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↛ TIMELINE
2069
First Human settlement on the Moon.
2103
First Human settlement on Mars.
2148
Humanity discovers a small cache of highly advanced Prothean technology hidden deep beneath the surface of Mars on the south polar region of Promethei Planum. Building on the remnants of this long extinct race, humans quickly explore the science of mass effect fields, leading to the development of faster than light travel and beginning detailed exploration of the Sol system.
2149
Following information from the translated data cache on Mars, humans discover that Charon, Pluto's moon, is actually a massive piece of dormant Prothean technology, a mass relay, encased in ice. Once activated, Jon Grissom leads the first team of explorers through the relay, which instantaneously transports them to another relay in Arcturus, 36 light-years away. The explorers discover that the mass relays are part of a vast network, making travel across the galaxy possible.
The Systems Alliance charter is signed by the eighteen largest nations on Earth. The Alliance soon becomes the military and exploratory spearhead of humanity.
The Systems Alliance charter is signed by the eighteen largest nations on Earth. The Alliance soon becomes the military and exploratory spearhead of humanity.
2150
The Systems Alliance begins the first surveys for colonization prospects outside the Sol System. One of these surveys discovers the planet Terra Nova.
2157
Humanity makes violent first contact with another spacefaring race: the turians. The turians observe human explorers attempting to activate a dormant mass relay, a practice forbidden by galactic law after the Rachni Wars, and attack. Over the next three months, a brief but tense conflict known by humans as the First Contact War and by turians as the Relay 314 Incident ensues.
The First Contact War culminates in the turian siege and occupation of Shanxi, the first human world to fall to an alien race. Admiral Kastanie Drescher leads the Second Fleet in battle against Shanxi's occupiers one month later, catching the turians by surprise and evicting them from the planet.
The turians prepare for a full-scale war against humanity, but this draws the attention of the Citadel Council. The Council intervenes before hostilities escalate further, revealing the existence of the greater galactic community to humanity and brokering a peace between them and the turians.
The First Contact War culminates in the turian siege and occupation of Shanxi, the first human world to fall to an alien race. Admiral Kastanie Drescher leads the Second Fleet in battle against Shanxi's occupiers one month later, catching the turians by surprise and evicting them from the planet.
The turians prepare for a full-scale war against humanity, but this draws the attention of the Citadel Council. The Council intervenes before hostilities escalate further, revealing the existence of the greater galactic community to humanity and brokering a peace between them and the turians.
2165
Humanity continues to expand, founding more colonies and establishing trade alliances with many of the other species who recognize the authority of the Citadel Council. In 2165 CE, the Council makes official recognition of humanity's growing power and influence in the galactic community. Humanity is granted an embassy on the Citadel, the political and economic heart of the galaxy.
2176
The Andromeda Initiative, a privately-funded, civilian, multi-species project created to send scientists, explorers, and colonists on a one-way trip to settle in the Andromeda Galaxy, is founded.
2183
The human colony of Eden Prime is attacked by the geth, initiating a wider conflict between humans and geth known as the Eden Prime War. After exposing the involvement of rogue Spectre Saren Arterius in the attack, Commander Shepard and the crew of the SSV Normandy pursue Saren in his search for the Conduit, later revealed to be part of a larger plan orchestrated by the Reaper Sovereign to return its kind to the galaxy. While Shepard follows Saren through the legendary Mu Relay to the Conduit, Sovereign and a geth fleet assault the Citadel. Shepard defeats Saren and the Alliance Navy destroys Sovereign, preventing the release of the Reapers.
An unknown benefactor, fearing the imminent arrival of the Reapers and the ensuing war, worked with Alec Ryder to hasten the Ark's departure. The benefactor desired to safeguard a portion of Milky Way civilizations from the Reapers by sending 100,000 colonists to Andromeda using the Initiative as a cover.
An unknown benefactor, fearing the imminent arrival of the Reapers and the ensuing war, worked with Alec Ryder to hasten the Ark's departure. The benefactor desired to safeguard a portion of Milky Way civilizations from the Reapers by sending 100,000 colonists to Andromeda using the Initiative as a cover.
2184
The Andromeda Initiative begins recruiting.
2185
The Andromeda Initiative begins its journey to the Andromeda galaxy, with the first wave, made up of the Nexus, Ark Hyperion, Ark Leusinia, Ark Natanus, and Ark Paarchero, launching into dark space. A second wave comprised of Ark Keelah Si'yah is expected to launch not long after.
Each Ark, equipped with cryostasis chambers for its members to sleep through the 600-year-long journey, is assigned a Pathfinder, a mix of elite soldier, scientist and guide, tasked with finding a new home. The Pathfinder for the Hyperion - a primarily human Ark - is Alex Ryder.
Each Ark, equipped with cryostasis chambers for its members to sleep through the 600-year-long journey, is assigned a Pathfinder, a mix of elite soldier, scientist and guide, tasked with finding a new home. The Pathfinder for the Hyperion - a primarily human Ark - is Alex Ryder.
2818
The Nexus arrives in the Heleus Cluster of the Andromeda galaxy after a 633 year journey through dark space.
2819
© TESSISAMESS
Ark Leusinia, Ark Natanus, and Ark Paarchero arrive in the Heleus Cluster separately. They are either attacked by the kett or damaged by the Scourge, a widespread energy phenomenon, preventing them from rendezvousing with the Nexus.
Ark Hyperion arrives in the Andromeda galaxy 14 months after the Nexus.
Ark Hyperion arrives in the Andromeda galaxy 14 months after the Nexus.
