# The Federation Calendar ## The Months The months in the Federation can be thought of in two ways. The still handle in a manner not all-together different from the modern calendar. The most impotrant change has been the introduction of a broadly recognized Federation Wide 'Calendar Cycle' to the Federation Year (Defined as one year Earth Standard Time), which broadly denotes the meanings of those months on Earth, where large celebrations are held revering the customs. | Month/# | Federation name/Theme | Celebration/Meaning | | ----------- | ----------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | January/1 | The Month of Beginnings and Foundings | This month is dedicate to celebraring the start of a new year, by celebrating the founding of things, the begining of things, and generally the creation of new things. | | Febuary/2 | The Month of Creating and Constructing | This month is dedicated to celebrating the creating and constructing of things, the hard work that people have put into making enduring things, and the hard work people are putting into innovating in the present. | | March/3 | The Month of Confirming and Polishing | This month is dedicated to celebrating the details in things, the work put into finishing touches and the work of making something truly shine. The work of confirming things as proper, ordered, and right, and polishing them to their greatest shine. | | April/4 | The First Month of Showing and Watching | This is the first of two months in the cycle is dedicated to showing the great prides of creators, whether new or old, and watching the prides of others. This is the first of two great months for historians and antiquarians, those who reminisce in past glories. But also of those striving to create new, great, wonders, put them on display for others to see. | | May/5 | The First Month of Judging and Awarding | After the great new creations have been shown, they must be judged. This month is when the deliberation occurs among the masses, and new great things which are judged favourably in any and all respects gain favour and will be given a chance at confirmation in the next month of judging. Those which failed will receive a chance to gain confirmation in the next judging period. Those which were confirmed in the previous years judging period are thus tested against the new trends of this year, and if found to hold out, continue onto the next judging period for confirmation. Meanwhile those old things which are popularly judged to no longer be relevant begin to fade out here, to be condemned in the next period if they cannot innovate in the interim. | | June/6 | The Month of Reconsidering and Restarting | This is the month of reconsidering where one is in life. This is when the military and civil service tend ot do mass layoffs, this is when universities and schools let out for the 'summer' break, and when major investor reports are required to be submitted. This means this is the month when company's and organizations decide if they're going to keep, rework, or toss a plan or project. Similalry, for those creations judged unworthy last month, this is when their creators may fight to rework them. | | July/7 | The Month of Refining and Repairing | This is the month when those plans which were kept last month, but which needed modification, those creations which needed tweeking, or when those which were judged successfully but need a pit of a tune up, do so. This is the month when people polish resumes, work on their most desired traits, and generally focuson self improvemnt, home improvement, community imrpveoment. This also tends ot the month with the most legislative activity in the Federation | | August/8 | The Month of Rushing and Recreating | This is the month of celebrating those who need to rush and finish things at the last minute, those things which were lost and had to be recreated, the things which because of a small change, were massively transformed. This is the month which glorifies the Third Federation, and this is the month when those who are preparing to be judged rush through their finishing touches. | | September/9 | The Second Month of Showing and Watching | This is the second month of showing ones creations and sources of greatness, wheter a group, an indiidual, a family, an organizaiton, or any other thing which a group within the Federation seek to honour. New creations are shown here, old creations are shown and the competition for popular memory, money, feed-space, etc. occurs. This is often the month when political campaigning is most intense. | | October/10 | The Second Month of Judging and Awarding | This is the second month of judging. Those things which passed judgement in the first month of judging, and again pass judgement in this month, become a more permeant fixture of Federation life, while those which are found wanting or judged as not wanted fade. Those which failed in the first showing but receive a favourable judgement must survive the next years first judgement, and still found accepted in the next years second month of judgement to become a part of the popular Federation cannon. This is often the month when elections occur. | | November/11 | The Month of Celebrating and Rejoicing | This month is dedicate to celebrating those new things which have been confirmed in the cultural memory, if only as a yearly glimpse or into the greater memory. Those who have won rejoice, and they celebrate their victories. Those who aided them join in. In the defeated celebrate their attempt. Those things which continued to live on celebrate as well as do their supporters. | | December/12 | The Month of Endings and Ponderings | This month is dedicate to remembering the things which have ended, those people, places, groups, and things which are gone, and give them their proper place of respect and memory. The failures of the past are pondered, and the considerations of how things might be different next year are brought to the forefront. | ## Important Days - January 1st - The Day of New Beginnings and Refoundings - January 8th - Founding Day - (in honour of 2106), the founding of the Federation - Janauary 17th - The Celebration of Colonizatoin, celebrating all the colonies and galaixes to which the Fedeation has spread law, liberty, justice, order, peace, and security - February 1st - The Day of Creating and Constructing - February 19th - Celebration of the End of the Founding War (The first Sol War) - March 1st - The Day of Confirming and Polishing - March 5th - Celebration of the Liberation of Earth from First Order Rule - April 1st - The Day of Showing and Watching - April 20th - Celebration of the Liberation of Earth from Witcher Rule - May 1st - The Day of Judging and Awarding - May 14th - Celebration of the Start of Siege of Luna & the Luna Knights holy period - May 21st - Celebration of Victory over the Second Versian Empire in the Battle of Titans. - June 1st - The Day of Reconsidering and Restarting - June 8th - Celebration of the Founding of the Second Federation - June 29th - Celebration of Versian Empress Olganova, in glorious memory of her great honour and bravery, when she gave her life to destroy the void gate connecting the Milky Way to the Sheeve Galaxy, thereby cutting the Empire off form the Milky Way, ending millenia of conflict. - July 1st - The Day of Refining and Repairing - July 27th - Rights Day - celebration of the passing of the First Federations First Bill of Rights - August 1st - The Day of Rushing and Recreating - August 24th - Celebration of the superiority of man over machine, celebration of the end of the AI wars, especially the end of the Third AI War - September 1st - The Day of Showing and Watching - September 17th - Celebration of End of the Sigmarian Crusade in the Milky Way, the war which founded the Third Federation - September 28th - Celebration of the Liberation of Earth from Palpatine and Imperial Rule, the ending of the Imperial takeover of the First Federation. - October 1st - The Day of Judging and Awarding - October 18th - Celebration of the End of the Siege of Luna & the end fo the Luna Knights holy period - November 1st - The Day of Celebrating and Rejoicing - November 5th - The Day of Celebration of the Death of Gerald, when the Millenail Emperor was killed by President Far-Sight of the United Augmented Republic, during the Liberation of Earth from the Witchers. - November 7th - the Celebration of the End of the Witcher Wars in 4504, when the Federation was declared free of internal and external threats by Witcher powers. - December 1st - The Day of Endings and Ponderings - December 23rd - The End of the Great War - celebration of the end of the great war - December 25th - the Celebration of the Cow War, which preceeded the Germushian Crusade by a few decades, wherein many Federation lords fought a war against one another because three dozen cows were misplaced. This left the Lords' fleets in already low capacity when the Crusade began, resulting in their total destruction during the crusade.