Ages

Following the end of the Mage Wars and the founding of the Unity Earth Sphere Alliance, a new calender was adopted. The calender evolved slowly over the first thousand years and as the Golden Age drew to a close, a system of Ages was established, with an Age lasting approximately 1000 years.

All dates are given according to the A.Y. System

Golden Age

The Golden Age is the first Age of the Alliance. The term was coined by Uther, who announced upon ending the Mage Wars that "A new golden age has begun!", though history would prove his statement to be somewhat inaccurate. The Golden Age is also the First Age as it was the first Age to follow the Mage Wars. Though not formalized until nearly 1000 years later, Uther's Golden Age would set the standard for the A.Y. System and the system of Ages.

Year 0 of the Age of Mages: Uther, the First Pendragon leads the Slayer Dragons and an army of Paladins to finally end the Mage Wars and establish a new era in the World of Life in which those with magic shall not rule over those without. The Mage Wars end and the Golden Age begins.

Year 2 of the Golden Age: the Battle of the Sanguine Gulch is the last official battle of the Mage Wars.

Year 10 of the Golden Age: Laytami Gudersnipe completes his assessment and cataloguing of land-holdings and resources captured during the Mage Wars, and officially establishes the Gudersnipe Foundation.

Year 16 of the Golden Age: Aden Searlin is born.

Year 24 of the Golden Age: Stormwind Keep is established in the new city of Arindell, the Slayer Dragon’s allow for the election of the Ruling Council to oversee matters of state.

Year 27 of the Golden Age: the Ruling Council collapses due to countless layers of bureaucracy and widespread corruption.

Year 32 of the Golden Age: the Ministry of Earth is finally established to replace the Ruling Council

Year 34 of the Golden Age: the Library of Arindell is established by Uther.

Year 35 of the Golden Age: construction of Stormwind Keep is completed.

Year 36 of the Golden Age: the Ministry of Earth collapses due to countless layers of bureaucracy and widespread corruption. Uther declares that the Slayer Dragons shall rule the world under the ideals of Truth, Liberty, and Justice.

Year 40 of the Golden Age: Jayce Spearlock is born.

Year 43 of the Golden Age: Aden Searlin is annointed as a Slayer Dragon

Year 57 of the Golden Age: Uther, the First Pendragon of the Slayer Dragons dies in his 90th year of life, on the 57th anniversary of the end of the Mage Wars.

Year 57 of the Golden Age: Aden Searlin becomes the second Pendragon.

Year 58 of the Golden Age: the power vacuum created by the death of Uther brings the government to near collapse. Aden Searlin, second Pendragon of Slayer Dragons, does not command nearly the same respect and admiration as Uther. With but days to save the old alliance, Aden presents the Earth Sphere Unified Nations plan. Imperfect, and a stop-gap at best, this proposal succeeds in maintaining the peace until a more permanent council can be established.

Year 71 of the Golden Age: Jayce Spearlock is annointed as a Slayer Dragon.

Year 72 of the Golden Age: Astrid Stador is born.

Year 81 of the Golden Age: Aden Searlin dies.

Year 81 of the Golden Age: Jayce Spearlock becomes Pendragon.

Year 90 of the Golden Age: Jayce Spearlock creates the Slayer Dragon Count, a calendar system to track the Slayer Dragons. His count begins with B.G.A. 6 as a year 0, thus making A.Y. 190 S.D.C. 95.

Year 102 of the Golden Age: Astrid Stador is annointed as a Slayer Dragon

Year 110 of the Golden Age: Emily Pode is born.

Year 111 of the Golden Age: Jayce Spearlock dies.

Year 111 of the Golden Age: Astrid Stador becomes the first female Pendragon in history]].

Year 135 of the Golden Age: Emily Pode is anointed as a Slayer Dragon.

Year 138 of the Golden Age: Astrid Stador dies.

Year 138 of the Golden Age: Emily Pode becomes Pendragon.

Year 210 of the Golden Age: Emily Pode dies.

Year 298 of the Golden Age: the Earth Sphere Unified Nations agreement ceases to exist as a functional entity and begins a long and painful collapse. The process begins when the Gudersnipe Foundation, once a formal signatory, officially withdraws from the agreement.

Year 298 of the Golden Age: The so-called Golden Age of the Slayer Dragons begins.

Year 435 of the Golden Age: Genghis Sater is born.

Year 461 of the Golden Age: Genghis Sater is annoited as a Slayer Dragon

Year 480 of the Golden Age: Genghis Sater becomes Pendragon.

