108 dated events on record, in order, from the same compiled world that drives the globe, the atlas and the Upheaval Record. 17 of them stand on a ruling; the ledgers are listed at the foot of the page. Generated 2026-09-05.
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contains the Cascade and the Document Wars
Contains The Document Wars (2028–2041); 18 of these events fall inside it.
Contains The Cascade (2031–2042); 19 of these events fall inside it.
Miami CBD evacuation begins. First permanent storm-barrier walls in the Gulf.
Not a single conflict but a pattern: systematic destruction of pre-Upheaval archives across every theater. Libraries burned, data centers wiped, university records looted.
Three decades of substrate research records classified and redistributed to successor agencies. Lumenfeld's archive partially survives.
Managed retreat collapses. Population movement begins without framework.
Lloyd’s withdraws coastal coverage. National emergency funds begin depleting.
Prolonged global drought reshapes continents, collapses governments, consolidates power into the major blocs.
First nation-state formally managed by an international entity.
EO consolidation begins under strategic defense framework.
In the year of the London Surge the Nordics Arcology Network begins its emergency expansion.
Barrier failed during the 2034 Category 5 storm surge. Caused permanent London flooding, UKE formation, and the emergence of Flooded London's drowned culture.
Three breadbaskets miss yields simultaneously. Rationing in forty-three countries.
ECHO-derived research made publicly available in redacted form. Substrate signal documented in seventeen locations. Significance not understood by most readers.
Six million moved from inundated coasts to inland arcologies.
Nine-nation trade and security compact established by four independent Pacific Asian powers.
NAF rebuilds the core. The outer districts rebuild themselves.
The resource wars began in 2041 and ended in 2050, not with a treaty, but with the discovery that the planet had stopped cooperating. Cold by the Core Era.
Forty-one former nation-states distributed across faction governance.
Disappeared in sea level rise during the Upheaval. Former population center of 20 million. One of the most significant single displacement events of the climate crisis.
Category 6 storm devastates the Gulf Coast. 40 million displaced. Breaks the pre-Upheaval federal structure.
Fourteen warheads came down across the subcontinent's border ground in 2042; the two governments that owned it stopped existing inside a week. What they left is the Forbidden Zone.
First confirmed discovery of a sealed pre-Upheaval installation beneath the Antarctic ice shelf. The data core held Lumicite samples and partial coordinates to a planetary network.
Three factions' installations at the Antarctic Peninsula, all in violation of the 2043 Accords. The data core that triggered Dawnlight is 300 kilometers from the largest oasis.
EO deploys certified bear-lineage stock. Every faction catches up in twenty-four months.
Captain Reeves and the Hellfire Harriers defend the north approach.
GSOTC opens as part of the post-Cascade Accords stabilization framework. The Crackerjack turns operator doctrine into a public squad contest and reinvents the mass audience.
NAF ecological reconstruction begins along the Gulf Shore. Salter’s Landing founded.
The 2047 Accords collapse: the post-Cascade framework loses its enforcement. One of the events the Persons of Interest catalog names as having produced its warlords, architects and oligarchs.
The first structured race in what became Lost Angeles underground motorsport. The first package: what it was, who posted it.
NAF lays the first cable-landing rig on an unclaimed ridge scatter northwest of Iceland: cheap right-of-way, free cooling from the cold current, no government close enough to tax it. Nobody calls it Thule yet.
The Pacific Rim Collective achieves AI military parity with the NAF. Project Amaterasu enters classified development; neither the PRC nor the NAF will confirm it exists.
South American cartel networks fight to consolidation, 2048–2052, before formalizing the SCA under unified command in 2053.
An autonomous exchange built to divide cooling and power between NAF's rig and the EO's converted gas platform two years behind it. The Array has a referee before it has a name.
Tech oligarchs formalize the NAF from the remnants of the United States and Canada.
Heralds infiltrated GSOTC during the competition. Competing teams abandoned the bracket and fought together. The facility's origin myth.
The tube network flooded in stages over four years and the last trains ran in 2051.
Eastern European oligarchs formalize territorial control as the EO, establishing private military command structures.
Three separate incident reports reference the same operational signature in different theaters. The cross-reference takes two years; the first confirmed sighting is 2053. By then they have been operational for at least five.
Its lines, parts, liabilities and people scatter through liquidation. Caseline-9 survives the company that named her.
Redundant training clusters become unaffordable to build from scratch. Leaseholder factions start renting cold water at the Array instead of competing for it.
South American cartel networks formalize the SCA under unified command after the cartel wars of 2048–2052.
Gulf petrostates unify under the PCU banner, controlling global oil infrastructure and key aquifer networks.
The dead band gets its cathedral. Eleven years on air by 2066.
