Six Year? A progression of events query

[Volkai]

That makes sense, Silver...

The issue I was hoping to get clarification on is, I've been hearing that there was official acknowledgement/determination of that real-world-or-something-like-it passage of time, which would be far more reliable than people having to determine a rough passage of time that not all RPers might agree upon. But it looks like that is not the case after all.

[Anonymoose]

I've been hearing that there was official acknowledgement

Unless I missed one (can't fully discount that), my theory is that some people treat the Companies' announcement like it counts as Heavensturn.

[Kaiser-Ace]

Unless I missed one (can't fully discount that possibility), my theory is that some people are treating the Companies' announcement like it was made on New Years.

The way I saw it, the speeches say (If I remember correctly) "Five years ago today" in reference to the Battle of Cartenoue. So that means, as of the lvl 15 quests, that it has been exactly 5 years since the Calamity started. So even should 2.55 occur, lets say six months, after that quest it would still technically be the 5th year since the calamity. The only problem caused by "The Bubble" is that The 7th Astral Era was declared after the defeat of Ultima.

So since we don't know an exact date when Ultima was defeated in relation to the 5th anniversary of The Battle of Catrenoue aka the start of the calamity, we don't actually have a time reference in regards to the beginning of the 7th Astral Era. We knew the date of the battle of Cartenoue and we know that the lvl 15 quest's speeches start exactly 5 years from that day but we don't know how long after that Ultima was activated by Gaius nor how long it took for operation Arcon to start. Another variable is did operation Arcon happen in one day? Two? A week? thus muddying the time line further between it's start and the destruction if Ultima.

[Viridiana]

Unless I missed one (can't fully discount that), my theory is that some people treat the Companies' announcement like it counts as Heavensturn.

I think they were referencing the Rising.