Historical Timeline
Compiled from surviving national records, reconstruction-era archives, and CROWN's own logs. Where those disagree, CROWN's version is the one printed.
2151
Nuclear war
Civilization ends in a matter of days. Population, industry, and institutional memory collapse together.
2152–2168
Reconstruction
Survival governments consolidate. Borders are redrawn by capability rather than history.
2165–2171
Political realignment
The coalitions that will define the next century form, most of them out of necessity rather than agreement.
2171
Servator arrival
A sphere appears above southern Africa and holds altitude. It does not respond. It does not leave.
2172
Establishment of the protectorate
The Nooitgedacht Protectorate is created to administer the territory beneath the sphere.
2174
Discovery of Vitanium
Material recovered near the site behaves in ways existing physics does not predict.
2179
Creation of CROWN
Covert Reconnaissance Operations and Warfare Network is chartered to secure, study, and contain.
2201
Development of the Kings
The candidate program begins. Its early records remain classified.
2247
CLASSIFIED
Records for this period are withheld pending review.
2264
The message
After ninety-three years of silence, the Servator asks humanity to send representatives.