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The timeline of the Post-Self cycle spans just over three centuries, encompassing both the creation of the upload system and the arrival of the Artemisians on the Castor launch vehicle and partial dissolution of the Ode clade. The cycle tells only a portion of the history of the System, a microcosm of a world full of billions.

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-12+342

RJ Brewster gets lost, triggering a cascade of events leading to a deeper investigation into the lost.

-9+50

The first partially successful upload, AwDae, leads to a breakthrough and, shortly after, the foundation of the System.

-7+309

Michelle Hadje and Debarre pool their money to upload.

0+1

Systime set at year zero, day one in order to help manage the reputation market.

1+21

The System secedes from the planetary governments on Earth thanks to the efforts of Yared Zerezghi, Counselor Yosef Demma, The Only Time I Know My True Name Is When I Dream of the Ode clade, and Jonas Prime of the Jonas clade.

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Most planetary governments begin compensating the families of those who choose to upload.

114+209

Ioan Bălan uploads to use the compensation to help eir brother, Rareș Bălan, out after eir parents' death.

181+312

Dear, Also, The Tree That Was Felled of the Ode clade contacts Ioan Bălan for assistance with a project that leads to the publication of On the Perils of Memory.

201+21

The Launch project concludes with the launch of the Castor and Pollux Launch vehicles.

202+303

The Bălan clade publishes An Expanded History of Our World In conjunction with May Then My Name Die With Me of the Ode clade’s An Expanded Mythology of Our World, collected together as On the Origins of Our World.

222+148

The Artemisians make contact with the Castor launch.

226+21

Assassination attempt on True Name on the Lagrange System, leading to her stepping away from the politics of the System and, through two long-diverged merges, those of E.W. and May Then My Name adopts the name Sasha.

227+312

Ioan Bălan publishes Individuation and Reconciliation, containing the story of the assassination attempt on True Name and her subsequent transformation into a new identity.

241+199

Sasha releases Ode, a companion volume to On the Origins of Our World describing the Ode clade’s movement from before the founding of the System, finally publishing AwDae's name when she describes the origin of the System itself.

275+365.99

The Lagrange System goes down for one year, one month, and ten days due to an attack by aggrieved people on Earth.