Timeline

Republic Standard Time (RST)
Though argued and debated for more than a hundred years before a final decision was reached by full consensus, the official dating system of the Amadeus Republic is standardized by placing Standard Year 0, Standard Day 1 and Standard Second 0 at the moment of sunrise at the eastern most point of the Republic on the Planet Amadeus on the day on which the Federation of Unified Amadeus Territories (a loose cooperative of republic nations under Amadeus Empire rule and spanning the globe at the time) was consolidated into the Amadeus Republic with the adoption of the Book of Law. All time before would be marked as Pre-Republic in years before its formation.

It should be noted that this decision was made 142 years after year 0, and that the length of the ‘standard year’ was not standardized using the Amadeus ‘local year’ but to an agreed upon length that was made official by a government elected committee that was formed to standardize it.

Amadeus Standard Time (AST)
The old Amadeus Standard Time (AST) system, based upon seasonal relationship cycles between Amadeus’s sun and moon, is still in use on some calendars to keep track of traditional and religious events that correlate with celestial orientation.

Timeline History of the Amadeus Republic
1575 Pre Republic

Amadeus Gallhen is born in the village of Korhensia near the northern shores of Lamorassin

1543 Pre Republic

Both the ‘Clans of the Winters Pass’ and the ‘Crystal Kingdom of Rulhalt’ are defeated by the ’11 Clans’ army led by Amadeus Gallhen, bringing the first signs of peace to Lamorassin.

1545 Pre Republic

Amadeus Gallhen is crowned King of the Clannish Lands of the Amadeus Empire at the age of 34.

 1512 Pre Republic

Amadeus Gallhen II, through 21 years of conquest, while leading his father’s great armies, succeeds in conquering the vast continent and all its peoples. King Amadeus Gallhen renames the world Amadeus, after his son, to celebrate his son’s victories and his new great empire.

1509 Pre Republic

King Amadeus Gallhen dies at the age of 66, leaving the kingdom of Gallhen to his son Amadeus Gallhen II

1484 Pre Republic

The kingdom to Gallhen becomes fractured by the corrupt taxation methods of rouge land barons, which caused revolutions that Gallhen military forces cannot collectively quell.

1321 Pre Republic

The Kingdom of Gallhen is reformed by Fed Gallhen King of the Valley of Gallhen, after the defeat of King Tarst of the Great Highland Clans, bringing the continent back under the single flag of Gallhen

977 Pre Republic

The first rocket is invented and later launched at a military exposition in Gallhen

601 Pre Republic

The first steam powered engine is invented

445 Pre Republic

The internal combustion engine is invented, ushering in a planet wide industrial revolution over the next 50 years

412 Pre Republic

The first powered aerodynamic flight takes place in East Kelvid during a science competition at the University of East Kelvid

The Micro-Transistor is invented at the University of Gallhen

366 Pre Republic

The Electric Microprocessor is invented at the University of Gallhen, ushering in the first computer revolution

316 Pre Republic

First manned space mission is launched and returns safely by the University of Gallhen

301 Pre Republic

First man on an extraterrestrial body is successful, when a multi-national team of five land on the local sister planet Fojorn and return safely, under the funding of the new multinational Gallhen Stellar Exploration Association (GSEA)

211 Pre Republic

The Photonic-Nano-Microprocessor is successfully tested at the University of Feddess and becomes the new standard of future computer technologies, ushering in the second computer revolution

173 Pre Republic

Gallhen (and eventually the world) experiences a third computer revolution, with the invention of cheaper methods of production, research into quantum nanotechnology and discoveries that leads to better understanding of the physical properties of the universe.

