>>Just a few little question. Don Griffin went from a
>>stabilizing pocket universe to UF (which is a pocket
>>universe of sorts as well) which
>>was stabilized in UF-4 when the authors jumped into
>>the rift?
>
>No. Notice where Don's telling the others where they've ended up - he
>says they're in the mainline universe. The UF universe isn't a
>pocket; it's at the very least a solid branch on the main multiversal
>tree, if not the trunk.

Here's my theory:

The UF universe started on a mainline. The CLULESS compiler, as a side effect, gradually slid into a pocket universe. Said pocket universe was, in fact, controlled by a mainline universe, call it UF-Prime, where Vaughn meets up with the Three Avatars.

In UF4, the UF universe was finishing the process of losing connectivity of the mainline and thus getting snuffed out. The insane power levels being transacted there accelerated the process, which is why the crew of the SDF-23 found itself in Dr. Crusher's Warp Bubble. The UF-Prime avatars, by controlling the UF universe, were transacting more power there than the Reflex Cannon II. By going through the portal, their power ripped open a connection from UF to a universe on the mainline, thus creating a valid path between the UF universe and the Eye of Harmony.

The universe they landed in was the Early Cyberpunk universe, where cybernetics had been developed during the Vietnam War and were downright routine by 1992 (thus the hardjacked motorcyclist). My UF-Prime avatar is stranded there, while a transrip at Bancroft Tower took the UF-Prime Ben and MegaZone to the universe known as Hopelessly Lost.

Ben, do I have this about right?

Everyone else: does this even parse?

--Rob

Phrenology: The art of determining someone's personality by the pattern of bumps on their head.

Phrenotherapy: The art of changing someone's personality by altering the pattern of bumps on their head.