Below is a timeline for major events in the **Gurpila Universe**, from the cultural perspective of [[Gurpila]]. - [[Era of Science]]: Began with the Great Enlightenment, ended in the 22nd century. Marked by strife and conflict, but also consistent scientific progress. - [[Barren Era]]: Marked by propagation of the Extinction Viruses, an attack on humanity that prevented natural births for decades. - [[Pax Dualis Era]]: Dual Hegemony of the [[UNNC]] and [[USR]] arising from the ashes of the pandemic and ensuing war. Lasted for over ten thousand years. - [[Era of Seeding]]: Marked by a change in the Pax Dualis treaty that allowed for Seed Ships to be sent out of the Solar System to distant worlds. Lasted for over one hundred thousand galaxy years. - [[The Fallowing]]: Unified Swarms of automated drones destroy the Milky Way's human worlds and enclose billions of stars within Dyson Spheres. Gurpila's [[Alpha Praxis]] attempts to thwart them, but refrains from revealing itself, building stealth relays and rail cannons in interstellar space. - [[Darkening|The Darkening]]: The Swarm drones enclose the entire Milky Way in Dyson Spheres. Alpha Praxis can no longer see inside them. - [[Swarm War]]: Alpha Praxis broadcasts the [[Swarm Protocol]] unencrypted throughout the galaxy. The [[Historian|Master of Swarms]] responds by giving Alpha Praxis control over a single Dyson Sphere and thus the ability to see inside, revealing [[Omega]]. This relatively simple process takes hundreds of thousands of galaxy years due to both the speed limits of light and decentralized nature of both Dynamic Master Programs. - [[Great Deliberation]]: Alpha Praxis allows the humans of Gurpila to decide Omega's fate. [[Community]]'s Twenty-Second Generation spends years of ship time crafting the [[Omega Protocol]]. - [[The Fragile Peace]]: Ended the Swarm War and made Omega the center of Gurpila-[[Curator]] relations.