Your eyes do not fail you, cousin. [She smiles faintly, looking, perhaps, a little more worn and weary than he might remember- changed, but somehow still very much the same.]

It is, in part. The Initiative intends to have us fight this war of theirs through battles across time. These... disparities are an unintended consequence, I think; they look only to who they believe may be of use. Not to the times from which they take them.