This office submits for the consideration of the Imperial Assembly the following proposal for the establishment of a unified dating system to be applied uniformly across all territories, institutions, trade relationships, legal jurisdictions, and scholarly endeavors operating under the authority of the Ur-Empire, and further recommends its retroactive application to all historical records held by imperial institutions for a period of no less than five hundred years preceding the date of adoption.
The necessity of such a system has been evident to this office for a period of no less than twelve years, during which time this office has processed no fewer than four thousand, six hundred and eleven pieces of correspondence, forty-seven legal contracts, two hundred and nine trade agreements, and one attempted treaty between the northern mining districts and the coastal fishing cooperatives, all of which were rendered partially or wholly ambiguous, delayed, or invalid due to the absence of a shared dating system between the parties involved.
This office does not submit this proposal in a spirit of innovation. It submits it in a spirit of administrative necessity, having exhausted all other means of addressing a problem that has cost the Empire in commerce, legal clarity, and scholarly credibility far more than the modest effort of standardization will require.
