The time was 00:00:00:00 on a brand new year, no longer composed of many day-and-night cycles numbering a calendar. The year was 17. The planet of focus, Positus 4 of the Supra-Iterum planet cluster, lacked planetary rotations that the Sol's Earth had, like most planets commonly did in the rest of the galaxy, too.

Earthlings in the rest of the galaxy, mind you, were ignorant and Earth-centric in their beliefs and habits. It took much time for Earthlings to get beyond their prized belief systems, finding that the galaxy wasn’t only to be explored openly, but was to be cooperated with on galaxian terms no matter how vaguely dismissive of their experiences and input. Nonetheless, Earthlings existed in more than one place around the galaxy, and they rarely found themselves to be the forefront of every adventure after a time.

On Positus 4, time was ticking into the new year, but the past was close behind. In the year 16, much of the terrain in the daylight was covered by clouds and experienced monsoons, converting icy-desert and tundra-ful lands gradually over the course of the entire year, from sudden changes bursting from the planet's nearby star, Gan Versalis. As the planet slowly phased, news broke out to each city that by the year 17, the government would need to improve critical infrastructure to inhibit damages from massive amounts of rain and water, including the ice melting on the lit surface of Positus 4.

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There was a species called the Habbalites living on the planet. In one of their cities called Julahe, running behind on project management, structures used for residency were vacated by their inhabitants pre-starlit event. The remaining Habbalite workers shielded the ceilings of their structures with a material that wouldn't be broken down by water, and they worked quickly on renovating the overall structures into being resilient against water and strong winds. The monsoons were claiming much of the hills and mountains, the rainwater running deeper into the tundra valleys where Habbalites dug a network of trenches used for sewage and waste. Water became more of a pest for the Habbalites after it became clear that the weather was going to be persistent.