Sunday, December 21, 2008

2088: Nations of earth perfect close range space travel and colonize Mars under a joint US-EU-PRC-Russia effort.
2089: U.S. Air Force top secret project: D.U.N.Y.A. is completed.
2150: Mining colonies on asteroid belt developed by private corporations and military forces.
2188: The People's Republic of China absorbs Mongolia, Vietnam, and Thailand. Under new leadership, the country also absorbs the Republic of China and renames itself The United Republics of China (URC).
2260: Solar system has multiple major human colonies; Pluto is last heavenly body colonized.
2288: United Nations dissolved under 6 party agreement. European Union and the United States of America forms the New Global Economic Partnership (NGEP). Under the NGEP military forces of the signed partner states shall form into a collective force known as the Global Peace Keeping Forces. URC and Russian Federation responds with a similar new union called the Asia Parallel Initiative (API). Remaining earth nations signed on to either the API or the NGEP except for African nations, which changed the African Union to be a mirror image to that of the NGEP.
2301: API and NGEP declare Conventional World War 3, which revolved around conflicts across the human colonies. Space Naval Combat quickly replaces surface combat. First Spacecraft Carriers appear as feasible Space Naval Combat Vessels.
2314: API government overthrown by a coup d’etat, NGEP collapses internally from largest economic depression in human history. United Human Confederation absorbs both NGEP and API as well as the AU. Humanity is finally united under one civilization. 80% of Earth’s infrastructure and Cities were devastated in the war, and over 1 billion people died including 20 million soldiers.
2355: Astrophysicists predict Earth will be no longer be able to support human life by 3500 A.D. Ascendancy, a social ideology focusing on space exploration, gain many initial supporters, especially from the wealthy and extremely wealthy. Descendants build Salvation Zone A at the Alaska Peninsula.
2543: Humans reach next closest solar system and begin colonizing. Earth environment and resource reservoirs continue to decline. Global temperatures continue to rise from continual expansion of the sun. In response to this two major ideological parties are officially recognized as political forces: The Ascendancy and The Descendancy.
2730: The two parties begin a cold war against each other, while spreading colonies throughout the galaxy; faster than light travel (subspace) is perfected.
3000: Warping technology is tested: humanity expands across the complete Milky Way Galaxy. Hyperspace is first discovered. Ascendants make the first encounter with another sentient alien species the Ku’kari.
3500: Humanity makes a major breakthrough in Hyperspace Technology: NAV system perfected as well as Super Hyperspace Gateway Technology. This allows humanity to travel to other galaxies in very short period of time.
4000: Humanity occupies 5 galaxies and all habitable planets contained wherein. Ascendants and Descendants gain support from and absorbs many local races and cultures. The Human SEED project is initiated as a platform for peaceful cooperation between Descendants and Ascendants. Barren worlds are terraformed into Earth-like planets and Homo Sapiens were implanted on these planets as primitive Neolithic sentient beings. They were then closely observed by joint Ascendant-Descendant committees. One such planet dubbed, Experiment21: Arcends, is the first successful SEED project experiment.
5000: First Intergalactic War erupts between Descendants and Ascendants. Descendants occupy 356 galaxies. Ascendants occupy 295 galaxies.
0 RG: Initial fighting between Descendants and Ascendants result in massive fleets fighting in battlefields light years in size.
5 RG: Nova Bombs are first used in warfare, entire solar systems were destroyed as their suns become supernovas.
15 RG: Entire galaxies sink into anarchy as war spread across the universe.
60 RG: Organized warfare is non-existent. Descendant and Ascendant forces fought ad hoc battles without overall strategy.
100 RG: First Intergalactic War ends without official terms of peace. Forces simply stopped fighting due to lack of resources and supplies.
112 RG: Neutrality proposed between Ascendants and Descendants.
1050 RG: Ascendants government reform results in the emergence of the Ascendant Empire. Similar reforms in the Descendancy result in the formation of the Descendka Military State.
3550 RG: Second Intergalactic War erupts from mutual violation of the Polaris-Deneb DMZ agreement.
3555 RG: War ends abruptly as Ascendant forces route almost all of Descendant border forces. Descendant Supreme Command negotiates new DMZ border.
3561 RG: Ascendant-Descendant Bipolar Agreement signed at Cyrillia, Arcends. Arcends Independent Observation Agreement signed. Ascendant and Descendant joint research made final breakthrough in Hyperspace Technology ending the need for Hyperspace bubbles.
