I was writing a line for episode 16 (yes I’ve started it while still working on 15).

“Enope lived in a system more active than most, with the orbital perturbations of its gas giant Jeea showering asteroids into the inner system every 12,000 years.”

Which is a line that got me thinking. Are these Earth years, for the reader’s comprehension? Or is it Dessei years?

It matters because I have, in fact, modeled the systems and homeworlds of the major species and places. The Dessei come from the planet of Enope III (yes, like Earth, Enope is the third planet in the system; if you’re making Earth-like systems it usually works out this way), but Enope has a shorter orbital period than Earth. It also has a different rotation period!

So an Enope year is only 0.74 Earth Years, equivalent to 270.29 Earth Days, 324 Local Days.

So do asteroids come in every 12,000 Earth years? 12,000 Enope years? Does it actually matter???

Yes, it does matter (at least to me).

Well, these sorts of questions have forced me to adopt a policy, which is basically ‘assume the numbers are translated into Earth years unless otherwise stated’.

I hope this has been at least mildly interesting.