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HOMEWORLD: A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE

HW Universe timeline by HWM

Content

  1. The Sources
  2. Change Log
  3. Intro
  4. The Dates
  5. The History of Kharak
    1. The Dark Ages
    2. Early Settlement
    3. The Heresy Wars
    4. The Time of Reason
    5. Khar-Toba Era
  6. The History of Homeworld Galaxy
    1. TENEBRIS TEMPUS
    2. PAX PROGENITORES
    3. PAX NIMBUS
    4. PAX BENTUSI
    5. PAX CONCILII GALAXIA
    6. PAX TAIIDANI
    7. INTERBELLUM
    8. PAX KUSHANI
  7. The History of Nimbus Galaxy
  8. Links

The Sources

  • HW1 - Homeworld 1, manual, game
  • HWC - Homeworld Cataclysm/Emergence, manual, game
  • HWCO - Homeworld Cataclysm, outtakes
  • HWWOS - HW and HWC ship descriptions, well of souls
  • HW2 - Homeworld 2, manual, game
  • HW2PR - Homeworld 2, Prima Official eGuide
  • HWDOK - Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, Expedition Guide, game
  • HWR - Homeworld: Revelations RPG
  • HWRS - Homeworld: Revelations RPG Story Seeds
  • HWM - Homeworld: Mobile, homeworldsource.net
  • HW3 - Homeworld 3
  • HWDST - Homeworld Dust Wars drafts

Changelog

  • 29.10.23 - added dates from HWM "The Stranded" piece of lore
  • 03.11.23 - added Leviathan expedition, added Tanoch & Hagthar Empires, separated Nimbus history
  • 10.11.23 - added info about HWM 'Explorer" type flagships production start
  • 23.11.23 - added info about old Hiigarans receiving hypertech date
  • 08.12.23 - removed Hiigaran population text from the Intro, as there is HW Population article
  • 25.12.23 - added info about 10k years old Tanoch Empire, added link to Homeworld: Population
  • 03.01.24 - added info about Vanaar Manaan-Sa and his color scheme, rearranged chapters;
  • 07.02.24 - added info about Karan S'jet and her Khar-Sajuuk

Intro

During the reading of Homeworld Revelations RPG, I saw that the authors were missing some dates - maybe not so crucial but still mentioned on the pages of progenitors, so I decided to gather up all the dates available in one place, and maybe that would bring some insights for those who would be imagining new plots for their RPG adventures. Why not in homeworld.fandom? Well, after seeing information on Taiidani Republic and Taiidani Loyalists, I understand why Wikipediaes are considered to be not trustable sources: everyone can write in the information they like, and even articles with large number of specialists involved may have the initial circle of biased authors.

After all I really hope that Gearbox and BBI would restructure and recanonise some dates and ship descriptions of HW1, kiithid stories of HWC, background story of HW2, and make HWDOK completely fit the predecessors' lore for the upcoming HW3, for example, by making a website with not editable articles considered to be a general source of truth or hiring some person to be responsible for the HW Universe canon, like it's done for other franchises, like Disney's Star Wars or Ubisoft's Might & Magic etc. The franchise grows big, and maybe some day it will be competing Dune, BSG, Star Trek, Star Wars and other sources of inspiration, so the student will become the master…

The Dates

SolarYear

And still I don't understand why Galaxy Standard Year = Hiigarian Year = Kharakian Year. Can we relate this to HWM Nimbus Galaxy as well? And the other ones, including HW3? Seems like Hiigara should have been a very special place for all the Progenitors...

