The Xeelee Sequence-Timeline


Singularity: Big Bang

Era: Primeval

20 bya (billion years ago): Life forms in quagma broth. First contact between Xeelee and photino birds. Xeelee timeships begin modification of Xeelee evolutionary history.

10 bya: Construction of Ring begins. Birth of Sol.

5 bya: Assault on Ring by photino birds begins. Life on Earth emerges.

1 bya: First infestation of Sol by photino birds.


Era: Expansion

A.D. 3000 +: Opening up of Solar System with GUT and wormhole technology. First human extra-Solar expansion begins.

A.D. 3621: Birth of Michael Poole.

A.D. 3672: “The Sun-people”

A.D. 3698: “The Logic Pool”

Timelike Infinity

A.D. 3717: Launch of GUTship Cauchy.

A.D. 3825: “Gossamer”

A.D. 3829: Wormhole time-travel invasion by Occupation-Era Qax.

A.D. 3948: “Cilia-of-Gold”

A.D. 3951: “Lieserl”

A.D. 3953: Launch of GUTship Great Northern.

Era: Squeem Occupation

A.D. 4874: Conquest of human planets by Squeem.

A.D. 4874: “Pilot”

A.D. 4922: “The Xeelee Flower”

A.D. 4925: Overthrow of Squeem.

A.D. 5000 +: Second expansion begins.

A.D. 5024: “More Than Time or Distance”

A.D. 5066: “The Switch”


Era: Qax Occupation

A.D. 5088: Conquest of human planets by Qax.

A.D. 5274: Return to System of GUTship Cauchy. Launch of backward time-travel invasion by Qax.

A.D. 5406: “Blue Shift”

A.D. 5407: Overthrow of Qax. Humans acquire Spline and starbreaker technology.

A.D. 5500 +: Third expansion begins.

A.D. 5611: “The Quagma Datum”

A.D. 5653: “Planck Zero”

A.D. 5664: “Eve”


Era: Assimilation

A.D. 10,000 +: Humans dominant sub-Xeelee species. Rapid expansion and absorption of species and technologies. Launch of Xeelee time-ships into deep past.

A.D. 10515: “The Gödel Sunflowers”

A.D. 21124: “Vacuum Diagrams”


Era: The War to End Wars

A.D. 100,000 +: Humans assaults on Xeelee concentrations begin.

A.D. 104,858: “Stowaway”

Raft

A.D. 168,349: Launch of the Exaltation of the Integrality.

A.D. 171,257: “The Tyranny of Heaven”

A.D. 193,474: “Hero”

Flux

A.D. 1,000,000: Final siege of Solar System by Xeelee. Defeat and imprisonment of man.


Era: Flight

A.D. 4,000,000 +: Migration of Xeelee through Ring. Sol leaves Main Sequence.

C.A.D. 4,000,000: “Secret History”


Era: Photino Victory

A.D. 4,101,214: “Shell”

A.D. 4,101,266: “The Eighth Room”

A.D. 4,101,284: “The Baryonic Lords” Destruction of Ring by photino birds.

A.D. 5,000,000 +: Last humans return to Sol in GUTship Great Northern, and travel to Ring.

Ring

A.D. 10,000,000 +: Virtual extinction of baryonic life.


Singularity: Timelike Infinity
Загрузка...