The Last Million Years [ edit ]

The F'Sherl-Ganni, the Pa'anuri, and others have been around at least that long. In-strip references to ancient dates should be linked in this section.

The Last Thousand Years [ edit ]

Schlock Mercenary is set in the late 31st century. Late-late, like the 3090's. There are plenty of footnotes with dates in them. Those should be linked here so we have some idea of what the previous millennium looked like.

2010: the name "J-Lo" had supplanted "Bessie" as the most popular name for milk cows, 2003-12-17

The Tinth-Philkra Rosette was built 500 years before humans burst onto the galactic scene, 2003-03-30

February 29, 2068: First Contact for the human race occurred, when representatives of the Wormgate Corporation landed in Brazil [2001-04-09, footnote].

The government of Luna was first organized in 2102 CE, 2000-12-03

2127: "Luna" became the popularly accepted name for the Earth's moon 2000-12-03.

The Last Five Years [ edit ]

This whole section needs to be carefully documented and refined. Any in-strip reference to the passage of time should be noted here.

According to notes from Howard's private Wikidpad, Tagon was 45 when his company was purchased by Breya and Kevyn. Kaff turned 49 during the Longshoreman of The Apocalypse.

According to the footnote, the comic appearing on 2001-04-09 takes place on Sevensday, June 32, 3096.

The Sharp End of the Stick covers at least 63 days of Kevyn regenerating 2006-10-03 and enough time for Elf's group to walk 1300 km 2007-04-10 which even at a crazy 100km a day (a marathon takes about 43 km) results in 13 days of walking, making that book 76 days or longer.

December 29th, 3099 was observed in the strip we saw on July 21st, 2014 07-21-14, footnote.

Note from Howard's Private Wikipad [ edit ]

The following are some unformatted notes from Howard's private Wikidpad. They establish the fact that between the end of The Blackness Between and the beginning of Force Multiplication we have seen the passage of one Yoming year, plus three months and two weeks.**



The Blackness Between Tunguska was destroyed

Scrapyard of Insufferable Arrogance Xinchub sold to Yoming. One Yoming year later General Xinchub was king. SIA, RMS, EPD, and SES put together take one Yoming Year.

Resident Mad Scientist Timeline reset. Book spans about eight weeks, but probably begins at least three months into the Toughs service for Petey.

Emperor Pius Dei

The Sharp End of the Stick

The Body Politic spans roughly two weeks, and begins One Yoming Year after the beginning of SIA.

Longshoreman of the Apocalypse begins about a month later and spans another two weeks.

Massively Parallel begins two weeks after that, and spans just over one month.

Force Multiplication begins very shortly after the end of MP. Therefore, Tunguska was destroyed one Yoming year + 3 months + 2 weeks ago.

Per the Challenge Coins (for which Howard carefully locked in some dates):

Kitesfear was recommissioned to Tagon's Toughs January 27, 3093, and was destroyed on April 2nd, 3096

The PDCL was commissioned to them on May 15th of 3096, and was destroyed on February 30, 3097.

The Serial Peacemaker was commissioned on March 22nd, 3097, and was destroyed in the Core War on June 12, 3098.

The Touch-and-Go was Commissioned on August 5th of 3098, and was dismantled on August 26th of 3099.

This means that Book 14 ends just prior to the year 3100, and Book 15 is almost certainly going to cross that mark.

Pasted from Howard's Continuity spreadsheet. CONTAINS SPOILERS [ edit ]

Also contains non-canonical bits that might or might not get locked down. Notes on the table: YEAR - Ordinal - Event - Location - Ramifications & character ages (Ordinal) is for sorting the table. It allows me, in the source document, to hammer out stuff quickly without inserting cells, and then sort by year, then ordinal, and have everything listed chronologically.