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mikansei · 3 months ago

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trying to figure out hsr's timeline is just pepesilvia.jpeg

when dates are labeled "AE" does that mean the WHOLE amber era, e.g. 2157 AE is the 2157th amber era, which itself lasted anywhere from 76 to 240 years?

was the swarm disaster in the 1300s AE ~770 whole ass amber eras ago (e.g. 60,000-180,000 years ago) from the present in 2157 AE, because that is an insane length of time?

the xianzhou fleet set sail in search of Yaoshi ~8000 years ago (whose years in what system???), and Yaoshi didn't exist during the swarm disaster, so is there just a huge gap between 60k-180k years ago & 8k years ago?

but the founding of the IPC is listed as occurring btw 1357-1387 AE, involving the same people who were presumably mortal, pre-Yaoshi, and didn't live for thousands of years, so that HAS to be measured as 30 years and not 30 amber eras?

but also the IPC claims one of those people contemporary to the swarm disaster is definitely still alive??? i mean sure they could mean it symbolically or sth, but man

man.

i understand the history fictionologists now. i too am about to start just making shit up

#i say as if the process of writing a fic is not inherently “making shit up”#neck-deep in the wiki's timeline all day just to figure out how long i want this dude to have been alone in cryo-sleep for angst purposes #like i need the civilization to have fallen & its language forgotten after ena died but 180k is NOT a relatable number of years #8k years is much more digestible. that's just a bit older than writing. ancient w/o being literally pre-modern homo sapiens #but the xianzhou fleet also set sail 8k years ago so it's like if ancient sumerians were spacefarers who had cryo-sleep tech #but also it's a fucking fusion crossover! the hsr characters are sirs not appearing in this fic! im inventing planets out of whole cloth!!!#WORLDBUILDING MY BELOVED NEMESIS #sobs into my hands #adventures in fic writing #hsr #hsr meta #wait i also realized i'm putting the city of troy like... inside of carthage #carthage is a (non-earth) planet in this scenario and also there's spaceships and aliens but still. that is not where troy goes #i made a bunch of other ancient cities into neighboring planets i should've put troy on a closer analogue...

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