What's the rough timeframe of the Spiral? Just doing a few wild-assed guesses based on the prelude, I'm thinking somewhere in the late 2900s-3100s (the size and spread of the various polities seems to indicate a good long period of exploration, colonization, fragmentation and consolidation)
Am I right? Wrong? Somewhere to the left?
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Earth history up to about 2350 follows the timeline of an RPG/wargame called Jovian Chronicles. The company website does a very good job of covering things up to about 2210. We'll probably have to invent the intervening time, including the establishment of a -real- systemwide government.
In 2350, a Centauri exploratory mission arrives in search of new markets. They find a lot more than they bargained for, with a total system population of about fourteen billion (and this in a universe where a world is considered densely populated at ONE billion, this pretty much made Sol an instant power). For the next hundred years, solarian controlled space will expand explosively, mostly because they're the only race in the area crazy enough to willingly live in artifical habitats full-time.
2400 or so, first contact with the AAnn and thranx comes pretty much simultaneously. See _Nor Crystal Tears_.
2450, the Dilgar War breaks loose. Thranx and humans work together without any problems, but still aren't really considering Almagation. The Centauri are somewhat too distant to help directly, but they do make trouble with the AAnn and distract the reptiles from taking advantage of Solarian and thranx distraction.
2460, newly arrogant factions within the USN military spark the Sol-Mimbari War.
2462, the Mimbari surrendur, shocking and confusing -everyone-, including their own warriors.
2466 - Almagation into a Humanx Commonwealth is proposed simultaneously to the governing bodies of Sol and Hivehom.
2467 - Almagation passes. A ten year process begins.
2468 - Construction of a series of five Vivarium stations in selected systems along the borders of the new Humanx Commonwealth. These Babylon stations are intended to serve as diplomatic meetpoints. The originally Humanx project is quickly hijacked by the Galactic Council, and used as a model for nearly a thousand similar stations scattered across the galaxy. Later that year, Babylon 2 is destroyed by a terrorist bombing.
2470 - The Babylon stations go online. B4 vanishes immediately thereafter, but otherwise, things go very well.
The Commonwealth is very young, in fact, the youngest polity on the galactic stage. Others have been around for thousands of years - Humanx are simply the latest in a long series of entrances and exits, although the current trend in galactic civilisation is much more towards outside-mindedness and interaction that was the case 500 years ago.
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I thought you were planning to have the Earth Alliance and the Humanx Commonwealth as separate polities?
> In 2350, a Centauri exploratory mission arrives in search of new markets. They find a lot more than they bargained for, with a total system population of about fourteen billion (and this in a universe where a world is considered densely populated at ONE billion, this pretty much made Sol an instant power). For the next hundred years, solarian controlled space will expand explosively, mostly because they're the only race in the area crazy enough to willingly live in artifical habitats full-time.
Well, that and the fact that with such a concentrated population, they no doubt had millions of people willing to play colonist.
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> For the next hundred years, Solarian controlled space will expand explosively, mostly because they're the only race in the area crazy enough to willingly live in artifical habitats full-time.
I'd suspect that that statement ought to be modified by an "in large numbers" caveat. There are exceptions to every psychological rule. The Babylon stations, for example, appear to be pretty close to full time.
On the other hand, those do come a fair bit further on in the timeline. I suppose this could be one of those things that changed slowly as artificial habitat tech improved, and it stopped being quite so suicidal.
just a thought.
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>I'd suspect that that statement ought to be modified by an "in large numbers" caveat. There are exceptions to every psychological rule. The Babylon stations, for example, appear to be pretty close to full time.
Um. Yes, that'd be the case.
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