Yeah, time is involved. “Chronologically displaced” gave that away. And the Rhino creature was a “Fate Weaver” so it all suggests time is involved. Umway also noted various telepathy institutions that didn’t yet exist in Emily’s time.

I forget exactly what happened in the temporary special comic that Eldon ran of Xuan and the other bloke. But she certainly seemed to have AT LEAST some telepathy powers, and presuming she wasn’t simply using nano-bots to do the last thing I remember in that comic, then some Telekenesis as well.

Again, it all suggests that some future from Emily’s time has significant psychic power and technology, together with the ability to traverse time.

…Imagine this. If do something insignificant then you adjust a timeline and all branches formed in and after that timeline, but do something significant enough in the past, then you don’t simply change the timeline but create a new one. But creating a new timeline isn’t as simple as a flutter of a butterfly’s wings. It actually takes some significant work to create a new timeline. Now imagine that there are various different timeline branches, or dimensions, caused by these adjustments. Go a bit further and imagine that these different branches of time are considered territories, so you can do as you please in a timeline that you own, but adjust someone else’s and they won’t appreciate it. You might wipe out rival civilisations in your timeline, but as long as you don’t wipe them out in the timelines that those civilisations own, they may not care much. But if you go too far back (like back to Emily’s timeline, then you may have gone back to a point before your timeline was created and begin to have some minor affects not only on your own but other’s, which would likely leave them very unhappy.

*meh* just a lot of theories at this point.

But with a bit of extrapolating, that can be solved too. From what I’ve seen, what the Strays might be, is not astray only in space and dimension, but in Time as well.

The references at the very begining with the odd couple in the car, the “Pre-Telepathy” comment that the Space Orca makes, the burgeoning science of nano-tech in the world of today. It’s sketchy, but it could be possible.

And these “Humans” are people who can make an entire dimension to suit their whims, at that kind of technological level, there is probably not much that they can’t do.

I’m not exactly sure where the Avalonians fit in. Perhaps they are a faction of the humans who choose to maintain a strict but non-invasive control of the area, maybe? They keep people from making obvious displays of technology from what I’ve noticed, but other than that, they don’t seem to care.