Like the Novella
itself, this timeline has not been formatted to the HTML, and looks terrible,
but should be understandable. Dates are given in our common system and in the
Pre-Founding and Post-Founding system of the Quotissians.
A Brief
History of Quotiss and Galactic Civilization
~400 BC
~12,500 pre. Plato and lives writes the Republic
~2050 AD
~8400 pre. Humanity discovers the secrets to a Quantum drive making
faster than light travel possible. The Terran Colonial
Coalition is formed
shortly thereafter. (Earth only human world)
~2100
AD ~8250 pre. The rise and acceptance of the Taali. Invention of the
Perambulater
Follows shortly thereafter. (Over ten human worlds)
~2250 AD
~8000 pre. The First Galactic War lasts for a quarter century. (Over a hundred
Human worlds.)
~4000 AD
~4600 pre. The Second Galactic War lasts nearly a century. (Over a thousand
Human worlds.)
~5800 AD
~1600 pre. The Third Galactic War begins. (Over ten thousand human worlds)
~6800 AD 0
Founding The Founders arrive on Quotiss. (Quotissians isolated on
one world)
~8500 AD
~2850 post. Unknown to the common Quotissians, the galaxy recovers from
the Third Galactic War under the laws of a New Coalition.
(Over Twenty Five thousand human worlds join the N.C.)
(Quotiss still isolated)
~9200 AD
4041 post. The events of the story take place.