Editing Timeline

==Historical==
===Present Day, Present Time===
'''1995-1996''': Year of [[Mami]]'s birth

'''1996-1997:''' Rough year of birth for every main cast member except [[Yuma]]

'''October 3, 1996:''' [[Madoka]]'s Date of Birth in original timeline (series was ~March-April, 2011)

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

'''2010-2011:''' Mami and [[Kyouko]] reconcile after separation.

'''2011:''' [[Homura]] Contracts/receives timeloop memories, [[Sayaka]] dies. Yuma first spotted.

'''2011-early 2012:''' Yuma spotted second time

'''2013-2014:''' Yuma spotted third time, [[Oriko]] and Co. bites it, Yuma "[[Befriending|Befriended]]".

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

'''2031:''' Formation of 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 Globalization===
'''2065:''' MSY Takeover of Triad, corporate expansion into China; [[Kugimiya Ito]] and [[Nakanishi Aiko]] reunite ({{Ch|17}})

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

'''2068:''' First MSY overseas outpost

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

'''2068-2126:''' Expansion and globalization of MSY, first attempts at AI.

'''2101:''' First encounter with [[SMC]]

'''2116:''' Rough beginning of [[MSY-SMC Cold War]]

'''2126:''' SMC agrees to merger in exchange for concessions

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

'''2130s-2140s:''' [[Pretoria Scandal]], magically aided discovery of AI principles by [[Volokhov]].

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

'''2146:''' Volokhov granted Turing Award. Interviewed about discovery.

'''2148:''' Turing Award expanded to AI recipients.

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

'''2160-2230:''' Time period of the [[Unification Wars]].

'''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.

'''2163:''' [[St. Petersburg atrocity]] precipitates events; MSY membership votes to apply unprecedented punitive measures on its minority FA-sympathetic faction. Full UF/FA inter-factional war breaks out soon after. While there would be truces, usually after massive WMD exchanges, states of war become more and more persistent, eventually becoming continuous.

'''2175:''' First major of many nuclear missile exchanges, mitigated by missile interception technology

'''2175-2200:''' Majority of UF governments collapse under war strain, to be replaced by direct UF military rule.

'''2180:''' [[Governance|UF Emergency Defense Committee (EDC)]] founded, eventually taking dictatorial powers into itself.

'''2205-2215:''' It becomes clear that economic fundamentals and FA disunity dictate eventual UF victory, but completion of this victory proves agonizing, horrifying and sanguinous.

'''2215-2230:''' FA desperation drives previously unimagined levels of atrocity.

'''2230:''' Last surviving FA state is overrun.

===Governance Era===

'''2236:''' [[Kuroi Abe]] born. Unification Wars have definitely ended.

'''2280-2300:''' [[Project Eden]] comes to fruition: The first feasible [[Faster-than-light]] engine is unveiled<ref>[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/35468913200/when-did-the-human-race-achieve-the-ability-to-safely Incubator Archives: When did the human race achieve FTL]</ref>

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

'''2310-2330:''' [[Kuroi Nana]] born, with [[Kuroi Nakase]] following shortly after

'''2330-2350:''' Kuroi Nana disappears

'''2350-2380:''' Beginning of MSY clones project

'''2395-2420:''' First successful use of blank slate clone as new host body

'''2439:''' Homura’s "birthday" party scene ({{Ch|6}})

===Contact War===

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

'''2441:''' Kyouko gives first speech announcing her intention to found the [[Cult of Hope|a new religion]]

'''2440-2443:''' Mami nominated for and granted position of Field Marshal

'''2445:''' Rough year of Ryouko's birth.

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

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

'''2452-2453:''' Marshals [[Erwynmark]]'s [[Saharan Raid]]s destroy at least a shipyard and [[Wormhole Stabilizer]], putting a temporary end to alien ability to sustain offensives. Mami’s involvement in saving the fleet earns her the Defender’s Star, First class


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

'''2460:''' Start of TtS

==Our Heroine's Story==
===Volume 1===
'''September 16 (Day 0):''' Demon attack, contract ({{Ch|1}}), first hunt with Kyouko, announcement to parents (late night, stretching into next day) ({{Ch|5}}), sleep ({{Ch|2}})

Mami watches [[Akemi (movie)|a movie]] ({{Ch|3}}/{{Ch|4|}}) and departs on space elevator ({{Ch|6}}) (early morning, next day)

'''September 17:''' Ryouko receives her implant upgrades, visits [[the Ribbon]] and receives vision ({{Ch|9}}), talks with theological council and Asaka, then returns home ({{Ch|10}}).

General Staff meeting is held and Mami is informed of her new position, leaving late in the day. ({{Ch|6}})

(morning) Kyouko flashbacks about Yuma ({{Ch|7}}), then visits and talks with her ({{Ch|8}}).

'''September 18:''' Early morning (right after midnight): Dinner with family and visit to sparring ground, etc. Afternoon and night: Movie trip with friends, sleepover ({{Ch|11}})

Midday-Kyouko and Mami call each other and discuss grief cubes ({{Ch|10}}).

Late-Kyouko and Yuma discuss surveillance on Ryouko ({{Ch|11}})

'''September 19:''' First grief cube shipment and group demon hunt ({{Ch|12}}).

'''September 20:''' Get-together party, where she meets [[Nakihara Asami]] ({{Ch|13}}).

'''September 21:''' Visit with psychologist ([[Atsuko Arisu]]), followed by visit to see clones ({{Ch|13}}).

'''September 22:''' Farewell party, meeting [[Kuroi Kana]], [[Shizuki Sayaka]] and [[Kuroi Nana]]. Kuroi Nana shows Ryouko the past of Nana and her mother ({{Ch|14}}/{{Ch|15|}}).

Morning: Yuma, Kyouko, and Mami hold virtual meeting ({{Ch|14}})

'''September 23:''' Ryouko departs for her training, traveling with her cohort of girls contracted in and near [[Mitakihara City]] ({{Ch|16}}).

===Volume 2===
'''September 29:''' MG raid on Wormhole Stabilizer fails. Ryouko nears the end of her training. ({{Ch|18}}/{{Ch|19|}})

'''October 1:''' HSS Laplace is surprise attacked in deep space by alien fighters. Ship is saved by its MG complement, which includes Ryouko. Ryouko suffers heavy radiation exposure.

[[Maki]] participates in combat on the streets of [[Heliopolis]], and reminisces on how it would have been her and Kyouko's first anniversary. ({{Ch|20}})

'''October 2:''' Ryouko spends time in bed talking with [[Ryouko#TacComp|Clarisse]], who mentions that she is beginning to recover Goddess vision memories.({{Ch|20}})

'''October 3:''' Ryouko et al. land on the planet of [[Acheron]]. Ryouko attends a late gathering commemorating the Goddess's birthday, and listens to a broadcast by Kyouko. Maki does the same thing, on Apollo. ({{Ch|20}})

Kyouko, Mami, and Yuma discuss conspiracies over virtual dinner - Simona del Mago, the attack on HSS Laplace, [[Valentin]], supersaturated grief cubes, and the war. Kyouko's pseudo-memories of Madoka screws with her mind.

(During Ryouko's next free time slot) Ryouko corresponds with her mother and [[Chiaki]], then goes on a date with Asami to a basketball game and the ''onsen''. Cue kiss and the sudden transfer to the [[Kepler-37 System]].

==References==
* [http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/28295270913/background-timeline-revealed-so-far Incubator Archives: Background Timeline revealed so far]
* [http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/28296227067/story-so-far Incubator Archives: Story so far]
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