• formation of universe - 13.73 +/- 0.12 bya
• formation of the Shashnian solar system
  • creation of favourable planetary conditions
• formation of the atmosphere
• formation of the current continents
• Evolution of native life forms

Early History

• Expansion of the First Peoples - 50kya
  • collapse of the ancient civilization
• The Great Ice Age - 40kya
• The coming of Magic - 15kya
• The arrival of the Dual - 13kya
• Magic War - Mobilized warfare and mass destruction
  • Caused by increase of magic
  • Focused power on few individuals
  • Ruling class vs. peasant class
  • Ended in Apocalypse - Great Destruction
• The modern catastrophe/apocalypse 

The new epoch

• The Three World Wars
  • The Founding war - Feudal tactics
    • The beginnings of equality
    • Founding Book
• • The Evolution War - Guerilla, drawn out conflict
    • Idealistic conflict due to overpopulation, see Eugenics
    • Formation of Red, White and Outcast Nations
  • Dawn of the Mecenasnuro Nation on the Isle of Mecena
  • The Demon Siege - Terror
    • surge of influx of evil intergalactic energies
    • fought back to the pole and contained
    • threat continues to grow
      • fortifications increasing
      • more demons escaping to corrupt outside containment 

Present day

• Gameworld era for which the material is written
• Sci-fi fantasy with tech level slightly above modern Earth

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• Near future
  • Epic story of the 20th century humans who arrive on Shashnia
    • exploration of the Shashnimyn culture from new perspectives
    • great peril is balanced with great fortune as the humans become disunioned and join both sides of the Demon Siege

Future

• End of the Age of Humans
  • the living DNA of humankind only lasted for 2500 years on Shashnia
  • many consciousnesses still live in preservation, but slowly deteriorate, only to stay in the spirit world
• All efforts to revive the humans from their extinction fail
• The quest to find humanity begins

Far future

• Shashnian system colonization phase - bases & mining of moons, asteroids and planets
  • Gumar declaration of Independance
• Galatic phase - discovery of interstellar travel methods
  • interstellar conquest strategy game with the VBAM ruleset
    • ground based wargaming also
• the intergalatic jump
  • human contact
  • teleport the universe drive group to Earth
  • the group acts as willing teachers of humanity
    • they discover that they are on the same timeline as the observer
    • they fight over what to do, and separate
    • the decision is to disappear, and some try to cast a spell to get them home