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sidereon-spaceace · 1 year ago

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Today's worldbuilding agonies: not wanting to ever specify how much time is passing because how the hell am I supposed to configure time-keeping across multiple planets and moons across the solar system

But then at a certain point wanting there to be a difinitive countdown clock before Something Bad happens to add tension and stakes

#ramblings #found some story notes like 'yeah this solution sucks but the characters go through with it anyway because *there isn't time*'#maybe i could cheat and like. say there's some magical tree. leaves keep falling off and once it's completely bare then time's up #realistically each world would have their own timekeeping methods and different divisions and calendars #which would be a logistical nightmare for travel and trade but that's why you pay Astromancers to keep up with that #god if you lived on a moon what would that calendar even look like #would you just ignore the orbital period around the host planet? you could just define A Day as how long any point is facing the sun #but what about the host planet eclipsing the sun? how often would that happen? would it last long enough to impact daily life?#maybe some people in this setting just have really fucked up sleeping cycles idk I'll figure it out at some point

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