The common clock
Pulsar Standard Time
Every civilization. One heartbeat. Trade, navigation, and treaties lock to the same pulsar.
Events & history
Timeline
Billy is thirty-two in the cave. Pulses measure the movement of time. Harmonics measure the evolution of reality.
The common clock of the galaxy
How they keep time
Every civilization keeps its own calendar, but they all set it against the same clock. The Hour Engine holds a single fixed moment, a still point that never drifts, and pulsar time is the common count that lets every world agree on where that point is.
Time is layered
Galactic Time Explained
You do not move through time. You move through possibility.