The Chakat Universe Timeline

A guide to the sequence of events in the Chakat stories

(Please note that some dates might be revised to better fit the stories.)

YEAR	DATE	EVENT
21^st CENTURY
2003	#	The Human Genome Project is completed.
2020 to 2030	#	Advances in bio-genetics and medical tissue culturing began to yield practical applications. Near the end of the decade, a scandal erupts in America where a firm in Oregon called BioLife developed the first synthesis of human and canine DNA, creating a blueprint for the first morphs. The company is raided by the United States government, the sample embryos seized and destroyed, and the company fined for illegal genetic research.
2031	March 19	Chinese geneticists, using data stolen from the BioLife incident, create the first wolf morphs. Chinese law decrees the morphs are sub-human, labels them as 'products', and denies them any rights, considering them legally the same as livestock.
2032 to 2039	#	Knowledge of the wolf morphs leaks out and sparks a morph-engineering international 'arms race' as dozens of countries across Asia and Eastern Europe compete to create new morph variations for multiple purposes. By the end of the decade, the BBV (Big-Breasted Vixen) stereotype has gone global within the international sex industry.
2040 to 2044	#	Western-culture nations finally allow new morph varieties to be engineered. The global population of morphs grows to nearly 4 billion: almost 1 morph for every 2 humans on the planet, although most of them are still maturing. The intelligence of morphs begins to become an issue and activists begin major campaigns to protest the mistreatment of them in a situation that strongly parallels negro slavery two hundred years earlier. Germany is the first country to grant morphs emancipation and equality with humans. Several countries follow suit shortly afterward.
2045 to 2049	#	The giant morph-breeding companies simply refuse to export their products to free countries, and focus on the slave countries, where the profits are. Numerous nations around the globe begin to experience significant upheavals and public unrest, as the gaping rift between conservative and liberal values finally polarizes societies so strongly that it hits a critical tipping point, and people begin to violently defend their worldviews. In nearly every country around the world, the same liberal vs. conservative battles are erupting wherever the two sides meet. Most of the major cities have to deal with multiple riots and significant destruction of property every month.
2050	July 4	The Gene Wars begin with destruction of Hoover Dam. Ultra-liberal morph-sympathizing revolutionaries seize the Hoover Dam and take the workers and some tourists hostage. The US government sends in the Army who lays siege to the dam. They break into the structure after a month, slaughtering many of the revolutionaries. The remaining ones choose to be martyrs and broadcast a bold statement that they'd rather die free than live as slaves before detonating a stolen Russian nuclear warhead they had brought with them, blasting the structure apart, and killing all the hostages and most of the attacking soldiers. The reservoir waters flood downstream, washing away whole townships and drowning many thousands.
2050	#	The destruction of Hoover Dam is a watershed moment for the United States. The event violently polarizes the nation and high-intensity riots erupt in dozens of cities. Liberal states turn against conservative ones and the country devolves into civil war.
2051 to 2054	#	Global civil wars. See the 21st Century World History article for details.
2055 to 2064	#	Changing alliances and annexations. See the 21st Century World History article for details.
2065 to 2083	#	Australia and New Zealand largely escape the troubles of the worldwide wars and begin extending aid to nearby islands, annexing many of them. See the 21st Century World History article for details.
2078 to 2090	#	Some areas of the world have mostly stabilized. War-weary people – mostly the younger generation – are demanding an end to the conflicts. However, displaced Arab survivors in Malaysia secretly develop new biological weapons: genetically-engineered humans and morphs called "Saurons" that are living virus-factories. They carry and spread plagues, sowing paranoia and terror. Disease and death on a massive scale changes the face of the world, depopulating vast regions in a few years. As the population crashes, the wars become unsustainable, resulting in many much-needed ceasefire agreements.
2090	December 22	The Gene Wars end with the signing of the worldwide armistace. The most advanced and still-functional surviving governments are those of Australia and New Zealand, which become the legal model and new seat of world order with the foundation of the UNTWG (United Nations of Terra World Government).
