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This article, and its companions, are the HTMLized version of the complete Fading Suns Timeline compiled by several participants in the Fading Suns Mailing List.
| Volume | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| Fading Suns Rulebook (2nd Edition) | "Core" |
| Fading Suns Players Companion | PC |
| Lords of the Known Worlds | "LotKW" |
| Star Crusade 1: Vuldrok & Kurgans | SC |
| Star Crusade 2: Lost Worlds | SC2 |
| Byzantium Secundus | BII |
| Children of the Gods | CotG |
| Dark between the Stars | "DbtS" |
| Forbidden Lore: Technology | FL:T |
| Legions of the Empire | "LotE" |
| Weird Places | "WP" |
| Merchants of the Jumpweb | "MotJW" |
| Priests of the Celestial Sun | "PotCS" |
| Imperial Survey 1: Hawkwood Fiefs | "IS1" |
| Imperial Survey 2: Al-Malik Fiefs | "IS2" |
Date |
Event |
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| 2600 | Battle of New Istambul
First Republic loses New Istambul - later known as Byzantium Secundus (LotKW, pg 89) | |
| c. 2600 | First mention of the name 'Li-Halan' in extant records (LotKW, pg 70) | |
| early 2600s | Munir ibn Tarif creates Lutkin-76, psilaser and Luxdei-3 while working for the Bashshar Corporation of Criticorum (LotKW, pg 89). | |
| 2609 | Wolf's Lament (originally known as Seepcombe) discovered, the colony fails within fifty years of its foundation (SC, 79). | |
| 2610 | Death of Robert Windsor-Habsburg, Zenobiah becomes Governor of Delphi (LotKW, pg 14). | |
| 2613 | Gjartin religion founded on Sutek by Edgar Vollmak (PC, 53). | |
| 2633 | Obun records on spaceflight found (CotG p. 37). | |
| 2634 | Obun achieve spaceflight (CotG p. 15). | |
| 2650 | Spacestation Farhallen Station operational on Velisamil (CotG p. 38). | |
| c. 2650 | Cometary impact on Hira's jumpgate results in the world becoming lost (SC, 13). | |
| c. 2661 | Almira ibn Tarif (Munir's grand-daughter) marries into the Al-Malik clan (LotKW, pg 89). | |
| 2680 | Human colony established on Cadiz (PC, 135). | |
| 2683 | First contact with the Hironem by House Gloucester (PC, 135). For reasons of their own House Gloucester does not reveal the existence of an intelligent alien race on Cadiz to the wider universe. | |
| 2685 | Edgar Vollmak dies (PC, 53). | |
| 2700 | Intelligence of Shantor discovered, effective date of first contact (Core, 17). | |
| 2701 | Birth of Amalthea (p. 101 PotCS). | |
| 2708 | Poe's Rebellion drives Governor of Criticorum offworld. Bashshar Corporation seizes power.
Larrane and Ostgard rebel against Bashshar rule. (IS2, pg 1). | |
| 2711 | Dr. Viktor Domokos Erling comes to Tethys to live with Amalthea's family (p. 101 PotCS)
Amalthea experiences the "Miracle on the Hill" (p. 102 PotCS) | |
| 2723 | Age of Miracles Begins
Prophet sees the Holy Flame and begins to preach the Omega Gospels (Core, 17). | |
| 2730 | Shantor revolt on Shaprut and creation of reservation system (Core, 17). | |
| 2734 | Obun colonize solar system (CotG p. 15). | |
| 2742 | Pandava family of Shaprut overthrow Windsor governors and found a dynasty (IS2, pg 10). | |
| 2745 | City of Tyre (future home of Doramus the Worldbuilder) founded on Istakhr (IS2, pg 25).
First contact with the Vau (Core, 17). | |
| 2753 | Birth of Palamedes Alecto (p. 22 PotCS) | |
| 2797 | First contact with the Obun (CotG, 15 & 21). | |
| 2799 | Zebulon visits Ravenna (IS1, pg 9).
The date given for this event in IS1 is acyually 2899, but as this is half a century after his martyrdom I felt justified in moving the date back a century. If the canonical date fits your purposes however... | |
| c. 2800 | First contact with the Oro'ym on Madoc (PC, 156).
