#star date

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Based around the top ‘Eerie Night Guardian’.

The underlying principle of the universal stardate system is that of hyperdimensional distance averaging... Any two points in space can be joined by a straight line.  The length of that line, divided by two, will yield the midpoint.  If the inhabitants of both points convert their local time to the hypothetical time at the midpoint, then they both have an arbitrary yet universally applicable constant time to which they can refer, in order to reconcile their local calendars... It's the exact same principle developed on Earth when an international convention chose to run the zero meridian through Greenwich, establishing Greenwich Mean Time.  It was a completely artificial standard, but a standard everyone could use...  Any two points can be joined by a straight line. Go up a dimension, and any three points in space can be located on a two-dimensional plane.  Go up another dimension, and any four points in space can be located on the curved surface of a three-dimensional sphere.  Any five points can be found on the surface of a four-dimensional hypersphere, and so on.  The standard relationship is that any number of points, n, can be mapped onto the surface of a sphere which exists in n minus one dimensions.  And that means that all of those points are exactly the same distance from the center of the sphere.  So, just after the Romulan War, the Starfleet Bureau of Standards and the Vulcan Science Academy arbitrarily chose the center of our galaxy as the center  point of a hypersphere with...oh, I forget the exact figure...something like five hundred million dimensions, okay?  So theoretically, every star in our galaxy--along with four hundred million and some starships and outposts--can be located on the surface of the hypersphere and can  directly relate their local calendars and clocks to a common standard  time that's an equal distance from everywhere.  Just as everyone on Earth  used to look to Greenwich...  I think it's a damn simple system.  One that works independent of position and relative velocity.  And since it's  based on the galactic center it's blessedly free of political overtones... And once a person gets used to the idea that stardates can seem to run backward from place to place, depending on your direction and speed of travel, it becomes an exceedingly simple calculation to convert from local time to stardate anywhere in the galaxy...

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