Timeline

From Discovery Wiki

This timeline sets out a top level summary of important events that have happened in the Sirius sector since humanity's arrival.

  • Dating in most of Sirius uses "AS" / After Settlement, with the starting point being the arrival of the Sleeper Ship Liberty in New York.
  • Gallia arrived later than the other Sleeper Ships, and uses its own independent dating system "AGS", or "After Gallic Settlement".

This timeline specifically provides information on the continuity used by the Discovery mod.

This varies in some significant ways from the continuity of vanilla Freelancer, for example where explicit dates have been added to events that otherwise were not specified, or dates have been changed to address continuity issues accidentally introduced by the game's original developers.

This timeline contains spoilers for the original game's campaign and much of Discovery's story, so please consider playing through / exploring first.

0 AS - 99 AS

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31 AS

  • Pioneer probes from the damaged Sleeper Ship Hispania are affected by The Cenotaph in Omicron Kappa. The probe prioritisation routines are warped to identify Planet Gammu as a colony site. They land and begin deploying infrastructure using in situ resources, pursuing an unknown objective.

35 AS

  • The sabotaged Sleeper Ship Hispania arrives in Omicron Gamma. A dispute breaks out among the crew and passengers, with half departing in escape pods and landing on the barren Planet Crete. Following the Hispania's departure, the colonists are stranded there.

37 AS

  • Senior Alliance military officials in Rheinland appoint an Emperor, arguing that strong, singular leadership is necessary for the young colony to survive Planet New Berlin's hostile conditions. The Rheinland Empire is created.
  • The colonists on Planet Crete run out of food and suffer a terrible famine. More than half the population dies.

41 AS

44 AS

  • Formation of Ageira Technologies in Liberty to “invent” and then commercially exploit the discoveries sourced from the secret Valhalla Archive.

44 AS

  • The Liberty Space Exploration Council is founded (the precursor to the Liberty Navy). The organization is responsible for pioneering the systems surrounding New York, and devising a mission plan for re-establishing contact with the other Houses.

51 AS

54 AS

56 AS

60 AS

65 AS

66 AS

67 AS

  • Discovery of Colorado by the LSEC Lewis & Clark.
  • Colonization of Planet Leeds in Leeds.

70 AS

74 AS

  • Bretonia heavily subsidizes the accelerated industrialization of Leeds, resulting in a wide array of mining, refining, and manufacturing concerns rapidly developing.

84 AS - 0 AGS

  • Arrival of the Sleeper Ship Gallia in Ile-de-France, and the colonization of New Paris. The Gallia was France’s second attempt to launch a Sleeper Ship, after the original was destroyed during the initial Coalition blockade.


87 AS - 3 AGS

88 AS - 4 AGS

89 AS - 5 AGS

91 AS - 7 AGS

  • The LSEC's communications mandate is split into the Liberty Communications Corps, which is charged with deploying chains of Ageira-produced FTL comm buoys to the other Houses.
  • Formation of Kishiro Technologies in Kusari by Katsuhiro Kishiro, capitalizing on his invention of Optical Chips.

94 AS - 10 AGS

  • Colonization of Planet Stuttgart in Stuttgart, thanks to specialized materials and construction methods pioneered by ALG for the highly oxidizing environment.
  • Discovery of Bering by the LCC Einstein.

96 AS - 12 AGS

  • Arrival of LCC Einstein in Rheinland allows real time communication with Liberty, through the deployment of FTL relay buoys.

100 AS - 199 AS

100 AS - 16 AGS

105 AS - 21 AGS

  • Discovery of a path through Magellan's dense Barrier ice field by the LCC Edison.

106 AS - 22 AGS

  • Arrival of LCC Edison in Bretonia allows real time communication with Liberty, through the deployment of FTL relay buoys.
  • Arrival of LCC Einstein in Kusari allows real time communication with Liberty, through the deployment of FTL relay buoys.

111 AS - 27 AGS

  • Formation of Imperial Shipping on Planet Hamburg, initially focusing on planetary logistics, the movement of Rheinland colonists, and servicing shipping contracts from Rheinland's industrial giants.

117 AS - 33 AGS

  • Formation of Nerys Space Construction in Gallia, to develop orbital industry around New Paris.

120 AS - 36 AGS

128 AS - 44 AGS

  • Dallas Research Centre is constructed in Texas. The system experiences an economic boom as Ageira and DSE massively scale up local operations.

130 AS - 46 AGS

  • Discovery of Alaska.
  • The first experimental Jump Gate is successfully test fired at the Dallas Research Centre in Texas.

132 AS - 48 AGS

  • Discovery of Picardy, after Gallic explorers happen across a Jump Hole for the first time.

