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30th century
A settled system
Every world around the Sun has been lived on for hundreds of years. There is no travel faster than light. No one has ever made contact with another species, and as far as humanity knows, there is no one else to find.
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Date unknown
The manifold
Humans learn to borrow from time to travel faster than light. The device that does it, the manifold, is the most important thing they ever build. For the first time, they can leave.
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Shortly after
The fence
Past the edge of the known systems, humanity finds out it has always lived inside a boundary. No one is there to explain it. Ships stop working beyond a certain distance, and some systems can no longer be reached.
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Around the 70th century
The founding of the Concord
Humanity lives under an order it never agreed to. For generations, the answer to everything is no. Eventually some people refuse to accept it. They form the Concord.
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96th century
The Concord at its height
The Concord has become an alliance of many species. It protects smaller civilizations from more powerful ones that would destroy them. Those who live under it expect it to last.
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After the 96th century
The Concord what it .
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The wall · date redacted
The last departures
No one who reaches the camp comes from after this point in time.
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The next ten million years
The long silence
Nearly ten million years pass. No one from them is known to have reached the camp.
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10,000,000 AD
The camp
In a forest at the end of time, survivors from many centuries live beside a ship that cannot fly. At the last count there are 109 of them.