Author: Dr Jone Brown

To: Department of History 

Subject: Timekeeping

Timekeeping is a subject with great scientific potential and very little recognition. It seems most have just taken a look at the rate at which an asteroid spins around and called it a day. And that's fair, because the fancy computers already track the rate things move in the fourth dimension and came up with the formula [[INVALID MEDIA]]. Right now, the smallest widely accepted unit of time in Kyrnomacek is the 'second', supposedly implying the existence of an even smaller unit that somehow doesn't exist in the database, shown below:

60-based time units:

Second

Minute

Hour

Jour

10-based time units:

Decade (10 years)

Century

Millennium 

Miscellaneous time units:

Day (24 hours)

Week (7 days)

Month (alternates between 31 and 30 days, except on February, which is 28 days)

Year (12 months)

Muonth (18 months)

Fggghhhggg (3.829 kilognogs)

The origins of most of these units are unknown, likely originating from Old Terra, though their usage by interlopers in the far galactic east implies a different origin. Certain legends exist on the origins of many units of time, most notably in the biography of Lord Year Month, who said the following:

“Henceforth, the amount of time it takes for asteroid TOS-728-662 (formerly part of Old Terra) to orbit its star shall be known as a “year”, just as one twelfth of this time shall be known as a “Month”. My word is so and this shall be the foundation of our time scaling.”

For context, the availing Scornian lord was becoming aware of his old age and wanted to invent a system of timekeeping to see how long future generations will have lived. Why he chose a random asteroid is unknown, though it is thought the body had a perfectly consistent orbit. This asteroid, if it existed, was thought to have been accidentally destroyed due to a lack of bodies matching its description, unfortunately. What is known is that the system of timekeeping was honored and played a vital role for the Scornians in the crusades, when forces under Admiral Day Week were able to predict a major incursion and successfully drove it out. Similar maneuvers against the Threshers and the Hagbeadi are performed to this day, earning the doctrine's nickname of [[INVALID MEDIA]].