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aCHRONOLOGY – Continued
2114 ECS3 Argo reaches Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni] from Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; sent to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].

ECS10 Challenger arrives at Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS4 Golden Hind reaches Sol; sent to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].
2115 Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154] LEARNS OF ALIENS
2116 ECS8 Gloriana arrives at Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248] from Galileo Station [SS6: EV Lacertae]; sent to Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34].

ECS7 Santa Maria arrives at Sol from Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]; sent to Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star].

ECS9 Beagle arrives at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] from Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]

Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star] uses their reserve engine, shipped from Sol, to build a new ship, ECS11 Mercury; launched to Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154].
2117 ECS6 Polaris arrives at Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154] from Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]; sent to Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star].

ECS1 Gaia reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Sol.

ECS2 Valiant reaches Beta Station [SS2: Alpha Centauri] from Sol; sent to Sol.
2118 Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] builds another module, growing into a major station; the system is rich in metals as well as life.

ECS10 Challenger arrives at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].
2119 ECS3 Argo arrives at Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60] from Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni]; sent to Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni].
2120 ECS9 Beagle arrives at Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].
2121 High expectations of ECS11 Mercury at Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154] are dashed as ECS11 Mercury goes overdue.
2122 ECS8 Gloriana arrives at Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34] from Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248]; sent to Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248].

ECS2 Valiant arrives at Sol from Beta Station [SS2: Alpha Centauri]; sent to Beta Station [SS2: Alpha Centauri].

ECS10 Challenger arrives at Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS4 Golden Hind arrives at Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] from Sol with inquiries; sent on to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS6 Polaris reaches Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star] from Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154]; is sent back over objections.

ECS11 Mercury shows up at Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154] a year late, with particle damage. Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154] is in deep despond.
2123 ECS7 Santa Maria arrives at Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star] from Sol; sent to Unlucky ECS5 Atlantis arrives at Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni] in a situation they do not fully understand.

Commerce is shifting; they go for Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].
2124 ECS9 Beagle arrives at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] from Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].

ECS3 Argo arrives at Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni] from Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; sent to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].

ECS11 Mercury still under repairGlory Station [SS4: Ross 154].
2125 ECS1 Gaia, the grand old dame of space, arrives at Sol from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] and Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] with direct observation of aliens; assures a nervous Earth that the aliens are primitives.

They succeed with the educated, but do not utterly resolve the fear. They receive orders and head back again, but in the meanwhile there are religious cults springing up; migration pressure from nuts who want to go meet the aliens and want permission from the governments, and a whole array of Isolation nuts who unite an array of xenophobes and antispace forces behind a movement.

ECS1 Gaia is only too glad to take to space again, and will not return to Earth for a long time.

ECS1 Gaia goes to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] from Sol.

Refitted ECS11 Mercury sent from Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154] to Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star].
2126 ECS10 Challenger reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] from Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].

ECS4 Golden Hind reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] from Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].
2127 ECS6 Polaris arrives at Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154] from Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]; sent to Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star].

ECS2 Valiant arrives at Beta Station [SS2: Alpha Centauri] from Sol; sent to Sol.

Death of Jocelyn Mccoy at a good old age, mother of three, grandmother of seven, at Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]; from birth to death she never saw Earth and learned of it only in photographs and by the com.
2128 ECS8 Gloriana arrives at Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34] from Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248]; sent to Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248].

ECS9 Beagle arrives at Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] with new equipment.
2129 ECS3 Argo arrives at Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60] from Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni]; sent to Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni].
2130 ECS7 Santa Maria arrives at Sol from Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]; sent to Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star].

ECS10 Challenger arrives at Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS4 Golden Hind reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34] under protest.

ECS11 Mercury reaches Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]; sent back to Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154].
2132 ECS6 Polaris arrives at Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star] from Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154]; sent to Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154].

ECS2 Valiant arrives at Beta Station [SS2: Alpha Centauri]; sent to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].

ECS9 Beagle arrives at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] from Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; given Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani] Module and sent on.
2133 ECS1 Gaia arrives at Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] from Sol; goes on to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] with a great load of equipment and scientists.
2134 ECS7 Santa Maria arrives at Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248] from Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34]; sent to Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34].

ECS3 Argo arrives at Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni] from Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; sent to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].

ECS10 Challenger arrives at Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS5 Atlantis reaches Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34], now goes to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti], having the psychological fitness for these long voyages, acquired the hard way; they are a tough ship.
2135 ECS11 Mercury reaches Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154]; sent to Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star].
2137 ECS7 Santa Maria arrives at Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star] from Sol; sent to Sol.

ECS6 Polaris arrives at Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154] from Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]; sent to Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star].

ECS1 Gaia arrives at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] from Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].
2138 Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani] IS WORKING

ECS9 Beagle pushes Module into place.

ECS10 Challenger arrives at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] from Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti], sent to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].
2139 ECS9 Beagle leaves Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani] for Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS3 Argo arrives at Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60], discontent with the suspicion that it is being robbed of future potential in being stuck in a shuttle capacity; it is sent to Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34].
2140 ECS2 Valiant arrives at Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS8 Gloriana arrives at Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34] from Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248]; sent to Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248].

ECS11 Mercury reaches Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]; sent back to Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154].
2141 ECS1 Gaia arrives at Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS4 Golden Hind reaches Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34] from Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].
2142 ECS6 Polaris arrives at Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star] from Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154]; sent to Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154].

ECS10 Challenger arrives at Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].
2143 Transmission from Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani] reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].
2144 ECS7 Santa Maria arrives at Sol from Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]; sent to Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star].

ECS2 Valiant arrives at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] from Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].
2145 ECS1 Gaia arrives at Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Sol.

ECS9 Beagle arrives at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] from Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani]; sent to Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani].

ECS3 Argo arrives at Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34] from Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; sent to Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248].

ECS5 Atlantis reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS11 Mercury reaches Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154]; sent back to Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star].
2146 ECS8 Gloriana arrives at Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248] from Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34]; sent to Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34].
2147 ECS6 Polaris arrives at Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154] from Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]; sent to Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star].

ECS4 Golden Hind arrives at Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60] from Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34]; sent to Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34].
2148 ECS2 Valiant arrives at Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].
2149 ECS5 Atlantis reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani].
2150 ECS11 Mercury reaches Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]; returned to Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154].
2151 ECS7 Santa Maria arrives at Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star] from Sol; sent to Sol.

ECS9 Beagle reaches Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani] from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

Transmission from Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani] reaches Sol by relay.

ECS3 Argo reaches Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248] from Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34]; sent to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].
2152 ECS6 Polaris arrives at Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star] from Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154]; sent to Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154].

ECS2 Valiant arrives at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] from Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].

ECS8 Gloriana arrives at Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34] from Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248]; sent to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].

ECS10 Challenger arrives at Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani] from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].
2153 ECS1 Gaia arrives at Sol from Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star].

ECS4 Golden Hind reaches Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34] from Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; sent to Galileo Station [SS6: EV Lacertae].
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2155		 ECS5 Atlantis reaches Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani]; goes to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS11 Mercury reaches Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154] and sent to Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star].

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