Since my lazy request for someone to post some kind of Sirius timeline did not attract any expert attention, I'm getting into compiling one myself! Search on TLR revealed lots of valuable goodies on this subject. Results of my research will be posted in this thread.
The A.S. dates will be valuable both for "official" Discovery story and for RP stories going on out there... don't miss anything important!
Starlancer is set in the year 2160. It remains unknown how long did the sleeper ships travel to Sirius, since everyone on the ships was frozen.
2100-2200 A.S. - The Alliance-Coalition War.
2200 A.D/0 A.S. - Eight sleeper ships launch from one of Jupiter's moons. The other three sleeper ships were built by the French, Italian, and Australian armies. However, they were destroyed before they could escape. The Bretonia's starboard engine array was destroyed during the Exodus. Therefore, it had to travel much slower than the other ships and arrived much later than them. (unchecked info) 1 A.S. - Liberty sleeper ship lands on Manhattan. It is rumored that the Liberty arrived first because it launched before the other sleeper ships.
3 A.S. - Rheinland sleeper ship lands on New Berlin.
5 A.S. - Kusari sleeper ship lands on New Tokyo. 19 A.S. (approximately) - Bretonia sleeper ship lands on New London.
circa 20-50 A.S. - A Coalition saboteur on the Hispania completely destroys the Hispania's engines, waking the colonists. Half of them decide to use the escape pods to finish the journey to Sirius. They left the Hispania, landed on Planet Crete, and became the Corsairs. The other half took their chances with the wreck and kept it working while it drifted into Sirius. The Hispania couldn't land, so the remaining colonists used the remaining escape pods that hadn't been used by the Corsairs to land on Planet Malta. The wreck of of the Hispania still drifts in orbit around Planet Malta. These colonists became the Outcasts. The colonists from the Hispania believe that the saboteur was actually a member of one of the other sleeper ships that was trying to eliminate the competition, so the other sleeper ships would be able to settle in the more desirable places in Sirius, which is actually why the Corsairs and the Outcasts hate the other houses so much. (unchecked info
60 A.S. - Sigma-13 discovered.
65 A.S. - Planet Kyushu settled, becomes primary rice producer.
100 A.S. - The Yokohama shipyard begins producing Kusari Naval Forces ships, as it does to this day.
110 A.S. - Von Rohe explores Omega-11.
230 A.S. - Norfolk Shipyard constructed.
250 A.S. - Catastrophic decline in ocean harvesting on Honshu, the second Kusari colony, causes settlers to search for alternative means of survival. They will eventually move off-planet to become the GMG.
300 A.S. - Tau-29 discovered by a Kusari research expedition
- Shikoku-Tokyo Gate built
- Sigma-13 becomes GMG's primary gas production area.
312 A.S. - Freiburg Station constructed.
321 A.S. - Samura-backed coup d'etat in Kusari overthrows the Hideyoshi dynasty. Fleeing loyal royal guards found the Blood Dragons
330 A.S. - GMG signs exclusive agreement with Samura for distribution of H-Fuel. Aomori Station, already serving as an equipment depot for Honshu miners working the lucrative oceans of gas in the Crow Nebula, becomes primary point of contact between GMG and Samura.
350 A.S. - Samura constructs, the Osaka Storage Facility
- Deshima Station constructed to house itinerant foreigners, influenced partially by the strict New Tokyo entry requirements.
376 A.S. - Jump gate to Omega-11 constructed.
400 A.S. - In an effort to curb overpopulation problems in New Tokyo, Kusari government begins offering huge corporate incentives to relocate operations to Kyushu. Samura decides to invest.
450 A.S. - Harris terraforming initiated.
510 A.S. - Kishiro locates optironics facility on Honshu. 521 A.S. - After the Rheinland-Kusari Embargo; IC loses countless billions of credits as both Houses nationalize their Trade Lanes. The massive debts that those Houses incurred are wiped away, and the Trade Lanes become theirs. IC begins moving to cargo insurance.
543 A.S. - Great California Drought.
550 A.S. - GMG's initial survey of Sigma-19. After intense negotiations, the GMG signs an agreement with Kishiro to finance a Jump Gate to the system in exchange for mining rights. 589 A.S. - Beginning of the Eighty Years War between Rheinland and the Gas Miners Guild.
600 A.S. - Collapse of Denver industries, building of Sugarland prison
- Fuchu Prison moved from New Tokyo to Shikoku.
602 A.S. - Shinkaku Station built to provide Samura access to the abundant ammonia, water, and oxygen ice fields present in the system.
603 A.S. - Nago Station constructed.
620 A.S. - Kurile discovered by the GMG. Samura eventually manages to construct a research platform on Kurile as part of an effort to harvest the microorganisms for use as fish food on Junyo -- an incredibly success initiative.
630 A.S. - The impending collapse of fisheries throughout Kusari in 630 AS motivates the government to begin terraforming Junyo using recently discovered Alien Organisms in order to jump-start the nascent ecology. by 680 AS, the planetary environment had been sufficiently altered to begin wide-scale production of Luxury Foods.