139 AS - 55 AGS

142 AS - 58 AGS

144 AS - 60 AGS

145 AS - 61 AGS

  • Colonization of Planet Orleans in Orleanais.
  • The Los Angeles Terraforming Project begins, intending to reduce the environment’s salinity through cloud seeding, and bombardment with ice asteroids. Humanity’s first practical attempt at large scale terraforming.

150 AS - 66 AGS

176 AS - 92 AGS

178 AS - 94 AGS

  • Following the assassination of the previous Gallic Supreme Commander, his cousin - Charles Valois-Clermont - seizes power and declares himself king. The Valois-Clermont royal dynasty is established.
  • Formation of Gallic Royal Intelligence as the king’s secret police force, and personal garrison for Mennecy.

180 AS - 96 AGS

  • The first full linked Jump Gate test successfully transits a ship between Texas and Alaska.

185 AS - 101 AGS

189 AS - 105 AGS

  • The first public Jump Gate is constructed between New York and Colorado, opening its mineral riches to the rest of Liberty

200 AS - 299 AS

200 AS - 116 AGS

  • Formation of Solar Engineering as a research bureau for deciphering the Mennecy Cache. They operate under a personal contract with King Charles III.

202 AS - 118 AGS

207 AS - 123 AGS

207 AS - 123 AGS

218 AS - 134 AGS

  • Poor crop adaptation on Planet New Paris leads to projections of mass famine by the end of the century. The Gallic Institute of Agronomic Research is created to investigate solutions.

220 AS - 136 AGS

  • Construction of Gough Station in Magellan by the Bretonian government. The shipping outpost helps guide convoys through the dangerous Barrier ice field.

230 AS - 146 AS

  • The Boorman Treaty is ratified by Bretonia, Kusari, Liberty, and Rheinland. The Boorman Treaty formally demarks the territorial holdings of each House, establishes the process for making and recognising territorial claims, and prohibits the unilateral militarization of Border Worlds, or the use of military force to settle disputes between signatories.

242 AS - 158 AGS

  • Formation of the Gallic Brigands in the Gallic colonies. They are widely blamed for ship disappearances that are actually caused by destabilizing Jump Holes.

244 AS - 160 AGS

250 AS - 166 AGS

  • Fisheries on Planet Honshu collapse after the redfin is fished to extinction. Unemployed fishermen begin departing the planet, seeking opportunities elsewhere. Some head into the Crow Nebula, pioneering gas harvesting operations there.

251 AS - 167 AGS

261 AS - 177 AGS

266 AS - 182 AGS

  • The first experimental Gallic Jump Gate fails, but provides the theoretical framework for future development.

271 AS - 187 AGS

  • The Bretonian government faces bankruptcy after heavily over-investing into a speculative market bubble spurred by Jump Gate-enabled trade possibilities. Liberty and a consortium of private investors agree to a bailout package.

272 AS - 188 AGS

  • Formation of the Gas Miners Guild following the discovery of abundant Helium and Hydrogen isotopes in the Crow Nebula. The Guild is initially formed to bolster the bargaining power of its members when negotiating gas prices with Kusari's keiretsu.

274 AS - 190 AGS

280 AS - 196 AGS

  • The first Trade Lane is announced and demonstrated with a deployment across New York.

284 AS - 200 AGS

  • Colonization of Planet Blois in Orleanais; these are limited to small scientific outposts due to hostile conditions.

287 AS - 203 AGS

288 AS - 204 AGS

291 AS - 207 AGS

  • Discovery of Tohoku and the Heaven's Gate formation. The visually stunning fragments are used to construct a base which is a combination of state vault, imperial palace, and fortress. Heaven's Gate becomes a symbol of significant prestige and guards Kusari's most precious treasures.

300 AS - 399 AS

300 AS - 216 AGS

  • Bretonia Mining & Manufacturing is amalgamated from an assortment of local companies on Planet Leeds, with sweeping royal charters that grant carte blanche permissions to accelerate Bretonia's industrial development. This is prompted by a desperate urge for "efficiency" following Bretonia's delayed arrival in Sirius, and recent financial crisis.
  • Rheinland’s Emperor Pausbeck accidentally destroys the New Berlin city of Muleheim using orbital mirrors mounted on The Ring.
  • The Gas Miners Guild begins large-scale H-Fuel production in Sigma-13, quickly becoming the primary fuel supplier for the four Sirian Houses.
  • Tau-29 is discovered by a Kusari research expedition.

301 AS - 217 AGS

302 AS - 218 AGS

309 AS - 225 AGS

  • Nerys Space Construction deploys their first orbital elevator around New Paris, a design that will evolve into a standardised template for the Gallic Docking Ring.

310 AS - 226

  • Edison Shipyard is constructed in Colorado for the manufacture of civilian ships.
  • Border World Exports receives a Royal Charter from Prince Harry XXI, making it the primary supplier of the Bretonian government and military, and BMM's primary partner.

