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from the ship’s company.
Second Officer Leona Sendler—Alias used by Norla Chandray aboard the disguised
Dom Pedro IV.
Captain Olar Sotales—Director of the Station Security Force aboard SCO Station.
Yuri Sparten—The former assistant to Karlin Raenau, commander of SCO Station.
Now assigned to serve aboard the “Merchanter’s Dream,” the name under which Dom
Pedro IV is traveling. Although he has no interstellar experience, he is posing
as the “Dream’s” captain. His parents, as children, were refugees from the fall
of Glister.
Lieutenant Kalani Temblar—An investigator working for the Chronologic Patrol’s
Intelligence Command.
Clemson Wahl—Starship crew member stranded on Asgard Five by equipment
malfunctions aboard his ship. Later, recruited along with Jerand Bolt to serve
aboard the disguised Dom Pedro IV.
Lira Wu—Very junior crew member serving aboard the Dom Pedro IV.



THE TIMESHAFT WORM HOLE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

1. Spacecraft departs home star system, bound for target system, ten light-years
away. Crew enters cryosleep hibernation and/or temporal confinement for duration
of voyage.
2. Spacecraft travels for fifty years at one-tenth light-speed, thus traveling
fifty years uptime and a distance of five light-years.
3. Spacecraft reaches timeshaft wormhole, midway between home and target
systems. Captain is revived briefly to pilot ship through timeshaft.
4. Both uptime and downtime ends of wormhole are guarded by Chronologic Patrol
ships.
5. Spacecraft drops through timeshaft and is propelled one hundred years
downtime, into the past.
6. Spacecraft emerges from wormhole, fifty years before its departure from its
home system and one hundred years before it enters the wormhole. Captain returns
to temporal confinement.
7. Spacecraft onces again travels fifty years at one-tenth light-speed, again
traveling fifty years uptime and five more light-years.
8. After traveling for one hundred years shipboard time, spacecraft arrives at
target system a few days or weeks after departure in objective time. Crew is
revived from one-hundred-year hibernation to find less than a month has passed.



THE OCEAN OF YEARS
by Roger MacBride Allen



PRELUDE
DIAMOND REDUX