One of the suns had set in City Stormfront, while the other remained, illuminating the sky a little more dimly without her sister. The disruption of day and night in binary star systems was one of the hardest things that humans who had migrated to other stars had had the hardest time getting used to.
The concept of day and night had changed completely and had been replaced with exposure, because most of the surface of a planet was now exposed to starlight, completely disrupting the circadian rhythm of each and every single person.
Human civilization had retained its use of a twenty-four-hour cycle; however, it was deeply ingrained in all of them. Clocks were all synchronized with those on Gaia Prime, and it ensured that all of human civilization remained roughly in synchronization with each other.
