Weights Measures

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During the Great Expansion, the Office on Weights and Measures was responsible for establishing a uniform set of weights & measurements for interstellar life. Some of the weights & measures which they adjusted were:

The Year

Precisely 365 days. During Resettlement, the common definition of a week that took root was 5 days long based upon the Won Calendar with each of the 73 weeks having its own name. Written #..year, where # is always between 1 and 5. So, for example. The Settlement of Sagittarius was approved at the end of the convocation 3.Goli.5873

The Coordinates of Planetary Bodies

The location of the center of a stellar system is measured using radial coordinates from the galactic center with three dimensions:

1. r# = light years from the galactic core
2. ϴ# = angle degrees.minutes.seconds from the meridian line established between the sun and the galactic core
3. ϑ# = +/- angle degrees.minutes.seconds of inclination from the galactic plane.

(eg. Solar System = r27132.256719ϴ000.00.00.000ϑ+001.32.45.172)
From this coordinate, navigators and cartographers use another set of three coordinates to located the planetary bodies, asteriods and other interplanetary objects in respect to the gravitational center of the stellar system.

This coordinate system is used to chart routes and define territorial boundaries through Orion's Arm. However the coordinates of only a small fraction of stellar and planetary bodies survived the process of Resettlement and locations need to be constantly updated due to galactic rotation and other gravitational influences. As a result, there is a lot of ambiguity regarding exact positions of territorial possessions and many objects important to navigation are unmarked. The Mercurian Messengers along with the merchants of the Hydran Planets and Republic of Rimini are known for maintaining fairly good galactic records and the harbor master for each planetary body usually keeps detailed information about the objects in the stellar system.