Full canon timeline
The Master Chronology
One universe. Four centuries of consequence. Every event is connected.
Major spoilers for all three novels
This section reveals major events, identities, causal loops, and outcomes across the complete Trilogy of Time. Click below to open the full spoiler chronology.
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Section 01 of 04Millennia before 2263 • 2260Deep Prehistory
Millennia before 2263
Galactic War Before Humanity
Before human arrival
Drakmoor and Shadowmere empires devastate inhabited space
Cantor becomes a Shadowmere stronghold
Earth Past
1970s • October 17, 1989
Future Morgan occupies the missing week with Raven
Morgan travels from 2307 into the one-week gap created when her younger self leaves the Sunset Strip nightclub for 2025. She spends seven days with the still-physical Raven before younger Morgan returns.
Kronos arrives in Northern California
Morgan and Eve disclose the closed sequence
The Harbinger is shifted out of its strike window
Kronos opens the route toward the Texas event
Archive Era
2025
Young Morgan secures the archive
Younger Morgan travels from 1970s Los Angeles to 2025 and spends one week creating redundant physical and digital repositories. These archives survive into the Exodus era and become part of the information chain recovered during Operation Homecoming.
The hidden archives survive into the Exodus era
Exodus
2242
Earth reaches terminal ecological crisis
SNAPS reaches operational scale
Surface conflict reaches orbit
Operation Exodus begins
Marcus enters the quantum framework
The twenty-worldship fleet leaves the Solar System
Great Migration
2244–2246
The fleet pauses at the Solar System’s edge
Operation Homecoming is approved
The fleet divides
Homecoming travels toward Earth
Homecoming and Ascension
2246 and after
Homecoming reaches Earth orbit
Eliza reveals the Ascension
Five million physical evacuees enter the Homecoming worldships
Earth recovery infrastructure is established
Vanguard Preparation
2249–2259
The Academy operates inside SNAPS
The Watcher contacts Rachel
The silent Vanguard is built
First Vanguard Interventions
2259
Four Vanguard carriers and five thousand combat units deploy
Vorg Prime is found devastated
The Vanguard rescues Vorg civilians and Krell
Magnetar Passage
2260
The Exodus Fleet encounters a dead alien armada
Kozo warns of an approaching magnetar flare
The dead fleet shields the fifteen worldships
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Section 02 of 042263, early January • 2264–2268War of Cantor
2263–2264
Texas is attacked at the fleet’s trailing edge
Texas’s one million minds are preserved
Future Admiral Rachel returns to the fleet
Morgan and Raven awaken aboard Damascus
Fourteen worldships continue under Commander Rachel
The Vanguard executes the precision strike
Morgan and Raven rescue the refugee fleet
Morgan repairs Waz’s ancient wound
The Planet Killer reaches Kepler 442C
The nanite weapon disables the Planet Killer
The Retribution Fleet reaches the fracture point
Exile fleets rally to retake Cantor
The allied fleet breaches Cantor
Raven becomes the Anchor
The Shadowmere hive connection is severed
Drakmoor forces begin sterilizing Cantor
Morgan releases the nanite pattern through the Anchor
The Silence tears through the framework
Fourteen worldships reach Alpha Centauri
Future Rachel becomes the Watcher
Exile and Sanctuary Building
2263
Morgan begins exile at Waz
Morgan organizes immediate survival
The first SNAPS Alcove and borrowed bodies are built
Expeditions return to the ash worlds
The Dren losses continue despite recovery efforts
Kelyr dies preserving the ThalRin matrices
Accords and Reconstruction
2264
The protected approach to Cantor opens
The Pantheon Accords become law
Morgan enters the Vorg Prime quarantine
Waz’s first city and living archive take shape
Rim Garrison Era
2264–2268
Raiders locate the Phosphoric Nebula
The Rim Garrison is founded
Hornets and direct-interface drones enter service
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Section 03 of 042268 • 2523Rim Garrison Era
2264–2268
The raiders return
Pearl Era
2273–2274
Waz begins forming her first Pearl
The Pearl develops oceans and independent systems
The First Pearl separates from Waz
Nara enters the First Pearl
Predator Encounter
2274
An ancient predator approaches Waz
Morgan redirects the predator toward a singularity
Years of Peace
After 2274
Sanctuary enters a long period of peace
Return and New Frontier
2297
Cantor Station operates above the restored world
Restored Kronos arrives at Cantor
Morgan ends thirty-four years of exile
Morgan reappears at Cantor and Jack returns
Morgan’s biological body is awakened from cryostasis
Morgan reunites with Kozo and enters the Temple
Rachel’s biological body dies
The sealed Cantor records open
Morgan calls for a voluntary expedition to Waz
The Waz expedition departs
The expedition reaches Waz
Routine portal access becomes possible
Frontier Command is defined
Garr stops the first joint patrol
Third Fleet learns the concealed frontier routes
The Time Morgan Took
2307 / 2025
Ten years of frontier life have passed
Morgan leaves her Waz Synthroid behind
Morgan places her advanced Meccanoid in temporal preservation
Eve sends Morgan back to the preserved week
Signal Era
2523
Morgan arrives after the preserved week
Dimensional fractures threaten the inner systems
Morgan studies Aurora’s approaching continuity split
Aurora performs the anniversary broadcast
The tachyon transmitter overloads
The first recovered transmission is dated 2025
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Section 04 of 042523 • 2524, after the battleSignal Era
2523
Valhalla enters Sector G
Protocol Black quarantines Sector G
Biosphere Four is destroyed
Grief produces another transmission element
Valhalla destroys the refugee ark to save Waz
The ark record reveals a wider catastrophe
Governor Vane seizes Biosphere Seven
Biosphere Seven frees itself and returns
Signal and Hex Convergence
2523–2524
Kronos activates when the Architect Key returns
The first tachyon wave catches Valhalla
A second wave severs Valhalla from Waz
Aurora discovers she has been duplicated
Morgan brings both continuities to the Obsidian Platform
Aurora returns to Waz while the Dark Phoenix remains aboard
Rory chooses her name through performance
Valhalla enters the Origami Sector gravity crisis
Aurora reaches Beep’s quantum core
The combined harmonic threatens inhabited space
Rory and Phoenix
2524
Rory receives an organic Synthroid body
Rory takes command of Phoenix
Vanguard Return
2524
Phoenix and the Vanguard return to Waz
Hex War
2524
Phoenix destroys a Hex patrol in the Badlands
Hex attacks spread across the frontier
Valhalla and Phoenix destroy a severance ship
The Hex invade Waz
The Imperium First Fleet emerges
The Hex pulse disables the connected fleets
Rory uses Phoenix as the final jump weapon
Rory continues in the Quantum Substrate
Closed Signal Loop
2524 into the past
The seven transmissions complete the backward signal
The signal gives SNAPS its tuning path
After the Loop Closes
2524