

  Daniel Keys Moran's Continuing-Time Timeline
  



TIMELINE OF EVENTS (Heavily Edited by the Author)


Date
 - 
Events 


Pre-Big Bang - 
Most Starclouds search for the Way off the Wheel. 

11 Billion B.C. - 
Starclouds create the Spacethings. 

8 Billion B.C. - 
First biological life forms in Home Galaxy



(Entries Omitted)


3 Billion B.C. - 
The Time Wars begin. 

3 Million B.C. - 
In the closing days of the Time Wars, a group of Zaradin
soldiers open a spacelace tunnel and find Earth. They take a tribe of
proto-humans aboard; the genegineered the descendants of these creatures
to be servants, gentle and obedient; the Old Human Race is the result. 

62,218 B.C. - 
The Time Wars end. The Continuing Time begins when the gods
of the Zaradin Church declare a truce --



(Entries Omitted)


61,000 B.C. - 
On The World, the Old Human Race embarks upon the Splinter
Wars. 

59,000 B.C. - 
Splinter Wars end. 

58,000 B.C. - 
The sleem, located near the galactic core, begin expansion
into the power vacuum left by the vanishing Zaradin. 

53,000 B.C. - 
The Old Human Race learns to build its own starships, using
hints left behind in the Temple at Kulien. 

52,000 B.C. - 
The Old Human Race encounters the sleem for the first time.
At approximately this time, they begin --



(Entries Omitted)


49,470 B.C. - 
Old Humans, laboring among the records in the Temple at
Kulien, discover the location of Earth. 

48,790 B.C. - 
Sedon, aged 90, is exiled on Earth; Dvan, aged 60, is one of
his guards. 

48,763 B.C. - 
Another rebellion takes place on The World; a courier ship
appears on Earth, with notice to Saliya that Sedon is to be killed. This
begins the end story of Back to the Beginning. 



(Entries Omitted)


35,000 B.C. - 
Penultimate act in the drama of the exiled Old Humans on
Earth; Dvan chases Sedon into the mountains, shoots Sedon with the kitjan
as Sedon is entering a stasis bubble. In the same conflict, Mai'Arad'Marah
killed and was killed by the Dancer Lorien. 

9,000 B.C. - 
Iguada is born, founds Iguada's Tavern. 

6,600 B.C. - 
Dome discover spacelace stardrive. 

6,200 B.C. - 
Sleem Empire conquers the Dome. 

5,900 B.C. - 
Ifahad bell K'Ailli is born; participates briefly in the Dome
Rebellion. Ifahad then leads his clan into the Hiding; the K'Aillae come
into existence as a people. They begin a pattern of strike-and-retreat at
the edge of the sleem Empire. 

70 B.C. - 
K'Ailla-led Confederation of Outland declares war on sleem. 

44 B.C. - 
Julius Caesar is assassinated. 

527 - 
King Arthur falls in battle at the battle of Camel Hill, beneath
Camber Tremodian`s hand. In the same battle Gi'Tbad'Eovad'Dvan is injured
and loses the bulk of his long-term memories. 

1190 - 
Confederation of Outland falls at the Battle of Waab. 

1320 - 
William Devane spends most of the fourteenth century in a cold
English castle, married to a woman with red hair who played the harp,
raising children. 

1340 - 
K'Aillae settle Santha. 

1412 - 
Joan of Arc, French hero of the siege of Orleans, is born. 

1431 - 
Joan of Arc is burned at the stake at the age of nineteen. 

1469 - 
Niccol Machiavelli is born. 

1564 - 
Galileo Galilei is born. 

1564, Apr 23 - 
Traditional birthdate of William Shakespeare. 

1720 - 
Gi'Suei'Aneda'Araki is born. 

1732, Feb 22 - 
George Washington, first president of the United States, is
born. 

1775, Mar 23 - 
Patrick Henry says, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" 

1775, Apr 19 - 
Revolutionary War begins at Lexington. 

1776, Jul  4 - 
The United States declares independence from Great Britain. 

1783, Apr 19 - 
The Revolutionary War ends at the first battle of York. 

1789, Mar  4 - 
United States Constitution goes into effect. 

1789, Apr 28 - 
Infamous mutiny on the British warship Bounty. 

1807 - 
British Parliament abolishes slavery, fifty-six years before
America does so in Civil War. 

