A Brief History of Time

This is always going to be a tricky subject because time isn't at all fixed once you leave this little blue marble, especially things like days and years. For the purposes of this particular page and the sanity of players, the spans of time listed below are relative to days/years on Earth That Was (i.e. the time we all live in now), which is now known as Intergalactic Common Time [ITC]. This timeline works back from game-present all the way to when the ships left Earth.

The abbreviations listed below differentiate between time Before Departure [BD], relating to human life on Earth That Was, and After Earth [AE], relating to human life in space. They function similarly to the current dates of Before Christ [BC] and Anno Domini [AD], with the date of 700BD being 700 years before humanity's departure from Earth.

Modern Age

 * 1617AE: The current year (? Someone can change this, I'm taking a stab in the dark based off Maaya's 1k minimum for years in space).
 * 1614AE: Luisa Murphy's first interaction with the crew of the Pandora. At first her presence was sporadic at best, but over the next year, she becomes more of a familiar face.

Years of Settlement

 * 1476AE: The [Space EU Name Here] is formed. Initially it consists of 18 planets/moons in 6 solar systems. Over the next [#] years, the union grows to encompass [#] independently governed celestial bodies.
 * yeartbdAE: The first terraformation project is successful, and with a breathable oxygenated atmosphere and viable water source, humanity's first settlement outside of their original solar system is made on [PLANET].

The Journey of Generations

 * yeartbdAE: After the Departure, humankind was traveling through space for a long-ass time. Great-grandparents were the ones who might have been babies born on Earth, before settlers made it to a series of relatively nearby solar systems that had potential to be a new home to human life. Let's write more seriously about this later.

The Great Departure

 * 5-0BD: Though humanity had expanded from Earth to form colonies on Mars and [space-station name tbd], and undertaken smaller FTL missions to several of the nearest stars, the majority of the species still remained on their planet of origin. Something either really awesome or really bad happened, we should discuss this. Then, lots of countries sent massively large vessels into space in an effort to continue the human race outside of the solar system.