3563 RG: Joint Descendant-Ascendant research produces a physical SONYA-prototype.
3568 RG: Descendant Research produces a physical DUNYA-Type 1. DUNYA project scrapped.
3600 RG: War erupts between nations on Arcends.
3614 RG: Third Intergalactic War begins.


0 RG: Old Terra is consumed by its sun; both sides mark the beginning of a new calendar.
2 RG: Sahl Empire established.
5 RG: Free-Shaolin and Taoist temple planets are established.
7 RG: Sahl Empire expands to 500 planets.
32 RG: Jade Emperor expands temple planets to 40 Shaolin and 75 Taoist planets; empire is at 700+ planets.
64 RG: Empire reaches 888 planets.

The A.F. timeline is used primarily by the People’s Union of Symphonia and later by the United Republics of Arcends. When the Imperial Terran Empire rose to power after the Chaos Wars, the A.F. timeline is reaccepted as the Official Timeline of the Human Race. The Imperial Terran Federation accepted the A.D., A.F. and R.G. timelines. 0 A.F. is 3600 RG. All time before 0 A.F. is counted backwards from 0 B.F. and onwards.
0 A.F. War erupts between Crescent Empire, The United Republic of Zythentia, People’s Union of Symphonia, and Independent State of Cyrillia. The war is called The Great War by the people of Arcends, but is later recognized as the prologue of the Third Intergalactic War.
5 AF: Initial border skirmishes escalate to full scale combat. Arcend nations’ technologies progress with alarming speed as Ascendants and Descendants secretly leak weapons technology to all sides of the war.
13 AF: Crescents and Zythentians locked in fierce fighting over two strategically vital provinces. Major amphibious warfare is used for the first time.
14 AF: Two nuclear bombs were dropped over Providence and Withering Heights by the Crescent Empire. Zythentia and Symphonia respond with an temporary truce and alliance to completely annihilate the Crescent Empire. Symphonia break out of the Southern Continent and rapidly gain grounds against Crescent forces in the north. Crescent Empire faces internal coup d’etate. Tyrant J.S. Miller takes complete control of Crescent government. Systematic genocide of Symphonian and Zythentian descendants living in Crescent territories begin. Symphonia faces internal coup d’etate, dictator removed and democratic socialists take power. Field Marshall Lee forms a military coup to overthrow the Miller Tyranny. Zythentia and Symphonia re-engage in war as Crescent Empire is quickly retreating. Blue Cross Republic formed as a splinter of the Crescent Empire.
15-17 AF: Fighting drastically slows as supplies on all sides dwindle.
18 AF: Massive engagements resume between Crescents and Zythentians. Descendants and Ascendants finally take official sides in the war. Descendant assisted Crescent Empire quickly overruns Zythentian coastlines. Ascendant assisted Blue Cross and Zythentia holds Descendant advance at the 24th Parallel. Descendant Nexus Fleet under Grand Admiral Chen annihilates all Ascendant fleets positioned around Arcends. Ascendant forces on Arcends face complete encirclement. Ascendants launch the first and last recorded Intergalactic Ballistic Missiles (IGBM), destroying 150000 major Descendant solar systems.
19 AF: Descendant Empire sink into oblivion. Ascendant Empire begin to suffer from internal conflicts and slowly declines. Symphonia begins to advance into war torn Zythentia and Crescent Empire.
20 AF: Third Intergalactic War ends. Arcends, with exception of Blue Cross, is united under one nation, the United Republics of Arcends. Capital of Arcends establish at Solaris. Reconstruction Era begins.
55 AF: United Republics of Arcends perfects close range space flight. Space Era begins.
150 AF: URA colonizes several planets in solar systems around Arcends.
250 AF: URA competes with Blue Cross in space travel research.
300 AF: Blue Cross establishes first colony on a terraformed planet.
400 AF: URA and Blue Cross tensions grow as natural resource on Arcends dwindles.
500 AF: URA succeeds in terraforming a planet from T0 to T3.
600 AF: URA space exploration reaches the center of the galaxy. Ascendant fleet wreckage found and salvaged, one intact hyperspace propulsion device recovered.
700 AF: Blue Cross introduces Ion Beam technology into atmospheric and space warfare.
774 AF: Winter Wars erupts between Blue Cross and United Republics of Arcends. Initial Blue Cross defensive victories nearly forced RA surrender.
784 AF: Blue Cross Empire surrenders without conditions to United Republics of Arcends. URA changes into the Republic of Arcends.
900 AF: RA enters into a golden age as hyperspace jump gates linked Arcends with its colonies. RA controlled space flourishes with interstellar trade.
955 AF: RA make first encounter with an alien species known as the Dhor. The Dhor, a less advance species lacked long range space flight and had minimal space weapons technology, is wiped out by the RA when Dhor military fired upon initial RA reconnaissance party.
