Timeline

2048

• Humanity unlocks its first secret, gaining access to faster than light travel

2053

• Amanda Hawk is born

2055

• Humanity has sent out its first FTL ships to colonize
• The Second Secret is unlocked opening the ability for genetic modification
• At some time after this Humanity creates the Dragon race with the Second Secret to serve as protectors

2065

• Humanity discovers the existence of the Shiplords.
• The Shiplords wipe out all human presence beyond Earth, including Mars and the Orbitals
• The Shiplords defeat the Dragons and Humanity and demand 7 billion adults (of a population of 12 billion people total) be sacrificed to allow humanity to continue to exist.
  • This event becomes known as the Week of Sorrows
• The Shiplords hand down the Directives to Humanity

6 to 12 months after the Week of Sorrows

• the first potentials awaken over the course of a 6 month period

2064

• Amanda Hawk begins trying to create the first circle
  • as referenced in Teaching and Choices

2068

• Amanda Hawk awakens as a potential
• Amanda Hawk receives - and turns down - an offer to study with the Elder First
  • as referenced in Teaching and Choices

2105

• The Pattern is discovered showing that the shiplords will return to exact a price from Humanity again
• The story that is The Practice War begins
• Amanda Hawk is elected President of EarthGov (EGOV)

2106

• The Miracle of Skylark occurs restoring a livable atmosphere to a portion of Mars and reviving the Infrastructure of the City of Skylark

2107

• Kingslayer Shiplord Platform is accidentally triggered
• Kingslayer protocol attempts to Assassinate Amanda Hawk
  • Amanda is wounded and uses much of her ability to save her own life
  • First evidence of Speaking in text
• Stairway to Heaven
  • Home Office connects ground and orbital stations of the Space Elevator in another Practiced Miracle

2108

No interludes

2109

• Process of Failure
  • Indications that shiplords have additional platforms monitoring activity in Sol
• The Walls of Sol
  • Practice Trance/Miracle? Reinforcing the Orbital Stations to protect the residences while still allowing them to be homes and research stations
• Unknown Potential
  • Project Insight discovers the different tiers of Shiplord Fleet and that a “Tribute Fleet” is what is coming.
  • Project Insight determines that Shiplords are not the only aliens out in the universe

2110

• Shadows of Sorrow
  • Ministry of Security finds shiplord platform left behind and determines there are others
  • A team takes on the mission to gather data from and shut down the main shiplord network data hub and the subnet that is observing and interfering with humanity

2111

• The first Unison Platform synchronisation occurs. Kagiso is born.
• Orbital defences fully repaired
• Tombstone platform(s) discovered
• Elder’s Vault unlocked, but is found damaged

2112

• HighTower
  • Siddhartha is born

2113

• Nightfalls - Project Insight goes offline after an attack on the thoughtcast
• Tribute fleet data recovered
• Amanda opens the first Reliquary in the Elder’s Vault awakening the AI Vision

2114

• Kalilah (destruction focus) has a near miss with disaster before synchronizing with her unison platform with Amanda’s help
• Asi Is Born
• Determinations for Asset Deployment in Second Sol are made

2115

• Second Battle of Sol