tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post3080960341912086860..comments2024-02-27T01:17:39.925-08:00Comments on The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: The Age of AriesTalysmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02162328521343832412noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-76606625713273177942012-08-06T23:42:32.123-07:002012-08-06T23:42:32.123-07:00I like the baker's dozen logic of that, like t...I like the baker's dozen logic of that, like the year-and-a-day that's common in fairy tales. It takes equinoxes 93,000 Martian years (175,000 Earth years) to precess on Mars; I wonder how long it takes on Jupiter. Or on the destroyed planet that left behind the asteroid belt..?richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517340075234811323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-80291481993310334712012-08-06T19:15:27.625-07:002012-08-06T19:15:27.625-07:00I'm thinking that, for a deep time setting, yo...I'm thinking that, for a deep time setting, you'd want to increase the length of ancient non-human ages to 27,300 years (or thereabouts.)Talysmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02162328521343832412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-71501422646792174452012-08-05T04:17:45.494-07:002012-08-05T04:17:45.494-07:00this could work nicely in a deep time setting like...this could work nicely in a deep time setting like Barsoom or Vance's Dying Earth or some of HPLs things, where you're liable to run across stuff or characters kept in suspension for x thousand years. From the Age of Scorpio could be like From the Time of the Dinosaurs, only you'd expect it to be vengeful and sexual.richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517340075234811323noreply@blogger.com