After-War Lullaby

BNE 00

01:01 - The signing of the Final Armistice, ending political distinctions among the nation-states of Earth and space.

The end to two-hundred years of endless war which has devastated the Earth's ecology and society.

The beginning of the Brave New Era.

BNE 00

02:30 - The First Winter of Discontent, the remaining military forces of various nations on Earth and in the colonial regions declare resistance against the new government.

BNE 01

05:15 - The end of the First Winter of Discontent.

Mistreated, war-era espers band together in the service of the New Order and use the superweapons of the wars to destroy the resistance.

BNE 03

05:15 - The Edict of Fimbulwinter, the declaration that cryogenically frozen survivors from the wars leading up to the Final Armistice would remain in stasis would remain so in permanence, to protect the Brave New Era.

All military forces are dismantled, except for a handful of loyal forces which were given political autonomy.

BNE 5

11:18 - Venus, Mars and the remote trojans of the Inner Orbits come under military control of the New Order.

BNE 12

07:11 - Espers largely come to dominate the military sphere and form their own realms within the Inner Orbits, becoming powers unto themselves called the Peers.

12:25 Catherine Formosa is born on Venus.

BNE 49

05:14 In the special autonomous city of Alta Regio, Formosa leads the Cytherea Convention which demands independence for Venus, claiming mismanagement by Earth and the destruction of Venusian culture as a means of control.

Widespread protests follow and the Venus independence movement is widely imitated elsewhere outside of the Zones d'Euterpe where the New Order administrates people's lives directly.

07:19 Formosa is put under house arrest by the New Order.

Days later she vanishes, but is presumed dead due evidence at the scene.

BNE 50

01:01 - Rebels stage an attack on a military museum, liberating numerous artifacts and cryopods from storage.

They proceed to awaken the Sleeping Giants, legendary heroes from before the Brave New Era, and declare the Second Winter of Discontent on the fiftieth anniversary of the Final Armistice.

Among the items stolen are also the Hræsvelgr, a winged ship from the very end of the war equipped with experimental research and nano-fabrication facilities.