Human and Oro'ym diseases ravage each others' populations (PC, 154). Native American colonists under Wolf Cries in the Night succeed in colonizing Wolf's Lament after the legendary sacrifice of his daughter Tingleska First Dawn to the Tundra-Wolves (SC, 114). | |
| 2803 | Ven Lohji converts (CotG p. 15). | |
| 2817 | House Gloucester (of Severus) allies with House Hawkwood (LotKW, pg 32) | |
| 2818 | House Decados lays claim to all House Gloucester holdings (LotKW, pg 32).
First contact between the Ascorbites of Severus and the Decados (PC, 145). After initial troubles the two settle into an amicable, if rather distant, working relationship. | |
| c. 2820 | Discovery of Grail, first contact with the Etyri and the Zhuil'hishtu (PC, 125).
Jakovian Agency operatives foment rebellion and instigate the Semak Massacre on Cadiz in a plot to put the Hironem into a position of dependency upon House Decados (PC, 137). | |
| 2820s | Mantis League and Jakovian Agency founded (Lot KW, pg 32). | |
| c. 2830 | A band of Etyri act as honour guard for Amalthea and Zebulon during their time with the Disciples on Grail (PC, 125). | |
| 2833 | City of Tyre on Istakhr first sacked by Clans Hashim, Jansheed and Jawhar (IS2, pg 25). | |
| 2838 | Jakob Decados inherits position as head of the house from his brother (LotKW, pg 33). | |
| 2845 | Zebulon's vision of the Universal Flame gains moderate acceptance (LotE p.13) | |
| 2845 | Humanity's first encounter with the Vau (p.22 PotCS) | |
| 2847 | City of Tyre on Istakhr finally destroyed (IS2, pg 25 & WP p. 75). | |
| 2848 | Jakob Decados killed by Hawkwood legates on the Alexander (LotKW, pg 34). | |
| 2849 | Analise Hawkwood murdered by House Decados (IS1, pg 24 & LotKW, pg 15). | |
| 2849 |
Martyrdom of the Prophet: Age of Miracles Ends
Zebulon's mission to the Vau (p. 22 PotCS) leads to the death of the Prophet. | |
| 2850 | Palamedes Alecto declares himself first Patriarch of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (FLT 99). | |
| c. 2850 | Benjamin Verdan Justinian leads diplomatic efforts to the Vau worlds (Core, 21).
Zhuil'hishtu begin war against human colonists and their Etyri allies (PC, 125). Within 50 years the Zhuil'hishtu are believed extinct. Etyri law codified by Law-Singer Aabvap-Wadahp (PC, 128). | |
| 2851 | First Synod confirms Palamedes as Patriarch (p. 22, p. 35 PotCS) | |
| 2853 | Fingisvold discovered (SC, 79). | |
| 2854 | Universal Church firmly established on a dozen worlds (p. 22 PotCS)
Second Synod moves Church's centre from Midian to Terra (p. 22, p 35 PotCS) Palamedes and Amalthea vie for followers (pp. 22-23 PotCS) | |
| 2855 | Human-Ukari War begins.
The Church, under Palamades Alecto, unites humanity (Core, 17). Shaprut isolated. King Ariavayya Pandava dies in Shantor rebellion. Pandavas overthrown by Balahadra Ramakrishna in the Midnight Revolution (IS2, pg 10). | |
| 2860 | Palamedes releases "Message to the Colonists," his (and the Church's) first statement about technology (FLT 99).
Baron Morihei Hashiman Li Halan commissioned chapel to Sathra on Manitou (WP p. 60) | |
| 2865 | Baron Morihei Hashiman Li Halan locks himself and his followers in chapel on Manitou, never to be heard from again (WP p. 60) | |
| 2870 | Ukari return to Istakhr (CotG p. 69). | |
| 2875 | Sister Cavana writes the "Blessitudes" and creates the Church's moral hierarchy on actions, including acceptable and unacceptable ways to use technology. (FLT 99) | |
| c. 2880 | Rauhina (Hargard) colonized from Shaprut (SC, 79). | |
| 2892 | Human warfleets surround and bombard Kordeth. Fierce fighting continues on Aylon and Istakhr (CotG p. 52). | |
| 2899 | Raven discovered and settled from Wolf's Lament (SC, 79 & 111). | |
| c. 2900 | Followers of the Universal Church make first pilgrimages to the Madrasa al-Azhar on Khayyam, rumoured home of Saint Horace (SC, 48). | |
| 2910 | Thodun Sharakta oj Malak takes thrown (CotG p. 54). | |
| 2913 | Palamedes declares a cleansing against the Zuranists (p. 130 PotCS). | |
| 2950 | Clan Hashim seize the Istakhr Market and found Samarkand (IS2, pg 26). | |
| 2957 | Holy Synod passes the Doctrine of the Unethical Alien (p. 23 PotCS). | |
| 2989 | Thodun Sharakta oj Malak dies; his successor is Rajan oh Malak (CotG p. 54) | |
| 2996 | Rajan released from prison, but stripped of power (CotG p. 55). | |
| 2999 | Wrecked and abandoned Vau warship enters Known Worlds through Midian jumpgate. The Vau deny any knowledge of what happened to the ship and itis returned to them, after a team removes the repulsor-plates onboard, thus granting such technology to humanity. (FLT 92) | |
| 3000 | Rajan slain in an unsuccessful rebellion (CotG p. 55).
