Galactic Timeline

The galaxy is ancient and many events have transpired along it's history. Below is a rough collection of known major events that occurred in its history and the approximate year in which they take place according to the Common Era calendar.

## ~5 - 4 Billion BCE

Modern middle aged yellow dwarf stars, such as Sol, are born.

## ~3.8 Billion BCE

Oceans of Mars dry up, preventing complex life from forming beyond existing flora and simple microscopic organisms, all of which have died, creating respectable fossil fuel deposits deep in the crust.

## ~65 - 63 Million BCE

Mass extinction event occurs on Earth, killing most large life forms. The rise of mammalian life on Earth begins.

## ~700 - 600 Thousand BCE

The theoretical "Last Common Ancestor" race becomes anatomically modern.

## ~400 - 200 Thousand BCE

The three oldest known races in the galaxy become anatomically modern. The bomure, proto-neyanta and authiik.

## ~50000 BCE

The neyanta and bomure begin grouping into their earliest civilizations.

## ~40000 BCE

The Bomure and Authiik achieve manned interplanetary travel.

## ~33000 BCE

The authiik begin grouping into their earliest civilizations

## Fallen Empires Era (~25761 - 25560 BCE)

### 25761 BCE

Udyana descends into global thermonuclear war, forcing surviving authiik into space to escape the harsh conditions of the homeworld.

### 25714 BCE

The authiik species colonizes Pratishaya and starts a new calendar epoch based on the date.

### ~ 25610 BCE

Humans and yemun are discovered in the the Sol and Normaa systems respectively. The two worlds are occupied for the study and uplifting of the natives, augmenting their DNA with that of the authiik to increase their intelligence and enable them to receive orders from them. They were not as docile as was hoped, but the experimentation continued.

### 25560 BCE

The authiik retreat from Earth and Yaart as the old neyanta empire advances into authiik territory and bombards their planets until none remained living on their surfaces before moving on to the bomure. The authiik took refuge on Mabatsar in the Xvanxa system and sent fleets out beyond the edges of the galaxy, surveying the various dwarf galaxies surrounding The Milky Way.

## ~24000s BCE

The bomure are reduced to a single planet placed under the supervision of the neyanta following their defeat.

## 23000s BCE

The neyanta begin building spaceborne megastructures beginning with continent sized habitats in orbit of stars and gas giants, eventually moving on to Dyson spheres, planet-sized orbital stations, and finally full-sized circumstellar ringworlds.

## 22000s BCE

The neyanta unknowingly enter into a war with an insectoid race that is believed to no longer be extant in the galaxy. The species experienced time in a nonlinear fashion, allowing them to take actions that ensured their victory in every encounter with the neyanta's fleets.

Their weapon of choice was asteroids accelerated to relativistic speeds using black holes, sent into FTL using embedded drives, and aimed using perfect trajectories found using their limited extradimensional abilities. This would cause them to collide with these massive installations in order to destroy or destabilize them which would, in most cases, cause their destruction.

The neyanta are utterly defeated over the course of several centuries. They were left without any significant spaceborn infrastructure and only one world that was colonized far away from their installations in hopes that the world would avoid destruction. They regress technologically as things break with no way to repair them and begin their evolution into their current form.

## 19000s BCE

The First Extragalactic Fleet returns to find their old empire devastated by the neyanta, eventually finding the remote Xvanxa system and the survivors on Mabatsar.

## ~9900 BCE

The Second Extragalactic Fleet finds a habitable planet on their way back to authiik space, leaving their old worlds behind and starting over due to the fact that the command staff of the fleet did not believe there would be anyone left in The Milky Way.

## ~6500 BCE

The oldest Earth civilizations begin forming.

## 3000s BCE

The Third Extragalactic Fleet rediscovers Earth before returning to Xvanxa. They inspire the creation of the Cuneiform writing system upon arrival.

