by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Construction of a massive fleet by Pulse, Progenitus, and some IRPF begins, with the intent of attacking the Ruby Spire. TTI, which has faded into the background recently, strongly discourages this “plan.” Some people see this as MarsCo finally waking up....
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Disruptive technology company “Lumen” breaks into Terra at the speed of light. Maybe a little faster than. Breakdowns in the Status Quo follow as MarsCo faces its first legitimate threat in 700 years: life-changing technology that they have no control...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Once a proponent of exploration of the Whisperwerk Spire on Terra, TTI largely plays down that idea as the century winds to a close. Traffic near Europa is regulated more tightly. Date: 690 AE, estimated. This period is a hazy “in the years leading up to the...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Dr. Gelic Saan attempts to “Vector” a nymph, and and is eaten by his creation. Within a month, an “Exonymph” colony begins in a Venusian ocean lab. Nymphs are a common constructed life form across all of Sol, a sort of biological computer to...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Attacks on BlueSky station “Longbow” by its owners, a long-forgotten budding megacorp, leave the station abandoned—inhabitable, but unmarketable. Laterals who wish to live a feral lifestyle colonize it later, creating a grotto that sensationalist media...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
A massive spire is constructed of the strange organic crystal “Whisperwerk,” bridging and locking together Terra and Luna. About 1/3 of Terra is stained red. Somehow the spire has its own atmosphere, physics in the Luna-Terra zone are...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
As the darkness of the Whisper Era fades, Ganymede and Europa rebuild their relations. Ganymede finds balance between its covered domes and its tribal culture. Some of this may be a result of MarsCo taking over Stellarum, and Big M’s stabilizing presence. Date:...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
TTI goes public with its signature product, the reality-warping Transcendent Implants. Date: AE 550, canon timeline
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
After some slow time, the lanes between Mars and Venus are open for business. IRPF has planted “crabtrap” satellites in Terra’s orbital zone. New trade routes opening. Date: 546 AE, estimated from the general description of events in the mid-500s in...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Construction begins on the Spear of Heaven, a Bonewerk tower on Europa bigger than several cities. Date: 540 AE, canon timeline
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Felidae rallies its members against a common enemy (the rabbits). Five years of cold war and six months of hot. Cats feel vaguely guilty for the next 50 years or so. Date: 510, heavily estimated. The original mention of this was in Core Extended in the write-up of the...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Interplanetary shipyard and Bluesky construction firm Stellarum is reabsorbed by MarsCo, the recession and post-whisper mood don’t favor luxury and travel. Date: 513 AE, uncertain. Closely tied to the Whisper attack on Mars and the recession/travel restrictions...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
TTI announces the capture of a Whisper, and rapidly ascends to megacorp status. Date: “Several months after the whisper attacks.” The full story of the captured whisper is a major element of Sound and Silence and informs all of TTI’s storyline from...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Study of the Whisper phenomenon shows that it isn’t a viral infection. Travel bans are lifted, and life in Sol returns to what would be the new, post-Whisper normal. The beginning of the end of the whisper recession, though echoes linger even as long as 600...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Sightings and contact with Palemen occur around Mars. Over the next few decades awareness of a permanent Paleman population begins to form as IRPF connects the dots. There is an expansion of Paleman activity around this point, and the exact timeline is a bit hazy, but...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Earth and Luna quarantine zone established after Whisper attacks on Earth and Mars.
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
For about a decade, ripples of the loss of Luna spread across Sol. MarsCo pulls its strings. Traffic between worlds is drastically reduced, even banned. The Jovian colonies suffer as their supply lines are broken, and many corporations that are dependent on...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Mission launched to Earth. Data and records captured from strangely lifeless world. “Pale Man” attack destroys many. Months later, crew returning to Luna unleash a plague of monsters somehow hidden in their blood. Luna Colony is quarantined and destroyed...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
A ship launched from Earth explodes while leaving Terran space. A new interest in exploring Terra begins. This may have been an attempt by the Paleman race to flee a new force developing on Terra, and is more or less concurrent with the Whisper threat. However,...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Mars’s smaller moon is accidentally destroyed to make way for an interplanetary bypass. A bluesky station, “For Deimos,” is created in its place (metaphorically speaking, the original moonlet was a huge distance away.
