In Secrets, Gryph mentions how dimensional travel isn't unknown. In fact, there's a few examples of it throughout UF. It's likely that people know about it, it's just that they always think its something you hear of but never experience.

Matrix Dragon

>Azalynn didn't necessarily know that Utena was from another world,
>though she might have. What she demonstrably knew, from having been
>in Morgan 401 and being a remarkably perceptive creature, was that
>Utena had a copy of that book. The rest is deductive reasoning, a
>thing Azalynn is quite good at.

Also, remember that Utena was a new student. Add that + she owns a copy of "so you've just arrived..." and I'd make the same deduction as well; ie Utena is NOT from this universe. And that's without Azalynn's ability to 'smell' the difference.

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Vaughn doesn't know I exist. I guess this explains why the rest of reality keeps ignoring me as well. >_<

Take it one step further and you're there: Utena told the rest of Table 11 the name of the guy who attacked her the week before Christmas break, and that he was a former schoolmate of hers, at her previous school. Therefore, when he reappears and shows signs of extreme disorientation, that's the book he needs as well.

Between that and Saionji's, er, debriefing, Azalynn "today" knows almost as much about the situation as Kaitlyn - not quite as much, since there are things that neither Saionji nor Miki knows and that Azalynn can't divine for herself, but almost. Even some of those, Azalynn could make decently-rooted speculations about if she had just a little more information, based on the evidence of her six regular senses.

--G.
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What's number 6?

Eric J. Heckathorn
ericjh@stargate.net

Pardon me while I suppress both MPFC and The Prisoner references. :)

The Dantrovian sixth sense is an ability to sense the planetary magnetosphere of class-M planets and intuit certain facts about one's position from that - where on the globe one is relative to the poles and equator, and from that, what time of year it is in one's current location.

(It is a quirk of the UF universe that most class-M planets have a measure of axial tilt which conveys upon them seasons, after the fashion of Earth - sometimes more or less severe, but along the same general pattern. Some planetologists have theorized that such a tilt contributes in some vital manner to the formation of class-M conditions on planets in the first place.)

--G.
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Hmmm, I bet she (and all other Dantrovians, one would assume) is a whole barrel of fun in the proximity of strong magnetic fields, like around Jupiter or near any given star. That must suck.

How much effect do artificial, locally strong magnetic fields have on them? Like, say, the containment field of a fusion reactor and the like?

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Chad Collier
Digital Bitch
J. Random VFX Company

Space travel is kind of weird, as is visiting a body without a notable magnetosphere (like, say, the Moon). Being isolated from magnetic disturbances (for instance, aboard a starship with its navigational deflectors up) has a curious "there's nothing there" feel, like suddenly realizing it's eerily quiet.

>How much effect do artificial, locally strong magnetic fields have on
>them? Like, say, the containment field of a fusion reactor and the
>like?

Not much - they're too local. They can "drown out" the overall magnetosphere, making it impossible to sense, but they don't give a "false reading" - they're just noise.

It's not a conscious thing most of the time - just an awareness at the back of the mind. If something about it changes, it takes a while for that change to be noticed, and it may not be, consciously. It's kind of a vestigial ability, and not really useful for much of anything.

--G.
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Now I understand why UF-Doc is so bizarre. It makes much sense now.

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Geoff Depew - Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Malakite of Lightning and Angel of Tech Support Professionals
(They won't give me LARTs, they say that's restricted to Michael.)

Why, Meph...why would you think that? ;-)

Truthfully, UF Doc isn't nearly as bizarre as, say, Lord F. In fact, once you take away the whole time/dimensional traveler/immortal doctor thing, and he's pretty much an ordinary guy...married to a humanized Salusian girl who happens to be distant royalty...with four immortal kids, a gun-crazy brother, and counts among his friends some of the most influential people in a military/para-military hierarchy (depending on when you ask).

Yup, just an ordinary guy. ;-)

--DocMui

>Just FYI, there are probably those who can tell when an individual is
>not within their native dimension. However, they tend to be
>exceedingly rare, often falling into one of two categories:

Maybe so. There are also those who can gather enough data to form fairly strong suspicions through more mundane observations. For example, if you were to ask Azalynn, she would tell you that they smell different. Not bad... pretty good actually... but different.

That may have more to do with the fact that (these) Cephireans aren't quite normal humans, though, and not the dimensional displacement per se.

--G.
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