Rajan's Ialtach continues to lead the rebellion on Kordeth (CotG p. 55). | |
| 3011 | Leonardo Li Halan "The Magnificent" born (DbtS p. 14). | |
| 3019 | Ukar war on Istakhr (to 3022); Ukar villages annihilated (CotG p. 69). | |
| 3020 | Palamedes dies at age 267 (p. 23 PotCS). | |
| 3031 | Rajan's Ialtach finally retires to the Cave of Sorrows (CotG p. 55). | |
| 3041 | St. Sabrinus slain preaching to the Ukari (CotG p. 68). | |
| 3119 | Cardinal Constantine of Midian writes about the Hesychasts (p. 122 PotCS). | |
| 3125 | Last (disputed) sighting of an Oro'ym (PC, 154). | |
| c. 3200 | Caspari family become Dukes of Criticorum (Is2, pg 2). | |
| 3217 | Leonardo Li Halan "The Magnificent" dies (DbtS p. 14). | |
| 3233 | Last known Golopin ("Feathered Horse") shot and killed on Aylon (DbtS p. 71). | |
| 3308 | Bjorn the Berserker, head of House Torenson, declares himself Prince of Aylon (IS2, pg 19). | |
| 3338 | House Cameton seizes control of New Istanbul from House Hamid (BII p. 15) | |
| 3390 | Arif Al-Malik born (IS2, pg 26). | |
| c. 3400 | Leading noble houses have become indebted to the Market Authority on New Istanbul; merchants begin agitating for greater political freedom (BII p. 17) | |
| 3412 | Arif Al-Malik disappears into the Istakhr deserts (LotKW, pg 89). | |
| 3414 | Arif Al-Malik returns and, with his doctrine of the Lover's Calling, gathers the Malwa (White Dancers) (LotKW, pg 89) | |
| 3417 | Arif's "Shaprut Exile" begins during which he writes "The Democracy of Wind and Stars" (LotKW, pg 89). Note: the book gives the date of his exile as 3407, _before_ he went into the desert. I consider this to be a typo... | |
| 3418 | Arif Al-Malik returns to Istakhr. Nawar Caspari attempts to have him assassinated, but eventually converts to the Path of Tarif herself (LotKW, pg 89) | |
| 3421 | Nawar Caspari weds Arif Al-Malik (IS2, pg 2) | |
| 3422 | Universal Voting Act passed on Criticorum (IS2, pg 2) | |
| c. 3430 | Rauhina settled by Ramakrishna dynasty from Shaprut (IS, 11 & SC, 106). | |
| 3430s | Arundhati Rama Ramakrishna becomes Queen of Shaprut. Shantor reservations on Shaprut enlarged (IS2, pg 11). | |
| 3440 | St. Ostreain slain preaching to the Ukari (CotG p. 68). | |
| 3443 | Deacon Giacoma della Ciccolini creates The Little Catechism of Constantius and Constultus as a moral guideline for the young (p. 88 PotCS). | |
| 3450 | Humanity is composed of over a dozen separate groups. Start of the Unity War.(LotE p.14) | |
| 3460 | Queen Arundhati Rama Ramakrishna founds Academy of Girivaja (IS2, pg 11). | |
| c. 3470 | Bjorn Egon a student at Ravonhearst Academy on Khayyam (SC, 49). | |
| 3478 | Arif Al-Malik (six times President of Istakhr) is voted the title of Amir (Protector) by his adoring populace (LotKW, pg 90). | |
| 3480 | Arif Al-Malik dies (LotKW, pg 90). | |
This file last modified 16/08/2000.