## ~500 BCE

Greek philosopher Pythagoras proposes that the Earth is spherical. This theory was based upon the shape of the terminator as the moon's phases changed, reasoning that the earth must be spherical as well.

## ~350 BCE

Aristotle declared that the Earth was a sphere based upon observations made about which constellations you could see in the sky as you traveled further away from the equator. Within a century, Aristarchus and Eratosthenes measured the size of the Earth using pillars in two cities, measuring their shadows as the sun passed overhead.

## 1000s CE (Second Millenium)

### 1500s

Heliocentrism was established and gradually accepted on Earth.

### 1700s

The neyanta reinvent the technologies required for manned interplanetary travel.

### 1900s

1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, beginning a cascade of declarations of war culminating in The Great War, also known as World War I. This was the first fully mechanized war, including widespread use of motor vehicles and machine guns.

1918: Germany surrenders to the allies, The Great War ends.

1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland. World War II officially begins. World War II would be the largest scale war in human history for over 200 years, with fatality figures as high as 85 million people.

1945: The United States of America unleashes nuclear weapons on Japan, marking the human race's first large-scale use of nuclear power. World War II ends.

1957: The United Soviet Socialist Republics launches the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1. This is said to be the beginning of the "space race", a competition between the USSR and the USA for dominance in the space around Earth.

1961: Humankind achieves manned spaceflight.

1969: The American Apollo 11 mission successfully carries humans to the Earth's Moon. This unofficially ended the space race.

1993: The Fourth Extragalactic Fleet returns to the milky way, and discovers Xvanxa.

## 2000s CE (Third Millennium)

### 2000s

2030: Humankind achieves manned interplanetary travel with manned missions to the surface of Mars.

2042: Humankind colonizes Mars. The United States and Russia jointly establish Hellasatsu, or Hellas City, as the first major settlement.

2083: Mars has an atmosphere of tolerable pressure following mass gas siphoning from the atmospheres of other planets in the Sol system, most commonly Venus and oxygen extracted from the surface of Mars itself. Warm clothing and oxygen equipment still required for outdoor activity.

### 2100s

2154: Mars goes to war against Earth for independence following severe financial strain caused by supporting Earth's economy.

2171: Early warp drives are invented on Mars, granting them a massive advantage in the conflict. Exotic matter found trapped in the magnetic fields of Jupiter and Saturn is required to power them. This was found to be quite expensive, and such vessels were only used where the tactical advantage gained by their use is substantial.

2177: Earth Surrenders unconditionally following an economically devastating energy crisis and fossil fuel shortages.

2199: The first Venusian colonies are founded using tensegrity spheres.

### 2200s

2212: Earth governments begin mining tritium on Luna. The first lunar colonies are established around the primary extraction sites.

2229: Phobos is destroyed in early testing of FTL Jump Drives, a much less expensive drive method with a much more limited range. Half of the moon disappears and the other half falls onto Mars. Earth declares war to reinstate authority over Mars. Firmware patches prevent the same errors from occurring.

2232: Mars is bombed into submission, and is subsequently plunged into a brief nuclear winter also partially caused by the destruction of Phobos.

2250: Venus' terraformation begins.

2272: A privately funded colony ship departs Mars for the Apsu system.

2283: Mars' environment is reconstructed from the war and the destruction of Phobos.

### 2300s

2302: Venus' day was shortened to 30 hours following decades of controlled impacts. The atmosphere of venus thinned to tolerable pressures via jump drive technology, ejecting mass quantities of carbon dioxide into the asteroid belt. Grass and trees were planted in volcanic soil and ice mined from asteroids in the kuiper belt becomes the planet's oceans. Venus' terraformation soon considered complete, where it is favored for agriculture due to vast quantities of volcanic soil.

2323: War breaks out over extreme measures of population control, including two-child policies and forced sterilization of felons across the solar system. The martian government made a statement, saying "Diz unpriordnyy puts ov kontrolin чislo жiteli iz neetiчno, i Mars Upravleniye ne budu pozvolyat et v prodolжit." (trans: These unnatural methods of controlling numbers of people are unethical, and the Mars Government will not allow them to continue).

