Some comments: > 2.8 - 2.2 BYA: Progenitors rule the galaxies in what is > traditionally thought to be a Golden Age. Mention of 13 Galaxies. > Records extremely sketchy. > It seems that what is implied by the text of Contact Aliens is that _early_ in this period Galaxy 1 and Galaxy 2 became linked, and then a horrible War began, with total annihilation of O-2 civ, except for the Progenitors. This led them to Uplift.
> > 2.3 BYA: Progenitors separate themselves from affairs of lesser > races, passing on laws and edicts. > > 2.305 BYA: First Wars with Hydrogen-Breathers begin. > Of course this is a typo: 2.305 happens _before_ 2.3 :-) > 2.24 BYA: Zang establish separate peace with O/2 Civilization paving > the way for a general peace. > Contacting Aliens gives this date as 2.25 [ok, we can accept that 2.25 is an approximation - the entry in CA is quite long] Why not add the following: 545 MYA: Diversity is artificially induced in many worlds, including Earth [causing the Cambrian explosion]. This is the last reference to Earth in the Galactic Library. > 0xY /2211 CE: First Galactic Contact. Human explorers contact > Tymbrimi colonists. This was 87 paktaars ago by Galactic measure. Nope. BTW, why the dates are usually referred as "after/before Contact" or as "years ago"? This makes conversion to AD and BC a useless task, and we have had several different, mutually contradictory, dates for Contact. Based on the data of Sundiver, I could compute the Year of Contact with reasonable precision, and it was fixed in 2212 AD. > 31 AxY: A small branch Library is installed at La Paz, Earth. > The Human starship Tabernacle disappears. > The flight of Tabernacle should happen _after_ Sundiver, because they carried a book written by Jacob Demwa in year 42 after Contact. > 40 AxY /2290 CE: Sundiver incident. Library at La Paz is upgraded > through a GLI grant. > Sundiver gives the explicit date of 2246 AD [which corresponds to 34 AxY] I would like to present the "recent" dates in terms that are human-understandable. For example, it doesn't make sense to write "277.25 AxY: Garth invaded by Gubru". Why not _explicitly_ give some date? But this is something that is still beyond my computing powers: right now I am busy trying to spot some inconsistencies in the movements of Jijo's Moons. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