1815, Jan  8 - 
Andrew Jackson defeats the British at the Battle of New
Orleans. 

1835, Nov 30 - 
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), the all-time finest
American novelist, author of Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's Court, is born. 

1861, Apr 12 - 
The Civil War begins at Fort Sumter. 

1863, Jan  1 - 
Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation,
freeing all slaves in the United States of America. 

1865, Apr  9 - 
General Robert E. Lee surrenders the Confederate Army to
General Ulysses E. Grant. 

1870, Mar 30 - 
15th Amendment to the United States Constitution states
that a person cannot be denied the right to vote due to race or color. 

1876, Mar  7 - 
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone; genesis of the
InfoNet. 

1879, Mar 14 - 
Albert Einstein, best-known scientist in human history, is
born. 

1917, Apr  6 - 
United States of America declares war on Germany, thus
entering World War One. 

1920, Jan 10 - 
League of Nations, precursor to the United Nations,
established. 

1927, Jan 27 - 
First transatlantic commercial telephone service begins,
New York to London. 

1927, Mar 21 - 
Charles A. Lindbergh completes the first transatlantic
flight. 

1939, Apr 30 - 
Television is first publicly broadcast, from the Empire
State Building. 

1945, Apr 25 - 
San Francisco Conference to establish the United Nations
begins. 

1946, Jan 10 - 
First United Nations General Assembly meets in London. 

1948, Jan 30 - 
Mohandas K. Gandhi is assassinated. 

1954, Jan 21 - 
First atomic-powered ship in history of New Human Race, the
Nautilus, is launched. 

1961, Apr 12 - 
Soviet Union cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is the first human
being to orbit the Earth. 

1962, Feb 20 - 
United States astronaut John H. Glenn orbits the earth
three times. 

1962, Nov 30 - 
Daniel Keys Moran is born. Almost nobody notices except his
paternal grandmother, who has been waiting for it, and dies. 

1969 - 
Sarah Almundsen, first Secretary General following the Unification,
is born. 

1969, Jul 20 - 
Men land on the moon. This is Daniel Keys Moran's first
clear memory of the outside world; sitting, at the age of six, on his
father's lap, and watching on television as men walked on the moon. 

2013 - 
First mammalian genies are produced commercially. 

2014, Aug 12 - 
Unification War begins. Sarah Almundsen assumes position of
Secretary General. 

2018, Jul 14 - 
Second Battle of Yorktown. Neil Corona surrenders the
United States Marines Corps. to Jules Moreau, just outside of Yorktown. 

2018, Jul 19 - 
The Treaty of New York. 

2024 - 
Construction of Luna City's solar power plants are completed; Luna
City's population is less than 25,000 people. 

2026 - 
Sarah Almundsen completes her second term as Secretary General of
the new United Nations, and does not run for a third term due to poor
health. She is succeeded by Michaud Tenerat. 

2027 - 
Mafia -- the "Old Ones" -- and the Syndic open offices on Luna. 

2028 - 
Practical, cheap fusion power is achieved. This is the principle
mechanism whereby the decade-long economic depression following the
Unification War is finally ended. 

2029 - 
"Project Superman"  begins. 

2029, Aug 10 - 
Mohammed Vance is born. 

2030, Sep 18 - 
Carl Castanaveras is born. 

2032, Aug 22 - 
Douglass Ripper, Jr. is born. 

2033 - 
Germany rises in rebellion, and is severely punished by the
Unification. 

2034 - 
Neil Corona is released from a year's imprisonment by the PKF; he
takes the hint and leaves Earth, goes up to Halfway. At this time, the
entire population of humanity off Earth is about two million people. 

2035, Apr 18 - 
A design which becomes Jany McConnell is successfully
implanted on a sterile egg. 

2036, Jan 23 - 
Jany McConnell is born. 

2040 - 
General Elections; Darryl Amnier is appointed to the position of
Prosecutor General to the Unification Council. 

2042 - 
Carl Castanaveras enters puberty, and becomes a telepath. 

2042, Late - 
Marc Packard starts going to Kitten's. 

2043 - 
At Halfway, Neil Corona saves Marc Packard`s life. 

2044 - 
General Elections. Jean-Louis de Nostri dies; the de Nostri Species
is relocated to New York, and housed with the Castanaveras telepaths. 

2045, Sep 15 - 
Callia Sierran is born. 

