{"id":24,"date":"2011-12-29T11:23:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T16:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2012-10-19T08:57:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T12:57:11","slug":"notes-on-e-557","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/?page_id=24","title":{"rendered":"Notes on E-557"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This page answers a few questions that may pop up during the reading of <em>The Last Colony<\/em> and associated works.\u00a0 If you have a question that&#8217;s not addressed here, leave a comment below and let me know you&#8217;re confused!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>The calendar<\/h1>\n<p>The <em>Post Diaspora<\/em> (PD) calendar is the standard calendar of the universe.\u00a0 The <em>Post Diaspora<\/em> calendar begins c. 2450 AD\/CE, the date of the last recorded departure from the Sol system.<\/p>\n<h2>Months on E-557 (Twelve month calendar)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Primus<\/li>\n<li>Secunda<\/li>\n<li>Tertium<\/li>\n<li>Quartia<\/li>\n<li>Quintem<\/li>\n<li>Sechem<\/li>\n<li>Septimia<\/li>\n<li>Octem<\/li>\n<li>Novem<\/li>\n<li>Deciem<\/li>\n<li>Eindecem<\/li>\n<li>Duodecem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>Government and organizations<\/h1>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The major government extant among the humans of E-557&#8217;s\u00a0era is the New Earth Commonwealth (NECom).\u00a0 Ostensibly, all of the congloms, foundations, and other organizations must be registered with the Commonwealth and are regulated by the Commonwealth, but in practice this is largely a fallacy known to all except some people inside of the Commonwealth itself.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The Colonial Office<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">This organ of the New Earth Commonwealth handles the cataloging and regulation of planetary and system claims for all of humanity.\u00a0 It also produces maps and sponsors exploratory missions&#8211;at least they used to, before budget cuts put a stop to that.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Office of the Inspector General<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The\u00a0Office of the Inspector General investigates just about anything and everything&#8211;including violations of intergalactic law as agreed upon by the Commonwealth legislature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The current Inspector General is Sephora Damerian.<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0The Congloms and other organizations<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Roughly short for &#8220;conglomerates,&#8221; congloms serve as not only employers but as governments.\u00a0 Some are more strict than others.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Eurydice Compact<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Chinasia Corp<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Argopian LLC<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Wanderers<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">A religious organization that largely keeps to themselves.\u00a0 Their major settlement is the waypoint at the Whispers.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mission Systems LLC<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Currently headquartered in the Comanche system, Mission Systems is one of the few independent\u00a0ship-building conglomerates extant in the Commonwealth. In the past, it supplied many smaller congloms\u00a0and organizations with ships of many types, from small craft for the Wanderers and Argopian\u00a0LLC to warships for the Psychean\u00a0Guard. Recently, Mission Systems, LLC has approached\u00a0the Rose Foundation about reopening relations&#8211;and possibly relocating to the Eridani Trelasia system in the future.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Psychean Guard<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Originally based on Mimir, the Psychean Guard was nominally a congolm dedicated to the preservation of knowledge.\u00a0 It was also the only psychic-based conglom in existence, with over 70% of the Guard having varying degrees of psychic ability.\u00a0 Though peaceful, the Guard military was a force to be reckoned with&#8211;which made the attack on Mimir through asteroid bombardment, aerial and terrorist attacks that much more shocking.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Rose Foundation<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The Rose Foundation was the organization that located and settled E-557, a planet in the Eridani Trelasia system, in the late 51st century PD.\u00a0 Founded <em>c.<\/em>\u00a04845 by Sarah Farragut and a collection of other men and women, largely drawn from the Commonwealth proper and from the Psychean Guard, the foundation spent the better part of three centuries searching for an appropriate world to settle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page answers a few questions that may pop up during the reading of The Last Colony and associated works.\u00a0 If you have a question that&#8217;s not addressed here, leave a comment below and let me know you&#8217;re confused! 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