* 6 - 3 pf The First Sathar War (SW I) is fought.
* 6 pf The Sathar fleet first appears. It attacks the Truane's Star
system.
* 5 pf Pale and New Pale fall. The Great Exodus to Dixon's Star system
takes place.
* 4 pf The four races muster a spaceship fleet. The Second Common Muster
is called and put under the command of Admiral Morgaine, who
immediately moves the fleet into the Cassidine system.
The Battle of Triad. Morgaine's fleet performs a surprise attack on
the invading Sathar fleet intent on ravaging Triad. The Sathar lose a
third of their fleet.
Dixon's Star system is attacked by the Sathar fleet. Completely
unprotected it is soon ravaged. Meanwhile Morgaine moves his fleet to
the Prenglar system.
* 3 pf The Sathar attack Gran Quivera in the Prenglar system. The Battle
of the Two Fleets is fought. The Sathar fleet is routed and destroyed.
Morgaine's fleet is depleted and Morgaine dies in battle. With this
mutual devastation the First Sathar War comes to an end (2/16/3pf).
* FY1 (Federation Year) The United Planetary Federation, a mutual
defense organization, is established (FY1.3.18). All the worlds of the
Frontier, expecting another Sathar invasion, immediately join. Under
UPF authority, Spacefleet becomes a permanent defensive force.
* FY15 The Lynchpin system is discovered by Vrusk. They turn the system
over to the UPF for development as a military outpost to protect that
sector of the Frontier. The Lynchpin system is a military secret until
the middle of SWII.
* FY35 The First Dramune War is fought.
* FY40 - 50 Laco's War. PGC and Streel wage the first Corporate War on
Laco(Dixon's Star).
* FY49 The UPF steps in on Laco's War and empowers an
inter-mega-corporate commission to resolve the differences. Other
mega-corps study Laco's War as a possible legal precedent for solving
disputes.
* FY52 Streel attacks CDC operations on Alcazzar(Rhianna). Star Law
intervenes and averts a potential Corporate War.
* FY58 Four star systems: Kar, Stella, Whorl, and Wotogon; have become
so infested with the Blue Plague that the Council of Worlds, the
diplomatic organization of the UPF, requests that all races recognize
an indefinite quarantine of these systems. A spaceship seen leaving
one of these systems is to be destroyed by Spacefleet before it has a
chance to spread the plague any further.
* FY59 The entire ecology of the Dralasite homeworld Lomigleeb(Wotogon)
undergoes a change due to saturation of the Blue Plague. The genetic
makeup of all living things on the planet is changed. The world is
permanently set off limits as it is found to be deadly to nearly all
lifeforms.
* FY66 Domus(Stella), the Human homeworld, is annihilated in nuclear
hostilities due to fighting over distribution of the Blue Plague
vaccine. So complete is the destruction that all life on the planet is
destroyed. Bases located on Lumina, and in the asteroids are also
attacked.
* FY75 The Mechanon Revolt. Mechanons on Volturnus revolt. Only through
quick action on the part of Star Law is a full-scale war avoided.
* FY81 The Second Dramune War is fought.
* FY95 - 105 The Second Sathar War.
* FY95 The Sathar discover a non-UPF system between Solar Major and
Solar Minor. They find a small moon orbiting a gas giant and dub it
Outpost #1. Construction begins on a moon-wide military and industrial
complex intended as a permanent base for incoming Sathar supply ships
and troops.
The Sathar swarm through the Xagyg Nebula and attack Volturnus. New
planetwide battle tactics are used by the Sathar (including the
massive use of diversionary, seeded monsters and cybernetically
controlled creatures). The attack is a feint to draw Spacefleet to
Zebulon. Task Force Cassidine is dispatched to Zebulon.
By going through the White Light Nebulae, Sathar Fleet #1 enters the
Frontier undetected. FY96 Sathar Fleets #2 & 3 attack Solar Minor. So
overpowering are they that no word of attack reaches Spacefleet.
Sathar Fleet #1 attacks Kdikit(Madderly's Star). They encounter the
new Spacefleet fortress on Kdikit. Its resistance is fierce and buys
the needed time for reinforcements to arrive. Dramune sends three
frigates and a destroyer from its militia while the UPF dispatches two
destroyers and two light cruisers from its non-attached ships roster.
