Timeline

The following is a **timeline** that seeks to cover the major events within the Milky Way galaxy and beyond that have contributed to the rise of the Sternenstaat and its predecessors. Each relevant year will be marked by its standard Anno Domini / Common Era convention followed by the Staat Era date convention, and will be collated into different *eras*.

For context, the current date is **792 SA,** or **3339** **AD.**

## Earth Era

### 1939

* **September 1:** The European theater of the Second World War begins with the Third Reich's invasion of Poland.

### 1945

* **May 8:** The European theater of the Second World War ends. Leon Hahne, ancestor of the great-minded Andreas Hahne and previous *Gefrieter* under the Luftwaffe's field divisions, escapes transportation to a Soviet gulag and hides in East Germany's countryside.
* **September 2:** The Second World War officially ends.

### 2086

* **April:** Andreas is able to consolidate his business ventures within the European Federation and form an astronautics and exploration firm, *Hahne Astrokörp,* with contracts soon being given to it by the European Space Agency for initial spacecraft testing.

### 2102

* Over the course of the year, Hahne Astrokörp is awarded a seat in the commission for contracts of the terraforming of various "ideal" planets within various star systems across the galaxy by the ESA. They are specifically awarded the star system of ECOS V0089+21 and all star systems within a fifty light year radius to it, in addition to astrocorporations from the United Arabian Republics and South American Confederation of Nations.

### 2110

* **January:** Hahne terraforming ships reach the ECOS VOO89+21 star system. They, by right of first arrival, name its third planet Vera, and the star itself as Vera Sol.

### 2145

* By the middle of the year, Vera is given the green light for mass-scale colonization. Hundreds of thousands from the cramped arcologies of Earth and the wider solar system flock across the galaxy to Vera Sol with the help of standardized FTL alcubierre drives. Hahne's territorial plot on the planet grows significantly against the interest of rival colonial corporations.

### 2146

* **March:** Andreas Hahne, at 98 years old, arrives on the planet of Vera.

### 2147

* **January:** An Iranian-based corporation, Viran Ascendant, is the first to renounce Earth's geopolitical control over its portion of the planet. This is followed by most other colonial corporations that have moved their bases of operations to the extremely profitable world, excluding Hahne.
* **May 3:** Hahne moves to personally annex territories belonging to other corporations "by right of Earth's vindication", starting the Veran Corporate Wars.

### 2149

* **June 14:** The Veran Corporate Wars end. Hahne is given control over Vera in its entirety after approval from the European Board of Colonization.

### 2153

* **January 1:** The European Board of Colonization, after an intense audit and investigation of both the Hahne Astrocorporation and the war it had conducted, turns to rescind further support for the corporation on the grounds of intense negligence of colonial welfare. They announce that they will only fund the colony to projected self-sufficiency in 2160.

## Hahne Astrokörp | Veran Star Republic Era

### 2160

* **January 1:** The European Federation finally ends its investment and support of Hahne. However, this also leaves the corporation stateless - moving its Board of Directors to announce the Veran Star Republic as a shell political entity.

### 2162

* The course of the year involves the Hahne Astrocorporation preparing to colonize the future planets of Bresen, Kellemet, and other systems to expand its ventures.

### 2247 AD / 0 KA

* **March 26:** The Veran Star Confederation is formed between massive civil unrest against the titular Veran Star Republic and its corporate overlord of Hahne, in addition to the finished terraformation and colonization of Bresen and Kellemet. Hahne is reduced to a significant, but ultimately neutered megacorporation.

## Veran Star Confederation Era

### 2507 AD / 260 KA

* **November 15:** Leonel Kästner is born.

### 2514 AD / 267 KA

* **October 15:** The First Human-Kizankai War begins with the Kizankai Shimanate's invasion of the Star Confederation.

