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The '''Common Iletheride Era''' or '''CIE''' is the system used in modern-day [[Ilethes]] to number successive years, and is analogous to the Earthling Common Era. The CIE takes reference to the [[eruption of Mount Eramena]] in the [[Iryagi]] on [[Marcasia]], the effect of which was felt around the globe: besides thick clouds of ash that remained in the air for nearly four months circling the planet, | The '''Common Iletheride Era''' or '''CIE''' ([[Arithide language|Arithide]] '''''Rīgim Ōrekos''''' {{IPA|['ri:gim 'o:rəkɔs]}}; [[Dethric language|Dethric]] '''''Aisso Vedeis''''' {{IPA|['essə və'ði:s]}}) is the system used in modern-day [[Ilethes]] to number successive years, and is analogous to the Earthling Common Era. The CIE takes reference to the [[Great Earthquake]] more than 2,000 years ago, actually a series of 17 high-magnitude jolts in rapid succession along the [[Vassouri fault]], the world's longest continuous fault line, running along the convergent plate boundaries between the [[Marcasian plate]] and the [[Istheusian plate]], the [[Marcasian plate]] and [[Maellorian plate]] and the [[Arophanian plate]] and the [[Maellorian plate]], and the transform boundary between the [[Arophanian plate]] and the [[Istheusian plate]]. The earthquakes, each measuring above 7.7 on the Earthling Richter scale (the strongest measured 9.5), lasted for almost 27 hours, aftershocks of magnitude Richter 7.2 were felt even four days after the initial tremors, and shockwaves were felt around the world. As far afield as [[Scenia]], the earthquake toppled buildings and claimed the lives of 640 victims in quakes measuring up to the equivalent of Richter 8.4. | ||
The Great Quake also resulted in the [[eruption of Mount Eramena]] in the [[Iryagi]] on [[Marcasia]], the effect of which was felt around the globe: besides thick clouds of ash that remained in the air for nearly four months circling the planet, the average global temperature rose by the equivalent of almost 1.5°C, and persisted for more than a decade afterwards. | |||
The idea of a Common Era, i.e. an international, common system to number years in sequence, as opposed to esoteric and idiosyncratic national systems, was first mooted in what is now known as 1945 CIE, at an [[1945 Vallea Summit|international trade summit]] among whose aims was a vision to standardise international [[systems of measurement]], so as to promote cross-border trade, travel and employment. While other aims, such as a [[Korin|global currency]], failed to gain traction, harmonising calendars appealed favourably to world leaders, and by 1947 CIE the [[Treaty of Louvessier]] was signed, establishing the Common Era and backdating 1 CIE to the year of the Great Earthquake. | |||
==See also== | |||
*[[Great Earthquake]] | |||
*[[Eruption of Mount Eramena]] | |||
*[[1945 Vallea Summit]] | |||
*[[Treaty of Louvessier]] | |||
[[Category: Ilethes]] | [[Category: Ilethes]] | ||
[[Category: Politics of Ilethes]] | |||
Revision as of 08:55, 5 November 2006
The Common Iletheride Era or CIE (Arithide Rīgim Ōrekos ['ri:gim 'o:rəkɔs]; Dethric Aisso Vedeis ['essə və'ði:s]) is the system used in modern-day Ilethes to number successive years, and is analogous to the Earthling Common Era. The CIE takes reference to the Great Earthquake more than 2,000 years ago, actually a series of 17 high-magnitude jolts in rapid succession along the Vassouri fault, the world's longest continuous fault line, running along the convergent plate boundaries between the Marcasian plate and the Istheusian plate, the Marcasian plate and Maellorian plate and the Arophanian plate and the Maellorian plate, and the transform boundary between the Arophanian plate and the Istheusian plate. The earthquakes, each measuring above 7.7 on the Earthling Richter scale (the strongest measured 9.5), lasted for almost 27 hours, aftershocks of magnitude Richter 7.2 were felt even four days after the initial tremors, and shockwaves were felt around the world. As far afield as Scenia, the earthquake toppled buildings and claimed the lives of 640 victims in quakes measuring up to the equivalent of Richter 8.4.
The Great Quake also resulted in the eruption of Mount Eramena in the Iryagi on Marcasia, the effect of which was felt around the globe: besides thick clouds of ash that remained in the air for nearly four months circling the planet, the average global temperature rose by the equivalent of almost 1.5°C, and persisted for more than a decade afterwards.
The idea of a Common Era, i.e. an international, common system to number years in sequence, as opposed to esoteric and idiosyncratic national systems, was first mooted in what is now known as 1945 CIE, at an international trade summit among whose aims was a vision to standardise international systems of measurement, so as to promote cross-border trade, travel and employment. While other aims, such as a global currency, failed to gain traction, harmonising calendars appealed favourably to world leaders, and by 1947 CIE the Treaty of Louvessier was signed, establishing the Common Era and backdating 1 CIE to the year of the Great Earthquake.
