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[[Human]]s tend to perform routine everyday tasks, such as washing, dressing or eating, in multiples of minutes. | [[Human]]s tend to perform routine everyday tasks, such as washing, dressing or eating, in multiples of minutes. | ||
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| + | === Equivalent Metrics === | ||
| + | Other cultures have different values for an hour, generally based on a division of the rotation period of their [[homeworld]]. | ||
| + | * [[TBD]] ([[TBD]]): TBD standard [[Minute|minute]]s. | ||
== History & Background ([[Dossier]]) == | == History & Background ([[Dossier]]) == | ||
Revision as of 12:13, 13 February 2019
A Minute is a unit of time.
Description (Specifications)
A minute is a frequently used small unit of time.
Humans tend to perform routine everyday tasks, such as washing, dressing or eating, in multiples of minutes.
Equivalent Metrics
Other cultures have different values for an hour, generally based on a division of the rotation period of their homeworld.
History & Background (Dossier)
The minute was defined as a unit of time on Terra prior to the foundation of the Terran Confederation. Technologists found the minute useful as the concept of the Technology Level and standardized ideas about sophont society development began to take form.[1]
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 Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.
- Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), .
- 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.
- 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
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak