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The text below mentions events occured after 2611 and/or contains information relevant to the plot of the trilogy. Proceed at your own risk!

• –5 000 000 000 Ly-cilph start travelling.
• –650 000 000 Ly-cilph arrive at Milky Way.
• –211 Laymil mass-suicide, creating the Ruin Ring.
• 0100 Kiint visit Earth in secret and start training observers.
• 0800 Tyrathca settle on Mastrit PJ.

18th cent.

• 1764 Fletcher Christian is born.
• 1793 Fletcher Christian dies.

19th cent.

• 1899 Al Capone is born.

20th cent.

• 1947 Al Capone dies.

21st cent.

• 2020 Clavius base established. Mining of Lunar subcrustal resources starts.
• 2037 Beginning of large-scale geneering on humans; improvement to immunology system, eradication of appendix, organ efficiency increased.
• 2041 First deuterium-fuelled fusion stations built; inefficient and expensive.
• 2043 Last Ford Nissan Omnirover produced.
• 2044 Christian reunification.
• 2047 First asteroid capture mission. Beginning of Earth’s O’Neill Halo.
• 2049 Quasi-sentient bitek animals employed as servitors.
• 2050 (~) Messopia arcology is built.
• 2055
  • Jupiter mission.
  • Lunar cities granted independence from founding companies.
• 2057 Ceres asteroid settlement founded.
• 2058 Affinity symbiont neurons developed by Wing-Tsit Chong, providing control over animals and bitek constructs.
• 2064 First, experimental aerostat extraction of He₃ from Jupiter’s atmosphere.
• 2064
  • Multinational industrial consortium (Jovian Sky Power Corporation) begins mining Jupiter’s atmosphere for He₃ using aerostat factories.
  • Islamic secular unification.
• 2067 Fusion stations begin to use He₃ as fuel.
• 2069 Affinity bond gene spliced into human DNA.
• 2070 (plot of “Sonnie’s Edge”)
• 2075 JSKP germinates Eden, a bitek habitat in orbit around Jupiter, with UN Protectorate status.
• 2077 New Kong asteroid begins FTL stardrive research project.
• 2085 Eden opened for habitation.
• 2086 Habitat Pallas germinated in Jupiter orbit.
• 2090 Wing-Tsit Chong dies, and transfers memories to Eden’s neural strata. Start of Edenist culture. Eden and Pallas declare independence from UN. Launch buyout of JSKP shares. Pope Eleanor excommunicates all Christians with affinity gene. Exodus of affinity capable humans to Eden. Effective end of bitek industry on Earth. (Most of these events covered in “Second Chance at Eden”.)
• 2091 Lunar referendum to terraform Mars.
• 2094 Edenists begin exowomb breeding programme coupled with extensive geneering improvement to embryos, tripling their population over a decade.

22nd cent.

• 2103
  • Earth’s national governments consolidate into Govcentral.
  • Thoth base established on Mars.
• 2107 Govcentral jurisdiction extended to cover O’Neill Halo.
• 2115 First instantaneous translation by New Kong spaceship, Earth to Mars.
• 2118 Mission to Proxima Centauri.
• 2123 Terracompatible planet found at Ross 154.
• 2125
  • Ross 154 planet named Felicity, first multiethnic colonists arrive.
  • Nyvan, second new terracompatible planet, discovered. Multiethnic colonies founded. ^(tNA:16)
• 2130 Fifth new terracompatible planet discovered. Multiethnic colonies founded.
• 2131
  • Edenists germinate Perseus in orbit around Ross 154 gas giant, begin He₃] mining.
  • Start of what historians will name the Great Dispersal: Massive starship building programme initiated in O’Neill Halo. Govcentral begins large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus population.
• 2139 asteroid Braun impacts on Mars.
• 2151 Avon open for colonization.
• 2156 New California open for ethnic streamed colonization. ^(tNA:16)
• 2160 Large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus Earth population by Govcentral, peaks at 2 million a week.
• 2175 (~) Bielefeld founded.
• 2178 Srinagar founded.
• 2180 First orbital tower built on Earth.

23rd cent.

