Era
The Founding
A signal arrives from a direction with nothing behind it, spacetime fractures, and the first crossing happens to somebody who was not trying to cross anything.
What fixes the era
- 2047 The signal — 14 March 2047, 03:17:44 UTC. Received at the Svalbard Deep-Field Array on the hydrogen line. It has structure, and it arrives on a schedule.
- 2071 First traversal — The first accidental human crossing: eight years forward, and 1.3 kilometres sideways.