Oath Timeline ------------- Last updated: 3/23/04 -5604 AS Omphalos Dust Nebula center shifts from near Rupert's Hole to near Crux. 2678 AD Santa Maria is commissioned ???? Tamorai invite/lure Deciders and Humans to come to Vega/Ridena. Tamorai and Deciders join Human Great Journey and go to worlds surveyed by Tamorai. -0093? AS First contact between Humans and Tinoori (info from Sunlight Through Canopy) 0001 Tarn Alliance formed. Three major races: Humans, Deciders, and Tamorai. Two minor races: Brochoah, and Tinoori. Jumpgates created between Linked Worlds and Decider homeworld and Decider colonized planets. No jumpgate link to Earth. Ridena/Vega is the seat of the Alliance, and the Palatium Tamarch is built by the Tamorai as their seat. c.1000 Formation of the Hegemony. 1192? Foundation of the Hegemon (info from Sunlight Through Canopy) ???? The first Hegemon, Kyriel, killed within one year of ascension. He is succeeded by his son, Apollyon. The first Strategos, Chancel Rowland, and unknown First Sentinel of the Elite stabilize Hegemony. c.1400's? Antimon I ushers in the Golden Hegemonic Era which covers his and his son's (Antimon II) reigns. 1519 Antimon II, retires as Hegemon at the age of 72 (approx). He names Osiril Telemon as Hegemon. 2005 The Mad Hegemon, Therrin Horus Telemon, likes the year 2005 so much that he declares that it will be 2005 again. ???? The Mad Hegemon writes a book. This book is eventually incorporated into the Reformed Book of the Hegemon by Constantin Nomarche as chapter 23. Constantin's son(?) later removes the Lost Book of Telemon. 2008 The Mad Hegemon executes every other member of his house before dying in single combat with his Strategos. This marks the end of the Telemon dynasty and the rise of the Nomarche line. Constantin Nomarche is the first Hegemon of the Nomarche line. ???? Alexion Nomarche succeeds Constantin. It is not known if Alexion is Constantin's son. 2423 Ambrose Gabriel Nomarche is appointed Strategos. 2430 The Chief of Military Operations is dismissed by the Strategos. The position is still unfilled at the time of the crash of the Hippocrates. The CMO was immediately superior to the CinC-Skyguard as well as the heads of the other service branches. 2432 Death of Hegemon Gabriel Marchand Nomarche and ascension of Vissarion Gabriel Nomarche. 2435.189 Crash of Hippocrates on innermost planet of Ganfrey system. 2439.196 Joint military exercises in the Bastion system lead to the destruction of a Hegemonic ship, the Hyperion, a Titan-class light cruiser. 2439.202 The Strategos demands that the Bastion government turn over the crews of the ships in question for investigation/prosecution. Bastion refuses and a conflict begins between the Inworlds and Outworlds. (The Bastion staff on Ridena believe that one of the ships accused of firing on the Hegemonic ship is a Courier-class vessel and thus unlikely to be carrying weapons, but may have carried torpedoes.) 2439.226 Envoys from the Outworlds close up and leave Ridena. 2439 3rd Hegemonic Guard division begins deployments. Start of open conflict with Outworlds. 2447 Settlement of Rupert's Hole, after the death of its discoverer, Rupert Milhouse. 2447 Black discovered/invented by a Kaufman researcher. 2448? Civil uprising in the Inworlds. Two sides are formed, one is more heavily armed and one is larger. 2448.202 Vircus jumpgates are put into secure mode, cutting Vircus off from the rest of the Inworlds. 2448.240 Ambrose Gabriel Nomarche abandons Skyguard Base Omega on Sparta and returns to the Inworlds to continue his "grand design." 2450 The civil war in the Inworlds now includes conflict between the Hegemon and Strategos, as the Hegemon has thrown his lot behind the political objectives of the Rebellion. Evidence of conflict is supported by log found on Vircus battlestation. ???? War comes to Riden/Tiras during the rebellion. Local fleet(s) stay loyal to the Strategos (Ambrose Nomarche) despite unknown "temptations"? 2453 Fighting spreads to Ridena/Craterrock. 2453.020 Final battle over Mainwell. Loyalists (pro-Strategos) win but -032 suffer high casualties. 2453.155 Crater on Craterrock is formed. This act apparently ends the war. ???? Rebellion is unsuccessful(?), but general chaos in Inworlds leads to fragmentation of Hegemony. ???? Info Wars begin. 245?? Red Hegemony is founded. Eventually, the claim is made that Riden was the original capital of the Hegemony; actually, Riden was originally Tiras, a corporate planet. First Red Hegemon is Leonid Marchand. 2459? Colonel Horth Kargelian, the "Butcher of Eremov" destroys Eremov Secundus (reducing it to an asteroid belt) in the New Light system. 2462.093 Crux Parliament votes to disable the jumpgate from Crux to Nonesuch to insulate the Outworlds from the chaos of the Inworlds. 2463 Heidelmere's name is changed to Highguard. 2466 Blue Hegemony is founded. The first Blue Hegemon is Artemis Melcamot. Highguard is instrumental in the founding; the King of Highguard (King Steffan the First) "verifies" Melcamot's claim to the Hegemonic throne via an earlier branch of the royal family. There are two other verifiers, also from Highguard: Arista Nomarche and Arista's elite, Garthane. 2470 Blue Hegemony first tries to ally/conquer/subvert Mainwell. 2471 Computer attacks/probes from Juice at Mainwell. pre-2475 Lord Stannis ascends to the throne of Stannis' Law. 2476 Kaufman tubes are converted to Black tubes on Mainwell. 2491 Black tubes are stolen from Mainwell and end up on Gateway Station. c.2500 Info Wars end. 2508 Arista Nomarche dies on Highguard. 2666 Last great fleet battle between the Red and Blue Hegemonies results in the Sundown-Tinara jumpgate going into secure mode. This is the last jumpgate to be disabled. 2773.091 Irulan and Riovaughn Marchant are killed in a shuttle crash. 2777 Representives of a Decider decision locate Creek and establish contact with the Wisewomen at Fernwash. This fact is kept secret from nearly everyone. 2778.074 Discovery and reactivation of HMS Hippocrates on innermost planet of the Sundown system. 2778 The Red Hegemon (Shaddam Marchant II) is 26; his brother is 15. There was a sister and brother in between the two of them (Iurlan, would be 24, Riovaughn, would be 19), but they were killed about five years ago in an "accident" when the ship they were on exploded. The Blue Hegemon (Doraine Melcamot) is married to a New Light man of not astonishing high birth (apparently it was for love), Darrin Marcus. They have two children, Donella and Daniel (about 2 years younger than Donella). 2778.073 Destruction of Pierogi by a Decider fleet. This is a different -080 group ("decision") than that which located and set up an embassy on Creek. 2778.136 Donella's coming of age ceremony, where she will be 16 years old and officially declared heir to her mother. All planetary leaders of the Blue Hegemony are present, but it is revealed that the heir has been kidnapped and replaced.