Timeline

Time seems to work strangely aboard the Abstract Destiny, at least since Aki the chaos god declared herself patron of the vessel. In comparison to the rest of the Nexus--sometimes even including the very space station to which the Destiny is docked--time seems to move at an oddly slow pace. The creatures born in its Biosynths often find, if they decide to visit the place of their birth after reaching adulthood, that whatever siblings of theirs remained on the ship are still children, even if they were the firstborn of the clutch!

But despite this, Destiny residents somehow never fall out of sync with the rest of the world, never find that non-resident friends or family grow old and die while the resident remains young, nor seem to suffer any ill effects other than the now-accepted bemusement that always comes from the fluidity of time.

Understandably, then, it can never really be said where the Destiny stands in time compared to other worlds and agencies, but for the curious who wonder how time flows on the ship itself, a timeline has been provided. The only other location with a time-flow consistent to the Destiny's is, inexplicably, its rival-ship, the Twisted Fate. Thus, a timeline for the tycharan ship is also listed here.

When reading this chart, consider Year 0, Month 0 to be the time when Biosynth 00 (Genesis One) came to an end and the Destiny was officially reintroduced to the Nexus.

A Biosynth takes three months, from the time the genetic samples are received from the Donors to the time of the hatching. The firstborn is born somewhere around the end of the first two weeks and eggs start being placed in a Bay around the end of the first month, barring complications.

Clutches also take three months, from the time the eggs are laid naturally by the mother to the time of the hatching. (Whether this is the natural incubation time of the species is irrelevant. It also never seems to matter when the mating flight itself was actually flown. Aki must be at work here again!)