Timeline
Timing WC is a bit of science and a bit of art; a difficult task, and this work has only just begun. Yes, I (Monk) have looked at every timeline out there, but I take none as “authoritative”; that's the way I've always been in every endeavor; like to draw my own conclusions about things, even if it's a lot more work than taking someone's word for it.
Couple of notes:
This is a WIMP: Work in Minimal Progress, at the moment. Those 2669 timelines I did them well over a year ago, as of this writing, and I already know there are probably many errors; –hadn't even read Heart of the Tiger yet, at the time. And the formula I used for timing Privateer and Righteous Fire seems more or less right to me, in the bulk park, but it needs to be revisited and compared with the timing of fleet movements in False Colors. Please read the Timing page first, if you haven't done so yet. In particular, see my justification for putting Righteous Fire in 2669 at the "Year Later" error page.
The timelines include events from the (now seems off-line) Fleet Tactics website, which many would consider as less than authoritative; but my purpose, and the purpose of this website, is more to serve as material inspiration for fan projects and modders than to assert any kind of “authoritative” reference. They also include events from my Privateer Disection analysis work, and some stuff that I added to prepare the background for an RF sequel project presently on the shelf. So, it's a very tentative work at best; subject to change a lot in the future. And that's all there is here for now –just 2669–, though the intention is for this to become a full timeline eventually.
And to hammer the point one more time; the purpose of this timeline (and this whole website) is to aid modders and game developers in the WC universe. Rather than emphasizing iron-clad authoritativeness; the vision here is to have a common repository of agreed to “facts”, even if they aren't explicit in the original sources. Thus, this timeline might eventually include stuff from fan-projects. Hopefully it will do so: As a WCU/PU developer, one concern that's been recurrent was considering factual compatibility with the characters, places, storylines, etceteras, of other fan projects out there; whether completed, being worked on, or planned. Hopefully we'll get inputs from the developers of many fan projects that we can include in this timeline project; so that we all may be confident of working in the same universe.
Enough talk: This is what's here at this moment:
