It would be nice to have well written, up-to date, concise, and somewhat complete Timelines for Sirius, various regions, and various factions.
This should:
-help establish consensus on Lore
-create easier to access and more immersive RP
-help noobs integrate more easily into RP, especially if available in items ingame like the "History of Sirius" one.
-be a fun group-effort for notorious forum-whores and discovery know-it-alls
I'd like to ask everyone to post events they know of (found ingame or on the forum) which they know to be established and accepted lore/history, together with the year (or approximate year) they it happened.
Please try to use a concise style to make the timelines readable and effective. Use "facts", not opinions.
I'll add them to the timelines until they are somewhat complete. After that (please dont make up stuff for now), people can add things that are missing by guessing a date they must have taken place.
Please only interesting and historically important events, not list like "Omega 15 was discovered, omega 16 was discovered, omega 17 was discovered"
The intent is to make something which is more accessible, concise, and easier to read than the histories in the wiki.
You may of course use the wiki to pick out the more important events which are relevant and helpful to RPing the faction correctly (avoid useless details and lengthy explanations).
Also please point out mistakes and inaccuracies here.
Would be awesome if official faction leaders made something like this for their factions.
3 A.S - Sleeper Ship Rheinland lands on New Berlin.
5 A.S - Sleeper Ship Kusari lands on New Tokyo.
19 A.S - Sleeper Ship Bretonia lands on New London.
35 A.S - Escape pods from the Hispania land on Crete.
41 A.S - The wreck of the Hispania enters orbit around Malta.
84 A.S - Sleeper Ship Gallia lands on New Paris.
96 A.S - The Liberty Ship Einstein arrives in Rheinland. They exchange Liberty's improved engine design for Rheinland's advances in construction.
106 A.S -The Liberty Ship Edison arrives in Bretonia. They exchange Liberty's improved engine for Bretonian advances in materials technology.
118 A.S -The Einstein arrives in Kusari, and exchanges Kusari technological advances for the Liberty engine.
130 A.S - The first prototype jump gate is successfully tested in Texas.
280 A.S - Trade lanes are invented in Liberty and revolutionize commerce.
380 A.S - The first jump hole is discovered.
589-672 A.S – War between Rheinland and the GMG over H-fuel mining in Sigma-13.
738 A.S - An abandoned DSE depot is turned into Freeport 1. More Freeports start to flouris in various places and attract vagrants, wanderers, and social outcasts.
800 A.S – An alien species called Nomads attempt to take over Sirius by infecting human minds, but are stopped by the heroic acts of LSF agent Jun'ko Zane.
802 A.S – Nomad-infested humans from Rheinland called "The Wild" begin to populate uncharted Omega systems.
814 A.S – War between Bretonia and Kusari erupts over claims to the Tau systems.
816 A.S - Nomad gates built by The Wild are discovered. Rheinland gains proof that Liberty conducts secret experiments with Nomads, leading to war between the two Houses.
817 A.S - Gallia invades the Taus and forces Kusari to end the war with Bretonia. Kusari’s government is overthrown and the Emperor exiled.
820 A.S - Gallia breaks through Bretonian lines and claims Leeds.
823 A.S - Liberty and Rheinland sign a peace treaty and re-open communications.
1 A.S – The Sleeper Ship Liberty lands on Manhattan.
51 A.S - Construction on Baltimore Shipyard begins. Revolutionary new ship drives are soon built there.
96 A.S - The Liberty Ship Einstein arrives in Rheinland. They exchange Liberty's improved engine design for Rheinland's advances in construction.
106 A.S -The Liberty Ship Edison arrives in Bretonia. They exchange Liberty's improved engine design for Bretonian advances in materials technology.
118 A.S -The Einstein arrives in Kusari, and exchanges Kusari technological advances for the "Liberty engine".
120 A.S - Ageira Technologies releases designs for planetary docking rings, devices that lift ships in and out of orbit with minimal energy use, revolutionizing space travel.
130 A.S - The first prototype jump gate is tested in Texas.
173 A.S - A silver rush sends thousands of prospectors on retrofitted ships to find their fortune in Colorado, providing an impetus for the development of cheap civilian spaceships.
185 A.S - Liberty starts commercially producing jump gates.
240 A.S - Zone 21, a secret research area, is created.
280 A.S - Trade lanes are invented in Liberty and revolutionize commerce.
312 A.S - Construction of a New London - Manhattan trade lane route begins.
500 A.S - The Texas incident. Tests of a long range jump gate send huge amounts of dark matter and radioactivity into Texas, decimating everything nearby.
543 A.S – The Great California Drought is combated by bombarding the planet with icy asteroids.
593 A.S - Junkers, who scavenge for abandoned equipment and materials to sell, begin to appear in Liberty.
600 A.S - Piracy in Liberty rises steadily. The Liberty Rogues become the most influential pirate faction. The Lane Hackers are founded by former Ageira employees.
660 A.S - Xeno vigilantes are formed by disgruntled workers to combat crime, negative outside influence, and perceived government corruption.
738 A.S - Cardamine is declared illegal in Liberty, giving rise to widespread smuggling.
800 A.S – The Nomads attempt to take over Sirius, but are stopped by the heroic acts of LSF agent Jun'ko Zane.
816 A.S - Rheinland gains proof that Liberty conducts secret experiments with Nomads, and war erupts between them.
820 A.S - Rheinland disables the northern Hamburg jump gates to prevent Libertonian attacks. Liberty redirects military forces to help Bretonia against Gallic advance.
823 A.S - Liberty and Rheinland sign peace treaty and re-open communications.
3 A.S - The Sleeper Ship Rheinland lands on New Berlin.
4-25 A.S - Cold and dark conditions on the planet encourage quick expansion of colonization into space. Emergency government powers are imposed to facilitate early space station construction.
40 A.S - Planet Berlin's orbital structures merge into "The Ring". Rheinland becomes an industrious, tightly-organized space-faring Empire with a fleet larger than those of the more planet-bound Houses.
69 A.S - Von Rohe's expedition sets out on it's 50 year journey.
94 A.S - Discovery and colonization of Stuttgart solves Rheinland's food production problem. The large fleets and long shipping distances cause fuel shortages.
96 A.S - The Liberty Ship Einstein arrives in Rheinland. They exchange Liberty's improved engine design for Rheinland's advances in construction.
110 A.S – Von Rohe explores Omega 11.
450 A.S - A Rheinland expedition mapping the Walker Nebula mysteriously disappears and is never heard of again. In the decades afterwards, piracy incidents in which all crew disappear become frequent in the omegas.
589 A.S - Rheinland seizes gas fields in Sigma-13 to shake off its dependence on Kusari H-fuel production. GMG wages guerrilla-war against Rheinland. The 80-year war begins.
672 A.S - A worker's strike in Dresden sparks the Popular Revolution and the Emperor is forced to step down. The Bundschuh movement turns Rheinland into a federal republic.
702 A.S – With the expulsion of the Bundschuh from the Bundestag, former miners and revolutionaries become disillusioned and form the Red Hessians, populating the Omegas with the intent to take over Dresden.
740 A.S - The LWB, a farmer's right's organization, starts attacking Synth Food shipments.
780 A.S - A cache of active alien artifacts is discovered by scientists in the Omicron systems and brought back to Rheinland, starting the Nomad infestation.
800 A.S – Nomads attempt to take over Sirius, but are stopped by the heroic acts of Rheinland national Van Claussen.
802 A.S – Nomad-infested humans from Rheinland begin to populate uncharted Omega systems. The Wild are formed
812 A.S – The Wild begin sporadic raids against Rheinland. Their ships are seen as far as New Berlin
816 A.S - Nomad gates built by the wild are discovered. Rheinland gains proof that Liberty conducts secret experiments with Nomads, which leads to war with Liberty.
19 A.S - Sleeper Ship Bretonia lands on New London.
20 A.S - Prince Harry IX, great-great grandson of Queen Elizabeth III, takes control of Bretonian Government in a coup.
95 A.S - Forced relocation of colonists from New London to Planet Leeds commences by order of Prince Harry XII.
106 A.S -The Liberty Ship Edison arrives in Bretonia. They exchange Liberty's improved engine designs for Bretonian advances in materials technology.
129 A.S - Food shortages in Leeds and New London lead to colonisation of Cambridge as a primary food producing planet.
312 A.S - Construction of a New London - Manhattan trade lane route begins.
317 A.S - Rioting of unemployed workers on Planet Leeds sparks a rebellion against Prince Harry XXI.
319 A.S - Prince Harry XXI is executed for treason and the Commonwealth of Bretonia is declared.
334 A.S - The Royal family returns to power and the Kingdom of Bretonia is established under Harry XXI's nephew, King George I, with a Parliament that includs popular representation.
