4812
Suspinia hibernates.
4881
Battle of Antietam. Yuen hibernates.
4888
Defeat of the Final Sabbat at Buffington’s Island. Mass migration of Witches to China.
Age of Chimerae
4900
Proscopalianism (worship of the future) becomes the standard doctrine of the Command.
5000
End of the Centennial Empire in China. Chinese Chimerae erect a military dictatorship.
5100
Sino-Chimerae conquer the Russian steppes, Aleutian Islands, and Alaska. Western Chimerae conquer Western Plains to the Rockies.
5250
Western Chimerae conquer Canada prairies.
5250
Montrose thawed briefly. He releases scientists from the Tombs. Rediscovery of atomics. His bio age is 45.
5250–5290
Social Wars between the hemispheres end in Grand Alliance between the Oriental and Occidental Chimerae. Atheism decreed to be the compulsory religion of the Command.
5292
Anubis is allegedly from this era.
5300
Sino-Occidental Chimerical Alliance achieves conquests in Middle and South America, Pacific Islands, and South East Asia. Time of the Sea Chimerae. Vulpina is from this period.
5400
Third Space Age. Cities in Space. Space Chimerae created. All remaining nations conquered except Tibet. End of eugenic veteran-franchise form of government when all voting right suspended in favor of Eugenics Board directives. World Empire.
5480
Agathamemnon “Fairlock” Raeus elected Governor-Emperor, and dissolves the Eugenic Senate in all but name. End of the Republic. Daae hibernates.
5480–5884
Four hundred years of Chimerical World Empire.
5655
Phyle hibernates.
5700
Eugenic Emergency Command dissolved, forced human breeding program halted. Alpha class becomes inbred. Chimerae enter sharp population decline.
5884
Spaceport-Fortress Ravenna on Foehr Island assaulted by mercenaries, D’Aragó slain. End of the Third Age of Space. Fall of Richmond. Succession wars begin.
Montrose is bio age 46.
5884–5900
World Empire severed. Warring Bloodlines period. Egypt and the Middle East ruled by masterless Kine.
5900
Greencloak revolt among the Kine. Rise of the Natural Order in Mesopotamia.
5950
Larz hibernates.
Age of Nymphs
5990–6100
Natural Order spreads to all lands. Alpha and Beta Bloodlines absorbed or exterminated.
6064
Montrose wakes briefly for the Naturalists. First true Nymph, Rayura-Ah, created. Montrose is wounded by Sarmento, drawn away by Rayura-Ah and her two twin sisters to West Virginia, where he waits to be healed of his great wound. Montrose establishes long-standing treaties with Nymphs. His bio age is still 46. (This is the date Anubis correctly gives for when he learned the Natural language.)
6100
Asia depopulated. Cities fall into disuse. First living houses grown in Italy.
6226
Blight. End of the Living Houses period.
6300
Rise of the Tree Neural Net. War of the Trees.
6400
Pacifist outrage at the War of the Trees leads to the Infatuation (use of neural and amnesiac conditioning to deter violence). Illiteratization of Man. All religious and intellectual efforts discontinued. End of Matriarchy. World government passes to the Eldership.
6422
Oenoe hibernates for the first time.
6500
Neotany. Use of childlike neural structures in adults to condition the population to simplicity and trust in their Elders.
6600
Elders overthrown by the Nocturnal Council, night-adapted Nymphs conditioned to acts of terror to maintain peace and order, but who forget their dark crimes by day. (Nocturnal battle-cocoon metamorphosis establishes the basics of Hormagaunt biology.) End of Neotany.
6660s
Naturalist Weather Control begins to erode.
6700s
Summer Queens. Naturalists begin custom of annual hibernation to avoid winter.
6746
Oenoe is wakened by the Summer Queens during the “Wine of Violence” Crisis to aid in the spread of Wintermind techniques. It is during this time she teaches Del Azarchel the Wintermind techniques. Oenoe hibernates again.
6800
Leeches (early Hormagaunts) found the Yakutsk Analeptic Empire. (Their language continues until 7300.)
6840–7000
Winter Queen Nymphs expand throughout Canada and Patagonia. Widespread use of seasonal hormones to produce battle-frenzy in winter. Winter wars decimate the remaining Nymphs.
Age of Hormagaunts
7000–7200
Leeches corrupted by their victory. Dark Ages. Rise of the Hormagaunts. Asvid, the first nonanthropoid Hormagaunt, created at about this time.
7200
Rise of the Therapeutae in the northern hemisphere (an early form of the Iatrocracy).
7234
Montrose wakes for the Therapeutae, sets in motion the biotechnological revolution that leads to the erection of the Clades, then hibernates. His bio age is 47.
7280
The Therapeutae of the Clades formalize the geriatric “spoils” system into an official register of protocols called the Iatrocracy. Formation of a permanent Donor class. Effective end of the aging process for high-status members of the Iatrocracy, for Hormagaunt or upperclass Clade archetypes. Darwinian code of battle established.
