Subj : Re: The Forever War
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Trouble
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 08:24:20

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> There were a series of stories in a comic over here called 200OAd

Don't think I've ever read it, heard of it though

> she ends up on the worst combat zone in the galaxy, a heavy
> gravity planet. The have to wear suits to fight and when they come
> back after a mission they find the months/weeks have passed in their
> sheilded bases. The upshot of this is so although on base time they
> have served the enlisted period in the soldiers personal timeline only
> hours have passed. Guess which one the army uses to calculate how long
> they have left to serve? 

I'll have to look that up when I buy the B7 DVDs.

I don't mind a tour of enlistment that is based around time relative to 
ME because if you did it the other way, you'd never keep a single troop 
for longer than a few fights... Horrible way to fight a war if you had 
to, HOWEVER, they get paid by Earth standard calendar which means sixty 
years pay for four years of work, but everyone you knew before you joined 
is very likely dead.

-- 
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.
Seek what they sought."
--Basho

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