437 A.S - Disgruntled BMM employees split to join the Independent Miners Guild, winning a landmark legal case that grants them ownership of Cardiff mining Facility.
652 A.S - Surveys of Tau-23 reveal substantial mineral deposits. The IMG expand out of Bretonia into the Tau border worlds, shortly followed by BMM.
664 A.S - William the Great orders the construction of fleets to defend Bretonia against increasing Corsair attacks.
690 A.S - An Orbital Spa and Cruise liner arrives in orbit of planet Gaia with tourists from Liberty. The Green Front party is founded and campaigns for Edinburgh to be declared a protected system.
701 A.S - First sightings of Outcasts in Bretonia.
740 A.S - BMM petitions to open Gaia to development. The environmentalist fringe of the Green Party founds the Gaian extremist movement.
752 A.S - Founders Day Revolt in Dublin - BMM workers rise up and murder Sir Edward Graves and senior BMM executives on Graves Station.
754 A.S - Molly separatists publish their declaration of independence for Dublin.
800 A.S – Nomads attempt to take over Sirius, but are stopped by the heroic acts of bretonian national Edison Trent.
810 A.S – Tensions between Bretonia and Kusari rise over claims to the Tau systems
813 A.S - Kusari fleets deployed into Tau-29. Queen Carina orders the occupation of Tau-31 to enforce her claims.
814 A.S – War between Bretonia and Kusari breaks out over claims to the Tau systems.
815 A.S - Kusari forces occupy Tau-31 while Bretonia is forced to retreat to Leeds
817 A.S - Gallia invades the Tau system and forces Kusari to end the war with Bretonia.
820 A.S - Gallia breaks through Bretonian lines and claims Leeds. Liberty redirects military forces to help Bretonia against Gallic advance.
6 A.S - A Shogunate is established by the Hideyoshi dynasty. Having little land mass, architecture and technology focuses on miniaturization and high efficiency.
56 A.S - Planet Honshu is settled. Like Tokyo, it is a largely oceanic planet with little land mass, with few terran fish species being able to take to the oceans.
60 A.S – Vast gas reserves in Sigma-13 discovered.
65 A.S - Planet Kyushu is settled and becomes primary rice producer.
91 A.S - Kishiro perfects mass production of optical chips which greatly influence future technologies.
118 A.S -The Liberty Ship Einstein arrives in Kusari, and exchanges Kusari technological advances for the Liberty advanced engine.
250 A.S - Over-fishing on Planet Honshu causes catastrophic decline in the fish stocks. Majority of inhabitants emigrate to Planet Kyushu.
283 A.S - The gas Miners Guild gains control of majority of the Crow Nebula.
321 A.S - Upset by connections between Kishiro and the Shogunate, Samura overthrows the Hideyoshi dynasty, assisted by the criminal Hogosha cartel. Fleeing loyalist imperial guards form the Blood Dragons.
589 A.S - Rheinland seizes gas fields in Sigma-13 to shake off its dependence on Kusari H-fuel production. GMG wages guerrilla-war against them and the 80-year war begins.
630 A.S - Collapse of fisheries throughout Kusari. Samura Industries purchases Planet Junyo from the Kusari government.
642 A.S - Yuyu Matsuda publishes the poem "Golden Chrysanthemum in Bloom".
648 A.S - Creation of radical feminist terrorist group "Golden Chrysanthemums"
775 A.S - Farmer's Alliance is formed by farmers disappointed by the government's opening of markets to Synth Foods.
800 A.S – Nomads attempt to take over Sirius, but are stopped by the heroic acts of the Blood Dragons.
810 A.S – Tensions between Bretonia and Kusari begin to rise over claims to the Tau systems.
814 A.S – War between Bretonia and Kusari erupts.
815 A.S - Kusari forces occupy Tau-31 while Bretonia is forced to retreat to Leeds
817 A.S - Gallia invades the Tau systems and forces Kusari to end the war with Bretonia. Kusari’s government is overthrown and the Emperor exiled.
