Due to the powerful temporal field produced by the planet's tachyon core, for every 1.03 seconds which passed in normal space, nearly a day was experienced on the planet. When two astronauts boarded the USS Voyager, which had become trapped in the surrounding tachyon field, they found that their physiologies had a difficult time adjusting to the differential, and Terrina, the commander of the mission, died as a result. Gotana-Retz, the pilot, subsequently returned to the surface and, after approximately one-and-a-half years, returned with the compensator, which allowed him to exist in Voyager's time frame without actually leaving his own, but only for a few minutes.