Aglaia
Aglaia is the timekeeping moon of Kytheria. Because the Apollonian day is 360 hours long, colonists instead set their clock by Aglaia, which has a nearly 24-hour cycle.
Each of the kytherian moons has its own glow color, and Aglaia's is Jasper.
On top of it being the Timekeeper moon, Aglaia is a trade outpost and scientific lab containment position.
Commerce
Rather than dealing with the gravitational pull of Kytheria, most short term business is handled on Algaia, where the low gravity makes landing and escape velocity easier and cheaper. As a result, many courier businesses have popped up to run goods from moonside to planetside—the orbit of the moon makes this cheaper for the runners, who only need to wait for the right time to depart and can do a low fuel-run to the surface.
Strange Iconography
All over Kytheria are ancient Holograms of a large sphere in a prism orbited by three smaller spheres. These spheres have been determined to be a calendar tracking the lunar orbits, reinforcing the quote inscribed on the Market Stage that there is poignance to the total alignment of the moons and apollo.
When the Graces of Kytheria align in the eye of Apollo, the world watches the Great Stage with bated breath for a grand performance.
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