7330–7385
Hemoclysm. 155 million deaths worldwide caused by the Iatrocrat global wars and genocides.
7380–7480
Burning of the World-Forest. Other biomes, including plains and prairies conducive to Clade burgs, become predominant. Large-scale industrialized warfare rather than Bronze Age champion combat becomes the norm. The Darwinian code abandoned.
7385
Atrocity of Yap Islands, Micronesia. Hermeticist Order carries Clades to Mariana Trench to be reverse engineered. The crime is hidden from Pellucid by the white noise of the Hemoclysm.
7466
During this period, Reyes y Pastor suffers a crisis of faith. Soorm hibernates.
7470
Using Montrose’s Clade science, Coronimas creates the Locusts, in an effort to achieve world peace. Early-period Locusts, altruistic and pacifistic, are decimated.
7490
A Locust scientist called Seir redesigns his race to a warlike nature. These Second Locusts are called Seers or Svartschrecke.
7500
Hormagaunts are able to maintain a space program. (Actually, this is an extremely rare Locust-Hormagaunt cooperative venture.) Beginning of the Fourth Age of Space Travel.
7520
Anti-Locust riots. Beginning of the genocidal Locust Wars.
Gload hibernates.
7520–7840
For three hundred years, Hormagaunts and Clades attempt worldwide extermination of Locust population. Locusts endure in hiding; they colonize and partially terraform Mars. Beginning of the Triage system of population control. First Tendrilless Locusts created.
7810
Crile hibernates.
7810–7840
First Interplanetary War. An atomic exchange between Earth and Mars ends the precarious colonies on Mars, and reduces the technology level on Earth to pre-industrial levels. Diebacks. End of the Fifth Age of Space. Many Locusts enter the Tombs. Locust Wars enter a period of armistice.
7850–7950
Reindustrialization. Imposition of genetic uniformity ends the Clade system. World reunified under the leadership of Ceto (a Tendrilless Locust serving Coronimas). Locust data passthrough volumes dramatically increased. Founding of the Noösphere.
7880
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Establishment of the First Mental Configuration; Ceto grants Locusts legal rights. Effective end of the Locust Wars.
7900
An advance in Locust neural technology allows for Hormagaunt-Locust mental interface. Many Locusts re-emerge from the Tombs.
7950
Locusts lose individualism. These are the Third Locusts, or Scorpions.
7960–7980
Age of the Scorpions. Rival groups attempt total extermination of nonconformists, also attempt to destroy the Tombs housing each other to prevent their reawakening. Coronimas leads a worldwide effort to seize control of all Tomb sites, so that he can control the waking-to-slumbering population ratio.
7982
Coronimas introduces pain-broadcast mechanisms to all Locust Clades. Triumph of the Noösphere Configuration.
7983–7985
Montrose wakes to hunt down and murder Coronimas. It takes him two years to find him. His bio age is now 50.
7990
Elton Linder, a Nymph scientist released from the Tombs, redesigns the Locusts toward altruism, creating the Fourth Locusts, or True Locusts. Beginning of a seven-hundred-year period of Utter World Peace and Total Conformity. Linder releases Inquiline Codes into the Noösphere.
Age of Locusts
8000–8700
Global cooling begins. Fifth Locusts or Onyx Men (a smaller version) guide Hormagaunts gently to demographic insignificance and then extinction. Noösphere degenerates badly, and develops inquiline groups, including Simplifiers, in reaction to the Linder virus.
8765
Jubilee. Public business suspended. Individuals re-arm.
8766
Noöspherical Cognitive Order dissolved. Violent shattering of the Configuration into eight local organizations called Confraternities. Linder’s protocols break down; Wars of Extermination. Rise of the Sixth Locusts.
8770–8790
Confraternities introduce cellular thought-control mechanisms, the so-called Helot Code. Simplifiers and other Inquilines retreat to rural areas. The Seventh through Fourteenth Locusts exist during this period, driving each other into extinction rapidly. Illiance hibernates.
8790–8800
The Grays rise to prominence. They are an Inquiline group of Tendrilless Locusts detached from Confraternal control who are attempting a return to Linder’s original principles, seeking the reestablishment of the Noöspherical Cognitive Order. Infrastructure supporting Locust Confraternities fails regionally, then globally, with shocking swiftness. Fifteenth Locusts arise, now called the Fifteenth Mental Configuration.
8866
Population reductions. The Grays Keir and Keirthlin enter hibernation.
8900s
Triumph of the Linderlings. Various Inquiline groups develop from the Grays, and abolish the Blues and other remnants of Locust civilization. Time of the Sixteenth Configuration.
8900–9100
An intermediate human species, called the Midwives, develops from the Grays, based on Sleepwalker thought-control templates. A Midwife alliance called the Seventeenth Configuration cooperates with the Hermeticists to establish the social mechanisms needed for an evolutionary advance.