### 2521 AD / 274 KA

* **August 21:** The First Human-Kizankai War ends in catastrophic defeat with the Treaty of Kellemet, ceding all Veran territory south of Bunmel.
* **September**: Millions of colonists that found themselves within Kizankai borders flee for the Confederation or elsewhere. The current systems of the Confederation begin to suffer from an overpopulation crisis on top of the need to repair damaged infrastructure. The Great Stellar Famine begins.
* **September 13:** The Veran government declares a permanent state of martial law across the country. Bases and military infrastructure on all worlds are garrisoned en masse in expectation of mass civil unrest and possible civil war from insurrectionist elements within the government.

### 2522 AD / 275 KA

* **May:** The Red Spring begins. Factories and universities across the country are occupied by leftist rebels and rioters.
* **December:** Matthäus Wehner forms the *Schwarze Schädel,* a nationalist self-protection unit that would become the ultimate progenitor of Wehner's dreams to come.

### 2523 AD / 276 KA

* **February 21:** Wehner forms the *Menschliche Souveränität Partei* to begin his ascent to the political sphere.
* **February 23:** Josten joins the *Drei-Sterne-Bewegung*.
* **September 4:** Josten leaves the DSB and joins the MSP.
* **September 19:** Kästner joins the MSP at 17 years old to serve in the *Schwarzgruppe* paramilitary unit.

### 2525 AD / 278 KA

* **January 3:** The MSP wins the Congressional Elections of 278 KA in the *Nationaler Kongress*.
* **January 17:** Wehner reforms the *Menschliche Souveränität Partei* into the ***Nationale Partei der Menschheit und des Vaterlandes**,* or simply the *Vaterlandspartei.* He is simultaneously re-affirmed as its leader.
* **January 31:** Matthäus Wehner, father of the Fatherland Party and light of the nationalist world, dies in the middle of the night from a sudden bout of cardiac arrest.
* **February 1:** Emergency meetings are declared within the NPMV for the election of a new party leader, with the voting day designated as February 7th.
* **February 2:** Secretary Dietrich Josten, *Schwarzgruppe* commander Hinrich Eisenstadt, and previous chairman Adolar Fahrenheit are announced as the candidates.
* **February 3:** Socialist riots break out across Vera in response to the weakening of the Fatherland Party and the public's loss of faith in the NPMV's power. Josten prepares his memo to internal NPMV party leaders to address his affinity and experiences with Wehner's dream, claiming it to be not diluted by the "brashness of Eisenstadt or the half-baked hummingbird song that Fahrenheit wishes to sing".
* **February 4:** Fahrenheit addresses the NPMV in a closed-door meeting slamming Josten for his manipulative nature and Eisenstadt for his rash behavior.
* **February 5:** Eisenstadt begins planning for the murders of Josten and Fahrenheit through the usage of his death squads.
* **February 6:** A stormtrooper within Eisenstadt's death squads tips off a contact of Josten about his moves to kill his opponents. Josten responds by preparing an army of loyal *Schwarzgruppe* to confront Eisenstadt near the NPMV's headquarters on Vera.
* **February 7:** The standoff between Eisenstadt's and Josten's forces begins. A shot is never fired between the two groups due to the attempted bombing of the headquarters by anti-fascist militias, instigating an impromptu allied conflict against antifascist partisans in urban combat.
	+ The elections carry on, and Dietrich Josten is declared the new leader of the NPMV.
* **March:** In an effort to prevent Eisenstadt or Fahrenheit from plotting together to remove him from his newfound position, Josten seeks appeasement. The elite *Schutztruppen* and fascist *Vaterlandsbande* militia are formed, with Eisenstadt declared supreme commander of both paramilitaries. Fahrenheit is appeased with a signed contract of affirmation for the politician to be made head of government under Josten in the event of the NPMV's true control of the country following the presidential elections.
* **April 2:** Josten meets and befriends the 19 year old Kästner as the latter joins his bodyguard unit of *Schutztruppen*.