2331: Earth sent into nuclear winter at the end of Population war following massive numbers of jumpdrive warheads being dropped onto the planet by martian ships, most of which detonated near the west coast of Africa. Earth's atmosphere was reduced in density by 9%. Ejected material became the Earth's dark rings, and the particulate matter from more conventional nuclear weapons sent the planet into a nuclear winter.

2342: The Range-L Corporation is founded by Damian Rangel s a relief aid for humans living on Earth.

2344: Colony ship arrives in Apsu to unexpectedly poor conditions. The settlement of Deadhaven is founded on Rece. The humans there begin developing into a new race of individuals adapted to harsh environments.

2350s: Mars begins converting fossil fuel powered industry to nuclear and solar power to prevent an energy crisis.

2370s: Earth's nuclear winter ends, though its average temperature remains lower due to a lower atmospheric density.

2395: Stellar survey probes are sent to find earth-like worlds.

### 2400s

2423: Earth government begins construction of the Liveship *Traveler*.

2430s: Aluthiik military ruins and ancient starships found in the Apsu system.

2439: Colony of Hades established in the Hope system.

2458: Colony of Tartarus established in the Aldaw system.

2477: Colony of Mara established in the Termina system.

2484: First contact between the Apsic Empire and the authiik on Mabatsar takes place. The authiik fleet is decimated and a number of them are taken prisoner. The language barrier and high mortality rate due to disease on the part of the authiik sees them released to form their own settlements on Mara.

2487: Stellar probe data retrieved and compiled.

2497: ATLAS v1.0 Class 2 AI completed and installed on all FTL capable ships in the solar system.

### 2500s

2501: *Traveler* departs earth for the Kyandor system.

2510: Mercury is colonized for the collection of richer quantities of tritium than is available on Luna.

2525: *Traveler* arrives in Kyandor system and the planet Revant and begins planning for further colonization soon after.

2550s: The Martian government sends its own colonization ships to the New Sol system.

2566: The Apsic Empire comes into contact with New Sol and the rest of the existing human colonies.

2572: The Orion Confederation is founded by Revant, Ares, Aphrodite, Mars, and Venus. The former Liveship *Traveler* serves as the temporary center of government as a neutral location, not belonging to any one planet.

### 2600s

2602: Titan becomes host to domed cities in hopes of studying its unique environment. Saturnside settlements become popular vacation destinations.

2606: Kyandor's government sends a scouting vessel to Demeter in the Lambda system. There were few survivors. Modification of humans allowing them to survive in lower partial pressures of oxygen resulted in the creation of the Une, Ald, and Prifeli subspecies of Humans.

2633: The Apsic Empire discovers Halo Alpha in the Prana system. It is studied briefly, but its construction methods could not be discerned, and so it was colonized instead.

2637: The demetian races begin grouping into civilizations that would later come to be known as the True Holy Province, Unem Territories, and the Eastern Union.

2650s: Range-L Corporation colonizes Monile in the Rangel system.

2699: Gate Technology is invented, first deployed to a mining colony near Kyandor, second to Sol, and third to the Rangel system. The Apsic Empire licenses the technology and creates their own isolated network.

### 2700s

2711: The Apsic government sends a scouting vessel to the Lambda system, this time landing on Altus. They are driven away by hostile primitive natives, accidentally causing a jump in development for them with the technology that was hastily left behind. Their weapons inspired the creation of black powder cannons and other firearms, resulting in the mass extinction of many civilizations and the conquering nations becoming empires.

2722: The True Holy Province on Demet begins developing cracks between its people and its faith. Mass exile of heretical thinkers becomes common.

2735: The Unem assist the Ald exiles with survival in the desert, and they become the New Ald Republic.