Year 500 of the Golden Age: Kenneth Winter is born.

Year 501 of the Golden Age: the Gudersnipe Foundation begins production of the Sparrowhawk-class Fighter Interceptor.

Year 517 of the Golden Age: Kenneth Winter is annointed as the youngest Slayer Dragon in history.

Year 527 of the Golden Age: Kenneth Winter becomes the first Slayer Dragon to die in battle.

Year 529 of the Golden Age: Genghis Sater dies.

Year 872 of the Golden Age: the Gudersnipe Foundation completes construction on the GATE network and opens it to the general public for a reasonable fee.

Year 898 of the Golden Age: The Golden Age of the Slayer Dragons ends.

Year 899 of the Golden Age: the Earth Sphere Unified Nations ceases to exist. An era known as the ninety-nine-years war. This intermediary period saw very little actual fighting, but massive military buildups and posturing. For a long time, it seemed a new beginning to the Mage Wars was all but inevitable.

Year 934 of the Golden Age: Scott Sagen is born.

Year 952 of the Golden Age: G.S.S. Mercury becomes the very first Mercury Ship ever comissioned.

Year 958 of the Golden Age: Scott Sagen is annointed as a Slayer Dragon.

Year 991 of the Golden Age: Scott Sagen is made Pendragon.

Year 998 of the Golden Age: the Golden Age of the Slayer Dragons ends.

Year 998 of the Golden Age: under the leadership of Pendragon Scott Sagen, the Unity Earth Sphere Alliance is finally established. With a complex system of checks and balances, the Alliance finally stands a chance at creating a lasting peace. The Golden Age comes to an end. The Second Age begins.

The Second Age

The First Age passed into the Second Age with the refermation of the Alliance and the establishment of a new order.

Year 1 of the Second Age: the Sparrowhawk-class fighter is officially removed from production but remains in niche rolls in active service. The last Sparrowhawk will not be decomissioned until A.Y. 2152.

Year 4 of the Second Age: the Alliance Space Commission and the Merchant Marine are officially formed.

Year 20 of the Second Age: Pendragon Scott Sagen dies.

Year 85 of the Second Age: the Legions of Terror are made a formal unit within the Gudersnipe Crimson Blade.

Year 113 of the Second Age: The Athenaeus Shipyard opens as the Alliance's oldest shipyard.

Year 148 of the Second Age: the Library of Arindell is established.

Year 150 of the Second Age: Anthony Trac is born.

Year 166 of the Second Age: Anthony Trac is annointed as the youngest Slayer Dragon in history.

Year 201 of the Second Age: Anthony Trac is annointed as Pendragon of Slayer Dragons.

Year 211 of the Second Age: Sydnee Stanton is born.

Year 217 of the Second Age: a clandestine organization known simply as the Society of Assassins begins to emerge throughout the Multi-Verse, selling death at a reasonable price. The Society is suspected to have ties to the long-extinct Order of Wizard Breakers.

Year 229 of the Second Age: the Assassin's Guild leads a sting operation that proves the existence of the Society of Assassins once and for all. The sting, known as the Venta Event involved agents of the guild, the Office of Special Operations, the Nonlinear Security Agency, and several major Alliance agencies, including the First File and the Slayer Dragons.

Year 230 of the Second Age: Hiayto Merrick of the Society of Assassins officially declares war on the Gudersnipe Foundation and the Assassin's Guild.

Year 231 of the Second Age: Sydnee Stanton is anointed as a Slayer Dragon.

Year 242 of the Second Age: Anthony Trac dies.

Year 242 of the Second Age: Sydnee Stanton becomes Pendragon.

Year 270 of the Second Age: Robert Desaradie is born.

Year 293 of the Second Age: in a rare show of diplomacy, the Gudersnipe Foundation agrees to remove it's dreaded Boing-Boing missile from active warships and bases.

Year 295 of the Second Age: Robert Desaradie is annointed as a Slayer Dragon.

Year 302 of the Second Age: Sydnee Stanton dies.

Year 302 of the Second Age: Robert Desaradie is annointed Pendragon of Slayer Dragons.

Year 345 of the Second Age: the Library of Arindell is established.

Year 347 of the Second Age: Robert Desaradie dies.

Year 544-547 of the Second Age: Lous Brenom butchers over 2 billion of his own citizens as part of an "ethnic cleansing". The Gudersnipe Foundation dispatches one of the largest fleets ever assembled to put a stop to it. This marks the first time in history when a mothership is made an official part of a deployment.