### 2527 AD / 280 KA

* **June 1:** The 280 KA Confederate Presidential Elections draw near, with the following candidates for presidency being the primary of the forty parties announced:
	+ **Dietrich Josten** of the *Nationale Partei der Menschheit und des Vaterlandes* [**Fascist**]*,*
	+ **Isaak Sackler** of the *Demokratische Integrität Party* [**Conservative**],
	+ **Anya Devadhikar** of the *Konföderale Sozialdemokratische Partei* [**Social Democrat**],
	+ **Jörn Mannheimer** of the *Sozialistische Partei Veras* [**Socialist**].
* **June 2:** An assassination attempt is made on Adolar Fahrenheit after he is spotted near a bar in Vera's Capitoline Arcology. His would-be killer is beaten to death by *Schutztruppen* guards in broad daylight, and the reveal of his identity as an anti-fascist and vocal LGBT activist Robert Schutz prompts a massive campaign of direct and online opposition to the NPMV by a united front of the left wing.
* **June 3:** The death of Robert Schutz and the police's slow move to arrest those responsible is but one contribution to the rise of the *Vereinigte Revolutionsfront*. Josten responds in the evening with a public declaration of the *Reaktionsfront.*
* **June 4:** The *Nationale Integrität* alliance is formed by Isaak Sackler between his own conservative party and that of Devadhikar's social democrats, in addition to various liberal and conservative minority parties fearful of the rise of the violent fascist and socialist blocs.
* **June 5:** A group of armed anarchist juveniles contribute to the arson of the Cathedral of Saint Peter. One of the juveniles are shot dead by a responding police officer, sparking the Stumpfegger Riots and the beginning of tensions between the Catholic community and the left-wing organizations in the country.
* **June 8:** In solidarity of the death of Stumpfegger and Schutz, a massive leftist uprising occurs in the Sevilla arcology on Kellemet known as the Sevilla arcological riots.
* **June 13:** The Black Pentecost begins as the VRF alliance of communists, anarchists, and socialists march on NPMV buildings and Catholic churches in Sevilla. A ragtag group of fascist and Catholic militias resist the worst of this violence with military-grade armaments, forcing the government to begin a bill to crackdown on this political violence en-masse. In response to the events on Kellemet, fascist and Catholic militias counterstrike communist and socialist infrastructure on Bresen and Vera, instigating a mass-scale civil insurrection across the Star Confederation.
* **June 14:** President Gerwald Seidenstücker delivers an emotional appeal on television for the end to the evolving violence. In response, Dietrich Josten rallies a force ten-thousand strong to sally forth and begin the March on Kirchhausen. After a brief battle with riot police, Seidenstücker initiates contact with Josten directly and begins negotiations.
* **June 15:** After delivering his order for the *Nationaler Kongress* to set up a new, premature date of elections on the following Wednesday (June 18th), President Seidenstücker is shot by a sabot from a group of socialist rioters that had forced themselves into the municipal buildings adjacent to the Congressional Palace. He is rushed to the hospital amidst this news spreading unchecked throughout the country.
	+ A few hours later, the 280 Confederate Coup d'Etat is initiated by Admiral Petrus Schreiner of the Confederate navy after his storming of the Oberste Festung and establishment of a military blockade over the planet. This is declared illegitimate by the *Nationaler Kongress*, and the nation descends into anarchy.
	+ Josten gives the order to Eisenstadt for the total mobilization of all NPMV militias and paramilitaries on the entire planet, and gives him two orders: capture the *Oberste Festung* and *restore order to the planet under our jurisdiction*. He also orders Fahrenheit to get in contact with Isaak Sackler of the *Nationale Integrität* in order to form a grand alliance against the putschists and the communists alike.
	+ As evening arrives over the capital sector of Vera, Josten and Sackler merge the fascist *Reaktionsfront* and the coalition of the *Nationale Integrität* together, forming the *Blau-Schwarze Armee.* Their ranks are bolstered by the arrival of Catholic and Christian militiamen who oppose the atheistic rampage occurring across the Confederation.
