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Great Library (Restoration City) Historical Records
Starport Message Traffic
Dispatches/ISS Belfast Windfall (Lt Arella Newark)
Dispatches/ISS Phoenix (Captain Craig Hixon)
1969 - Humans land on surface of Luna.
2018 - Humans make planetfall on Mars; colony established
2052 - Mark James Gault cryogenically interred.
2150 - Humans discover FTL applications of Endurium
Limited exploration begins.
2300 - Humans encounter Velox.
2380 - Human - Velox War.
2400 - Human - Velox Treaty.
2650 - Increase in Endurium supply; Golden Era begins for Empire.
2675 - Humans discover pre-technological Spemin; uplift begins.
2770 - Humans discover Thrynn and Elowan in pre-FTL state;
uplift begins.
2790 - Spemin revolt, break away from Empire.
2850 - Imperial Code of Interstellar War (surrender procedure) established.
3000 - First Wave arrives (Phlegmak and Numlox). Spemin rejoin Empire.
3120 - First Wave intesifies; Empire and Velox ally for duration of invasion.
3125 - Velox sustain the brunt of damage during several critical campaigns.
3190 - Interplanetary treaty signed.
3210 - Trans-sentient inviolate region (cradle world) treaty signed.
3225 - Akteron Treaty signed.
3255 - Thrynn Royal Marines stem Numlox drive toward Gettus Row.
3260 - First Wave begins to recede. Empire weakened. Spemin revolt.
3330 - Pirates steal, lose Velox "focusing stone;" Velox deounce Empire,
enter isolation.
Empire. Velox refuse alliance.
3440 - Imperial Morale broken by Uhlek destruction of Mardan 2 headquarters.
3450 - Empire wracked by factionalism, infighting. Project Noah initiated.
3479 - Noah 9 launched.
3480 - Earth falls; resistance becomes sporadic, disorganized.
3500 - Arth (Noah 2) only remaining Human Colony in the Earth Sector.
3505 - Bomb hits Arth creating "Southern Hot Zone." Colonists forced above ground.
3520 - Colonial order breaks down, society collapses; Dark Years begin.
3840 - Noah 6 arrives in the Leghk Sector. Umanu and Lowar establish colonies.
4500 - Sub FTL space flight rediscovered
4604 - Discovery of Noah 2 ruins and Endurium.
4615 - Interstel builds, dispatches first group of superphotonic starships.
4620 - Second group dispatched amid scientific concern over flaring stars.
4621 - ISS Phoenix crew destroys the Uhlek Brain World; Crystal Planet destroyed;
sentience of Endurium revealed.
4622 - Endurium ban debated; Thrynn, Velox, Elowan, Mechans curtail use of the substance.
Arth claims limited jurisdiction over the Windward Passage.
4625 - ISS Phoenix crew destroys a germinating ganglion spore on what would have been a new Uhlek Brain World
4627 - ISS Phoenix/ISS Binary crews thwart "Laytonite" pirates in Velox space, paving the way for a
diplomatic understanding between Arth and Votiputox.
ISS Phoenix crew thwarts Spemin plot to invade Windward Passage, occupy Arth.
4634 - Spemin discover continuum flux to the Leghk Sector.
4636 - Spemin discover Leghk technology, threaten Arth with invasion.
4639 - Interstel's Cloud Flotilla sets sail along the trade routes of the Cloud Nebula.
4641 - Interstel ships discover Leghk technology, defeat Uhl; Umanu freed.
ISS Belfast Windfall crew thwarts Thrynn attempts to sabotage establishment of Elowan "Esbhllr Colony" in the Dead Zone.
4642 - ISS Belfast Windfall crew recovers exiled Thrynn, Leghk from Hanhala World in the Uhlek
Badlands.
Spemin invasion repelled by Arth (6-24-42).
Thrynn burn Elowan nursery world Elan (7-42).
Nebulae Ambush Incident.Gazurtoid War begins (9-24).
Thrynn Confederacy joins Arth's Coalition.
4643 - Gazurtoid War spills over into the Leghk Sector.
