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Claw Chronometre |
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Released 26th January 2016
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The
Claw Chronometre
is an artefact from the future. It is the time piece
from The Claw, the fighting ship of the notorious space pirate
Orlando Jax
. The Claw Chronometre has been the accomplice and
witness to many of Jax' most daring and outrageous adventures as he plunders
the space lanes for riches. You can read the full story of
Orlando Jax
at
OrlandoJax.com
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The
Claw Chronometre
uses
bigcoolblue's
"high noon" concept to display the time in a traditional
way but for two time frameworks. One is the "Old Earth" model of 24 hours
in a day, 365 days of the year, leap years aside. The second is the
"Standard" model used across the spaceships in Orlando Jax' Universe.
This is based on crons but is effectively 20 hours in a standard day, and
200 days in a standard year.
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The face carries two smaller dials. One indicates the
current watch aboard The Claw: Port, Starboard and Dogger. A full watch
cycle gradually drifts across a standard day so that each watch operates
in LightTime and DarkTime on a regular basis. The LightTime and DarkTime
dial indicates when the ships lights are dimmed to give some sense of a
normal planetary day.
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The one part of the Chronometre that isn't much use
outside of The Claw is the Dilation indicator. As The Claw is a faster
than light ship, this is used to show how time is being affected in the
ship's accelerations as it prepares to make the transition to hyperspace.
On the Earth-bound Chronometre the Dilation indicator shows time moving
faster in the mornings and slower in the afternoons which is generally
how it appears to most people. The Diamond Spinners of Tabanac are the
highly skilled and secretive builders of The Claw.
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The
The Claw Chronometre
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The
Claw Chronometre
can be moved around your desktop by simply pressing
down your mouse key and dragging the clock to the position you want.
There is a little control panel that lets you hide the clock itself,
show the clock information panel and exit the application.
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The Controls and Information panels for the
Claw Chronometre
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The
Claw Chronometre
requires that you have Java version 1.6 or later
installed on your computer.
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