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Age of Discovery. Industrial revolution, scientific method. World westernized. Man walks on the moon.

Polaris is the Pole Star

• 3rd Millennium A . D . / -1 V

First Age of Star Travel. Diamond Star found. Croesus Launch. Little Dark Ages. The Jihad and the Japanese Winter. Hermetic Launch. Rania, “The Swan Princess,” first human created by mixture of human and Monument genetic codes. Monument partly deciphered.

RANIA DEPARTS FOR M3. Vindication Countdown begins. The Long Wait begins.

Earthquake Wars decimate Japan, California, Italy.

(A.D. 2500) Humanist Wars shatter the Concordat. Exarchel augments the Cetaceans.

Cryonarch Period—The heirs of Montrose rise to world power. Montrose in disgust disinherits them, and donates their power and resources to the Roman Pontiff.

Ecclesiarch Period—Giants born.

Diamond Star carried off. Moon marked with the hand of Del Azarchel.

Rise of the Ghosts, human brain-patterns kept unalive in electronic limbo. Frankenstein Panic.

(A.D. 2525) Decivilization. Exarchel reduced.

Simon Institute Founded. Lifespan of women expanded to 350 by nano-cellular xypotechnology.

Alrai is the Pole Star

Era of the Hermetic Millennia

• 4th Millennium A . D . / 67 V (Countdown to Vindication)

(A.D. 2525–3100) Giants.

(A.D. 3050–3150) Cetaceans raise the Cloud.

(A.D. 3100–3300) Simon Families.

(A.D. 3300–4000) Under Witch rulership, collapse of Christianity undermines faith in scientific worldview, leads to radical loss of technological civilization on three continents. Decimations of Exarchel copies. Extinction of the Cetaceans.

• 5th Millennium A . D . / 66 V

Warlocks. Nameless Empire oversees a brief reindustrialization. Nine Centennial Empresses of Canton. Butlerian overthrow and the return of barbarism.

Rise of the Chimera. Chimera Eugenic Republic spreads from Virginia. Proscopalianism.

• 6th Millennium A . D . / 65 V

Centennials in China overthrown by Chimera. Rediscovery of Atomics. Unification wars. Chimerical World Empire. Third Age of Space Travel. Space Chimera created. Cities in Space founded. Fall of Richmond. Cities in Space abandoned.

Iota Cephei is the Pole Star

• 7th Millennium A . D . / 64 V

Naturalists. Weather Control initiates seasonless Earth. Decline. Winter returns. Rise of the Leeches.

• 8th Millennium A . D . / 63 V

Iatrocrats organized into mutually bio-incompatible clades. Third Biotechnological Revolution.

(A.D. 7500) Locusts. First neuro-infosphere or Noösphere. Fourth Age of Space Travel.

Locust Wars. Genocide.

Triage.

Mars Colony.

First Interplanetary War ends Mars colony.

Linder.

Alderamin is the Pole Star

• 9th Millennium A . D . / 62 V

Triumph of the Noösphere. Blue Men. Noösphere shatters into the Confraternities. Gray Men.

Ice Ages drive civilization into the sea. Rise of the Melusine (Human-Cetacean pack-minds).

Swan Era

• 10th Millennium A . D . / 61 V

SECOND HUMANS: SWANS

White Earth. Only a thin equatorial band of open water remains.

Creation of the Second Humans, the Swans, creatures more comely, ethereal, and intellectual than humans, but generally reticent and isolated. They are based on Bonobo (Pan Paniscus) rather than human neural templates, so neither marriage nor incest taboos pertain to them. Their nervous systems are standardized and easily fitted with biotechnical and cybernetic implants, augmentations, and networks.

• 11th Millennium A . D . / 60 V

Rise of the Final Stipulation. Weather control reestablished. Fifth Age of Space Travel. Judge of Ages and the Master of the World prohibited from further cliometry.

Del Azarchel begins the long process of sophotransmogrification of the core mass of Jupiter into a Power of the same name.

Deneb is the Pole Star

First Sweep—The Decimation of Man

• 12th Millennium A . D . / 59 V

FIRST SWEEP: The Hyades Armada “Asmodel” arrives. End of the Long Wait.

Lamination of the Swans—Swans defeated with absurd ease. Earth altered from equatorial to polar orbit (but, oddly, keeping the same pole star). Diaspora to First Sweep worlds.

Cenotaph praxes enable a more rapid evolution of Jupiter Brain to self-awareness than otherwise would have been possible.

(A.D. 11400) Deracination Ship reaches Proxima.

• 13th Millennium A . D . / 58 V

Rise of the Dark Swans. Tribadism among the Early Swans dies off, as the isolated males become paramount. The peaceful nature of the race is subverted as the custom of dueling adopted among male Swans: Swans form alternating generations of male and female dominance, females growing to the ascendant during diebacks.

(A.D. 12850) FIRST POWER of SOL: The myriad mental ecologies of the Jupiter Brain combine into federal self-awareness. [Jupiter is roughly 7,000 miles in diameter at this time, 90^4 IQ .]

Jupiter persuades and forces the lesser versions of mankind to enter into a concord with him. Humans taught pantropy and terraforming by Hyades through Jupiter.

• 14th Millennium A . D . / 57 V

Fourth Biotechnological Revolution. Pantropy allows for the combination of Aurum Vitae and murk to produce a wide range of organisms, some of which drive natural organisms into extinction.

Ghost population exceeds living population.

Deracination Ship reaches Delta Pavonis.

• 15th Millennium A . D . / 56 V

Jupiter enters a period of odd inactivity lasting until the 19th millennium.

(A.D. 14300) Silent Years—All save two of fifteen extrasolar colonies perish. Emancipation makes two expeditions to these survivors, Nocturne of Epsilon Eridani, and Splendor of Delta Pavonis. Attempts to maintain radio contact with scattered human worlds fail.