C. J. Cherryh - Alliance-Union Chronology: Part 6

aCHRONOLOGY – Continued
2201	Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] WORKING Founding of Cyteen ECS10 Challenger sets the Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] Module into place, discovers a viable, unpopulated planet at Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]. ECS8 Gloriana reaches Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60] from Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248]; sent to Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34].
2202	Word reaches Sol of Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]'s decision which sets off a furor of debate and a call for trials, until the economics of the situation are made clear. Since it becomes a political issue many individuals take positions based on ideology rather than reality. There is also a vast reservoir of Terrans who have never bothered to comprehend the entire program or the concepts of stellar distances, who are nevertheless likely to voice their opinions. Since the concept of things they cannot understand disturbs them, they usually vote for demagogues who oversimplify the issue, some even to cancel the program, all the while demanding that the lifestyle the program has given them continue unabated. ECS3 Argo arrives at Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] from Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]. ECS10 Challenger leaves Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] for Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star].
2203	ECS11 Mercury reaches Galileo Station [SS6: EV Lacertae] with ex-mutineers; sent to Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248]. Cyteen: Establishment of initial base at what becomes Novgorod.
2204	ECS5 Atlantis arrives at Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star] with additional supply; goes to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]. ECS6 Polaris arrives at Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; sent to Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248].
2205	ECS4 Golden Hind arrives at Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; sent to Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34].
2206	ECS3 Argo arrives at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] from Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani]. ECS9 Beagle arrives Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] from Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani]; sent to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]. ECS2 Valiant reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].
2207	ECS8 Gloriana reaches Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34] from Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; sent to Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248].
2208	ECS1 Gaia reaches Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni] after its epic journey, bringing the folk of Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]; some elect to remainAlpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star], but many go with ECS1 Gaia on to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].
2209	Word of Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star], is relayed to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]. ECS6 Polaris arrives at Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248] from Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; sent to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].
2210	ECS11 Mercury reaches Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248] from Galileo Station [SS6: EV Lacertae]; sent to Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34].
2211	ECS10 Challenger reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]; sent back to Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]. ECS4 Golden Hind reaches Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34]; sent the long journey to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].
2212	ECS3 Argo arrives at Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]. ECS9 Beagle Mariner Stationarrives at [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]; sent to Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650], eager for mission. ECS2 Valiant reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star].
2213	ECS8 Gloriana reaches Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248] from Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34]; sent to Galileo Station [SS6: EV Lacertae]. ECS1 Gaia reaches Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60], leaves all but a few of the Alpha colonists, goes on to Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34]. ECS5 Atlantis reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]; sent back to Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650].
2214	Word of rich world at Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti], is relayed to Sol. ECS6 Polaris arrives at Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; sent not to Galileo Station [SS6: EV Lacertae], which needs a ship, but because of the history of ECS6 Polaris and the folk of Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154], sent to Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni] instead.
2216	ECS11 Mercury reaches Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34]; sent to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti], since this ship is a pariah anyhow; it gets the bad runs and does not complain.
2218	ECS3 Argo reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]. ECS2 Valiant reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]; sent to Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] with medical technology that becomes the center of the Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] cloning program.
2219	ECS6 Polaris reaches Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni]; sent to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]. ECS1 Gaia reaches Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34], in its hegira toward Pell. She undertakes the long, long route to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].
2220	ECS10 Challenger reaches Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] with load of immigrants. Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] has come up with a life-process from a plant on the world below that has interesting implications for medicine. ECS10 Challenger is sent with load of samples to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]. One of the immigrants was a woman engaged in FTL physics, Estelle Bok. ECS8 Gloriana arrives at Galileo Station [SS6: EV Lacertae] from Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248]; sent to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].
2221	ECS9 Beagle reaches Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650], picks up more samples, delivers colonists; sent to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star].
2222	Word of Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] reaches Sol. ECS4 Golden Hind reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] with a flood of immigrants; pushes on to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]. ECS5 Atlantis reaches Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]; sent to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star].
