Temporal compensator
The temporal compensator is a system developed by the native people on Kelemane's planet that shielded them from the time differential which would otherwise make space travel impossible.
Their planet's tachyon core causes a time differential between the surface of the planet and surrounding normal space. The surface of the planet experiences one day for every 1.03 seconds of normal time.
When Orbital 1 was launched, the first space mission in the development of the species, the commander was killed when her body could not cope with the difference in time frames. The other astronaut on the mission, Gotana-Retz, nearly died, but was able to adjust to the new time frame. A side effect of this, was that when he returned to the planet, several hundred years had passed since his departure. This problem would make space travel for the species impractical.
As a solution to the problem, the temporal compensator was developed during the advanced spaceflight era. It allowed the astronaut to exist in the normal time-frame while not leaving the time-frame of the planet's surface, if only for a few minutes.
