Terra

For y’all new to the site and my stories, they take place in an alternate reality, on a world called Terra.

Superficially it is an analogue to Earth. The stories take place usually in the late 19th century or the early 23rd.

The calendar starts with the foundation of the Academy in Athens.

So,, if things seem ahistorical in what I publish, that’s why.

Here is a (very) old timeline:

The calendar of the Brethmanic Empire was established at the [arbitrarily chosen—proleptic] date of 0 with the traditionally accepted foundation of the Academy in Attica by Platon.

304–destruction of the First Academy

634–Millennial Festivities for Rom

689–Sinese-Qing “Ancestral Kingdom” collapses into chaos

700–Collapse of the Roman Empire upon the death of Diocletian

726–The start of Parsian Isolation

812–Burning of the Great Ptolomeic Library in Memphis. The traditionally accepted start of the Mythological Period/Rampage of Tigers/Dark Ages

916–Destruction of the Second Academy, associated with the Rampage of the Tigers

919-920–Scandian Fimblvintr; world-wide three year winter

947–Ravaging of the Sinti

950–End of the Rampage of the Tigers

1000-1200–Fantu Migrations to South Farad

1110-1230–Vandalia Migrations to Iberia and Northwest Farad

1300-1500–Rise of the Sinti Kingdoms

1301–Mazatlan sailors discover Europe, only to be imprisoned in the Black Tower in Brux, mistaken for foreign spies. They are later killed, having a had a local plague blamed on their presence.

1314–Scandian pirates discover Nuland and prey on Sinese fishermen already fishing its waters.

1461–Foundation of the Kingdom, or Khanate of Muskovy

1471–Vandalian scholars discover the only remaining chamber of the Ptolomeic Library in northern Kemetic, initiating the Renascemento

1479–Reconstruction of their Alamut Fortress of the Hashishim/Asasiyyun in Pars, left derelict from the 10th century

1487–The Sinese Kingdom of the Qing establishes a colony in northern Nuland

1488–Scandians establish a colony in central Nuland

1491–Vandalia establishes a colony in central Nuland and nearby islands

1492–Foundation of the University of Londbridge

1520-1525–Fars-Sinti War

1532–Foundation of the University of Sevia

1533–Foundation of the University of Brokken

1602–Union of the Kingdoms of Brythonia and Saxony

1628–The Kingdom of Brythonia and Saxony adopt the Attican Platonic Rule as the official religion of the Kingdoms

1657–Conquest of Frankreich, Prus and Pannonia by Brythonia-Saxony, beginning the Brethmanic Empire

1709-1745–Teh Brethmanic Empire conquers the Sinti Confederation

1743–The Brethmanic Empire captures Kemetic from the Vandalian Kingdom

1743–Establishment of the Thuggee assassin cult

1753–Establishment of the Attican Universal Church (Attican Platonic Rule combined with Sinti Brahmanism interpreted with regionally appropriate allegor)

1754-1761–Brethmanic-Fars-Muskovy War (alternately called the South Asia War)

1764-1767–War between Scandian and Qing Colonies in Nuland

1774-1776–Moritz Benyowski and Bengtson Franklin circumnavigate Terra, conquer Madagascar (later renamed Benyowskaya) for the Brethmanic Empire

1784-1796–Second Nuland War between Scandian and Qing Colonies

1823–Discovery of the Lost City of Popuc in the jungles of Locamoc by the Vandalian Expeditionary Force (including the famed Red Library)

1836–The partial translation of the Qacalatl Codex. Professor Ing Stomava of the University of Lusitania later goes insane. The Codex describes the mythological Tiger People as if they are real (referring to them as R’ksha) and ascribing the Dark Ages to their arrival

1840–The invention of the steam engine

1841–The invention of the dirigible

1843–The discovery of the hydrangeum process, allowing for the production of the safe and boyant gas

1847-1852–The construction of the first railway between Londbridge and Aachenberg, followed by the Londbridge Metropolitan Railway

1852-1857–Nippon-Sangul War; it ends with the defeat and occupation of the Sangul kingdom

1858–The invention of the Tesla Device (short range wireless)

1866–The invention of the Naskovich Device (physical levitation/gravity control)

1867–Royal marriage of Wilhelm and Victoria in Aachenberg Cathedral

1869–The invention of the Heimhold Device (death ray); Death of Emperor Fredrick in a hunting accident in the Sint. Wilhelm becomes Emperor

1870–The University of Londbridge establishes the College of Electro-Mechanics; invention of the Sehen-Sprechen Device (audio-video wireless by means of Everettite)

1871–Invention of the Daguerreotype photograph

1885–Events in the ealier portion of Cyanide Blue/Ettiquette of Empire/Melted Cowboys

1901–The Great War between the Brethmanic Empire and Muskovy

1928–The Second World War between the Brethmanic Empire-Vandalian Alliance and the Muskovite-Qing-Fantu Alliance

1953-1970–Consolidation of the World Congress of Commerce, AKA WCC

1970–year 0 of the WCC calendar

2005–First self-aware AI

2025–Establishment of the first permanent colony on Luna

2031-2048–Movement of the entire human population into cities and out of the Wilds

2036-2038–The Short War; AI units versus AI units; heavy human losses

2051–WCC ban on fully aware AI

2055–First human presence on Ares

2071-2112–eradication of the Scandian barbarians

2211–Self-aware AIs return

2334 (ish)–Events of the later parts of Cyanide Blue/Ettiquette of Empire/Puppetry/Human Resources, etc.

This is not set in stone, as I made it up twenty years ago for a completely different purpose. That, having been said, it provides a rough timeline for the history of Terra.

I snipped out around 300 years of history parallel with that of Earth, so essentially, Terra is 300 years behind, but more advanced relative to Earth.

[note to self: find the exact notes detailing the parallels…}

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