Timeline

In-world chronology of established events. In-game dates fill in as Tim pins them; until then, entries are ordered by session.

Chapter 1 — The Far Dark

• (in-game date TBD) — Session 1 — Session 01 - The Ragged Edge of Space — The crew (Six, Rock Lavey, Shackleton Magellan, Ronin Sanchez) arrive at MacMillian Station IV by separate routes and take the MacMillian Security job. Orientation under Solveig Kaufer, the real briefing from Chief Holger Graeme, a first gate shift, and a night through the Entertainment District (The Comets Tail, The Silk Abbey, Nova Nexus). Over the following weeks the crew maps the station’s selective-enforcement corruption via the Law Machine and clocks the local players: the Rusted Blades under Leocadia Zavia, the Serene Syndicate around the Nova Nexus, and the redacted-record Marine Daniela Akkermans.

  • (in-game date TBD) — The Coordinate Shakedown — at The Comets Tail, the crew watch Leocadia Zavia extract coordinates from a captive miner; Shackleton Magellan’s bot-tap is blown by Ronin Sanchez before the numbers are heard. An open lead.

• (in-game date TBD) — Session 2 — Session 02 - The MacMillian Anomaly — After weeks as the station’s standing TAC team, the crew work a scam case (Harsha Trent) through Station 45 and the Nova Nexus, then a 4 A.M. alarm sends them into mothballed Processing II. They find a cargo container (Kinetic Logistics Container) rigged with a Mysterious Relay bridging human and non-human technology. Six boards it as it’s dragged into space by a hijacked drone, guts the relay, carves out two Alien Metal Chunks before Corrosive Goo and a timed self-destruct take the container into a “vortex.” The samples are confiscated to Zigurds Sloan; the crew is confined, then reassigned to Thides III.

  • (in-game date TBD) — The Processing II Anomaly — the container incident itself: covert repeated access to a sealed sector, disabled station drones, apparent first-contact technology, and a station cover-up that prioritizes investor Peter Goodwin over the breach.

• (in-game date TBD) — Session 3 — Session 03 - Buckle Up Motherfuckers — The crew and technician Jareth Brand fly a stripped-down Type 113A transport to restricted Thides III on a relay-maintenance escort. Mid-run their ship is downed by a dissolving substance; Ronin Sanchez crash-lands in the jungle. Fighting off EM-drawn wildlife (Furry Lampreys, a Chitinoteuthis), the crew reach Relay Station 11 and find it falsely logged as serviced for two years, with an alien device jamming comms — and spot a hidden Kinetic Logistics Compound taking a vortex-jump delivery. They raid the compound (guarded by Daniela Akkermans’s Akker Cartel), steal a transport rigged with alien tech and vortex engines, take a prisoner, and escape to MacMillian Station IV.

  • (in-game date TBD) — The Kinetic Logistics Compound Raid — the infiltration, EMP strike, ship theft, and armed getaway; the crew’s first hard physical evidence since Processing II.

• (in-game date TBD) — Session 4 — Session 04 - The Case of the Missing Courtesan — The crew fly the stolen transport home on its last fuel, are intercepted and cleared by Marshal Julija Borja, and dock at MacMillian Station IV — where Holger Graeme impounds the ship under federal quarantine at Docking Bay 36. Shackleton Magellan works out that the Alien Navigation Device permits beaconless jumps straight into atmosphere, and fits a Stealth Tracking Gizmo to the hull. Granted 24 hours of R&R, the crew are hired by Samina Ventura to find the missing courtesan Brianna Melvin, and trade information with reporter Pia Kadyrov of Thides Cast. Julija Borja interrogates them, receives Six’s Mission Report, and confronts Holger Graeme over MacMillian’s reporting chain. On patrol that evening, a Kinetic Logistics team ambushes them on the cargo level. Shackleton’s tracker returns nothing: the quarantined ship has left the Thides System.

