Timeline

Axiom Verge Timeline

Date	Place	Event
	A'ansur	Highly advanced technology is developed by humans on A'ansur, such as machines able to heal any sort of ailment, and highly intelligent computers that can develop their own will.
	Kiengir	Kiengir is established, as a prosperous civilization bearing resemblance to real-world ancient Sumer. They bring their technology with them from A'ansur, however, forget its origin with time, coming to worship it. One of these worshipped machines is the Lamassu.
	Kiengir	Udug—demons—from the Breach begin to descend on Kiengir with seemingly no care for how the Breach affects the Sagiga.
	Kiengir	The Lamassu orders for the Sagiga to build structures to defend themselves against the Udug, such as schools, bridges, and even weapons and vaults. It instructs for the Sagiga to fight against the Udug.
	Kiengir	The Udug War begins.
	Kiengir	After the Udug notice the beginning of the war, they begin to hunt down the Sagiga and fight back. This prompts the Lamassu to think of stronger weapons, such as Storm Bombs and Arms.
	Kiengir	The first Arms are made from pure nanotechnology, and assigned to Wielders. This proves inadequate, and Arms are eventually made from human beings and their minds. This appears to work more efficiently, and tens of people are turned into Arms daily.
	Kiengir	Elutil, sister to Ludari, becomes a student at the edubba in the Giguna Steppes. Eventually, she decides to become an Arm, despite her lack of care for the Udug War, in favor of achieving immortality. She is given the name Amashilama and is bound to Mageshgetil.
	Absu	The most powerful Wielders and warriors push into the home of the Udug: Engur. The Sagiga win the battle and the Udug appear to vanish from Kiengir. The land of Engur becomes Absu, and those remaining from the battle become the first inhabitants of Sudra.
	Sudra	Sudra, or Ziudsudra, as a settlement is formed.
	Kiengir	Following the Udug War, the Lamassu orders for all of the wartime technology to be destroyed, including the Arms. Wielders gave themselves up to be annihilated with storm bombs, though some resisted. Any Arms not bound to a Wielder were hidden or buried.
	Breach	Mageshgetil and several other wielders flee Kiengir, travelling across the Breach.
	Sudra	Sudra becomes a prosperous civilization with advanced technology brought by the travellers from Kiengir. This time of prosperity is later referred to as The Land of Civilized Kings, though this may refer to Kiengir.
	Sudra	Following a great conflict, the Sudrans see the harm their technology can do if used for war, and banish all such technology, leading Sudra into a "Dark Age". Thus, Sudra's advanced civilization collapses.
	Sudra	The Sudrans devolve into a heavily religious society.
Winter, 2005	New Mexico, U.S.A., Earth	Trace conducts an experiment with colleague Dr. Hammond at their laboratory in New Mexico. A frozen pressure valve explodes outside the lab, severly injuring Trace.
	Earth	Trace is hospitalized for months, blind and crippled from the waist down.
	Earth	Lost in his thoughts, Trace has a scientific "Epiphany".
2006	Earth	Trace publishes his theories as several "Axioms". He is outcast by the scientific community and given the nickname "Athetos".
	Breach	Trace traverses the Breach with Dr. Hammond, arriving on Sudra for the first time.
	Sudra	On Sudra, Trace and Hammond use a "Rebirth Chamber" to heal Trace, and discard his wheelchair, which can be found rusted in Eribu. The two of them briefly explore Sudra, discovering their amazing technology (which the Sudrans have mostly locked away).
	Breach	Trace/Athetos attempts to go "upstream" through the Breach to find answers on the next world. It is unclear if Hammond accompanied him, but she returned to Earth by 2007.
2007	Earth	Dr. Elizabeth Hammond develops the first ansible, developing the foundation for Hammond Corp.
	Sudra	Athetos returns to Sudra, and unleashes the Pathogen, killing thousands.
	Sudra	In their desperation, the Sudrans release the Rusalki, and allow them access to all of the ancient technology that the Sudrans once locked away.
	Sudra	The Rusalki manage to destroy Athetos's mobile Pathogen protection unit.
	Sudra	Athetos shuts down the Power Filter and Repair Drones, crippling the Rusalki.
	Sudra	Athetos retreats to the elevator high above the planet's surface, in Mar-Uru.
	Sudra	Over many years, the Rusalki fall into a state of decay.
2200 - 2500	Sudra	Elsenova and Ophelia execute their plan to create a new clone of the original Trace.. The player gains control and the game begins.
	Sudra	The clone of Trace succeeds in defeating Athetos. Elsenova kills Athetos and puts the clone into a coma.

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