• 2205 130th new terracompatible planet discovered: Historians mark here the end of the Great Dispersal.
• 2205 Antimatter production station built in orbit around sun by Govcentral in an attempt to break the Edenist energy monopoly.
• 2208 First antimatter-drive starships operational.
• 2209 Carys Thomas discovers the Norfolk Tears.
• 2210 Richard Saldana transports all of New Kong’s industrial facilities from the O’Neill Halo to an asteroid orbiting Kulu. He claims independence for the Kulu system, founds Christian-only colony, and begins to mine He₃ from the system’s gas giant.
• 2218 First voidhawk gestated, a bitek starship designed by Edenists.
• 2225 Establishment of a hundred voidhawk families. Habitats Romulus and Remus germinated in Saturn orbit to serve as voidhawk bases.
• 2229 Ashly Hanson is born.
• 2230 Kulu settled by Richard Saldana.
• 2232 Conflict at Jupiter’s trailing Trojan asteroid cluster between Belt Alliance ships and an O’Neill Halo company hydrocarbon refinery. Antimatter used as a weapon; twenty-seven thousand people killed.
• 2238 Treaty of Deimos; outlaws production and use of antimatter in the Sol system; signed by Govcentral, Lunar nation, Asteroid Alliance, and Edenists. Antimatter stations dismantled and abandoned.
• 2238 Avon becomes independent.
• 2245 (plot of “New Days Old Times”)
• 2250 Coronation of Gerrald Saldana as King of Kulu. Foundation of Kulu Kingdom.
• 2250 Rubra is born.
• 2267 First skirmish involving use of antimatter among colony worlds.
• 2270 Eighth skirmish involving use of antimatter among colony worlds. Cumulative total: thirteen million killed.
• 2271 Avon summit between all planetary leaders. Treaty of Avon, banning the manufacture and use of antimatter throughout inhabited space. Formation of Human Confederation to police agreement. Construction of Confederation Navy begins.
• 2294 Rubra abandons Edenism.
• 2300 Confederation expanded to include Edenists.

24th cent.

• 2301 First Contact: Jiciro race discovered, a pre-technology civilization. System quarantined by Confederation to avoid cultural contamination.
• 2306 Rubra germinates Valisk.
• 2310 First ice asteroid impact on Mars.
• 2330 First blackhawks gestated at Valisk; Valisk closed to “spiritual seekers”.
• 2350 War between Novska and Hilversum. Novska bombed with antimatter. Confederation Navy prevents retaliatory strike against Hilversum.
• 2356 Kiint homeworld discovered.
• 2357 Kiint join Confederation as “observers”.
• 2360 A voidhawk scout discovers Atlantis.
• 2365 Magellanic Itg fleet composed only of blackhawks.
• 2371 Edenists colonize Atlantis.
• 2375 (~) Firedrakes geneered in Charmaine, Tropicana. ^(LLTR)
• 2383 (~) Candy buds plant-machine assembled/geneered in Karriwak, Tropicana. ^(CB)
• 2390 Rubra dies.
• 2393 (plot of “Candy Buds”)
• 2395 Tyrathca colony world discovered.

25th cent.

• 2402
  • Tyrathca join Confederation.
  • Idria discovered.
• 2408 Mining operations start in Idria.
• 2411 Nyiru knocked into orbit above Narok.
• 2420 Kulu scoutship Ethlyn discovers Mirchusko and the Ruin Ring.
• 2428 Bitek habitat Tranquility germinated by Crown Prince Michael Saldana, orbiting above Ruin Ring.
• 2432 Prince Michael’s son, Maurice, geneered with affinity. Kulu abdication crisis. Coronation of Lukas Saldana. Prince Michael exiled.
• 2447 (plot of “The Lives and Loves of Tiarella Rosa”)
• 2457 Ombey discovered by Royal Kulu Navy.
• 2470 Ombey open for immigration.
• 2480 Last Edenist contact with Valisk.
• 2496 Koblat founded. ^(tNA:11)
• 2500 Ombey reaches 10 million inhabitans; Ombey principality founded.

26th cent.

• 2510 (~) Pasto founded.
• 2532 First intact Laymil corpse found in Ruin Ring.
• 2544 Jantrit distroyed.
• 2550 Mars declared habitable by Terraforming office.
• 2558 Samual Aleksandrovich leaves Kolomna to join the Navy.
• 2565
  • First Dyhaan DLA404 landcruiser manufactored on Varzquez.
  • Dariat is born.
• 2575
  • Laton’s group settles secretly in Schuster County
  • Dariat and Anastasia meet.
• 2576 LDC formed.
• 2580 Dorado asteroids discovered around Tunja, claimed by both Garissa and Omuta.
• 2581
  • Dorados War: Garissa genocide and Omuta blockade.
  • Exnall founded.
• 2582 LDC establishes a colony on Lalonde. Durringham founded.
• 2586 (plot of “Escape Route”)
• 2587 Coastuc-RT founded.
• 2588 Anglade suffers bacterial plague.
• 2591 Last Dyhaan DLA404 landcruiser manufactored on Varzquez.
• 2595 (~) Emmerson born.
• 2596
  • Chaumort independent. ^(tNA:14)
  • Biosphere cavern drilling starts in Ayacucho. ^(tNA:15)
• 2599 Sehad germinated.

27th cent.

• 2602
  • Aethra is germinated around Murora.
  • Wryde founded.
• 2605
  • Arklow counties bankrupt.
  • Samual Aleksandrovich becomes First Admiral.
• 2606 Syrinx and Ruben holiday on Uighur.
• 2608
  • Kirsten Saldana crowned Princess of Ombey.
  • Oconto founded.
• 2610
  • Ly-cilph arrive to Lalonde system.
  • (~) Northway under assessment for colonization permit.
• 2611
  • Confederation has 862 members.
  • End of the Omuta sanctions.
  • (main plot of the trilogy)
• 2630 (^) Murora expected to be fully grown.

Notes

• (^) Prospective date as of 2611.
• (~) Approximate date.