Editing Timeline

==Historical==
Mostly from https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/28295270913/background-timeline-revealed-so-far

===Pre-MSY===
'''1815:''' Beginnings of [[SMC]] take root at Congress of Vienna

'''End of 19th century:''' [[Clarisse van Rossum]] is born

'''1910s:''' [[SMC]] shattered by World War I

'''April 15th, 1912:''' [[Van Rossum]] contracts with the sinking of the RMS Titanic

'''1940s:''' World War II kills off last remnants of the [[SMC]], in England

'''1990s-2000s:''' Rough year of birth for [[MSY]] [[MSY Founder|Founders]]

'''1995-1996:''' Rough year of birth for [[Mami]]

'''1996-1997:''' Rough year of birth for [[Homura]], [[Kyouko]], and [[Sayaka]]

'''October 3rd, 1996:''' [[Madoka]]'s date of birth in original timeline

'''2001-2002:''' Rough year of birth for [[Yuma]]

'''2007-2008:''' Rough year of birth for [[Kaname Tatsuya]]

'''2008-2010:''' Rough year of [[Mami]] and [[Kyouko]]'s contracts

'''2011:''' [[Mami]] and [[Kyouko]] reconcile after [[Oriko]]'s attack on [[Mami]]'s apartment

'''March 16th, 2011:''' Beginning date of [[Homura]]'s loops in original timelines

'''2011:''' [[Homura]] and [[Sayaka]] contract, [[Homura]] receives timeloop memories upon [[Sayaka]]'s death

'''April 30th, 2011:''' [[Walpurgisnacht]] arrives in [[Mitakihara]] in original timelines; [[Van Rossum]] arrives in [[Mitakihara]]

'''2013-2014:''' [[Oriko]] dies, [[Yuma]] joins [[Homura]], [[Mami]], and [[Kyouko]] as the [[Mitakihara Four]]

===Early MSY===
'''2021:''' Founding of [[MSY]]

'''2020s:''' Rough year of birth for [[Shizuki Sayaka]]

'''2031:''' Formation of [[Leadership Committee|MSY Leadership Committee]]

'''2043:''' Formation of [[Soul Guard]], [[Leadership Committee]] given power to form bureaucracy

'''2044:''' Institutionalization of MSY Judiciary

'''2045:''' Beginning of corporate expansion throughout pacific rim and parts of East Asia

'''2053:''' Formation of [[MHD]]

'''2055:''' [[MSY]] takeover of Yakuza

'''2059:''' First major charter rewrite (excluding early period), formation of [[MSY Rules Committee]], institutionalization of MSY Citizenship, implementation of restrictive Japanese nativist rules regarding membership

'''2061:''' [["Second generation" mages]] begin appearing in meaningful numbers

===MSY Expansion===
'''2065:''' [[MSY]] takeover of Triad, corporate expansion into China; [[Kugimiya Ito]] and [[Nakanishi Aiko]] reunite

'''2067:''' Second major charter rewrite, repeal of nativist policies, formalization of expansionist protocol, federalization policies

'''2071:''' [[Akiyama Akari|Akari]] dies, Mami [[Reformat]]s herself, Korean Intervention

'''2085:''' Last independent Japanese magical girls absorbed into [[MSY]]

'''2068-2126:''' Expansion and globalization of [[MSY]], first attempts at AI; copycat [[magical girl]] organizations proliferate, including a new [[SMC]], though most are quickly absorbed

'''2085:''' Rough beginning of [[MSY-SMC Cold War]]

'''2110:''' [[SMC]] agrees to merger in exchange for concessions

'''2138:''' Last known non-MSY holdout consents to membership

'''2135:''' [[Pretoria Scandal]]

'''2136:''' Theoretical framework for Friendly AI, the [[Volokhov Criterion]], completed by [[Volokhov]] and [[Laplace]]

'''2148:''' [[Trusted Computing Framework]], built by early [[Volokhov-friendly]] AIs, lays basis for provably secure computing and AI design; AIs proliferate

