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-'''(OOC)LOST DATA(OOC)'''<br>
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-- Ether discovered by Sir Isaac Newton.<br>
-- By this time the world has been plunged into chaos by the magics unlocked through use of Ether. British colonists in the Thirteen Colonies find themselves increasingly at odds with their masters and the surging tide of technomagical imperialism and begin to arm themselves with what weapons they can, mundane or wondrous.<br>
-- Louis-Joseph de Montcalm born near Nice, France.<br>
-- James Wolfe born in Kent, England.<br>
-- George Washington I born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.<br>
-- George Washington I, at 17, becomes an officer cadet of the British Army In America, formed to guard Britain's North American territories against French and Spanish incursions that have been steadily increasing in frequency and intensity for several decades.<br>
-, August - The Great Lakes War begins, expanding the greater Anglo-French War into North America. General Louis-Joseph Montcalm leads two regiments of etheric muskeeters and a battery of "artillerie de foudre" across Lake Ontario in untested levigalleons, able to float through the air on a carpet of captured ether, to attack the British-held Fort Oswego. The entire defending 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment is wiped out when French lightning artillery turns the wooden fort into a burning ruin and slaughters the survivors.<br>
-, August - After the stunning victory at Oswego and a year of bitter fighting through New York, Montcalm moves to secure the stone-reinforced Fort William Henry in eastern New York, prelude to a larger invasion by French forces from the great fortress-city of Quebec. For six weeks, seven thousand Frenchmen besiege two thousand British soldiers of the 21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers), 1st American, and 2nd American Regiments of Foot. Washington, a Captain of Infantry, is present leading a company of the 2nd American Regt.<br>
-, September - The defenders of Fort William Henry attempt to break out before running out of supplies. Montcalm brings up the very same lightning cannon that destroyed Fort Oswego the summer previous and orders them to fire electric grapeshot. Both American regiments are decimated, but nearly three-quarters of the Royal Scots Fusiliers escape. The sentiments of the British American populace begin to turn against England and the King. Washington, the senior surviving officer of the Americans involved, becomes an instant hero of his people when he is interned by the French within the fortress of Quebec City; he is too intelligent to release and too easy to martyr through execution.<br>
-, December - five fresh regiments of British troops arrive to supplement half a dozen regiments of Americans recruited to bolster the BAIA. Accompanying them is British brigadier James Wolfe, a hero of the stalemated European war against France. Under his leadership, the line is stabilized against Montcalm's forces for the near future, despite a growing French presence in northern New York.<br>
--67 - American and British troops repeatedly attempt to drive Montcalm out of New York. Every attempt fails, as with every loss of trained British troops the underequipped Americans are forced to bear more of the brunt of the war in British America.<br>
-- Wolfe leads a unit of American dragoons in a raid into occupied Albany, burning down Montcalm's confiscated residence and stealing his personal colors. Montcalm is enraged and has his mage-de-camp send a message to Paris requesting permission to recommence the advance into British America. He is denied due to a strain on French resources worldwide.<br>
-- Soldiers of Britain, Prussia, Italy, Austria, and the Netherlands deal a resounding defeat to the French Army at Namur. The Allies demand French surrender. The French, winning overseas but defeated at home, are forced to cede their foreign gains to prevent a sacking of Paris by Allied troops. George Washington is finally released from his cell in Quebec City after a decade of incarceration. He is welcomed back to America as a hero. His return, however, marks a resurgance in anti-British opinion; Washington is a living example of British opportunism and willingness to sacrifice "colonial" lives to save British ones. Montcalm remains pissed off and in charge of French forces in New France.<br>
-- Napoleon Bonaparte born in Corsica, France.<br>
-- George Washington I, his latent magical skills having developed during and since his incarceration at Quebec, personally delivers his declaration of independence to King George via a message spell. The King is outraged. America goes to war against their former masters.<br>
-- Napoleon Bonaparte somehow takes control of France. How? That's up to IX.<br>
-- Within a decade, most of Earth is under French dominion and hopelessly ruined by war. The Exodus takes place. A goodly fraction of Americans from all thirteen colonies escape as one large group, disappearing into the ether aboard the great hypergalleons ''Constitution'', ''Liberty'', and ''Independence'' and a great number of smaller vessels. Earth is lost to the sands of time.<br>
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-Approx. 1800 - The American exiles use what technomagical augurs are available to them to find a suitable star system. After some debate, one orange, Sol-like star is selected; the Fleet shall sail to what they dub "Epsilon Eridani".<br>
-Approx. 1860 - ''Liberty'' and a nearby portion of the Fleet disappear into a strange spatial distortion, taking thirteen thousand souls with them. Several wrecks bearing American flags are found centuries later, but ''Liberty'' is never seen again.<br>
-Approx. 1899 - The American exiles arrive at Epsilon Eridani, finding the system to contain five worlds and nearly a dozen moons of varying size. small ships are sent to deliver survey parties to each seemingly-inhabitable planet, protected by what wards the American mages can cast with ether supplies running low.<br>
-Approx. 1900 - The exiles rejoice after the discovery that the system's fourth planet, a largely Earth-like world, is inhabitable.<br>
-(TBC)<br>

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