2224	ECS6 Polaris arrives at Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60] from Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni]; sent to Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34]. ECS3 Argo reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star], sent to Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650].
2225	ECS8 Gloriana arrives at Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60] from Galileo Station [SS6: EV Lacertae]; sent to Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248].
2226	ECS4 Golden Hind reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] with immigrants; goes on to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star].
2227	ECS2 Valiant arrives at Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]; delivers medical supplies among other things, picks up new drug (rejuv) and samples and foodstuffs from the now viable program goes to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]. ECS11 Mercury arrives Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Sol.
2229	ECS10 Challenger reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star] from Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]; goes to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] with some of finds.
2230	Estelle Bok makes a major breakthrough and gets attention from her station management regarding the FTL theory. ECS9 Beagle reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star] from Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]. ECS8 Gloriana arrives at Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248] from Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; finds discontent, as many residents of Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248] feel that they are doomed to pointless existence in a backwater in support of Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; they are far from everything and their supply now comes from Pell, which they look to as a promised land. ECS8 Gloriana takes some representatives back from Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248] to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]. ECS6 Polaris reaches Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34]; sent to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]. ECS1 Gaia reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti], after its eleven year voyage from Olympus; goes on to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].
2231	ECS5 Atlantis reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].
2232	ECS4 Golden Hind reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]; sent to Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650].
2233	ECS3 Argo reaches Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]; detained against their will.
2234	THE FIRST FTL PROBE is launched from Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] and it reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star] and returns in the same year. Ignorant of all this, ECS1 Gaia reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] and is returned the short, safe journey back to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].
2235	ECS8 Gloriana arrives at Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60] with the discontent representatives of Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248]. ECS8 Gloriana heads out to Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni]. ECS11 Mercury reaches Sol; sent back to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]. ECS3 Argo is released from Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] to return to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]. ECS10 Challenger reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani].
2236	ECS9 Beagle reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] from Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]; in a conscious policy that is insulating Earth, which has a link to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti], from ships more thoroughly Beyonder. ECS9 Beagle sent back to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]. ECS2 Valiant Mariner Stationreaches [SS12: Van Maanan's Star] from Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650], sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]. ECS6 Polaris reaches Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; sent to Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni].
2237	ECS5 Atlantis back at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent out to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] in the increasing flood of goods and migrants.
2238	ECS1 Gaia back at Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti, from Pell, sent back again.
2240	ECS8 Gloriana reaches Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni] from Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; picks up many passengers, which overburdened Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni] is permitting, to return to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].
2241	ECS4 Golden Hind reaches Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]; sent to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]. ECS5 Atlantis reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34] with yet no inkling that FTL is in the works. ECS6 Polaris Bryant's Star Stationreaches [SS3: 61 Cygni] from Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; sent to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]. ECS10 Challenger reaches Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].
2242	ECS2 Valiant reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] from Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]; sent to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star], having conveyed some classified messages. ECS1 Gaia reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] at the same time from Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] and being entrusted with certain secret matters involving what is developing at Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650], heads back to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]. ECS3 Argo reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star], tells its tale, is sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]. ECS9 Beagle reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].
2243	ECS11 Mercury reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] from Sol with immigrants; sent back to Sol.
2245	ECS8 Gloriana unloads passengers at Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; returns to Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni].
2246	ECS6 Polaris reaches Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60] from Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni]; sent to Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248]. ECS1 Gaia reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] with the dispatches from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] and goes on to Sol.
2247	Bok's principle is applied on a large scale engine. ECS10 Challenger reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani].
2248	FIRST FTL SHIP The launching of FTL1 Aurora, which visits Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star] and returns to Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650], heralding the end of the sublights; she does not push much mass, but she is fast. ECS2 Valiant reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star], hears about FTL, gets herself headed toward Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]. ECS3 Argo Pell Stationreaches [SS10: Tau Ceti] complaining about treatment she got at Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]; sent on to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star] again. ECS9 Beagle reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]. Cyteen: Estelle Bok sends out first FTL probe.
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