321 AS - 237 AGS

330 AS - 246 AGS

331 AS - 247 AGS

364 AS - 280 AGS

  • First Gallic Trade Lanes are completed.

380 AS - 296 AGS

  • The emergence of the first organised and widespread Liberty Rogue space pirates.

383 AS - 299 AGS

  • Formation of The Jacquerie in Gallia, a colonial peasant movement protesting royal excess, the serf system, and oppressive taxation. The Crown launches a heavy crackdown in an attempt to suppress the movement.

384 AS - 300 AGS

386 AS - 302 AGS

  • Formation of The Huissiers in Gallia, a autonomous, deniable spies appointed from the minor aristocracy by the Crown. Their mandate is to root out dissidents, using means the Crown does not want to be publicly associated with. They are later responsible for carrying out espionage missions in Sirius. Their mandates are hereditary, with many Huissier lodges abusing their privileges to enrich themselves through criminal activities and smuggling over the centuries.

389 AS - 305 AGS

  • Collapse of Arcadia Materiaux Distribution following Jacquerie seizures in Picardy.
  • Formation of the Gallic Metal Service in Gallia, after the Crown amalgamates AMD’s remaining assets with other manufacturing firms to boost wartime production.

400 AS - 499 AS

400 AS - 316 AGS

410 AS - 326 AGS

  • The Gallic Crown is toppled by a coup launched by the Valois-Anjou royal dynasty.
  • The new King offers a ceasefire to The Jacquerie to negotiate concessions on a number of issues, including the repeal of many oppressive laws, the easing of tax burdens, and the abolition of the Gallic serf system through defined rights of travel.

412 AS - 328 AGS

418 AS - 334 AGS

450 AS - 366 AGS

  • Completion of the Jump Gates between Leeds and Tau-31.
  • Terraforming of Planet Harris is initiated by Planetform Inc and the Bretonian government. Initial forecasts predict the project will be completed within 370 years.
  • Emergence of The Corsairs. A Rheinland expedition led by Franz Schulman lands on Planet Crete in Omicron Gamma, and is murdered by the desperate, stranded colonists. Having now gained access to his ship, they escape into space and commandeer the expedition mothership.

451 AS - 367 AGS

453 AS - 369 AGS

  • Formation of the Bretonian Buccaneers in Bretonia, an organised network of gangs originating from Planet Leeds.

465 AS - 381 AGS

475 AS - 391 AGS

500 AS - 599 AS

500 AS - 416 AGS

  • The Dallas Incident devastates Texas during tests on a new generation of “Super Gates”, destroying the Dallas Research Center and rendering large sections of the system contaminated and radioactive.
  • Planet Houston's economy almost immediately collapses in the aftermath of the Dallas Incident, creating mass poverty and crime.
  • The first Corsair raids are reported on the peripheral Border Worlds of Bretonia and Rheinland.

502 AS - 418 AGS

506 AS - 422 AGS

510 AS - 428 AGS

Kishiro Technologies selects Planet Honshu for their primary Optronics manufacturing factory.

512 AS - 430 AGS

515 AS - 433 AGS

  • Emergence of the Outcasts, after explorers from Planet Malta detect the Trade Lane construction project in Tau-29. Upon learning the other Houses did not attempt to locate their lost Sleeper Ship, they vow revenge for their abandonment.

518 AS - 434 AGS

  • The Frankfurt-Honshu Trade Lane line is completed after a 6-year construction project.

520 AS - 436 AGS

  • The Kyushu-Leeds Trade Lane line is completed after a 10-year construction project.
  • Kusari and Rheinland face bankruptcy over crippling Interspace Commerce loans, taken to fund Border World Jump Gates and Trade Lanes. Both Houses default on their payments.

521 AS - 437 AGS

523 AS - 439 AGS

  • The Nationalization Crisis is resolved through the Sirius Commerce Pact of 523, which sees Interspace Commerce forgive outstanding debts and turn over Jump Gate and Trade Lane ownership to the Houses. In return, Interspace will receive usage tolls for 200 years.
  • The re-opening of Tau Trade Lanes revolutionises trade between Bretonia and Kusari, dramatically dropping the cost of raw materials for Kusari corporations.

528 AS - 444 AGS

  • Formation of the Liberty Security Force in direct response to the Nationalization Crisis. They have a mandate to safeguard the free flow of commerce, and protect Liberty's interests anywhere in Sirius.
  • Renewed development of the Alaska System begins, with the construction of Juneau Shipyard and the adoption of Liberty's "Sims Standard" - a strategic doctrine of being able to respond to threats from two rival Houses simultaneously.

