David >> Here is an argument for ten years' real time you might like to look at...

Nico > So how much perceived time from the POV of the crew would you say? 4 years plus the 8 months to CA, making it around 5?

David Jenna's Point-of-View has 4 months (and 1-4 days) to Cygnus Alpha; one year to the raid on Earth Central Control eighty days to Star One.

Vila's Point-of-View has 8 months to Cygnus Alpha; one year to the raid on Earth Central Control; ninety days to Star One; one year to Terminal; one month to Star Drive; four months for Avon's anti-Pylene alliance to gather and crumble; one or two days to Gauda Prime.

Tentatively (since I change this a lot lately) Servalan's Point-Of-View has 40 months to Cygnus Alpha; eighteen months to the rendezvous with Kasabi during the raid on Earth Central Control; on average a month each for Trial, Hostage, Voice, Gambit, Keeper, and Aftermath; one year to Terminal; three and a half years to the killing of Zukan.

David >> (snipped Destiny's Flight time: 010; Elapsed: 090)

Nico > I never noticed that. When the London took 8 months to get to CA, was that 8 months elapsed or perceived?

David It was perceived. Elapsed was, according to the argument upthread, forty months. It was perceived as eight months by three at least

from Way Back Guard: Alright, come on. Move. Keep moving. Come on faster. Vila: It is going to be a very, very long eight months I am telling you. Guard: Keep your voice down. Find the seat that is allocated to you. Sit in it. Fasten the harness. Someone: Do you know how to work these harnesses? Vila: You just stick it in here. Guard: Keep your voices down. Vila: It is going to be a very, very, very long eight months. Guard: You, fasten the harness. You, down in the front. That is your seat. Come on, move. You, stop talking. Fasten your harness.

from Space Fall Raiker: The voyage to Cygnus Alpha will take approximately eight months ship time.

from Cygnus Alpha Leylan: We have ground zero contact. All off. ... I will programme the computer for the return. We lift off in D plus thirty. Artix: Thirty minutes? Sir, we have been in space now for eight months. I wouldn't mind stretching my legs a little.

Vila and Raiker before, and Artix after, the trip, all perceived it as eight months long.

David >> from Aftermath Hal Mellanby: Blake and the Liberator? I have been hearing reports for the last couple of years.

Nico > But as this is the start of the third season, this would also be consistent with a year a season.

David >> The above data give the following chart...

Nico > Sorry, but as this got to me in a variable font with the columns all confused, I couldn't understand it properly.

David I use charts occasionally. In the archive the web lays them out nicely.

Nico > How much time passes from Vila's POV from Blake's trial to Blake's death? Is my assumption of 5 about right?

David Five years will do nicely. I do not ask you to change your <Vila's emails>.

My best guess is: Three years, four months (8+12+3+12+1+4=40 mos.). This happens to be the time the Federation perceived for the voyage to Cygnus Alpha.

Nico > This could certainly explain why Blake looks so much older at the end.

David It would and does. I didn't realise he looked older. My Sleer is even older, I bet. It is a huge advantage to her, as it is to anyone in a Faster-than-Light society, to have a fast ship.

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