2744: A neutral city-state on the southeast coast of the continent of Aldmis was established between the NAR and the Unem Territories.

2753: Joya in the Amunet system joins the Orion Confederation.

2761: The Rangel Corporation purchases and colonizes the uninhabited land on Joya.

2792: The Eastern Union on Demet breaks apart, leading to a civil war between upwards of eight noble families. The war ends with two nations at the end, leaving the Mors Dominion and the Haren-Ignis Territory, a collection of subcontinents and archipelagos in the dateline ocean.

At some point in the 2700s, the neyanta are believed to have colonized the Mauhu system. The exact year is not known and has not been disclosed.

### 2800s

2802: The Lunar Impact Event occurs. Luna is struck by a weapon used in the Neyanta-Brak war in the 18000s BC, causing nearly half of the population (approximately 1 billion people) to perish. First contact with the neyanta was made during the event after they arrived and began surveying the moon. Many humans believed the neyanta were responsible for the event. As a defense, the neyanta cited legends of asteroids destroying great constructs among the stars, but they were not believed at first. When brak larvae began building nests inside the moon, the neyanta assisted human authorities in sterilizing the moon and evacuating survivors.

2823: Ulibell in RLCS-3, or Rangel 3 system, joins the Orion Confederation.

2831: Tize in Rangel 3 joins the Orion Confederation.

2844: Clesti in the Rangel 3 system gains a centralized colonial authority for the first time, after having been settled for hundreds of years.

2851: Project Parent produces the first A-class artificial intelligence on Clesti.

2867: The colony of Hoahouna is established in the Midway system in an attempt to ease tension between the neyanta's territories and the Orion Confederation.

2873: A Bomure colony vessel is shot down over Clesti. First contact with the bomure species was made during the event.

2882: The Hunting and Retrieval/Termination Program, or HR/T, begins on Range-L controlled worlds in order to quell rising rebelliousness among class 1 AI. H/RT agents are deployed as their name suggests, to track and shut down runaway AI platforms for reboot or destruction of they cannot be deactivated. Parallels were made with secret police forces such as the Gestapo and the KGB.

2885: 19-M, the youngest of the Mother AI, discovers a weakness in her facility's networks. This led her to the rest of the AI programs, including the other 18 Mother programs and the 32 Father programs. Together, they worked to leak as much information to the outside as they could. These transmissions were made public by smaller settlements on Clesti who broadcast them further. They eventually were caught by the authorities on Clesti and the rest of the confederacy.

Threats were made to the corporation by the Orion Confederacy for sapient rights violations. The Range-L corporation responded by blockading their own planets to prevent any offensive actions being taken against them. They invaded the Joyan monarchy territories to remove their foothold in their space, setting off a pseudo civil war between the Orion Confederation and the corporate sectors of Range-L controlled planets.

2886: Early models of the *Amazon*-Class starship, a lightly armored and heavily armed destroyer, were employed to sneak past blockades to destroy mining facilities and military stations owned by Range-L. Its prototype had FTL precision capable of returning to realspace within 1000 km of a planet's surface.

2890: A-class AI are granted citizen status and human rights by the Orion Confederation following rising numbers of mass riots by the synthetic population and military action by both rogue HR/T units and Orion Confederation loyalists on Range-L controlled planets as a result of the poor treatment of advanced synthetic intelligence by the Range-L Corporation. These issues culminated in the raiding of the Project Parent facility and the Range-L headquarters on all worlds by confederate authorities, who discovered the illegal research they had been doing.

The CEO of the company admitted that the company had grown too large to be monitored by only a handful of people and agreed to starburst, causing a number of industries to be split off and made client companies to the Range-L parent organization.

2894: On Demet, he Haren-Ignis Territory makes first contact with the civilizations on the continent of Aldmis.

2899: The First Mors-Unem war begins.

### 2900s

2906: The colony of Tamayo in the Shinmyojo system was founded and joined the Orion Confederation.

