SY 5335-5349: Secret Chancellor experiments on Earth engineer hybrid human variants as well as immortals incapable of reproduction.
SY 5341: On Hokkaido, Kara Syung is born to Perr and Li-Ann Syung.
SY 5346: Fetus No. 1977 reaches full term in SkyTower production lab on Earth and is deemed a viable human. He is named Royal.
SY 5350: The child Royal is sold to Hosan and Muna Lin Jee of Hokkaido as part of a classified project to seed colonies with engineered immortal children. Child is renamed Ryllen.
SY 5355: Terrorists led by hybrid humans and immortals destroy SkyTower on Earth, killing more than 130,000 humans.
SY 5357: Terrorist group known as Salvation destroys many Ark Carriers throughout the Collectorate, killing more than 2 million Chancellors. Under threat of further destruction, all Carriers return to Earth system. Salvation claims Hiebimini as its new home world.
SY 5358: Unification Guard loses 10,000 soldiers in calamitous attempt to destroy Salvation on Aeterna, the planet formerly known as Hiebimini. Battle is called “The Last Day’s War.” Chancellory’s hold on colonies collapses. Collectorate commerce halted. On Hokkaido, reprisals against Chancellor collaborators and threats of workers’ revolts destabilize economy. The People’s Legion – the central government – collapses. Provisional governments rise in its wake. A process of “social refinery” undermines power structure of the wealthiest families, especially on The Lagos.
SY 5360: Aeterna’s population of immortals who survived The Last Day’s War begin diplomatic and technological outreach to the colonies. Using new wormhole-driven method of transport, Aeternans begin recovery of immortals seeded throughout the Collectorate.
SY 5361: Earth Civil War begins between factions of the Chancellory and groups affiliated with the Solomons, a servant class recently given equal citizenship standing.
SY 5362: Aeternans deliver bicomm technology to colonial partners. On Hokkaido, Ryllen Jee turns 16 and joins Green Sun insurgency. Kara Syung, 20, joins Nantou Global’s Bio-research and Engineering Division.
SY 5363: Earth Civil War ends when final militant factions of the Chancellory are defeated by the Warner Alliance. 90 million dead. Thirty light-years from Earth, the long-idle Artemis Station is secretly reactivated.
SY 5364: Aeterna introduces commercial Slope wormhole travel to its first three colonial partners. On Hokkaido, Ryllen Jee is killed but discovers the truth of his immortal origins. He is 18.
SY 5365: On Hokkaido, Kara Syung and Ryllen Jee cross paths for the first time. Sectarian violence explodes. The truth about the planet’s Kye-Do rings is revealed.
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