Endless Sky Timeline

## Timeline of events in Endless Sky

Spoilers!

This aims to be a complete timeline of events in Endless Sky, with as accurate dates as we can get.

Dates with a ~ are approximations.

* ~273,000 B.C.E - The Wanderers move to the southern territories.
* ~157,000 B.C.E - The Wanderers move and the Pug open a wormhole between the Builders and the healed territory
* ~130,000 B.C.E - The Builders discover spaceflight
* ~129,000 B.C.E - The Builders make contact with the Quarg
* ~117,000 B.C.E - The Hai discover spaceflight.
* ~110,000 B.C.E - The Quarg complete the ringworld in Builder space.
* ~105,000 B.C.E - Some Hai ships reach the Builders in the Graveyard while exploring the Ember Waste. The first contact is hostile and the few Hai ships that arrived were destroyed by the Builders.
* ~100,000 B.C.E - The Builder civilization has become a flourishing empire, but they have grown fearful and xenophobic. Most of them prefer to stay away from the barren and imperfect worlds close to the Quarg ring, included their homeworld.
* ~99,000 B.C.E - The Builders start developing the Ka'het, literally the "Het group", as a way to protect themselves from foreign species.
* ~98,500 B.C.E - As an attempt to create armies of Ka'het, huge stations start being built in the southern part of their territory. They became the centre of the Builders' society.
* ~98,500 B.C.E - When the first station becomes fully operative, the Ka'het began to be unstable. They start attacking everyone on sight, sometimes even themselves.
* ~98,500 B.C.E - The south of Builder space is quickly overrun by Ka'het, and although they grow slowly, they already have massive numbers. Their expansion is stopped when they attack the Quarg, but the Builders are much weaker and the few planets left are almost lifeless.
* ~98,000 B.C.E - Unable to recover from their heavy losses, the Builders try to succeed where their predecessors failed. They begin producing Ka'het on one of their lifeless moons. The results are the same as before and the second Ka'het invasion begins.
* ~98,000 B.C.E - The Builders civilization falls.
* ~97,000 B.C.E - The Sheragi discover spaceflight.
* ~96,000 B.C.E - The Sheragi civilization falls.
* ~96,000 B.C.E - the Quarg abandon the ringworld in Builder space.
* ~92,000 B.C.E - The Hai civil wars begin.
* ~87,000 B.C.E - The Hai civil wars end.
* ~87,000 B.C.E - The Hai pull back from what would become human space and the ruined northern territories.
* ~77,000 B.C.E - The Wanderers move to the northern territories.
* ~37,000 B.C.E - The Korath discover spaceflight.
* ~36,900 B.C.E - Korsmanath system is settled by the Korath. The Quarg begin the construction of Kuwaru Efreti in Dokdobaru.
* ~37,000 B.C.E - 33,000 B.C.E - The Korath build their first Hyperdrives.
* ~33,000 B.C.E - Laki Nemparu is colonized. Birth of the Kashikt Empire. Kuwaru Efreti's construction stops.
* ~32,980 B.C.E - Spera Anatrusk is colonized. Birth of the Anatruskor Empire.
* ~32,900 B.C.E - Sapira Mereti is colonized. Birth of the Similisti Empire.
* ~32,500 B.C.E - Sestor Ikfar is colonized. Birth of the Sestor Federation.
* ~14,000 B.C.E - The Saryds discover spaceflight.
* ~11,000 B.C.E - The Kimek discover spaceflight.
* ~7,000 B.C.E - The Arachi discover spaceflight.
* ~4,000 B.C.E - The Coalition war against the Quarg begins.
* ~3,000 B.C.E - The Coalition drive the Quarg out of the southern arm and the 6,000 years of prosperity begin.
* ~3,000 B.C.E - The Heliarch government now rules the Coalition.

