Lexx Time Line
Thats as simple as they come. After the ‘End of the Universe’ and before ‘Fire and Water’, LEXX was drifting for 4300 years. 790 would wake periodically, once a month, to check on things. Kai woke once a year to check on 790.
But why wake once a month, drifting at sublight speeds, when you know it will take hundreds or even thousands of years to even approach the nearest star?
Why? Because of the possibility of rescue. It took no active energy to receive radio or ‘subspace’ transmissions. We can assume that the LEXX’s receptors were on full. 790 would wake once a month to analyze and collate the data, see if any ships had or would pass through the area, what the inhabited civilizations are, etc. Even at a rate of once a month, 790 would have woken to check radio frequencies approximately 50,000 times. This would offer more than enough opportunity to map out every energy broadcasting civilization over a fair chunk of the Dark Zone.
Or, how about this: 790 didn’t know what was in the Dark Zone originally, but Kai did. Kai knew the original coordinates for Brunnis, and he was also aware of the location and status of Nimbus 9, the prison planet for nymphomaniacs.
So…. Kai knows he has useful information.
He knows his protoblood won’t last forever.
He simply fills in 790. He has 4300 opportunities to do so.
In fact, the best chance of getting out of this mess would be a composite strategy. Kai fills 790 in on what he knows about the life and civilizations of the Dark Zone, information that may well have been thousands of years out of date, and 790 monitors the frequencies to see what’s changed.