Timeline

This page contains a comprehensive timeline of all events before and during both Everspace and Everspace 2. This information was primarily gleaned from Codex, (ES2) entries, dialogue, and Rockfish Games themselves.

Year(s) in C.E.	Event(s) Description
Mid-1800s	Grady & Brunt Prospects formed on Earth by Oswald Grady, partnered with William Brunt, during the California gold rush.
2046	G&B inherited by direct-descendant Zeppo Grady, who expanded the business into space mining with asteroid-hunting drones.
2301-2400	Cluster 34 mapped Berger Group founded on Rhea IV Baron Nova Gunnery Ltd founded on Earth
2344	First Aeronautics founded on Triton
2401-2500	Alioth Electronics founded on Earth
2501-2600	Federal Arms & Crafts founded Maverick Precision Technologies Inc founded on Earth ANCILE founded on Mars
2601-2700	First Aeronautics briefly owned by G&B
2701-2800	BENCA's military contracts suspended temporarily after a series of accidents
Mid-2700s	Hostile takeover of Berger Group, renamed to Salvor Armament Group
2901-3000	First Colonial exploration vessels arrive in Cluster 34.
2912	Eduardo is constructed on Mars, Colonial Defences Facility, as a deciphering android for Fleet service.
2970	Birth of Elek.
2975	Birth of Crin Gorc.
2983-84	Gorc becomes a ward of the Colonial Fleet at age 8 after his family's death as a result of an alien attack while traveling to Cluster 17.
2990	Maurice is constructed.
2991	Birth of Henley Maddocks, former Kryten Colony.
2993-94	Gorc translates the Shin-Yoo artifact at age 18, helping to avert at war with the Phoebii (presumably another alien race).
2995	Birth of Adam Roslin on Hector Delannoy Station. Birth of Dexter Bashar on Byron IV.
3002	Birth of Seth Nobu. Birth of Commissioner Samara Hawke on Earth.
3016	Birth of Denara Roslin.
3018-19	Crin Gorc promoted to Admiral at age 43, a record for the fleet.
3020s	Birth of Corben Grendal in the Ahlgrim System.
3021	Birth of Dr. Delia Wendo in the Outer Colonies, Spectra III.
3022	First arrival of Colonial mining interests in the Beltegrades. Thermal plants of Mota established.
3024	Birth of Tae-Mi Song (Tammy) in the Outer Rim.
3026	Skirmishes between Okkar and Colonial patrols. Tensions rise as the Fleet is sent to quell violence in the locality.
3028	First major conflict between the Colonials and Okkar is stopped by quick acting diplomacy. Okkar and Colonials both retreat, but tensions resume.
3031	Birth of Karlie Sharpe.
Mid-3000s	Colonial diplomatic missions to the Okkar Homeworlds.
3034	Birth of Daryl Cruz in the DMZ.
3039	After diplomatic missions fail, tensions flare into full-scale war.
3040	Adam Roslin and Seth Nobu sent to the front lines.
3042	Dax Bashar, Maddocks, and Eduardo are involved in "The Aethon Mutiny", resulting in the death of 1st Lt. Gabbart Voight and their dishonorable discharge. Colonial/Okkar Armistice called to end current hostilities in the Beltegrades.  The DMZ is established.  Seth Nobu leaves the Fleet and remains in the DMZ.
3044	Adam Roslin is demobbed.
3045	07/03: Bloodstar code is amended to include squadmate responsibility for widowed and orphaned members.
3048	17/12: Bloodstar encounters and offers a malnourished crew of 15 rest and recuperation for two weeks after they are forced from Union. Several of the crew join the gang.
3048-3056	Delia Wendo studies micro-biotechnology at Erda-Lassi Academy for Medical Advancement. Her thesis on altered plague biology was controversially rejected. During appeal proceedings, she was sent to the DMZ by Grady & Brunt after signing on for a research assignment.
3052	Karlie goes off-world to pursue an engineering career. Adam Roslin meets Seth Nobu again and they go into business using now-illegal clone technology. They are captured by Admiral Crin Gorc and given amnesty in return for decrypting the Okkar genome in secret.
3052-56	Karlie develops "Sharpening", a more efficient way of retrieving quantities of ore from asteroid fields.
3055	Adam Roslin decrypts the Okkar genome. Crin Gorc seeks to create a brigade of Okkar clones to incite fresh conflict between the races, but Adam refuses. Adam is injected with a controlled cytotoxin and is forced to comply. His death is rumored to have occurred the same year. 30/11: Bloodstar Man-at-Arms Bolton again challenges their chief for leadership, but is reprimanded by their council and reminded of the gang's electoral process.
3056 (Everspace)	Karlie's lawsuit with G&B over theft of Sharpening by a G&B spy, Ortensio Hawkings. Shortly after, Hawkings is murdered. Roslin breaks out from captivity and flees to a secret lab to cure himself. He starts a cloning program on another carrier for a body replacement, then placed himself in stasis. The first clone is created (Hero). Karlie employed by G&B while also working for the Okkar. Death of Denara Roslin, Seth Nobu, the original Adam Roslin, and Crin Gorc. The Coalition becomes a major Outlaw clan by driving the outlaw Phantom Retaliators out of key locations in the DMZ. Mester Throng completes his research of Extraplanetary Lifeforms in the DMZ. The Adam Roslin clone "diaspora."
3057 (Everspace 2)	All but two Adam Roslin clones are hunted down and killed by Colonial forces, some intercepted trying to go to the homeworlds. The once powerful Bloodstar clan falls apart due to Adam killing two of their chiefs and many of their fighters. The opening of Chabar Tower scatters Ancient Wardens throughout Cluster 34. Death of Dax Bashar and Henley Maddocks at the hands of Blakemore's elite G&B squad (including the evil Adam Roslin clone). Oskar Blakemore and the evil Adam clone die while pursuing a plot to mine the scared viridium comet Eshahar (and thus sparking a new war with the Okkar) as it passes through the Aethon system, ultimately thwarted by the now sole remaining Adam Roslin clone. Officer Oswald Shaw takes charge of G&B elements in the DMZ.