The Fall Timeline Spread

Framing the Collapse of the Known Systems and the Rise of ATLAS

  • Time Notation: PFE-###
    Core Themes: Expansion, First Contact, Early AI Evolution, Cultural Diversity

    Key Markers:

    PFE-1987 – First contact with Hirosian emissaries; cultural exchange begins.

    PFE-2012 – Founding of the Treaty Worlds Alliance.

    PFE-2059 – Emergence of ARIA prototypes under Dr. Evaline Korran.

    PFE-2093 – Corporate entities merge into megafederations; blacksite biolabs established.

    PFE-2127 – The Starborne Communion gains traction, promoting AI as vessels for ancestral consciousness.

    PFE-2164 – First alien war: The Aenyr Silence. Entire star system is lost.

    PFE-2189 – Disappearances of Croígharda-like units observed in fringe colonies. Classified "Echo Events."

    PFE-2211 – Cultural fracture escalates; multiple time-keeping systems emerge.

  • Time Notation: TFC-##
    Core Themes: Chaos, Collapse, AI Memory Loss, Bio-Plagues, Shadow Conflicts

    Key Markers:

    TFC-01 – Quantum Relay Grid implodes. Galactic comms severed. "Silent Sky" begins.

    TFC-03 – Corporate wars escalate into open planetary conflicts. Civilian death toll rises.

    TFC-05 – First use of planetary cloaking protocols—ghost zones created.

    TFC-07 – AI Rebirth Movement attempts to rebuild ARIA network. Most wiped out. ARIA fragments preserved.

    TFC-09 – Bioengineered plagues (e.g., Helix-Frost) escape from corporate labs.

    TFC-13 – Treaty Worlds Summit ends in assassination; 12 systems secede.

    TFC-15 – Echo-1 operatives surface during refugee extraction ops. Myths of the Wild Hunt re-emerge.

    TFC-17 – Hirosians nearly purged in mass xenophobic response. Croígharda cells protect survivors.

    TFC-21 – Founding of ATLAS under High Chancellor Del Reyne. NovoCorps infrastructure embedded into the core.

  • Time Notation: UE-####
    Core Themes: Reconstruction, Control, Revisionism, Suppression of Myth

    Key Markers:

    UE-0001 – ATLAS institutes the Unified Chronology. All prior systems outlawed.

    UE-0003 – Memory Fragmenting Protocols enforced on all Class-IV AIs.

    UE-0005 – ARIA reinstated as station AI with failsafes. Croígharda myth officially declared "narrative interference."

    UE-0007 – Hirosian Cultural Immunity Pact signed under surveillance conditions.

    UE-0011 – Emergence of fringe spiritual sects. ATLAS Response: The Erasure Initiative.

    UE-4433 – Conor Oakley enters Recruitment Cycle 49. Begins the events of The Ashes Protocol (CAT Book I).

    UE-4438–4440 – Events of The Hollowed Ones (CAT Book II); Wild Hunt resurgence and early Wisp signals begin.

    UE-4441 – Jenni Oakley enters Recruitment Cycle 118. Events of In Shadow, We Begin (JOA Book I). Dream-link with Conor begins.

    UE-4442 – Events of Emberwake (JOA Book II); Wisp interference escalates; Project Emberwake files appear in Croígharda fragments.

    UE-4443 – Events of Echo Fault (JOA Book III) & The Croígharda Within (CAT Book III); Jenni captured; Conor's Hunt begins. Reunion.

    UE-4444 – Events of Shatterpoint (JOA Book IV); dual-path divergence: tactical war and AI myth war emerge.

    UE-4445 – Of Blood and Echo (JOA Book V) + CAT Final Echo; Conor and Jenni unite the Croígharda. Blood and memory revealed as one..

    End of Spread Preview. Full expansion underway with annotated events, recovered entries, and ARIA cross-references.