Timeline
2026 – 2803

Bristol. Joel Kirby activates the device. Four people displaced. ISCA classifies within 48 hours. The public record is clean.

ISCA internal record only. Four individuals — never publicly identified. The anomaly is consistent with precursor Seam formation.

The E7 group observes Maren through a wound-zone interface while she works a late shift alone. She never knows. Her location in 2044: a radio telescope, working alone.

Svalbard Deep-Field Array. 03:17:44 UTC. 47 min 33 sec on 1420 MHz. Six fragments absorbed. Seams form at six resonance points. S1 opens.

At the Svalbard Array Museum dedication, the first Seam visible without instruments opens for 90 seconds. Maren sees Ysolde. S1 closes.

Kyoto. Yuki Harada born. Her grandmother Sari absorbed the S2 fragment in 2047 while encoding the Ara cognitive substrate.

Kwame Asante-Nkrumah born. His ancestor absorbed the S3 fragment in Accra in 2047.

Seoul. Partial. The ruling Yuki will spend her career building on and trying to protect.

S2 × S3 convergence. Ara detects an anomaly in the climate network. Kwame and Yuki's series intersect.

Kwame's report is classified. S3 closes.

The group's second displacement. First destination chosen. Ceres Station: humanity's farthest inhabited point.

Deep Space Incursion Authority. Ysolde Pryce's early career begins.

S4B1. The thing that exists outside every category you use to think.

S4B4. The cognitive architecture for managing contact. Will be replicated at civilisational scale nine years later.

S4B5/CX2. Applied at civilisational scale, the Protocols cause collective human consciousness to begin thinking at a different speed than individual consciousness. The schism begins.

~40% of civilisation cognitively fragmented. Institutions dismantle. Communities rebuild alone. Post-Severance era begins.

Day 1 of 21 at Ali Vertas. The device begins recharging. The zone around it begins growing. The Long Recharge.

S6B1. Tamar Haidari begins the civilisational archive. Post-Severance reconstruction — five generations in.

S6B5. Tamar opens Maren Solberg's sealed letter — written in 2058, 'To whoever opens this.' The franchise's penultimate beat.

The Long Burn civilisation has rebuilt across 500 years, mapped the Seam network, and is navigating first contact. S5 opens.

All series converge. The Long Burn civilisation uses one star's worth of energy to send the signal back to 2047. One star ceases to exist. The warning arrives insufficient. The star is still gone.