ECS4 Golden Hind reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star], realizes she has been beaten by an FTL, puts about again for Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650].

ECS6 Polaris reaches Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248] from Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; sent to Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34].

ECS10 Challenger reaches Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani]; heads for Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS9 Beagle reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star], heads back for Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS1 Gaia reaches Sol with Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] dispatches and is sent back.

ECS2 Valiant reaches Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650], applies for conversion with ulterior motives.

Sol launches ECS22 Intrepid, a warship, to bring order to the Beyond

ECS3 Argo arrives at Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star];

ECS4 Golden Hind arrives at Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]; sees FTL ships in operation; applies for conversion (2 years).

ECS6 Polaris reaches Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34]; sent to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].

(Alternate text update: ECS1 Gaia reaches Beta Station [SS2: Alpha Centauri];

ECS5 Atlantis recommissioned FTLECS5 Atlantis goes out to Mariner Station (SS12: Van Maanan's Star];

ECS11 Mercury reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; sent to Sol.

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

ECS2 Valiant conversion complete, now FTLECS2 Valiant

Launched, she mutinies against the Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] supervisors and heads for Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS3 Argo reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti], sent on to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti] with disturbing news of Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]'s administration.

ECS9 Beagle reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; sent to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star].

Confirming this and getting hold of the technology becomes high priority.

FTLECS2 Valiant reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] and is sent on to Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti].

She will make innumerable trips as the century goes on, but her crew is put off and confined to prison, a matter of great bitterness on both sides.

FTLECS2 Valiant having delivered its technology to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] is now at Sol being studied, and is launched again to a lightning tour of the stations.

ECS1 Gaia reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti], to realize that FTL's are now a reality; she goes to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

An FTL ship calls at Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60], and Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star];

ECS5 Atlantis just barely reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; heads on with her load to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS6 Polaris reaches Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; sent to Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni].

ECS10 Challenger reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; takes passengers, goes to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

(Alternate text update: News of FTL reaches Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]; by non FTL.

ECS6 Polaris conversion complete at Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650].

ECS3 Argo reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti], but by now is really outmoded; she heads back to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

(Alternate text update: That FTL ship is back at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS3 Argo arrives at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti], sees an FTL; knows its age is over; seeks conversion to FTL; goes to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star].

ECS4 Golden Hind arrives at Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60]; heads for Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni]).

Colonists who know the economics of the matter now see FTL as linking big trading points, and they're not on the route.

ECS8 Gloriana leaves without many passengers as Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni] erupts in riots; it goes to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].

Panicked station authorities call Sol for instruction.

FTLECS2 Valiant reaches Galileo Station [SS6: EV Lacertae] and Thule Station [SS7: Ross 248].

Sol launches armed FTLECS12 Gemini to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti], demanding that the system be held together willy nilly, that no more colonization be done without approval from the Company.

Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] launches Esperance by FTL pusher.

Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] launches FTLECS12 Gemini to Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani] to reassure it of its importance:

Tripoint is charted and navigated successfully.

The era of the sublights is finished.

ECS9 Beagle reaches Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star]; returns to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

ECS1 Gaia reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] and applies for FTL conversion.

Esperance founded.

FTL1 Aurora returns to Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650].

ECS5 Atlantis reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] and applies for conversion as FTLECS5 Atlantis.

ECS11 Mercury reaches Sol; applies for FTL conversion.

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

(Alternate text update: Hinder Star stations being stripped in earnest now to go to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

The last exodus of the big sublights.

ECS1 Gaia arrives at Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60], realizing the war and history have passed her by; she surrenders to the inevitable and takes on passengers headed for Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti], to assure the composition of Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] is favorable to the Earth Company; ECS1 Gaia is loyal to the end.

ECS7 Santa Maria arrives at Venture Station [SS:5 Krueger 60], discovers situation, goes to Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni], defying ECS1 Gaia.)

ECS3 Argo reaches Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] and applies for FTL conversion.

(Alternate text Golden Hindupdate: ECS4 arrives at Bryant's Star [SS3: 61 Cygni], discovers it virtually mothballed. Goes to Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star].)

Sol launches FTLECS11 Mercury to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

FTLECS3 Argo commissioned from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti], a ship never trustful of Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650], due to its history.

ECS10 Challenger reaches Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti]; takes passengers, heads for Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti].

Alternate text update: ECS7 Santa Maria arrives at Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]; fights battle to keep from being commandeered and heads for Sol).