642 A.S. - Yuyu Matsuda, a young but critically acclaimed poet, publishes "Golden Chrysanthemum in Bloom". Charismatic and well-spoken, Matusda has a considerable following among young Kusari women who find their lives lacking in direction but are reluctant to become married and fulfill their traditional role in Kusari society. The Golden Chrysanthemums terrorist group is founded.
648 A.S. - Yuyu Matsuda commits suicide after being implicated in the botched assassination attempt of the planetary governor of Kyushu.
650 A.S. - Jump Gate to Sigma-19 is opened; Gas Miner Ogashawa stationed in the system by the GMG and begins full-scale operations.
668 A.S. - The entire Rheinland Navy is destroyed in the Battle of the Yanagi Cloud. GMG emerge victorious.
669 A.S. - End of the Eighty Years War between Rheinland and GMG. Treaty of Sigma-13 signed.
672 A.S - The Popular Revolution begins. This date is later heavily surpressed over the following 140 years, and most of the Rheinland public believes it really occurred in 702 A.S.
698 A.S. - DSE headquaters move to Pittsburgh. 700 A.S. - The Daumann Opposition officially becomes known as the Red Hessians.
702 A.S. - The date of the presumed Popular Revolution. The Bundschuh and the Red Hessians claim otherwise.
710 A.S. - An amendment in the Sirius Commerce Pact in 710 allows IC to establish a base in New Tokyo; Roppongi is built shortly thereafter.
723 A.S. - Battleship Nagumo constructed.
740 A.S. - A Kusari ship hauling alien organisms across Tau-31 is attacked by pirates and ventures far off course. A hull breach kills the crew, and the ship drifts into the gravitational field of Harris. The organisms not only survive the impact, they flourish in the frigid, oxygen-deficient environment of the planet's surface.
752 A.S. - First stage of Planet Ayr terraforming.
784 A.S. - The Dark Matter Storm arrives in Kepler, 104 years late. Among the major losses in the trade routes between Liberty and Kusari space were the McKinley (Universal), Nikko Maru (Samura), and Kamakura Maru (Samura). The storm destroys the old trade lane through the western part of Kepler 800 A.S. - Nomad attempt to overtake Sirius is stopped by The Order. SP campaigh is set through 800-801
- As Sigma-13 gas clouds near depletion, GMG moves to acquire new gas miners from Kishiro to make low-density mining profitable again.
805 A.S. - Yukon shoud've become a museum (but did not). 811 A.S. - James Powell wins the elections in Liberty and becomes the President.
812-813 A.S. - Tensions rising between Bretonia and Kusari. 814 A.S. - The war between Bretonia and Kusari has started. 817 A.S. - Present day (Discovery).
820 A.S. - Year when Harris should've been open for colonization (delayed).
Jack Handey Wrote:I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
Eight hundred years prior to the start of our story, bitter conflict divided all of mankind. A handful of colonists struck out on their own to begin anew - far away from the Earth and its turmoil. Several ships were launched with enough equipment and supplies to give the hundreds onboard a fighting chance - but since the area around far-off Sirius had never been surveyed, no one really knew what to expect. What they found was a new frontier of free-flowing natural resources, unexplored territories, great wonders and lurking dangers. Each ship, representing the clusters of people and their earthly place of origin, settled into different parts of the galaxy pre-selected by their ship-board computer to give them the best chance of survival.
Life was hard in the beginning, but over the 800 years the different colonies prospered and expanded their territories, claiming more and more systems for their own. Survival and propagation eventually led to growth and profit as each of the colonies developed specialties and fostered commerce. As the colonies grew and time passed their connections with their roots on Earth dwindled and they lost their memories of the conflicts of the past. Soon their attention was dominated by new, more immediate conflicts. Feelings of lost ancestral connection spurred anachronism in the look of the great cities, and created a somewhat distorted image of each colony's cultural heritage. In the ever-expanding outer edge of the territories, frontier lawlessness prevailed.
The Houses: Each shipboard colony that left Earth carried some memory of its origins in its name. The Liberty carried Americans, The Bretonia flew from The United Kingdom and surrounding territory, The Kusari from Asia, and the Rheinland launched with Germanic cargo.
As each ship settled and colonies began to expand, they knew little about each other and their advancing development. Finally, little by little, the individual colonies found each other and began to set up trade routes to link their systems for commerce and solidarity.
Today, with each colony firmly rooted in its respective corner of the galaxy, the colonies rely heavily on each other for trade and industry but also compete for resources and new territories in the Border Worlds. The colonies mandate member governments in "The New Alliance" within the Sirius sector. To control conflicts, each colony has forged alliances and treaties with others as they have grown. Competition remains fierce, however. Struggles rage for supremacy in business, commerce, resources, power and control. There can be tenuous peace between colonies' political agendas, but the grabs for holdings constantly unsettle the volatile frontier.
Elder Alexander Cross Wrote:Darkness is a friend, an ally. Darkness allows us to understand others, to see what they value when they believe no one else is looking. It allows us to be honest with ourselves, to express those values that we would disavow in the light. The light blinds us. It is only in the dark that we see clearly, and there is a great dark hidden among these worlds
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