CoDominium Chronology
1969 Neil Armstrong sets foot on Earth’s moon.
1990-2000 Series of treaties between the United States and the Soviet Union creates the CoDominium. Military research and development outlawed.
1995 Nationalist movements intensify.
1996 French Foreign Legion forms the basic element of the CoDominium Armed Services.
2004 Alderson Drive perfected at Cal Tech.
2010-2100 CoDominium Intelligence Services engage in serious effort to suppress all research into technologies with military applications. They are aided by zero-growth organizations.
2010 Habitable planets discovered in other star systems. Commercial exploitation of new worlds begins.
2020 First interstellar colonies are founded. The CoDominium Space Navy and Marines are created, absorbing the original CoDominium Armed Services.
2020 Great Exodus period of colonization begins. First colonists are dissidents, malcontents and voluntary adventurers.
2028 Creation of the Humanity League. Sponsored by the A.C.L.U., Sierra Club and Zero Population groups.
2030 Sergei Lermontov born in Moscow.
2032 Captain Jed Byers of the CDSS Ranger discovers a planetary-sized moon of a gas giant and names it Haven.
2038 Sauron is discovered by Avery Landyn, a survey pilot for 3M; world is rich in radioactive and heavy metals.
2040 CoDominium Population Control under the aegis of the Bureau of Relocation and Bureau of Corrections begins mass out-system shipments of involuntary colonists.
2040 Colonization of Sparta and Saint Ekaterina.
2042 Initial attempts by 3M at colonizing Sauron fail due to deadly native fauna and the difficulty of establishing viable agriculture. 3M sells Sauron to wealthy English Separatists from Quebec and former South African expatriates living in Canada and Australia.
2043 John Christian Falkenberg III is born in Rome.
2060 Nationalistic revival movements continue.
2098 Saurons evict the CoDominium Viceroy and declare their independence. They begin to build their own space navy.
2103 Great Patriotic Wars. End of the CoDominium. Exodus of the Fleet.
2110 Coronation of Lysander I of Sparta. Fleet swears loyalty to the Spartan Throne. Marriage of dynasties produces union between Sparta and St. Ekaterina.
2111 Formation Wars begin.
2250 Leonidas I proclaims Empire of Man.
2250 – 2600 Empire of Man enforces interstellar peace.
2253 Haven is contacted by the Empire. It is well-organized and self-sufficient by this time, and agrees to join the Empire without coercion.
2258 The “Land Gators” (77th Division of Imperial Marines) is commissioned on Haven, with Major General Colin Hamilton commanding. It functions as a police garrison and as a reserve unit for the 12th Army.
2432 First Cyborg is created on Sauron. Using the results of the century-old soldier breeding program, Sauron’s scientists use gene-splicing to augment the soldiers. Chemical and biological alterations during gestation are then used to create the “perfect soldiers,” who will later be known as the “Sauron supermen” or “death’s-heads.”
2594 Emperor David II dies with no heir. This begins a gradually escalating series of struggles and violent revolts. These “succession wars” are the prelude to the Secession Wars.
2598 In the Imperial Parliament, a “Coalition of Secession” forms and begins to demand the right to withdraw from the Empire. This coalition is primarily led by Sauron. A series of skirmishes involving secessionist planets take place, but the Empire does not suspect the extent of the threat.
2603 Secession Wars begin. Growth of Sauron supermen. St. Ekaterina nearly destroyed.
2609 Gary Cummings is promoted to Colonel and put in charge of the Seventy-seventh Imperial Division’s Second Regiment.
2611 Raymond Hamilton joins the Imperial Navy and spaces out of the Haven System.
2618 The Third Imperial Fleet is destroyed off Tabletop.
2623 Seventy-seventh Imperial Marine Division (“Land Gators”) is withdrawn from Haven along with all Imperial officials. Colonel Gary Cummings retires from the Imperial Marines and is appointed Brigadier-General of the Haven Volunteers.
2624 A pirate ship, posing as a tramp freighter, attacks Castell City.
2626 The Black Hand, a small fleet of corsairs, sacks Haven and destroys most of the System’s near-earth satellites and relay stations.
2627 Haveners begin to realize that the Empire will not be returning.
2637 Sauron-supported Secessionist armada and Claimant fleets fight Imperials to a draw at the Battle of Makassar.
2640 Secession Wars continue. Dark Ages in many systems. The Battle of Sauron ends the Sauron threat and all Cyborgs on Sauron are exterminated.