529 AS - 445 AGS

535 AS - 451 AGS

543 AS - 459 AGS

  • The Los Angeles terraforming project has failed, with the Great California Drought destroying local agriculture and driving elites off the planet.

549 AS - 465 AGS

550 AS - 466 AGS

556 AS - 472 AGS

558 AS - 474 AGS

564 AS - 480 AGS

570 AS - 486 AGS

  • Ames Research Station concludes its initial 20-year study, which is used to create a model of dark matter movements across the Independent Worlds. Periodic realignment of the Trade Lanes is outsourced to independent Heavy Lifter captains who've taken up residence on the station.

580 AS - 496 AGS

589 AS - 505 AGS

590 AS - 506 AGS

593 AS - 509 AGS

  • Formation of the Junkers. Itinerant populations of scavengers begin to band together and form their own distinct culture, initially in Liberty but later spreading to Bretonia and Rheinland.

598 AS - 514 AGS

  • The Gallic Valois-Anjou royal line is toppled by a military-backed palace coup, with the Valois-Clermont line restored. Many concessions made after the First Gallic Civil War are brutally rolled back.

599 AS - 515 AGS

600 AS - 699 AS

600 AS - 516 AGS

  • Formation of the Xenos, a largely grassroots movement protesting the collapse of Liberty’s industry and mining, and reliance on foreign imports.

603 AS - 519 AGS

605 AS - 521 AGS

606 AS - 522 AGS

615 AS - 531 AGS

620 AS - 536 AGS

630 AS - 546 AGS

632 AS - 548 AGS

  • Rheinland occupies the majority of Sigma-13, but cannot secure the territory due to guerilla GMG strikes from Honshu and surrounding systems. Kusari and Rheinland's diplomatic relationship has severely deteriorated over the conflict.

636 AS - 552 AGS

640 AS - 556 AGS

  • Discovery of Planet Yuma in Coronado by independent explorers. Over the centuries, more than a dozen colonies are attempted and inevitably fail, due to the aggressive flora.

642 AS - 558 AGS

  • Publication of The Golden Chrysanthemum in Bloom by Yuyu Matsuda, an influential allegorical work that criticises Kusari society’s treatment of women.

647 AS - 563 AGS

  • Continued H-Fuel supply interruptions from the 80-Years War are causing increasingly severe economic turmoil across the Colonies.

648 AS - 564 AGS

  • Formation of the Golden Chrysanthemums, following the death of Yuyu Matsuda when she is implicated in a botched assassination of the governor of Kyushu.

650 AS - 566 AGS

  • Construction of the Valhalla Shipyard repair docks in Thuringia, in an attempt to avoid the reputational damage caused by lost capital ships being towed to Oder Shipyard. Rheinland has suffered increasingly severe attritional losses in the Sigmas.

654 AS - 570 AGS

661 AS - 577 AGS

  • Hudson is re-surveyed by an Interspace-commissioned expedition, over concerns about navigation hazards and growing piracy in Bering.

663 AS - 579 AGS

  • Ancient alien ruins are discovered on Planet Sprague. Cambridge academics successfully lobby for the planet to be protected from development, with a Docking Ring soon constructed to facilitate scientific expeditions.

668 AS - 584 AGS

670 AS - 584 AGS

672 AS - 586 AGS

  • Rheinland's finances are exhausted by the 80-Year's War. Liberty agrees to a large-scale bailout to prevent the government's collapse. Rheinland's domestic currency faces extreme devaluation, and a slide into hyperinflation.

679 AS - 595 AGS

680 AS - 596 AGS

682 AS - 596 AGS

683 AS - 599 AGS

685 AS - 601 AGS

  • End of the 80-Years War between Rheinland and the Gas Miners Guild, through the First Treaty of Honshu.
  • Rheinland suffers a post-war economic collapse and faces insolvency over its war debts, primarily owed to Liberty. The Rheinland Empire negotiates debt relief and further loans, in exchange for abandoning protectionist trade measures. Its markets are thrown open to Libertonian corporations, notably including complete access for Synth Foods to Planet Stuttgart.

687 AS - 603 AGS

689 AS - 605 AGS

690 AS - 606 AGS

699 AS - 615 AGS

700 AS - 799 AS

700 AS - 616 AGS

  • The Dresden Revolt erupts as disgruntled Daumann and Kruger workers seize control of mining stations to protest terrible working conditions. The Bundschuh are instrumental in supporting the Revolt by smuggling supplies to the workers.
  • General strikes spread to New Berlin, and Rheinland's industrial activity grinds to a halt. The Popular Revolution begins. Rheinland's economy collapses again, due to ongoing civil conflict and widespread general strikes.
  • Masses of unemployed Rheinlanders head abroad looking for work.
  • The Rheinland government falls, forcing the abdication of the Emperor and dissolution of the monarchy. The Federal Republic of Rheinland replaces the old Empire, and signs the Workers' Rights Convention. The Bundschuh are welcomed into the Reichstag as a legitimate political party.

