Slower than light (STL) colony ships launched from Earth containing frozen people and embryos.
History of the Known Worlds
It's impossible to tell the history of the known worlds without focusing on Earth.
Old Earth Reckoning
0 OER 2800 NER
Before linkup
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2073 OER
2200 OER
STL colony ships launched from Earth
Population Migration / Travel -
2250 OER
2700 OER
Human STL colonization of Orion Arm
Population Migration / TravelThe six colony ships arrived at their various homes during this time.
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2500 OER
Tazanians discover FTL travel
Technological achievement -
2800 OER
Link-Up
Technological achievementCanopans discover a way to keep people alive in hyperspace and link-up with other human planets.
New Era Reckoning
2800 NER and beyond
Time after Linkup
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0 NER
Link-Up
Technological achievementCanopans discover a way to keep people alive in hyperspace and link-up with other human planets.
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10 NER
80 NER
Coalition Wars
Military actionThe backlash against that loss of supremacy was not difficult to predict, and it soon sparked the Coalition Wars. Technically a number of small, regional conflicts among worlds no more than 100 parsecs from Sol, which is roughly 326 light years. The Coalition Wars were the only significant interstellar civil conflict among humans.
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100 NER
FTL hyperdrive saturation of Known Worlds
Population Migration / Travel