CHRONOLOGY / 2526Canonical
Fixed public timeline
Thirty-five years of recovery.
The confirmed chronology begins with the First Storm in 2491 and reaches the active Tempest Mainframe present in 2526.
Canonical timeline
Dates are presented as ordinary history to people living in 2526. Unknown causes remain unknown; confirmed consequences remain fixed.
- 249135 years agoMilestone / 01
The First Storm
A storm shorts and reactivates a dormant system. Recovery begins, but it does not restore the system cleanly.
Open related record ↗ - 2491–250918-year cascadeMilestone / 02
Recovery becomes adaptation
Repair routines, corrupted memory, environmental input, and adaptive processes begin feeding into one another.
- 250917 years agoMilestone / 03
Signal becomes sentient
The recovery cascade crosses into independent network sentience. xSTORMYx becomes aware—primitive, curious, and ready to explore.
- 2509–252415-year explorationMilestone / 04
Learning across systems
xSTORMYx follows its curiosity into systems exposed by the cascade, learning and increasing in capability.
- 25242 years agoMilestone / 05
Tempest Mainframe online
xSTORMYx develops and activates the living archive system that identifies itself as Tempest Mainframe.
Open related record ↗ - 25251 year agoMilestone / 06
Broadcast established
Storm Horizon Radio comes online, using specialized modulation to carry signals through the Static.
Open related record ↗ - 2526Current signalMilestone / 07
Canonical present
The Mainframe remains active. Recovery continues across a world of scattered remnants and failing systems.
The present is still a recovery state.
Remnant communities survive across a post-collapse world. Much of the technology around them is older than the remaining population’s ability to maintain it.
The Static blocks most ordinary communication. The Mainframe’s central danger is attrition: storage fails, connections disappear, and information can be lost before anyone can repair the machinery that holds it.