Timeline of the Crow Universe

*At some distant point in the past, the universe began.

• 64.5 million years BCE - Rythul evolve on Earth
• c. 700,000 BCE - Sri civilization at its peak
• c. 9000-8000 BCE - the Rednig dramatically restructure their solar system over a period of a thousand years and create 3 new sentient species from base species on their home planet
  
• c. 5500 BCE - Earth solar system discovered and explored by the Khatronians - declared part of the Khatin Empire
• c. 5488 BCE - Edict of Natural Development - worlds with developing civilizations in the Khatin Empire are declared off-limits to non-native visitors
• c. 1500 BCE - Xizini experimental colony of humans invaded by the Ka Vvorrn
• c. 900 CE - Earth and surrounding systems dropped from the Khatin Empire due to controversy - Empire lines redrawn and systems designated as the Unorganized Territories, which are unclaimed by any galactic nations
• c. 1900+ - occasional extraterrestrial visit - Xizini visits common - sightings of Rythul
• 1980 - Alan Miller born
• 2010 - New Future Cryogenics launch massive cryogenic experiment involving hundreds of cryo-units deep within an underground bunker
• 2015 - Alan Miller placed in cryo-stasis due to aggressive cancer
• 2019 - First official contact with the Xizini
• 2021 - Attack on Earth by the Xizini - complete take over of the planet - Earth declared a Shizin outpost
• 2041 -
• Radio distress signal intercepted by a Khatin listening post
• Lone human travels in a Shizin ship to Khatin space
• Khatronians and galactic nations talk with the Xizini, who deny any wrongdoing
• Flyby of Earth reveals the illegal colony and military build-up
  

• 2042 -
  
• Convention of the galactic nations called to discuss the "Earth Issue"
• Rythul make contact with the Khatronians
• The Kha'meto (Emperess) makes contact with the Ka Vvorrn, who eventually agree to provide their assistance
• Other galactic races declare their allegiance to the Khatronians and war is declared
  
• 2043 -
• The Xizini homeworld, Xizin, and the bulk of its fleet and other outposts are destroyed by the Kyn Vvorrn
• The United Galactic Fleet formed and travels to Earth for the decisive battle
• The Rythul assist from behind enemy lines with the Terran Resistance
• Earth is freed and the Xizini are exiled from the galaxy
• 2044 -
  
• Earth begins recovery with assistance from the Ry'thul and other galactic races, primarily the Khatronians
• late in year, Earth declares No Contact, to be upheld by the Khatin Republic military until Earth can form its own interstellar military
• 2045+
  
• Terran scientists study technology left over from the Occupation
  
• Reverse engineer advanced space travel
• global government created
• 2050 - Trade set up with Khatronians for a limited amount of lodestone, a necessary component of anti-gravity and hyperspace travel (Earth has no large sources of lodestone in the Sol system)
• 2055 - Moon colony Luna 001 established
• 2067 - Mars colonoy Ares Alpha and Beta established (Alpha a temporary base that shut down late in year, then was reopened in 2070)
• 2068-98 - numerous outposts and stations started throughout the Sol system, as well as a ship-building boom
• 2100 - the Allied Terran Nation (ATN) makes contact with the Confederacy of Galactic Nations (Cogana)
• 2102 - the ATN accepted into the Confederacy as a developing nation
• 2115 - First colony established outside of Sol - Titian 1
• 2118 -
  
• Titian colonies(known as the Titian Archipelago) established as a commonwealth nation of ATN
  
• Titian 2 and 3 established
  
• 2120 -
  
• ATN renamed to Allied Terran Nations, or Altena
• navy named Altena Interstellar Navy (A.I.N., or more commonly, the I.N.)
• 2120-200 - colony boom
• Altena quickly finds its place in the Confederacy, setting up trade with the nearest galactic neighbors
• 2150 - Altena discovers the Ducottii and quickly learn they are the descendants of the humans liberated from the Xizini colony in 1500 BCE
• 2163 - War with the Ducottii breaks out
  
• 2165 - Captain Maria Naple, of the I.N. ship Lady Bastion, discovers she is a "sleeper" Ducotti and returns to her people to become the Ducon, and thus end the war
• 2166 - A truce is met and the Ducottii enter Altena as a commonwealth along with all their territories, doubling the size of Altena
• 2170 - the Gray Guard is established as the elite soldiers and peacekeepers of Altena
• 2204 - The Red Shroud Congregation (Reshco) terrorist group established as a response to Altena and the Gray Guard
• 2211 - splinter group of the Reshco form, calling themselves the Masadii and quickly gain notoriety as violent anarchists
• 2249 - intact cryogenic tubes discovered on Earth and half of their number mysteriously vanish
• 2261 - Titian 9/Agno attacked and destroyed by Masadii