Reference: hexarchate/heptarchate timeline

[yhlee]

Since this campaign involves time-traveling, I thought some of you might enjoy having a basic timeline for reference--among other things, those of you with h*archate OCs can decide which time period you're from. (You don't have to decide this straight off; you can leave it open/undetermined.)

Feel free to add important dates for your own characters in comments if you like, and I can update this to include them.

Edited to add: I do have some additional dates (like major book characters' birthdates and so on) that I omitted in the interests of abbreviating this thing. If you have questions about specific things that are not on here, I'm happy to answer--just leave a comment.

NOTE: italicized events/etc. are probably not canon (e.g. player characters or AU events).

0 - Heptarchate founded.
First century - Rahal Ienora creates compromise local remembrance system so that people don't get messed up by local day-cycles vs. the high calendar.
200 +/- 50 years - Sasha Zuhrovet
361 - Wasp and its crew visits Station Moongray.
ca. 370 - Modern mothdrive and harnesses introduced; modern high calendar and remembrances introduced, likely through the influence of Nirai Kujen.
383 - Nirai Kujen enters the black cradle with Heptarch Nirai Esfarel.
832 - Shuos Jedao seconded to the Kel as a senior lieutenant.
835 - Aricura Sulen
836 - Vestar Ashari
839 - "Extracurricular Activities." Shuos Jedao prompted to tactical group commander.
841 - Shuos Jedao promoted to brigadier general in the Kel army.
852 - Battle of Candle Arc.
853 - Massacre of Hellspin Fortress.
854 - General Shuos Jedao is executed and enters the black cradle.
858 - Eshegen Virmad
944 - Liozh revolt/heresy.
952 - Heptarchate officially disbanded. Formation of the hexarchate.
970 - Lieutenant General Kel Vrae Tala loses the Fire Grasses campaign.
ca. 1000 - Augments come into common use.
1184 - Vauhan Mikodez (later Shuos Mikodez) is born.
1185 - Vauhan Istradez is born.
1202 - Nirai Kujen anchored to Nirai Mahar.
1209 - Administrator Shuos Mikodez becomes hexarch.
1211 - Hexarch Shuos Mikodez orders the assassination of two cadets at Shuos Academy Tertiary.
1221 - Nirai Faian ascends to false hexarch.
1251 - Events of Ninefox Gambit.
1252 - Events of Raven Stratagem.

Comments

[drplokta]

The RPG in general is not canonical. Can this timeline be considered canonical?

[yehan]

When was the Liozh conspiracy / when did the heptarchate become the hexarchate? (I feel like this may have been in the books but I can't remember, sorry...)

[lleullawgyffes]

whenabouts in the timeline are we all meeting in the first place? (and related but not strictly a timeline question: are people also being transported away from that point in the timeline into the past/future, or only to that point in the timeline from other points?)

[zuhrovet]

Sasha is from around the year 5000 of the fourth revelation, which is about 200 in this timeline, give or take fifty years. Her facility with later technology is due to some combination of rebellion-aided study, heretical intuition, and the hexarchate's habit of paying too much attention to exotic effects and neglecting the basics.

[venndaai]

Sulen is from 835 and Ashari is from 836.

[lleullawgyffes]

Virmad is from 858.

[zuhrovet]

Could we add the Moongray visit time? I know it's at the top of move posts, but I keep looking here for it.

[venndaai]

Out of curiosity, could I ask what year Jedao joins the Kel and what year "Extracurricular Activities" takes place in?

[chomiji]

1167 - Zayit Dar

[rugessnome]

Shess set out from their planet, Ylani, in 1036, and probably ended up in a more relevant/recruitable time and/or place due to encountering a rift while trying to avoid Vidona. (The Vidona were not intentionally looking for Shess, but they thought it best to avoid any possibility of attracting attention.)

[The exact details and whether this is on-planet or not have been left open for and depend on exactly how recruitment is supposed to have gone?]