2046 - 
The first Peaceforcers Elite are created at Spacebase One. 

2046, Aug  4 - 
Melissa du Bois is born. 

2048 - 
43 telepaths born. General Elections. 

2048, Feb - 
Catholics from St. Peter's CityState -- at that time a
Unification CityState -- attempt to settle Ganymede. 

2048, Aug 23 - 
Heather Castanaveras is born. 

2048, Sep  2 - 
Jimmy Ramirez is born. 

2049 - 
73 telepaths born. 

2049, Oct  7 - 
Peter Janssen is shot from Jupiter orbit by a Zaradin
Cathedral Starship. 

2049, Oct  8 - 
Zaradin Church lands at Ganymean settlement. 

2049, Oct  9 - 
Zaradin Church destroys Ganymean settlement. 

2050 - 
86 telepaths born. 

2051 - 
24 telepaths are born. 

2051, Mar  9 - 
Trent the Uncatchable is born. 

2052 - 
General Elections. 

2053, Feb 27 - 
Lan Sierran is born. 

2053, Apr 28 - 
David Castanaveras and Denice Castanaveras are born. 

2054, Jul - 
Mohammed Vance becomes a PKF Elite; Trent is three years old. 

2055 - 
Approximate date at which the Ministry of Population Control
announces that it has finally got a lock on Earth's birth rate

2056 - 
General Elections. 

2059 - 
Commander Claude Breilleune becomes head of the PKF under Darryl
Amnier. 

2060, Aug - 
General Elections. 

2062, Jul  3 - 
The Castanaveras telepaths are destroyed with nuclear
explosives. Malko Kalharri is killed by a cyborg of the Peaceforcers
Elite. Suzanne Montignet commits suicide while in Peaceforcer custody.
Carl Castanaveras is killed by Jerril Carson; Jerril Carson is killed by
Carl. Denice Castanaveras and David Castanaveras are separated in the
riots that night; Trent the Uncatchable escapes the Peaceforcers and is
presumed dead. 

2063, Jul 22 - 
The Speedfreaks are destroyed by a storm engineered by the
Weather Bureau. 

2063, Aug  3 - 
Conchita Alatorre, Angel de Luz, et al, are executed by the
Peaceforcers. 

2063, Sep 22 - 
Nathan Saint-Denver flees to Luna. 

2064, Jun 12 - 
Trent the Uncatchable is adopted by the Temple Dragons of
the Bay Shore Fringe. 

2064, Summer - 
The Fizzle War; Secretary General Charles Eddore has a
SpaceFarer flagship shot down over Luna; there are brief hostilities,
followed by an uneasy truce. 

2064, Aug - 
General Elections. 

2068, Aug - 
General Elections; Charles Eddore is elected Secretary
General. 

2068, Dec - 
The Loos Microlectrics Corporation is founded in Mexico City
by Ira Kalharri, Jan Kalharri`s father. 

2069, Jan - 
Trent the Uncatchable, Jodi Jodi, Jimmy and Birdleave the
Fringe in the back of a Erisian Temple bus. 

2069, Mar 30 - 
Trent the Uncatchable finds Denice Castanaveras after a
separation of seven years. 

2069, Summer - 
Mahliya Kutura hits it big with the album Music to Move To. 

2069, Aug  8 - 
Trent the Uncatchable is arrested by the Peaceforcers. 

2069, Aug 13 - 
Trent the Uncatchable is rescued from the Capitol City
Detention Center, beginning the Long Run; later that same day he jumps
from the third story of Kandel Microlectrics Sales and Repair, is chased
by Emile Garon; Garon falls to his death from the top of the Hoffman
spacescraper. 

2069, Aug 14 - 
Trent the Uncatchable boards the Captain Sir Dominic
Flandry, bound for Luna; meets Melissa du Bois

2069, Aug 15 - 
Trent the Uncatchable runs through Peaceforcer Heaven,
steals a Space Force Rolls Royce, and crashes it in the mountains of Luna. 

2069, Aug 16 - 
Trent the Uncatchable meets Nathan St. Denver (Dark
Clouds). 

2069, Sep 15 - 
Trent the Uncatchable sees Luna City for the first time; he
meets Candice Blain and orders working tools; meets Katrina Trudeau and
schedules self for biosculpture. 

