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aCHRONOLOGY – Continued
2250 ECS8 Gloriana reaches Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni]; shuttles again to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].

ECS4 Golden Hind reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star], realizes she has been beaten by an FTL, puts about again for Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650].

2251 ECS11 Mercury reaches Sol from Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].

ECS6 Polaris reaches Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248] from Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; sent to Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34].

2252 ECS5 Atlantis reaches Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34], picks up immigrants and power module and pushes a huge load to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].
2253 Word of the FTL ship reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS10 Challenger reaches Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani]; heads for Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

2254 ECS3 Argo reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star], realizes what it was all about and runs back to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS9 Beagle reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star], heads back for Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS1 Gaia reaches Sol with Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] dispatches and is sent back.

2255 ECS8 Gloriana reaches Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; back to Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni].
2256 (Alternate text update: Word of FTL reaches Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60];

ECS2 Valiant reaches Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650], applies for conversion with ulterior motives.

Sol launches ECS22 Intrepid, a warship, to bring order to the Beyond

ECS3 Argo arrives at Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star];

ECS4 Golden Hind arrives at Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]; sees FTL ships in operation; applies for conversion (2 years).

2257 ECS2 Valiant reaches Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]; applies for FTL conversion.

ECS6 Polaris reaches Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34]; sent to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].

(Alternate text update: ECS1 Gaia reaches Beta Station [SS2: Alpha Centauri];

2258 Alternate text update: ECS4 Golden Hind arrives at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; heads for Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].

ECS5 Atlantis recommissioned FTLECS5 Atlantis goes out to Mariner Station (SS12: Van Maanan's Star];

2259 ECS4 Golden Hind reaches Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650], applies for FTL conversion.

ECS11 Mercury reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Sol.

ECS10 Challenger reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].

2260 ECS8 Gloriana reaches Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni]; goes to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60] again.

ECS2 Valiant conversion complete, now FTLECS2 Valiant

Launched, she mutinies against the Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] supervisors and heads for Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS3 Argo reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti], sent on to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] with disturbing news of Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]'s administration.

ECS9 Beagle reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star].

2261 Word of the FTL ship reaches Sol where it touches off financial crisis.

Confirming this and getting hold of the technology becomes high priority.

FTLECS2 Valiant reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] and is sent on to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].

2262 ECS4 Golden Hind recommissioned as FTLECS4 Golden Hind; launched to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]; and Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] and back.

She will make innumerable trips as the century goes on, but her crew is put off and confined to prison, a matter of great bitterness on both sides.

FTLECS2 Valiant having delivered its technology to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] is now at Sol being studied, and is launched again to a lightning tour of the stations.

ECS1 Gaia reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti], to realize that FTL's are now a reality; she goes to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

An FTL ship calls at Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60], and Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star];

2263 FTLECS2 Valiant visits Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star] and Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni].

ECS5 Atlantis just barely reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; heads on with her load to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS6 Polaris reaches Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; sent to Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni].

ECS10 Challenger reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; takes passengers, goes to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

(Alternate text update: News of FTL reaches Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]; by non FTL.

ECS6 Polaris conversion complete at Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650].

2264 FTLECS2 Valiant reaches Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].

ECS3 Argo reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti], but by now is really outmoded; she heads back to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

(Alternate text update: That FTL ship is back at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS3 Argo arrives at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti], sees an FTL; knows its age is over; seeks conversion to FTL; goes to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star].

ECS4 Golden Hind arrives at Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; heads for Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni]).

2265 ECS8 Gloriana reaches Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; goes to Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni] as word of the FTL discovery creates confusion.

Colonists who know the economics of the matter now see FTL as linking big trading points, and they're not on the route.

ECS8 Gloriana leaves without many passengers as Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni] erupts in riots; it goes to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].

Panicked station authorities call Sol for instruction.

FTLECS2 Valiant reaches Galileo Station [SS6: EV Lacertae] and Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248].

2266 FTLECS2 Valiant reaches Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34].

Sol launches armed FTLECS12 Gemini to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti], demanding that the system be held together willy nilly, that no more colonization be done without approval from the Company.

Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] launches Esperance by FTL pusher.

Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] launches FTLECS12 Gemini to Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani] to reassure it of its importance:

Tripoint is charted and navigated successfully.

The era of the sublights is finished.

ECS9 Beagle reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]; returns to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS1 Gaia reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] and applies for FTL conversion.

2267 ESPERANCE (SS14) WORKING

Esperance founded.

FTL1 Aurora returns to Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650].

ECS5 Atlantis reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] and applies for conversion as FTLECS5 Atlantis.

ECS11 Mercury reaches Sol; applies for FTL conversion.

ECS10 Challenger reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].

(Alternate text update: Hinder Star stations being stripped in earnest now to go to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

The last exodus of the big sublights.

ECS1 Gaia arrives at Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60], realizing the war and history have passed her by; she surrenders to the inevitable and takes on passengers headed for Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti], to assure the composition of Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] is favorable to the Earth Company; ECS1 Gaia is loyal to the end.

ECS7 Santa Maria arrives at Venture Station [SS:5 Krueger 60], discovers situation, goes to Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni], defying ECS1 Gaia.)

2268 ECS6 Polaris reaches Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni] to discover history has passed her by; she is commandeered by frightened citizens of Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni] to push their Module to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].

ECS3 Argo reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] and applies for FTL conversion.

(Alternate text Golden Hindupdate: ECS4 arrives at Bryant's Star [SS3: 61 Cygni], discovers it virtually mothballed. Goes to Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star].)

2269 FTLECS1 Gaia launched as a Pell ship, a great psychological advantage to the Pro-Earthers.
2270 ECS8 Gloriana reaches Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60] and takes colonists who are headed for Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] and the beyond on to Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34].

Sol launches FTLECS11 Mercury to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

2271 FTLECS5 Atlantis launched.

FTLECS3 Argo commissioned from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti], a ship never trustful of Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650], due to its history.

ECS10 Challenger reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; takes passengers, heads for Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

Alternate text update: ECS7 Santa Maria arrives at Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]; fights battle to keep from being commandeered and heads for Sol).

2272 Shuttling FTL's link Sol and Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti], but it is clear that the value of Earth's commerce has sunk enormously since Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]. There is a demand for a payback tax to offset Earth's depression and FTL's enforce this.

Rejuv has further created both a demand for goods and a social crisis as the rich can live long.

The drug is outlawed. This only increases its value.

ECS9 Beagle puts into Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; applies for conversion.

Birth of Ilya Bogdanovitch;

Cyteen: Birth of Jane Strassen.

Alternate text update: ECS3 Argo arrives at Mariner Station SS12: Van Maanan's Star]; fights battle to keep from being commandeered and heads for Sol.)

ECS4 Golden Hind arrives at Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star] and falls to mutiny; taken to Bryant's Star [SS3: 61 Cygni].

2273 Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] launches FTL Gagarin

ECS6 Polaris reaches Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60] with its load of Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni] colonists; discovers it has no papers, is held in red tape, cannot get cArgo; is finally put out with its meager cArgo which has turned to junk in the passage of time; it heads for Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34].

(Alternate text update: ECS1 Gaia arrives at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; Konstantin family arrives at with ECS1 Gaia.

ECS1 Gaia moves on to Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani])

2275 ECS10 Challenger reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; applies for FTL conversion.
2276 ECS8 Gloriana reaches Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34] with the refugees from Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; goes on the major journey to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].

ECS9 Beagle launched as FTLECS9 Beagle.

(Alternate text update: ECS4 Golden Hind with crew of mutineers arrives at Bryant's Star [SS3: 61 Cygni]; goes to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].)

2277 Word of the disturbance at Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni] reaches Sol, but the message is no longer valid.

(Alternate text update: ESPERANCE FOUNDS PAN-PARIS.)

ECS7 Santa Maria arrives at Sol; speaks of danger building about Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]; is stripped and recommissioned as ECS 145 Montgomery).

2279 ECS6 Polaris reaches Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34] with its sad journey and does take on some of the desperate.

ECS10 Challenger launched from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] as FTLECS10 Challenger.

