In playing the game of explaining within the bounds of what you see, this is the "French" cricket game I played as a child in the backyard, where your legs are the stumps you have to protect and you can't move them, even when the bowler is behind you.

From: "Sally Manton" smanton@hotmail.com The problem is, Our Heroes don't *act* as if they've been there for months; they're still in initial exploration stage, as if they haven't been there more than a day or two at most. When Avon finds the gun-rack, there's no "where the hell has that been all this time???" for instance.

Raising the question of whether or not there is any difference in the way time is perceived aboard the Liberator and how it is perceived outside of the ship. I've a difficulty with this idea, because the Altas do seem to be acting at the same tempo as everyone else you see, and one might then expect to see movement at an entirely diffent pace. (And one wouldn't expect flesh and blood so closely linked to computers to be unaware of being slower in action than other entities.)

Worse, one would have to contemplate Zen restoring the difference in time perception whenever someone entered or left the bounds of the Liberator, and some degree of disorientation would have to occur then, and we don't see it. At least, nothing in my faulty memory gives the idea that the teleport ever really induced a disoriented state. Then again, why off the world (as it were) would Zen do such a thing, disregarding for the moment the possbility of it being a side effect of Zen's defences?

Failing that, Zen's been doing a lot this examination Sally suggested while they were asleep, and caused them to be unconscious much longer than their internal clocks would suggest. In that case, so far as they are concerned, they _have_ been aboard the Liberator for only a short time.

No. I'm stumped. The tennis ball has hit me on the shins, and I'm out.

Regards Joanne

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