Talk:Doorway to Darkness/@comment-24040907-20150117002019/@comment-4893169-20150124013000

Star Wars as well as Star Trek got me first interested in science fiction when I was a kid. If I were British, I might have been a Dr. Who fan.

Kes is 36(21 in human years), and yes, aside from escaping her Puritanical, uptight, adopted family, she also went to Narrak to evade the military draft.

Despite her saying in the second story that she had lived on that island for twenty-one years, it was actually three years and three months. Time passes very slowly on the Orrim Archipelago, and what seems like five or six years to someone, is actually just a year. In order for the inhabitants to not fall victim to a mortal ennui, they keep themselves busy with various energetic tasks--gymnastics, mental or spiritual training, working on puzzles, attending cultural centers for study or pursuing a hobby, etc.

If you're wondering on their instantaneous space-portal travel, it's still in the experimental stages. You're quite correct with the portals on the two colonized moons, to keep them away from the general public. I haven't decided yet if there's going to be one on Mars, because it sounds too much like Doom.