Skywatch Year

The Skywatch Calendar was adopted by King Rhyla of the Rhyno Confederacy as a new way to keep galactic time. The calendar's beginning coincides with the first successful Ansible Message sent using Gahnxite. The message was a series of taps that said simply, Today is the first day of Skywach (sic).

Conversion

Keeping galactic time required all races to agree on a yearly cycle, not counting their individual days. Therefore a universal standard called a "second" was introduced with the mathematical principals needed to calculate a second. Probes in the form of natural looking stone with a psychic binding were sent to every stellar object in the galaxy.

The economic cost of the 'time seed' was heavy, but the hope was to give every possible sentience life both existing and yet-to-come the ability to tell time.

Free Colonies Calendar

The Rew Confederacy attempted to remake the calendar by adopting the Free Colonies Calendar in the year FCC 0 (SY 2620). This reset did not change the concept of a second or the duration of a year. With the collapse of the Rew Confederacy, only those who stubbornly defy the Rogers Republic, or claim a Rew heritage maintain the calendar.

Grand Unification

The Wami Kingdom received a time-seed and adopted the second long before their recorded history. Coupled with their incredibly recent appearance on the galactic stage, their calendar has virtually no usage outside the Wami Kingdom. Their people are, however, staunchly entrenched in its usage, as it represents their orbit around their home star, not some far-off galactic clock. The Grand Unification year is one-third the length of a Skywatch Year.

Gregorian Calendar

Known as the Common Era by the people of Earth, it's one-fifth the length of a Skywatch Year. While the people of Earth are still a pre-FTL community, the calculation has been included for you, the reader of this Wiki.