Age of Melusine
9000
Melusine developed by Seventeenth Configuration: a human-dolphin-machine mental gestalt, based on discoveries of machine life created by the long-extinct Cetaceans in oceanic trenches. Fearful of the Melusine superiority, specialist Inquilines among the Configuration called Psychoscopists, along with artificial minds called Granoliths, regulate the Melusine into a strictly apolitical and peacekeeping role.
9100
Rise of the Eighteenth and Last Noösphere Configuration under the Melusine, incorporating both hive mind and cyborg systems as propertied and administrative class, with an Inquiline underclass. Melusines cure the Locusts to under population and then extinction.
9200
Golden Age begins. Technological and social revolution. World peace. Pi Segment of the Monument translated by the Melusine, who become aware of the Hermetic interference in their history.
In utmost stealth, led by a Melusine named Melior, they draw their plans against the Hermeticists, and introduce Cliometric vectors into the path of history (which Del Azarchel and Montrose each take to be the other’s work).
9250
1036 Ganymed placed in near-Earth orbit.
9300
Divarication of the Coastal, Spaceborne, and Seaborne Melusine.
9400
Granolith failure. Surface life enters Dark Ages.
9500
Asteroid 1036 Ganymed impact wipes out surface life.
9999
White Earth. Montrose wakes long enough to introduce a mutagenic virus into the biosphere to evolve Swans from the Psychoscopic Locusts, and begins the volcanic process of global warming.
10000s
At about this time, the Melusine remove into the interior of the Earth in large numbers, using the abandoned depthtrain rail yards as warrens, forming the Interior or Infernal Melusine.
Anchorites begin repopulation of coastal areas. Nymph biotechnology released from the Tombs allows the Oceanic Melusine to form independent Xypotech trees under the sea.
Pan Sapiens, also called Second Humans or Swans, begin to appear among the Anchorite population of the Melusine, created by a genetic-mimetic vector known as the Mind Anarchy, and spread throughout the Anchorites.
10025
Swans develop Cliometry, read further into the Monument than any previous investigators. They deduce the existence of Exarchel, who exists as a decentralized form in the world water supply.
10075
Historical Crisis. Anchorite-Infernal war triggered by the first, clumsy attempts by the Swans to manipulate history. Exarchel melts, raising the ocean levels, flooding the coastal areas, and destroying the Anchorite hermitages. Anchorites are turned into mind serfs, but, unbeknownst to Exarchel, the Swans among them maintain independence of thought in the negative information spaces between manifest thought forms.
10099
Last Anchorite, Eumolpidai, dies in captivity.
10100–10400
Swans spread throughout the Melusine, maintaining a hidden and parallel civilization in virtual mind space.
10100
Infernal Melusine make an attempt to force the Tombs, and are repelled. They therefore design and introduce the Lree mind group into the Tomb system as moles; Lree are moved by Pellucid, as per standing orders, to Fancy Gap facility, where all dangerous interments are kept. Note that the Lree are already infected with the Mental Anarchy meme, hence secretly double agents.
Alalloel of Lree hibernates.
10200s
Rise of the Final Stipulation of Noösphere Protocols, called the Finality, a Concordat encompassing Swans (not yet recognized as a second human species) and Melusine and the descendents of Inquilines.
At about this time, Del Azarchel is restored to his old dignity and role as Nobilissimus, Commander-in-Chief, and Monarch of Man, and he dons the Iron Crown of Lombardy.
10401
Infernal Melusine deduce the existence of Pellucid, and begin growing a stalactite of logic crystal toward the planetary core.
10484–10515
Melusine begin Hyades Raid Drill, to evolve an anti-skyhook defense.
10500
The Intrusion. Stalactite of logic crystal reaches the Pellucid core and begins seeking thread nodes.
In the cramped interiors of the bore warrens, the Swans, forced into unnatural cooperation with each other and the Melusine, win the notational exchanges, corner the foreteller market, and force the assumption of Swans into the highest levels of the Melusine Noösphere, in effect creating a compromise life-form called Paramounts: neither machine nor biological, and independent of Cliometric prediction, a servile race secretly loyal to the Swans.
10514
Exarchel follows the core stalactite and invades Pellucid. The first mind war ends
in a draw with severe damage on both sides, but with Exarchel in partial control of Pellucid’s systems and memories. At the time, due to phantasm interference in his perception interpretation system, he is only aware of the near-surface facilities, eighty-eight in number.
Exarchel, examining Pellucid’s records, deduces the location of Montrose at Fancy Gap, breaches the roof armor with a spaceborne weapon, and is abruptly stopped by the Swans.
Alarmed at this display of Swan power, which he takes to be an agency of Montrose, Exarchel uses his partial control over outlying elements of Pellucid to reach coffins in the Mount Misery facility on the island of Saint Christopher, thawing Ull and the other Blue Men.
Astonished to be thawed on an (apparently) deserted world, the Blues make a concerted effort to discover the (now missing) command and control elements of the Tomb system: the Knights Hospitalier or the Judge of Ages. They find and thaw a number of their brethren. They loot aircraft from Wright-Patterson and create Follower Moreaus from recovered canine archives. They invade several sites worldwide and are repelled by the defenses.