Chronology (Standard Years)
Events preceding the opening of this story…
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2450 |
Jasper Murcheson explores region beyond the Coal Sack. |
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2452 |
In New Caledonia system, domed colonies established on New Scotland and New Ireland, following terraforming. |
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2456 |
Maxroy’s Purchase settled by dissident Mormons. |
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Domes removed, New Scotland and New Ireland colonies. |
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2552 |
Mountain Mover asteroid mining registered, Purchase system. |
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2553 |
100,000+ transportees settled on Maxroy’s Purchase. |
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2567 |
Temple of the True Church moved to Glacier Valley, Maxroy’s Purchase. True Church colony sent to New Utah. Founder’s Report to the Elders of Maxroy’s Purchase filed. |
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2600 |
Imperial Navy Initial Assessment Report (IAR), New Utah, filed. |
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2603 |
Secession Wars begin. New Scotland loyalist; New Ireland secessionist. Maxroy’s Purchase and New Utah are distant and largely neutral. |
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2640 |
First Empire collapses. |
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2800 |
Interstellar trade collapses in Trans-Coal Sack sector. |
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2820 |
In absence of Imperial contact, Loyalist New Scotland continues prosecution of war against “Rebel” New Ireland. Coherent light from the Mote reaches New Caledonia. |
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2862 |
“Motie” civilization on Mote Prime launches a solar sail-guided probe into human space, using a laser cannon. Coherent light from the Mote reaches New Caledonia. |
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2867 |
City churches, Maxroy’s Purchase destroyed. Temple of the True Church proclaimed Governing Church of Maxroy’s Purchase. Swenson’s Ape paper authored. |
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2868 |
Alderson tramlines collapse between Purchase system and New Utah. |
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2870 |
Secession Wars end. New Ireland defeated. |
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2882 |
Howard Grote Littlemead founds Church of Him on New Scotland. |
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2902 |
Coherent light from Mote ends abruptly. Howard Grote Littlemead “hastened to meet his God.” Under intense persecution, many Himmists flee to New Ireland. |
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2903 |
Leaonidas IV of Sparta proclaims the Second Empire of Man. |
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2908 |
His Mission dispatched from New Ireland to Maxroy’s Purchase. Expands rapidly among “false” Church remnants. |
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2963 |
Hannefin Mines registered, Pitchfork City, Maxroy’s Purchase. True Church begins secret, periodic shipments of selenium supplements and fertilizer to New Utah, in exchange for opal meerschaum. |
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2964 |
His Mission to Heaven dispatched from Maxroy’s Purchase to New Utah. |
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2967 |
Imperial contact with New Caledonia re-established. INSS Terrible bombards Derry, ending New Ireland secession. New Scotland designated sector capital. |
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2984 |
General Metals registered, Pitchfork City, Maxroy’s Purchase. |
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2986 |
New Ireland designated sector Naval shore leave destination. |
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3005 |
Union Planetoids registered, Maxroy’s Purchase. |
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3007 |
Maxroy’s Purchase joins Empire of Man. |
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3013 |
Prince Samual’s World discovered by units of Imperial Navy. Events of King David’s Spaceship begin. |
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3016 |
New Chicago Revolt. Events of The Mote in God’s Eye begin. |
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3017 |
First contact: Motie light sail reaches human space. MacArthur dispatched to investigate Mote System. Mote Blockade Treaty concluded with representatives from Mote Prime, preventing Motie exit from Mote Space. |
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3026 |
Tanner Metals registered, Pitchfork City, Maxroy’s Purchase. |
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3035 |
Sir Lawrence Jackson, Governor, Maxroy’s Purchase, dispatches Bury-owned ship to New Utah to invite Empire membership. The New Utah True Church refuses. |
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3047 |
Events of The Gripping Hand begin. The “Motie scare” on Maxroy’s Purchase. Renner investigation reveals True Church use of a periodic tramline from Maxroy’s Purchase to New Utah. Collapse of The Curdle opens a second Alderson point from the Mote system into Imperial space. |
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3048 |
Motie Medina Trader Alliance concludes and polices the Second Mote Blockade Treaty in exchange for exclusive trading rights with the Empire. Motie access to Empire Space prohibited without infection with contraceptive C-L parasite. |
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Horace Bury bequeaths bulk of Imperial Autonetics voting stock to a combination of his own and Alliance families. |
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3049 |
Second Jackson Expedition to New Utah planned. Events of Outies begin. |