When the Council for a New Tomorrow was given the reins of Earth’s future in 2250, one of the first progressive steps taken by the robotic collective was the institution of Robot Time. Humans had long used flawed chronological systems such as the Caesarian and Gregorian calendars and the use of the term whenever.

With the return of lunar development, it was agreed that time should not adhere to a strictly terrestrial standardization. Such terms as minutes, hours, days, months and years were eliminated and replaced by a more metric format. The only measurement that was retained was that of seconds; though rather being the amount of time it takes light to travel 300,000 kilometers, it was redefined as the amount of time it took the slowest robot in the world (the Lenny-One) to calculate Pi to its final integer.

The new system was designed as follows:
100 seconds in a millicycle,
100 millicycles in centicycle,
100 centicycles in a decicycle, and
100 decicycles in a cycle.

To appease humans who felt they needed a well-defined short-term goal to reach (such as a previously coveted “weekend”), the sub-cycle was also instituted, equaling 10 decicycles.

The original odormeter was invented in the annum 2333 by an unknown engineer working for Har-D-Har Labs, a manufacturer of practical joke materials such as fake vomit and schnauzes. Intended to complement their growing line of whoopee cushions, the odormeter was designed to excrete a violently putrid odor which resembled human-generated methane gas. So successful was the odormeter in this purpose that it caused nearly 4000 asphyxiation deaths (mostly men between the ages of thirteen and twenty-three) before Har-D-Har Labs recalled all odormeters and discontinued the product.

Then, in 2338, an independent research and development robot named Kelvin-88 reverse engineered one of the last remaining Har-D-Har odormeters, transforming it into an intake device. Coupled with olfactory sensors so powerful that they can even smell fear, the odormeter became the de facto in local emission detection.

Since then, odormeters have been installed in every closed environment space frequented by robots and humans alike.

Engineering of the lunar biosphere began in 2173 (Gregorian calendar). After a protracted bidding war which resulted in 353 casualties, the engineering contract was awarded to Quad Bionetics of New Sydney, Australia.

The first stage was the construction of mass producer engines hundreds of meters below the surface in order to increase the density of the lunar body. In 2177 (Gregorian calendar), human error led to a density overflow causing massive tidal waves on Earth which led to more than 450 million casualties.

All lunar biospheric engineering was halted until 2250 (Robotic calendar) when the Council for a New Tomorrow began the effort anew. Apex BioCore Design of Phoenix, USA, was given the task of correcting the gravitational damage caused by the previous attempt to engineer the moon, while Generic Organization Robotics of Berne, Switzerland, was charged with custom building a team of scientific engineering robots to further develop the lunar biosphere.

Since then, long-term biospheric processing has been on-going, principally through layer ionization which is expected to continue until at least 2900, after which it is hoped ecopoiesis can commence. Currently, the most noticeable change to the lunar environment is an increase in surface gravity (approximately one quarter of Terran gravity), though strangely this has had more of an effect on solid matter than liquid or gaseous.