Time Jumpers Episode 11: Planck Time

Chasing a renegade Chinese seedship across time, jumpship Cygnus has arrived at a time several billion years after the Big Bang. There are few stars, fewer galaxies. Looking for the planet where the seedship went off course and crashed, the time jumpers surmise that this is also the homeworld of the hated enemy Coethi. They pick up faint signals from the ship and follow them to an unstable star and a small planetary system. The Chinese ship seems to have crashed here.
On the surface, Dringoth and the crew of 1st Time Displacement Battery find the whole planet is nothing but bots, mutated from the remnants of the Chinese ship. They determine that, with the local star-sun unstable, they may be able to strand all the early Coethi bots on the planet until the star goes supernova, as Time Guard Intelligence believes actually happened. If they can keep the Coethi from dispersing into space until their own sun goes belly up, the entire Coethi race, mutated from ancient Chinese bots, will cease to exist and Uman civilization and the Alliance will be safe.
But when one of the crew, Evelyn M’Bela, is swarmed and bots infest her head, Captain Dringoth must make a hard choice. Cygnus leaves the planet and jumps back to her own truetime to take care of M’Bela, but instead they wind up near the planet Storm, of the Sigma Albeth system, where they have been before, installing the original Time Twister. Worse they have arrived in the very midst of a Coethi attack. Somehow their efforts to strand the Coethi in the past haven’t worked out…yet.
Dringoth is injured in the jump and the XO must take command. Golich decides to use a dangerous tactic to decoy the swarm away from Storm, so they can do a nanobotic insert on M’Bela.
But the bots inside Queenie’s brain and the greater swarm beyond are in contact with each other and the battle to save M’Bela takes places on one of the strangest battlefields the time jumpers have ever experienced, with the very life of a critical crew member in the balance.
Eleventh episode in the Time Jumpers serial.