Timeline

## Deep Time

Anything before modern recorded history is considered Deep Time, and is most likely unknown by the Readers.

## The Youth Era

7,000 YA With Aarde unprotected, The Old Ones come. A true K6 Type civilization, it is difficult to understand such abstract beings. They exist naturally *outside* of time and space, and are capable of creating universes and multiverses, and destroying them just as easily. It’s similar in concept to a deity. It’s hard to imagine such a civilization, since its perfection and indestructible nature would offer so much potential. They bring with them their servitor species (Tuatha, Polu, Nefil, Svart, Silvan, Uft, Trasgu, and Janus) and enslave (but not destroy) the races of Aarde, to pilfer her magic.

6,000 YA The Star Hunters destroy the Machinist civilization in the Anvil Galaxy. The few surviving Machinists build the Machine Men, who then turn against them. The Star Hunters are themselves hunted almost to extinction by the CosmoKnights.

5,000 YA Secret societies of the learned among the races of the Homsis, Mali, Krasna, and Tarako come together to resist the Old Ones and their servitors. Certain members of servitor species also start to realize their masters are tyrants.

5,000 YA The Pilgrims leave the Terran Home System. The Human Alliance begins as the first, non-FTL “sleeper ships” head out into the Corkscrew Galaxy. Center begins keeping a record of all its citizens.

4,000 YA The Tuatha are the first servitor race to fully revolt against their Old One masters. The Aethereal Equitable World Ownership Society (Tuatha, Krasna, Homsi, Mali, and Tarako) creates the first Budax, a weapon they intend to use against the Anteon and their forces. They begin to secretly craft an army.

4,000 YA The so-called Xodian Collective comes out of the galactic core, and establishes several large outposts. About 100 years later, they return to the Core. The Way of the Star, a cult, converts 40% of the Anvil Galaxy to its cause.

3,996 YA The mysterious Way of the Star cult vanishes. There are almost no records of this entire four-year period. Has someone wiped the galaxy’s memories?

3001 YA The Old Ones extra-real nature becomes their downfall, and are expelled from Aarde in an event called The Ouster. The servitor species remain, abandoned.

## The Rite of Passage Era

3000 YA The post Old One Dark Age begins. The Aardan species hold pogroms to kill servitor species. Little is known of this era, except there was much death. Society was reduced back to the Bronze age, losing almost all recorded history and learning. The truth of the Old Ones, the origins of the servitor species, and history was all lost. The religion of Kraz-Vera is founded to preserve what was known, but it is flawed. The lost knowledge would be replaced, over time, with myths and lies.

3,000 YA An unnamed enemy destroys all but one of the Machine People’s planets. The robots respond by bombing their attackers back to the Stone Age.

1000 YA The post-Anteon Dark Age ends. Even the Tuatha, the longest lived beings on Aarde, have had three full generations since any Old Ones were on Aarde, and have once again passed into myth and legend. Only the scholarly Polu have much of an idea of the truth.

## The Adult Era (Current Era) in "Years Ago"

1,000 YA After suffering several invasions by their interstellar neighbors, the Golgan change their society into one made for war, and begin building a massive buffer zone around the Golgan Core Worlds.

The goddess Ameratsu teaches the Oni the secrets of technology, then leaves them, apparently forever.

900 YA The Kreeghor colonize Beta-3, a nondescript world in the Corkscrew Galaxy.

890 YA Beta-3 vanishes taking all TGE colonists with it. It is discovered that Ghostworld disappears every ten years for no more than three days.

700 YA The Human Alliance meets with, and allies itself to, the Noro. This marks the beginning of the Consortium of Civilized Worlds. The new alliance is soon tested by a full-on invasion from the Trans-Galactic Empire.

The Golgan Republik is at its height, with 2000 star systems, including the worlds in the galactic north-east, and a population of over 5 trillion.

550 YA The Koreda Matrix is discovered.

500 YA The first Great War between the CCW and the TGE ends with a treaty signing in the Thundercloud Galaxy.

350 YA The Goruvian Atrocity.

333 YA People have the Forge Dream. This trend continues every year until the present day.

300 YA The planet Ulmore decides to break away from the Golgan Republik. The Republican Guard responds in force. The planet is all but decimated, and the Golgan fear to unleash their military again on member worlds. Tired of being crapped on by haughty Golgan, several Larmac worlds break away from the Golgan Republik. They will eventually become the Central Alliance.

250 YA The Union of Thought, a collaboration of crazed and evil scientists, begins the Voidmaker Project. It is believed that they are trying to build a black hole projector similar to the one that destroyed the Dominator’s homeworld.

200 YA The Koreda Matrix vanishes.

100 YA On planet Good Hope, a revolution begins in the TGE, spreading like wildfire. A Doombringer-class super carrier is captured. The T’Zee are granted probationary CCW member status in exchange for their advanced nanotechnolgy.

88 YA The Randal’s Star incident.

75 YA The fighting on Axis-5, a world between the Free World Council and the TGE, begins. It drags on to this day.

66 YA The Golgan planet of Mekanik is completely evacuated, leaving it run entirely by machines. The Council Scientifik is curious to see what will happen when the computers are left to make their own decisions.

50 YA Pirate leader Jelka Ghensi tries to crash land on the planet Soribu. In trying to clean up the mess, and keep contamination of the indigenes to a minimum, they discover the Great Complexity.

The Rrynncrall Kingdom goes on an expansionary blitz, but is easily beaten back by both the TGE and the CCW. The war ends when hostilities threaten to break out between the two superpowers – they decide it’s not worth it and go home, leaving a few shattered Splugorth worlds. The existence of the Doombringer-class ships is confirmed. CCW scientists begin to design their own “super carrier”.

30 YA The Bushi Federation joins the CCW.

24 YA A war breaks out between the CCW and the TGE. The Consortium completes the Balanced Hammond Drive, and begins building the Emancipation-class Dreadnoughts. These ships are built exclusively within the Human Alliance, at the shipyards orbiting Goldielox. This causes some distress among CCW members.

20 YA The First Emancipation-class Dreadnought, CSS Emancipation, enters service. The CCW/TGE war ends with victory for the Consortium. Several new worlds are liberated from the Kreeghor.

17 YA The Meganaught, launched so many thousands of years previous, returns in orbit of the old Vaast home world (now in TGE space). It vaporizes some Kreeghor interceptors, then disappears again.

10 YA Kotus Point, a familiar black hole, is discovered to have become a white hole. People start studying the emissions pouring out of it, looking for some kind of pattern.