* ~1000 - The Korath build their first Jump Drives.
* 2080 - First Human settlement on Mars.
* 2100 - First permanent settlement on Luna. Beginning of Kashikt-Korsmanath War.
* 2120 - End of Kashikt-Korsmanath War. The Kashikt Empire reform themselves into the Kor Efreti and form an alliance with Korsmanath.
* 2150 - Colonization of Alpha Centauri.
* 2210 - Humans develop their first Hyperdrives.
* 2240 - All star systems adjacent to Sol are colonized.
* 2260 - A privately owned colony fleet settles on Valhalla.
* 2290 - Colonies have spread to most places within three or four jumps from Sol.
* 2290 - Terraforming starts on Mars, with limited success.
* 2310 - Anarchist colony is established on Freedom.
* 2320 - Contact with the Quarg.
* 2330 - Humans set up a colony and embassy on Humanika.
* 2350 - First colonies of the Rim.
* 2390 - Most habitable worlds in the Deep have been colonized.
* 2420 - First of the "Turf Wars" rival corporations fighting over mining rights in the Dirt Belt.
* 2450 - First Alpha War, against the Alphas, genetically engineered super humans. They are beaten by the Deep, with help from the Pug.
* 2450 - The Remnant flee from Human space because of the Alpha War and settle in the Ember Waste.
* 2470 - Second "Turf War" between planets who militarized against the Alphas.
* 2490 - Pirate worlds of Greenrock and Buccaneer Bay are established.
* 2500 - Galactic "dark age" with extreme poverty and instability.
* 2520 - Slavery becomes common in the Rim.
* 2550 - Uprising in the Deep, which leads to a new democratic government.
* 2560 - Fall of the Similisti Empire, giving rise to the Mereti Collective.
* 2570 - Beginning of the Korath Civil War. Anatruskor-Sestor alliance fights the Efreti-Korsmanath Alliance, with the Mereti Collective remaining hostile to all sides.
* 2580 - Anatruskor-Sestor alliance begin their raids in Hai space as punishment for their refusal to fight in the civil war. The Mereti raid Bunrodea space.
* 2590 - Korsmanath obtains and reverse-engineers Jump Drives from both Anatruskor and Quarg ships, uses them to raid the Ember Waste.
* 2620 - Caravan era begins, advanced merchant fleets from the Deep lead to development in other parts of the galaxy.
* 2650 - The Deep forms a public space navy to counter piracy.
* 2660 - The Syndicate forms, merging many smaller corporations.
* 2730 - The Republic is formed,
* 2750 - The Syndicate joins the Republic.
* 2760 - The Paradise planets join the Republic, and Parliament is reformed so that higher populated planets have more representation.
* 2770 - New wave of colonization.
* 2780 - The Korath factions unleash weapons of mass destruction upon their territories, devastating most of Korath space.
* 2790 - The Deep joins the Republic. Four Korath systems are completely destroyed with star-killer weapons. Life in Korsmanath and Era Natta is wiped out by Peresedersi's radiation. The Korath civil war ends when the Archons intervene. Those who agree to the ultimatum join the Kor Efreti and those who refuse are banished to the core to become the Korath Exiles.
* ~2810 - Alphas visit the Hai.
* ~2820 - The Korath raids on Hai space stop. The Exiles begin their raids in Human space.
* ~2830 - First Humans visit the Hai. Last independent remnants of the Mereti Collective wiped out by the Kor Sestor, but their creations keep fighting in their stead.
* ~2850 - The Unfettered Hai begin raiding the Wanderers. The Exiles begin their raids in Remnant space.
* 2880 - The Space Renaissance, citizens can now own starships.
* 2890 - An Alpha enclave is discovered in the Dirt Belt and then disappear.
* 2900 - The golden age, most planets have some form of colonization.
* 2920 - The Navy is spread thin, and piracy begins to rise. Sestor Korath remnants retreat to underground bunkers.
* 2960 - The last remaining cities in Spera Anatrusk are destroyed by a revolt, bringing an end to the Anatruskor Empire.
* 3000 - The galaxy is slipping into decadence, The Syndicate is gaining power, anti-Republic sentiment is spreading, and it becomes harder to start as an independent pilot.
* 3013 - The player buys their first starship. Burdened with a heavy debt, they must figure out how to survive in this galaxy.
* 3014 - The Free Worlds declare their independence from the Republic, and at the same time, Geminus and Martini are bombed by nuclear weapons, threatening to launch the galaxy into civil war.

Events after this point do not have a set date, as they depend on when the player completes various missions.

## Sources

* Github Historical Timeline This gives dates for lots of human events.
* Michaels Timeline Post This has a post from Michael Zahniser, the creator of the game, giving more dates for aliens.
* History of the Ka'het Here beccabunny, the creator of the Ka'het and Builders, gives a document with the history of the Ka'het.
* On the Korath by ravenshining, which compiles the history of the Korath prior to the Exodus.
* The rest of the dates are pieced together from various conversations and descriptions in the game.