2069, Oct ?? - 
Nathan St. Denver is killed, during the middle of Lunar
night; Earth is full. [Several of these lunar dates are questionable,
folks; my astronomy program turned out to be blatantly wrong on anything
after the year 2000; it dropped a leap day into 2000, among other things.]

2069, Oct 31 - 
The search for Trent the Uncatchable is called off, in the
belief that Trent is dead. 

2069, Nov  1 - 
Mohammed Vance is at Spacebase One with Melissa du Bois; he
finds the message Trent the Uncatchable has left him: Catch Me If you Can. 

2069, Dec  7 - 
Trent the Uncatchable awakens from biosculpture and inskin
implantation. 

2069, Dec 25 - 
A tuna boat reports seeing a school of dolphins on the open
sea. It's the first time in over five years that a school of dolphins has
been sighted at sea; dolphins are believed extinct. The report is widely
discounted. 

2069, Dec 28 - 
The Unification Council approves construction of a warship
tentatively called the Unity; at an estimated cost of nearly eight billion
Credit Units, it will be the single most expensive spacecraft ever built. 

2070, Jan  3 - 
Trent the Uncatchable, impersonating DataWatch officer Benny
Gutierrez, enters the Lunar DataWatch base at Jules Verne. 

2070, Jan  4 - 
Trent the Uncatchable steals the LINK, flees Luna aboard the
Spacefarer's Collective Ship Jack of Shadows. 

2072, Feb 29 - 
McGee meets with Kevin Holtzmann, they drink; McGee is told
that they will be opening the slowtime field on Thursday. 

2072, Mar  2 - 
McGee is present when deNostri enters the slowtime field. 

2072, Mar  9 - 
On Trent's 21st birthday, Gi'Suei'Obodi'Sedon is removed
from the slowtime sphere. 

2072, Mar 10 - 
Charles Eddore decides that Sedon should die. 

2072, Mar 11 - 
Sedon is moved to Amiens; McGee returns to New York. 

2072, Mar 19 - 
Sedon awaks clear-headed for the first time. 

2072, Mar 20 - 
Sedon talks to Beauchamp, realizes he's been imprisoned in
the bubble a long, long time. 

2072, Mar 22 - 
Evening of eleventh day of imprisonment; Sedon is
interviewed by Mohammed Vance. 

2072, Mar 26 - 
Fifteenth day of imprisonment, Sedon escapes from Amiens. 

2072, Mar 27 - 
Vance and Mirabeau walk through the Amiens facility. 

2072, Summer - 
Bordered in Blue. General Elections; Charles Eddore begins
his third term as Secretary Secretary General. 



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2074, Nov 22 - 
William Price is born. 

2075, Feb - 
Jay Altaloma shows up at Neil Corona's office, looking for a
job. 

2075, Jun 28 - 
Denice leaves Goddess Home, heads to New York. At 9:15pm
Denice boards the Bullet to Dallas. 

2075, Jun 29 - 
At 1:05 am Denice boards an SB leaving Dallas. At 3:15am
Denice arrives Unification Spaceport. Early morning, Denice meets with
Robert Yo. 

2075, Jul  2 - 
Denice meets with Douglass Ripper, mind-fucks Ichabod
Martin. 

2075, Jul  3 - 
Electronic Times Awards are given. Shawmac and Devane
present. Afterward Devane visits McGee. 

2075, Jul  4 - 
Independence Day Riots. Devane awakens with the memories of
Gi'Tbad'Eovad'Dvan once more within him. 

2076, Apr 28 - 
Denice's twenty-third birthday

2076, May  1 - 
Jimmy picks up and travels to Los Angeles; so does Ripper,
heading to Australia. 

2076, May  2 - 
Callia reports on her meeting with Sedon to Melissa Nicole
Lovely & Domino Terrencia. Ripper arrives Australia. 

2076, May  4 - 
Ripper arrives in Japan to begin four days of speeches. 

2076, May  8 - 
Robert attempts to waken nightways within Denice, fails. 

2076, May 13 - 
Terry Shawmac's Identity Bill column is published. 

2076, May 14 - 
Denice goes to see Jodi Jodi at the Redline hotel, wanting
to know what's happened to Jimmy. Jodi Jodi suggests Denice see Chief
Devlin. 

2076, May 15 - 
Vance requests that a bounty be placed on Sedon. 

