I am very, very happy with your characters, Elandra and MechanicalImpulses.<br/>GC- I'm not really certain... I kind of imagined it being 'out of time'.  Considering how much our world would change if nanotechnology takes off like microcomputing has, we could be looking at as little as 35-50 years in the future, but I don't have anything specific in mind... we could call it 37 P.E. (Post Event... whether that event be a global market crash, biological holocaust, or massive nuclear event...)<br/>It's up to you.  I'm not worried about specifying.