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The 'official' calendar of the church. The "present" is Triskadecember 844. Year numbers count down, and recorded history is reliable about as far back as 3800. Most planets' founding myths place the date around 8300-8500.
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The 'official' calendar of the church. The "present" is <date title="Present day">June 842</date> (Although not every campaign is set in the present day - see the list below). Year numbers count down, and recorded history is reliable about as far back as 3800. Most planets' founding myths place the date around 8300-8500.
  
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The base unit of time is the ''tick'', which is based on the heartbeat of [[Pope Gradius II]], who first mandated metric time. The 'heartbeat' is now officially measured by an atomic clock kept at the [[Tomb of True Time]] on [[Sepulchre Divinorum]], and the tick is broadcast throughout the universe by a ground [[ansible]]. Tourists often come to look at the 'clock pillar', approximately 3m high and 80cm in diameter, which sits beside Gradius's sarcophagus. What most don't realise is that this only contains the ansible, power distribution system and a set of chimes - the atomic clock itself is inside the sarcophagus, within an electronic pacemaker connected to a heart long since decayed.
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The base unit of time is the [[tick]], which is based on the heartbeat of [[Pope Gradius II]]. There are 100 ticks in a cent, 100 cents in an hour, and 25 hours in a day. It is worth noting that on most worlds, a 'day' is no longer related to any kind of natural cycle. On low-infrastructure worlds, and among [[:Category:farmers|farmers]] (to whom the world's period of rotation actually matters), an additional unit of time is the [[solar]], lasting from one dawn to the next. Such people are known to use expressions of time such as "plus five-half" (written "+5/50") meaning half an hour past the first hour after local dawn. When dealing with people on other worlds, or calling people in a different timezone, everyone will be familiar with using the canonical datetime. Common usage also uses a 'minute', which is about 2 cents, and a 'second' of about 3 ticks.
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There are 100 ticks in a cent, 100 cents in an hour, and 25 hours in a day. It is worth noting that on most worlds, a 'day' is no longer related to any kind of natural cycle. On low-infrastructure worlds, and among farmers (to whom the world's period of rotation actually matters), an additional unit of time is the 'solar', lasting from one dawn to the next. Such people are known to use expressions of time such as "plus five-half" (written "+5/50") meaning half an hour past the first hour after local dawn. When dealing with people on other worlds, or calling people in a different timezone, everyone will be familiar with using the canonical datetime. Common usage also uses a 'minute', which is about 2 cents, and a 'second' of about 3 ticks.
 
  
 
7 days make a week, and 26-33 days in a month. A year is 13 months.
 
7 days make a week, and 26-33 days in a month. A year is 13 months.
  
 
==Days of the week==
 
==Days of the week==
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# Greenday ''(The church's rest-day)''
 
# Tuesday
 
# Tuesday
 
# Threeday
 
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# Sonday
 
# Sonday
 
# Moonday
 
# Moonday
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(If you need to calculate what day a specific date is, you can count from <date>861-Neu-1.</date>, which was a Moonday)
  
 
==Months of the Year==
 
==Months of the Year==
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# Neovembar (Nov, 30 days)
 
# Neovembar (Nov, 30 days)
 
# Triskadecember (Tri, 32 days)
 
# Triskadecember (Tri, 32 days)
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==Campaign Dates==
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* ''Ghosts in the Machine'' - 1315
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* ''Mysterious Planets of Gold'' - 1313
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* [[OOC:Operation:Pope John's Kneecap|Operation:Pope John's Kneecap]] - Feb 1136
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* ''Brothers of Steele'' - 1010
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* ''When my Ship comes In'' '''(never ran)''' - 868
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* ''AI Police'' - Neu / Cat 861
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* [[Talon Detective Agency]] - 844
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* [[OOC:Elevated Levels of Stupidity|Elevated Levels of Stupidity]] - 844
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* [[OOC:Who Knows|Who Knows?]] - Mar/Avi 843
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* [[OOC:Roadtrip|Roadtrip]] and [[OOC:Following Close Behind|Following Close Behind]] - Jun 842
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* [[OOC:The True King of Asshole|The True King of Asshole]] ''(will run again)'' - Jun 842
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==Proposed Campaign Dates==
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* [[OOC:Crisis Room|Crisis Room]] - Neo 844
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* [[OOC:New Earth|New Earth]] - 840 / 884
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* [[OOC:One More Thing|One More Thing]] - Oct 842
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* [[OOC:Oasis, Shadow, Legacy, Mirror, Apogee|Oasis/Shadow/Legacy/Mirror/Apogee]] - Cat 842

Latest revision as of 16:12, 24 October 2011

The 'official' calendar of the church. The "present" is <date title="Present day">June 842</date> (Although not every campaign is set in the present day - see the list below). Year numbers count down, and recorded history is reliable about as far back as 3800. Most planets' founding myths place the date around 8300-8500.

The base unit of time is the tick, which is based on the heartbeat of Pope Gradius II. There are 100 ticks in a cent, 100 cents in an hour, and 25 hours in a day. It is worth noting that on most worlds, a 'day' is no longer related to any kind of natural cycle. On low-infrastructure worlds, and among farmers (to whom the world's period of rotation actually matters), an additional unit of time is the solar, lasting from one dawn to the next. Such people are known to use expressions of time such as "plus five-half" (written "+5/50") meaning half an hour past the first hour after local dawn. When dealing with people on other worlds, or calling people in a different timezone, everyone will be familiar with using the canonical datetime. Common usage also uses a 'minute', which is about 2 cents, and a 'second' of about 3 ticks.

7 days make a week, and 26-33 days in a month. A year is 13 months.

Days of the week

  1. Greenday (The church's rest-day)
  2. Tuesday
  3. Threeday
  4. Whenday
  5. Fryday
  6. Sonday
  7. Moonday

(If you need to calculate what day a specific date is, you can count from <date>861-Neu-1.</date>, which was a Moonday)

Months of the Year

  1. Febuary (Feb, 31 days)
  2. June (Jun, 31 days)
  3. Octember (Oct, 30 days)
  4. Neutrany (Neu, 26 days)
  5. Catuary (Cat, 31 days)
  6. Festivary (Fes, 31 days)
  7. September (Sep, 33 days)
  8. August (Aug, 29 days)
  9. Lorem (Lor, 30 days)
  10. Mark (Mar, 29 days)
  11. Aviary (Avi, 31 days)
  12. Neovembar (Nov, 30 days)
  13. Triskadecember (Tri, 32 days)

Campaign Dates

Proposed Campaign Dates

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