ECS4 Golden Hind find Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60] virtually mothballed and the war in full swing; a frantic conference; the mutineers divert to Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154], which is long dead).

2280 Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] launches Fargone

(Alternate text update: Sol commissions the building of FTL warships.

ECS1 Gaia reaches Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani]; goes to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star].

ECS3 Argo reaches Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]).

2281 FTL Finity's End launched from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].
2282 FTL Dublin launched from Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650].

Cyteen: Death of James Carnath, co-founder of Reseune.

2283 A whole new range of merchanters are set out, as commerce and building boom.

(Alternate Date Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] founds Fargone).

Cyteen: Birth of Jane Strassen

2284 Earth bans emigration, feeling it is losing control of things.
2285 The administrative head of the Beyond is officially set at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti], not Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; there is much bitterness over this;

The Lukas family, prominent as Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti], is sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti], where the Konstantins have control.

(Alternate text update: FTL warships enforce the Visas)

Musa born in deep space, aboard one of the last sub-lights: Gloriana.

2287 ECS8 Gloriana reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] on its journey with the colonists of Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60] and Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34].

(Alternate text update: ECS1 Gaia reaches Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani]; goes to Esperance.

ECS4 Golden Hind reaches lonely Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154]; attempts to get supplies; now in trouble: reactivates Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154] briefly and stays three years.)

2290 ECS6 Polaris reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] and realizes she is hopelessly outmoded; she defies local authority and leaves with a cargo time has turned to junk--not even antiques.

Cyteen: Death of Olga Emory co-founder of Reseune; Gregory Carnath becomes director of Reseune.

2291 ECS8 Gloriana reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; applies for conversion, but is finally turned into an ore carrier while the crew is transferred to the new ship FTLECS2 Valiant.

(Alternate text Golden Hindupdate: ECS4 leaves Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154] bound for Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]).

Cyteen: Birth of Giraud Nye.

2292 Shooting breaks out as Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti], already harried, finds it has to charge duty and this is not a popular policy.
2294 ECS6 Polaris reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti], applies for conversion she can't pay for: economics are against her; her crew refuses the assignment of a new ship; they go for Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star] in a grandiose stubbornness. This is the last run of the old sublights, and many people are sad to see it happen.

ECS1 Gaia meets with the captains of ECS6 Polaris at Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star] and try to talk her out of it, which only embitters the situation.

2297 (Alternate text update: ECS1 Gaia reaches Esperance; hopelessly antiquated; goes over the Rim).

ECS4 Golden Hind mutineers find Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star] a military base; they are arrested, remanded to Sol FTL;

ECS4 Golden Hind is abandoned).

2298 FTL's are being produced and converted at a high rate.

Ships dock and the wild and wooly dockside bars and sleepovers proliferate, getting wilder as more than one ship may be in dock at a time.

As the crisis gets worse, as Union begins to take shape as a place where Sol law can't be enforced, the life of the Beyond gets better, the lifestyle more luxurious, the shooting taking place far from the stations.

Even the merchanters take the whole developing war lightly, except as they have to deal with Sol, since they trade as they like and generally while they are armed now, they pay little attention to politics except to develop a thriving black market trade.

Earth politics grows hopelessly corrupt because of rejuv smuggling. The temptation to politicians to live forever is very severe, but since it is also pretty obvious that one is doing rejuv, and the addiction is permanent, it results in some notorious scandals, some shootings, some false claims to have reduplicate the process and some general nastiness; ultimately it is rejuv that drives Earth to try to bring Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] back into the fold, and that which precipitates the Company Wars, the tax being a nuisance that might have been ignored if it had not alienated Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650].

(Alternate text update: The mutineers are pardoned because of circumstances; their sons and daughters (many of them) go to the service).

2299 ECS6 Polaris is still travelling through a war she never made, through events she does not participate in, but still she keeps going, a flying dutchman about whom ballads are written.
2300 ECS6 Polaris reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star], heads for Esperance.

Founding of Union; BEGINNING OF COMPANY WARS


End of Alliance/Union Chronology

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