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Draft timeline

Month	Event	Earth First United States	Earth First Rest Of The World
-21 years	First contact with the Sa'arm (Fourteen more worlds captured to date) Swarm 73 light years away. First estimate 30 years until contact on Earth.
-20 years	Confederacy agree that a race must be found to fight. Confederacy equipment found on Swarm ships. Deployment limits enacted.
Unknown	Ladac contacted and destroyed.
-18 months June	Initial contact with Earth. Negotiations initiated between select world leaders and the Darjee moderated by a Confederacy AI.
-12 months December	CAP testing criteria are established. Humans are to adhere to sponsor/concubine guidelines in exchange for limited access to Confederacy technology. The Darjee initially crew the Aurora Class transports that establish outposts and colonies and direct the AI to deliver some antique classes of warships and transports that can be quickly modified for use by human crews.
-8 months April	The cosca successfully creates an operational hyper drive (Hwee technology).
-3 months September	Human crews begin taking delivery of Castle, Mercury, and K'treel Class ships.
0 December	Discussion concerning Average Joes. First estimate 9.3 years until contact on Earth.
Year 1
1 January	Rights to Average Joes acquired - Average Joes XIV produced.
3 March	CAP testing going on all over the planet.
4 April	Colonel Fletcher leads a C Team from 5th SFG on a mission to verify the existence and capabilities of the swarm.
6 June	Re-runs of Average Joes XIV reinforce CAP testing message.
10 October	Colonel Fletcher's team returns, discover they are under the influence of mind control (nanites were used to keep them from talking). They also discover that the Confederacy does not plan to defend the Earth, so they make their own preparations. They form the nucleus of the Einherjar in the armed forces of the United States.
12 December	Average Joes XV.
Year 2
13 January	Average Joes XV
14 February	Information leaked to the world that the Confederacy exists. They and we are both threatened by the Swarm.
15 March	Quadruple marriage of Average Joes XV winners Volunteers requested to participate in the Defense Forces, other volunteers selected to emigrate to a dozen worlds out of immediate harms way.
16 April	The Presidents speech: everyone learns what's coming. Mandatory CAP testing started. The mafiusi colony of Catania established. Defense Force Special aired at the end of the month.
17 May	Icelandic President Freya Astridsdottir, in a controversial move, overrides an indecisive parliament and agrees to a deal proposed by the Confederacy. Over the next year, 25,000 sponsors and nearly 90,000 concubines, accompanied by some 30,000 dependents (some of whom were from other countries and adopted only moments before extraction) emigrate to the colony of Heimdall, HQ of the Heimdall military district. Only 40% of the island's population remained behind, mostly men and post-menopausal women. Freya herself, despite a CAP score of 6.9 remained behind, along with approximately 5,000 men and 1,000 women with CAP scores of 6.5 or higher. Those remaining declare their intention to fight, and begin to fortify their island home.
18 June	After the success in Iceland the Confederacy approaches the Governor of American Samoa. Due to a very high percentage of USMC veterans and a high birthrate, extractions total more than 65% of the territory's population. Most of the colonists are transported to Spindrift, a water world in the Heimdall Military District.
19 July	The Mercury Incident by Thinking Horndog
21 September	Catch a Rising Star by Akarge
22 October	Selection by Duke of Ramus - The cadets are extracted and head for Demeter
24 December	Neptune by Duke of Ramus - the Civil Service deals with a large scale disaster Man of the House by Akarge Ace in the Hole by swarmfic (unpublished) The Cosca move headquarters to Catania and begins offering transport "for hire".
Year 3
25 January	Pickup or Delivery? by swarmfic Thirty Minutes or Less by swarmfic You Knew What I Was When You Picked Me Up by swarmfic (unpublished)
26 February	Mobile Infantry by swarmfic		Anti-Confederacy protest take place in England organised by the Trades Union. Their complaints are aimed at the loss of jobs due to the increasing use of replicator technology - they print a large number of banners carrying the slogan 'Put Earth First'.
27 March	Mauds by Thinking Horndog		The Great Britain Independence Party revamps itself as the Earth First Party and appeals to the public to support it in removing the Government and its pro-Confederacy policies.
28 April	Alien Bear Baiting by Thinking Horndog Behind Enemy Lines by deGaffer	Similar protests erupt across North America, the slogan is repeated on Union provided posters.	Similar protests erupt across Europe, the slogan repeated in various languages.
29 May	The Case Of The Missing Kittens by Swarmfic (unpublished) The Menace from Perth by swarmfic (unpublished)		In the British House Of Commons the pro-Confederacy parties are forced to form an alliance to keep the Earth First Party from gaining an absolute majority.