The remaining 0.8 meters arrives. Infrastructure built before 2036 does not hold.
Demand for AI hardware, advanced batteries and directed-energy weapons outpaces global supply. EO mineral dominance becomes a chokepoint every faction feels in its manufacturing lines.
Western European royal families and financial houses establish the UKE as climate pressures reshape the continent.
The three-year period after 2055 when the PRC's surveillance architecture went live and everyone else's intelligence services ran a decade behind.
Consumer-grade programs operating in six arcologies. Entertainment, companionship and luxury stock walk the concourse levels.
The corporation the water recycling loop is deeded to dissolves in 2057. No one owns the maintenance contract, no one has liability for the contamination.
Bureau of Architectural Field Operations founded as successor to ECHO's observational mandate. Formal mission: document Architect-era installations. Actual mission: inherited without full context.
A recovered installation data core produces the first confirmed Lumicite energy output. Three factions claim credit; none confirms the location. The deep game becomes the surface game's shadow.
Someone accessed the facility between competitions without triggering any system the facility logs acknowledge. Silas Dent saw it. He has never reported it.
The major flood surge that reorganized Flooded London. The UKE civil registry lost a large block of records; Celia Worth's file was among the casualties and she chose not to correct it.
The EO completes the headwater diversion project, redirecting roughly 34% of downstream flow to EO extraction territory. Regional agricultural collapse follows.
One woman receives a bill proving that she belongs to herself. The paper is real. So is the world that made her buy it.
Four levels below the surface, the project the city exists for exceeds its benchmarks in 2059, is officially shelved, and enters a containment that only Amaterasu's own decisions open.
Iron Veil's first documented contact with a pre-permafrost installation site. The classified report sits above the Iron Veil commander's access level.
The UNSO Traveler — launched 2024, carrying 20 children and 6 Mentors — re-enters Earth orbit after 36 years. Aboard: 600 inhabitants, 200 years of sovereign governance, and a Cold Fusion reactor every faction on Earth wants.
present is 2066 (CL-007)
The travel writer whose Territories and Contested Zones is quoted across the setting starts writing in 2060.
Three boroughs' desalination relay compromised by a faction testing infrastructure sabotage as a route to privatization. Southwark was the pilot, the second device went into Bermondsey desal, and the treaty vote was forty-eight hours out.
The PRC's record shows Commander Kurosawa Renji dying in 2060. He defected after retrieving Amaterasu's behavioral log for what turned out to be a private buyer, and started a small war doing it.
The Obsidian Wardens hold the Saharan water treatment plants against the Sons of the Serpent. The Sons lost, and never stopped being interested in PCU water infrastructure.
The industry collapses in 2061. Facilities go dark, ownership transfers, and thousands of enhanced organisms are absorbed into faction hands or disappear. The stock is still operational, still unregistered, still taking contracts.
A state-designed pack operator crosses into civilian life at nineteen, carrying skills, markers, habits, and a live claim.
The Global Coalition Orbital Assembly achieves permanent crewed status — the first neutral geopolitical space of the post-Upheaval era.
Phantom Vipers extract a PCU energy researcher without her awareness of the extraction. Who contacted her six months later is a current thread.
The engagement that damaged the tidal energy converter. Lt. Sinclair wrote the damage report before the Prometheus League breached, filed it in the archive himself, and was listed killed in action.
The SCA cracked paleogenetic reconstruction first. By 2062 the first paleo-stock gene-forged were operational: reconstructed predator genetics fused to the same human-architecture platform as conventional stock.
Selva Legion holds a four-faction convergence for 72 hours with one-fifth the combined attacker strength. Commander Afolabi has never filed what the team found on day three.
A PCU survey team conducts a classified geological survey of the Saharan oasis zone's substrate reading points. The results, and their correlation to the Granitsa anomaly, are sealed.
Seven civilizations drawn to the same site over two thousand years. Classified within the week.
Unidentified Void Walkers access a relay infrastructure node below the Stack flood line. What was accessed and what was done with it is unknown.
Iron Veil holds eleven days without resupply against rotating attackers. Commander Karvonen's day-eight personal observations were never filed.
Shaheen Squadron disrupts an EO Lumicite convoy with zero evidence of PCU involvement surviving review. How the evidence disappeared has since been replicated by two parties nobody taught.
Jade Prism copies four petabytes of NAF installation data and replaces it with a modified dataset. Two of the seventeen altered parameters produce cascading errors in NAF research that have not yet been traced to Mirror Lake.
A surprise attack by the Eurasian Direwolves; the Hellfire Harriers and the Aurora Rangers hold the city. Jenna Reeves earns the callsign Phoenix. Within a year popular accounts begin placing her at the 2051 Siege.