* **June 16:** The **Week of Blood** begins with the conservative and fascist paramilitaries beginning the Siege of the Oberste Festung to free it from putschist hands. Using improvised artillery, the urbanscape around the fortress becomes a fierce battleground as the fortress's guns let loose across the horizon.
	+ The VRF declare a state of war between the "proletariat and the fascist lapdogs of the decaying Confederation".
	+ The Kellemeti legislature declares the planet of Kellemet as seceded from the Confederation. A brutal week-long civil war erupts to bring the planet back to heel.
* **June 17:** Admiral Ingolf Sprecher and Generaloberst Tilmann Lüthi denounce Schreiner, and support President Seidenstücker. Their naval and army forces move from the Kizankai Shimanate's borders back towards Vera, but are twenty four hours away.
	+ Schreiner orders his armada to prepare for an attack by Sprecher's incoming battlefleet. This prompts the various rebellious political factions on the planet to push further in assailing both each other and the remnant central government in a bid to wrest control of the nation unto their hands.
	+ Socialist and communist paramilitaries clash with that of the Blau-Schwarze Armee in open street warfare with the usage of confiscated military-grade weapons and vehicles. Vera, Bresen, and Kellemet all collapse into total anarchy as arcologies become the front lines of guerrilla warfare between the left-wing, right-wing, and government forces.
* **June 18:** Achim Berkel, an army captain, triggers a large mutiny within the walls of the Oberste Festung against Schreiner's putsch. He opens the gates of the fortress and allow the *Schutztruppen* and *Vaterlandsbande* to storm the structure. This forces Schreiner to flee the fortress in his flagship, the *Alcodra.*
	+ Schreiner is killed when the *Alcodra* is torn apart by a hail of anti-air missile and projectile fire. The carrier crashes into a vacated portion of nearby cityscape, collapsing multiple stratascrapers and sending forth tons of dust and debris into the atmosphere.
* **June 19:** Josten's requested premature election date passes as the nation cannibalizes itself. The streets of Vera, Bresen, Kellemet, Bunmel, and other worlds run red with the blood of hundreds of thousands of dead and injured partisans, servicemen, policemen, and civilians.
	+ Eisenstadt, in a fit of power-addled rage, rounds up fifty partisans captured by the NPMV's stormtroopers and lines them on the steps of the burnt Cathedral of Saint Peter. All fifty are shot in the head on live television by his men. Josten becomes infuriated at the fact that Eisenstadt did this without his approval, and the uproar in leftist and anti-fascist violence it causes forces Josten to rush his consolidation of power before his subordinates go too far off in their own power trips.
	+ Josten orders the hospital hosting the wounded President Seidenstücker to be occupied by fascist partisans of the *Vaterlandsbande*. Eisenstadt appears at the hospital and forces the President at gunpoint to sign a form declaring his own relinquishment of presidential duties to Dietrich Josten. This form is delivered to Josten as recompense for the slaughter hours prior, and he uses this in the face of the *Nationaler Kongress* to justify their need to vest emergency powers in his own personage. In response, all non-NPMV congressmen resign their positions and notify Vice President Marwin Schutte of the situation.
	+ Vice President Schutte declares Josten and all high-ranking party members of the Vaterlandspartei as enemies of the state.
* **June 20:** Josten gives the order for all troops in the Blau-Schwarze Armee to engage all government troops on sight. Sackler moves to escape the political void that he dug himself in as many conservative militias go rogue in defiance of Josten's strongmanning of the alliance.
	+ Eisenstadt liquidates seven conservative politicians through the usage of death squads, tearing the fascist-conservative alliance apart.
	+ Hundreds of thousands of nationalists and religious rioters clash with socialist and communist protestors alike against the remnant police, military, and internal security forces on the blood-splattered lawn of the Bamberger Pavilion. Thousands die as the hours rage on as hospitals buckle under the weight of the wounded.
	+ Schrenier's remannt putschists begin battle with the loyalist government forces across the Vera Sol system.
