Schlock Mercenary

* Note: The concept of simultanaeity in a purely relativisitic setting is iffy at best. With the advent of the Hypernet, wormgates, and eventually the Teraport it became obvious that the old models of causality in the observable universe were flawed. Information which propagates faster than light does not result in paradoxes, or if it does they're only very small, non-exploitable ones that pop like soap bubbles in a stiff wind. That experiment with the really long, really fast train, where instantaneous communication from one end to the other violates cause-and-effect? It was performed in the late 25th century, and effect followed cause with no trouble at all. (Okay, maybe it wiggled around a little bit, but not enough to get things out of order.)

The important thing to glean from the 2nd narrative panel above is that for story purposes we are rewinding about a month.

Also, terms like "hour," "day" and "month" are translated from Galstandard West into the crude English of our 21st-century readers. Just as Americans with no proper set of metric measuring cups get confused and flustered by recipes calling for grams of this and milliliters of that, pre-Contact Earthlings with no proper Galro Calendar will get depressed when they can't figure out where their next three-day weekend is coming from.