Synopsis

## Timeline

* Date of Start (C4): 1117 PrFS, October 11
* Part 2 (NCC) starts 1122 PoFS.
* Part 3 (TB) starts 2950 PoTS.
* Part 4 (CFD) starts 1126 PoFS. (2nd Shift occurs during)
* Part 5 (MR) starts 2955 PoTS.
* Part 6 (AP) starts 2959 PoTS.
* Part 7 (AI) starts 2962 PoTS.
* Part 8 (MAUS) starts 2965 PoTS.
* The chapter part 9 (CBR) starts 2971 PoLS.

9 years between parts 1 and 4. Time skips into the future 1,828 years from part 2 for part 3.

* Panagiotis is born 2939 PoTS
* Sunny is born 1103 PrFS

There is a 1,836-year difference between them. In this scenario the time flow alteration is disregarded. Between parts 4 and 5 during the time skip, the following events occurred: The 3.5 Plane Shift occurs and Upside & Downside are swapped without "shifting the planes" legitimately. The time flow is split: Downside inhabitants' (previously Upside) time is frozen. Time stays still. Upside inhabitants (previously Downside) continues with the flow of time. This causes Sunny and all related to seem much older than Panagiotis and all related though the real gap is not as large: dates of birth and etc. are kept the same regardless of time flow. The Second War begins, originating in the Upside and trailing to the Downside where it makes a larger impact than in the Upside. The Muskrat Ramble is started.

While the start date of Muskrat Ramble is 2955, 22 years after the start of Cascade Fall Down, the time gap is much larger due to the time stall. This time gap would amount to 43 years as opposed to 22, as the time stall lasted 21 years. Panagiotis's age remains the same while the previous main cast continued with the flow of time as usual.

Panagiotis dies during MAUS. The year is 2966 PoTS/PoLS. He is 27 years old and has lived for 48.

## Run-down

Squad 29 was part of the first ever wave of Pilots, V1, created by the Henetian Republic to research, catalog, protect, and serve. A total of 30 squads were inaugurated into the program as the first Pilots ever. These 30 squads made in total approximately 200 people, and was the first program that enforced biological equality, allowing System Ones and System Twos to work with Monsters and those of all races, from all Rooms all access the System. The first ‘slogan’ of the Pilot Association, kickstarted by psuedo-politician and leader in social sciences Josephine Engels in 1117 PrFS, was ‘All That Matters Is The Moment’. The slogan seemed rather odd relating to the purpose of the Association, but was quickly adopted by the younger generation, becoming the topic of a new rise of street art (large graffiti murals came up in alleys and on the sides of building sporting the text ‘All That Matters Is The Moment’, ‘ATMITM’, or ‘Atmitem’) and the interest of the younger generations. The program also was, unlike any major establishment before, of the time, and of the future, bias-free. Engels, founder of the Association, sought for such a program and chose those who came to work at the Association by hand as well as being present at the induction of every newfangled Pilot and had the most major word in the choosing of such members. Her Pilot Association’s first thirty squads included those of all races and species, abilities, thought, build, et cetera. It was the first truly ‘equal’ establishment ever brought about in any of the Main Rooms and would be the only for many, many years.

The subject of the story for parts 1,2, and 4 is Sunny, introduced at 14. He is inducted as Pilot Captain of Squad 29, where during the first twenty chapters the following members are accumulated: Scout French, Astor King, Ash Impala, Yvonne Cet Lindroth, Rocco Poe, and 10cc. (Ash Impala and another squad member, Alafoss, are never pictured in the same panel nor are they pictured interacting with each other, though it is made to seem like they are in the same squad at the same time. However, after Ash leaves using his modification to remove himself from memory, Alafoss becomes his replacement as if Alafoss has always been there and Ash had not. After Ash does this, he is never pictured again and his departure is not mentioned whatsoever.)

Upon the introduction of Aviator, the Paperbird posing as System One (though very quickly creates the unintentional delusion in himself that he is in fact System One, though his ‘posing’ as System One was never for harm originally), the dynamic between Scout French, Sunny, and Aviator is introduced as the Captain-Liutenant-Outsider half of the squad, though the rest are no less important.

After the First Shift occurs, felt drastically by the squad though not knowing what it is, the course shifts to the Planes (rooms) ruled by The King. Having been tossed around and stripped of virtually their every belonging, Sunny, Scout, and Aviator’s sole identification are the small tattoos at the base of their thumbs, two letters, either AT, MI, or TM (Aviator, Sunny, and Scout respectively.) The other squad members have nothing but the contents of their minds. They become known to the citizens of the Planes as the band of travelers. Soon, as a dire threat ravages the lands, they are knighted after defeating the evil and securing the land as is true to their code of honour. A coat of armour is fashioned for each, of which the helmets become their staple. The King states his indebtedness to the ‘travellers’, now the ‘Knights’.

The members of Squad 29, for the rest of their lives and position as Pilots, continue sporting the armour with honour, the helmets as the staple of their being, even as they continue across the System, back to the Republic, and on missions.