In order to navigate this site your PC needs to have an Adobe Flash Player installed, version 6 or higher. If your PC hasn't displayed the "Enter" button on the main page, then you need to install a Flash Player.   In most cases you should already have a player installed, however if for what ever reason you haven't, you can get one by going to the Adobe (by clicking on "Adobe") web-site, going to the download section, and downloading it.

If, on the other hand, you DO have an Adobe Flash Player installed, but the "Enter" button hasn't appeared and you are getting a bar appear at the top of your browser stating a message along the lines of; "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this file from showing active content..." etc etc. No problems. Simply click on the bar for options, and select allow blocked content to be shown.

Ok, here's the bit where you ask, why should you trust this site? And why should you allow blocked content?

The warning message is simply to do with the way you have set up your browser's security settings, and the default setting doesn't allow ANY Flash application to be run, or downloaded onto your PC. This is because some very clever (but not so nice people) use Flash to do nasty things to your PC. I'm a nice person (or so I think), and not so clever about how to programme Flash, which is why the Flash applications on this site are simple. They do nothing else except allow you to access pages on this site, and animate some graphics. So allowing them to work will not effect, infect, or harm your PC in any way. We can guarantee this because we made the Flash applications used on this site, and have locked the coding to prevent them from being misused by anyone.

Of course you don't have to take our word for it; and if you need confirmation that this site is nothing more than a fan based one, and not out to infect your computer with nasty hidden programs, then please note (and feel free to check out) the following;

Rukbat 3 is an approved Pern website, for further details contact The Worlds of Anne McCaffrey, or visit their site (by clicking on "site").

The following sites/people also rate this site, and are aware of it's content, and can be contacted/visited (by clicking on each link);

Todd McCaffrey's Pern Page (under "General Pern Resources")
Anne McCaffrey Fans
Rocky Crater WeyrHold
Sariel's Guide to Pern
The Pern Museum & Archives

Failing that, and if all the above hasn't convinced you to give us a go, and trust us, then we bid you good day, and a happy and full life. If it's simply a case that you do not wish to download a Macromedia Flash Player - well then, hard cheese, you wont be accessing the site!

If after all the above, you still cannot see the enter button, then I would suggest changing your screen resolution to 1024x768.  If that fails to help (or you already use that viewing size), then please contact us (by clicking on "contact").

In order to return to the main page please click here, (by clicking on "click here").

   
Revised 17 March 2011.