820 A.S - Kusari opens trade with Gallia but faces internal turmoil from citizens demanding the return of the Emperor.
1 A.G.S (84 A.S) - Sleeper Ship Gallia lands on New Paris. The planet is extraordinarily food abundant.
2-40 A.G.S - Conspiracy theories about how Gallia was betrayed and sacrificed by the other Alliance nations during the great war of Sol circulate in a humiliated but ambitious society.
41 A.G.S - A group of military hardliners stage false flag terror attacks by alleged foreign spies and traitors to scare the population into submitting to a dictatorial rule.
50-126 A.G.S - The first Gallic Civil war erupts between military hard line expansionists and moderate democratic forces.
162 A.G.S - The moderates are defeated. King Charles I is crowned and establishes his dynasty.
162-300 A.G.S - The Gallic Crown turns the betrayal-myth and the destined just revenge into a quasi-religious state doctrine. They use controlled opposition parties and false flag terror to further their political agendas, while encouraging massive population growth and expansion.
400-556 A.G.S - Common criminals and corrupt or disgruntled government officials begin to form secret dissenting structures within their covert activities. As they share knowledge, the will to end the paranoid and delusional monarchist rule arises.
556 A.G.S - The Mouvement de Libertation Gaulois is formed by secretly dissenting voices as a seemingly moderate and progressive monarchist movement.
636 A.G.S - King Louis IV orders the disbandment of the Mouvement de Liberation Gaulois.
637 A.G.S - The more progressive and liberal elements of the MLG, later known as The Council, begin a phase of militant expansion.
711 A.G.S - A popular uprising backed by The Council happens on Marne, Champagne. The Gallic Royal Forces lose control over the major cities and retreat to their strongholds.
714 A.G.S - The First Strike at Reims: The Council score their first victory in space against the GRN. The Second Gallic Civil War begins.
717 A.G.S - The Council gains control of Marne, and shortly afterwards of the entire Champagne system.
720 A.G.S - GRN forces try and fail to prevent a combined force of Council, Maquis and Brigand forces advancing in Lorraine towards the minefield.
725 A.G.S - The Council's forces destroy Bourgon-Jallieu Station in Dauphine. The Massacre at Gap happens: Council forces retreat after a failed attempt to board Gap station but deal excessive damage to the station and defenders.
729 A.G.S - Council forces enter Languedoc and destroy Remoulins Station after evacuating civilians.
730 A.G.S - Council seizes control of Nîmes station.
732 A.G.S - Council forces take over Quillan. The Crown closes the core worlds down. A combined fleet of revolutionaries seize Montpellier Station and take control after a costly battle. GRN regains control of the gate to Dauphine.
733 A.G.S (817 A.S) - The Council breaches the minefields of Languedoc and Lorraine and constructs Reunion Station at the other side of the minefield.
817 A.S (734 A.G.S) - With the core worlds open again, the GRN begins their conquest: they flush out Council, Maquis and Brigand forces from Languedoc and defeat Kusari Naval Forces in the Tau systems. Council, Maquis and Brigand forces flee from Languedoc and take refuge in Roussillon.
820 A.S (736 A.G.S) - Gallia breaks through Bretonian lines and claims Leeds. Liberty redirects military forces to help Bretonia against Gallic advance. Kusari opens trade with Gallia.
41 A.S - The wreck of sleeper ship Hispania enters orbit around Malta.
41-57 A.S - Many survivors succumb to the harsh environment of acidic oceans and vast plains covered in a species of tall, razor-sharp, orange grass.
257 A.S - After a difficult arrival, survivors adapt to the planet and take longer expeditions to explore neighboring systems. Prolonged absence from the planet sends explorers' metabolisms into shock, resulting in deaths.
261 A.S - Scientists discover that the orange grass produces a substance called Cardamine, which alters DNA to become dependent on it. Maltesians are for ever bound to their planet.
274 A.S - Methods to extract Cardamine from the gras and produce a concentrated drug are developed. Concentrated use of the drug causes euphoria and induces a trance-like dream in which the user has the impression to be in contact with beings from a higher plane of existence, which they say created Cardamine. Side-effects of prolonged use are slower aging, immunity to disease, and lower fertility.
310 A.S - Pockets of minerals are found in Omicron Beta asteroid fields. Ruiz base is founded to extract them.
300-400 A.S - Strange alien beings appear and disappear from an intense radiation source in the heart of the Siniestre Cloud. Over time the location called "Source of Spirits" becomes a traditional burial ground.
