robkelk Wrote:More later, including a revised timeline...As promised, here's the timeline update for StellviaCorp. Let's start this update from the anchor point when everything started to change for StellviaCorp...
Late-May/early-June 2013: The Interdimensional Incursion Incident. (see http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... ctic_Girls]Legend of Galactic Girls, still in progress.) The Girls visit Fenspace, with Stellvia as their nexus point. They establish the existence of La Mariposa and unmask Naoko Sato as a zwilnick, and raid that group's HQ. A raid is launched on Stellvia in retribution. What will become the Whole Fenspace Catalog is left behind by The Girls. Last appearance of Yoriko Nikaido; first appearance of Makoto Miyadera.
June 2013: Sora Hasegawa leaves StellvaCorp and joins the VVS.
15 June 2013: Nikaido Foundation founded.
Third-quarter 2013: Space Patrol founded.
August 2013: SerenityCon.
9 October 2013: Safety "wakes up."
9 November 2013: Miyuri Akisato "wakes up."
10 November 2013: Takami Sakuragi "wakes up." Because of the events at SerenityCon, she was designed to be a computer hacker par excellence, with a literally superhuman ability to detect patterns and a filter against apophenia. (Within four days of awakening, her first use of that ability nearly gives Buckaroo a virtual heart attack and Blackstone a real one - see http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... e_New_Girl]Training the New Girl.)
21 December 2013: StellviaCorp uses an invitation-only Solstice party on Stellvia as a cover for a war council. Every group that sent a representative pooled the data they'd gathered on Boskonian activities, and gave it to the Hacker Underground to analyze. Before the end of the year, the Underspace comes back with three possible locations for Boskone Prime extracted from the pooled data.
*** META: We should add this line to Cobalt's Boskone-War timeline as well ***
1 January 2014: Kagome Mishima "wakes up."
15 January 2014: Fall of Boskone Prime. End of the Boskone War.
14 March 2014: Yuu Inagawa effectively "wakes up".
15 March 2014: Noah Scott and Leda Swansen marry. His nephew Charles Anderson and her sister Minerva Swansen meet face-to-face at the ceremony, although they'd been on-line friends for years.
1 April 2014: The April Fool's Purchase. Noah quickly converts the Artemis Foundation from a holding company to an actual corporation, assigns all of the purchased NASA space assets to it, and hires Sullivan Dwyer as Artemis' first director.
31 May 2014: The first (annual) Cosmic Party is held, on Stellvia. Naoko Sato and Agatha Clay attempt to disrupt it by remote control. (This story is "on the spike.")
15 June 2014: Yomiko Readman "wakes up."
10 October 2014: Stellvia Corporation declares independence. Less than an hour later, Helen Yoriko Swansen-Scott is born. Leda Swansen, Jake Hansen, Patty O'Neill, Kelly Harrison, Micheline Rouleau, Jerry Freedman, Lea Meadows, Dr. Sergy Gudanov, Kohran Li, Yayoi Fujisawa, Star, Safety, Miyuri Akisato, Takami Sakuragi, Kagome Mishima, Yomiko Readman, Yuu Inagawa, and Helen Scott are granted shares in StellviaCorp.
5 December 2014: Noah Scott begins concentrating on StellviaCorp, appointing Jake Hansen to take control of Stellvia.
14 December 2014: Yomiko Readman sells her StellviaCorp shares back to the company, moves to Grovers' Corners, and takes full-time employment as the teacher at PS238. (She eventually starts building a library there, but that's something for Bob's timeline update.)
2015: Yayoi Fujisawa, as Vice-President of StellviaCorp, serves as the public face of the company more often than Noah does, while Noah ensures he doesn't neglect his wife and their daughter. Patty O'Neill forges closer ties between station Odyssey and the Trekkies.
February 2015: Operation Cats' Cradle, a.k.a. the Quattro Incident.
April 2015: Noah Scott realizes he's "getting too old for this shit" and resigns his Troubleshooter commission, thus severing the last official tie between StellviaCorp and the staff of Great Justice.
Mid-November 2015 to mid-April 2016: The First Zeta Tucanae Exploration Mission. That expedition found little of material or biological interest, but they did establish a reliable communications line from Sol to ? Tucane. Many of the expedition's crew would continue to work together for the rest of their careers.
