Historical Timeline of the Republic of Phanes

This is a timeline of Phanite history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in The Phanes Republic and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see The Phanes Republic#History.

1st decade AE

Year	Date	Event
0 AE		Colony Ship Gaia arrives in what the onboard computer system names only as A12-7ED. This 'Arrival Event' marks the beginning of modern Sagittar's dating system, with every year afterwards given a number to designate it.
1 AE		The first colony is formally established on the surface of what is now Sagittar. Within weeks, thousands inhabit the city of Gythiea. A system of government by which everyone over the age of twenty-one receives the right to vote is established, with each settlement running itself independent of others.
6 AE		A single speck of light in the night-time sky is the sole indicator for the inhabitants of Sagittar that the Colony Ship Yǔshān has arrived in orbit of what is soon named as Cao-Xhan.

2nd decade

Year	Date	Event

3rd decade

Year	Date	Event
Early 36-37 AE		The city of Sicyon, named after the family of the the chief founder, begins to manufacture crude projectile weapons and light armoured vehicles. Within a year, Sicyon has conquered two other towns, and a number of smaller villages. The other great city-states of Sagittar are fearful of this, and send a deputation to ask the Sicyon family why they make war. Achileus Sicyon declares that the weak and the powerless deserve only to be led, and has the deputation thrown from the new walls of his palace in the heart of the city in what is later termed the Achilean Betrayal.
37-38 AE		The city of Galatea, the populace infuriated by the death of the deputation at the hands of the nascent warlord's men, begin their own manufacturing, consulting salvaged information-charts that contain any reference to war from their colony ship's origination point. Inspired by one reference, Jason Constanzakis soon has his own small army of powered ornithopters. Leading a conventional force into battle against a numerically superior Sicyon army, he devastates them as the flying machines appear overhead, dropping cobbled-together bombs made from Corinthian fertiliser on the enemy.

4th decade

Year	Date	Event
40 AE	2nd Metageitniōn (start of the siege)	Constanzakis leads his army to the gates of Sicyon, having spent nearly two years reclaiming the land conquered by the invaders. Within a month, after countless hundreds of deaths, the walls are breached and the Constanzakite coalition floods in. By the day's end, the walls of Achileus Sicyon's palace are torn apart, and Jason is credited with killing the tyrant in a fierce gunbattle as he leads the charge into the command tower. Flushed with victory, the invaders pay no heed as Achileus, wounded mortally rather than dead, uses his last few breaths of life to shoot Jason in the back.

5th decade

Year	Date	Event

6th decade

Year	Date	Event
63-73 AE		The first primitive space rocket is launched from a facility owned by the founding city, Gytheia. Within a decade, a burgeoning space programme is underway, with the participation of Galatea, Corinth, and Sicyon. Contact is also made with the inhabitants of Cao-Xhan.

7th decade

Year	Date	Event
71 AE		The first interplanetary journey from Sagittar to Cao-Xhan is launched. Taking several weeks, the crew is forced to shelter in cold-storage while passing through an unusual spurt of radioation in the

8th decade

Year	Date	Event
86 AE		Just twenty-three years after the contact with the inhabitants of Cao-Xhan, the first economic expansion is made as the merchants of Gytheia sign a deal to export foodstuffs to the hydroponic-reliant Xhanese.

9th decade

Year	Date	Event

10th decade

Year	Date	Event

11th decade

Year	Date	Event
118 AE		The Gytheian merchants supplying the majority of Xhanese domecities are found to be involved in sabotage of native food-production efforts in an attempt to maintain a captive market.

12th decade

Year	Date	Event

13th decade

Year	Date	Event

14th decade

Year	Date	Event
143 AE		The Sagittarian freighter Olympian is destroyed in orbit, labelled an 'industrial accident'. Anti-Sagittarian groups are suspected to be the cause of it however, and the mercantile community unanimously imposes a five-percent tariff on Xhanese heavy metals and rare-earth's as a result. This causes a two year dip in the Xhanese economy, fostering further dislike of the Sagittarians who are seen as imposing themselves upon Cao-Xhan.