Year 800 of the Second Age: Honoreck rises as a lich and becomes the leader of the Grey Temple necromancers.

Year 823 of the Second Age: A series of loose city-states alies to form the Midon Republic, applies for and gains admitence to the Alliance.

Year 929 of the Second Age: the Library of Arindell is hidden by Pendragon Lafiet.

Year 940 of the Second Age: the Library of Arindell is established by Pendragon Lafiet in the last year of his life.

Year 999 of the Second Age: the Second Age ends and the Third Age begins.

The Third Age

As the Second Age was the first complete Age to use the now standard A.Y. System, there was far less confusion when the Third Age Began, and for the first time people all over the Alliance could cellibrate the passing of one Age into another together.

Year 272 of the Third Age: the now widespread practice of Necromancy reaches a boiling point, and the Grey Temple plunges the entire multi-verse into the Necromanic Wars.

Year 346 of the Third Age: the ruins of a Rinoin city are uncovered, proving for the first time that the Rinoin civilization did in fact exist, and shedding new light on one of history's great pecularities.

Year 350 of the Third Age: Lal Soratami is born.

Year 375 of the Third Age: Lal Soratami is announted as a Slayer Dragon.

Year 380 of the Third Age: an alliance between the necromancers of the Green Temple and the Slayer Dragons ends the necromancy war, the Grey Temple falls.

Year 392 of the Third Age: a GS surveillance satellite captures 0.3 seconds of sensor data on a msyterious vessel known only as the Adam Cadman II, sightings of the vessel have been made all over the known worlds, but this is the first encounter with advanced sensor technology present.

Year 411 of the Third Age: Soratami, a Slayer Dragon anointed during the necromancy wars becomes Pendragon and outlaws Necromancy. The Green Temple Falls.

Year 425 of the Third Age: the last free Necromancy Temple it destroyed. A Necromancer Temple is established in Arindell as the last bastion of Necromancy in the World of Life.

Year 437 of the Third Age: Lal Soratami dies.

Year 442 of the Third Age: after 50 years of study, sensor data from the Adam Cadman II encounter leads to a technological explosion, culimnating in a 10-fold increase in the speed of FTL drives.

Year 581 of the Third Age: the human city of Kladeth begins as a small colonial settlment.

Year 777 of the Third Age: the Library of Arindell is established.

Year 812 of the Third Age: Kumono Sorenio is born.

Year 838 of the Third Age: Kumono is anointed as a Slayer Dragon.

Year 864 of the Third Age: the first official iteration of the Condor-class fighter reaches production, that same year, it sets the Production Sublight Speed Record, a title it holds for the next thousand years.

Year 851 of the Third Age: Advanced Dynamics is founded to build and supply colonies for the Alliance.

Year 870 of the Third Age: Kumono becomes Pendragon.

Year 884 of the Third Age: Pendragon Kumono along with a representative from the High Mountain Flight, travels to the troubled human city of Kladeth and negotiates a treaty with the Warsong Flight. Kladeth is renamed Warsong on honor of the dragon flight.

Year 900 of the Third Age: Kumono dies.

Year 900-990 of the Third Age: Over a ninety-year timespan, the Slayer Dragons give more of their political power to the elected officialls of the Unity Earth Sphere Alliance. This is done in an effort to relieve the Slayer Dragons of their political burden and free them for more important work. Unfortunately, in giving up their political power, they loose much of the millitary authority that made them able to complete their objectives.

Year 997 of the Third Age: Advanced Dynamics declares bankrupcy and is bought out by the Gudersnipe Foundation.

Year 999 of the Third Age: The Third Age ends and the Fourth Age begins.

The Fourth Age

Much like the Second into the Third, no real significant events happen at the change from Third to Fourth, it is merely another passing of the callendrical cycle.

Year 74 of the Fourth Age: Herbet Patric Galactis authors a series of books on the history of the Golden Age and the Mage Wars, this becomes known as the Accepted Histories and is the primary authority on that era.

Year 277 of the Fourth Age: Hermen Scopal becomes the first non-Gudersnipe-Graduate to attain the rank of Admiral Commodore.

Year 478 of the Fourth Age: the Gargoyle-class midrange bomber is completed after 50 years of development.

Year 489 of the Fourth Age: The Kamian Home world is destroyed by a joint Alliance-Gudersnipe fleet led by the school’s new super weapon: a Mercury Ship called the Roger Young.