The UPF mines the sector between Cassidine and Madderly's Star. Sathar
Fleet #1 is driven from Madderly's Star and pursued as it tries to
makes its way to Fromeltar. All militia ships in the sector, including
half of Task Force Prenglar, are engaged in the pursuit.
Task Force Cassidine crushes the Sathar feint on Zebulon, but with
heavy losses (96.6). The UPF now realizes how vulnerable it is to land
attacks.
At this time, the Rim Coalition dispatches the Flight to the other
side of Klaeok in search of Sathar supply vessles. In return they ask
the UPF to station Task Force Cassidine half way between Zebulon and
Capella to protect the Rim home worlds in case of Sathar sneak attack
through the Muld Nebula.
Strike Force Nova arrives secretly at White Light (96.7). Admiral
Niles believe more of the Sathar fleet may attack through the White
Light Nebulae.
Sathar Fleet #2 emerges at the Prenglar system(96.8), placing itself
in front of the remains of Task Force Prenglar. The Battle of Prenglar
begins two hours later and results in Sathar Fleet #2 scattering or
destroying the reduced Task Force Prenglar.
Flush with victory, the Sathar proceed recklessly into the Frontier.
Strike Force Nova soon engages Sathar Fleet #2 in the Whorl system.
The remaining Task Force Prenglar ships return and join the battle.
This running battle results in the eventual withdrawl of Sathar Fleet
#2 into the White Light Nebulae.
Sathar Fleet #3 attempts to circumnavigate the Greater Morass(96.8).
Two weeks later it is engaged by long-range fighters from
Moonworld(Lynchpin). Without any knowledge of the existance of the
Lynchpin system, the Sathar forge ahead expecting to find a lone
spaceship. Instead the Battle of Moonworld is joined.
* FY97 The Coalition's Flight discovers the Sathar supply route around
the Xagyg Nebula. They station themselves in deep space and proceed to
destroy all incoming Sathar ships.
The final dregs of Sathar Fleet #1, after slipping into the Xagyg
Nebula off Fromeltar, arrive back at Sathar Outpost #1 and prepare to
defend to the death.
The Battle of Moonworld ends (97.1) with three-quarters of Sathar
Fleet #3 destroyed. The remaining Sathar vessles are forced into the
Vast Expanse.
Task Force Prenglar regroups off K'aken Kar(97.2).
The UPF extablishes the United Planetary Federation Landfleet in 97.5,
the first interplanetary army raised on the Frontier. Thousands of
Humma and Osakar arrive from the Rim and enlist, hoping to stop the
Sathar menace before it invades their homeworlds. Many die for the
Frontier, but still more stay and become citizens after the war.
Strike Force Nova secures the Frontier inward from Theseus.
* FY98 A Coalition Flight long-distance probe discovers Sathar Outpost
#1 and reports its location before it is destroyed.
The remains of Sathar Fleet #2 arrive at Outpost #1.
Despite a desperate shortage of supplies caused by the Flight blockade
and terrible losses from previous engagements, the Sathar have finally
completed their construction by FY98.3. Outpost #1 is now a formidable
fortress.
The Mist Stone, a sacred Capellan icon, is stolen by Sathar agents and
smuggled into Outpost #1. The original copy of Reflections of a Humble
Servant is also stolen and smuggled into Outpost #1. This work is
considered by Humans to be the definitive philosophy of Dralasite
civilization. Sathar war ships force the populations of Circe(Solar
Minor) and Kir'-Kit(Solar Minor) to evacuate their planets (98.5).
They are transported to Outpost #1 and enslaved. All three incidents
combine to assure that Outpost #1 is not taken by orbital bombardment.
Strike Force Nova retakes Solar Minor by 98.7. The fighting is fierce
and half of the Strike Force and all of the Sathar holding force is
destroyed.
* FY99 The Battle of the Blockade(99.1). A reinforcement fleet from
Sathar space is challenged by the Flight. Half of the Sathar fleet,
most of them fighting ships, escape but all troop ships are destroyed.
About one half of the Flight is eliminated.
The Flight is greatly increased by reinforcements from the Rim. Wing
#1, the original Flight, rendezvous with Task Force Prenglar. Battered
and weary, they still insist on joining the siege of Outpost #1 with
the Frontier forces. This group of Rim spacers quickly gains notoriety
in the Frontier and greatly enhances UPF-Rim relations. They are known
as the Raging Rimmers.