2091	#	The Great Reconstruction begins. More territories are consolidated and the remaining governments stabilized and reinforced. Saurons are identified, rounded up, and interred.
22^nd CENTURY
2111	February 1	Chakat Genome Project begins.
2120	#	Great Reconstruction concludes.
2129	May 17	First chakat cubs are born.
2134	February 19	General Order 418 is decreed.
2135	April 8	While scouting a star system for viable planets, a Terran starship encounters their first sapient alien race – explorers from the planet Kà'iît – a felinoid species that would become known as the Caitians.
2141	June 9	The Voxxan race is first encountered.
2158	February 11	A human who can't even remember his own name interrupts the the peace talks with the Rakshani. (The Ides of March)
2173	#	All interned Sauron are transferred to the prison colony world of New Mordor.
23^rd CENTURY
2207	March 3	Planets are detected about Aquila RA 19h49m7s D 8°46' by the Sagan Deep Space Telescope.
2210	November	Kupe robot probe flyby survey of Aquila 19D8A-04.
2214	#	FSS Arahura survey of Aquila 19D8A-04.
2215	#	Star Fleet interdicts New Mordor.
2218	#	Follow-up survey by TDSCV Heinlein of Aquila 19D8A-04.
2219	May 1	Settlement and development of Aquila 19D8A-04 ceded to the Chakat-led Anthropomorphic People's Lobby. Planet is renamed Chakona and its sun named Chakastra.
2220 to 2223	#	Project GRAPPLE. (Chakamils created)
2223	January 15	Three Firms scandal and Skunktaur liberation.
2227	February 28	First Landing – colony ships FSS Mumbai, La Trobe, Woomera and Amsterdam. Chakonan date 1/1/1.
2228	August 30	Chakat Darkstar born.
2230	October 18	Operation BISMARCK (Sterilisation of New Mordor).
2253 to 2259	#	Construction of Chakona Gateway Station.
2261	#	Chakona Gateway Station officially opened. Quezon City accident.
2266	February 14	Fyodor Ivanov Moseivitch born.
2281	April 2	Keith Walker born.
2284	June 15	Chakat Dawnfire born.
2289	October 13	First of the Stellar Foxtaur cubs are born to chakat host parents.
2293	April 17	Japanese colony world – Asahikawa – established.
2293	October 8	MayFurr "born".
2294	July 30	Chakat Longstocking (d/o Argento & T-Bird) born.
2295	August 11	Ranthe Narbalek born.
2296	September 23	Herm symbiote developed on Asahikawa develops into plague, and whole planet is quarantined.
2298	March 9	Self-governing autonomy ceded to the transitional Chakonan Planetary Council.
2299	June 13	Chakat Midnight born.
2299	December 4	Chakat Swiftsure born.
24^th CENTURY
2300	September 26	Chakat Goldfur (d/o Longstripe & Desertsand) born.
2300	September 28	Chakat Sundown born.
2301	June 23	Full Chakonan independence.
2301	August 18	Chakat Forestwalker (d/o Desertsand & Longstripe) born.
2302	August 20	Nova Stallis (d/o Arda Stallis & Leon Robey) born.
2303	19 April	Garrek born.
2303	#	Keith Walker and Chakat Dawnfire meet at Cape York Space Academy. (Academy Tails: "Orientation")
2304	7 August	Ketta born.
2306	August 07	Cassiopeia Firetail born.
2307	#	Keith Walker graduates from Cape York Academy, joins FSS Hudson.
2308	December 5	Lupukshawteanae (Lupu) born.
2309	#	Dawnfire graduates from Cape York Academy, joins FSS Eastwind.
2310	March 22	Onca, daughter of Huitzil & Tzeca, born.
	March 29	Rand Erikson born.
	May 28	Chakat Snowflake born.
	September 18	Malena born.
