4,128-4,301AD - war with the Devrahsin
4,179AD - humanity begins to leave a ruined Earth, in what slowly becomes known as the Great Diaspora
4,266AD - after over a hundred years of war, Earth is now desolate; humanity has spread throughout the galaxy and has main hubs in the Brontisian Cluster and the interstellar network of space stations, Goliath City
4,301AD - the last of the Devrahsin is apparently destroyed, but at great cost to the Diasporan army, which loses its flagship and most of its fleets
4,305AD - the Council of the Dove is established to end war and create the perfect planet for humanity
4,434AD - the Council of the Dove evolves into the Union of Progressive Peoples and selects the planet Elysium for humanity
4,436AD - terraforming begins on Elysium, but the process is too slow
4,450AD - Elysium is finished and humanity begins to settle
4,472-4,503AD - war erupts on Elysium
4,516AD - a splinter group, the Utopians, sets out to found a new colony
5,017AD - the Utopians find Bethel; due to their advanced technology, they have created jump gates and nanotech; they plan to terraform Bethel to create the perfect planet
5,019AD - after laying the groundwork, and seeding the planet with nanotech, the Utopians place the city inside a space-time fold to speed up its terraforming processes
5,081AD April - when Bethel is finally ready, the Utopian flotilla travels to the Abzu nebula's jump gate to travel to Bethel; one of the ships vanishes, although no one can figure out what happened; an energy surge was registered in the nebula at the time, however, so it is assumed the ship travelled through the nebula and got lost
5,081AD June 23 - the Roshtan, shortly after refuelling at Ankhi, approaches the jump gate as the Devrahsin army re-emerges with its Devrah cannon and opens fire; the Ankhi attemps to swallow the Roshtan as it approaches, but due to the nature of the blast, the two objects collide, and the Roshtan is nevertheless fragmented and scattered through the bowels of the 'planet'
5,081AD June 24 - the 36 surviving officers send out a distress call
5,082AD - the survivors, receiving no response from the rest of their flotilla, assumes the worst and begins planning for ways to leave Ankhi
5,086 - the Originals devise plans for the Perfect City, creating proteans and the Augmented Administrators to help them; first among the AA are the First Generation
5,090AD - the Originals are slain by the First Generation (who become the Elohim)
5,111AD - the Augmented Administrators establish Subterran Prime
5,115AD - the Augmented Administrators establish Subterran Secondus and Tercus
~5,500AD - the Glossolalia strikes, and all digital records are wiped, plunging the Underworld into chaos
~5,500AD-8,000AD - a new dark age; the Nistarites emerge and lead through superstition
~8,000AD/1NE (New Era) - a new civil society emerges, led by the Emperor Ignatius; he calls for a separation of state and church
~8,200AD/ 200NE - the Emperor, mortally wounded in an assassination attempt, is preserved in a status field in the Shining Throne
~8,200-7,250AD/200-250NE - successive Hegemons rule on behalf of the Emperor, endorsed and selected by an elected Senate
~8,250AD/250NE - the Patriarch emerges as a new messiah; he claims the Elohim have awakened
~8,255/255NE - Markess Vyde's cult implodes; he gives up the Sand but is never able to reach 'the valleys of divine thought' ever again
~8,270AD/270NE - the Patriarch secretly disappears, to be replaced by actors chosen by The Invisible Clergy
~8,275AD/275NE - Rose and co. discover the Elohim have fled; Shamaim lies empty; the surface has the remains of the first Ark and information on how to use the nebula as a space elevator