  • (in-game date TBD) — The Room 2002 Cover-Up — Brianna Melvin vanishes after a Royale Hotel party hosted by Wilton Agramunt for Peter Goodwin; the suite is professionally scrubbed, the cameras timed around it, and Wilton Agramunt himself goes missing days later.
  • (in-game date TBD) — The Shipping Sector Ambush — armed Kinetic Logistics operatives jam comms and attack the crew in the Shipping and Receiving Sector; one killed, one captured alive, one fled, and a Kinetic Logistics ID Card recovered.

• (in-game date TBD) — Session 5 — The 07-Delta Raid — Julija Borja deputises the crew and leads an off-books federal raid on 07-Delta Station on Thides I, tracked by a covert listening post in the Thidian Belt. The facility is found rigged for demolition; the control room is cleared and detonates behind the crew. Daniela Akkermans escapes; Shackleton Magellan is severely wounded.

• (in-game date TBD) — Session 5 — The Pratrock Takeover — Wilton Agramunt is found dead in his residence and Solveig Kaufer announces over station-wide comms that MacMillian has been acquired by Pratrock Dynamics, while Kinetic Logistics drop ships board MacMillian Station IV. Julija Borja is murdered by Daniela Akkermans in Docking Bay 36. The crew escape the Thides System through a vortex opened by the Alien Navigation Device.

• Session 6 — The Airlock Interrogation — Six questions Marlo Petrak aboard The Albatross and moves to space him; Ronin Sanchez intervenes by force. Petrak names Doug and Gary Johnson, and is taken on as probationary crew.

• Session 6 — The crew christen the stolen transport The Albatross during a four-day hyperspace transit navigated by the Alien Navigation Device rather than Republic beacons.

• Session 6 — The Corwin II Facility Raid — the cube seizes the autopilot and flies the ship into the concealed Corwin II Subterranean Landing Bay. The crew breach it, are locked in, fight clear of Pratrock Dynamics security, and Six cuts the hangar doors open from the hull.

• Session 6 — Kinetic Logistics is dissolved and absorbed into its parent company, days after seizing MacMillian Station IV by force.

• Session 6 — The crew jump for the Eris System on coordinates entered by hand, the cube severed from the autopilot.

• Session 7 — The Albatross reaches the Eris System in four days flat, the cube threading hyperspace by its gravitational bends; Shackleton Magellan proves the Corwin autopilot seizure was an external hijack through a comms-array attachment, and fits the Autopilot Kill Switch.

• Session 7 — The House of Parts Handoff — the crew deliver Julija Borja’s evidence to Roselyn Monroe at the House of Parts on Eris III. Her own thumbprint opens the bag; she issues forged citizen IDs, frees Marlo Petrak from his Marshal cuffs, and speaks of Julija in the past tense before being told she is dead. Marlo Petrak chooses to stay with the crew.

• Session 7 — Six’s first birthday: declared at the Bamboo Lounge, annually, “until someone established a calendar.”

• Session 7 — The Goodwin Contract — Roselyn Monroe brokers a job for an unnamed contact: Peter Goodwin delivered to Storage B-342 in exchange for a coded transponder, failure enforced. The evidence ties Goodwin Investments to Kinetic Logistics grazers on the Eris III black market.

• Session 7 — The reconnaissance of the Firetemic Tower: the two-stage armored garage, the Millennial Cleaning and Janitorial Services shift pattern, the engineers’ service-elevator intelligence — and Six, via the Aethel City Sewers, riding an armored transport’s roof into the restricted basement garage under his chameleon suit. The session ends with him inside.

• Session 8 — The Firetemic Tower Raid — Shackleton Magellan clones Edvin’s badge in the Aethel Subway Station and reads Peter Goodwin’s lips at the limousine: a shipment has already gone out. The crew badge into the Firetemic Tower lobby, reach the 16th floor, and climb the service shaft under fire while Six cuts up through three floors with the vibro-axe.

