Celestial Mechanics (timeline)/Years Zero & One

To shorten the main "Celestial Mechanics" timeline, Years Zero and One will be kept here. 
==Year Zero==
===2005===
Date: January 1: Happy New Year! (Gregorian calendar (Saturday))
Note: January 10: Karla's graduation ceremony from ETHZ (based on this
Idea/Note: Karla leaves on a backpacking trip through Europe and, among other things, discovers an interest in Canada and the to-be-rebooted "Doctor Who", the idea of which Bastien falls in love with through her messages home
Date: February 9: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Ox (Wednesday))
Idea/Note: Q1: Karla returns from her backpacking trip, begins applying to French programmes in France
Updated: March 26: After a family supper, Hermann approaches Dietrich for advice about accepting University of Manchester's offer ("Decided")
Note: April 1: Bastien's birthday! (Friday)
Note: June 23 - August 6: summer break for Bastien (from here)
==Year One (05/06)==
===2005===
====Starcrossed are Undergrads====
Updated: September 13: Lars Gottlieb gives Hermann some advice about being on his own ("Interests")
Updated: September 15: Karla and Hermann journey from Berlin to Manchester, staying overnight in a hotel ("En Route")
Updated: September 16: Move in day! Hermann Gottlieb and Edan Reid begin post-secondary at the University of Manchester, majoring in Physics and Astrophysics (a single degree at Manchester); Edan meets roommate and subsequent best (Manchester) friend Rhys Jones-Morgan; Karla meets and flirts shamelessly with Bakshish Singh; ("Manchester")
Updated: September 18: Hermann assigned an aide to help him carry things and travel; Hermann vows to be free of them as soon as possible ("Succor") 
Updated: September 19: Edan Reid notices and begins nursing a crush on classmate Hermann Gottlieb, although he's too big a chicken to say anything about it ("Constants") 
Wikid: October 26: Edan Reid finally gets up the courage to approach Hermann Gottlieb and invites him to lunch at an Indian restaurant (his treat, of course); skips class to continue the conversation; introduces Hermann Gottlieb to Rhys Jones-Morgan and Rhys' girlfriend, Vigsai Singh ("Dynamics").
Updated: October 28: Hermann getting ready for the day (including proper feather disposal) and then a group breakfast with him keeping to himself and his book ("New Routine"; >where is this discussion?<)
Updated: October 29: Edan Reid goes shopping for more seating in his and Rhys’ residence room and returns with a beanbag (Manchester, "Seating")
Wikid: November 1: Edan Reid finally convinces Hermann Gottlieb to use his first name via threat and the two discuss their families a bit ("Steps")
Updated: November 3: The Manchester co. discuss labels and celebrity crushes ("Identity"--now including "Presumptuous"!)
Wikid: November 9: Vigsai Singh convinces Hermann Gottlieb, Rhys Jones-Morgan, and Edan Reid to pose for a photograph taken by her oldest brother, Aakash Singh ("Cheese")
Wikid: November 12: Discussing eye colour, Hermann Gottlieb's Manchester friends discover his achromatopsia and Rhys outs Edan as a ginger ("Sea-colour")
Updated; November 15: Hermann Gottlieb falls on a patch of ice on campus, aggravating his bad knee and injuring his side; Iggy notices Hermann's been avoiding her ("Skittish")
Wikid: November 16: Starcrossed share a meal of curry in Hermann's dorm room after which, Edan, in high spirits, shares some of his favourite music and dance moves ("Unknown Pleasures")
Updated: November 19: Iggy's excited about a potential independent study funded by a grant from a French company and the quartet discuss pharmaceuticals ("Chemist's")
Wikid: November 30: Hermann Gottlieb finds Vigsai Singh in his dorm's hallway and they discuss literature and people with wings ("Angel Experiment")
Wikid: December 3: Edan Reid convinces Hermann Gottlieb to join him at a local band's concert; Hermann discovers Edan's favourite soap fragrance ("Youth")
Wikid: December 5: Starcrossed share Hermann's bed after they pull a near all-nighter to finish a take-home exam ("Orbits")
Updated: December 5: Starcrossed face mild heckling from Rhys and Iggy over breakfast after their night together ("Unchanged"); Edan is later interrogated by Rhys and Iggy and reveals his theory on Hermann's touch aversion ("Careful")
Updated: December 15 - 16: Edan Reid /finally gets up the courage to admit his feelings to Hermann Gottlieb and is relieved to learn he reciprocates and the pair share Hermann's first kiss and a night stargazing together before he walks Hermann to his train back to Berlin for the winter holidays, promising to call every day of the separation ("Horizons")
Updated: December 16: Edan torn between lovesick and fretting about packing for the holidays as Rhys also frets about what he'll need for the break; both worry about getting out of the city with the terrible weather while Iggy lounges on a bed/the beanbag and mocks them ("Blizzard") 
Updated: December 16: Hermann Gottlieb arrives back in Berlin for the winter holidays, is overhead telling Dietrich and Karla about his and Edan's relationship by Lars Gottlieb; Lars immediately forbids Hermann to talk to his English friends and announces plans to withdraw Hermann Gottlieb from the University of Manchester and transfer him to Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) ("Return"); Hermann Gottlieb attempts suicide, is saved by Karla and Dietrich's quick thinking ("Pale"). 
Updated: December 17 - 20: Edan Reid calls Hermann Gottlieb repeatedly and receives no answer, prompting him to leave increasingly panicked and desperate voicemails ("Mental")
Wikid: December 17: Bastien Gottlieb learns of Hermann Gottlieb's suicide attempt and appoints himself his brother's keeper ("Contagious"); a weak Hermann Gottlieb converses with Dietrich Gottlieb and Karla Gottlieb about his situation and nature when they take their turn at the bedside vigil ("There")
Updated: December 20: Hermann Gottlieb rages at Dietrich Gottlieb for saving his life and trapping him in Lars Gottlieb's house until his eighteenth birthday, at least ("Caged"); after brainstorming with Bastien Gottlieb and Karla Gottlieb, Dietrich Gottlieb proposes a way around the 'no contact' order Lars Gottlieb imposed on Starcrossed, both of whom rather enthusiastically agree to begin snail mailing each other using Sabine Bachar's house as a drop; Dietrich has his first experience with Scottish cursing ("Loophole")
Wikid: December 21: Karla and Bastien Gottlieb encounter a neighbourhood asshole on their way back from grocery shopping and Karla teaches him a lesson about the dangers of gossip ("Polite"); Bastien and Hermann bond over ice cream and Harry Potter movies, despite a disagreement over how to Sort Hermann; Hermann promises never to try to kill himself again ("Sorting")
Updated: December 22: The reality of the separation from Hermann hits Edan and he settles in for a solid mope, which is rudely interrupted by Fenella and then some mockery over the phone by Rhys ("Bad Example")
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