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[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/4odx0x/twig_timeline/ Twig Timeline]<br> | |||
sectioning the timeline and character pages into years | |||
As you see, Wildbow's comment covers only up to Arc 11. The rest are guesses and estimates. | |||
Arcs 12, 13, 14 follow immediately after one another, and 14.x mentions that the Lambs' chase after Sy was during the summer, so assume summer for them. Also, Lillian receives her grades for the following autumn during that chapter — Arc 15 follows it, so it's set in winter. | |||
Arc 16 mentions snow a lot, has the phrase "as winter progressed", so I'm assuming winter as well. Arc 17 follows immediately after it, so winter too. Arcs 18, 19 and 20 follow immediately or nearly-immediately after one another, and Arc 18 has the phrase "spring air", so I'm assuming spring for them. | |||
First epilogue takes place several months later ("for months, Red had traveled"), assume summer or autumn. Second epilogue mentions snow and "getting through the winter", assume winter1. Third epilogue has the phrase "there was supposed to be a boat this spring", assume summer. Fourth epilogue directly states that it was fall ("it was fall")2, and I love it for its directness. | |||
Starts in 1921, I think. It couldn't be much sooner: not-Ferres' letter in 17.x mentions a discussion with Lillian in the summer of 1923. The chapter is set, as per above, four years after the story's start, so it couldn't have started sooner than 1919, and it seems unreasonable to assume that the letter referred to the current or the preceding year; may as well assume what "about" says. | |||
Lambs' ages, according to my past self: | |||
Sylvester – 11 (3.09, Sy’s words); Gordon – 12 (1.01, Sy’s narration); Helen – 13* (11.x); Jamie – 11-12 (estimated); Lillian – 13 (1.01, Sy’s narration); Mary – 12* (1.08, Gordon’s words). Duncan is same age as Lillian, I think, so 13. | |||
Ashton, as he was introduced in arc 7, was 14* years old, I think. | |||
1. Or maybe late autumn, I'm not sure how biopunk 1921 North America's weather works. | |||
2. Stupid unimaginative confusing American and Canadian English by the way, calling a temperate season the same way one calls the action of a sudden descent. Why didn't the Crown purge this... abomination? | |||
https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/dog-eat-dog-18-2/ | |||
https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2016/11/05/lamb-arc-14/ | |||
https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2017/04/01/lamb-arc-17/ | |||
https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/lamb-arc-11/#comment-13368 | |||
[https://animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/animal-domestication2.htm History of domestication] | |||
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Man has engaged in biotechnology and other ways of engineering or organisms for all of its history. Early forms of genetic engineering, or [[Wikipedia:Biopunk|'Biopunk']] have insured health and expansion of mankind.<!-- Cultural milestones and geological events.--> | |||
==Shared Timeline== | |||
===~20,000 BCE=== | |||
*Goats become first animal to be domesticated. | |||
*Wolves [[Wikipedia:Domestication|domesticated]], possible in early China though specifics very. | |||
===~7,000 BCE=== | |||
*Birth of Agriculture | *Birth of Agriculture | ||
**Wheat domesticated in Levant | **Wheat domesticated in Levant | ||
**Corn Domesticated in | **Corn Domesticated in Central America | ||
===216=== | ===216=== | ||
*[[Wikipedia:Galen|Galen of Pergamon]] dies | *[[Wikipedia:Galen|Galen of Pergamon]] dies | ||
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==Twig History== | ==Twig History== | ||
===1821=== | ===1821=== | ||
:This is believed to be the divergence point but it was likely earlier. Cultural milestones during and after this date is solely based on story notes in Twig. | |||
===1903=== | ===1903=== | ||
*[[Primordial|Primordial Outbreak]]<ref>“Scientists working for the Academy have been more careful than you’re being and still been surprised,” Lillian said. “Um, back in…”<br><br>“1903,” Jamie supplied.<br><br>“Thank you. Yes, back in 1903, there was a bad incident. The problem is, once it becomes a problem, it becomes a runaway problem. Not in that it runs away, but that it gets more out of control with every passing moment.” - [https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2016/01/09 Excerpt] from [[Bleeding Edge 8.11]]</ref> | *[[Primordial|Primordial Outbreak]]<ref>“Scientists working for the Academy have been more careful than you’re being and still been surprised,” Lillian said. “Um, back in…”<br><br>“1903,” Jamie supplied.<br><br>“Thank you. Yes, back in 1903, there was a bad incident. The problem is, once it becomes a problem, it becomes a runaway problem. Not in that it runs away, but that it gets more out of control with every passing moment.” - [https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2016/01/09 Excerpt] from [[Bleeding Edge 8.11]]</ref> | ||
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*[[Epilogue 3|Summer]] | *[[Epilogue 3|Summer]] | ||
*[[Epilogue 4|Fall]]: King Adam visits the crown states. | *[[Epilogue 4|Fall]]: King Adam visits the crown states. | ||
{{Reflist}} | {{Reflist}} | ||
[[Category:Essentia]] | [[Category:Essentia]] | ||
Revision as of 02:03, May 24, 2019
Man has engaged in biotechnology and other ways of engineering or organisms for all of its history. Early forms of genetic engineering, or 'Biopunk' have insured health and expansion of mankind.
