Standard Era

The Standard Era (SE) (originally known as the Submission Era), is the common system for numbering years in the Submission Timeline. The Standard Era numbers years from the foundation of Submission by Ragnar the Prophet in the year 722 of the Christian Era, known as the Year Zero of the Standard Era. Thus, the death of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in 565 CE is known in the Submission Timeline as 207 BSE (before Standard Era), while the death of Ragnar the Prophet in 798 CE is known as SE 26.

The use of a Year Zero as the starting point of the Standard Era rather than a Year One as in the Christian Era, suggests that the Standard Era was established after the decimal system spread from India to the House of Submission, possibly as a result of the Reformation. It is not known which system for numbering years was used in the House of Submission before the establishment of the Standard Era, as there was no universal standard even among Christians.

In OTL the Christian Era system for numbering years from the birth of Jesus was popularized by the Venerable Bede, an English monk who lived in the first century BSE.