The Haunted Stars Timeline
Common Era
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2037 CE
20 /42041 CE
12 /11
World War III
Military action -
2066 CE
Height of the Sixth Extinction
Extinction -
2121 CE
The First Diaspora
Population Migration / TravelFleeing an overcrowded, environmentally cascading Earth, hundreds of millions leave and begin the colonization of the solar system at large.
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2270 CE
Second Diaspora
Population Migration / TravelTen ark ships are launched to ten different systems, but would not arrive at their destinations for centuries in the future, if ever.
Location
Sol -
2290 CE
2299 CE
Solar War
Military actionTensions boil over and war breaks out between the major powers of the solar system. It's a long, and grueling war, one that many fear will be the end of all life in the solar system.
Location
Sol -
2300 CE
Founding of the Greater Terran Republic
FoundingIn the aftermath of the Solar War, the various powers of the solar system decided that a unified central government, in the tradition of the United Nations before it, should be created to govern and regulate everything within, and eventually without, the solar system.
Location
Sol -
2310 CE
Invention of the Collapse Drive
Technological achievement -
2340 CE
Third Diaspora
Population Migration / TravelWith true FTL at its disposal, humanity spread far and wide across the cosmos, with or without the support of the GTR. Dozens of worlds were surveyed and colonized within mere decades.
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2445 CE
2476 CE
Schism Wars
Military action -
2476 CE
Closing of the Collapse
CelestialAt the height of the Schism Wars, without warning navigation of the Collapse became impossible. Ship sensors went blind, and without a bearing emergency reemergence into real space was executed in thousands of ships across the galaxy. For some, they reemerged close enough to a habitable system that they were able to safely make their way to port. For most, they found that they were hundreds, if not thousands, of light-years from the nearest port. Some attempted to guess their way through the Collapse. Few ever returned from their journeys, tens of millions lost to the void, their final fates most likely to remain a mystery for all time.
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2672 CE
4 /7
The Torchbearer Appears
ExpeditionAn armada of military ships exits the Collapse into the Alpha Centauri system, broadcasting a message from a woman calling herself the Torchbearer, the first of her kind and chosen by fate to lead mankind out of the dark ages and into a new age of light, as one unified people. She's the first person able to navigate the Collapse without technological aid, and begins a campaign to retake every system under the Terran banner.
Location
Alpha Centauri -
2672 CE
8 /72684 CE
21 /6
Reunification War
Military action -
2681 CE
20 /4 21:00
Sol Silenced
Disaster / Destruction