A year is a time a planet goes full orbit around the star, and there are so much variable parameters… It's even OK for galaxy year to be the same with Hiigarian, and I won't wonder if some great progenitor artifact is found on Hiigara (a Celestial ;)), but Hiigara and Kharak having the same year time… As I understand HWC writers tried to get away from it with these lines:

In honor of the momentous occasion, Kiith Sjet declared the beginning of a new calendar on the day the returning Kushan first set foot on our homeworld. By decree, the Hiigaran Landfall marked the first day of a new Year Zero. From that time on, “days” have been measured by Hiigara’s period of rotation, and “years” according to the revolutions of Hiigara around its mother sun.
(c) HWC Historical Brief, p.4, "HISTORY OF THE HIIGARAN LANDFALL"

No mixtures of AHL and KDS, like it happened later, and in the earlier version of a text there were no GSY. Only in some places additions of an Imperial calendar:

The Taiidan Empire of Year 0 AL (Year 2924 by the Imperial Calendar) held 275 star systems in its grip, but not easily. Emperor Khaldeesh the Second was rapidly approaching his 4th century of life, and his pogroms and agendas were becoming increasingly bloody and erratic.
(c) HWC, The End of the Imperial Era, an earlier version of a text

And that's more logical: yes, it looks like that the Taiidani Imperial Calendar year is set when Hiigara became a new Taiidan Empire capitol, so AHL year = TIC year, and 3000 KDS years of the Guidestone age may be 2924 TIC/AHL years. Of course, in the same text below there is a remark about "3000 years of political stagnation" but it could have been a simple rounding. But for some reason, mysterious GSY has appeared, and all the dating systems became equal… Yeah, seems like people are not yet ready for the relativity of time.

Anyway, I will be using GSY as a basis, and I will consider KDS to be ended with the life on Kharak.

The date with a link would mean that there is some problem with that story element.

The History of Kharak

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The Dark Ages

  • ~KDS -794
    Exiles Land on Kharak (HWR)

Early Settlement

  • KDS 0
    Kiith S'jet Establishes Kharakian Dating System (HWR)
  • KDS 75-250
    Ecological disasters (HW1)
  • KDS 178
    Teigor Somtaaw initiates building of 33 temples "The Shimmering Path" (HWC)
  • KDS 300-530
    Kiith Ferriil enjoying a period of power (HWR)
  • KDS 313
    Kiith Sjet accepts kiith Kaalel to become their vassals (HWCO)
  • KDS 337
    Jun Kaalel-sa dies, her son Liir Kaalel becomes kiith-sa (HWCO)
  • KDS 339
    Kiith Kaalel breaks ties with Kiith Sjet (HWCO)
  • KDS 340
    First historical mentions of kiith Manaan being accused of stealing food and water (HW1)
  • KDS 348-360
    Kiith Kaalel establishes chains of communication across Kharak using smoke and drums (HWCO)
  • ~KDS 387
    Liir Kaalel-sa dies (HWCO)
  • KDS 416
    Kiith Balel attacks kiith Lehi; Lehi-sa refuses the call for vengeance asked by Soban Lehi (HWR)
    Soban The Red leaves his kiith and thus a mercenary kiith Soban is born (HW1)
  • KDS 462
    Kiith Siidim Council announces a new Dogma of their people being of divine origin (HW1)
  • KDS 488
    Kiith Paktu among the others is marked as Gritiidim (sand people) and displaced by kiith Siidim (HW1)
    Kiith Gaalsien starts their expansion of influence on "Gritiidim" kiithid (HW1)
    Khaaneph movement begins out of several Gritiidim survivors (HWDOK)
  • KDS 490
    50 kiithid under the lead of Majiir Paktu-sa travels to the South Pole across the desert (HW1)
  • KDS 493
    Majiir Paktu moves back to North, and is not among those 7 who survived (HW1)
  • KDS 497
    Few manaani returns from the South with a new sand ship technology (HW1)
  • KDS 510
    The city of Tiir is founded (HWR)
  • KDS 513
    Kiith Siidim makes a massacre out of the Ferin Sha of kiith Manaan (HW1)