1050 AF: RA begins to decline.
1101 AF: Multiple major colonies declare independence. Several major colonies formed alliances.
1105 AF: RA war effort against colonial rebellion fail, more colonies declare independence on the basis of unfair taxation and lack of protection. The term Planet-State is first coined.
1111 AF: Major colonies begin to attack weaker colonies for territorial gains, Chaos Wars erupt.
1118 AF: RA loses all control of frontier colonies and begins the slow retreat to its core worlds.
1120 AF: Imperial Terran Empire emerges from a backwater frontier colony called Dabudia, which survives multiple attacks from stronger neighbors.
1123 AF: ITE quickly gains territories and subjugates multiple neighboring Planet-States.
1135 AF: ITE wins a decisive battle against the strongest Planet-State alliance; The Commonwealth of Freedom.
1155 AF: ITE is now in control of over half of the original Republic of Arcends territories.
1178 AF: Pope Julian IX declares King Horian Julian Gabriel of the Imperial Terran Empire as Emperor of Humanity Blessed by Deus. The Universal Church is recognized as the official Church of the ITE, and Christianity is accepted as its official religion.
1198 AF: H.J. Gabriel claims the title of Imperator of the Galactic Legions and The Rightful Ruler of All Space.
1225 AF: RA Home Fleet is annihilated in a decisive battle in the Polaris System. RA Senate calls for the unification of all true patriots against “The Empire of Tyranny”.
1240 AF: H.J. Gabriel and Dabudian nobility leads the final battle against RA et al. in the Great Siege of Arcends.
1245 AF: Remaining colonies and Arcends Underground Resistance signs terms of surrender to the ITE. The Imperial Terran Federation is established as part of the terms of surrender.
1300 AF: ITF continues to expand into uncharted territories. The terms “Inner Core”, “Outer Core”, and “Frontier” are first coined.
1350 AF: ITF spans over 3/4th of the Milky Way Galaxy.
1428 AF: ITF first encounter with the Horde. Horde fleet routed and jump gate destroyed.
1492 AF: ITF capital moved to Solaris, Arcends. Semyon dubbed this time period as, “The Age of Destiny”.
1493 AF: The 11th Frontier Fleet encounters first Horde Armada.
1494 AF: Sighting of Horde Armadas reported across the Frontier.
1495 AF: Scorpii Fleets routed in the Battle of St. Helen against the Horde Armada. Frontier is deemed “Lost”.
1496 AF: Julii, Scorpii, and Brutii Fleets and forces are slowly routed one after another by the massive Horde forces converging towards the Outer Core. A small group of military radicals emerge calling themselves “Descendants” and their organization, “Descendka”.
1497 AF: Horde Armadas route Imperial Fleets at the decisive Battle of Stagitti Five. Inner Core is now vulnerable to attack. Descendka gains support in parts of the Outer Core.
1498 AF: Horde Armadas are within reach of Arcends. Imperial Forces converge at Kappa-Orion System to prevent further Horde advance. Imperial Forces routed at the Battle of Kappa-Orion with eighty percent casualty rate. Arcends is attacked 24 hours later. The Battle for Arcends lasts for 125 hours. Descendant Forces aid Imperial Forces in routing the Horde Armada. A large Imperial Armada is assembled from elements of remaining nobility fleets and imperial fleets. Imperial Armada annihilates the Horde Armadas at the 2nd Battle of St. Helen. The Emperor of the ITF is pronounced dead from combat wounds, Elvenia Josephine Gabriel or Josephine the Great inherits the throne. The United Socialist Unions declare independence from the Federation during the Battle of Kappa-Orion. The United Orion States declare independence from the Federation during the Battle for Arcends.
1499: Descendka is officially recognized in the ITF as a part of the ITF Armed Forces and as an autonomous entity of the Federation. The Universal Church is denied the powers of the Inquisition. Josephine negotiates with USU and UOS and signs The Solaris Liberty Treaty. Under the SLT, USU and UOS will remain as members of the Federation, but maintain their autonomy as independent states with mutual assistance alliance agreement to the ITF.
1500: The Universal Church is stripped of its status as the Official Church of the Federation, and Christianity is stripped of its title as the Official Religion. The Catholic War begins.
1510: Descendant and Michaelian Forces encircles and annihilate the Vatican Guards. Pope Herald IV flees Arcends with the Cardinals. Empress Josephine reassures the Catholic War is not a war against Christians but against the Universal Church. Josephine gathers support from other religious groups on the promise of religious tolerance and freedom of faith after the war. Devoted nobles join the Catholics in the war. House of Brutus joins the Catholics out of fear of the Descendant influence on the Federation. USU and UOS declared neutrality on the basis of unclear identification of which side is the Federation.
1515: Catholic strongholds become under siege. Descendant Fleets routes the Catholic Armada at St. Louis. War erupts between the USU and UOS.
