Anno Illuminatia
Illuminatians make reference to calendar dates using the designation Anno Illuminatia (AI), a sequentially increasing numeric citation derived from the accumulation of elapsed Annual Units (AU) since the landing of the Lucidus mission in Illuminatia. A comparative designation of time on Earth would be years AD and BC.
Illuminatians use the Lucidus landings on the surface of Neonisi as the zero-date for Anno Illuminatia, in much the same way as other fictional historical narratives were used on Earth to designate the division between AD and BC. 0 AI commenced on the date the first Lucidus survivors landed in Illuminatia. Dates after the Lucidus landing count up from zero, and dates before the Lucidus landing were retrospectively given negative values counting down from zero.
A date in Anno Illuminatia format can be written by placing the Annual Units elapsed since 0 AI ahead the decimal, counting from zero. The number of Circadian Units (DU) elapsed within that AI is then written following the decimal place, again counting from zero. The figure for Circadian Units following the decimal can range from zero to just under 216, which is the number of DU in one AU.
As an example, the date 84.108 can be interpreted as being halfway through AI 84. So 84.108 will be the 109th DU of humanity's 85th AU on the Illuminatian planet, although Illuminatians almost never refer to time using ordinal numbering, as this confuses things unnecessarily in the face of a numbering system that starts with zero. While the AI symbolization might have been convenient for the notation of holidays, the celebration of holidays is notably absent from Illuminatian culture.
A brief history in AI
The following is an incomplete look at the history of Illuminatia listed chronologically according to Anno Illuminatia:
AI | event |
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0.000 | Lucidus landings on Neonisi |
0.090 | Exploration begins |
2.090 | First quasi-permanent settlement at Lucidus landing sites—to become primary settlement cities |
3.020 | First newspaper begins publishing |
4.110 | First outpost settlement is established—to become secondary settlement cities |
5.130 | First confirmed contact between multiversal duplications of Lucidus survivors |
8.020 | First Terrestrial Civil Conference held in Adamopolis |
10.020 | Continental Convention begins |
11.060 | Completion of first survey of the perimeter of the Illuminatian continent |
13.160 | First wireless broadcasting station begins operation |
15.090 | First transcontinental governmental operations |
16.010 | Voston is established |
18.--- | Founders of Galaxy Wide Corporation secretly discover Lucidian remains near Overture |
29.030 | First doubling of Illuminatia's original population: 60,000 inhabitants |
48.--- | Galaxy Wide Corporation first publicly reveals its discovery of Lucidian remains |
180.--- | First test of communications from Illuminatia using elementary particle fields |
250.000 | The 250 AI Census is conducted |
300.000 | The 300 AI Census is conducted |