2312	June 11	Theobald Aaron "Kit" Carson born.
	June 17	Chakat Quickpaw (d/o Desertsand & Longstripe) born.
	December 30	Skip Matheson born.
2313	March 22	Valjean & Javert Hugo born.
2319	#	Keith Walker assumes the command of the FSS Illustrious.
2321	December ~	Garrek leaves for the Star Corps academy. ( Coming Home Again #1)
2322	January 1	Rosepetal Silpurr introduces her mate, Admiral Boyce Kline, to a potential new mate, Zhane Ap Nashene na Zhane, at the Rakshan Fertility Festival. To everyone's surprise, both females get pregnant at that event.
	January 12	Cassiopeia leaves for the Star Corps Academy without her parents consent, changing her name to Cassandra Whiteclaw. She meets Chakat Dawnbright, and they become roommates, then Companions. ( Coming Home Again #2)
	August 12	Kayla, daughter of Rosepetal and Boyce, is born.
	August 29	Kernos, son of Zhane and Boyce, is born.
	December (late)	Cassandra transfers from the Star Corps training to the Star Fleet training. ( Coming Home Again #3)
2323	#	Keith Walker assumes the command of the FSS Isaac Asimov.
2324	March 17	Aurora (d/o Marla & Jaiden) born.
2325	#	Dawnfire becomes the XO of the FSS Isaac Asimov.
2326	#	Lost!: MayFurr and Ranthe crash-land on Chakona.
	March 8	Forestwalker meets Kris and Trina.
	March 29	Forest, Kris and Trina decide to become denmates.
	November 15	Goldfur introduces Admiral Boyce Kline to Forest.
2327	#	The Gambit Solution: MayFurr, Ranthe, Sundown & Lindgold confront a menace to all lifeforms: the Borg!.
	#	Scent of a Rose: Further complications in the lives of MayFurr and Ranthe.
	April 23	Goldfur meets Garrek. (FT6: Goldfur's Story)
	July ~	Goldfur conceives by Garrek. (FT7: Garrek's Story)
	September 25	Cliff rescue by Forestwalker and hir mates. (FT1: Reunion)
	September 26	Goldfur introduces Midnight to Forest. The two capture some poachers. (FT2: Partnerships)
	September 29	Forest conceives by Midnight. (FT3: Fulfillment)
	October 1	Garrek takes Goldfur, Midnight and Trina to his home village and introduces his family, including his sister Malena. They attend their first Harvest Festival together. Goldfur teaches Malena how to make love. (FT4: Family)
	October 2	The Foxtaur games. A cub drowns. (FT5: Recreation)
	December 5-26	Cassandra graduates from the Academy as a Lieutenant jg in Star Fleet and is assigned to the Edward White, a patrol and exploration vessel. On their leave, Dawnbright introduces Cassie to hir family. ( Coming Home Again #5)
2328	#	Construction of the Mileva Memorial Hyper-Spatial Observatory begins.
	January 12	(A&C1: Closer relationships)
	March 24	The Glade. (A&C2: The Glade)
	April (early)	The Edward White engages a pirate ship and destroys it, but is also destroyed in turn. The survivors start a long journey to safety.
	April 14	Admiral Kline is inducted into Forest's family. (A&C3: Ceremony)
	May 12	The crew of the Edward White make it to Starbase 9.
	June 16	Goldfur and Garrek's stories are told. (FT6) & (FT7)
	June 30	The Admiral makes love to both Goldfur and Forest. (A&C4 & 5: Good Clean Fun & The Glade Revisited)
	August 24	The inquest into the Edward White incident finishes, and Cassie walks out with a promotion to Senior Lieutenant and a new ship, the Gus Grissom.
