Consistency of Lore and Related Issues
Published on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 By
As I'm currently writing an AAR series, I find myself making up a lot of lore to fill in the gaps of our knowledge about alien civilizations.
One of the things that immediately stuck out to me is the month names. January is a human month, but no matter what race I pick I start out on Jan 7, 2307 (with turn-as-date enabled). For the purpose of my AAR, I decided to call this "Janubria" and place it mid-summer. It would be a little preposterous, however, if ALL the races just happened to have months that had abbreviations that perfectly matched.
Maybe this is something the developers could think about fixing.
I won't bring up the fact that the duration of a "month" varies based upon your planet's orbit, or that some cultures go by lunar months. I'm trying to keep things simple.
Perhaps another solution would be to put something in the official lore that said that the Galactic Council of Civilizations (which was a real thing in GC3) determined that as a matter of international convenience, time should be reckoned according to Earth time, in honor of the humans inventing hyperdrive. (If this is already the case, I apologize; but I haven't found anything like that on any wiki.)
I would put that concept in my lore for my own AAR, except that I haven't met the humans yet. I don't even know if there are any humans in my game!