The Heresy Wars

The Time of Reason

  • KDS 830
    Kiith Naabel settlement - Tiir - becomes a new capital (HW1)
    Age of Reason begins (HW1)
    Kiith Hraal owns several steam-powered factories (HWCO)
  • KDS 836
    Kriil S'jet presents the scientific evidence of Xenogenesis to the Daiamid in Tiir (HWR)
  • KDS 857
    Kiith Kaalel invents the printing press after corporate espionage at Naabal (HWCO)
  • ~KDS 890
    The century-long Kasaar agreement between Somtaaw and Soban has ended (HWC)
  • KDS 902
    Kiith Kaalel makes a truce with kiith Sjet by publishing Sjetti Holder's Almanac (HWCO)
  • ~KDS 910
    The Dispute of Hatar has ended a secret nonaggression Naabal-Soban pact (HWR)
  • KDS 912
    The Great Northern Way is opened up by Kiith Naabal (HWR)
  • KDS 913
    The first Kaaleli newspaper is distributed in Tiir (HWCO)
  • KDS 915
    Kiith Paktu officially accepted the invitation into the Daiamid (HWR)
  • KDS 998
    The first public radio broadcasts, with popular Ran Kaalel (HWCO)
  • KDS 1012
    Kiith LiirHra breaks off from the main body of the Hraal (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1024
    Kharak's first orbital flight - mission Silumiin - is launched. The Silumiin Riots (HW1)
    Gaalsien messages about Khaaneph people are discovered by Masaar Manaan (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1026
    Massar Manaan is put in charge of an intelligence task force dedicated to find Khaaneph (HWDOK)
  • ~KDS 1030
    Kiith Nabaal builds rails to the South and gives kiith Paktu a place in the Great Daiamid (HW1)
  • KDS 1044
    Deckard Naabal, the future captain of Ifriit Naabal heavy carrier, is born (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1057
    Project "Stormbreaker" - a giant wall to hold desert storms - is initiated (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1059
    Roman S'jet, the future captain of Kapisi desert carrier is born (HWDOK)
  • ~KDS 1060
    Documented superstorms rate start to increase (HWDOK)
    Gaalsien production cruiser Caaw Duuk started his career (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1061
    During a manned space flight, crew members discover floating debris in high orbit. (HWDOK)
    The study of Kharakian space debris leads to great scientific progress (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1068
    A launch of Siila's Eye generation of environmental monitoring satellites (HWDOK)
    Jacob S'jet, the future science officer of Ifriit Naabal heavy carrier, is born (HWDOK)
    Nathan S'jet, the intelligence officer of Kapisi desert carrier, is born (HWDOK)
    Roman S'jet, the future captain of Kapisi desert carrier is graduated, Tiir Barracks Complex (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1069
    Clea Soban, the future Fleet Operation officer of Kapisi desert carrier, is born (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1073
    K'zell Naabal reports that Siila's Eye sats data confirms that Kharak becomes inhospitable (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1074
    The Night of Fiery Daggers (Siifar Kor'shesh): 10k Gaalsi Fists intrusion fails (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1075
    The first generation of combat crawlers enter service, Roman S'jet commands one of these (HWDOK)
    Gaalsi attacks the northern Kiithid with advanced weaponry salvaged from crashed spaceships (HWR)
  • KDS 1078
    Rachel S'jet, the future science officer of Kapisi desert carrier, is born (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1081-1083
    The Drifting Seas Campaign happens, Roman S'jet is a participant (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1090
    Nathan S'jet is graduated, Tiir Officer Training Academy (HWDOK)
    Nathan S'jet enters Soban Advanced Warfare Academy at age 22 (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1094
    Nathan S'jet is graduated, Soban Red Academy (HWDOK)
    Gaalsien main battle carrier "Corvaal" first time spotted (HWDOK)
  • ~KDS 1097
    J'raal Hraal tried to raise an alarm of climate change and was ostracized and cancelled (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1099
    Deckard Naabal started his service in Heavy Patrol Crawlers along Strombreaker Base line (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1100
    Project "Viin Cal" - a series of potent deep-scan radar satellites - is initiated (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1102
    Roman S'jet becomes a commander of K'karr Stormbreaker Fortress (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1103
    Jacob S'jet started his service in defence team and counter insurgency, Northern Operations (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1105
    The Soban-sponsored first Sakala-class carrier clears the constructions yards (HWDOK)