170 Pre Republic

The first Autonomous Automaton (Android) is produced by the University of Feddess

169 Pre Republic

Ground Repulsion Technology (GRT) becomes available in publicly sold terrestrial vehicles

134 Pre Republic

The Kingdom of Kelvid declares war on the Republic of Palissa beginning the Atomic War of Kelvid and with the Amadeus Empire aligning with Kelvid, war engulfs Planet Amadeus

70 Pre Republic

The Atomic War of Kelvid ends with the planets cities and infrastructure in almost ruin

The Amadeus Empire is the first to restructure, and helps form the rudimentary ‘Federation of Unified Republics’ which helps keep world peace through diplomacy and free trade during the ‘nuclear winter’ that followed the end of hostilities

51 Pre Republic

Night Mission of Space Exploration (NMSE) is formed, overshadowing the works and budgets if the multinational government funded Gallhen Stellar Exploration Association (GSEA) whose funding has fallen due to lack of interest by the general public after the war

9 Pre Republic

The first X-Ray radio transmissions are detected on Amadeus of the intelligent extraterrestrial alien civilization in the Baliss system, awaking Amadeus imaginations as they realize that they are not ‘alone’ in the universe

8 Pre Republic

Space Dart IX is launched by Night Mission of Space Exploration (NMSE) to explore the local star system, then on to the Baliss system

Year 0

The Amadeus Republic comes into existence at the unanimous vote of all ‘Federation of Unified Republics’ states at the urging of King Tarras ‘Amadeus’ Gallhen IV, at the signing and adoption of the Book of Law

Gallhen is chosen as the capital city of the Amadeus Republic, and King Tarras ‘Amadeus’ Gallhen IV ceremoniously gives his blessing to the new republic that bears his family name, and removes his crown in order to usher in the start of public elections and the modernization of his families 1546 year dynasty

Year 130

The Device Masters organization is formed on planet Anot! (Before the world’s discovery by Amadeus)

Year 142

A standardized dating system for the whole Amadeus Republic is adopted and amended to the Book of Law

Year 144

The Gallhen Sciences University is founded

Year 146

Very weak high radio frequency pulses are detected from the Xander system. The signals are found to be organized, but the information they transmit cannot be interpreted as being language. (Later it would be learned that the signals were in fact orbital correction transmissions being sent from Xander’s surface to an antiquated orbital satellite by wide band radio wave)

Year 223

Scientists demonstrate the first successful ‘Space Folding’ technology after 40 years of secret research and development at the Gallhen Sciences University into quantum teleportation research under governmental funding

Year 237

The Gallhen Stellar Exploration Association (GSEA) is absorbed by Night Mission of Space Exploration (NMSE) and renamed the Amadeus Interstellar Space Exploration Research and Development Department (ASE Interstellar) and comes under direct Gallhen Sciences University control with funding coming from the Amadeus Republic government

Year 242

ASE Interstellar begins construction of the ASE Interstellar Orbital Manufacturing Platform, and subsequently begins building the first two interstellar exploration starships

Year 251

First contact with the Planet Baliss is made by the ASE Interstellar Starship ‘Horizon’, marking the first contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial society in history

Year 252

As its first order of business with regards to the trade and immigration policy with Baliss (and all further and future contacted worlds), ASE Interstellar with the agreement of the Amadeus Republic governmental body elects to make all innovations in the area of quantum engineering and any related travel technologies ‘top secret’ and proprietary to government sanctioned travel and special trade contracts. This was done in order to retain a powerful monopoly on the ability to travel between worlds and to protect the Amadeus home world from surprise military attack or retaliation using their own Space Folding innovations

Year 257

Baliss is liberated of its world governments and becomes part of the Amadeus Republic

Year 260

First contact with planet Xander is made by the ASE Interstellar Starship ‘Pseudo-Genesis’

Year 261

The Amadeus Riot Force First Strike becomes an official law enforcement entity. Previously it had been an unofficial branch of the Great Highland Armed Forces

Year 262

Due to pressure from private organizations and the public at large, Space Folding travel is finally opened to unrestricted public use, with a flat toll, but the technologies involved remains top secret and under the direct and private jurisdiction of the Amadeus Republic

Year 263

First contact with Planet Ramsis is made by the ASE Interstellar Starship ‘Horizon’

Year 264

Xander is liberated by force of all its governments by a massive Amadeus and Baliss military tactical campaign, not a single shot is fired though, and becomes part of the Amadeus Republic after two months of heated military posturing

First public sale of an Autonomous Automaton on the Planet Amadeus

Year 265

The Psionic and Mental Energy Studies Institute (PMSI) is established as an independent entity of the Gallhen Sciences University on Amadeus, bringing together 9 independent Psionic research organizations, that were before on separate worlds, together under one roof and under unlimited government funding