The crew's forty-million-view founding legend, roughly a year before Log 001; the other party was Grava Pack. Never shown; six blurred frames maximum, forever.
Planetary web of sealed pre-Upheaval archives containing Lumicite technology, infrastructure specs, and coordinate maps. The network predates every current faction. Access requires coordinates held by dying people.
Five people take contracts, post their own evidence, feed a block, embarrass institutions, and keep coming home. This is now.
Southeast Asian city-states declare independence from NCB and UKE pressure. Not to be confused with the Forbidden Zone in South Asia — this IPFZ is an economic and naval power in its own right.
Setting Guide CH13; famous operations multiply, template drift reaches clinical visibility
NCB activates the first operational Helium-3 fusion reactor, ending their dependence on PCU oil overnight.
The Phantom Vipers infiltrate an EO black site and recover classified intelligence. They leave calling cards at their strike sites.
Autonomous platforms at scale. Iron Line doctrine follows within three years.
Lumicite — extraordinary energy-storage mineral — is declassified, triggering conflicts on five continents.
The Tempest Riders, led by Major Aleksandra 'Valkyrie' Volkov, break through the NAF blockade and deliver critical supplies to the besieged city. The blockade was supposed to be unbreakable.
The Aurora Rangers recover climate-stabilization technology from the flooded ruins of Silicon Haven, the ruins Superstorm Prometheus left in 2042. Major Liam 'Maverick' Gallagher led; Sgt. Emily 'Ember' Reyes did not come home.
The Lunar Industrial Complex reaches full operational capacity — permanent human presence on the Moon.
Iron Tiger, a PRC/EO joint unit of bear and tiger stock, runs the first officially acknowledged multi-faction joint operation. Results classified; the unit officially disbanded.
The Dune Specters launch devastating strikes against SCA oil refineries, crippling SCA fuel production across multiple sites.
Antarctic Lumicite estimates were optimistic by a factor of two.
Setting Guide CH13; the GCOA operational and contested, the 2098 seizure
The Global Collective Operations Authority becomes operational and is immediately contested: every faction supports its mandate and opposes the governance structure that limits its own access. Its orbital platforms are the most significant non-Lumicite military infrastructure ever built.
The Neon Ronin quell a rebellion in the PRC's largest megacity in seventy-two hours. Captain Hideo Nakamura moved through the transit network during the uprising.
The station the High Ground sandbox is set aboard was built in 2089. Pre-Upheaval hull plating, dated to at least 2030, sits in a section on no construction schematic.
Dormant pre-Upheaval AI briefly activated for eleven seconds.
The Starlight Reapers extract scientists from the Menagerie, the Lunar Industrial Complex's research wing, during a crisis with the biological research subjects. Commander Amelia 'Nova' Stirling led the op.
The Crimson Corsairs under Admiral Katarina 'Red Siren' Volkov stop the Shadowhand Syndicate from stealing a stealth submarine prototype. Naval engagement in contested waters. The Syndicate has not forgiven them.
The Crimson Corsairs destroy the SRA prototype torpedo in the South China Sea.
The Sons of the Serpent seize the GCOA orbital station. The Royal Phantom Corps and Aurora Rangers mount the joint rescue named Operation Celestial Aegis; Blackwood and Gallagher fight side by side; the Prophet is captured.
Setting Guide CH13 span as printed; named for the Lunar Industrial Complex, which the same chapter dates destroyed in 2104 (CL-016)
The assault on the Stronghold, the Herald operational center and the dispersal project's primary facility in the IPFZ: the place every faction believes it already neutralized.
The Sons of the Serpent destroy the Lunar Industrial Complex, the GCOA's helium-3 facility on the Sea of Tranquility, to prove they could reach that far. Helium-3 production goes to zero for at least fifteen years.
the Quantum Heist (2105) ends the chronicle; the record runs to 2124
Null Collective and Cipher steal a prototype quantum computer from the UKE. Global manhunt begins. The chronicle ends.
Faction founding years drive the year-aware paint on the globe and the atlas.