Khar-Toba Era

  • KDS 1106
    Leykab Jaraci discovers strange desert object (Khar-Toba) by Radar Satellite (HW1)
    First Jaraci expedition - operation Skaal Brii - is initiated (HWDOK)
    The contact with "Ifriit Naabal" heavy carrier is lost after a month in the Great Desert (HWDOK)
    LiirHra test out the Sadaar space plane (HWR)
  • KDS 1107
    The flagship carrier Ifriit-Naabal and her crew are officially declared lost. (HWDOK)
    Second expedition - operation Khadiim - approved by the Daiamid (HWDOK)
    The construction of a new Sakala-Class Deep Desert Carrier is accelerated (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1108
    Rachel Sjet makes a decision to be a part of the second expedition (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1108
    Sjetti SJF-14 "HAMMER" Strike Fighter is accepted for the Alliance (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1109
    The S'jet Carrier Kapisi, Sakala-class deep desert carriers, is put into service (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1110
    Operation Khadim - an expedition into the Great Desert - is initiated (HWR)
    Kiith Siidim is expulsed from the Great Daiamid (HWR)
  • KDS 1111
    Alliance SJB-18 "ANVIL" Tactical Bomber is replaced by Salka Attack Bomber (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1112
    Discovery of an ancient technological artifact in Khar-Toba (Second Hyperspace Core) (HWR)
  • KDS 1113
    First usage of Hail-Pyke Maneuver of 3 Base Runners near The Shallows (HWDOK)
    A S'jet analyst discovered an intricate intelligence network of Kaalel (HWR)
  • KDS 1115
    The Ifriit IV Deep Space Probe is delayed twice (HWDOK)
    Kiith Soban starts using marking the target tech by Sobani railgun utilizing a laser designator (HWDOK)
    Nathat S'jet is a Deputy Director of Military Intelligence Umbra Division (HWDOK)
  • KDS 1122
    Kharakian scientists understood that they've found a solid state hyperspace module (SHC) (HWR)
  • KDS 1135
    Rediscovery of Guidestone (HW1)
  • KDS 1155
    Mevath Segald presents the Guidestone to the High Ministers (HWR)
    Global Plebiscite (HW1)
    Rachel S'jet is S'jet-sa (HWR)
  • KDS 1159
    A final plan is accepted for the vessel that would follow the path indicated by the Guidestone (HW1)
    A heavy cargo re-entry vehicle is used to haul crews and raw components to/from low orbit (HWWOS)
  • KDS 1179
    Infrastructure required for the construction project is built up (HW1)
    The primary resource collector design created (HWWOS)
  • KDS 1185
    Rei Magann tests out the cryogenic pod while flying in space for 6 months (HW1)
  • KDS 1189
    Scaffold is completed (HW1)
  • KDS 1204
    Cryogenic pods are getting filled with volunteers (HW1)
  • KDS 1206
    Khar-Selim is launched (HW1)
  • KDS 1210
    Kiith Nabaal invests in off-Kharak facilities (HW1)
  • KDS 1216
    Launch of the Mothership and The Burning of Kharak (HW1)
  • KDS 1217
    Asaam Kiith'sid establishes as New Capital of Hiigara (HWC)
  • KDS 1302
    Fleet Tactical Debates (HW1)

The History of Homeworld Galaxy

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TENEBRIS TEMPUS

  • GSY -???
    Unknown race ship arrives to the Sea of the Lost Soul sector (HW1)
    Unknown race expedition ship is infected by The Beast (HWC)