	August 25	Goldfur gives birth to Eudora Whitepaw, and Forestwalker gives birth to Snowcloud & Patchwork. (FT8: Birth)
	October 27	Foxtaur festival. Ketta introduced. Malena conceives by Goldfur. (FT9: Clans)
	October 28	Ketta kidnaps Eudora and is hunted down. She is later banished from the village. (FT10: Crisis)
	November 7	Quickpaw's "First". (FT11: Lessons)
	November 15	Ketta meets Stargrey.
	December 25	The Admiral and his mates celebrate Christmas with the Chakats. The truth is revealed to Zhane and Rosepetal who decide to forgive him as long as he formally mates with Forest. (A&C6: Truths)
2329	March 13	Goldfur meets Lupu.
	April 24	Midnight conceives by Admiral Kline. Lupu asks to have Goldfur's cubs. (FT12: Mates)
	April 25	Lupu conceives by Goldfur.
	June 24	Stargrey asks Ketta to be hir mate.
	July 3	Ketta conceives by Stargrey.
	September 8	Malena gives birth to Blaze. Quickpaw decides to become a nurse. Ketta repents. (FT13: Ketta's Fate)
	October 12	Midnight Incident. (FT14: Midnight Incident)
	December 20	Malena's Choice. (TOFC1: Malena's Choice)
	December 24	Ketta's Christmas Eve party. (TOFC2: Ketta's Christmas)
2330	January 10	Trina gives birth to Markus. (FT15 starts: Unthinkable Deeds)
	March 3	Lupu gives birth to Stonefur and Greypaw.
	March 23	Midnight gives birth to Ember.
	May 7	A Busy Day. (TOFC4: A Busy Day)
	May 11	Ketta's cub Nikol is born. Quickpaw gives hir gift to Ketta & Stargrey. (QTCY2: The Gift)
	June 17	Quickpaw turns 18. Strip poker game. Quickpaw and Boyce become Companions. (A&C7: Games Of Life And Love)
	June 19	Forest conceives by the Admiral. (A&C8: Becoming As One)
	September 13	The first major Earth For Humanity riot. (FT15 ends)
	October 25	Hunter's Ceremony. (TOFC3: Harvest Ceremony)
2331	April 2	Goldfur gives birth to Tailstalker.
	April 21	Garrek returns to his clan for his Obligation. (TOFC5: Obligation)
	April 24	Dale Perkins is transformed into a chakat. (FT16: Transformations, part 1)
	April 25	Dale struggles to cope with a new body, a new sexuality and a massive change in his life. (FT17: Transformations, part 2)
	May 1	Forestwalker gives birth to Windrunner, the cub sired by Admiral Kline.
	June 6	Dale asks Lupu to be his denmate, then decides to stay a chakat, taking the new name of Goldendale. (FT18: Transformations, part 3)
	August 25-26	Dale accompanies Lupu to California while she tries to get readmitted to her pack. The foxtaur hunters are being attacked though and the wolftaurs are suspected. Forestwalker and Malena find the true culprit the hard way. Thayla accidentally conceives by Garrek, although this is not known until months later.(FT19: Conclusions)
	September 30 to December 25	Forestwalker travels with Admiral Kline for a tour of duty in order to spend time as a family with their new cub. They encounter an unusual person named Leanna, a fennec fox slave from one of the non-aligned worlds. Leanna soon becomes firmly enmeshed in their lives as they struggle to turn a slave into an independent person. (FT20: More Terrible Than Chains)
2332	January 1	Malena conceives triplets by Garrek during a mating gone terribly wrong. (FT28: Disastrous Decision)
	January 11 to March 25	Goldendale begins resuming hir life and career, with both old acquaintances and new making hir new life very interesting. (FT29: Transitions)
	February 20	Forestwalker takes Leanna to the Double H Club where shi is introduced to herms of various species and types, including the human herm, Nichelle Mgabi. (FT30: Meanwhile...)
	February 22	Kazengar, son of Kassi and Garrek, is born.
