El-Dorado in the clouds Part II - Everyone can hear the song of death We paid the sheriff Aisha's bail money and got her out of prison. We also agreed to hire her as extra support (though deducing the bail amount from her wages!), and by that time, the city's artificial illumination had been switched off and it was night. On populated planets like our current base of operations Heyfong IV , or our place of origin Sentinel III , their specific rotation and revolution dictate a day duration and year calendar. Since it would be quite troublesome not to use those, but also considering the fact that there's a need for common ground when dealing with other planets and star systems, all planets actually use two calendars, their own for local affairs, and an 'interstellar calendar' used by all of mankind, based on the one from Old Earth . However, in an artificial city like El-Dorado there is no natural day or seasons, so it follows the interstellar calendar only and a...
