OpenGeofiction
Would like to set up a dating system on the wiki for easy reference when creating history sections to our wiki. Anyone interested? Also wondering the best way to add photographs on our pages. It’s obviously not possible to take photographs of a fictional lands. Any great artists out there?
Discussion
Comment from Fleur on 29 July 2014 at 21:08
I’ve made a discussion topic on the wiki where we can discuss this in further detail. It’s an interesting topic so it will be interesting to see the outcome.
http://www.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Talk:Main_Page
As for photographs, there are a few different things you could try. Firstly, if you want a photo of, say, a building you could use a program like Google SketchUp or something similar. If you wanted a picture of a landscape or city however, it could be more difficult. I assume there are probably a few programs out there that could help with such things but I don’t know of any off the top of my head.
Comment from bhj867 on 29 July 2014 at 21:14
Perfect, moved the discussion to there.
Comment from Saint Piran on 30 July 2014 at 00:35
The calendar used in the Brythonnic Imperium is the {4th. Aeon} calendar (i.e. from the founding of the Imperial throne) which may be viewed at:-
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkjpJZtD42-9dEVhc1czWFoxQmxKVFd5cUJkVW92TUE&usp=drive_web#gid=3
And today’s date is actually the third day (‘cycale’ in the Brythonnic tongue) of the new year(‘yaru’ in the Brythonnic tongue). Officially known as:-
8 Coming Yaru {€IV}1798
[apologies that the actual ‘diary’ on the page is last yaru’s!
Brythonnic Calendar
A “yaru” measures one orbit of our star, Umbrant, by our planet (Opengeo). An ”embrilant” measures the time it takes our satellite, Emiril, to orbit our planet. A “quadrilant” measures one quarter of the time it takes Emiril to orbit OpenGeo. A “cycale” measures one full rotation of OpenGeo upon its axis. A “harn” measures 1/30th of a cycale. A “melate” measures 1/60th of a harn. A “sentac” measures 1/120th of a melate.
“Quon’cycale”; “Ni(gh)’cycale”; “Prox’cycale” ~ are respectively:- ‘the cycale prior to the present one’; ‘the present cycale’; ‘the cycale following the present one’.
Definitions
Yaru A unit of time that is equal to the time taken for OpenGeo to orbit Umbrant. A typical yaru contains 208 cycales, across 10 embrilants in addition to the festival of the Coming Yaru. Every seventh yaru however, contains 213 cycales, the additional quadrilant celebrates the Septennial festival. See also, Calendar.
Embrilant A unit of time that is equal to the time taken for Emiril to orbit OpenGeo. An embrilant is made up of four quarilants, or 20 cycales, and there are 10 embrilants in a yaru. See also, Calendar.
Quadrilant A unit of time that is equal to one quarter of the time it takes Emiril to orbit OpenGeo. A quadrilant is made up of five cycales, and four quarilants make up one embrilant. See also, Calendar.
Cycale A unit of time that is equal to the duration it takes OpenGeo to perform one full rotation on its axis. A cycale is made up of 30 harns; there are five cycales per quadrilant and 20 cycales in an embrilant. See also, Calendar.
Harn A unit of time that is equal to one thirtieth of a full rotation of OpenGeo on its axis. A harn is made up of 60 melates, and 30 harns make up a cycale. See also, Calendar.
Melate A unit of time that equates to 1/900 of the time it takes OpenGeo to perform one full rotation on its axis. A melate is made up of 120 sentacs, and 60 melates make up one harn. See also, Calendar.
Sentac A unit of time that equates to 1/108000 of the time it takes OpenGeo to perform one full rotation on its axis. A sentac is the lowest denominator of time measurement, where 120 sentacs make up one melate. A sentac is equal to 0.4 ship seconds as found in the journals discovered by Mr Heckinbottom. See also, Calendar.
Thus: theere are 10 embrilants in every yaru, each bearing its own name; 4 quarilants to an embrilant; 5 cycales to a quadrilant and 30 harns to a cycale; 60 melates to a harn and 120 sentacs to a melate. Each cycale of the quadrilant bears a name based on the great rivers: Telcale, Devencale, Vollancale, Adaircale and Reavencale. Each embrilant also bears a name, derived from the planets and other nearby celestial bodies: Kaibetju, Adanastaju, Neeruthju, Thirmanderju, Doragisju, Mulonnenju, Indalloju, Sherapiju, Emirilju and Umbrantju.
Names
Telcale Telcale is the first cycale of the Quarilant. See also, Calendar.
Devencale Devencale is the second cycale of the Quarilant. See also, Calendar.
Vollancale Vollancale is the third cycale of the Quarilant. See also, Calendar.
Adaircale Adaircale is the fourth cycale of the Quarilant. See also, Calendar.
Reavencale Reavencale, sometimes written Ravencale, is the fifth and final cycale of the Quarilant. See also, Calendar.
Kaibetju Kaibetju is the first embrilant of the yaru. See also, Calendar.
Adanastaju Adanastaju is the second embrilant of the yaru. See also, Calendar.
Neeruthju Neeruthju is the third embrilant of the yaru. See also, Calendar.
Thirmanderju Thirmanderju is the fourth embrilant of the yaru. See also, Calendar.
Doragisju Doragisju is the fifth embrilant of the yaru. See also, Calendar.
Mulonnenju Mulonnenju is the sixth embrilant of the yaru. See also, Calendar.
Indalloju Indalloju is the seventh embrilant of the yaru. See also, Calendar.
Sherapiju Sherapiju is the eighth embrilant of the yaru. See also, Calendar.
Emirilju Emirilju is the ninth embrilant of the yaru. See also, Calendar.
Umbrantju Umbrantju is the tenth and final full embrilant of the yaru. See also, Calendar.
The Great Septennial Festival Every seventh yaru there are also an additional 5 “Leap Cycales”. These fall between the embrilants Doragisju and Mulonnenju, but do not belong to either. During this time the Great Septennial Festival is celebrated.
Festival of the Coming Yaru Five cycales at the end and three cycales at the beginning of each yaru are denoted for celebrating the Festival of the Coming Yaru. After the embrilant of Umbrantju, comes the festival of the Coming Yaru. This festival is eight cycales in duration, with the first five falling at the end of the yaru and the final three beginning the new. The fifth day of Coming Yaru is referred to as Pre-Yaru, and at the final harn of the cycale, the yaru is incremented. This then leads into “New Yaru Cycale” (or the sixth cycale of Coming Yaru), on which day the populace celebrates the dawn of a new yaru.
There is another ‘informal’ time measurement used originally only in engineering applications, but co-opted by various sports now, too - “triánta”, which is equivalent to (12 Ship seconds) 30 sentacs. We describe football match events in triántas, there being exactly 5 triántas to a Ship minute.
Comment from Saint Piran on 30 July 2014 at 00:41
NB - there’s a little ‘dodgy math’ in the calcs. of melates & sentacs per cycale - out by a factor of two, methinks. (couldn’t see how to edit!)