SLD Glossary

Most of these pages are fully translated into English, but in some cases, Lezarouth and Dr. Julia use words best rendered in their native Hellish.

Measures
Not having reference to an Earth standard, Lezarouth and Dr. Julia did not use measures such as "gravities," "atmospheres," and "astronomic units." The Hellish worlds had also lost the metric system. They decided to reserve terms such as "day, month," and "year" for the locally experienced event rather than for an arbitrary time period. Dr. Julia adopted her own system for a nuetral measuring, rather than, as early explorers did, categorizing other places in reference to an arbitrary standard.

mehlmaul: (abbr. mlml) lit. million miles. The standard measure for solography (planetary systems). There are 93mlml/AU

soayoar: (abbr. sy) lit. thousand hours. The standard measure for length of years. 1sy=0.11 Earth Years or about 42 Earth days. The Hellish hour is actually 59 minutes and 49 seconds, but for most purposes it is equivalent to an Earth hour.