I haven't searched the book yet... but this is a two part question?
#1 hat is the Galactic Calendar
Second is there a Calendar and or App for tracking time passed in days on said calendar?
Galactic Calander?/Year?
http://kotor.griffcrier.com/workbench/the-star-wars-calendar/has details in the galactic calendar.
I'm not aware of any calendar apps designed specifically designed for Star Wars, but this thread might help you find online resources to build your own: http://www.myth-weavers.com/showthread.php?t=117210
Edited by dxandersHow is there not an app for this already?!?!?!?!
Sounds like we need a programmer.... Don't ask me... about all i can do is make basic say hello world forever...
Sounds like we need a programmer.... Don't ask me... about all i can do is make basic say hello world forever...
I think it would be pretty easy to build for someone with moderate experience, but I'm not there yet.
Give me six months.
Sounds like we need a programmer.... Don't ask me... about all i can do is make basic say hello world forever...
I think it would be pretty easy to build for someone with moderate experience, but I'm not there yet.
I haven't played with it yet, but I think I found a universal program on that Myth weaver site.
http://www.habitualindolence.net/masterplan/
but the problem is... though we have a calendar basis from the Old Republic.... That doesn't mean the Emperor kept hat same Calendar. though the Number of days may not have changed not the month or week counts.... it probably remained a 368 day calendar based on Coruscant's rotational cycle, the holidays and festival Might have been changed by the emperor.
Sounds like we need a programmer.... Don't ask me... about all i can do is make basic say hello world forever...
I think it would be pretty easy to build for someone with moderate experience, but I'm not there yet.
I haven't played with it yet, but I think I found a universal program on that Myth weaver site.
http://www.habitualindolence.net/masterplan/
but the problem is... though we have a calendar basis from the Old Republic.... That doesn't mean the Emperor kept hat same Calendar. though the Number of days may not have changed not the month or week counts.... it probably remained a 368 day calendar based on Coruscant's rotational cycle, the holidays and festival Might have been changed by the emperor.
What you would do is use old republic counts and put next to it a new calendar based on Empire Day. which would not change days and months. As doing so would be very disruptive.
The hard part is going to be working it in with all of the different calendars that each of the worlds also have. There is vast difference in length of day along with length of year. The Galactic Calendar surely had an impact, but if you have a 20 hour day and the next neighbor has a 28 hour day there is going to be some adjudication required. And if we are going to go to all the trouble to build in calendars for each of the worlds according to current data, can we add in hyperspace travel times based on a calendar metric? (Not that I'm not going to handwave that time anyway, but it would be good to have a base approximation sometimes and should be simple compared to calendaring... heh heh)
I am only concerned with the galactic Calendar. As the game is focused around galactic Travel..
If I had a game that was going to stay on single planet 90% of the time, then I would worry about the planets Calendar
Right. I'm only focusing on the galactic calendar and galactic travel. As planets do not have a uniform day / night sequence, much less lunar or solar orbits, this becomes a very complicated issue. You cannot remove the planetary in your galactic calculations. This is why it is handwaved and we just assume that a day here is a day there and move on with the story, but if you want to get into intricacies, there are a ton of them and a lot of assumptions have to be made just to baseline a galactic calendar.
The Galactic Calendar uses Coruscant day as the day for the galaxy. Kind of like how we use GMT as our central time.
Likely anyone concerned with Galactic time, would use a standardized chronometer synchronized with whatever time base is used as the standard.
The Galactic Calendar uses Coruscant day as the day for the galaxy. Kind of like how we use GMT as our central time.
Oh, don’t get me started on time zones, and things like GMT versus TAI, and all that.
The Galactic Calendar uses Coruscant day as the day for the galaxy. Kind of like how we use GMT as our central time.
Oh, don’t get me started on time zones, and things like GMT versus TAI, and all that.
You mean like PDT and PST...
individual planets DO not have any effect on a standardize galactic Empire calendar....
But it does Give Me as the GM and the players a Reference point for Events.
It also gives an easy reference for me and the players as to how much resources have been used...
"Travel between X and Y took 15 days of yur ships 30 day supplies."
To insinuate that If a Galactic Calendar requires going into the details of every planet, well i just find that OCD.
Tracking Details where needed for me is One thing...
But I am not that OCD
Thank goodness that - at least in all my games ever - Coruscant Standard Time is 24 hours long and it takes three hundred and sixty five days to orbit the sun.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Galactic_Standard_Calendar
If you want to see some stuff on the calendar.
have to say, After playing with this supposedly D&D 4 campaign planers "Calendar" functions.
I am pretty impressed by the versatility of it.. Loving it.
http://www.habitualindolence.net/masterplan/
This will be useful for every game and system I run.
Edited by SnowDragon