Re: [TML] The Negative Anniversary of the Imperium
Mark Urbin 23 Jul 2021 00:56 UTC
https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Office_of_Calendar_Compliance
Perhaps there was a goo reason for the Office of Calendar Compliance,
besides being a cover for Imperial black ops teams...
On 7/22/2021 8:24 PM, Kurt Feltenberger - kurt at thepaw.org (via tml
list) wrote:
> On 7/22/2021 7:42 PM, Thomas Jones-Low - tjoneslow at gmail.com (via
> tml list) wrote:
>> https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Talk:Date_Conversion
>>
>> I will point people interesting in the topic to this page in the Wiki.
>>
>> The core point, made by Hans, is
>> > There are a number of different canonical Imperial dates with their
>> equivalent
>> > Solomani dates. Unfortunately, they don't match up. There's nothing
>> inherently
>> > wrong with any of them, except that if some of them are right,
>> others can't be
>> > and vice versa.
>>
>> We picked one specific conversion that seemed to fit best for the
>> Wiki. But there can be debates about which should be a converted date
>> for any given Imperial date.
>>
>> https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/-2500
>>
>> The wiki believed the -2500 anniversary of the founding of the
>> Third Imperium was in 2019.
>
> And we thought it was bad with the debate on whether the Mayan
> calendar was converted correctly or not!
>