In order to help you understand the history and the logic of this series, please take note of the charts below:
- A Space League is equal to 3x the speed of light
- 1 Armman Degree is the equivalent of 13 degrees Fahrenheit
- A Square Cubit is equal to 1.6 Square Feet
- Medical Knowledge in the Nebula varies. Many planets' degree of medical knowledge is equal to that of Earth, but they rely on different tools and procedures.
- Nebuless is the Nebula’s version of Chess. The rules are almost the same as Chess on Earth with small variants. The King is replaced by the Captain. The Queen is replaced by the First Mate. The Rooks are replaced by Master Gearsman. The Pawns are replaced by crewmen. The Knights remain the same. Nebuless is played on an octagon-shaped board. The phrase Holmganga means check while Forloren means checkmate.
- Magnetic Systems are used for gravity and shielding on a space-ship
- The Game Changer is capable of traveling comfortably at 6 Space Leagues and at a maximum of 9 Space Leagues in severe emergencies
- The Game Changer is fueled by Magma and harvested by specialized nets from the seas of Ammonia
- A Bush Room on a spacecraft contains dwarf trees and shrubs bred specifically for air supply. Also serves as a park for passengers and crew, complete with benches, fountains, and other features
- It takes the average ship six months to travel from one end of the Nebula to the other. The Game Changer can cross it in four months at a safe speed
- North and South in space is in relation to how close a planet is to its sun
- Godwin is from the Northern Dirt Planet, part of the Twin Dirt Planets
- Some planets are part of empires while others are individually governed
- The Game Changer is a transport ship from the Voyager Company, which is located on a privately owned dwarf planet. They transport people and cargo throughout the Nebula
Timeline
Year 0 (955 C.E. on Earth): Jacob the Savant and thousands of other people are accidentally transported to the Misery Planet. Conditions are hard and the population plummets
Year 5 (960 C.E.) Armman the Weather-recorder became the first to record weather patterns to make weather predictions. Considered the Father of weather predicting.
Year 36 (991 C.E.): The first spaceship is finished and travels to another planet
Year 39 (994 C.E.): The crew arrives and names the planet Abundance. They grow crops and build villages. More spaceships are built and start shipping supplies to Misery.
Year 43 (998 C.E.) The Jacobian Calendar is adopted with Year 0 starting on the Savant’s arrival on planet Misery
Year 44 (999 C.E.): Jacob the Savant dies at the age of eighty one.
Year 123 (1078 C.E.): The first ship capable of traveling a third of a space league was invented by Henry the Shipmaker.
Years 174 to 225 (1129 to 1180 C.E.): Inter-Nebula War breaks out between Misery, Abundance, Green, Diamond, and Stone planets. Results in a technological dark age and diaspora
Year 188 (1143 C.E.): People who are tired of the war flee from those planets and go to new ones. Budwig the Explorer discovers the Twin Dirt Planets and teaches the Non-Violent Doctrine. People from the Dirteon Twin Planets become naturally repelled from any kind of violence.
Year 226 (1181 C.E.): After the war, a group of people guided by Berserker the Strong inhabit a previously unsettled planet. The planet has a higher gravitational pull and is more mountainous than other planets, causing the people there to have stronger lungs, more muscle mass, and higher bone density. The average height on that planet is six foot 6 for a woman and seven foot one for a man. The planet becomes known as Eotunia and the people, Eotunians.
Year 789 (1744 C.E.): A new metal, Elastroper, is engineered by Metzli the Metalswoman of the Mexica Planet. It is 10x lighter than bronze, but 60x stronger and flexible. Becomes the standard metal of spacecraft.
Year 794 (1749 C.E.): Metzli discovers a way to harvest liquid magma from space to serve as fuel, more efficient than lumber. Becomes the standard fuel.
Year 813 (1768 C.E.): Giavan the Gearsman of the planet Abundance invents the Giavan Gears system, the most advanced at the time. The first ships capable of one space league were built.
Year 917 (1872 C.E.): Radio-waves were first discovered on Quartz and became the means of communication once they discovered how to transmit them 250 times the speed of light. Courier ships become obsolete.
Year 1039 (1994 C.E.) Horatio the Gearsman of the Green Planet perfects the Giavan system. Ships run smoother than ever. The average ship can comfortably travel at 4 space leagues and at 6 in extreme emergencies.
Year 1071 (2026 C.E.): Analog television waves are discovered, allowing ships to make Face Calls to other ships at 90 times the speed of light and become a form of specialized communication. Radio-waves are still more commonplace.
Year 1072 (2027 C.E.): The Game Changer is finished and commissioned. The first and only ship capable of traveling comfortably at 6 space leagues and a maximum of 9 space leagues. It uses a new kind of Gears system completely confidential to anyone outside of Voyager Company. It is also the first to be able to travel in the vacuum of space and sail on Ammonia seas. Joanne the Captain commands the ship.