2076, May 16 - 
Lan and Callia and Jimmy and Nicole Eris Lovely and Domino
and Sedon and Chris Summers and a Mitsubishi rep all come together. 

2076, May 18 - 
Vote in Unification Council on the Identity Bill; Trent
learns that he's become Number 2 on the PKF list. 

2076, May 19 - 
Meeting with Obodi & Co. 

2076, May 21 - 
Denice quits Ripper's employ. 

2076, May 22 - 
Denice visits Chief Devlin in the park. 

2076, May 23 - 
Denice arrives at the Reb headquarters in Iowa, is
interviewed, has dinner with Lan. 

2076, May 24 - 
Group briefing for the rebellion; briefings for PKF. In the
evening, Denice talks to Ring. 

2076, May 25 - 
4:00am Denice and Lan meet in the cafeteria, and go to bed
together. Around noon she is examined by Bennett. 

2076, May 26 - 
12:00m Denice watches Bennett Crandell get executed. 4:00pm
Denice speaks with Nicole Lovely. 

2076, May 27 - 
Denice arrives in Los Angeles, talks to Terry Shawmac.  In
evening Joe Chang puts her in uniform. 

2076, May 31 - 
Denice plays a corpse, talks to Ralf. Jimmy Ramirez comes
to get her that evening. They have a firefight, and Denice and Jimmy jump
off a building. Robert Dazai Yo and Dvan boost into orbit with them. 

2076, Jun  7 - 
Chandler returns from Mars; they have dinner together, Jimmy
and Robert and Denice & Chandler. 

2076, Jun  8 - 
Sedon goes back to work, healed from his wound; Denice meets
Dvan in morning, is unconscious for three days. 

2076, Jun 11 - 
Denice and Dvan and Robert all talk together, for two days. 

2076, Jun 12 - 
An Electronic Times poll places Douglass Ripper, Jr., eight
points ahead of Sanford Mtumka; 36% of the respondents in our poll stated
that, if the election were held today, they would vote for Ripper over any
of the other candidates currently in the race. 

2076, Jun 13 - 
Story of Dvan is ended; Denice gets to start taking care of
herself again. 

2076, Jun 14 - 
We meet Neil Corona at Halfway, in his 1st person
narrative. 

2076, Jun 18 - 
In the morning, Sedon attempts to pray to the God of
Players, and is ingored. 

2076, Jun 21 - 
Player Michelle Altaloma finds David Castanaveras. 

2076, Jul  1 - 
2 A.M.; Douglass Ripper learns that Japan has declared
independence. 

2076, Jul  3 - 
Trent and Neil have dinner together; the Name Storyteller
talks to Trent, warns him that, if he is another Envoy, the Time Wars will
be loosed again, and Trent will be dusted. 

2076, Jul  4 - 
American Tricentennial.  Johnny Rebs, with aid from Japan
and the Erisian Claw, mount an attempt at revolution. Christian J. Summers
dies; at the day's end, Mohammed Vance, with over a thousand
semi-ballistics packed to the walls with officers of the Peace Keeping
Force, lands in Santa Monica. 

2076, Jul  7 - 
Denice awakes in custody, being held by Sedon. 

2076, Jul  9 - 
Friday: Denice tells Sedon that she will never dance for
him. 

2076, Jul 10 - 
Lan and Callia retreat out of Los Angeles. 

2076, Jul 12 - 
Lan goes to see Denice, in San Diego; Callia sees Robert,
Denice; Lan spends night w/Denice. 

2076, Jul 14 - 
Vance flies over Los Angeles, looking at the damage. 

2076, Jul 16 - 
Denice tells Sedon that he's a monster. Vance is told by
Eddore that Sedon wants a meeting. 

2076, Jul 17 - 
The PKF take back San Diego; David escapes from Sedon's
captivity. Lan Sierran dies, Sedon dies. 

2076, Dec - 
General Elections; Charles Eddore is re-elected as Secretary
General. 

2076, Dec 15 - 
Denice and Douglass Ripper watch election returns come in
together. 

2076, Dec 17 - 
Elite Commander Christine Mirabeau is executed, on holocam,
for her role in the TriCentennial uprising. 

2076, Dec 22 - 
Denice goes to Las Vegas, hunting David. 

2076, Dec 24 - 
On the day before Christmas, Denice Castanaveras kills her
brother David. 





