After Ether

Timeline (approximate)

All dates are years before game start. Most are approximate.

>2000 - Dawn of the Great Empires

1000-600 - Start of Era Two

Star ways are heavily stormed; travel is often difficult or slow and migrations occurr during quiet periods. Some sectors remain clear, but these are patchy and often isolated.

400-250 – the Mizumite Renaissance and Expansionism period. Sixteen expeditions chart clear-space around Mizum and further; outposts and colonies formed and lost as the storms shift. The Mizumite Empire established.

300-200 - Start of Era Three

227 - Paradisian battlecruiser Aurore Victoire crash-lands on Emmeria; repaired, refitted and renamed the SDF-01 Victory.

218 - Tranquillans arrive on Thetis

215 - SDF-02 Protector commissioned

205 - The Tysonoids attacks Emmeria; retroactively called the First Reflex War

175 - Stormriders attack; Second Reflex War

171 - Yashimans arrive on Thetis

130-129 - Clone-Satrap of Kaldar attacks; Third Reflex War. SDF-01 destroyed, core systems installed in almost completed SDF-08 Gugalanna.

130-110 - Reign of Aman Trodiko VII, the last in a line of weak Emperors. The Mizumite Empire begins to fracture as warlords and regional cliques defy the imperial government and begin to assert both provincial and colonial particularism.

122 - Impiragh signs association agreement with Thetis

121 - SDF-09 LeMay is built with copies of the core systems installed on the SDF-08.

120 - Departure of the Emmerian Expeditionary Force (EEF) to the distant world of Rma. SDF-08 and SDF-09 are flagships

~115 - Approximate departure of the Rmasters from Rmaspace for Emmeria

100

• Mizumite central authority breaks down, descent into open conflict between the warlords.
• Death of Rortimus Vall, the Man from Sachiel

99-97 - The Senate War (Emmerian civil war - multiple factions attempt to seize the legacy of Rortimus Vall)

96-93 - Mizumite Empire conquered by clone army under clone-satrap Boldozerina.

95 - Arrival of the EEF in Rmaspace.

95-85 - EEF commences war of liberation against the Rmaster sanjaks. Impiragh and Moldoveanu join in the Grand Alliance, which predictably falls apart soon after final victory.

91 - Satrap Boldozerina leads expedition to Rubicon, defeated by EEF. The clique that replaces him makes a secret peace.

85 - Hrang the Unforgiven attemps to seize the Legacy of Sachiel.

79 – Palace coup following the suppression of the last Mizumite resistance. Mizumite sanjak reorganized into the Auriferean Millennium Empire.

53-50 - Rmaster War; Fourth and Final Reflex War. SDF-08 makes successful astral jump to Emmeria; elapsed external time 4 months. SDF-09 does not emerge from the astra, faulty core systems believed to be at fault.

50 - Start of Era Four

50-25: Emmerian Golden Age

49: Panhelios inaugurated.

30 - Third Alashiyan War; destruction of the Circle-Worlds

25 - Murklim Crusade; death of the High King and start of the Gael Succession War. SDF-09 and SDF-04 destroyed over Murklim; only SDF-07 Absoluta remains.

24 - Menkent War

11 - Estovakian War

9 - Republic of Chengzhen conquers the Pearl Kingdom

7 - Gates of Magnus open; starways around Uchar clear for first time in recent history, opening a fast route to Emmeria and beyond to states in the galactic southwest. First contact with the Lion-men of Uchar.