• Session 8 — On the 17th floor Six kills a guard by hand and Ronin Sanchez kills a second with the grazer. The guards carry grazer rifles and tangler grenades. A third party jams the floor, sends a teletext (“stay put, don’t touch our stuff”), and moves something out by cargo automaton.

• Session 8 — Six scales the outside of the tower and takes Goodwin through his own window. Goodwin’s bribe names “Daniel” and “she”. The crew escape by the fire stairs into the Aethel City Sewers as the federal response arrives (a presence heard as “Leonard Romagin”, confirmed as Leonard Romeijn). Session ends at the starport DMZ with Storage B-342 ahead.

• Session 9 — The Sewer Breakout — Underground on Eris III with Peter Goodwin unconscious on Six’s back, the crew regroup in the Aethel City Sewers. Rock Lavey intercepts security signals: the crew are listed as persons of interest, identities unknown to the planetary authorities, and the only damning image is a blurry shot of Six in full body armor carrying a man out of the Firetemic Tower. Shackleton Magellan scans the walls, finds vibration and noise sensors around the starport perimeter, and the crew choose to dig slowly beside a large sewer pipe.

• Session 9 — Six digs with the vibro-axe on a low pulse. A security drone finds Shackleton, who draws it away, disables it with a 40mm EMP device (blacking out his own gear), and bluffs an Aethel Safety Bureau squad with the smart rope as a poisonous sewer snake until they shoot it. Gas comes through a wire tube into Six and Rock’s tunnel.

• Session 9 — Shackleton reaches the Sewage Discharge Room, takes the stone stairs on no map into the Hidden Basement, leaves by an unalarmed fire exit near the Bamboo Union 103 Lodge, and loses his pursuers in the city. Six finds his tunnel had run parallel to the station wall, cuts a plug through the cinder block, and looks out on eight federal soldiers and two Dreadnought battle suits in the Aethel Starport Sub-Level.

• Session 9 — The Storage B-342 Handoff — Six and Rock Lavey slip past the soldiers to Storage B-342, where Roselyn Monroe waits. Shackleton arrives on a false identity seconds before lockdown. Major Leonard Romeijn confirms Peter Goodwin, has him carted away in a crate, and gives the crew twenty-four hours to leave his station. Six names the betrayal: federal troops were hunting them while they completed his job. The Goodwin Contract closes.

• Session 9 — Monroe installs a legal federal transponder under The Albatross, registered to Shackleton, and hands him a frequency code to her network of unofficial jobs. That evening the local news credits four Aethel Safety Bureau officers with dismantling a Bamboo Union smuggling tunnel network. The crew, advised by Marlo Petrak, take the 1,000-credit cargo run to Peric IV D over a 5,000-credit job to Betelgeuse II; union workers load Firetemic Cargo Crates.

• Session 10 — After twenty-four hours of shore leave at Aethel Starport, the crew take the 1,000-credit supply run to Peric IV D. Shackleton Magellan asks the Alien Navigation Device, now nicknamed ICO, for a direct jump and is offered three days at a 65% success rate; the crew take the charted gate route instead, six days in hyperspace.

• Session 10 — In transit Shackleton establishes that the former mess hall of The Albatross holds a compact alien jump drive with a dreadnought’s worth of stored energy, and that ICO is self-aware to a degree and limited to navigation. Six and Ronin Sanchez spar; Ronin topples him once. Rock Lavey flags the need for a medbay.

• Session 10 — The Albatross lands at Acheron’s Rest. Basanti Eady inspects and clears the cargo and warns against gunfights in town. The crew unload the Firetemic Cargo Crates into The Outpost Warehouse for Edward Greenchee; Bergljot Peric pays 998 credits and offers a second contract to the Roberts homestead. At The Outpost Cantina Ronin meets Nat Marinov, who mentions work for the crew’s captain and leaves with Aliya Pontecorvo.

