Dave.

>> https://galacticjourney.org/january-23-1962-a-methodical-approach-to-writing-h-beam-pipers-little-fuzzy/
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> In his 1951 short story Temple Trouble, Piper spends a great length of time describing the way that time and dimension traveling beings calling themselves the Paratime Police use a fabricated religion to allow privatized corporations to mine uranium and other commodities right under the noses of the low-tech societies they have converted.
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> So could Styphon be a fabricated religion that Paratimers are discarding in favor of Kalvan?

It's possible, of course, but seems unlikely in this instance because none of the Paratimers in Beam's yarn mention doing that.

Instead, in a conversation with Tortha Karf, one of the Paratime Commissioners says, "This Styphon's House racket is perfect for penetration of that subsector, and in a couple of centuries it'll be a very valuable subsector to have penetrated. We’ll just move in on Styphon's House, and take it over, the way we did the Yat-Zar temples on the Hulgun Sector, and build that up to general economic and political control."

And Kalvan's timeline is turned over to Dhergabar University for study.

Down Styphon!

David
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"You know, most of the wars they've been fighting, lately, on the Europo-American Sector have been, at least in part, motivated by rivalry for oil fields." - Verkan Vall (H. Beam Piper), "Temple Trouble"