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• The effect of Jump for the various races

>From: Lesley Grant <lgrant>
>Subject: cherryhlist: "neo" question
>Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 8:24:08 BST

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> >From: seth@cie.uoregon.edu (Seth Scott)
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> Towards the end of _Chanur's Homecoming_, and throughout _Chanur's Legacy_, 
> there were characters that could see, and, to some extent or another, function
> during jump (Chur and Hallan).  In _Legacy_, Hilfy referred to Hallan as a 'neowhatever that is sup> posed to mean...
> Would a 'neo,' then, be just an unusual hani who is capable of functioning in
> jumpspace, or, as seemed to be the case with Chur, someone who can ... travel,
> somehow, during jump, and see relationships that the instruments don't pick up?

	"Neo" just means 'new' -- Hilfy was simply referring to the fact that
Hallan was a rookie spacer. However, it may have been his very 'newness' that
allowed him to function in jump...old spacers just 'know' you can't do anything
in jump, but Hallan may never have been told this :-) Similarly, it was when
Chur was not in her usual frame of mind (ie when she was deathly ill and pumped
full of Mahendo'sat drugs) that she was able to function in jump.
	So how exactly does jump work, is what I want to know -- obviously
people *are* able to do things in jump -- Chur does, Hallan does, and the Kif
do so routinely. Why don't other people? Shsto and humans have to drug, but
what excuse does everyone else have?

			Lesley