• Session 10 — The Rocky Pass Ambush — The next morning the crew leave Marlo Petrak with the ship and drive a Tracked All-Terrain Transport south-southwest. Twin snipers and six raiders from camouflaged trenches attack the vehicle in a ditch under a ridge. All eight go down. The delivery is still ahead of them.

• Session 11 — The crew search the dead of The Rocky Pass Ambush and find them identical. Rock Lavey keeps a pouch of Black Ice leaves. They deliver the Castellan Biodynamics drug to the Roberts Estate for 300 credits and dine with Harding Roberts, who explains the moon’s clone labour and the Acheronites.

• Session 11 — The Roberts Estate Storm Raid — Scavengers rob the estate’s medical building under cover of a storm. Six shoots out their tire and kills the driver from Roberts’s pursuit vehicle; Naja Juan kills the survivors. Roberts gives the crew a card for Aliya Pontecorvo.

• Session 11 — At The Krusty Sextant the crew take Aliya’s 3,000-credit contract. The Albatross loads at Roberts’s hidden pad, trades cargo at Santo Jin’s Station over Peric III, and makes a blind jump to the Katha System, four days in transit. Rock Lavey unlocks a captured Grazer Rifle on the way, with Shackleton Magellan’s gizmos behind the roll.

• Session 12 — The Katha Lockdown — The Albatross emerges in the Katha System clear of ships waiting at the Peric gate, and the Federal Republic of Worlds closes the system for forty-eight hours. The crew land at Furosuto Supaia Spaceport on Katha V. Six and Marlo Petrak sail overnight with Big Willie’s Jellyfish Adventure; Hasib Eberhardt has the ship searched and finds nothing. Rock Lavey spots Adelina Feliciano in Six’s group photo, Shackleton Magellan phones in a tip, and The Armored Bounty Hunter flies her off the planet. The blockade lifts.

• Session 12 — The Chae-gul 147 Breakaway — The crew unload their cargo of black ice at Chae-gul 147. Six tells Eliise Hawkins that Blaise Fabian wanted it moved before security came, and she arrests Fabian. Unpaid, the crew cut the docking locks, destroy a tracking beacon and make a blind jump to the outer edge of the Dinon System, four days in transit, with a 500-credit warrant from Chuchul Extraction behind them.

• Session 13 — Out of food and money in orbit at Rangi Station over Dinon I, the crew take Apice Entertainment’s Zenith security contract as Albatross Security LLC, Marlo Petrak’s cover firm, and ride the Rangi-Perihelion Elevator down to Perihelion. Six recognises the headliner, Adelina Feliciano, as the face-changer from Katha V. Ronin Sanchez watches P.E.T.A. protesters carry The P.E.T.A. Crates into a hotel near the crew’s motel.

• Session 13 — The Esplanade Sniper — On patrol of the Meridian Esplanade, Six spots a figure in a hotel room over the plaza and Shackleton Magellan’s nanomachines find a scoped rifle on a bipod. Paul Harrelson orders a stand-down. Six answers “Mission incomplete.” and the figure walks out.

• Session 14 — On the first shift’s patrol in Perihelion, Six loses control of Shackleton Magellan’s swarm and The Hotel Sniper changes clothes and vanishes underground. Rock Lavey and Marlo Petrak meet the real Channel 7 News reporter: the earlier news crew were fakes.

• Session 14 — Shack’s EMP, placed by Ronin Sanchez at Davis Electronics, blacks out Motel District 7. His swarm finds android parts, P.E.T.A. pamphlets and a news-crew equipment case inside, and hides in the Apex Bio Cleaning Van.

• Session 14 — Six’s first drunk night with the Wrinkles in Time Tours widowers: he spends his Social Chameleon God Token reconciling Frederick and Milang, and tells Marlo he was frozen and freed by P.E.T.A. Rock spends the night with Sylvie.

• Session 14 — On the second shift Rock sees that Adelina Feliciano’s security look like people from Wu. At The Club that night, The P.E.T.A. Activist from Davis Electronics is thrown out with his pamphlets.