703 AS - 619 AGS

706 AS - 622 AGS

715 AS - 631 AGS

  • The Bundschuh are outlawed by Rheinland’s federal government, and resume attacks on government and military targets.

720 AS - 636 AGS

  • Formation of the Red Hessians by militant miners who have not felt the benefits of the Popular Revolution and can't stomach the thought of continuing to work for Daumann or Kruger. They vow to destroy both corporations, but quickly slide into piracy.
  • Formation of The Council in Gallia, after the outlawing of the Mouvement de Liberation Gaulois in the Estates General. Their radical anti-monarchy, pro-democracy views have many adherents across civil society and the Gallic Royal Navy, who work quietly to propagate their ideology through state institutions.

721 AS - 637 AGS

730 AS - 646 AGS

736 AS - 652 AGS

  • The Cambridge-Stuttgart Trade Lane line is completed, the last of the major pan-House Border World trade routes. DSE abandons their Omega-3 construction depot.

738 AS - 654 AGS

  • Freeport 1 is opened in Omega-3 after squatters occupy the old Trade Lane construction depot. Its success inspires the rapid spread of Zoner / Freeport ideology.

740 AS - 656 AGS

  • Discovery of Dublin and its rich Gold fields. BMM quickly begins mining the system, constructing Graves Mining Station.
  • Formation of The Gaians, initially to resist BMM exploitation of Planet Gaia.
  • The residents of Rüschpark Station in Bering align themselves with the Zoners and rename the station to Freeport 2.

741 AS - 657 AGS

742 AS - 658 AGS

  • Formation of The Maquis, after The Council expels radical cells who were implicated in a Marne bombing campaign with unacceptable civilian collateral casualties.

744 AS - 660 AGS

745 AS - 661 AGS

746 AS - 662 AGS

747 AS - 663 AGS

750 AS - 666 AGS

751 AS - 667 AGS

752 AS - 668 AGS

753 AS - 669 AGS

758 AS - 674 AGS

760 AS - 676 AGS

761 AS - 677 AGS

761 AS - 677 AGS

767 AS - 683 AGS

769 AS - 685 AGS

770 AS - 687 AGS

771 AS - 687 AGS

775 AS - 691 AGS

777 AS - 693 AGS

  • Collapse of Nerys Space Construction. Many of their assets are purchased by Solar Engineering and EFL Oil & Machinery.

778 AS - 694 AGS

789 AS - 705 AGS

790 AS - 706 AGS

  • Kusari reverses a centuries-old policy blocking foreign agricultural imports, due to extreme food prices in New Tokyo. Synth Foods immediately expands into the market, seeing overnight success.

791 AS - 707 AGS

  • The Independent Miners Guild select Gateway Shipping as their primary supplier and distributor, allowing both to rapidly grow and compete with larger rivals.
  • Samura Industries receives a government management contract for Planet Kyushu to make domestic farming more efficient. They reorganise traditional farms into collectives that are forced to exclusively purchase the newest strains of Samura genetically modified rice. Many farmers go bankrupt, as they are unable to recoup these costs while also competing with Synth Foods.

792 AS - 708 AGS

  • The Nomads awaken, an alien species created by the Daam-K'Vosh. A Rheinland expedition exploring Planet Pygar accidentally unlock a number stasis chambers imprisoning slumbering Nomads. The Nomads instinctively attack and subdue the expedition, learning of humanity and Sirius’ fate in the process. Fearing humanity’s superior technology and numbers, they vow to infiltrate the Houses and destroy them from within. The Nomad War begins.
  • Formation of the Farmers Alliance in Kusari, in response to pressure by Synth Foods.

793 AS - 709 AGS

794 AS - 710 AGS

  • The Nomads succeed in infecting Chancellor Florian Niemann, Rheinland’s leader. Rheinland’s government immediately shifts from moderate economic reformism, to stoking nationalist fervor, and rebuilding the Military.
  • The Marne Uprising begins in Champagne, after mass unrest among citizens leads to widespread riots and armed militias clashing with the Gallic Royal Army garrison. Council and Maquis agents heavily support the dissidents.

795 AS - 711 AGS

  • Rheinland begins a program of massive military expansion.

