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Chronicle: from Earth to AZ884
Four centuries on one timeline: the Mars Compact, the fold jump, the Colonial Authority, the Pack Wars and the road to AZ884.
Today is October 20, 2438. It has been a long way to get here. This chronicle sums up what every colonist learns at the academy, plus a few things the academy prefers not to mention.
Earth grows too small
In the 21st century Earth's resources were no longer enough for everyone. Humanity moved out, first to the Moon, then to Mars. Research stations became cities, and cities became states.
Timeline
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 2071 | New Tharsis becomes the first permanent city on Mars |
| 2096 | Treaty of Tharsis: Earth, Mars, the lunar cities and later Ceres and the Jovian moons found the Mars Compact |
| 2163 | Physicist Dr. Ilse Varenkamp jumps eleven light years in nine minutes aboard the "Kepler Rider". The fold jump is born |
| 2170 to 2200 | The Golden Chaos: corporations and fortune hunters settle wherever they like, and many colonies perish |
| 2204 | Grand Admiral Aldric Severin Mahrkoven founds the Colonial Authority (The Colonial Authority) |
| 2210 to 2290 | Probe swarms survey the Azimuth Zone and number a thousand worlds from AZ001 to AZ999 |
| 2212 | Hadria Monvellier founds the District Bank of SpaceInvasion on Ceres (District Bank of SpaceInvasion) |
| 2318 | Kryptonite is found for the first time on AZ214. Fusion plants with kryptonite cores change everything |
| 2351 to 2363 | The Pack Wars: breakaway colonies of the "Free Pack" fight the Compact and lose |
| 2390 | Benedikta Ignatia Krahl is born on the Saint Florian convent station (The General) |
| 2401 | (Dschi) |
| 2419 | The probe Vigil-7 reports kryptonite and spice on AZ884 in amounts never seen anywhere else |
| 2421 | Battle of the Tessaris Ring, the last fleet of the Free Pack is destroyed |
| 2423 | founds BITMEUP and weaves the Bits network between the colonies |
| 2431 | The Nordwall colony on AZ881 becomes self sufficient after nine months |
| 2437 | Bit, version 17.8.6, leaves the BITMEUP workshops (Bit, Your Robot) |
| 2438 | The colonisation of AZ884 begins. You land in K-1 as a District Lord (The Intro: Arrival on AZ884) |
What no file mentions
The archives are silent about the south of AZ884. The probe Vigil-7 sent exactly one image from Cibola, then contact was lost. The image is classified (Cibola).