Editing Fading Halo (section)

==Brief Timeline==

Below is a time line of important moments in humanity's history.  The history and setting will adapt over the course of play and I will update the time line from time to time as new details are established or discovered.  Initially, the time line focuses on human history and uplifting.  The 112 years between the start of the rapid human expansion phase and the current date is left purposefully blank so as not to limit player creativity in terms of their characters' origins, work, lifestyle, network and history.

*'''2020''' - Traveller mission to Europa launched to investigate possibility of extraterrestrial life under the ice.
*'''2024''' - Auriga discovered at the ocean floor on Europa along with a significant stockpile of Element Zero.
*'''2027''' – The language used on the Auriga fully codified and logs are able to be translated (language is later discovered to be Apothenian)
*'''2044''' – Humanity completes its first successful FTL flight on the Auriga, from Europa to Earth.
*'''2100''' – Terran Exploration Fleet (TEF) launches from Earth to explore nearby systems in the Local Insterstellar Cloud.
*'''2102''' – TEF Shiva arrives in the Formalhaut system and discovers the Pike Relay.  First contact made with the Silfa.
*'''2138''' – After years of negotiation, the Terran Senate is formed and the Silfa Accords are signed, agreeing to the Silfa’s terms of release for their logs and technology and use of the Pike Relay.
*'''2141''' – The Silfan settlement on Valnya is dismantled and the Silfa leave the Local Interstellar Cloud.
*'''2143''' – Humanity makes its first trip through the Pike Relay.  The Silfa host the Brerinth Summit at which humanity is introduced to many other galactic races
*'''2150''' – First human off-Terra settlement marks start of rapid expansion phase
*'''2262''' – Humanity has spread to 41 billion souls on over three hundred different planets and space stations in the galaxy