Year 508 of the Fourth Age: the Kamian Federation disolves and officially withdraws from sight, begining a long period of strict isolationism from the rest of the known worlds.

Year 509 of the Fourth Age: the Gargoyle-class fighter is shelved pending further need in the Foundation's strategic arsenel.

Year 562 of the Fourth Age: the Library of Arindell is established.

Year 999 of the Forth Age: the Forth Age ends and the Fifth Age Begins. The Library of Arindell is established.

The Fifth Age

The Fifth Age was a relatively tranqual age. With the Kamians in isolation the major powers in the verse were able to stand down and focus on public works and strengthening their internal infrastructures.

Year 14 of the Fifth Age: The Gudersnipe Foundation officially phases out the Condor-class reconnaissance fighter, though no Condors have seen active duty for more than 30 years.

Year 21 of the Fifth Age: the Hermen Scopal Academy is founded, in honor of the legendary commander Hermen Scopal.

Year 307 of the Fifth Age: The Jackson Campaign proves that if you have enough money, you can in fact pay the other side to throw the war.

Year 491 of the Fifth Age: Raul Kem is annointed as a Slayer Dragon.

Year 513 of the Fifth Age: Slayer Dragon Raul Kem becomes the last of the order to be interred in the Valley of Sleeping Dragons, with all future Slayer Dragons having their bodies burned in ash pits.

Year 520 of the Fifth Age: Slayer Dragon Gregory the Grey is annointed.

Year 607 of the Fifth Age: Gregory the Grey passes on, and while his body goes to the ash pits, his garb is placed in the first reliquary, begining a new custom.

Year 723 of the Fifth Age: the Vulture-class escort fighter goes into production.

Year 880 of the Fifth Age: Enus Litgo is born.

Year 935 of the Fifth Age: Enus Litgo, now known as Enus the Abhorrent is annointed as a Slayer Dragon

Year 937 of the Fifth Age: Enus the Abhorrent dies from a bungee-jumping accident off an over-pass on the outskirts of Arindell

Year 971 of the Fifth Age: the Horseman-class long-range bomber goes into service.

Year 979 of the Fifth Age: the Hawk-class fighter officially enters production, replacing the Vulture-class as the Gudersnipe Foundation's official escort fighter. Though unlike the Vulture, the Hawk is a mutli-roll fighter and not a dedicated escort.

Year 999 of the Fifth Age: marks the first age ever during which the Library of Arindell is not established. The Fifth Age ends and the Sixth Age begins. The Library of Arindell is established.

The Sixth Age

This would be the Age in which the Course Books actually take place.

Year 17 of the Sixth Age: Lydia Lionheart is annointed as a Sayer Dragon.

Year 20 of the Sixth Age: the Horseman-class long range bomber is phased out of active service.

Year 31 of the Sixth Age: The N2 warhead is perfected by reseachers from Gudersnipe School, just to see if they could.

Year 32 of the Sixth Age: A design team from the Crimson Blade Corps of Engineers completes a 4-year project developing the first generation of the Harpy-class long-range bomber.

Year 42 of the Sixth Age: Lydia Lionheart becomes Pendragon

Year 67 of the Sixth Age: Lydia Lionheart dies.

Year 97 of the Sixth Age: after nearly a millennia and a half in darkness, the Kamians immerge and begin a ruthless campaign to conquer the known Multi-Verse, the Battle of Lerma spills the first blood of the Kamian Succession Wars.

Year 115 of the Sixth Age: the Heart Military Academy is founded near the edge of explored space, as far from the front lines as possible. The purpose of the Heart academy is to provide better low-echelon officers for the Crimson Blade. The academy includes a military primary school that accepts students as young as eight.

Year 200 of the Sixth Age: Gudersnipe's Boing-Boing missile returns for the bloody Battle of Lerner Fields, marking a very rare early-war victory for the Foundation.

Year 310 of the Sixth Age: The first combat-ready Kangaroo-squadron sees combat at the Battle of Redlake Ridge, the Kangaroo proves to be an effective close-air-support weapon throughout the rest of the war.

Year 491 of the Sixth Age: Sir Arthur Vandelem successfuly tests the first Vandelem Bomb, though it's success is questionable as it is quickly deemed "a weapon to brutal even Gudersnipe wouldn't use it."

