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The colony ship was commissioned to transfer residents of Mondas, with a skeleton crew of 50, including the janitor [[Jorj]], set to pilot it there to prepare for such. However, they became sucked into the orbit of a black hole, 20 members speedily going down to [[Floor 1056]] to reverse the thrusters to pull away from the black hole. However, due to the nature of the gravitational pull caused by the black hole, it created a sense of time dilation, effectively creating several [[Time Zones|time zones]], with the lower floors moving much faster while the higher floors, notably [[Floor 0000|floor 0]], moved extremely slowly in comparison. The lower floors implemented clocks to monitor this difference, noting how 2 days passed at the top but over 1000 years did likewise on floor 1056.  

Due to such, the lower floors inevitably gave birth to several generations as their floors decayed drastically, forcing them to convert themselves into [[Patient (World Enough and Time)|cybernetic humanoids]] to survive. At some point {{Simm}} snuck on board and lived on floor 1056 as "Mr. Razor", the caretaker of the hospital people went to be upgraded. The prototypes would venture to the upper floors to take the rest of the crew members for conversion, leaving only Jorj as he wasn't completely human.