First Episode • End of Book 1 • Next • Book 2

Как и во всех других Перерывах, информацию отсюда стоит рассматривать как вторичную; Если у вас есть идеи для правок, дайте знать — я открыт предложениям до момента, как мы снова начнём писать канон в Книге 2.

Вот, в моём виденье, хронология серии, которую в Книге 1 я изложил весьма туманно:

2016 -- Narrator and POV character J is born

2020 -- Eventual test pilot, star warrior, and wife of J, M is born

2040 -- Rudimentary fold theory is developed

2053 -- Unmanned interplanetary probe Hermes is launched to test prototype fold drive. Since human scientists are well aware of the danger of folding the nearest large masses together, they arrange to make sure neither of those could possibly be Earth.

2056 -- Part 1: An alien fold ship detects the Hermes' early experiments and intervenes. A year later one of the aliens walks into J's office to investigate the (as it turns out nonexistent) human Mark of the Curators.

2060 -- Part 7: Humans launch their first starship, the converted Harrier jump jet which J will soon name Grasshopper.

2065 -- Part 9: Founding of Providence, the first human colony world.

2066 -- Part 10: Raiders attempt to steal the Grasshopper, and instead are defeated in the first star battle to occur in aeons.

2069 -- M and J are married.

2070 -- Part 17: Outraged at the way humans have made peace with the raiders, the Sevillians attempt to destroy both Earth and the raider homeworld Kattegat by fold drive torpedo. This plan is disrupted by humans with some Curator help and the Curators use the human built fold inhibitor to place Seville under a millenium quarantine.

2075 -- Humans perfect the supergravity microfold drive and build Trinity, the first surface to space starship which does not depend on aircraft technology for the surface approach part of its mission.

2078 -- Grasshopper is now obsoleted and hanging in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum; its fold drive has been installed in the Horse Pill which makes a diplomatic mission to the self-named alien world of Hyacinth.

2080 -- M and J visit the Witnesses in the Horse Pill and at first do not realize that they have been made provisionally immortal as they bring back the gift of a more prosaic life extension drug for all other humans.

2084 -- M performs the first space flight tests on the large landing-capable nanite based Hyacinth-built and human drive-outfitted ship Laputa. After these tests are completed M and J retire.

2085 -- Humans begin operating the Laputa as the Hyacinth Consortium prepares to produce human tech supergravity drives of its own.

2095 -- Humanity operates a dozen Laputa class giant fold ships and is using them to evacuate those areas of Earth most vulnerable to the devastating effects of global warming to the colonies. Earth is also the center of a growing galactic banking system as it is the only source in the galaxy for advanced fold drives and other high performance miniature electronics. Earth's governments have consolidated into a shrinking number of authoritarian superpowers, although a single world government hasn't quite managed to assert itself.

2120 -- M and J are no longer able to hide the fact that they have been steadily getting more youthful since their visit to the Witnesses in 2080, and this is an effect the regular life extension drug does not provide. It is now openly acknowledged that the governments of Earth's major geopolitical powers are the descendants of criminal gangs who answer to nobody except, in limited form, each other, and M and J must flee Earth to avoid being captured and dissected by those who would seek to steal their gift. At the suggestion of the Curators, M and J make their way to Prometheus.

2160 -- M and J complete the Curation of Prometheus by guiding the Prometheans to the development of their own supergravity and fold drives, and the Curators take note.

I have done spot checks to make sure these dates line up with the relationships in the source, but the source is also now over 80,000 words so it is quite possible I have missed something. If you spot anything like that please let me know so that I can fix it.

Спекуляции во время Перерывов не являются каноничными, пока я не впишу их в саму историю. Через неделю или две я надеюсь закончить современную (2160 н.э.) статью Википедии про то, как развивалась геополитическая ситуация Земли.