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• Time compression for warship crews, example Yeager

>From: Onno Meyer <Onno.Meyer@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
>Subject: Re: C. J. Cherryh List
>Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 17:04:37 +0200 (MET DST)

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> > 	Not only that but The Fleet stands largely outside of time.
> > Being almost constantly on the move the time dilation of jump means
> > they live a very long time. Has anyone actually read Rimrunners and
> > counted the number of days that pass for Bet Yeager compared to a
> > year going by on Thule? For Stationers The War is a long, drawn out,
> > and sparodic thing. (A bit like Northern Ireland in our papers here)
> > Yet for The Fleet it is much more compressed. With this higher level of
> > intensity it would not be difficult for The Stationers to personify
> > them as archetypes.
> 

If I counted right, 10 days pass for the year on Thule, unless there are     
some days that simply are not mentioned. There is a line about how strange
the additional technicans assigned to Bets shift seem, and that after 
only one week on a new ship. Everything should have been strange.
Further more, Bet claims 20 years of experience on AFRICA, and the ship
was build around 2320 (the time of _Hellburner_) and she left the
ship in 2352 (on Pell). This would indicate a time compression of
1,5:1 and not of 30:1 as in _Rimrunner_.