It was now 1441(688), and Calvinvs was convinced by a motley crew of scholars, traders, and wannabe explorers to fund a circumnavigation of the apparent globe that Terra was. With the use of a recent navigational invention from a Parthian ADA, called an Alifsinta Ralamalif (usually just called Alifsinta), they proposed to sail west to finally end up in the Baluchi regions of the east, assuring his Excellence that trade could be tripled with this quicker, more direct route to the far east. It took Calvinvs some time to wrap his head around standing on a very large ball and not falling off but agreed to fund an expedition around the world by galley in 1452(699). Already since 1445(692) globular maps had begun showing up but often it was only scientists that were concerned about the Earth's s