Talk:El-Aurian

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"However, if they were not warp-capable, the allocation of years of travel from El-Auria to Earth and back again may be acceptable to a long-lived species if the trip was profitable or beneficial in some way."

Even with high warp speeds, travel from the Delta quadrant to Earth takes some 70 years (see Voyager), so without warp it would take way too long, even for such a long-lived species. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{1}}}|contribs]]).

I would think the estimate is a bit outdated. In Q Who? the Enterprise was whisked away to the Borg space ("near the System J2-5" 7000 lightyears away from their original location) by Q and the estimated time required to return (at maximum warp speed) was 2 years.

Was it ever really established that El-Auria is located in the Delta Quadrant? According to that episode, the El-Aurians had been to that place before having been wiped out by the Borg. Granted, though: even if the El-Aurian homeworld was near to that place, it would still have taken them 7000 years at lightspeed alone, so "conventional" travel would be a bit unlikely, even for El-Aurians.

If they got there without warpspeed, it must have been a colony ship or something like that, and several tens (or hundreds, at sub-lightspeed) of generations would have had passed before they arrived -- which would suggest larger numbers than Guinan's backstory of the odd secret visitor.

Either way, the interesting notion here is how close the Borg were to Federation space. 2 years at maximum warp (i.e. nine-point-something) is quite realistic for a determined invasion force, whereas the Voyager series' Borg seemed to rely on wormholes to get to places in an instant (thus allowing them to be located much farther away and still be a threat). I wonder whether the original "homeworld" of the Borg being located ~70 years away at max warp was intended from the start or added later because the ~2 years turned out being too close.

But I digress... — Ashmodai ^{(talk · contribs)} 20:12, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Awareness outside of normal space-time

"They also have an awareness beyond the normal flow of time and space and can detect changes to time even though they may not be aware of exactly what those changes were."

Is it anywhere established that this is common to all El Aurians? As far as I know, only Guinan has demonstrated this ability. I thought this could be due to her time in the Nexus. Marky1981 19:04, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. Guinan has space-time superpowers because part of her exists outside time, in the Nexus --VAcharon 00:30, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Move

It was requested that "El Aurian be moved to "El-Aurian". I think this should be uncontroversial, so I moved it. — Knowledge Seeker দ 22:12, 16 July 2006 (UTC)