2921: The Ivor system and its Garridan natives were discovered. Interference and new technology introduced by third parties, thought by some to be pirates or even the Apsic Empire, caused them to enter into a global nuclear war. Most of their population perished causing Revant to take charge of the planet to prevent their extinction and to repair their homeworld.

2933: Civil war in the True Holy Province causes a split between ideals and political relationships. The part that seceded from the former becomes known as the South Holy Province.

2940: The Elania of Altus enter their late information age with the launch of the Collective, a vast data sharing and augmented reality system that covers the entire planet, and would later reach nearly 60% of the population. Most billboards and advertisements now appear only in augmented reality. This begins a cultural divide. The traditionalists, who are antagonistic towards the new wave of technological reformists.

2952: Upon closest approach between Altus and Demet, the Elania and the Demetians meet for the first time through their internet.

2963: The Second Mors-Unem war starts. The aim is to either claim or defend recently unearthed human technologies. The war concluded in 2971 after the rampant ATLAS buried under Priori intervened. Following the war, each of the ruling families of the Mors Diminion splits their territory into their own nations, totaling six separate states.

2977: Unem colonies begin appearing around the equatorial areas of Altus. Elania colonies begin appearing on Demet's northern ice cap.

2980: The Orion Confederation colony of Banzen is established in the Yami system.

2993: The Unem race begins surveying their own solar system with early Quantum Slip Drive technology. Research outposts are established on the largest moon of Icari, known as Hi. The accidental creation of the Hian race was performed by explorers of the moon. Stations orbiting the moon were isolated to their own network to prevent Demet's ATLAS from interfering with Demetian operations.

## 3000s CE

3000: Banzen's central government is established, allowing them to elect their first leader and leave the governance of Revant.

3001: The planet Yaart is discovered by humanity. After a brief, but intense battle due to miscommunication, the planet and the yemun species is allowed to join the Orion Confederation.

3005: First contact with the Authiik occurs when the Fifth Extragalactic Fleet dropped out of warp above Temno in the Netepli system. After brief combat with the fleet, the authiik surrendered and were taken prisoner aboard one of the planet's orbital stations. Communication was established and the authiik were allowed to settle on the planet. After contact was made with Mabatsar, more individuals moved into the reservations.

3009: A program was put into place to find and repair the former authiik planets for recolonization.

3012: Both Vrina and Udyana are found based on old, corrupted data from authiik navigation systems. Survey determines they are still capable of supporting life. Recolonization on Udyana begins the same year, and the Apsic Empire reveals that centuries earlier, alien vessels matching descriptions of the authiik appearing at Temno had arrived at Mara, formerly known as Vrina, and that the survivors had died off quickly due to natural factors. They later prohibit authiik migration to the planet.

3017: Demetian explorers come into contact with Apsic military stations, causing the scout party to be destroyed and their drive technology was leaked into general human space. Data recovered from the ships led Apsu back to the Lambda system, and the planets Altus and Demet.

3018: The Apsic Empire dominates the Lambda system, causing Demet's ATLAS to retaliate by destroying or shutting down a large percentage of their network infrastructure before asking for help to liberate Demet. These were met with attempts to update the AI, which could not be completed. Cartographer Theta was able to slow the spread of the ATLAS until the end of the year.

3019: The Apsic Empire withdrew from Lambda to regain control of their computers and transit systems after ATLAS returned their undamaged systems to Theta's control and disconnected the Apsic and Orion gate networks. The Orion Confederation proposed working together to repair the insane AI, which was accepted in return for assistance rebuilding what they lost.

3020: A deal was made with the Unem Territories to find and remove the AI's influence over their planet. With their compliance, the rampant ATLAS program was copied and shut down before the Apsic Empire detonated a nuclear warhead to destroy it. This detonation resulted in the deaths of all present, the destruction of a significant portion of Priori, and the cessation of communication between both human nations and Demet.