1516: Last of the Catholic strongholds falls to Descendant and Imperial Forces. USU and UOS declares temporary truce due to the change in galactic politics.
1518: Josephine drafts The Constitution of the Imperial Terran Federation. Semyon Z. Marmeladov accepts the title of Hellfire of Descendka. The Federation holds its first Federation Senate election.
1520: Semyon marries Josephine and seals the firm alliance between Descendka and the Federation. Josephine appoints the First Cabinet of Ministers. The First Federation Senate appoints the First Supreme Federal Court.
1580: Amendment 1: Frontier Suffrage
1590: USU and UOS sign on to The Constitution of the Imperial Terran Federation.
1591: Alien independent nations draft and sign the Minority Galactic Commonwealth Charter in response to growing Federation influence.
1600: ITF researchers make major advancement in ship construction and hyperspace technologies making Intergalactic Space Travel possible.
1660: Josephine sanctions project Andromeda, the Holy Human Empire is formed as a secret vassal state to the Federation.
1800: The Minority Galactic Commonwealth signs on to the Constitution of the Imperial Terran Federation.
1900: The Federation expands into 9 neighboring galaxies.
2100: Josephine delivers “The Intergalactic Address” at the first meeting of the 291st Federation Senate. The Federation now represents 90 galaxies and 250 races.
2520: Federation celebrates a millennium under the Constitution with the expansion into 170th galaxy.
2670: Federation enters Golden Age. First encounter with the Ocrins made at Sagrius Galaxy.
3000: Commonwealth of Nations established in response to Ocrin aggression. Federation did not join the Commonwealth.
3300: First reports of the Ocrin Atrocity. Josephine demands for Ocrin retreat from Commonwealth territories or face Federation embargo. Ocrin Empire halts its offensive as negotiations begin.
3365: Negotiations collapsed as Ocrin representatives rejected all proposals. Ocrin restarts offensive, Federation responds with embargo.
3685: Ocrin war machine grinds to a halt due to supply depletion. Commonwealth of Nations signs on to the Constitution. Ocrin Empire forced to declare peace.
3800: Cold War between Federation and Ocrin Empire begins.
4100: Holy Human Empire continue its expansion across the Andromeda Galaxy. ITF expands into the 211th Galaxy.
4400: Ocrins begin minor skirmishes along Commonwealth borders over border disputes. Ocrin forces routed quickly by newly Federation trained and equipped Commonwealth Forces. Semyon calls for rapid construction of production facilities to gear up for possible war. Descendant Forces double in less than 16 months.
4660: Sahl Empire reconnected to Andromeda through Shanhaiguan. Holy Human Empire and United Andromeda Alliance first encounter Ocrin forces with catastrophic losses.
4662: Josephine demands Ocrin to halt all aggressive activities in Andromeda or face embargo. Ocrin hierarchy ignores threat and continues to push into HHE and UAA territories.
4665: Descendant Forces under Field Marshall Katherine S. Gabriel launch a surprise attack on Ocrin forces in Andromeda galaxy. USU, UOS, and Commonwealth Forces launch simultaneous attacks into Ocrin territory. Ocrin hierarchy calls it “The Year of Infamy”, while Josephine declares the war as “The War against Evil.” Semyon dubbed the war, “The Dark Crusade”. Upon the declaration of war the Federation controls 445 galaxies and the Ocrin controls 890 galaxies.
4685: Ocrin forces are overrun by Descendant Blitzkrieg/Mobility Warfare Strategy. USU suffer high casualty rates from its Human Wave Doctrine/Encirclement Strategy. UOS suffered minor losses but made minor gains with Planetary Control Doctrine. Imperial Forces aided by UOS and Commonwealth Forces made major gains with a combination of Combined Arms Doctrine/Firepower Strategy, and Carrier Superiority Doctrine.
4750: Ocrin forces retreat behind the “Second Line” and begin to focus on Delay and Hedgehog/Pocket Defensive Doctrines. Ocrin successfully established a Defense in-depth strategy and halted the Descendant Blitzkrieg. Federation forces were also halted due to Ocrin scorched earth policy. Anticipating Ocrin counter-offensives, Field Marshall Katherine orders a radical readjustment that decentralized the Descendant command structure.
4755: Ocrin counteroffensives failed as Descendant lines held even as other Federation forces were routed.
4758: Field Marshall Katherine reorganized the Federation Forces and launched a bold attack into the heart of the Ocrin Empire. The Schwerpunkt was the Ocrin capital, and on 15:00 March 15th A.F. 4758 Federation Forces waved the “United Colors” over the Ocrin Infinity Temple. The Ocrin Hierarchy was given unconditional surrender.