Year 503 of the Sixth Age: The Vandelem Bomb Mark II is tested, expands exponentially and kills fifty-three billion people including Sir Arthur Vandelem and his entire civilization in the space of a few minutes. The radiation pulse continues to expand in all directions, forcing anyone in it's path to relocate.

Year 666 of the Sixth Age: the Gudersnipe Ninth Fleet is lost at the Battle of the Deen Gibson Cluster. Until the Battle of Danielle, this stood as the alrgest single loss of ships and men.

Year 722 of the Sixth Age: the Gudersnipe Sixth Fleet is destroyed at the Battle of Danielle.

Year 732 of the Sixth Age: Red Storm unveils the first Tora-model mobile suits.

Year 771 of the Sixth Age: Operation King Drift becomes one of the largest failures in the Kamian Succession Wars.

Year 778 of the Sixth Age: Ian Riley is born.

Year 799 of the Sixth Age: Ian Riley is annointed as a Slayer Dragon.

Year 800 of the Sixth Age: The Battle of the Don't Pass Line is the first engagment to successfully stop a Kamian invasion since Operation King Drift.

Year 811 of the Sixth Age: Ian Riley becomes Pendragon.

Year 812 of the Sixth Age: with the development of the new type of mecha code-named Gunjin Goddess, the Gudersnipe Foundation and the Unity Earth Sphere Alliance begin a massive push to end the Kamian Succession Wars. Within a year, the hostilities cease.

Year 812 of the Sixth Age: Author of the Gust, for a point of reference.

Year 813 of the Sixth Age: the Kamian Succession Wars officially end on paper, and the Foundation begins a 20-year plan for de-armament that will shift the economy from a state of total war and back to peacetime activities.

Year 819 of the Sixth Age: Hokori is born.

Year 822 of the Sixth Age: the Crimson Blade Corps of Engineers carries out an ambition project known as the Million Hammer March, the end result was a city capable of holding 8 million residents, completed in six months.

Year 832 of the Sixth Age: the de-armament plan of the Gudersnipe Foundation is completed successfully. Though things will never be the way they were again, the general economic state of the verse has been maintained.

Year 845 of the Sixth Age: the Red Storm corporation declares bankrupcy.

Year 854 of the Sixth Age: Hokori is anointed as a Slayer Dragon.

Year 865 of the Sixth Age: the Gudersnipe Foundation begins the Nelson Fleet Revision, the first major revision since the end of the war.

Year 868 of the Sixth Age: C.B.S. Glorious Heritage and C.B.S. Peregrine are lost with all hands in the Burma System.

Year 871 of the Sixth Age: The Hawk escort fighter is officially phased out, though was unoficially retired from active combat by the end of the Kamian Succession Wars 59 years earlier.

Year 873 of the Sixth Age: Ian Riley dies.

Year 873 of the Sixth Age: Hokori takes up the Sword Excalibur and becomes Pendragon.

Year 882 of the Sixth Age: Hunter Jusenkyou is born.

Year 883 of the Sixth Age: Lina Rowen is born.

Year 884 of the Sixth Age: General Merritt is born.

Year 886 of the Sixth Age: Lily McConery is born

Year 898 of the Sixth Age: Lina Rowen defeats the sorcerer Hidakots and becomes a renowned hero in her world.

Year 899 of the Sixth Age: Hunter Jusenkyou becomes a student at Gudersnipe School.

Year 900 of the Sixth Age: Lina Rowen travels to Stormwind Keep to begin training to become a Slayer Dragon

Year 902 of the Sixth Age: Hunter Jusenkyou arrives at Stormwind Keep to undergo the Trials and become a Slayer Dragon.

Year 905 of the Sixth Age: Hunter Jusenkyou and Lina Rowen are anointed as Slayer Dragons. They travel together to the world of Hunter’s birth to fight the Dragon-Half Komodo.

Year 906 of the Sixth Age: Hunter and Lina venture into Rowen in search of a magical gem, they find instead the entrance to The Lost Nation.

Year 907 of the Sixth Age: the necromancer Michael is anointed as a Slayer Dragon, much to the chagrin of the general populous.

Year 910 of the Sixth Age: the Library of Arindell is established just for old times sake.

Year 910 of the Sixth Age: the Sword Excalibur is snapped in half by Ryoga. The Sixth Age ends. The Age of the Dragon begins.

Though the Alliance Calender is still maintained, the Sixth Age ends a bit prematurely, causeing historians no end of confusion further down the road. The Age of the Dragon Comes next.