	+ Anya Devadhikar, social democrat candidate, is lynched and left to hang on a lamppost by nationalist rioters as the headquarters of the Confederal Social Democrat party is torched.
* **June 21:** After penning a note asking Christ for forgiveness in his part for the collapse of the Veran Star Confederation and what he was to do, and amidst his headquarters being besieged by a death squad sent personally by Eisenstadt, Isaak Sackler commits suicide by hanging in his office. His son attempts to murder Eisenstadt in response point-blank with a revolver; his head is blown off in reply by a stormtrooper as Eisenstadt receives a gunshot injury to his stomach.
	+ Schutte's residential community is shelled and stormed by a contingent of Josten-aligned military rebel forces and fascist paramilitary troops. Schutte is dragged to the side of the Bamberger River, shot, and his body thrown into the waters - this was at direct orders of Josten.
	+ Several hundred high-ranking government personnel announce their resignation, leaving the Confederate government practically empty. Several commit suicide or are rounded up and shot by fascist or socialist revolutionaries, and several more flock to join the Vaterlandspartei as the last vestige of any true government form.
	+ The NPMV engages in a multi-planetary guerrilla offensive against socialist and communist forces across all worlds. Trading lanes are shut down by loyalist government forces to limit terrorism as the remnant military scrambles to contain the civil war in action.
	+ Many social democrats flee to join the socialist bloc as conservatives flee to join the growing *Reaktionsfront*.
* **June 22:** Josten delivers the *Mein Herz ist Wahr* speech on the Bamberger Pavilion to hundreds of thousands of civilians and troops following the end of the previous day's violence in the park. He urges the general public of the entirety of the Confederation to stand behind him in his mission to restore order to the fractured and dying nation.
	+ The remnants of the Blau-Schwarze Armee are entirely subordinated to the NPMV's paramilitary commands.
	+ Mutinies begin to stir within the loyalist government forces as they destroy the remnant putschists in space.
	+ The NPMV declares itself the legitimate government of the Confederation.
* **June 23:** The remnants of the *Nationaler Kongress*, entirely composed of NPMV congressmen, propose and pass an emergency act merging the positions of Kanzlerpräsident and Staatspräsident, and in turn elect Dietrich Josten to the position and electing Adolar Fahrenheit as "supervisor of the National Congress".
	+ Josten immediately graces the public on television with this news and, on air, declares all socialist and communist organizations illegal and treasonous.
	+ Sprecher and Lüthi fight to control their forces as mass mutinies spread across their ships and troops in favor or in opposition of this new state.
	+ The "Week of Blood" comes to an end with the rise of the fascist, ultranationalist Josten administration.
* **June 27:** What would have been election day for the 280 KA elections. Sprecher and Lüthi concede and stand down, recognizing Josten as his new position of the ***Urvater.***

### 2546 AD / 299 KA

* **December 31:** The Day of the Phoenix occurs, with *Urvater* Leonel Kästner orchestrating the largest political and military purge in the history of the Confederation. Hundreds of thousands are killed or interned as all political parties are declared illegal. In addition, several government structures are reformed via Kästner's executive orders.
	+ Kästner delivers the Summary of the Stars speech before crowds of millions. Dietrich Josten, the first *Urvater* of the Confederation, is the one to coronate Kästner as the first *Sternenkaiser* of a "new **Human Star State**". The Menschlicher Sternenstaat is born.

## Sternenstaat Era

### 2547 AD / 0 SA

* **January 1:** The final purges left over from the Day of the Phoenix occurs.
	+ The *Nationaler Kongress* is reformed into the first session of the *Staatskongress*.

### 2569 AD / 22 SA

* **October 10:** Dietrich Josten, "Grandfather of the State", dies in his sleep at age 88 from a cryptogenic ischemic stroke.

### 3067 AD / 520 SA

* **January 1:** Kasman's ultimatum expires. The Civil War of the State begins.

### 3073 AD / 526 SA

* **December 13:** The Civil War of the State ends.