Timeline
Contents
Historical
Pre-MSY
Early 19th century: The SMC, a loose alliance of magical girl nobility, forms in Europe
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 Founders
1995-1996: Rough year of birth for Mami
1996-1997: Rough year of birth for Homura, Kyouko, and Sayaka
October 3, 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
2008-2009: Rough year of Mami and Kyouko's contracts
2011: Mami and Kyouko reconcile after Oriko's attack on Mami's apartment
2011: Homura and Sayaka contract, Homura receives timeloop memories upon Sayaka's death, Yuma first spotted
April 30th, 2011 Van Rossum arrives in Mitakihara
2011-early 2012: Yuma spotted second time
2013-2014: Yuma spotted third time, Oriko and Co. bites it, Yuma "Befriended"
Early MSY
2021: Founding of MSY
2020s-2030s: Rough year of birth for Shizuki Sayaka
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 Expansionn
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
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; 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
2130s-2140s: Pretoria Scandal, magically aided discovery of AI principles by Volokhov
2146: Volokhov granted Turing Award, interviewed about discovery
2148: Turing Award expanded to AI recipients
2130s-2150s: Kaname Tatsuya dies; Kaname Madoka Jr. born
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
2163-2230: Time period of what would be later known as 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
January 20th, 2161: FA-aligned coup begins the Second Civil War in the United States
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 make moderate gains, most notably solidifying Europe
2175-2179: First major of many nuclear exchanges begins World War IV; WMDs are mitigated by missile interception technology, but it isn't enough; FA makes gains
2179-2189: Near civilizational collapse necessitates another partial peace, UF and FA reorganize
2180: 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
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 less 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
2250-2230: 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 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
2337-2338: Erwynmark born on the colony Bismarck
2350-2380: Beginning of MSY clones project
2395-2420: First successful use of blank slate clone as new host body
October 3rd, 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 nominated for and granted position of Field Marshal; Joanne Valentin switches fields to physics, starts blogging about magical girl subjects
2445: Rough year of Ryouko's birth
Spring 2446: Asaka, Alice, Patricia undergo initial training
2452: Samsara offensive ends in debacle for Cephalopods
2452-2453: Marshals Erwynmark's Saharan Raids destroy a shipyard and Wormhole Stabilizer, putting a temporary end to alien ability to sustain offensives
2457: Beginning of Euphratic Incursion
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
Early morning - Roughly 12am-6am
Morning - Roughly 6am-12pm
Afternoon - Roughly 12pm-6pm
Evening - Roughly 6pm-12am
Volume 1
September 16, 2460:
Morning: Ryouko meets friends at school, sees Mami through the window.¹
Afternoon: Demons attack Ryouko and Simona, Ryouko contracts after being saved by Mami.¹
Evening: Kyouko hunts with Ryouko, and discovers the saturated grief cubes.² Mami watches the 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
Afternoon and night: Movie trip with friends, sleepover (Chapter 11)
Midday-Kyouko and Mami call each other and discuss grief cubes (Chapter 10).
Late-Kyouko and Yuma discuss surveillance on Ryouko (Chapter 11)
September 19: First grief cube shipment and group demon hunt (Chapter 12).
September 20: Get-together party, where she meets Nakihara Asami (Chapter 13).
September 21: Visit with psychologist (Atsuko Arisu), followed by visit to see clones (Chapter 13).
September 22: Farewell party, meeting Kuroi Kana, Shizuki Sayaka and Kuroi Nana. Kuroi Nana shows Ryouko the past of Nana and her mother (Chapter 14/15).
Morning: Yuma, Kyouko, and Mami hold virtual meeting (Chapter 14)
September 23: Ryouko departs for her training, traveling with her cohort of girls contracted in and near Mitakihara City (Chapter 16).
Volume 2
September 29: MG raid on Wormhole Stabilizer fails. Ryouko nears the end of her training. (Chapter 18/19)
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. (Chapter 20)
October 2: Ryouko spends time in bed talking with Clarisse, who mentions that she is beginning to recover Goddess vision memories.(Chapter 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. (Chapter 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.
Possible Future Events
2600s: Third Colonization Wave planned to begin
2900s: Planned timeframe human expansion beyond the Local Area
