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.
1998
The Church of New Universal Harmony founded.
2004
Charles Castell is born.
2010-100
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 starts. First colonists are dissidents, malcontents and voluntary adventurers.
2028
Creation of the Humanity League. Sponsored by the ACLU, Sierra Club and Zero Population groups.
2032
Captain Jed Byers of the CDSS Ranger discovers a planetary-sized moon of a gas giant and names it Haven.
2040
CoDominium Population Control under the aegis of the Bureau of Relocation and Bureau of Corrections begins mass out-system shipments of involuntary colonists.
2041
Edwin Hamilton discovers the first shimmer stones on Haven.
2042
Hamilton sells the location to Dover Mineral Development and is paid a fortune to keep secret the location of their planet of origin.
2043
John Christian Falkenberg, III is born in Rome.
2043
The 26th Marines, Company C, Third Battalion is dispatched to Haven to stop criminal gangs from taking over the colony.
2052
The Shimmer Stone Rush. When the location of shimmer stones becomes public knowledge, it leads to a "rush" of shimmer stones miners.
2055
The CoDominium Bureau of Intelligence orchestrates a revolt by a band of imported criminals, which ends in disaster when their attack on Jamesport fails and their leader, Jomo, is killed.
2057
Chuluun, now "Khan of the Free Tribes of the Steppes," allies with a nearby American settlement ("Independence") to execute a raid on a Dover Mining town in the Shangri-La Valley. His wife Tuya gives birth to Bataar.
2059
The Mahdi arrives on Haven.
2060
Nationalism begins to heighten all over the Earth. The long peace which has been preserved by the CoDominium is now taken for granted. Earth's nations (beginning with Japan) begin to chafe under the CD's yoke. In the USA and the USSR, nationalists begin to question the need for the alliance between the two superpowers.
2065
Asteroid strike at Dire Lake.
2066
After eight years as interim colonial governor, Thomas Erhenfeld Bronson is promoted to Consul-General of Haven.
2069
Sergei Lermontov promoted to "Rear Admiral, Captain of the Fleet." (After a very brief tenure as a ship's captain.) He is stationed at Crucis Sector Headquarters. Falkenberg is transferred to the Line Marines and promoted to Captain (youngest in the fleet). He heads the 501st Battalion.
2068/70
Many of the more successful colonies begin pushing for greater independence. Dayan, Friedland, Meiji, and Xanadu (and probably Danube) even begin developing small fleets of their own.
2070/71
Kennicott: John Christian Falkenberg marries Grace, daughter of the militia leader Tobias. After a spectacular campaign, the 42nd is victorious, but its colonel is killed. Major Falkenberg assumes command.
2071
A coalition in the Grand Senate arranges to have Rear Adm. Lermontov promoted to [Junior] Vice-Admiral, and to have Acting Col. Falkenberg promoted to Colonel. Falkenberg doesn't want to leave his wife, and she won't leave Kennicott. Lermontov persuades Falkenberg to leave Kennicott and continue on as the commander of the 42nd Regular Line Regiment by telling him about a conspiracy involving himself and some members of the Grand Senate.
2071
Falkenberg is promoted to Colonel and given permanent control of the 42nd Line Marines. Grace refuses to leave Kennicott and divorces him. Falkenberg begins a series of missions that will soon gain him renown as a great military strategist and also make him known as Lermontov's protégé.
2072
Unrest in Siberia, Turkestan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, and Upper Mongolia. The USSR and Bureau of Relocation begin massive deportation of Soviet minorities to colony worlds, including Haven.
2073
The Mahdi Uprising begins.
2074
Capt. Ramsey takes CDSS Daniel Webster into space. About this time, Senator Martin Grant becomes chairman of the Appropriations Committee, and Adm. Lermontov becomes Vice-Admiral, Commanding, and is stationed on Luna.
2075
As Earth moves towards nuclear war and the colonies move toward interstellar anarchy, Senator Martin Grant, CIA Director John Grant Sr., Admiral Sergei Lermontov, Dr. Caldwell Whitlock, the Blaine family, and the Leontin family meet to discuss whether the CD is doomed and what might follow its demise. They contact King Alexander Collins of Sparta to discuss different possibilities and solutions.
2076
Senator Grant and Commander John Grant Jr. attempt to rescue Barbara Jean Ramsey. Bartholomew Ramsey attempts to rescue the Grants.
2076
Colonel John Christian Falkenberg arrives with the 42nd CoDominium Marines on Haven and puts an end to the Mahdi Uprising.
2079
Sergei Lermontov becomes Grand Admiral of the Fleet. His appointment is sponsored by the Grants, but Senator Bronson votes to confirm him as well.
2082
Falkenberg and a large fraction of the former 42nd Regiment arrive on Hadley (April). CoDominium withdraws from Hadley (May). Falkenberg leaves the CoDominium Fleet and creates Falkenberg’s Legion, with Senator Gant and Admiral Lermontov’s support: his 500 ex-Marines are expanded to a Legion of around 1200 upon departure from Hadley.
2088
The faction of the Unity Party led by the Grant family and the Blaine family loses power, when Adrian Bronson’s faction achieves dominance over Martin Grant’s. The Grants, the Blaines, and Sergei Lermontov are unable to continue giving favors to Sparta. More cuts in the CoDominium Fleet budget. Admiral Lermontov begins to rely on drug money from Tanith to fund the Fleet. He continues to covertly fund Falkenberg's Legion.
2089
The “Shimmer Stone Revolt.” The Haven Gem Consortium's monopoly is broken. Bandit free corps, often led by mercenary deserters, spring up in mining regions of Haven and seize shimmer stone shipments. Several years of fighting ensue. Xanadu and perhaps Sauron are covertly behind some of these gangs.