Guide entries from Notes On Units Of Measurement

Noctis uses several units of measurement you won't be familiar with. This chapter will explain these in more detail.

Select "Onboard Devices" from the main menu, then "Galactic Cartography". Under this menu are displayed the current time (in epocs/triads), your current galactic position (in parsis), and your current pitch bearing (set by using the pitch controls to rotate your ship).

The Felisian time system is based on large measurements called epocs, and smaller measurements called triads. There are three types of triad, the triad dexter, triad medius and triad sinister, or dexters, medii and sinisters for short. A triad dexter is the same length as a human second. The current number of triads dexter is displayed on the right of the Triad Display. There are a thousand triads dexter to a triad medius, which is therefore about sixteen and a half human minutes long. Triads medius are displayed as the middle figure in the Felisian clock, and each time the triads dexter counter reaches a thousand, the value of the triads medius counter increases by one. When it reaches a thousand, the left-most counter increases its value by one. This is the amount of triads sinister, which are about the equivalent of two hundred and seventy five human hours. When this value reaches a thousand, a whole epoc has passed. Thus an epoc is a thousand million seconds long, or about thirty one and a half human years. 