Talk:Stellar-cycle

I'm not totally up on the IDW standardized time stuff, but is it concievable that since BM was set on Cybertron that a "Stellar-cycle" equals one day there, which just happens to be the equivelent of ~7.5 Earth months? I mean I know it's speculation but that could explain the disparity between the usage, yes/no? --ZacWilliam 12:21, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

But mega-cycles also means hour, day-part or year, within the same series.

The entire Cycle system is a mess, and was never used consistently. While yes, we could be ultra-fanboys and rationalize that the same word means two things depending on context, and thus "Yay, there's no error!" that flies in the face of all the other evidence of cycles changing lengths at a writer's whim. IDW finally standardized things- lets recognize that from-here-out they're supposed ot make sense, and that prior to now they didn't. That helps the reader.

(That said, i mention the two usages are seperated by era, if you want to add a note about one being used on Cybertron, by all means- just make sure the 'but seriously, post-2005 we think they're all IDW measurements' remains last.) -Derik 13:54, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Stellar-cycle = a day? I thought it was roughly a year. --ItsWalky 19:56, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

*goes back to check his sources*

Crap, Solar Cycle is used like a day, which is still nonsensical for all the same reasons... Derik is wrong again

(You think I'd get tired of it sooner or later.) -Derik 20:21, 3 April 2007 (UTC)