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Circa 6000 BCE The
Shivans destroy the Ancients' Empire
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2321 CE Start of
Terran-Vasudan War
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2335 (Freespace 1)
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(January 2335) Start of
First Great War/First Encounter with Shivans at Ross 128
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End of Terran-Vasudan
War
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Formation of Hammer of
Light
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Devastation of Vasuda
Prime
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A team of Vasudan
scientists are forced to land on Altair and subsequently discover
information from the ruins of the Ancients, enabling the Terrans and
Vasudans to destroy the SD Lucifer
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Destruction of SD
Lucifer
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Contact with Sol lost
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(Silent Threat)
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GTI Insurrection a.k.a.
Hades Rebellion. A rogue branch of Galactic Terran Intelligence (GTI)
begins conducting experiments on captured Shivan specimens and Shivan
technology. Using this information, the GTI secretly constructs the
Hades destroyer in order to overthrow the GTA. Several GTI pilots
aware of the GTI's imminent coup attempt defect to the GTA and help
destroy the GTI's Hades destroyer, defeating the GTI's bid for power.
Among these pilots is one Lt. Aken Bosch.
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The GTA classifies
information concerning the Hades Rebellion in the interests of
"national security." The coup attempt itself is recorded by history,
but all documents pertaining to the Shivan experiments and the Hades
specifications are classified such that only the top GTA military
officers and the Security Council can access them. Years later, after
it is formally established, the GTVA takes control of these documents
and keeps them classified. Sometime after that, in preparation of the
NTF Rebellion, Admiral Aken Bosch obtains the classified documents for
his own use in developing ETAK.
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(December? 2335) End of
First Great War. Post-war Reconstruction begins.
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With Vasuda Prime made
uninhabitable by the SD Lucifer, the Vasudans move
their capital to Aldebaran.
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Terran and Vasudan
scientists begin discovering and studying other sites of Ancient ruins
on Altair, Aldebaran and Deneb
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2336 Collapse of GTA
into several semi-autonomous blocs including the Adhara Coalition, the
Antares Federation, the Regulus Syndicate and the Luyten New Alliance,
among others
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2339 Dissolution of
Vasudan Parliament by Khonsu II, ending a long period of Vasudan
political strife. Formation of Vasudan Imperium/Ascension of Khonsu II
to the Vasudan throne.
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2345 Formation of
Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance (GTVA). The individual Terran blocs
retain their autonomy but a framework of mutual trade and defense with
the Vasudan Imperium is established.
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2347 Start of Colossus
Construction
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2358 Signing of Beta
Aquilae Convention (BETAC). BETAC formally dissolves the Terran blocs
and the GTVA is recognized as the supreme authority in Terran-Vasudan
space.
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2365(?) Initial
Deployment of Myrmidon fighter
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Initial Deployment of
Hercules II fighter
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2366 (January?) Start
of NTF Rebellion. Admiral Aken Bosch, commander of the GTVA 6th Fleet,
based at Epsilon Pegasi, stages a violent military coup in the Polaris
system, thereby creating the Neo-Terran Front. Within weeks, Regulus
and Sirius also fall to the NTF.
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After taking full
control of Polaris, Regulus and Sirius, the NTF also takes partial
control of Alpha Centauri, Epsilon Pegasi and Deneb, making these
systems heavily contested (essentially, these three systems are the
front lines of the war.)
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After the NTF takes
partial control of Deneb, Bosch begins construction of the NTF Iceni
inside a large asteroid in the Deneb asteroid belt. From this base,
Bosch begins studying the Ancient archeological digs at Deneb and
begins constructing the ETAK prototype using Ancient technology and
the information contained in the classified Hades Rebellion documents.
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Initial Deployment of
Boanerges bomber by GTVA
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2367 (July?) GTC
Trinity, a Fenris-class cruiser commanded by Capt. Roemig, defects to
the NTF
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Discovery of Knossos
Portal by Bosch while investigating the Ancient archeological digs at
Deneb
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Bosch orders the NTC
Trinity to activate and enter the Knossos portal
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Activation of Knossos
Portal by NTC Trinity. The NTC Trinity then enters the nebula.
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(Freespace 2) I'm
estimating that the events of FS2 occurred within a timeframe of less
than a month. This is because at the start of FS2, the briefings say
that the NTF-GTVA War has lasted for 18 months. At the end of FS2,
Admiral Petrarch is still saying that "18 months of carnage and terror
will come to an end." If the single-player campaign lasted longer than
a month, Petrarch would have said 19 (or more) months instead.
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Launching of NTF Iceni
from the Deneb asteroid base (FYI, this is the second single campaign
mission titled "The Place of Chariots".)
