The Great Awakening

The Great Awakening is a marker in time denoting the change from the old archaic, agrarian ways of life into the new golden age of science, technology and discovery. It officially began in Royal Year 950, during the rule of King Brahdak, both led and spawned by the intervention and wise guidance of Tgegani, Ibara and Sine, who reintroduced their people to the great wonders of science and technology that their ancestors had cast away. After that, all time began being marked as AGA (after great awakening), or sometimes just GA. Time before that, during the royal period was either marked as BGA (before great awakening), or simply RY for "Royal Year".

The third and final division of time, which includes the years after the colonists had landed, starting at the beginning of the Royal Years, and going all the way back to the dawn of time, was known as BRY, or "Before Royal Years". Sometimes this was also written as BT, or "Before Time", which was the abbreviated way of saying, "Before recorded time". These are the three primary ways in which periods or eons of time are denoted on the Yigzan calendar. And, while the calendars of the other two races don't necessarily agree with these demarcations of time, they also don't disagree with the Yigzan using them for their own purposes, as they marked very important points in their planet's history.