Xeeleeverse Timeline

ERA: Primordial

• ~13.7bya (billion years ago): Life born with universe.
• ~13.5bya: First stars. First contact between Xeelee and photino birds. Xeelee timeships begin modification of Xeelee evolutionary history.
• ~10bya: Construction of Bolder’s Ring begins. Birth of Sol.
• ~5bya: Assaults on Ring by photino birds begin. Life on Earth emerges.
• ~1bya: First infestation of Sol by photino birds.
• ~1 million years ago: Galaxy core explosion caused by Xeelee activity.

ERA: Earth

• AD (starts around ~405) 476-2005: Events of Coalescent. Emergence of first human ‘hive’ in Rome. Exact start unknown but mentions to 405 AD is in reference to Emperor Honorius, and around time Britain 'left' Rome was 410 ad.
• AD 2047: Events of Transcendent (see also ~AD 500,000)

ERA: Expansion

• AD 3000+: Opening up of Sol system. First Expansion of humanity to the stars begins.
• AD 3621: Birth of Michael Poole.
• AD 3672: ‘The Sun-People’ **.
• AD 3685: ‘Return to Titan’ ***.
• AD 3698: ‘The Logic Pool’ **.
• AD 3717: Launch of GUTship Cauchy. Events of Timelike Infinity begin.
• AD 3825: ‘Gossamer’ **.
• AD 3829: Wormhole time-travel invasion by Occupation-Era Qax (Timelike Infinity)
• AD 3948: ‘Cilia-of-Gold’ **.
• AD 3951: ‘Lieserl’ **: Events of Ring begin (see also AD 5,000,000).
• AD 3953: Launch of GUTship Great Northern.
• AD4820: ‘Starfall’ ***: collapse of solar empire.

ERA: Squeem Occupation

• AD 4874: Conquest of human planets by Squeem.
• AD 4874: ‘Pilot’ **.
• AD 4922: ‘The Xeelee Flower’ **.
• AD 4925: Overthrow of Squeem. Second Expansion begins.
• AD 5024: ‘More Than Time or Distance’ **.
• AD 5066: ‘The Switch’ **.
• AD 5071: ‘Remembrance’ ***.

ERA: Qax Occupation

• AD 5088: Conquest of human planets by Qax.
• AD 5274: Return to System of GUTship Cauchy. Launch of backward time-travel invasion by Qax. Establishment of Qax wormhole to future (~AD 5700) (Timelike Infinity).
• AD 5301: ‘Cadre Siblings’ *.
• AD 5406: ‘Blue Shift’ **.
• AD 5407: ‘Conurbation 2473’ *. Overthrow of Qax. Humans acquire Spline and starbreaker technology.

ERA: Resurgence

• AD 5408: ‘Reality Dust’ *. Third Expansion begins under Coalition government.
• AD 5420: ‘Mayflower II’ *. Launch of generation starship Mayflower II. (See also AD 24974.)
• AD 5478: ‘All in a Blaze’ *

ERA: The War with the Ghosts

• AD 5499: ‘Silver Ghost’ *: first contact with the Silver Ghosts.
• AD 5611: ‘The Quagma Datum’ **.
• AD 5653: ‘Planck Zero’ **.
• AD 5664: ‘Soliton Star’ **.
• AD 5802: ‘The Cold Sink’ *. The Ghost wars break out.
• AD 5810: ‘The Seer and the Silverman’ ***.
• AD 6454: ‘On the Orion Line’ *.
• AD 7004: ‘Ghost Wars’ *. End of effective resistance by the Ghosts.
• AD 7524: ‘The Ghost Pit’ *.

ERA: Assimilation

• AD 10,000+: Humans dominant sub-Xeelee species. Rapid expansion and absorption of species and technologies. Launch of Xeelee timeships into deep past.
• AD 10102: ‘Lakes of Light’ *
• AD 10515: ‘The Gödel Sunflowers’ **.
• AD 10537: ‘Breeding Ground’ *
• AD 12478: ‘The Dreaming Mould’ *
• AD 12659: ‘The Great Game’*. Initiation of hostilities with the Xeelee.

ERA: The War for the Galaxy

• AD 20424: ‘The Chop Line’ *.
• AD 21124: ‘Vacuum Diagrams’ **.
• AD 22254: ‘In the Un-Black’*.
• AD 23479: ‘Riding the Rock’ *.
• AD 24973: Events of Exultant. The human conquest of the centre of the Galaxy.

ERA: The Shadow of Empire

• AD 24974: ‘Mayflower II’ *. Retrieval of generation starship Mayflower II.
• c.AD 25,000+: Collapse of central Coalition government. Conflict among successor states.
• AD 27152: ‘Between Worlds’ *
• c.AD 40,000+: The Bifurcation of Mankind.

ERA: The War to End Wars

• c.AD 90,000+: Reunification.
• c.AD 100,000+: Human assaults on Xeelee concentrations across the supercluster.
• AD 104,858+: Events of Raft
• AD 104,858: ‘Stowaway’ **.
• AD 168,349: Launch of the Exaltation of the Integrality.
• AD 171,257: ‘The Tyranny of Heaven’ **.
• AD 193,474: ‘Hero’ **.
• c.AD 193,700: Events of Flux
• c.AD 200,000+: Establishment of Commonwealth by ‘undying’. Continued conflict with Xeelee.
• c. AD 500,000: Events of Transcendent (see also AD 2047). The high-water mark of human destiny.

ERA: The Fall of Mankind

• c.AD 500,000+: The retreat of mankind begins. Fragmentation of human unity. The Long Calm.
• c.AD 700,000+: The Xeelee Scourge. Intervention of photino birds in stellar evolution becomes significant.
• c.AD 1,000,000: ‘The Siege of Earth’ *. Final siege of Sol system by Xeelee. Defeat and imprisonment of mankind.

ERA: Flight

• c.AD 1-4,000,000: Xeelee and photino birds’ transformation of baryonic universe.
• c. AD 4,000,000+: Migration of Xeelee through Ring. Sol leaves Main Sequence.
• c. AD 4,000,000: ‘Secret History’ **.
• AD 4,101,214: ‘Shell’ **.
• AD 4,101,266: ‘The Eighth Room’ **.
• AD 4,101,284: ‘The Baryonic Lords’ **.
• c.AD 4,900,000: Final destruction of Ring by photino birds begins.

ERA: Photino Victory

• c.AD 5,000,000+: Last humans return to Sol in GUTship Great Northern, and travel to Ring: Events of Ring (see also AD 3953).
• AD 10,000,000+: Virtual extinction of baryonic life. Most of the last humans survive on a time-shifted Earth.

ERA: Old Earth

• AD 3.8 billion years: ‘PeriAndry’s Quest’ ***.
• AD 4 billion years: ‘Climbing the Blue’ ***.
• AD 4.5 billion years: ‘The Time Pit’ ***.
• AD 4.8 billion years: ‘The Lowland Expedition’ ***.
• AD 5 billion years: ‘Formidable Caress’ *** . Collision of Milky Way Galaxy with Andromeda.

* Collected in Resplendent (2006).

** Collected in Vacuum Diagrams (1997)

*** Collected in Xeelee: Endurance (2015)