PAX PROGENITORES

  • GSY ???
    Unknown Progenitors rise, live, and die (HWR)
    Unknown Progenitors travel to "Homeworld" Galaxy (HW2)

PAX BENTUSI

  • GSY +0
    Galactic civilization begins (HWR)
  • GSY ???
    Bentusi discover the First Hyperspace Core (HWR)
  • ~GSY 3500
    Earliest records of Hiigaran Empire (HWR)
  • ~GSY 5000
    Bentusi start spreading hyperjump technology among the galaxy (HW2PR)

PAX CONCILII GALAXIA

  • ~GSY 5500
    Hiigarans get their part of hyper-technologies (HW2PR)
    Galactic Council of 16 Empires Formed (HWR)
  • GSY 6509
    Discovery of the Second Hyperspace Core (HWR)
  • GSY 6510
    Guidestone Created (HWR)

PAX TAIIDANI

  • GSY 6511
    Taiidan Empire Relocates Capital to Hiigara (HWR)
    Admiral Riesstiu begins his dynasty as a Taiidan Emperor (HW2PR)
  • ~GSY 6510-7500
    Around the middle of that term a part of Exiles settle in Great Nebula to be known as Kadeshi (HW1)
  • ~GSY 7500
    Exiles Land on Kharak (HWR)
    - on the other page there is a date of ~GSY 7800, but this page table is full of errors so I'll ignore it.
  • GSY 8123
    A group of five worlds grew restless under the bureaucracy and difficulties of Galactic Council (HWR)
  • GSY 8133
    Five worlds form the Ambition Commonwealth, profiting from illegal elsewhere markets (HWR)
    Galactic Inspectors joint military force was disbanded with Taiidans taking responsibility (HWM)
  • GSY 8294
    Kiith S’jet Establishes Kharakian Dating System (HWR)
  • GSY 9035
    First records of Turanic Raiders made in Turan sector (HWC)
  • ~GSY 9110
    Taiidan Emperor Riesstiu IV The Second commences his rule (HWC)
  • ~GSY 9275
    First of two known cases when Turanic Outpost was found, object self-destructed (HWC)
  • ~GSY 9410
    Riesstiu IV The Second start supporting Turanic Raider (HWC)
  • GSY 9435
    Saarkin Cho class Taiidani carrier production started (HWC)
  • GSY 9503
    Bentusi suspended all trade contact with the Taiidan (HWC)