May 2016: Noah Scott finally gets fed up with the constant political posturing in cislunar space. StellviaCorp announces that they "support the efforts of the Clarke Group of Central Station to coordinate activities of interest to everyone in the Earth-Luna L5 area," substantially reducing their own political power in the process.
June 2016: StellviaCorp purchases 10% of Hermes Universal Deliveries (to inject cash into a friendly company that's in direct competition with CHOAM) and 25% of the Solomon Space Agency (to secure preferred access to a launch facility on what is quickly becoming one of the busiest trade routes between Earth and cislunar space). Construction of station Ultima begins - the station is designed to be the Sol end of the communications line left by the first Zeta Tucanae exploration mission.
11 June 2016: Charles Anderson and Minerva Swansen marry, and both start work with the Artemis Foundation two weeks later. Neither reveal that they are blood relations to Noah and Leda.
August 2016: Stellvia Hotels is founded as a subsidiary of Stellvia Trading. Kelly Harrison becomes its first CEO.
October 2016: Ground is broken on the Hotel Choiseul (located just outside the SSA's ground facility), Stellvia Hotels' first on-Earth location.
TBD 2017? (maybe as much as a year earlier or later - this depends on Mal's timeline update and other people's input): Evidence is found that StellviaCorp withheld parts of the Whole Fenspace Catalog before releasing it. Stellvia/VVS and Stellvia/Warsie relations sour temporarily.
March 2017: Takami Sakuragi promoted to Chief of Information Security for StellviaCorp.
Second-quarter 2017: Star sells her shares back to StellviaCorp, buys the Concorde that serves as her body, and uses the remaining money to found the passenger-aerospace company "Route à les étoiles."
31 October 2017: Natsuko Aki meets and immediately recognizes Makoto Miyadera. Because of this, she breaks her self-imposed exile and contacts Stellvia, reaching Kohran Li. Kohran tells Natsuko everything she knows about Makoto and thanks Natsuko for finding the woman.
1 November 2017: Kohran Li starts making arrangements for an uneventful succession of her responsibilities at StellviaCorp to other employees and gives two-months' notice to Noah.
3 January 2018: Kohran buys a small residence on Deimos, sells her StellviaCorp shares back to the company, and resigns from StellviaCorp. She invites Makoto Miyadera to live with her.
5 January 2018: Noah "indulges his muse" one more time and starts to build another AI. Amazingly, Prim Snowlight wakes up the same day and assists in her own construction.
10 January 2018: Kohran is hired as the pyrotechnician at the Clark Savage, Jr. Memorial Stadium and Music Complex, on the understanding that she also performs her "Red Lad Revue" there at least one a month.
2 April 2018: Noah tells Oliver Towne that the Nikaido Foundation is to operate as it sees fit, without further direct guidance from StellviaCorp. Noah puts half of StellviaCorp's stake in the foundation - 26% of the total shares - up for sale, giving up his majority shareholder status.
30 June 2018: Prim Snowlight is appointed Chief of Research and Development for StellviaCorp, gaining access to Kohran Li's old files and many of the redacted portions of the Whole Fenspace Catalog.
2018: Kohran and Natsuko slowly reconcile over the year.
February 2019: Construction of station Ultima is completed. Miyuri Akisato is assigned as its commander and Yuu Inagawa becomes the manager of the Hotel Ultima. Kagome Mishima fills Miyuri's place as second-in-command of Stellvia "on a temporary basis;" as of 2022 she has yet to find a permanent replacement for that position.
May 2019: Hotel Choiseul opens its doors.
9 July 2020: Makoto Miyadera foils a public attempt on Kohran Li's life.
8 September 2020: Helen Scott attends PS238 for the first time.
11 April 2021: Makoto Miyadera makes her first appearance in the Red Lad Revue.
16 January 2022: SCSV Rinna Kazamatsuri (nicknamed "Hanger Queen Rinna" by the Starfleet engineers who built her) is finally launched. Safety is appointed as her first captain, and given orders to crew the ship and go explore the Beta Hydri system. She immediately recruits most of the crew of the first Zeta Tucanae exploration mission as the core of the Rinna Kazamatsuri's crew. While the ship is supplied by Artemis, it remains under direct StellviaCorp control.
And an Infinity:
13-15 April 2029: The Last Noah Scott Story. (This story is "on the spike.")
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012