	February 27	Forestwalker and Leanna return to the Double H Club for the poker night and meet up with an extraordinary musician. (FT34: Musical Climax)
	March 26	Garrek mates with Lorene. (FT31: What You See Is Me)
	March 29	Nightsong, child of Lupu and Goldendale, is born.(FT32: A Swift Decision)
	March 31	Swiftwalk proposes to Goldendale who accepts.(FT32: A Swift Decision)
	April 7	Leanna leaves on a mission to Nameth to try to work out the mystery of the Faleshkarti. (FT33: And The Children Shall Lead)
	April 25	Goldendale and Swiftwalk begin their first tour of duty as a mated team.
	August 5	Swiftwalk is kidnapped at the end of hir tour of duty, and threats made to hir life and hir loved ones in order to force hir to rob and kill. (FT35: Whatever the Cost)
	September 29	Opal, child of Leanna and Kris, is born.
	October 7	Mica, child of Katrina and Leanna, is born.
	October 15	Completion and dedication of the Mileva Memorial Hyper-Spatial Observatory.
	October 25	Littleroar, child of Midnight and Forestwalker, is born. (FT36: In The Family Way)
	October 26	Malena gives birth to identical triplet sons – Rikkal, Jallor & Mallek
	November 16	First flight of the starship Phoenix. (Phoenix #2: Unexpected Baggage)
	November 25	The crew of the Folly and Goldfur's family meet and have a day out together at the beach. (Folly - The Curse #7)
	December 14	Retribution: The Humans First terrorists strike on Chakona. H1 bombing of Freedom Day celebrations in Amistad, New Bletchley, Curtisport, and other cities in the Skunktaur Archipelago. (7/2/93 CUT)
2333	January 12	H1 bombing of first Longtail Day celebration in San Francisco, GNA, Terra. (The Longest Longtail Day).
	February 28 to March 5	Cassandra returns home after her tour of duty on the Gus Grissom, to discover her father dying. After the funeral and a huge argument with her mother, she returns to Star Fleet vowing never to go home again. She ships out on a deep-space exploratory and mapping mission. (Coming Home Again #6)
	June 13	Twilight, child of Swiftwalk and Goldendale, is born.
	July 14	Star Dancer begins.
	August 3	Phoenix departs on its fourth voyage and into trouble.
	August 15	The Phoenix is hijacked by pirates posing as passengers. (Phoenix #3: Passenger Peril)
	October 3	Coaldust, second child of Midnight and Boyce is born.
	October 10	Stariionae attack Task Force Sceptre; Biscay, Hawke, and Isaac Asimov are lost, Lijang and Mactan disabled.
	October 23	Yote and the crew of the Phoenix are falsely arrested for the kidnapping of Penelope Windsor. (Phoenix #4: Mouse Machinations)
	November 3	Word of the loss of Task Force Sceptre reaches Sigma-17.
	November 4	Stariionae attack Chakona.
	November 22	Hands Across The Sky: Rand and Onca Erickson leave Amazonia. (Work in progress)
	November 26	Ranthe Narbalek and Mayfurr (who has changed his name to Mayuandi ne Nhakanla) arrive at Chakona Gateway on board the F.S.S. Arthur C. Clarke.
	December 2	F.S.S. Lijang arrives at Chakona Gateway.
	December 8	Quickpaw graduates as a qualified nurse and specialist midwife. (QTCY1)
	December 16	Rand and Onca arrive at Cape York Aerospace port on Terra.
	December 26	Leafchaser, child of Longstripe and Desertsand, is born.
2334	January 19	Martin Yote uncovers a fanatical plot to inflict a herm plague on Earth. (Phoenix #5: Plague Plot)
	January 28	Darkstar meets Goldfur after A Chance Encounter with Garrek.
	February 9	The asteroid city, Hesperia, suffers a disaster when the stricken super-carrier, The Olympian knocks out its power and nearly crashes into it, averted only by the efforts of the crew of the Phoenix. Menalippe and Heywood Baxter die. (Phoenix #6: Asteroid Adversity)
	February 22	A Humans First terrorist gunman opens fire on the crowd in Terminal 17 of the Cape York Aerospace port, leading to 36 deaths and 112 injuries. (Ties That Bind)
	March 17	Admiral Kline approaches Darkstar for advice.
