Starting with an Editor's Note...
So... you might not understand the title of this session if you're not a real huge Star Wars nerd. I actually didn't know this before this session, but the Star Wars galaxy actually does have days of the week.
To properly discuss this, we need to discuss the nature of the calendar in the Galaxy Far Far Away. What is a calendar other than a way to count the number of planetary rotations per revolution around its sun? Thing is, this is going to be different for each planet. So galactic date is based on the calendar of its capital world of Coruscant.
According to canon, Coruscant is actually very similar to Earth in that a year is 368 24-hour days, just slightly more than the 365.2425 days per Earth year.
It would then stand to reason that Coruscant's year could be divided into 12 months, (and perhaps making the second month of the year 31 days instead of 28) and these months could be divided into roughly four weeks of seven days each. But this is where Coruscant differs.
Apparently there are 10 months, then there's three festival weeks and 3 holidays at the end. So if that is the case? At first glance that doesn't seem right because Earth months are 28, 30, or 31 days long. And Earth weeks are seven days. This would mean that we're somewhere around 324 days! [10 months (roughly 300 days) + 3 weeks (21 days) + 3 holidays (3 days)].
But given that this session is all about Hal and D'Wook having switched bodies, and there's a movie about a similar situation between a teenager and her mother called Freaky Friday, I wanted to see what the corresponding day to Friday would be in the Galaxy Far Far Away.
Well, it turns out that there are five weekdays, and they are called Primeday, Centaxday, Taungsday, Zhellday and Benduday. There are reasons they are called that, but by now I've probably lost you so I figured. Friday is the fifth of five workdays, so we'll just go with Benduday... though maybe in Star Wars they are so progressive that they have a three-day work week and a two-day weekend, or maybe they work 5 days and are off two and often get confused when the off days start. Who knows. (Well actually there are probably people that do know but I didn't want to research this further, because again, I am just trying to figure out what I should do to call this session Freaky Friday.
So.. in summation, that means that each month is 35 days, then there are three weeks (15 days) of festivals and three holidays, totally 368.
You know what? Let's just start. I need a picture.
| So this is what I was inspired by when creating my Alderaan Jedi temple. So just imagine the short one is an Ewok who smacks his face a lot and the tall one is somewhat plucky. |
Opening Crawl:
Session XXVII: Freaky Benduday
In a strange twist of fate, the aspiring Jedi Hal Brunchkiller and the mighty Ewok warrior D’Wook have switched bodies after an inter-dimensional mishap in the ruins of the Jedi temple in the Graveyard of Alderaan.
Finding a solution to their predicament will be difficult, as the unlikely pair and the rest of their group, the strike force formerly known as DELTA TEAM, have been officially declared dead, but in actuality placed on administrative leave and confined to the Alderaan system by the REBEL ALLIANCE.
The team discuss their next options, keeping in mind that any attempt to leave the Alderaan system will have to be officially off the books, hidden from the Alliance brass.