400-500 A.S - The minerals from Omicron Beta asteroid fields allow for production of new ship lines adapted to the environment. The Cardamine drug trance is found to enhance design and invention abilities. Alien organisms harvested in Omicron Beta boost food and Cardamine production on Malta.
550 A.S - Sigma 19 first surveyed by GMG. The Outcasts, how Maltesians now call themselves, learn of the survival of the other sleeper ships and believe they sabotaged the Hispania to gain an advantage in the competition for resources. They vow to make outsiders dependent on Cardamine and rule Sirius by controlling the drug.
560 A.S - GMG tries to harvest alien organism to sell them to Cryer Pharmaceuticals and Planetform Incorporated. Outcast wage war to stop them, and start smuggling Cardamine to the houses instead.
570 A.S - The junker base Yanagi becomes an important turning point for smuggle and trade. Outcasts use junker bases to spread their influence, acquire components, and protect their interests.
600 A.S - The Cardamine trade brings wealth and power to plantation owners called "Dons". A council of Dons is formed to establish a unified foreign policy of otherwise independent oligarchies.
701 A.S - First sightings of Outcasts in Bretonia.
734 A.S - Cali Base is constructed in Tau 23 to secure new trade routes and piracy grounds against the IMG.
760 A.S - Zoners found Freeport 10 in Tau 37.
761 A.S – A passage from Omicron Xi to Omicron Beta is discovered. Corsairs gain direct access into Outcast territory.
35 A.S - Escape pods from Sleeper Ship Hispania land on Crete.
35-51 A.S - The arid and mountainous terrain of planet Crete turns out to be unsuitable for agriculture. A famine and fighting over the dwindling supplies follows.
51 A.S - The Council of Elders is formed as a council of rivaling clans and groups which emerged during the famine. They resolve to cannibalizing the weaker groups.
51-450 A.S - A ruthless and violent clan-based society evolves, without fixed laws, using violence over resources as a means to keep the population low.
450 A.S - A Rheinland expedition mapping the Walker Nebula enters Omicron Gamma. Expedition members are massacred when making planetfall on Crete and the mothership "Schiller" is captured.
454-500 A.S - Corsairs begin attacking weaker Rheinland and Bretonian outposts, plundering them for equipment and supplies, using their secret jumphole in the nebula to escape.
500-572 A.S - Corsairs develop a shipline suitable for raiding tactics. The alien artifacts found in the omicrons become trophies that daring pilots bring home despite the ghostly blue aliens guarding them.
572 -650 A.S - Junkers become important trade partners, selling recyclable resources and components and smuggling artifacts back. Corsairs use Junker bases to protect the trade routes, increasing their zone of influence.
700 A.S - Popular revolution in Rheinland causes Red Hessians to populate the omegas, at first tolerated by the Corsairs. The Council of Elders makes secret plans to annex parts of Rheinland, Bretonia, and the currently neutral Zoner population to bring them under their rule.
740 A.S - The Red Hessians become rivals in piracy and refuse to yield. Corsairs assault Ronnenburg Base, starting the Corsair-Hessian war.
761 A.S – A passage from Omicron Xi to Omicron Beta is discovered. Corsairs gain direct access to Outcast territory.
769 A.S - With the discovery of fertile planet Gran Canaria by the Zoners, Corsairs establish agriculture and become a significant minority on the planet.
800 A.S – Nomads attempt to overtake Sirius, but Corsairs remain relatively unaffected.
802 A.S – Nomad-infested humans from Rheinland called "The Wild" begin to populate uncharted omega systems. Corsairs ally with Order forces seeking refuge in the Omicrons so the can obtain their technology.
814 A.S - After building up shipyards and capitol fleets, the Corsairs break alliance with the Order and step up the war against the Hessians and the Outcasts.
620 A.S – War between Rheinland and the GMG erupts over ???
Rheinland had the largest military fleet in Sirius and was paying GMG through the nose to fuel it. Kruger pushed for an invasion of the Sigmas to take the fuel fields for Rheinland, Daumann approved because of the shipbuilding contracts it would generate. Condense as you please.
Other GMG related events can be found in the timeline I put together for the faction writeup. Feel free to include or exclude as much or little as see fit.
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