dimanche 24 novembre 2013

Date Conversion

Each Major Race uses their own dating system, rendering date conversion between systems necessary on occasion.

Calendars

Imperial

Main article: Imperial calendar
The Third Imperium uses a regularized version of the calendar originally developed on Terra. It shares seconds, minutes, hours, days and weeks with the Solomani version, but does not organize them into intermediate months. The Imperial year is exactly 365 days, or 52 weeks with one extra "Holiday" date. The calendar is, naturally, tied to the declaration of the founding of the Imperium by Cleon I.

Solomani

Main article: Revised Gregorian Calendar
The Solomani have kept the same dating system that was in use before the Solomani invention of jump drive and coming into contact with the Ziru Sirka. Its reference date is tied to the birth of a popular religious figure from early Terran history.
The Imperial Calendar is heavily influenced by the Solomani dating system, and borrows most of its basic timekeeping units. However, instead of numbering days within a year, as in Imperial practice, days are numbered inside a month, twelve roughly equal subdivisions of the year. Further, the length of the year is subtly different as Solomani calendar still periodically adjusts to synchronize with the sidereal period of Terra around Sol (365.2425 days, thus the Solomani year is 1.0006644 Imperial years). Because of this difference, the first day of the two calendars are 0.74 years apart as of 1116.

Vilani

The Vilani also count from the founding of the Empire Ziru Sirka. Each Vilani year is ~1.312 Solomani year.

Zhodani

Main article: Zhodani calendar
The Zhodani chten is ~0.754 standard years. The calendar uses Olympiads, which is three chten, with an extra day to cover the leap years. An Olympiad is ~2.262 standard years. The Zhodani calendar uses the count of olympiad from the founding of the Psionic Games, plus a marker of which year (1, 2, or 3) into the current olympiad (e.g. 1244.1).

Aslan

Main article: Aslan calendar
Aslan dating begins from the formation of the Tlaukhu. Each Aslan year is ~0.877 Solomani years.

K'Kree

Main article: K'kree calendar
The K'Kree dating system is also pre-flight. Each K'Kree year is ~1.2 Solomani, Their calendar starts with the founding of Rak'keer!, their capital city in -8145 Imperial.

Vargr

Vargr have no accurate calendar, so dating is meaningless, however a Vargr "year" is ~1.03 Solomani years.

Droyne

The Droyne calendar likely should start around -75,000 Imperial, however the Droyne don't keep good records either.

Hiver

Main article: Hiver calendar
Hive Federation dates begin with the official proclaiming of Glea as the Federation capital. This occurred in 410 imperial, though the move was not officially completed until 490. While all official dates refer to this calendar, most Hiver nests use local dating systems.
A Cycle (day) is a little over 22 hours. A year is 143 cycles, each cycle simply numbered 1 to 143 with no month or week divisions. Thus, a Hiver year is about half an Imperial one (0.49 specifically).
1105 is 1389 HF; 1111 is 1401 HF (from CT AM 7 HIvers).

Equivalent Dates

Solomani Imperial Vilani Zhodani Aslan K'Kree Event
3,659 BC -8,145 3,148 PI -639.1 -5,442 1 Start of K'Kree calendar
2,213 BC -6,731 2,046 PI 1.1 -5,301 1,186 Start of Zhodani calendar
AD 1 -4,520 361 PI 981.2 -2,779 3027 Solomani calendar begins
AD 473 -4,045 1 VI 1,192.2 -2,237 3,422 Start of Vilani calendar
AD 2435 -2,083 1,496 VI 2,058.3 0 5,055 Aslan calendar Begins
AD 4518 0 3,084 2,979.3 2,376 6,788 Start of Imperial calendar

Conversion Chart

Read down for date of origin, then across to calendar to convert.
Date Conversion
Source (x) Solomani Imperial Vilani Zhodani Aslan K'Kree Hiver
Solomani n/a (x - 4518) / 1.0006644
Imperial (x * 1.0006644) + 4518 n/a (x + 4045)/1.312 (x + 6731)/2.26 (x + 2083) / 0.877 (x + 8145) / 1.2 (x - 410)*2
Vilani (x * 1.312) - 4045 n/a
Zhodani (x * 2.26) - 6731 n/a
Aslan (x * 0.877) -2083 n/a
K'Kree (x * 1.2) - 8145 n/a
Hiver (x/2) + 410 n/a
Note that converting from a calendar that does not have a zero year (e.g. Solomani, Vilani, Zhodani, K'kree) i.e. the 0 point is an instant in time, rather than a complete year, must account for the "missing" year when going from "negative" dates to positive ones.

Sourceshttp://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Date_Conversion

2 commentaires:

Je a dit…

Cleon Zhunastu also called Cleon I, was born as the inheritor to the Zhunastu family and heir to the title of Grand Duke in the Sylean Federation. He went on to found the Third Imperium.

Some say that Emperor Cleon was an extremist or fanatic. Others claim that he created the Imperium through a set of conspiracies and labyrinthine arrangements of evil and manipulative schemes.

What is indisputable in the eyes of most Imperial historians is that it produced peace, civilization, and prosperity for thousands of years leading to the Third Imperium.

Je a dit…

Zhunastu family

- Felix Zhunastu, Grand Duke of Sylea. Died in -30.
- Denkhumi Zhunastu. Wife of Felix.

- Cleon I, son of Felix and Denkhumi.
- Aldin Zhunastu. Cousin of Denkhumi and kinsman of Cleon. Head of the advanced technology research facility of Zhunastu Industrial Laboratories, inventor of Fusion Plus.

- Cleon II, only issue of Cleon I.