Neo-Hegemonic Classifications

 

 

Many of the fundamental systems still in use by post-Hegemonic human civilizations are based on infrastructure or practice originally established by the Interstellar Hegemony, and re-established by societies such as the Homeworld Confederacy or Konager League.

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Hegemonic Stellar Classification System (HSCS)​

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An algorithmic set of nomenclature for star systems and their component stellar objects used across the majority of the Hegemony’s former territory.  This system automatically assigned a serialized classification number and ascribed each star system in observed space a single-word title; sometimes based on the vagaries of that solar system's composition or grandfathered in based on recommendations from colonization communities, but otherwise randomly assigned.  The system has a famously bad habit of attaching grandiose and extravagant identifiers to the Spur’s proverbial backwater star systems (examples include Precipice, found in Tsaleme's Reach and Centennial; an uninhabited system on the edge of Zhren'thrar space).  Stellar objects within a system are numbered based on their proximity to the system's star (for example Centennial-26 being the 26th object of eligible mass from its system's sun).

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Homeworld Rotational Timekeeping​

 

Homeworld Rotational Units (sometimes misreported as Hegemonic Rotational Units, and abbreviated to HRU) are the standard relative timescale used within the Interstellar Hegemony and its successor states, based on the day and year length of Homeworld.  HRU0 ("year-zero") marks the founding of Skyshield; the Hegemony's first outpost beyond the solar system; with each rotational unit being broken down to a decimal point tracking progress through that period (HRU1.5 being halfway through the second rotation after the founding of Skyshield).  While Homeworld is no longer inhabited; the original HRU system is still used; with official timekeeping being kept both on Skyshield and Naeman (however these official timestamps vary slightly).  Vessels transitioning within spaces controlled by these organizations have their onboard timekeeping automatically updated alongside other Amalgam file updates.