Year 266

Planet Ramsis joins the Amadeus Republic voluntarily

Year 270

The Baliss Interstellar Commerce Trade Organization (BICOTO) is formed on Planet Baliss and made the official interstellar trade organization of the Amadeus Republic

Year 293

First contact with Planet Orth is made by the ASE Interstellar Starship ‘Horizon’

Year 296

Orth becomes a member of the Amadeus Republic voluntarily

Year 298

After a rash of highly publicized injuries and deaths as a result of ‘malfunctioning’ androids, as well as due to the growing media scrutiny over the safety of such technology, public fear and outcry forces the Amadeus Republic to legally require ‘inhibiters’ to be installed on all existing and future androids, in order to discourage them from ‘thoughts’ and ‘behaviors’ that might ‘compromise public safety’

Year 299

First contact with the Moon of Marni is made by ASE Interstellar Starship ‘Synchronicity’

First contact with the Moon of Siddon is made by the ASE Interstellar Starship ‘Shadow of Vittom’

First contact with the Planet Anot is made by the ASE Interstellar Starship ‘Water Bird’

Year 300

The moon world of Siddon is inducted into the Amadeus Republic through peaceful political negotiation

Planet Anot, after intense political negotiations with the Amadeus Republic, remains an independent trade world.

Year 302

The moon world of Marni is inducted into the Amadeus Republic voluntarily, but continuing world-moon wide socioeconomic instabilities causing a peaceful induction to be continually delayed and only fully realized and politically embraced in Year 344

Year 310

Glass City is inaugurated as Planet Baliss surpasses Planet Amadeus in wealth, and becomes the centermost point of Amadeus Republic economic power

Year 313 – Day 21

The iron meteoroid BL243, a 270.63 metric ton mass traveling 4,294.3 kilometers per hour, slams into the Planet Orth without warning. The impact vaporizes the continent of Kasd and instantly ends the life of approximately 2,800,000 Orth inhabitants planet wide and clouds the surface of the planet killing 80% of the world’s indigenous plant and animal life and making the planet almost intolerable to life for nearly three of its local years. This comes to be known as the BL243 Event.

Year 318

The last living adult Dragon dies on Planet Ramsis, due to mysterious disease that wipes out every known population of the creature, on three separate worlds. The search for dormant but viable Dragon eggs begins in earnest.

Year 320

Orth inaugurates the recovery of its world economies, after the BL243 Event, by offering reduced land prices to immigrants and new economy supporting business ventures, which ushers in a decade long land and business rush to the planet.

Year 335

Planet Rudderbin invades the Planet Anot and establishes an occupational government during the ‘War of Retaliation’. Five years later, Rudderbin is forced off of Anot by a rebellion of its native population.

Industrialist leader Gabriel N’Morass, Master Ambassador of Xander since Year 321, is assassinated in a failed attempt to intimidate the Xander government during a trade dispute.

Year 340

The senatorial seat of the Amadeus Republic s government is moved to Glass City on the Planet Baliss

Year 343

The ‘War of Fire’ begins between the ‘Mages of the Dragon’ and the ‘Priests of the Balt Guild’ on the Moon of Marni, after three years of building hostilities between the world-moons two religious psionic factions

The ‘War of Fire’ ends two months later with the Mages of the Dragon the clear victor, and with the Priests of Balt Guild being permanently dissolved and banned from existence by the Mages of the Dragon

Year 350

On the Planet Anot, the military organization ‘The Black’ takes military control of the world’s governments in a nonviolent coup, but is not recognized as the worlds governing body or by the Amadeus Republic

Year 372 - Day 1

The Psionic terrorist, known only as Illara, escapes from the Gerrasine Criminal Psionic Detention Center; launching a Halt Cluster wide hunt for her capture.

Year 372 - Day 68

Prince Sern, heir to the throne of the deposed Gerrasine Royal Family, is assassinated by a still unknown assailant on Planet Anot.

Year 372 – Day 273

The Barhalsaa Event occurs; a massive ‘plasma’ explosion unlike any weapon ever imagined, killing over 150,000 civilians and 9,500 military personnel on Moon Siddon in the city of Barhalsaa, the first of three such attacks. The cause of this first event is initially unknown, but investigation determines it to be an act of terrorism.