796 AS - 712 AGS

797 AS - 713 AGS

798 AS - 714 AGS

799 AS - 715 AGS

  • The Nomads begin to spread their infection into Liberty, gaining access to the Liberty Security Force through agents investigating Rheinland's suspicious behavior.
  • Formation of The Order by Casper Orillion, captain of the LSF's prototype Battleship Osiris. He and his crew narrowly avoid infection and flee with the Osiris, forming a Sirius-wide covert resistance movement to defeat the Nomads' insidious plans.
  • Edison Trent departs Planet Leeds to make his fortune in the Border Worlds.
  • Kendra Sinclair discovers an incredibly rare live Artifact during an archaeological dig on Planet Sprague. It is stolen soon after by professional thief, Sid Montague.
  • Colonization of Planet Toledo in Omicron Minor by The Order.
  • The Sinclaire Artifact arrives on Freeport 7 where Sid Montague hopes to meet his anonymous client. The Nomads attack and destroy the station before the deal can be completed.

800 AS - 809 AS

800 AS - 716 AGS

801 AS - 717 AGS

  • The Nomads launch an attack on Planet Toledo and destroy the outpost there. The Battleship Osiris escapes and launches a last-ditch attack on Omicron Major and the Dyson Sphere within.
  • The Order activates the Sinclaire Artifact inside the Dyson Sphere, to re-engage the Daam-K'Vosh Hypergate network. This abruptly shunts all of the power contained within the Daam-K'Vosh power network to the Hypergate, burning out most of the Dyson Sphere's power convertors. The activated Hypergate drags the Nomad garrison fleet through, trapping them in another sector of the galaxy.
  • The collapse of the Daam-K'Vosh power network causes the Nomad Mindshare to shatter. This previously allowed the Nomads to act as a networked intelligence, with the sudden severing causing many to die, go insane, or enter stasis. Indoctrinated human "thralls" are abruptly released.
  • The Rheinland Military begins a full retreat on all fronts, pursued by the Bretonia Armed Forces and Liberty Navy. The Rheinland Provisional Government assumes control of the House after the previous regime collapses, issuing an immediate ceasefire and surrender.
  • The Rheinland Northern Fleet responsible for the invasion of Kusari disappears, with the surviving Nomad-infected Rheinland agents instead retreating to their stronghold in Thuringia to regroup.
  • The Barrier Pass is discovered by explorer George Tinsley. He funds the creation of Barrier Gate in Coronado to capitalize on the inevitable boom in smuggling.
  • Kusari imposes a full economic embargo on Rheinland, until reparations are paid and war criminals extradited to face justice.
  • The Order rebuilds their headquarters on Planet Toledo, and begins recruiting additional pilots to establish a garrison to guard the Omicron Major Dyson Sphere.

802 AS - 718 AGS

803 AS - 719 AGS

804 AS - 720 AGS

805 AS - 721 AGS

  • The Houses ratify the Denver Convention, a post-Colony War agreement on economic recovery, naval limits, and joint security. It includes wide-ranging prohibitions on the Artifact trade, technological exploitation of "live" Artifacts, and secret clauses on Nomad experimentation.
  • The Outcasts explore Orkney while searching for alternate Cardamine routes. After the Jump Hole to Edinburgh is found, Kirkwall Base is established as a waystation for smugglers headed into Bretonia.
  • Ichigaya Drydock is constructed near Heaven's Gate. It is initially utilised for the production of sensitive prototype equipment such as Cloaking Devices, under the supervision of the KOI's Chochinbi Special Operations Division.

806 AS - 722 AGS

  • Wild forces retreat from Thuringia into Omega-58. The MND and Order's partnership disintegrates over a dispute on the custody of a live Artifact recovered from Planet Weimar during the operation.
  • The MND begins reverse engineering Cloaking Devices, based on intact samples remaining in Rheinland arsenals, and forensic examination of the wrecked production facilities on Valhalla Shipyard.

807 AS - 723 AGS

808 AS - 724 AGS

  • An MND reconnaissance-in-force into Omega-58 ends in disaster with extreme casualties. As a result, the MND shifts approach to quarantining the Wild there, rather than trying to directly root them out.

810 AS - 819 AS

810 AS - 726 AGS

811 AS - 727 AGS

  • The Red Hessians launch the Casablanca Offensive from Omega-5, driving the Corsairs out of Omega-47, capturing Casablanca and Tangier.
  • A fleet of improvised sleeper ships arrive in the Taus, consisting of the Carriers Hades, Helios and Malachite. The Crayter Republic are the survivors of an earlier Alliance interstellar colonization project, who were forced to flee the Crayter system after their home world was struck by a gamma ray burst.
  • Crayter encounter IMG pioneers in Tau-44, and offer the services of their engineers and military pilots in exchange for resources and assistance.
  • Minato Harbor is constructed by Crayter and the IMG as an orbital colony, to support the future settlement of Planet Borneo.
  • Vespucci is discovered by the Lane Hackers - Atacama Base is excavated jointly with the Hellfire Legion.

