Timeline

The history of the Pearlescent Expanse itself currently spans 8 centuries, not counting the time before the founding of the Expanse itself. For a more in-depth read on the history of the world, see Pearlescent Expanse.

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Ancient History

 * The Coalition is born, and begins to travel space.
 * The Singing Deep is discovered.
 * The first melody-gate (Gate Zero) and songship (the Firstborn) are built, using the Deep for FTL travel.
 * The songship Star Opal is lost in the Singing Deep.
 * Fugue and its ability to exist in multiple places (superpositions) at once is discovered.
 * The Nadezhdan Exiles discover and settle on Nadezhda.

Silver Frontier History

 * Singing Deep routes are charted and established.
 * Humanity's new loosely-defined region of space is named the Silver Frontier (later the Pearlescent Expanse).
 * The Banner Post finds its purpose in linking distant, developing communities.
 * The Church of the People's Spirit is founded on the principles of mutual aid and cooperation, and a rejection of the Coalition.
 * The 7th Mantra Foundation is formed, set to research the Singing Deep outside Coalition supervision.
 * The Lunar Pact (later the Syzygy Combine) leaves to explore far reaches of space, and is thought to be lost.
 * The Frontier as a whole is rife with anti-Coalition sentiment.

1st Century (Years 0–99)

 * To quash dissent and unify its people, the Coalition formally renames the Silver Frontier as the Pearlescent Expanse, and establishes it as a governed territory. This event starts a new year count.


 * Aureate is chosen as the capital of the Pearlescent Expanse.


 * Banner Post agents aid some resistance movements against the nascent Expanse, ultimately failing to prevent its formation.

2nd Century (Years 100–199)

 * No relevant data.

3rd Century (Years 200–299)

 * No relevant data.

4th Century (Years 300–399)

 * Aureate is in an age of unity and progression, its capital city Vow a melting pot for Coalition cultures.
 * The Dodonan Tribunal finds success with local terraforming.
 * The Zeriznov Family takes control of the local Nadezhdan Exiles as they are pushed to the fringes.
 * Luna City is built as a Satellist pilgrimage site.

5th Century (Years 400–499)

 * The People's Crown is formed under a figurehead monarch as an attempt at further unification, ringing in The Era of the People's Crown. This raises tensions, causing a cold civil war to threaten the Expanse.
 * The Havzhiva Academy is founded.
 * Singing Deep creatures known as Notes (three of which can combine into a Chord) are discovered on Fugue.
 * The Thousand Moons' Creed is formed, claiming an ancient Coalition connection.
 * A sect of the Creed begins hunting Chords, to little overall success.

6th Century (Years 500–599)
Around year 530:


 * The Razing of Nadezhda: In year 530, a Tyranon war fleet bombards Nadezhda.
 * The Coalition condemns the attack, but do not take further action.
 * The Cobalt Revolt is fought across Aureate and its moons (Samara and Severyn), ending in 531.
 * Four Coalition Representatives are killed.
 * A Coalition ship is destroyed in low orbit, spreading debris across much of Aureate.

Around year 550:


 * The 7th Mantra Foundation and the Church of the People's Spirit merge into the Universal Choir.
 * In response, the Dodonan Tribunal bans religion and "superstition".
 * Taimu, an ethnoreligious minority in Dodonan space, find much of their culture suddenly illegal.

7th Century (Years 600–699)

 * Just before the turn of the century, the Peacock Conglomerate steals a number of pieces of Universal Choir technology capable of rapid terraforming and more.
 * The Conglomerate repurposes the technology as weapons.
 * A war between the two factions is fought, but the majority of the events have since been erased from history.

On Cadenza:


 * 692: The planet Cadenza is terraformed with stolen UC terraforming tech by a Peacock corporation, many sign contracts for settlement rights.
 * 697: The terraforming of Cadenza fails, but settlement goes ahead regardless.
 * A devastating illness breaks out, and most settlers immediately withdraw.
 * 698: The Peacock Conglomerate withdraws from the Cadenza System, and destroys its melody-gate.
 * Cadenza is blanketed in tehomic rain from the destruction, causing widespread biological anomalies.
 * The existence of Cadenza is erased from Pearlescent Expanse history.

8th Century (Years 700–799)

 * The Coalition is finally dissolved around the turn of the century.
 * 749: The Lunar Pact, now called the Syzygy Combine, returns to the Pearlescent Expanse, settling on the planet Iovu.

On Aureate:


 * Roughly 700: The Tyranon Dynasty destroys the Havzhiva Academy, and builds the city Korummerung on Havzhiva's ruins.
 * Aureate is split into three between the Dodonan Tribunal, the Tyranon Dynasty, and the Nadezhdan Exiles.
 * Vow remains neutral territory.
 * The Tyranon Dynasty establishes an orbital blockade, preventing anybody from leaving Aureate, but permitting arrivals.
 * 734: An atomic weapon is detonated in Luna City, irradiating the city.
 * 768: The Horach domain under Selamis Horach takes precedence in the local Tyranon territory.
 * 780: Pesok Line begins to make a name for itself on Aureate.
 * 790: Toporik Jet, the local head of the Zeriznov Family, defies his masters and establishes the Toporik Syndicate.
 * 791: Gerea Horach begins to feud with Selamis Horach.
 * 791: Gerea Horach begins to feud with Selamis Horach.

On Cadenza:


 * 742: (44 S.A.) War breaks out between the Nadezhdan Kingdom of Wolfram and the unstable Tyranon/Dodonan Arctyr Union.
 * 746: (48 S.A.) The Universal Choir nation of Coralinth joins Arctyr, driving back Wolfram and ending the war.

9th Century (Years 800–899)
On Aureate:


 * 800: Dodeka Graft is established as a Dodonan foreign mercenary unit, as tensions grow between the Tribunal and the Tyranon Dynasty.
 * 800: Dodona-Tyranon tensions turn hot, and war breaks out.
 * 801: Dunyasha Sand, leader of Pesok Line, establishes the autonomous region of Vedro in the Mirror Sea.
 * Dodeka Graft defects from the Dodonan military and joins Vedro, as Spearbreak.
 * 801: In an event called The Week From Hell, several Vedro-affiliated squads coordinate to breach the Tyranon orbital blockade to alert the Zerinzov Family of Toporik's insubordination.
 * 801: Toporik Jet is killed in his Vow office moments before the Dodonan Tribunal bombards the city.

10th Century (Years 900–999)

 * 910: (212 S.A.) Present day on Cadenza.