~20,000 BCE
- Goats become first animal to be domesticated.
- Wolves domesticated, possible in early China though specifics very.
~7,000 BCE
- Birth of Agriculture
- Wheat domesticated in Levant
- Corn Domesticated in Central America
216
- Galen of Pergamon dies
1215
- June 15th
- Magna Carta Libertatum signed.
1492
- Columbus 'Discovers' North America, beginning of the Columbian exchange
- Years of plague in the new world nearly wipes out all indigenous populations, millions die.
- Causes population explosion in numerous pray species including passenger pigeons and Buffalo.
- Tenpurature drops due to mass population die off in the new world.
1686
- Nicolas Steno dies
1700s
- Louis XIV of France turns down the offer of an Italian chemist to develop to first bacteriological weapon, the chemist is granted a pension for his silence.<ref>Louis XIV Britanica entry</ref>
1727
- March 31st
- Isaic Newton dies
Reference Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
1815
- Mount Tambora erupts
1816
- Year Without a Summer<ref>Hitchcock, Susan Tyler. 2007. Frankenstein: A Cultural History. New York: W.W. Norton.</ref>
1819
- The Vampyre is published.
Twig History
1821
- This is believed to be the divergence point but it was likely earlier. Cultural milestones during and after this date is solely based on story notes in Twig.
1903
- Primordial Outbreak<ref>“Scientists working for the Academy have been more careful than you’re being and still been surprised,” Lillian said. “Um, back in…”
“1903,” Jamie supplied.
“Thank you. Yes, back in 1903, there was a bad incident. The problem is, once it becomes a problem, it becomes a runaway problem. Not in that it runs away, but that it gets more out of control with every passing moment.” - Excerpt from Bleeding Edge 8.11</ref>- Dealt with, unknown amount of damage.
1906
- April 18th?
- Earthquake in Western Crown States unknown devastation, if any.
1908
- Tunguska Meteor burst event
1911
- Roughly the time the indian empire tried and failed to create a slave race.<ref>“Okay,” Lillian said. “The second method is more complimentary, then. Altering the fundamental pattern of the clones. Humans mature at an exceptionally slow rate. We saw people try this a decade ago in the Indian Empire. Crown scientists tried to make a slave class that grew to maturity, with a specific level of intelligence. Domesticated humans, strong, playful, good natured, attractive, and obedient. If I’m not mistaken, they tried a lot of things, including imprinted behaviors.”
Like Mary? I raised my eyebrows. “How did it go?”
“How do you think it went, Sy?” Gordon asked. “Do you see slaves everywhere?”
“That’s not saying it didn’t work,” I said.
“It’s pretty damn indicative,” Gordon said. - Excerpt from Taking Root 1.8</ref>
1921
- Spring: Percy's child clones are rooted out and killed or turned. Percy is recruited to a rebel cell including Cynthia.
- Walter Gund is abducted and used.<ref>Interlude 3.x</ref>
- Summer: Mauer attempts to incite the people of Radham to rebel against the Academy. He fails, and retreats.
- Fall: The Lambs have been interviewing people, interminably. Sub Rosa stalks the Bowels. Briggs loses control of Radham Academy to the Duke of Francis.
- Winter: Genevieve Fray allows the Lambs to catch up to her in Kensford. She leashes and sterilises wide swathes of the Crown States, starting The War.
- The War begins in earnest
1922
- Spring: Westmore and then Whitney, having rebelled, are retaken by the Crown; the latter with involvement from the Lambs.
- Summer: a nest of Ghosts is discovered in Radham, and the traitor Avis is captured. Project Caterpillar reboots.
- Over the months, the rebellion breaks into competing factions that focus on opposing the Academy or the Crown specifically.
- Winter: Avis escapes from her imprisonment and joins up with fray and her band.
1923
- Spring: The various rebel factions meet in Brechwell to try to unite against the Crown. The Lambs are sent to try to stop them.
- Summer
- Fall: using the texts that Genevieve Fray had produced, Mauer's faction created several primordials in Lugh. The Duke of Francis assaults the city; the Baron Richmond and his twin sisters enter the fray personally. Meanwhile, the Lambs are looking for the fled daughter of obnoxious aristocrats. Gordon dies. Lugh is destroyed, three of the twins are killed, and the primordials are destroyed—but not before one creates a fitting reminder of its rage and pain.
- Winter: The Baron Richmond and his surviving sister are murdered in Warrick by the clone Mary Cobourn and Sylvester of Lambsbridge, who at last publicly defects, with Jamie.
1924
- Spring: the first major outbreak of the red plague forces the quarantine of Tynewear.
- Summer: Sy and J found an orphanage in Corinth; the Lambs investigate; after breaking up with Lillian, Sy visits New Amsterdam, loses his mind, and meets Jessie.
- Fall
- Winter Beetle Sy Get involved in a Trapped town
1925
- Spring Hackthorn takeover and trap
- Summer: The Lambs casually take over most of what's left of the Crown States with blackmail, manipulation, threats and some very carefully choreographed information management.
- Fall Redham Conclusion
- Winter: A single Green Clover is found growing in the choking blackwood sprawl.
1926
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