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!Octant Colloquial spacer's term for a 50 day period (one-eighth of a star year). This has not replaced older terms such as the month (a 28-31 day period) or the week (a 7 day period) - though these old Earth periods have less significance on colony worlds with different year lengths. The octants even have names: **Firstant** : Day 1 - 50 **Twotant** : Day 51 - 100 **Thretant** : Day 101 - 150 **Fortant** : Day 151 - 200 **Fivtant** : Day 201 - 250 **Sixtant** : Day 251 - 300 **Seventant** : Day 301 - 350 **Eightant** : Day 351 - 400 So it is possible to talk of the '7th of Sixtant' meaning Day 257.