'''2130s-2150s:''' [[Kaname Madoka Jr.]] born; [[Kaname Tatsuya]] dies

===Unification Wars===
'''2130s-2150s:''' [[MSY]] members reach effective [[hyperclass]] status; future [[FA]]/[[UF]] distinctions start to become apparent, structural unemployment rises to crisis levels

'''2150s:''' Future [[FA]] nations become increasingly brutal in the crushing of domestic uprisings

'''2160:''' UN dissolves amidst irreconcilable discord, is replaced by [[Freedom Alliance]] (FA) and [[United Front]] (UF), neutral nations slowly descend into civil war

'''2160-63:''' International situation deteriorates, local wars begin to break out, Incubator offer to intervene is refused by the MSY

'''January 20th, 2161:''' FA-aligned coup begins the Second Civil War in the United States

'''2163-2230:''' Time period of what would be later known as the [[Unification Wars]]

'''2163-2171:''' [[St. Petersburg Atrocity]] precipitates World War III; [[MSY]] membership votes to apply unprecedented punitive measures on its minority [[FA]]-sympathetic faction, full [[UF]]/[[FA]] interfactional war breaks out soon after

'''2171-2175:''' A partial peace is established after [[UF]]-aligned governments turn initial defeats into moderate gains, most notably solidifying Europe

'''2175-2179:''' [[FA]] begins World War IV with largely successful WMD strikes; the unrestricted conflict quickly becomes ruinous for both sides

'''2179-2189:''' Near civilizational collapse necessitates another partial peace, [[UF]] and [[FA]] reorganize

'''2180:''' [[EDC|UF Emergency Defense Committee (EDC)]] founded

'''2189-2215:''' World War V; WMDs are more readily countered, and heavily augmented human soldiers take center stage

'''2200:''' [[EDC]] has largely supplanted the remaining UF governments, passes [[Universal Readiness Decree of 2200]] mandating civilian implants

'''2200s:''' Grotesque [[FA Elites]] enter mass deployment; nevertheless, economic fundamentals and [[FA]] disunity begin pointing towards [[UF]] victory

'''2215-2218:''' The Treaty of Paris establishes a temporary peace, with substantial gains for the [[UF]] and asylum for the remaining [[FA]] underclasses; mass migration precipitates a refugee crisis

'''2218-2230:''' "The Cleanse"; remaining [[FA]] nations are slowly overrun

'''2230:''' [[EDC]] declares worldwide Unification Day (though small [[FA]] remnants will persist for years); the population—now heavily augmented and totaling fewer than half its pre-war height—celebrates

===Golden Age===

'''2230-2240:''' [[EDC]], promising to construct a new, permanent Eudaimonia, leverages its absolute global power to reconstruct civilization

'''2236:''' [[Kuroi Abe]] born.

'''2240:''' [[EDC]] dissolves itself and establishes [[Governance]] as its successor

'''2250-2330:''' [[Project Eden]] brings clinical immortality, [[Project Janus]] brings [[faster-than-light]] travel, and [[Project Icarus]] brings plentiful solar energy

'''2260-2280:''' [[First Colonization Wave]] begins the settlement of the [[Core Worlds]]

'''2300-2320:''' [[Second Colonization Wave]] begins

'''2310:''' [[Kuroi Abe]] and [[Ryouko's Grandmother|his future wife]] are on the brink of marriage

'''2333-2335:''' [[Kuroi Nana]] born, with [[Kuroi Nakase]] following shortly after

'''2337-2338:''' [[Erwynmark]] born on the colony [[Bismarck]]

'''2346-2348:''' [[Kuroi Nakase]] contracts, [[Kuroi Nana]] contracts and her wish undoes [[Kuroi Nakase|Nakase's]] contract

