Thursday, December 22, 2011

The Week

Not my week, but a week in Phinea.  Their cycle, or day, is 30 hours long.  The day is defined as the time it takes for the Bright One (the biggest of the three suns) to go completely around the planet, starting with dawn.  Since the suns were once moons and actually do revolve around the earth, the seasons are steady, as is the length of daylight.  The week, the purpose of my blog, is 10 days.  Seeing as base-10 measurements seem more intuitive, and the planet's civilization was wiped out a few thousand years before my first novel takes place, all of the measurements of time are some multiple of 10.  Makes sense, I think.

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