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The Passing of Time Among Two Major Interstellar Species of the Kabacta Rift
Though standard Moochava time reckoning, based on the 21 Eons and the orbit of the Moochava homeworld, serves as a guide for most species in the Kabacta Rift, Humans use their own unique systems of reckoning.
Standard Moochava Timekeeping is based on the 21 eons since Broken Space in its known form came into existence. An eon is defined as a period of time in which the laws of space and nature are reasonably consistent with one-another.
The Moochava year is based on the orbit of Wuffinoc, the Moochava homeworld, around its red star Bumbar. The year is divided into three seasons and 406 days, with one calibration day added every eight years.
The Moochava day is divided into airs (seven per day), dirts (fourteen per air), turns (49 per dirt), and beats (49 per turn).
The current eon, the 21st, began with the permanent slumber of the last sha (Lon, "(a) truth"), shortly thereafter followed by the dissemination of the glyphs (or keys, or god-forms). This event took place 1192 years ago.
The Humans use several calendars. Most are based on the orbit of the Human homeworld, Tellus, around its star, Matrasu, which takes 365 1/4 Tellus days or about 684 Wuffinoc days.
The Core World Union and many of its colonies maintain a "start date" for their calendars based on the arrival of Humanity in Broken Space, an event that occurred in the 782nd year of the 19th Eon. By Tellus years, then, Tellus has been in Broken Space for 5,960 years. However, due to certain irregularities in calendar-keeping, it is currently the year 5967 by Core World standards. Dates after the arrival of Humanity are listed followed with a B, for "Broken." Those before are listed with a C, for "Continuous." This is technically inaccurate, since space broke well before Tellus arrived, but no amount of reason or violence has persuaded the Humans to change their calendars, or to explain where those missing seven years went.
The Out World Imperium still uses Earth Years for its standard "year length" (despite repeated, failed attempts to replace this system with a year-length based on its capital world, Kaguro), though it uses the Moochava "Eon" system. Currently it is Year 2486 of the 21st Eon by the Imperial Calendar.
The Core Worlds, the Out Worlds, and the Colonies also use eon-like units of time called kalpas. There are currently 419 separate systems for determining the beginning and end of kalpas in place throughout Human space, according to the Warbwunian Library's best calculations, and none is more valid or useful than any other. Human kalpas are not to be confused with Lomite kalpas, which chart the "vast ages" of Broken Space of which an eon is but a single year.
The Core World divides each day into three shifts, called alpha, beta, and gamma. Each shift is in turn divided into cycles, ranging from 1-10. Each cycle is divided into ten units. Units are divided into 100 moves, usually listed as a decimal from 0.0 to 9.9. This system has been in place since the Secret Kings, and remains during the rule of the Enchanters, who would abolish it as a symbol of the Secret Kings' oppression except they maintain controlling interesting in most Core World watch companies.
Most other regions in human space divide time into main hours (each 1/24th of Tellus' day) and light hours (each 1/24th of the local day). Main and light minutes each constitute 1/60th of those hours, while seconds are always 1/60th of a main minute.
More information on the timekeeping methods of the other major species of the Kabacta Rift, including the Bomaugs, the Vocavo, the Mendats, and the Wekri, is available in the article titled The Passing of Time Among Other Major Species of the Kabacta Rift. Those readers whose eyes have not glazed over at the premise of reading more about calendars will find this article brisk and agreeable compared to the turgids depths of arithematical tedium confronting them in its expanded sequel.
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