INTERBELLUM

  • GSY 9510
    The Homeworld War (HW1)
    Kharakian Genocide: Taiidan Fleet uses Atmosphere Deprivation Weapon on Kharak (HW1)
    Kadeshi had been living in a Great Nebula for 13 generations and were beaten by Kushans (HW1)
    Taiidani Emperor orders the fleet to seek and destroy Bentusi ships (HW1)
    The Battle of Vorshan's Rift: a rebellion against Taiidani Emperor failed (HW1)
    Taiidan Emperor Riesstiu IV The Second is killed (HW1)
    Kushan new capital is the Asaam Kiith'sid of Hiigara (HWC)
  • GSY 9514
    The New Daiamid was built in Asaam Kiith'sid (HWC)
    First major incursion of Taiidan Imperialists (HWC)
  • GSY 9515
    The end of civil war in Taiidan Republic (HWC)
  • GSY 9516
    Taiidan Republic signs a formal non-aggression pact with the Exiles (HWC)
  • GSY 9517
    Kiith Naabal tries to consume kiith Somtaaw (HWC)
    Kiith Somtaaw number rises from 15k to 25k (HWC)
    Kiith Somtaaw builds Kuun-Lan, Faal-Corum, Clee-San in 6 months (HWC)
    Karan Sjet retires (HWCO)
  • GSY 9519
    Second major incursion of Taiidan Imperialists reaching Hiigara (HWC)
  • GSY 9520
    Kiith Hraal becomes a vassal of kiith LiirHra (HWCO)
  • GSY 9521
    Hiigaran food rationing program finished (HWC)
    Third major incursion of Taiidan Imperialists reaching Hiigara (HWC)
  • GSY 9523
    Turanic Raiders activity around hiigaran combat and transport vessels grows (HWC)
  • GSY 9525
    Some Naabal engineers forge a new Caaliburnous Sword (HWR)
    Forth major incursion of Taiidan Imperialists reaching Hiigara (HWC)
    The Beast War (HWC)
    Third Turanic Outpost was found (HWC)
    Part of the Bentusi depart to supposedly another Galaxy (HWC)
  • GSY 9530
    Kiith Soban begins renting its services out to other star civilizations within the galactic core (HWR)
  • GSY 9531
    Vanaar Manaan-Sa family gets a new personal color scheme (HWM)
  • GSY 9550
    Hiigarans reveal ancient documents about the true nature of the Mothership HyperCore (HW2PR)
  • GSY ~9551
    Vanaar Manaan-Sa's color scheme granted for general use among the Manaani. Often flown by counter-culture Manaani to protest the decisions of the current Manaan-Sa (HWM)
  • GSY 9585
    Kiith Jaraci split out of Kiith S'jet to focus on signals technologies and Progenitor sciences (HWR)
  • GSY 9586
    The last of "Perdition" class Missile Destroyer of original Kushan Fleet is retired (HWM)
  • GSY 9595
    Fleet Tactical Debates (HW1)
  • GSY 9599
    Mehemit Matara, the notable Fleet Officer of the last Nimbus expedition is born (HWM)
  • GSY 9602
    Pagraan Matara, the notable Fleet Officer of the last Nimbus expedition is born (HWM)
  • GSY 9609
    Joanna Naabal, the Fleet Intelligence Moderator of the last Nimbus expeditions is born (HWM)
    Esentra Magann, the notable Fleet Officer of the last Nimbus expeditions is born (HWM)
  • GSY 9612
    Amaala Magann, the notable Fleet Officer of the last Nimbus expeditions is born (HWM)
  • GSY 9624
    Makaan locates the Third Hyperspace Core at Hethlim Ice-Fields (HWR)

PAX KUSHANI / AGE OF S'JET

  • GSY 9625
    The Vaygr War (HW2PR)
    Karan S'jet returns to her role of Fleet Command (HW2)
    Kushans collect all three Great HyperCores (HW2)
    Discovery of the Eye of Aarran (HW2)
  • GSY 9626
    Eye of Aarran is opened (HWM)
  • GSY 9629
    The first expedition to reach Nimbus galaxy was the Carrier Abiigado. Expedition lost. (HWM)
    Expedition destroyed by Progenitor Keepers and survivors captured by Cangacian pirates. (HWM)
    First ten "Explorer" class flagships were launched, Tiirshak among them (HWM)
  • GSY 9631
    The Lazarus Expedition is the largest and best-prepared expedition of three sent to Nimbus (HWM)
  • GSY 9635
    Survivors of Abiigado expedition appeared at Lazarus base (HWM)
    Gideon S'jet, right hand of Karan S'jet, becomes the part of Caral Expedition to Nimbus (HWM)
    Mahel Manaan, departs with Leviathan Expedition to Nimbus (HWM)
  • GSY 9638
    A supply network has been established to allow Lazarus base to serve as a fleet base (HWM)
  • GSY 9641
    The last Nimbus Galaxy expedition begins (HWM)
  • GSY 9706
    Karan S'jet gets lost with a mothership Khar-Sajuuk (HW3)
  • GSY 9726
    Imogen S'jet takes control over a new mothership Khar-Kushan(HW3)

The History of Nimbus Galaxy

  • ~GSY -360
    The Tanoch Empire established (HWM)
  • ~GSY 2500
    The Hagthar Empire exists (HWM)

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