The following time line gives an overview of events that take place in the 1,500 years between the Commonwealth Saga (Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained) and the Void Trilogy.
2384—First “lifeboat” (a Brant Dynasty starship) leaves to found human colony outside Commonwealth.
2384—Firewall project concluded; no further outposts of Prime aliens detected.
2385—Barsoomians advocate Advancer genetic concept, declare Far Away politically independent from Commonwealth.
2403—Paula Myo wins final appeal in Senate Supreme Court to have Gene Yaohui serve a 1100-year suspension sentence.
2413—Last (twenty-third) original dynasty lifeboat departs on colony-founding flight.
2518—End of post–Starflyer War economic recession as New47 worlds approach completion, resettlement taxes reduced.
2520—CST forms starship exploration division to scout new H-congruous worlds.
2520–2532—Second47 populations emerge onto their new worlds.
2545–onward—Use of large starships to establish Commonwealth “External” worlds in phase 3–5 space, extending approximately 500 light-years out from Earth.
2547—The Cat establishes her Knights Guardian movement on Far Away.
2550—Commonwealth Navy Exploration fleet founded to explore the galaxy beyond Phase 5 space.
2552–3450—Contact made with forty-seven sentient (physical-stage) species across the galaxy.
2560—Commonwealth navy ship Endeavor circumnavigates galaxy, captained by Wilson Kime; discovery of the Void.
2603—Navy discovers seventh High Angel–type ship.
2620—Raiel confirm its status as ancient galactic race that lost a war against the Void, builders of High Angel ships, which are transgalactic arks.
2652—Paula Myo arrests the Cat; riots on Far Away.
2653—The Cat sentenced to 5,000 years in suspension.
2833—Completion of ANA first stage on Earth; Grand Family members begin memory download into ANA rather than to SI.
2856—ANA begins to contact other postphysical entities in the galaxy.
2867—Sheldon Dynasty gigalife project partially successful; first human body biononic supplements for regeneration and general iatrics.
2872—Start of Higher humans, biononic supplements allowing a culture of slow-paced long life, rejection of commercial economics and old political ideologies.
2880—Development of weapons biononics.
2913—Earth begins absorption of “mature” humans into ANA; the inward migration begins.
2934—Knights Guardian adopt Higher biononic technology.
2955—Phase one worlds now predominantly Higher culture.
2958—Contact with Hancher homeworld (Tochee species) 8,640 light-years away, on the other side of the Eagle nebula (7,000 light-years).
2967—First Knights Guardian downloads memory into ANA.
2973–3060—Commonwealth Navy helps defend Hancher homeworld against the Ocisen Empire expansion waves.
2984—Formation of Radical Highers, who wish to convert the human race to Higher culture.
2991—Establishment of the Protectorate, an anti-Higher movement, on External worlds.
3001—Ozzie produces uniform neural entanglement effect known as the gaiafield.
3040—Commonwealth Navy exploration fleet joins Centurion Station, the Void observation project supervised by Raiel, a joint enterprise among over thirty alien species.
3084—Nonincursion treaty agreed to between Hancher homeworld and Ocisen Empire.
3088—Military assistance agreement inaugurated between Hancher homeworld and Commonwealth Navy, enforcing nonincursion.
3120—ANA officially becomes Earth’s government; planetary population fifty million (activated bodies) and falling.
3150—Ellezelin settled, 420 light-years from Earth; procybernetic capitalist Advancer culture.
3255—Radical angel arrives on Anagaska; Inigo’s conception.
3290—Ellezelin opens wormhole to Tari, 15 light-years away; start of Ellezelin Free Market Zone.
3320—Inigo goes to Centurion star system.
3324—Inigo settles on Ellezelin, founds Living Dream movement, begins construction of Makkathran2.
3338—Ellezelin opens wormhole to Idlib.
3340—Ellezelin opens wormhole to Lirno.
3378—Ellezelin opens wormhole to Quhood.
3407—Ozzie departs Commonwealth for the Spike to build a “galactic dream.”
3456—Living Dream movement has over five billion followers in the External worlds, very strong across Ellezelin Free Market Zone.
3466—Ellezelin opens wormhole to Agra (last planet to be joined to the Core of the Free Market Zone).
3478—Living Dream becomes majority party in Ellezelin Parliament (72 percent); converts planet to hierocracy; Makkathran2 becomes the planetary capital.
3520—Inigo “rests” from public life; Cleric Council assumes guidance of Living Dream.
3587—Fragments of Second Dream appear in the gaianet.
3589—Ethan elected as Cleric Conservator; announces Pilgrimage.