812 AS - 728 AGS

813 AS - 729 AGS

814 AS - 730 AGS

815 AS - 731 AGS

  • The Corsairs launch the Invasion of Frankfurt, intending to strike the Red Hessians in their rear echelons and end the Omega War. They underestimate the readiness of the Rheinland Military, and are repulsed after several months of sporadic fighting.
  • The Core are incorporated on Planet Los Angeles as a heavily armed acquisition vehicle, with a mission statement of obtaining valuable and exotic resources from the Edge Worlds by any means necessary. They are initially funded heavily by Liberty, and recruit extensively from the BHG, corporate escort services, and House prisons.
  • A Liberty-brokered ceasefire in the Tau War fails after Kusari launches a pre-emptive attack on a Bretonian fleet it says was preparing to invade Tau-29.
  • ALG announces a milestone in the Sigma-13 cleanup project, with all commercially viable material now recycled. It believes the remaining contaminated or hazardous material will be cleared by 824 AS.

816 AS - 732 AGS

817 AS - 733 AGS

818 AS - 734 AGS

819 AS - 735 AGS

820 AS - 829 AS

820 AS - 736 AGS

821 AS - 737 AGS

822 AS - 738 AGS

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824 AS - 740 AGS

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827 AS - 743 AGS

  • Zoner settlers fleeing the Bretonian occupation of Planet Gran Canaria in Omega-49 begin colonizing the cave systems of Planet Pygar in Omicron Theta.
  • The Alsace Passage opens between Zurich and Cologne, an ambitious project to open a trade artery between Gallia and Rheinland.
  • Elections in Rheinland break the influence of traditional Reichstag parties. Smaller, radical parties are driven into power by discontent over economic decline and failures in the Hudson and Saigon Wars. These are broadly divided into a progressive and imperial blocs.
    • Rheinland Military officers and corporate elites begin to collude with Frederick von Albrecht, a socialite and the last remaining heir to the defunct Rheinland throne. They plan to seize power, topple the Republic, and install him as a figurehead Emperor.
    • The narrow progressive majority in the Reichstag push legislation to legalize the Bundschuh. Imperialist agitators instigate riots in Hamburg and Stuttgart in response, which escalate following violent RFP crackdowns.
    • After months of spiralling unrest, the Rheinland Military arrest planetary officials on Planet Hamburg, and attempt to initiate a coup on Planet New Berlin. The government evades capture due to the MND's intervention, and is evacuated to Thuringia aboard the newly launched Carrier Saar.
    • The Rheinland Civil War begins, with heavy fighting between Federalist and Imperialist factions in New Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, and Stuttgart.
    • The Battleship Karlsruhe is attacked by its own battlegroup, and forced to retreat from Stuttgart into Cologne to escape advancing Imperialist forces.
  • Bretonia rescinds all outstanding Letters of Marque, issuing arrest warrants for any Privateers who continue to launch attacks against Tau shipping.
  • Liberty issues an evacuation order for Alberta, as the encroaching dark matter will soon consume the entire system. Some Zoners refuse and remain aboard Freeport 14. Most leave, and begin efforts to reconstruct Freeport 14 in Inverness.
  • The Liberty Navy invades Bering with the Battleship Concord to root out Liberty Separatists based there.
    • The Hellfire Legion offers aid to the outnumbered and outgunned Separatists. Liberty Commonwealth civilian leaders order Hellfire forces to stand down and withdraw to Vespucci, to avoid losses.
    • Local commanders mutiny, and commit to the fight regardless. The Battleship Concord succeeds in destroying Marshall Station and the pirate den of Freeport 2. The joint defence buys time for a successful Separatist evacuation.
    • Enraged by perceived civilian mismanagement of their military efforts, Hellfire Legion and Separatist fleets merge to become the Liberty Insurgency, and depose the Commonwealth government of Planet Veracruz.
  • The Red Hessians exploit the ongoing Rheinland Civil War to overrun the BHG and RFP garrison of Cologne, occupying the system. The newly opened Alsace Passage is severed.
    • The Battleship Karlsruhe is displaced from Cologne and retreats further into Zurich. To avoid being drawn into the civil war, the Gallic Confederacy proposes the fleet's internment.
  • Construction of Portsmouth Shipyard in Cambridge, a replacement for Southampton Shipyard. Bretonia enters into negotiations to sell the now unnecessary Aland Shipyard to The Core.
  • The Federalist army on Planet Stuttgart is either evacuated or surrenders, over fears continued fighting will spark wildfires that could cause widespread famines.
  • The Order believes The Wild in Drake are preparing to reactivate the charging Alien Gate and establish a direct connection to the Omicrons. A combined strike between the Battleship Atum and the Crayter Republic successfully destroys much of the Wild presence.