15th decade

Year	Date	Event
159 AE		Tensions that had been escalating between Sagittar and Cao-Xhan for the past decade over trade tariffs and customs barriers finally erupt into open warfare. Later known as ‘The Trade War’, it starts with a massed attack on Cao-Xhan’s moon, Guangdo by the converted freighters that serve as the muscle of the nascent Sagittarian fleet. A Xhanese counter-attack forces the Sagittar naval forces to withdraw, leaving a beleaguered ground-force behind.

16th decade

Year	Date	Event
161 AE		The Sagittarian forces holding Guangdo finally surrender to the Xhanese after holding in a siege for nearly two years. This single event comes close to shattering the morale of the remaining Sagittarian forces.

17th decade

Year	Date	Event
172 AE		After managing to hold off periodic probes and counter-attacks from the Xhanese, the first Titans are laid down, as the first part of a formal navy to replace the ad-hoc armed merchantmen of the early years of the war. In conjunction with the full formation of a planet-wide fleet, the Stratia has reformed itself into what is to become known as the New Model Army.
174 AE		In what is known as the Second Battle of Guangdo, the new Titan warships destroy the orbitals over the moon. However, the Xhanese unveil their own new fleet consisting of Yang-class warships constructed out in the asteroid belt closer to the sun than Cao-Xhan itself, and planet-based Jaoi Di bombers. The result is a strategic stalemate, with the Nautikon unavailable to contest their foe's superior numbers.

18th decade

Year	Date	Event
182 AE		After the defeat of the newly-created Nautikon in 174 AE, construction of the final Titan-class warships is finished. Guangdo is invaded again as the Sagittarian units of the New Model Army make planetfall. Large settlements are traded with to secure their support, but the myriad smaller villages and hamlets supporting planetary militia units fighting a guerilla campaign are ruthlessly destroyed. The infamous Peltast squadron 'Sicyon's Spears' are accused of destroying four villages in a single night, culminating in a death toll of three-thousand and sixty-eight people. Two Yang-class warships, the Ao Qin and the Zhulong, are captured while in dock.
189-190 AE		Using their base on Guangdo as a staging ground, all fifteen Titans are deployed against the remaining seven operational Xhanese missile-ships. Within a day, the eight Titans left undamaged call upon the Xhanese to surrender, and conduct desultory orbital fire on unpopulated areas as a morale offensive. One ship, the Hyperion, is crippled by the blast of nuclear mines preplaced in orbit.

19th decade

Year	Date	Event
190-192 AE		The years following the assault on Cao-Xhan are filled with the build-up of an invasion force, and the rebuilding of the damaged Nautikon vessels. By 192 AE, the Stratia conducts an invasion on the western plateau, occupying three settlements within a month. This marks the start of a bitter and bloody ground campaign.
199 AE		The Trade War ends with the surrender of the Xhanese Planetary Council as they lose their final stronghold. Cao-Xhan is adopted as a theoretically equal member of the new Phanes Republic, a system-wide government largely headed by Sagittarian interests, albeit with much dissidence from elements of the victorious population. Guangdo is formally removed as a protectorate of the Xhanese, and made the third member-world of the Republic.

20th decade

Year	Date	Event
201 AE		Contact is made with outside races, culminating in the joining of the Republic with the multi-nation Joint Systems Alliance. Various multilateral events happen, including participation in a colonisation programme sponsored by another JSA state.
203 AE		Membership in the Joint Systems Alliance ends when it is overthrown by within by the Vipran Imperium. Hoping to avoid notice by the vast regime, the people of Phanes withdraw within their own borders, ending all travel both out-and-inbound.

21st decade

Year	Date	Event
213 AE		The Republic's hidden borders are stumbled upon by a Maekari scout vessel. Negotiations are conducted between the two races. The Republic annexes the system of Liu Xiu soon after, and declare it a free port.
214 AE		The Republic begins to intensify a buildup of military forces. Part of this is an experimental surveillance ship which is lost on Espina, a world of the Hierarchy. True contact is also made with the Huerdaen Star Empire thanks to a meeting with their deposed royal family.
215 AE		The Republic suddenly disposes of its rights of ownership of the Liu Xiu Freeport and transfers them to the polity known as the Imperial Star Republic. Both politicians and citizens alike are noticeably tight-lipped on why this might be, either through dismissing the topic or ignorance.