INTERLUDE #2
October 2017
The Farm, Puerto Rico
At this point I interrupted Admiral Cortell’s storytelling. “Undecim? I figured out what an annum is, but what’s an undecim?
“Ahh, sorry, I should’ve explained all this at the beginning. Domhan-Siol doesn’t have the same rotational speed as Earth, nor does it orbit its sun at the same rate. So naturally, Domhanian time references were different.
“Each day lasted twenty-six hours. Interestingly, their hours were almost identical in length to the way we calculate hours on Earth.
“Domhan-Siol circumnavigates its sun in three hundred and eight, twenty-six hour days. They divided those three hundred and eight days into seven forty-four-day kuuks, and each kuuk was divided into four eleven-day undecims. Does that make sense?”
“So, comparing