    • The Wild overload the Alien Gate as a desperate escape attempt and trigger another runaway cataclysm event in Drake's star.
    • The gate and some surviving forces - including Faust Outpost and the Battleship Embrun - are dragged through to Alberta.
  • After consolidating its power in Vespucci, the Liberty Insurgency launches an attack on Willard Research Station in California, shattering the base.
    • Liberty declares the "Insurgency Campaign", a concerted effort to breach the Insurgency's home systems with a full expeditionary fleet.
  • The Carrier Praia stages a rescue operation to collect Zoner survivalists in Alberta, after their preparations are revealed to be insufficient in the face of the dark matter storm. A handful stubbornly remain behind.
  • The Federalist summer offensive in Rheinland secures Munich, and pushes into Frankfurt.
    • The Battleship Karlsruhe receives resupply from the Gallic Confederacy, on the agreement that it will attack Cologne and remove the Red Hessians obstructing the Alsace Passage trade route. It instead bypasses the Hessian garrison, and launches a diversionary assault on Stuttgart.
    • The Battleship Karlsruhe is destroyed, and the Frankfurt offensive is driven back.
    • Imperial fleets counter-attack and secure Planet Holstein's orbit, beginning the grinding, attritional push towards Schatten Research Facility.
  • The Kusari Naval Forces initiate a build-up of forces in Kyushu. The Kusari government demands the Crayter Republic immediately vacate the Holman Junction and withdraw from Tau-31, calling Crayter traffic checkpoints an unlawful restriction on Kusari's economic interests.
    • Negotiations quickly fail, with Crayter accusing Kusari of intentionally sabotaging talks. The Kusari Naval Forces launch an invasion of Tau-31, rapidly expelling Crayter from the area despite condemnation from Bretonia and Liberty.
    • Now controlling the Tau crossroads, Kusari swings north into Tau-23 in a lightning assault, overrunning the light surprised Gallic Minarchy garrison defending the Jump Gate to Languedoc.
    • A second Kusari invasion force advances from Hokkaido into Tau-53 (Rishiri) and engages Grand Duchy units defending the Jump Gate to Lorraine.
  • The Crayter Republic transfers administration of Planet Harris back to Bretonia, to protect its holdings there from Kusari attack.
  • The Outcasts exploit the Crayter Republic vulnerability to launch Op ORANGE HAMMER, a coordinated series of attacks on their vessels across Tau-23, 29, 31 and 44.
  • The Bretonia Armed Forces begin to stage forces in Dublin, Leeds and around Planet Harris.
  • Kusari Invasion of Gallia begins.
    • Kusari announces their intention to destroy Gallia's access to Warwolf weapons of mass destruction, and prosecute war criminals responsible for the genocide of Leeds.
    • It is commonly believed that the attack is intended to secure Kusari's exclusive access to Tau resources, and cripple Gallia before it can reconstitute a fleet that could present a future threat.
  • Colonization of Planet Carlisle in Newcastle begins, after the bacterial "Clean Zone" is certified as mostly safe. Early colonists primarily consist of displaced Leeds refugees.
  • Bretonia abandons its position on Planet Gran Canaria and begins to evacuate Marines and settlers from Omega-49.
  • Liberty and Kusari jointly announce the decommissioning of the Jump Gates in Kepler, after movements of the Kuryo Anomaly swamp the system with Dark Matter. The Zoners of Ames Research Station remain behind, deploying experimental shielding that had originally been developed for Freeport 14.
  • Aland Shipyard is destroyed by the Mollys, resulting in the worst loss of life inflicted by the movement since the loss of the Battleship Hood.
  • Kusari's offensives in Gallia surge forward, inflicting repeated defeats on Gallic defenders.
  • Bretonia launches "E-Day", the invasion of Edinburgh from Dublin, Leeds, and Tau-31 to root out the Gallic Enclave.
    • The attack into prepared defences suffers heavy casualties, including the destruction of the Battleships Bradford, Grimsby and Rutland.
    • The Gallic Enclave's depleted Edinburgh garrison is facing inevitable defeat - Gallic citizens and officers sheltering on Planet Gaia are evacuated north, towards Gallia.
    • Bordeaux Orbital Terminal holds Planet Gaia's colonies and Bretonian slaves hostage, threatening to destroy them from orbit if Bretonia advances further.
    • The Gaians smuggle a captured bioweapon aboard Fort Monarch, derived from Planet Carlisle's deadly bacteria. The station is incapacitated and remains under quarantine on a precautionary basis.
    • The Gaians threaten to deploy additional samples of the Carlisle weapon on Planet Gaia's colonies, if the Bretonian government attempts to occupy the settlements rather than evacuating its citizens.
    • Bretonia is forced to commit to an evacuation plan, which will see rescued Bretonian captives distributed across Planet New London, Carlisle and Sprague.

830 AS - 839 AS

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