Armada and Cortex corporate conglomerates rise to global prominence.

A 62 year long year struggle against elite longevity and consolidation.

An expansion of longevity technology to extended families of elites, turning the Mortalis Rebellion violent.

A super AI is created to orchestrate peace.

Under the guidance of the All-Father, humans colonize the solar system.

Onset of civilizational stagnation due to the indolence of 'utopia.' All-Father led efforts to counter it fail.

Ambitious Cortex and Armada scientists, guided by the All-Father, discover a new physics material.

A massive asteroid strikes Pluto, used as a cultural moment to wake humanity from its indolence.

Tenebrium-enabled FTL travel is used to fling humanity to the stars.

Humans traveling through deep space universally report a pull to seek what lies beyond the darkness. They find a faith that will span the galaxy.

Desirous of more Tenebrium, Armada and Cortex create massive fleets, clone the Prime All-Father each for themselves, and leave Earth behind.

Autonomy increases across the galactic human diaspora. AI Governance by lesser All-Fathers, the faith of the Path, and the strength of Armada and Cortex cultures prevent complete sundering.

Cortex and Armada fleets, restrained by the governance of the Prime All-Fathers, wage a cold war on the long journey to Gaia.

Failures of All-Father Shards, and The Path's veneration of human connection to the Void, grow the seeds in Armada and Cortex which put humanity above machine.

Cortex, then Armada, expeditionary fleets arrive at Gaia Black Hole 1, and Tenebrium refining operations begin. The call of the Eternal Horizon is strong around Gaia.

Aliel Nevis, philosopher-scientist and descendant of Armada founder Adalyn Nevis, seeks her Horizon to redeem her family's legacy. At the dawn of the Tenebrium Age, she finds the planet Alectryon.

A golden age of technology, economy, culture, and galactic empire building. The two corporations scramble to reverse The Fracturing Epoch by diplomacy and might.

Armada's great dynastic houses - Orpheo, Veltari, and Taelith - are driven together by shared purpose and a common rival, forming the The Continuum Protocol.

While both factions attempt to enhance the Prime All-Fathers with Tenebrium, Cortex's experimentation accelerates beyond all predictions.

Tenebrium enhancement of the Prime All-Fathers caused schism in The Path of the Eternal Horizon, growing Armada's Evermarch and birthing the Garmethdes Covenant.

What began as a corporate conflict over the Independent Exodus of Gaia escalates into a battle that spirals beyond all reason. By the end, the system is devoured by the growing Void of Gaia-BH1.

With the Prime All-Fathers gone and the peacemaker Commander Dorian Hale assassinated, the titanic empires of Armada and Cortex launch into a struggle for domination of the quadrant.

Veylos Keram, a visionary transhumanist who saved the Cortex war machine from collapse at the onset of the Severance War, founds Keram's Horizon.

From the system-shattering Storm of Strakan, to the desolation of Teizer 5, corporate fleets and TLCP systems were spent with no Tenebrium supplies to replace them. Warfare shifted to planet surface action with human pilots.

Studies of war-forged survivors from the Severance War demonstrate their scientifically inexplicable and irreproducible neurologic capabilities. The Void-Touched. Commanders.

Cortex and Armada, ravaged by war, relegate fighting to The Line Worlds. Offensive actions are spearheaded by Commanders.