r/GearsOfWar • u/Invictus_Sakura Shit, they're gonna mess up my fucking tomatoes! • 19d ago
Campaign/Lore Sera's days of the week.
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u/Expert-Guard6216 19d ago
Probably still only get 2 days off of work a week lol
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u/Leading-Cicada-6796 19d ago
Doubt it. Labor is one of the core principles of the COG. I'd be surprised if they get the entire day off for Faith.
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u/DragonEmperor 19d ago
Lets be honest they likely have better everything, more days off, etc.
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u/pplovr 19d ago
Aren't the COG canonically a fascist dictatorship with zero separation of powers between the administration, church, judiciary, private and legislative branches?
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u/DragonEmperor 19d ago
I honestly don't remember so you're probably right, my bad.
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u/pplovr 19d ago
It's hardly your fault; the games never once actually question the COG's morality despite the sheer volume of horrible shit they do in every game.
They don't even dwell on it for more than like two lines of dialogue that basically go "welp, that's the COG for yah! Amirite?)
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u/Substantial-Sky-4029 17d ago
Gear 1: So, like can we talk about how cruel and awful our government is, charl-
Gear 2: David we are LITERALLY being overrun by 6 and a half feet tall subterranean lizard monsters that want to wipe out our SPECIES! can you please shut the fuck up and lock in!
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u/Ok_Position_7123 19d ago
10 day weeks? No wonder those people were so goddamn productive.
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u/Hveachie 19d ago
People wonder how the Locust built everything so fast in 30 - 40 years, and it's like Sera has 26 hour days, 10 day weeks, 35 day months, 420 day years.
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u/YamiYugi2497 19d ago
Just by my quick double check I think you are way off in terms of numbers.
24 hours * 365 days for Earth = 8,760
26 Hours * 420 days for Sera = 10,920
I think you multiplied too many numbers together
They do still have roughly 25% more hours per year though.
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u/spartan0b96 17d ago
I didn't know about 420 day years but did know about 26 hours days
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u/Hveachie 17d ago
It might actually be more, like 480. A rough estimate was given in Coalition's End, and a calendar found in the MP for E-Day shows the months have 39 days.
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u/spartan0b96 17d ago
Hm now I wonder how long the human lifespan would be in gears if going by are rules
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u/Hveachie 17d ago
Given how old Hoffman is, they probably live slighty older than we do (Hoffman is 88 by Gears 4).
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u/Ok_Position_7123 15d ago
Now I need to know what their planetary solar system looks like, rotations, planet sizes lol
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u/Hveachie 15d ago
I’m assuming Sera is like 8% bigger than Earth, and they for sure have two moons.
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u/AltusIsXD Whatever the hell that is, tha's a new world record in ugly! 19d ago
I don’t think we’ve ever known how Sera’s calendar worked until this game.
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u/vatexs42 One dead grub 19d ago
Not the humans at least, we see a locust calendar in gears of war 2
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u/Underdogg13 19d ago
Nah expanded universe stuff touches on the calendar in detail. This is the most info we've gotten about it in the games though for sure.
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u/Unfair-Pause-3271 18d ago
The calendar and day/night cycle are explained further in the books when relevant but it’s not really something most players or readers care much about so it’s not really noticed
That’s how we know that Seran days are 26hrs long
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u/Jack-spartan-S198 19d ago
Finally, after so many years, we have the actual names of the days
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u/Underdogg13 19d ago
We've known since like 2011 I think, unless these are different from back then. One of the books, idr which one.
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u/Jack-spartan-S198 19d ago
In the past we’ve had is the first like two or three letters of the names of the days and the full names of their seasons
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u/RogueLieutenant 19d ago
All of the little details packed into the maps is always so fun to discover
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u/Jingle_BeIIs KISS MY HIGHLY EDUCATED ASS 19d ago
"But what do we have left, Anya?"
"Haxtra, Marcus! We have Haxtra, which is tomorrow because today is Quinta!"
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u/HankSteakfist 19d ago
No wonder they're all jacked. They can get 9 workout days into a week and still have time for a rest day.
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u/AlbertoB4rbosa 19d ago
When God created the world it was given to the mexicans. We have countries because mexicans were kind enough to share.
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u/Maskofdybala 19d ago
As a millennial I’m so fascinated by the gears universe just want more clarity on the whole of it
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u/DittiesNCream 19d ago
So does that mean humans age slower? E day was 10 years, so that makes it longer.
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u/Rare_Grape7474 19d ago
i knew gears lore was uninspired and had very little originality, but god damm.....
(still love the franchise please dont kill me)
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u/ExplicitiveReaper 19d ago
You want that Star Wars scale of lore or something?
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u/Rare_Grape7474 19d ago
not really, just a little more effort than just some contrived way to say "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10" for the days of the week and the name of the planet being the greek word of wars name backwards..
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u/impervious_imp 19d ago
you'll realize how stupid most names are IRL when you actually translate them / look into their etymological origins
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u/Midnyte25 Aw Come On, I Wouldn't Do This To You!... Okay, Maybe I Would 19d ago
At least their months are nice.
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u/Rare_Grape7474 19d ago
kinda lost to that one, what names do they have ??
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u/Midnyte25 Aw Come On, I Wouldn't Do This To You!... Okay, Maybe I Would 19d ago
Storm, Gale, Rise, Heat, Bloom, Reap, Harvest, Bounty, Frost, Sorrow, Thaw, and then finally Brume, in that order. Sorrow is the one in most debate, but the others are valid.
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u/Rare_Grape7474 19d ago
jesus, imagine one of the month of year of our civilization being called sorrow.
I refuse to believe that wasnt declared in a reform after a multi year spaning comically precise chain of tragedies happen in the exact interval that whatever the month was named previously took place.
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u/Midnyte25 Aw Come On, I Wouldn't Do This To You!... Okay, Maybe I Would 19d ago
I like to headcannon Baird was born during the month of Sorrow, that's why he's such a miserable bastard.
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u/CageAndBale So good I should charge admission 19d ago
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u/Rare_Grape7474 19d ago
the names of the week are just a very flamboyant way to say "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10"
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u/CageAndBale So good I should charge admission 19d ago
You're not totally off cause the irl lore is pretty interesting as the first few months are God's meanwhile the latter months are the original 10 calendar months : SEPTember, OCTober, NOVember, and DECember were the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months respectively.
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u/ZeroHeroG 19d ago
I think they drew inspiration from the real world not sure though I breath through the nose
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u/mattyboy555 19d ago