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Terra Nova, where the story unfolds. So, since this is where much of the game takes place, I might as well do a good job here. So here's what I know (I will know more soon) Important Fact's About Terra Nova TIME KEEPING It took a couple times to read over to fully understand how time on Terra Nova relates to Time of Earth. To make it easier, this is what it says in the Terranovan Sourcebook. (Life of Terra Nova,(c) DP9 1998, pg.5) "Terra Nova spins on its axis once every 37.2 Earth hours. To allow Terra Nova to use the same seconds and minutes as Earth, each Terranovan hour is 62 minutes long. The Terranovan days are thus 36 Terranovan hours long with midnight being 00:00 and noon being 18:00. Most of the Planet's polar inhabitants have adapted to the longer days by sleeping for ten hours every night and napping for two hours around noon. Denizens of the badlands usually split their day into two 18-hour half-days. Badlanders sleep in six-hour periods around noon and midnight, when the temperature is hottest and coldest, respectively. 
Terra Nova orbits Helios once every 168.2 days (260.7 Earth days). The 168-day cycle is divided
into four 42-day long seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn. Each season is divided into
six 7-day weeks. The days of each week are labeled in the same manner as Earth weeks, begining with
Sunday and progressing towards Saturday. Approximately once every five cycles, a leap year occurs and one extra
day is added to the end of the cycle. This day, called the Interannum, is a universal holiday
across Terra Nova. Although each region celebrates the holiday in a different manner, most Interannum
festivities resemble frenzied New Years parties.
Terranovan dates are expressed by day of the season, season, and cycle. Day 1 of cycle 1 in the
Terranovan calender is (Earth's) April 3, 4752, the first winter solstice after Terra Nova's discovery
less then a month before. Like Earth's calender, there is no year zero. Thus, by this calender,
January 1, 6132, would be 10 Winter TN 1933 (Terranovan Time). January 1, 1995 would be 41 Autumn TN -3862."Terranovan Day = 36 Hours Complete Year (called a "cycle" on Terra) = 168 Days Earth Year = 1.4 Cycles Terra Nova has only a 3� axial tilt, which gives Terra Nova only minor weather differances between seasons. Winter on average is only 5�C cooler then the summer Terra Nova has three Moons: HOPE: Similiar to Earth's moon only slightly smaller FAITH & CHARITY: Small asteroids that were probably caught in Terra Nova's orbit hundreds of years ago. Terra Nova is divided into Governments called Leagues. These leagues are allied according to their geographic location: The Northern Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere and the Badlands. Here's what I know:
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