One day in Galactic Standard Time (GST) is now on average five times as long as it was one (five) months ago, according to a new report commissioned by the Galactic Community.
Isolated pockets of ‘time stuttering’ were first detected near the galactic core in late 2252, and have slowly spread to neighboring clusters.
Hundreds of space nations, including the Voor Technocracy, Blorg Commonality and Ubaric Techno-Union are now reporting slowing of time.
“Previously our clocks ran at one second per day as normal,” Ubaric scientist Torba’Daggash told Xenonion, “but then we started getting these dimensional stutters at exactly midnight every night, when everything would come to a juddering halt.”
Scientists from across the galaxy have struggled to explain the phenomenon, with theories ranging from damage to the time-space continuum from the use of jump drive technology, to a literal ‘leak’ of time through black holes.
Archeologist Skegg Ythog believes Vultaum relics may hold some answers, telling Xenonion the precusor race “believed the galaxy was a simulation,” and time could be slowing down due to “poor performance” of an underlying computer mainframe.
Current projections estimate that if the current time delays continue, time may stop completely by the year 2400.
Several space nations have called for an emergency session of the Galactic Senate to be held in the next one to five weeks, if current time delays remain stable.
Shares on the Space Exchange Index (SExI) have dropped, slowly, on the news.
