\section*{Timeline} \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Timeline} The timeline of the Post-Self cycle spans just over two and a half centuries, encompassing both the creation of the upload system and the arrival of the Artemisians on the Castor launch vehicle and partial dissolution of the Ode clade. \begin{description} \tightlist \item[\emph{2112 --- December 7}] RJ Brewster gets lost, triggering a cascade of events leading to a deeper investigation into the lost. \item[\emph{2115 --- February ??}] The first partially successful upload, RJ Brewster, leads to a breakthrough and, shortly after, the foundation of the System. \item[\emph{2117 --- ???}] Michelle Hadje and Debarre pool their money to upload. \item[\emph{2124 --- January 1}] Systime set at year zero, day zero in order to help manage the reputation market. \item[\emph{2125 --- January 21}] The System secedes from the planetary governments on Earth thanks to the efforts of Yared Zerezghi, Counselor Yosef Demma, The Only Time I Know My True Name Is When I Dream of the Ode clade, and Jonas Prime of the Jonas clade. \item[\emph{2170 --- Throughout the year}] Most planetary governments begin compensating the families of those who choose to upload. \item[\emph{2238 --- July 28}] Ioan Bălan uploads to use the compensation to help eir brother, Rareș Bălan, out after eir parents' death. \item[\emph{2305 --- November 8}] Dear, Also, The Tree That Was Felled of the Ode clade contacts Ioan Bălan for assistance with a project that leads to the publication of \emph{On the Perils of Memory}. \item[\emph{2325 --- January 21}] The launch project concludes with the launch of the Castor and Pollux Launch vehicles. \item[\emph{2326 --- October 30}] The Bălan clade publishes \emph{An Expanded History of Our World} In conjunction with May Then My Name Die With Me of the Ode clade's \emph{An Expanded Mythology of Our World}, collected together as \emph{On the Origins of Our World}. \item[\emph{2346 --- May 28}] The Artemisians make contact with the Castor launch. \item[\emph{2350 --- January 21}] Assassination attempt on The Only Time I Know My True Name Is When I Dream on the Lagrange System, leading to her stepping away from the politics of the System and, through two long-diverged merges, becoming Sasha. \item[\emph{2351 --- November 8}] Ioan Bălan publishes \emph{Individuation and Reconciliation}, containing the story of the assassination attempt on True Name and her subsequent transformation into Sasha through the merger of two long, long diverged forks. \item[\emph{2365 --- July 18}] Sasha releases \emph{Ode}, a companion volume to \emph{On the Origins of Our World} describing the Ode clade's movement from before the founding of the System, finally publishing RJ Brewster's name when she describes the origin of the System itself. \end{description}