Use lots of technical terms. It sounds professional that way.

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The Mari Formata

The truth is, I think, that this whole timeline is not making a lot of sense to anyone. So I'm going to cut to the chase and record the early years of the Sins universe proper. Below is a partial map of the galaxy in 2395, for clarity, and below that is the first chapter in the Mari Formata saga.

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Only part of hyperspace travel technology was rediscovered. There are still many missing pieces. What has been compiled led to the first discovery of phase space and travel using it.

Earth never disappeared, it was just forgotten as the developed world it once was. The planet surface has been ravaged by nucleostatic warfare, and while the geography remains largely status quo, most of the ecosphere and the edifices of civilisation were razed. In the modern Sins universe, Evertha is just some petty terran planet with no real significance. Alux is presently considered to be the homeworld of the human race while Helms Kol is the de facto capital of the Trade Order.

It's status as the social, economic, cultural and political center of the galaxy was simply too great for warring factions to ever ignore it.

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What's that supposed to mean? I don't know what could be less obnoxious to Americans than naming an entire planet after the historically first African-American US President.

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You do actually find that annoying? I don't understand. The way I see it, it's highly appropriate for a whole planet to be named after the historical figure.

The Obama market crash is not significant in that it bears allusions to the real world market crash.

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Helms Kol

Just as Alux is an utmostly sacred world, Helms Kol is the utmostly industrialised planet in the entire Trade Order. Helms Kol's geologically varied surface is entirely covered in a hybrid industrial/urban artificial living space and has been for as long as history has been dated. Though the galaxy is abundant with humanity's stubborn factionalism, the fact that the overlordly Prime Coordinator estabilished his office beneath these reddish dusty skies makes Helms Kol the de facto capital of the Trade Order. Many leaders of Order states have to answer to this planet some time in their lives, directly or indirectly, and as such the collective polity of the planet is massive. The mobilisation of anti-Vasari defensive forces, the exile of the Tembda Jans populace, the TEC's very inception - all these things had something, however small the involvement, to do with the political machinations of Helms Kol.

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looks good. so earth is somewhere to the galactic NE?

ah ok. i knew that it was renamed, but did not recall the new name. now i remember. evertha, evertha

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One of the problems now is that Psion history is pretty dry for the next series of centuries, up until their exile. Maybe readers could propose events to be put into the second chapter.

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approximately when does sins take place in your timeline?

The second chapter in the Mari Formata.

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