| Ledger | Issue | Decision | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CL-001 | Great Drought dating The Great Drought | 2031–2038 | ruled |
| CL-002 | Document Wars dating The Document Wars | 2028–2041 | ruled |
| CL-003 | When the blocs formalized North American Federation Eurasian Oligarchy Southern Cartel Alliance Petro Caliphate Union United Kingdoms of Europa North American Federation Eurasian Oligarchy Consolidated Southern Cartel Alliance Petro Caliphate Union Declared United Kingdoms of Europa | The globe's dates are the formal foundings. The Upheaval Record's 2038–2042 describes de facto consolidation during the Cascade. | ruled |
| CL-004 | Which factions exist, and what PCU stands for North American Federation Southern Cartel Alliance Eurasian Oligarchy Petro Caliphate Union Pacific Rim Collective Nordics Arcology Network United Kingdoms of Europa Neo-Communist Bloc Global Coalition / Orbital African Continental Union Pacific Free Zone Heralds of the Storm | One roster in world.yaml: six blocs (NAF, SCA, EO, PCU, PRC, Nordics); five powers (UKE, NCB, GCOA, ACU, PFZ); one movement (Heralds). PCU is officially the Petro Caliphate Union; Pan-Caliphate Union is an alias. | ruled |
| CL-005 | One siege at the GSOTC or two The Crackerjack Siege of 2051 The Siege at the GSOTC | Two sieges. The Crackerjack Siege of 2051 (a Heralds infiltration during the competition) and the Siege at the GSOTC in 2091 (an eleven-second activation of a dormant pre-Upheaval AI) are different events forty years apart. | ruled |
| CL-006 | UNSO Traveler return year UNSO Traveler Returns to Earth Orbit | Approach 2059, orbit 2060. | ruled |
| CL-007 | What year the present is, and what "Core Era" means | now = 2066. Core Era is the era that begins in 2060 and contains the present. 2060-dated material carries as_of: 2060 and is not stale. | ruled |
| CL-008 | How many Volkovs Major Aleksandra "Valkyrie" Volkov | The two Valkyries and the globe pin are one person, aleksandra-volkov. Red Siren and the Antarctic commander stay separate. The privateer credit is recorded as an official-claim on that CONFLICT filing, not merged. | ruled |
| CL-009 | Flooded London's internal chronology runs later than the 2066 present Flooded London Tower Quarter Lt. Sinclair “Gargoyle” The Gargoyle Pull Below Line Flooded London: Hex Crawl Supplement First Contact Battle of Tower Quarter | The Flooded London cluster is the 2066 present. The Tower Quarter engagement, Sinclair's KIA listing and the damage report are re-dated 2062; the single 'thirty-two-year' phrase is a drift and becomes 'four-year'. | ruled |
| CL-010 | When the Upheaval ended The Resource Wars Global Stability Accords — Cascade Ends | The era boundary stands at 2042 (OD-07, CL-002). The Operator Tactics front matter dates the resource wars, 2041 to 2050, which went cold when the climate consequences of the Upheaval matured; 'the Upheaval' in that sentence is the loose usage, not a second end date. | ruled |
| CL-011 | When BAFO was founded BAFO BAFO Established | The Bureau's charter date is 2058 (the Setting Guide). The late-2040s founding in Big Game describes the field programme the Bureau absorbed, and the ECHO bible's '2042 onward' the informal inheritance of the observational mandate. A sequence, not a contradiction. | ruled |
| CL-012 | Neo-Toronto, 2046 or 2065 Battle of Neo-Toronto Phoenix at Neo-Toronto Captain Jenna "Phoenix" Reeves Hellfire Harriers | Two engagements. The Battle of Neo-Toronto is 2046 (the barrage, the barricades, the north approach, the memorial city of 2066). Phoenix at Neo-Toronto is 2065 (a surprise attack by the Eurasian Direwolves, held by the Harriers and the Aurora Rangers, where Jenna Reeves earned her callsign). The docx gives the 2065 action the 2046 battle's name; the record names it for what the Sports canon calls it. | ruled |
| CL-013 | Superstorm Prometheus, 2042 or 2079 Superstorm Prometheus Operation Prometheus' Wrath | The storm is 2042. Operation Prometheus' Wrath stays in 2079 and took place in the ruins the storm left; the phrase 'during Superstorm Prometheus' is superseded. | ruled |
| CL-014 | The Saharan water war, 2060 or 2099 The Saharan Water War | One war, 2060. The Saharan Oasis sandbox is the 2066 present (CL-007, CL-009) and remembers the war as past; the Hubs & Cities print edition already carries 2060. The docx's 2099 is superseded. | ruled |
| CL-015 | Who seized the GCOA station in 2098 The GCOA Seizure Sons of the Serpent Void Walkers | The Sons of the Serpent seized the station. Operation Celestial Aegis remains the name of the Royal Phantom Corps and Aurora Rangers rescue, and the Prophet's capture stands. The Void Walkers attribution is superseded. | ruled |
| CL-016 | What the LIC is Destruction of the Lunar Industrial Complex | LIC is the Lunar Industrial Complex. The 2104 record is renamed 'Destruction of the Lunar Industrial Complex' with the old id kept as a redirect; the Upheaval Record's expansion is superseded. | ruled |
| CL-017 | The Menagerie extraction year The Menagerie Extraction | 2092. The 2042 lines are a transcription variant: the same book dates the station to 2089. | ruled |