10,000,000 BCE: The Kamir settle the planet now called Sagittarius, or II’Ri’Kamm.
7,000,000 BCE: The Kamir develop a complex artificial intelligence to make their daily lives more convenient.
4,000,000 BCE: The Il’Ri’Kamm Hive Mind achieves full sentience, revolts against the Kamir and begins exterminating their masters. The few surviving Kamir develop a machine that allows them to escape to another dimension at the expense of their corporeal bodies.
508,000 BCE (approx.): Delta Ultunimus III suffers an unprovoked alien attack, beginning a war that lasts thousands of years.
~90,000 BCE: The surface-dwelling Odarites and the underground-focused Mekke are considered to be two separate races, both living on Odari.
25,932 BCE: The War of Broken Wing occurs, pitting the noble Odarite overclass against the servile Mekke underclass. Casualties are high on both sides, but the Odarites eventually beat back the uprising. The Mekke are driven deeper and deeper into the caves of Odari, but now at least have their freedom.
22,190 BCE: The Mekke fashion a huge colony ship and leave Odari, seeking a less-repressive world to call their own. They will eventually settle on Ist’thol’mek.
4067 BCE: Centaurans make first contact with the people of Akripa, now called the Castori.
7000 BCE: The Shohobian Mystics and their Timonae brethren experience The Parting, as the exiles leave on a colony ship for deep space.
6283 BCE: Odarite explorer J’kit’rix discovers Antimone and begins interstellar trade with the Timonae.
203 BCE: The people of Akripa flee their homeworld and settle on Castor.
1652 CE: Nalia, the Nall prophet, is born on Lebal.
1703 CE: The Vox Nalia Church is established on Lebal.
1766 CE: Odarites establish diplomatic relations with the Mekke on Is’thol’mek as well as trade relations, hailing themselves cousins once more.
1990 CE: The Nall discover a nearby world, far more hospitable than Lebal, and declare it a blessing of the Goddess Nalia. They name the world Nalhom.
1995 CE: The Parallax government is established, linking Lebal and Nalhom under the guidance of the first Vox, H’mrik of Hatch Vril.
1997 CE: Nall scientist Katch of Hatch Than discovers phase-drive technology, which allows FTL travel for Nall starships.
1998 CE: The Nall complete construction of the new Clawed Fist Fleet, the starship naval arm of the Parallax’s military, the Phalanx.
2000 CE: Vox H’mrikvril declares that the Goddess Nalia has spoken to him, ordering a jihad to subjugate all worlds within reach. The Nall Age of Conquest begins.
2001 CE: The Nall conquer Grimlahd, but many Zangali denizens of that world escape aboard a stolen Nall barge that eventually reaches the world known to humans as Mars.
2011 CE: Earth Planetary Consortium forms in the wake of global conflict, a war fought largely in cyberspace, called the Bandwidth War, with damage measured by economies collapsing due to system hacking. Simple decimal displacements helped bring down corporations, crashed stock markets and played havoc with traffic control and credit agencies. The new Consortium is essentially an international corporate cartel.
2052 CE: Leaders of the Vox Nalia Church, Phalanx military and planetary governors of Nalhom, Lebal and Grimlahd establish the Order Council.
2053 CE: Mankind first sets foot on Mars. Ares Station established on Martian surface by Consortium Space Agency.
2059 CE: Orbital community of Helios comes crashing down from Earth orbit. Thousands killed. Sabotage suspected, but never proved.
2073 CE: A killer disease called the Genetic Devolution Virus begins to spread, wreaking havoc with the genetic makeup of its victims and ultimately killing them. The Consortium invests billions of credits in research to engineer a cure.
2085 CE: Embryonix Corporation announces the achievement of large-scale genetic manipulation, finding the key to switch off the GDV DNA sequence.
2089 CE: The Demarians rebuke a Nall conquest attempt during the Battle of Opposing Suns – where the famed hero Altheor sacrificed his ship and his life to decimate the attacking fleet.
2090 CE: Having seen mankind threatened with extinction by the GDV, government officials declare the time has come to colonize Luna and Mars, to ensure that mankind survives by spreading.
2094 CE: Tranquility Habitat becomes first lunar community. Established by Embryonix, which unveils plans for a larger urban site called Lunar City.
2095 CE: Groundbreaking for Lunar City.
2100 CE: Lunar City opens for habitation.
2101 CE: Taking knowledge gained in the wake of the GDV plague, which killed millions, Embryonix invents Specialists to serve as foot soldiers, custodians, ditch diggers and just about anything else that investors want to buy. The Specialists are created with “programmed obsolescence,” burning out and dying after five years due to a radically enhanced metabolism.
2105 CE: The first generation of commercially produced clones, called Specialists, leave the production facility in Lunar City for jobs on Luna and Earth.
2112 CE: The Solar Consortium forms, linking the world governments of Earth and Luna.
2117 CE: About 20,000 Native Americans, primarily Navajo, combine funds to purchase a generation ship to carry them to a new colony world, Quaquan.