Wing #2 takes up the blockade position. Wing #3 is charged with the
defense of the home worlds. Task Force Cassidine sails for Solar
Minor.
The Sathar begin mining operations on adjacent moons to Outpost #1
(99.5).
Dralasites and the Coalition insist that a diplomatic mission be sent
to Outpost #1 (99.6). The Sathar agree to meet three months later to
discuss possible treaty. Non-Sathar agents represent Sathar interests
at the meetings. Diplomatic talks are held for another 18 months with
no results. During that time the Sathar strengthen their defenses and
repair their ships. The UPF Landfleet is given time to become a
formidable army.
* FY101 Task Force Cassidine joins Strike Force Nova around Solar Minor
after the talks fail. Four months later (101.7), Capellan Free
Merchantsmen transport the Landfleet to the Solar Major and Solar
Minor Fleets. Many Ifshnit remain in the Frontier after the war and
begin the Free Merchant trade system throughout the UPF planets. They
will become so firmly entrenched in Frontier life that the mega-corps
will not be able to force them out, and eventually accept them as
another mega-corp.
* FY102 The Battle of Five Fleets. In a pincer action, Task Force
Prenglar, Coalition Wing #1, Task Force Cassidine, and the remnants of
Strike Force Nova attack the Outpost #1 system. Outpost #1 itself is
an almost planet-sized moon and has two moon sized companions. The
entire year is spent destroying the remnants of the Sathar Fleet, the
minefields orbiting the planet, the small fighter squadrons the Sathar
captured from the Solar Minor system, and the moons' mining and
defensive operations. Lost in the action is the rest of Strike Force
Nova, except for the battleship Quasar, half of Task Force Cassidine,
and all but two destroyers from Coalition Wing #1.
* FY103 - 105 The Siege of Outpost. Task Force Prenglar blockades
Outpost #1 while Landfleet is shuttled in under intense fire. The land
battles take two years to complete. At the end of the hostilities
(FY105.11.20), no Sathar survive and 40% of Landfleet is destroyed.
Among the Landfleet dead, 30% are Rim citizens. Most of the Ifshnit,
Osakar, and Humma who have served the UPF during the war settle down
on the UPF Frontier worlds.
* FY108 The Frontier worlds decide that a permanent, but scaled down,
UPF Landfleet force must be maintained at all times for the defense of
the Frontier.
* FY110 Outpost #1 is established as a UPF military base. The "Hoppin'
Hundred and Eighth," a spearhead Humma division, is stationed there
permanently.
* FY115 Galactic Task Force and MercCo fight the first post-SWII
Corporate War over settlement rights on Anakosus, third moon of
Alcazzar(Rhianna). Hostilities quicly spread to include all seven of
Alcazzar's moons and over half a dozen mega-corps. The Corporate Wars
begin in earnest.
* FY116 The Rim and the UPF enter into multiple defense treaties and
economic trade agreements, but the Coalition gives severe warnings to
all mega-corps that their militancy will not be tolerated in the Rim.
Tourism between the UPF and Rim is established and is immediately
sucessful. The Frontier now officially includes the Rim worlds
(FY116.5.3).
* FY120 Several Saurian escape ships are found travelling through the
Theseus system.
* FY131.10 Third Dramune War is fought.
* FY132 In an effort to stem the growing numbers of Corporate Wars, the
UPF and Coalition worlds grant Star Law the authority to recruit and
use mercenaries.
* FY150 The Grand celebration, commemorating 150 years of the UPF treaty
is planned for the entire year. Gala social functions, parades, and
celebrations are planned on every planet in the UPF and even some on
the Rim.
* --- Liberty system discovered by the UPF. The planet Snowball is
liberated from Sathar tyranny. Tacticians, politicians, and
exobiologists are given a chance to study Sathar machinery and methods
first hand because of the information gathered by the populace during
their occupations. It is feared that many pockets of Sathar tyranny
exist all around the Frontier and Rim. ~135 fy Long-range probe ships
are sent into suspected Sathar space away from the Rim and UPF systems
on the other side of the Xagyg Dust Nebula. It is hoped these probes
can answer the question of where the Sathar come from.
