29.7.2006
Hello, traveler of this multiverse! If you spent some time here, or reading our comics, you may have noticed a certain specific date popping up in different places. This date being 29.7.2006. You may ask yourself why? Why did so many things happen on this one specific date? Actually, why did everything seem to happen on this one day when our world has obviously been around for more than a day? Well, traveller, to explain this, we have to go back in time - way back, even before the apocalypse.
End Of The World
Many years ago, some estimate this number to be 10 thousand years and others say it’s as high as 65 thousand years, our world was quite different. People today call it The Old World. While different from our world, it may seem a bit more familiar to you and your world, travelers of the multiverse. But hopefully, your world doesn’t end up as our old world did. You see, after facing many hardships - some being the unfortunate ways of nature and the other being a consequence of the people’s own irresponsible behaviors - that old world came to an end. It is widely accepted today that this apocalyptic event came in the form of a glorious explosion that left the old world in pieces - the pieces that now form our new world. But the most important detail of this is the date this happened. It is believed that this happened exactly on 29.7.2006.
After Apocalypse
When the apocalypse came, people had already anticipated it, and retreated into the underground hideouts, where they survived for the next 10 thousand or 65 thousand years. That is, if you believe they actually survived. Many actually believe that everyone died down there, and that we’re all dead now, living in Hell. This may as well be true, as today, time moves in a very conspicuous manner, as if it were stopped all this time, since the day of the apocalypse. Or maybe it just seemed so for thousands of years of life underground, when all days seemed the same with no salvation in sight. Eventually people living underground lost track of time completely, abandoning their whole system of keeping up with days, months and years. Soon years, decades, centuries and millennia passed the whole generations, with not much at all happening. That is, until the day of The Ascent.
The Ascent
When the conditions on the surface again became more hospitable, people decided to come back up. The world and the people themselves, now much different, were eager and ready to start a new life. As they lost track of time down there anyway, they decided to start their new life with the same date their old life ended on: 29.7.2006. They did this to symbolically erase all the horrendous years of life underground, continuing right when they left their old lives and world.
Why Doesn't The Date Change?
Now you may think, this all sounds nice and well, they set the date of the first day to 29.7.2006, but why not just count forward from there then? Well, as already said, the time in our New World runs a bit differently from the old one. If everyone is in fact dead, then time may be completely stopped altogether even. As days pass, seasons change and events transpire, time seems to be moving in more of a spiral manner, rather than a straight line forward, as it used to be in the Old World. No matter what happens and how things change, time seems to be running in circles, repeating the same days, months and years over and over again, with different variations of events each day, but not much changing in the long run.
However though, even if the official date of the world is always set to the same day, moles do need some alternative way of keeping track of time. You can read more about this [HERE].
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