Timeline

*The following timeline is incomplete, and will never be fully completed. The nature of Pulse City's setting is that life before the Visitors is kept purposefully ambiguous. This should NOT be taken as the be-all-end-all of canon. It's a big galaxy out there.*

## Before Visit (BV)

**222BV** The AEKI sends a delegation to the homeworld of the Chitans, requesting a trade deal with the planetary nobility. The nobility refuses, feeling the deal is one sided. Several years later, AEKI's fleet invades, replacing the queen with a puppet and putting the area under its unofficial colonial control.

**146BV** Chitan agitators, seizing on the fact that AEKI had removed most of its security forces to deal with a massive interstellar war, launched a revolt, initially led by independence-supporting nobles. AEKI attempted to broker a deal with the nobility alone, but the Chitan trade unions, disillusioned, spontaneously revolted against both the nobles and AEKI. Hundreds of thousands of collaborators flee into AEKI space. Over the next several centuries, the Chitans would attempt to implement ideals similar to Abundantism, protected from AEKI's retribution by the intervention of the company's rival powers.

**61BV** AEKI puts its first permanent settlement on Pulse. The planet was widely seen as a backwater, useful mostly for natural resources and biodiversity.

**54BV** AEKI sells a large portion of the planet to the Jotuns of House Helgema, who seek to turn the area into a haven for Jotun traditionalism.

**30BV** Ernst Ashenko, a surveyor working for the AEKI corporation, finds evidence of a massive lithium deposit on one of Pulse's continents. He deliberately falsifies this info to his bosses, then sells the real data to the IEC. The IEC buys the continent for a paltry sum, creating a territory they control until the modern day.

## After Visit (AV)

**1AV** The Visitors arrive at the head of a massive invasion fleet, and the galaxy falls into utter chaos. The Long Reach, a Chitan colony ship, is ambushed by a Visitor attack fleet, but manages to escape.

**3AV** The war turns decidedly in favor of the Visitors. The local manager of AEKI, Harlan Traat, has AEKI wipe all records of the planet Pulse from their databases, and convinced House Helgema and the IEC to do the same. Over the next several years, communication and information about the outside galaxy disappears.

**~9AV** Dealing with a massive influx of refugees and political tensions, the IEC convinces Pulse's planetary powers to create a planetary government (the Colonial Corporate Council, AKA C3) and cedes an area of land to exist as an Intercorporate Development Zone (IDZ), not controlled by any single planetary megacorporation. This area eventually becomes Pulse City.

**14AV** Red Salko, a Ketzal space pirate, attempts to conquer Pulse. After C3 forces manage to defeat him, the remnants of his fleet agree to reform into the Star Legion, devoted to the cause of raiding Visitor ships for valuable technology.

**60AV** Harlan Traat dies at age 98, and is succeeded by Brea Tarryl as AEKI's CEO. AEKI begins to pursue a much more independent and self-reliant foreign policy.

**64AV** The Long Reach, a lost Chitan colony ship, arrives at Pulse, but is prevented from forming a colony due to its support of Abundantism. It orbits the planet in a political stalemate.

**74AV** The IEC and it supporters within C3 broker a solution to the Long Reach crisis. Chitans are allowed to immigrate to IDZs like Pulse City. Chitans immigrate in droves--encouraged by the Long Reach's government, who are straining under the growing population. Some of these Chitans find

**88AV** The Clipper Riots rock Pulse City, as a medical scandal shows that human doctors at free clinics for Chitans have been surgically removing their wings and antenna without proper consent. A massive riot engulfs the city for weeks, and is joined by androids-rights agitators of the Synthetic Liberation Front. The riots are eventually suppressed, with only modest reforms being made. In the months and years after, the Shortwing Community forms as a response to perceived injustice against the Chitan community.

**94AV** Nearly a hundred AEKI personnel are hospitalized or killed after a rogue systems AI deliberately poisons the water supply at one of their facilities. The New Advent, a fringe android-supremacist group, takes credit for the event. The mainstream Synthetic Liberation Front condemns the action and reiterates their solidarity with organics.

**96AV** Nearly a dozen managers from different companies are assassinated by their android servants over the course of a few months, including the CEO of one of IEC’s most important allies. An android-led Revolutionary Abundantist group, the Automatic Vanguard, claims responsibility.

**98AV Current Server Year**