Hour

An Hour is a unit of time.

• It is a standard Imperial metric.

Description (Specifications)

An Imperial hour (a "standard hour") is a frequently used unit of time. It is used to overcome difficulties caused by having non-uniform local times on each world and system.

• It is equal to sixty minutes.
• The common Imperial abbreviation is hr.

It is common to subdivide the hour into smaller convenient units: the quarter hour and the half hour. An Aslan equivalent to this unit is the Khtauaao.

Entertainment programs tailored to humans tend to have a duration of around an hour: viewers can become distracted or fatigued over longer periods of time.

Equivalent Metrics

Other cultures have different values for an hour, generally based on a division of the rotation period of their homeworld.

• R'keer (K'kree): 43 standard minutes.
• Tekhaao (Aslan): 137 standard minutes.

History & Background (Dossier)

The hour was defined as a unit of time on Terra prior to the foundation of the Terran Confederation. Technologists found the hour useful as the concept of the Technology Level and standardized ideas about sophont society development began to take form.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. MegaTraveller (Game Designers Workshop, 1987)
• Frank Chadwick, Dave Nilsen. Fire, Fusion, & Steel (Game Designers Workshop, 1993), 5.
• David Golden, Guy Garnett. Fire, Fusion & Steel (Imperium Games, 1997), 7.
• Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), TBD.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science