message 0130

• Time compression for warship crews, example Yeager

>Date:    Wed, 12 May 1993 16:02:51 -0400 (EDT)
>From:    NACHISON@SCSUD.CTSTATEU.EDU
>Subject: re Cherryhlist


Onno Meyer writes,
 	
>> > 	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?
> 
>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_.

It's some time since I read RIMRUNNER in detail, but it was my impression
that the time compression experienced in that sequence was *not* typical,
even for the Fleet, except at this ultimate stage of the war, when both
the pressure and the stakes were higher.

Beth