Era-1 Overview

Era-1 starts with the founding of the Planetary League, which marks year 0 in the Galactic Standard Calendar (GSC 0), and continues until the fall of Earth at the end of the Great Reckoning (GSC 1062).

The Planetary League

Founded with the signing of the Treaty of Kepler in the year 2*** (GSC 0), the Planetary League came to dominate much of the galaxy during Era-1. It was largely a time of peace and exploration, punctuated by relatively small-scale conflicts.

• GSC 3. Founding of the Planetary League Astrophysical Survey (PLAS)

• GSC 16. The Mariner Valley Incident was a major landslide that killed hundreds of colonists, but many more were saved due to the timely actions of the Tardigrades.

• GSC 25. Official founding of the Autonomous Republic of Lindbergh.

• GSC 33. The first explorers reach Paradise, one of the first worlds to be colonized beyond the Solar System.

• GSC 55. The colony ship Garcia's Hope is lost in deep space, later to crash on New Albuquerque.

• GSC 130. The first explorers reach New Promise, an early colony world, important for its complex biosphere and favorable conditions for agriculture.

• GSC 132. First Contact (officially) with the Convergence at New Promise, and the beginning of the First Convergence War.

• GSC 135. (re-)Invention of the Spatial Compression Device, allowing FTL spaceflight. (End of the "Early Planetary League")

• GSC 136. M.E.D.I.C. founded

• GSC 138. The discovery of Dogur-dann leads to the end of the Non-Interference Doctrine with the Alien Assistance Act of GSC 139.

• GSC 139. Passage of the Alien Assistance Act, founding of the PLAAA

• GSC 140. Battle of Key Center, end of the First Convergence War

• GSC 142. First explorers at Aldebaran-2.

• GSC 150. University of Aldebaran-2 founded.

• GSC 173. Zoe Bonnard is born, she will go on to be one of the greatest explorers of Era-1, and famous throughout the galaxy.

• GSC 179. Explorers from the Planetary League arrive on Takara Prime, home-world of the Takarrans (see: "The Sunset Chronicles: Exodus").

• GSC 184. Beginning of the Second Robot War

• GSC 201. The Lucifer System is explored (Zoe Bonnard)

• GSC 203. Shoji discovered by Zoe Bonnard.

• GSC 205. First contact with the Jovians (Bonnard).

• GSC 208. Planetary League makes first contact with the Nalanda.

• GSC 245. Zoe Bonnard dies at Bonnard’s End

• GSC 248. The Nalanda join the Planetary League.

• GSC 842. Birth of Saint Valgar, a key figure in the spread of the Church of God.

• GSC 915. The birth of Potus Clarke who would become a general in the Planetary League armed forces, and then go on to become Emperor of the Holy Empire of Man.

• GSC 938. First contact between the Planetary League and the Empire of 1,000,000 Suns

• GSC 958. Founding of the Holy Empire of Man, and the beginning of the Great Reckoning

• GSC 1062. The Fall of Earth, end of Era-1