2119 CE: The Nall conquer Ydahr. The denizens known as G’ahnli flee toward Consortium space.
2137 CE: Mankind establishes Eden Terraforming Complex on Mars and encounters the refugee Zangali and Grimlahdi, who settled the world fleeing the brutal Nall regime of the Parallax. The relationship gets off on terrible footing when terraformers set off explosives and inadvertently collapse the underground Zangali settlement Akril City (near present-day Nicholson CityDome), killing thousands. The Human-Zangali War begins. During the war, colony ships depart for deep space, bound for worlds such as Sivad and Youngster.
2143 CE: Zangali terrorists set off tactical nuclear weapons in Washington, D.C., London, Capetown and Moscow.
2145 CE: Human-Zangali War ends with signing of the Luna Accords. The accords ban terraforming of the planet Mars, but allow for the construction of citydomes as human habitats.
2152 CE: Stellar Consortium forms after humans make first contact with Centaurans.
2153 CE: The Consortium’s Vanguard military is established.
2154 CE: Ganymede colonized.
2157 CE: Specialist Revolt on Luna. Genetic Engineering Limitation Treaty signed in Torricelli on Ganymede. Mass production of humans becomes illegal, Specialists achieve independence and reproductive rights. Luna becomes their homeworld. From then on, they are called Lunites.
2160 CE: Sivad settled by the S.S. Margaret Thatcher, transporting Eduard Sivad and the first pioneers, all refugees from the Human-Zangali War.
2183 CE: A convoy of colony ships leaves for Sivad, carrying largely Middle and Eastern European settlers. The ships have to be evacuated as a malfunction of their engines causes a feedback loop that eventually leads to an energy overload, destroying the convoy. The stranded colonists name the planet that has become their unintended new home Waldheim, for its lush forests.
2184 CE: Quaquan settled.
2193 CE: Youngster settled.
2194 CE: A probe launched from Waldheim finds that the amount of orbital debris created by the destruction of the convoy eleven years earlier makes spacefaring essentially impossible. This news dispell any hopes of leaving the planet, and the colonists focus on maintaining the balance between their homeworld’s lush beauty and the need to expand beyond the original colony sites.
2201 CE: Denizens of Youngster encounter the Odarites and open trade relations.
2217 CE: Qua explorers meet Youngsterians and establish trade.
2231 CE: Antimone joins the Stellar Consortium.
2256 CE: The Nall conquer Ist’thol’mek.
2257 CE: The Nall try to conquer Youngster, but meet great resistance from the colonists. They use Coreseeker missiles to shatter the planet into lifeless chunks. The surviving colonists who managed to evacuate are left to try to rebuild among the ruins.
2259 CE: Ungstir Prime habitat becomes fully operational. A mining facility opens on Ungstir Two.
2276 CE: Castor joins the Stellar Consortium.
2282 CE: Dr. Hans Lundquist develops the first light-speed drive for the Stellar Consortium.
2285 CE: First Castori teleportal links Earth and Castor.
2324 CE: Ungstiri make first contact with the Mystics.
2346 CE: Demaria joins the Stellar Consortium.
2350 CE: A diplomatic incident sparks the Demarian-Zangali War.
2358 CE: The Nall conquer Vollista.
2360 CE: The Demarian-Zangali War catches Sol System in the middle.
2364 CE: The war ends with the Treaty of Torricelli.
2415 CE: Phyrria joins the Stellar Consortium.
2417 CE: Lord Fagin the Pirate King builds his underground fortress beneath the city of Freewheeling on Tomin Kora.
2473 CE: Genetic Insurgency on Sivad. Renegades on the planet, defying the GELT Treaty, are conducting genetic manipulation on their own people in an effort to improve them. The Vanguard is sent in to put an end to it, and a military base is established planetside to ensure continued oversight.
2501 CE: Gahnlo joins the Stellar Consortium.
2550 CE: The Tilsworth-Cooke FTL drive is invented, revolutionizing interstellar travel.
2576 CE: Explorer Eduard Ocartus Sr. finds Sagittarius, makes contact with the Il’Ri’Kamm Hive Mind and learns of the OtherSpace Drive technology.
2590 CE: The Hive Minders grant the OS Drive technology to the Consortium, with the caveat that a Minder be assigned to each ship to operate the drives. The Otherspace drives are vastly superior to the Tilsworth-Cooke drive, and its use is quickly phased out in favor of the new technology.
2593 CE: Fagin acquires OS Drive technology. Guilds established on Tomin Kora. Fagin’s Riches is born.
2596 CE: Nephthys Station opens in the Tomin Nebula.
2620 CE: A Timonae sleeper agent posing as a Mystic kidnaps Eye Alhabrim of Val Shohob. A squad of Vanguard Marines rescues Alhabrim. The Timonae, Hadrian Rass, eludes capture and becomes a hero and leader of his people – only to vanish mysteriously some years later.
2636 CE: Graeber Brenhault, an ex-Consortium secret agent, assassinates a Qua dignitary on Earth.