'''2350-2360:''' Beginning of [[MSY]] clones project

'''2351-2357:''' [[Kuroi Nana]] breaks contact with her family

'''2354:''' Trailer for ''Historian'' released²⁴

'''2375-2381:''' [[Kuroi Nana]] reconnects with sister and father, but not mother

'''2395-2405:''' First successful use of blank slate clone as new host body

'''2420-2423:''' [[Azrael]] born

'''2434-2437:''' [[Azrael]] contracts after the destruction of her colony [[Terra Roja]]

'''2439:''' [[Mami]] suggests that the [[Mitakihara Four]] take a vacation together

===Contact War===

'''2440:''' First Contact with [[Cephalopod]] aliens, destruction of [[Aurora]]/[[Atlas]] colonies, [[Battle of Epsilon Eridani]]/[[New Athens]], disappearance of [[Homura]], end of the [[Masquerade]]

'''2441:''' [[Kyouko]] gives first speech announcing her intention to found the [[Church of Hope]]

'''2440-2443:''' [[Mami]] becomes a Field Marshal; [[Joanne Valentin]] switches fields to physics, starts blogging about [[magical girl]] subjects; [[Kuroi Nakase]] and [[Shizuki Kuma]] meet and marry

'''2442:''' [[Ordo Illustrata]] founds their colony on [[X-25]]

'''2445-2446:''' [[Ryouko]] born

'''Mid-2446:''' [[Asaka]], [[Alice]], [[Patricia]] undergo initial training

'''2452:''' [[Samsara offensive]] ends in debacle for the [[Cephalopods]]

'''2452-2453:''' [[Erwynmark|Marshal Erwynmark's]] [[Saharan Raid]] destroys a shipyard and [[wormhole stabilizer]], putting a temporary end to alien ability to sustain offensives

'''2457:''' Beginning of [[Euphratic Incursion]]

'''2457-2458:''' Ryouko and her friend Chiaki (and Kyouko) attend a live violin performance. (Ryouko and Chiaki are 14)

'''October 1st, 2459:''' [[Kyouko]] begins dating [[Kishida Maki]]

'''Mid-2460:''' [[Simona]] transfers to [[Mitakihara]] as an exchange student

==To the Stars==
Chapter numbers cited for events: ⁰ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹

On Earth, time of day translates as follows:

• ''Early morning'' - Roughly 12am-6am

• ''Morning'' - Roughly 6am-12pm

• ''Afternoon'' - Roughly 12pm-6pm

• ''Evening'' - Roughly 6pm-12am

Elsewhere, time of day is local. (A planet may have more than 24 hours in a day, etc.) Date is Earth-standardized.

Correlated with https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/28296227067/story-so-far

===Volume 1===
'''September 16, 2460:'''

''Morning:''
[[Ryouko]] meets friends at school, sees [[Mami]] through the window.¹

''Afternoon:''
[[Demon]]s attack [[Ryouko]] and [[Simona]], [[Ryouko]] contracts after being saved by [[Mami]].¹ 

''Evening:''
[[Kyouko]] hunts with [[Ryouko]], and discovers planted saturated [[grief cubes]].² Mami watches the [[Akemi (movie)|movie ''Akemi'']].³ ⁴ 

'''September 17:'''

''Early Morning:''
[[Ryouko]], along with [[Kyouko]], tells her parents about her [[contract]].⁵ [[Mami]] departs [[Earth]] after meeting with [[Marianne]].⁶

''Morning:''
[[Ryouko]] reads informational messages about being a [[magical girl]].⁵ [[Kyouko]] visits [[Yuma]] to discuss the saturated [[grief cubes]].⁷ ⁸

''Afternoon:''
[[Mami]] is promoted at a meeting of the [[General Staff]].⁶ [[Ryouko]] receives her implant upgrades and a vision at the [[Ribbon]].⁹ She relates this to the [[Theological Council]].¹⁰

'''September 18:'''

''Early morning:''
[[Ryouko]] has dinner with family and visits the sparring ground beneath the [[Cult of Hope]]'s church with them.¹¹