	June 6	Goldfur, Forestwalker and extended family arrive in Chakona, ready to start a new life away from the troubles on Terra. (4/16/94 CUT)
	June 11	Admiral Kline makes his speech before the Federation General Assembly. (Loosing The Maelstrom)
	June 14	Former Admiral Kline is whisked away from danger by his son and daughter after the intervention of Captain Foster. (Good Men)
	September 1	Star Home officially opened.
	September 17	Starshine (d/o Longstocking & Darkstar) born.
	October 2	Eudora wanders away from the base camp on Tanador and meets Shaman, a Garetta foxtaur from a lost colony. Official First Contact happens the next day. (Little Cub Lost)
	October 10	Fiora (d/o Sundown & Swiftsure) born.
2335	February 28	Alaula (d/o Darkstar & Boyce) born.
2335	December 13	'Til Death Do Us Part begins. (Work in progress)
2336	August 07	Cassandra arrives at unknown planet later known as Holme where she meets Daniel Silverstripe and they start working together. ( Coming Home Again #7)
2336	September 24	Cassie falls in love with Daniel and requests to remain behind on Holme to act as Federation Liaison. She's promoted to full Commander and given an attack runabout and minicruiser of her own to command.
2337	September 18	The crew of the Phoenix face their greatest challenge to their livelihood as Martin must confront his father for the viability of his business versus the terms of his bequeathal. (Phoenix #13: The Final Challenge)
2337	December 25	The crew of the Phoenix enjoy Christmas as a family. (A Phoenix Christmas)
2338	May 18	The Halcyon Three Federation colony world is attacked by a new unknown enemy. (Cosmic Lotus: Halfway)
2338	June 20	An emergency rescue mission with the use of an experimental long-distance transporter accidentally teleports Mike Thompson and his dog Molly from the year 2023. Due to pattern-loss, their mind-matrixes are put into copies of the bodies of the last two people who had been transported – Kathryn MacLeod, a nineteen-year-old herm cougar morph, and Tonya DeGaulle, a nine-year-old human girl. (Warped Future, Book One: Starting Over)
2339	November 7	Admiral Kline and the Federation starship Pegasus are sent to investigate a strange spaceship that has entered the Chakastran system. (Cosmic Lotus: First Contact)
2339	November 15	Wandering Path, captain of the Equestrian starship Cosmic Lotus along with Admiral Kline facilitate a meeting between Port Admiral Namatjira and the Triarchs of Equestria to negotiate an agreement between the Federation and the Equian Alliance. (Cosmic Lotus: About Face)
2340	All year	The might of the Stellar Federation and the magical forces of their Equian allies are combined in a desperate fight for survival again the Swarm.(Cosmic Lotus: Diplomatic Relations)
2341	February22	The Swarm is defeated by a combination of magical spell and telepathic assault. (Cosmic Lotus: New Paths)
2353	January 29	Coaldust unexpectedly becomes pregnant to Tam, becoming the first to find out that hir father's ability to be interfertile with any mammalian species is inheritable.
2353	December 7	Stargazer, child of Coaldust and Tam is born. (8/14/111 CUT)
2357	June 23	Windrunner becomes Firstwife to Arrak Menurr'tak. (8/18/114 CUT) (Piece of Mind)
2361	November 23	Stargazer and Wyatt Concolor become mates. (1/7/112 CUT) (Stargazer's Folly)

See the Time & Date Convertor for converting between Terran and Chakonan calendars. (Excel spreadsheet)

Although I've gone to a lot of effort to organise these events, I may have made mistakes. Also, some dates need to be narrowed down to a specific day as yet. Anyone who finds an error or has a suggestion to improve this timeline is welcome to email me any comments.

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