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Completion of Colossus
Construction
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Start of Second Great
War/Destruction of GTC Vigilant at Gamma Draconis node in the Capella
system. This is the first appearance of the Shivans since the end of
the First Great War 32 years prior.
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After securing the
Knossos Device, a GTVA taskforce, led by GTD Aquitaine, enters the
nebula
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GTVA discovers the NTC
Trinity stranded in the nebula. NTC Trinity is then destroyed by the
Shivans. (The NTC Trinity had defected to the NTF only 10 days prior.)
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SD Ravana destroys the
GTCv Lysander
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SD Ravana destroyed by
GTVA bombers
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NTF rallies and makes
an aggressive attack on Epsilon Pegasi, forcing the GTVA to suspend
operations in the nebula. At the same time, a two-pronged GTVA
offensive launched from Deneb and Alpha Centauri stalls in Sirius,
allowing the NTF to maintain its grip on Sirius
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Initial Deployment of
Perseus fighter and GTVA Colossus by GTVA at Epsilon Pegasi (Battle of
Enif Station)
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Defeat of NTF Admiral
Koth and the destruction of the NTD Repulse results with the GTVA
regaining full control of Epsilon Pegasi ("The beginning of the end
for the NTF.")
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With Epsilon Pegasi
secured, the GTVA sends the GTD Aquitaine and its taskforce back to
the nebula
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Initial Deployment of
Pegasus stealth fighter and the TAG missiles by GTVA in the nebula
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Initial Deployment of
Erinyes heavy assault fighter by GTVA (SOC mission to hijack the NTT
Sunder). This is an SOC mission, so the Erinyes' existence is not yet
made public (e.g. Erinyes is only used by special elite units at this
time).
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Initial Deployment of
Artemis bomber by GTVA; Initial deployment of the Prometheus S (the S
Type couldn't be used before this time because the GTVA had to collect
gas from the nebula to power these guns).
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End of NTF Rebellion.
After the GTVA regains control of Sirius, Deneb and Alpha Centauri,
Admiral Bosch orders the remnants of the NTF fleet to Gamma Draconis
to make contact with the Shivans in the nebula. As the NTF fleet flees
to Gamma Draconis, the GTVA destroy many of the NTF ships. Only three
NTF ships make it into the nebula: the NTF Iceni, the NTC Alexandria
(an Aeolus-class cruiser) and the NTT Grall (an Argo transport which
was docked to the Alexandria). The Alexandria is destroyed by the
Shivans, but the Grall, which is carrying Lt. Commander Snipes and
about a dozen NTF survivors, detaches from the Alexandria and begins
hiding in a volatile sector of the nebula.
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Appearance of the 1st
SJ Sathanas
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GTVA retreats from the
nebula for the 2nd time.
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Destruction of Knossos
Portal by GTVA's use of Meson bombs. However, the jump node to the
nebula has already stabilized, allowing the SJ Sathanas to jump into
Gamma Draconis.
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Destruction of the 1st
SJ Sathanas by GTVA Colossus at Capella
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Defection/Capture of
Admiral Bosch by the Shivans
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Self-destruction of NTF
Iceni. The captured survivors of the Iceni crew reveal the details of
Bosch's ETAK project, which is a device using quantum pulses in order
to communicate with the Shivans. The prototype on board the Iceni is
destroyed, but the NTF survivors reveal enough information about ETAK
that the GTVA discovers Bosch's secret agenda of making an alliance
with the Shivans. The NTF Iceni prisoners provide the blueprints of
ETAK to the GTVA, allowing the GTVA the ability to construct another
ETAK prototype. It is unknown whether the GTVA has begun
construction of another ETAK prototype.
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Discovery of the 2nd
Knossos Portal/Destruction of the GVD Psamtik by 2nd SJ Sathanas
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The GTVA begins its 3rd
and final retreat from the nebula.
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SOC mission to rescue
Lt. Commander Snipes and the dozen NTF survivors aboard the NTT Grall
in the nebula.
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Aside from Snipes' SOC
team, the GTVA completes its final retreat from the nebula
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SOC mission to 2nd
Knossos Portal. Lt. Cmdr. Snipes and three other SOC pilots emerge in
an unknown binary star system. They discover the 3rd Knossos Portal
and several Shivan Juggernauts converging on Terran-Vasudan space.
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Initial Deployment of
Ares-class strategic assault fighter by GTVA; 1st "public" deployment
of the Erinyes assault fighter by GTVA.
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Over 90 Sathanas
Juggernauts encircle the Capella star and begin emitting a series of
subspace pulses at the star
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Destruction of Colossus
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Destruction of Capella
star/End of Second Great War
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2379 Start of
Without Remorse campaign. (Hey, I had to put a shameless plug
of Guardian's campaign in here SOMEWHERE!) LOL :)
