Talk:Aka Williams/@comment-162.244.208.26-20150407135913/@comment-216.46.26.2-20150407190010

Well they did imply there was something or someone they wanted to find which is only on the train.

Part of the reason that 200 years seemed odd is that the way the situations set up makes it seems like tickets and people like sachi who stop people from bording make it hard, rather then being hard to get to the train itself (not to mention how hard the train itself is). In fact even the way they talk about the Mirotic Guardian makes it seem like the train leaves from the same spot every time, and Aka may well be one of the absolute strongest of those trying to get onto the train so how is he never managing to get on if he's trying constantly for 200 years? 20 years in contrast makes far more sense, it's long enough to be the past, but not so long that it seems like the characters just went to sleep for a century and a half, you could push it longer to 50 or 70 years, but 2 centuries imortal or not just seems a bit much.