Rejuv has further created both a demand for goods and a social crisis as the rich can live long.

The drug is outlawed. This only increases its value.

ECS9 Beagle puts into Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; applies for conversion.

Birth of Ilya Bogdanovitch;

Cyteen: Birth of Jane Strassen.

Alternate text update: ECS3 Argo arrives at Mariner Station SS12: Van Maanan's Star]; fights battle to keep from being commandeered and heads for Sol.)

ECS4 Golden Hind arrives at Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star] and falls to mutiny; taken to Bryant's Star [SS3: 61 Cygni].

ECS6 Polaris reaches Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60] with its load of Bryant's Star Station [SS3: 61 Cygni] colonists; discovers it has no papers, is held in red tape, cannot get cArgo; is finally put out with its meager cArgo which has turned to junk in the passage of time; it heads for Olympus Station [SS8: Groombridge 34].

(Alternate text update: ECS1 Gaia arrives at Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti]; Konstantin family arrives at with ECS1 Gaia.

ECS1 Gaia moves on to Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani])

ECS9 Beagle launched as FTLECS9 Beagle.

(Alternate text update: ECS4 Golden Hind with crew of mutineers arrives at Bryant's Star [SS3: 61 Cygni]; goes to Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60].)

(Alternate text update: ESPERANCE FOUNDS PAN-PARIS.)

ECS7 Santa Maria arrives at Sol; speaks of danger building about Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]; is stripped and recommissioned as ECS 145 Montgomery).

ECS10 Challenger launched from Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti] as FTLECS10 Challenger.

ECS4 Golden Hind find Venture Station [SS5: Krueger 60] virtually mothballed and the war in full swing; a frantic conference; the mutineers divert to Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154], which is long dead).

(Alternate text update: Sol commissions the building of FTL warships.

ECS1 Gaia reaches Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani]; goes to Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star].

ECS3 Argo reaches Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650]).

Cyteen: Death of James Carnath, co-founder of Reseune.

(Alternate Date Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] founds Fargone).

Cyteen: Birth of Jane Strassen

The Lukas family, prominent as Eldorado Station [SS9: UV Ceti], is sent to Pell Station [SS10: Tau Ceti], where the Konstantins have control.

(Alternate text update: FTL warships enforce the Visas)

Musa born in deep space, aboard one of the last sub-lights: Gloriana.

(Alternate text update: ECS1 Gaia reaches Viking Station [SS11: E. Eridani]; goes to Esperance.

ECS4 Golden Hind reaches lonely Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154]; attempts to get supplies; now in trouble: reactivates Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154] briefly and stays three years.)

Cyteen: Death of Olga Emory co-founder of Reseune; Gregory Carnath becomes director of Reseune.

(Alternate text Golden Hindupdate: ECS4 leaves Glory Station [SS4: Ross 154] bound for Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star]).

Cyteen: Birth of Giraud Nye.

ECS1 Gaia meets with the captains of ECS6 Polaris at Mariner Station [SS12: Van Maanan's Star] and try to talk her out of it, which only embitters the situation.

ECS4 Golden Hind mutineers find Alpha Station [SS1: Barnard's Star] a military base; they are arrested, remanded to Sol FTL;

ECS4 Golden Hind is abandoned).

Ships dock and the wild and wooly dockside bars and sleepovers proliferate, getting wilder as more than one ship may be in dock at a time.

As the crisis gets worse, as Union begins to take shape as a place where Sol law can't be enforced, the life of the Beyond gets better, the lifestyle more luxurious, the shooting taking place far from the stations.

Even the merchanters take the whole developing war lightly, except as they have to deal with Sol, since they trade as they like and generally while they are armed now, they pay little attention to politics except to develop a thriving black market trade.

Earth politics grows hopelessly corrupt because of rejuv smuggling. The temptation to politicians to live forever is very severe, but since it is also pretty obvious that one is doing rejuv, and the addiction is permanent, it results in some notorious scandals, some shootings, some false claims to have reduplicate the process and some general nastiness; ultimately it is rejuv that drives Earth to try to bring Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650] back into the fold, and that which precipitates the Company Wars, the tax being a nuisance that might have been ignored if it had not alienated Cyteen Station [SS13: Lalande #46650].

(Alternate text update: The mutineers are pardoned because of circumstances; their sons and daughters (many of them) go to the service).

Founding of Union; BEGINNING OF COMPANY WARS

End of Alliance/Union Chronology

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