I can name several men and women back in my homeland who can take on an army single handed, if such force is needed.

[He was personally related to five of them, but that was an unnecessary detail for the moment.]

That is my reason for distrusting the story, and why I'm disinclined to believe that we've merely been brought here as prisoners of war. Besides, if the governor's enemies are at a comparable level of strangeness? I doubt that they would have much interest in either of our worlds.