''Morning:''
[[Ryouko]] and [[Kuroi Abe]] talk about [[Ryouko's grandmother|her grandmother]].¹¹

''Afternoon:''
[[Ryouko]] tells [[Ruiko]] and [[Chiaki]] about her [[contract]]; they watch the [[Akemi (movie)|movie ''Akemi'']] together with [[Simona]].¹¹

''Evening:''
[[Ryouko]] and friends have a sleepover, while [[Kyouko]] and [[Yuma]] assign a spy bug to [[Ryouko]] and assign [[Risa Flores]] to watch over her.¹¹

'''September 19:'''

''Morning:''
[[Ryouko]] receives first [[grief cube]] shipment and reads about combat.¹²

''Afternoon:''
[[Ryouko]] goes on a large [[demon]] hunt.¹²

'''September 20:'''

''Afternoon:''
[[Ryouko]] attends event for new [[magical girl]]s, meets [[Asami]].¹³

'''September 21:'''

''Afternoon:'' 
[[Ryouko]] meets her [[MSY]] psychiatrist [[Atsuko Arisu]].¹³

''Evening:''
[[Ryouko]] studies combat more.¹³

'''September 22:'''

''Early Morning:''
[[Shizuki Kuma|Ryouko's father]] brings her to [[Prometheus]], upgrading her [[TacComp]] to V2 and explaining the clone program.¹³ [[Yuma]], [[Mami]], and [[Kyouko]] discuss [[Valentin]], [[Simona]], and the [[grief cube]] audit; [[Ryouko]] investigates her family tree.¹⁴

''Afternoon:''
[[Ryouko|Ryouko's]] attends her farewell party and learns of her aunt [[Kuroi Nana]].¹⁵

'''September 23:'''

''Afternoon:''
[[Ryouko]] says goodbye to her family at the [[starport]], takes scramjet to space elevator with [[Asami]].¹⁶

''Evening:''
[[Ryouko]] reaches space.¹⁶

===Volume 2===
'''September 29th, 2460:'''
Initial raid on the [[wormhole stabilizer]] fails.¹⁸ [[Ryouko]], [[Asami]], and [[Meiqing]] enter the final memory-suppressed simulation portion of their training.¹⁹

'''September 30th:'''
[[Ryouko]] and [[Asami]] share their wishes with each other, as their week of training on [[New Athens]] ends.¹⁹

'''October 1st:'''
[[HSS Laplace]] is attacked by [[Ceph]] fighters and [[Ryouko]] organizes a magical defense; meanwhile [[Maki]], [[Patricia]], and [[Asaka]] fight [[Ceph]] ground forces on [[Apollo]] in the [[Kepler-37 System]].²⁰

'''October 2nd:'''
[[Ryouko]], recovering from radiation damage from the attack, learns [[Clarisse]] is sentient.²⁰

'''October 3rd:'''
[[Ryouko]] et al. land on the planet of [[Acheron]] for garrison duty and attend a gathering commemorating the [[Goddess]]'s birthday.²⁰ Kyouko, Mami, and Yuma meet virtually to celebrate as well.²¹

'''October 5th:'''
[[Asami]] confesses her attraction to [[Ryouko]], and [[Ryouko]] is recalled from garrison duty to [[Kepler-37]].²¹

'''October 8th:'''
Now aboard [[HSS Zhukov]], [[Ryouko]] is awarded a medal by [[Mami]] and informed that she's been assigned to the second [[wormhole stabilizer]] mission.²²

'''October 9th:'''
[[Ryouko]] meets some of her [[MagOps]] team descending down to [[Apollo]] aboard [[HSS Raven]], and visits her injured [[Kuroi Abe|grandfather]].²³

==Possible Future Events==
'''2600s:''' [[Third Colonization Wave]] planned to begin²³

'''2900s:''' Planned timeframe for human expansion beyond the [[Local Area]]²³