"The past is not dead," as any archeologist will invariably tell you. Dr. Harper will add with a cheeky smile, "and it can be extremely lucrative." And for her it certainly is, or to be more exact, it used to be. Her citizen ID states that she holds a "PhD in xenoarchaeology," though the people who know her might add she is "an adventurer, a smuggler of relics and alien artifacts, a thief of xenotechnology, a spy, and an undercover agent."