30 June	Destination: Azahar by deGaffer Humans begin replacing Darjee crews on Aurora Class transports.
31 July	The Pied Piper of Irwin by swarmfic (unpublished)
32 August	Marching Home by swarmfic (unpublished) Leftovers by swarmfic (unpublished) Pickup in a Box by swarmfic (unpublished) Head Bitch by swarmfic (unpublished) Welcome to the Future by swarmfic (unpublished)
33 September	The Librarian by deGaffer		The Green Party becomes the largest single party in the European parliament by extolling the benefits of using replicator technology to clean up the environment - the second biggest party is the Communists who manage a major resurgence extolling the requirements of workers rights.
34 October	Snake Eaters by swarmfic (unpublished)	A testing centre in Texas is blown up with a home-made bomb, the perpetrator who'd recently failed the CAP test was killed in the blast - this is the first known act of violence against the Confederacy infrastructure as opposed to personnel.
35 November	Turkey Day by Thinking Horndog. A Peril at Ishtar by Allan Joyal - a colony of misfits is established.	Copycat attacks occur across the United States and the pro-Confederacy media start to talk about Earth First as a terrorist organisation.
36 December	Islanders by Duke of Ramus - Earth First appear.	In the United States a council of churches is formed under the collective title of the Congregation of Earth First.	Local outbreaks of violence against the Confederacy are becoming common with the testing stations being the main targets.
Year 4
37 January	Checkpoint by Thinking Horndog Pickup Number Eighteen by Thinking Horndog Special Delivery by Lordshipmayhem War erupts in the Middle East and Israel is destroyed, as is Mecca - the rest of the world suffer a period of Muslim/Jew unrest but things are focused locally and most countries do their best to ignore the conflict.	Noises begin to filter out of California against the Confederacy. The movement is centred on Hollywood.
38 February	Steak Night by Akarge - Pickup disrupted by Earth First ambush. Final scene is 6 months later. Woolly Wilds by Starfiend		The British Royal family is almost wiped out in a terrorist attack - Queen Beatrice ascends to the throne.
40 April	Valkyries by swarmfic (unpublished)		In France a concerted attack reduces twenty-one testing stations to burnt shells in one night, posters pasted to walls around the attack sites claim it is the work of 'Terre ne Confédération' or 'Earth not Confederacy'.
41 May	Be Prepared by swarmfic (unpublished)
42 June	Family Values by Quantum Mechanic - the cosca introduces itself to the Confederacy.
43 July	Buying Wholesale by Thinking Horndog Shooting Star by Akarge Albion by Duke of Ramus - A nationalistic extraction in Great Britain. A Day At The Fair by Baron Rod	California becomes a Confederacy Free State – declaring that this is in line with its non-aggression and equality policies. Confederacy announces in response that California is under an 'interdict.
44 August	Girl Scout Cookies by swarmfic (unpublished)
45 September		Texas is in turmoil as the gun totting state is forced to deal with an influx of refugees from south of the border as well as a large minority of the state’s population demanding full evacuation. At the same time a similar sized minority demands that all resources are turned over to defending the state against the upcoming threat posed by the Sa’arm.	Australia elects an Earth First government that immediately vows to accept refuges from Europe and America to 'Save them from Confederacy slavery'.
46 October	Shopping Around by Thinking Horndog Taking Deliveries by Thinking Horndog		New Zealand reacts strongly against the stance taken in Australia, going so far as to offer to take in Australians who wish to save themselves and the human race by supporting the Confederacy. In response to the extraction at Buckingham Palace (see Albion 43 months), the UK government loses a vote of no confidence, and calls a general election.
47 November			The snap general election in the UK returns an Earth First led coalition as the government of Great Britain - they vow to repeal all the pro-Confederacy legislation the previous government has created. Neil Conway becomes PM.
48 December		The US-Mexico border is sealed to stop the influx of refugees seeking extraction. The exodus is based on the rumour that Mexico is on the Confederacy exclusion list. Public pickups generally suspended in the US unless the Confederacy can reasonably assume it to be a safe venue.	Unconfirmed reports begin to circulate that terrorist organisations with Earth First leanings are being sponsored by the former drug cartels from South America who wish a return to the status quo.
Year 5
49 January	Changing Priorities by Quantum Mechanic - the cosca begins large scale recruitment and deploying its weaponry Stripped Out by George Page - Benjamin Williams and Eleanor Askew extracted from New Zealand.	Ranch Rescue, a Texas-based anti-immigration group that specializes in conducting armed vigilante border patrols along the border with Mexico called on all it’s members to participate in a ‘cull’ of immigrants. Texas: Brazoria County, the South Texas Light Infantry Militia group are involved in a running conflict with Police and National Guard troops who attempt to confiscate their weapons following a series of shooting incidents at the nearby refugee camp.
50 February	Liberty Ships by swarmfic (unpublished)	Mexico demands that the US opens its borders on humanitarian grounds, stating that it will not be held responsible for the consequences if the President refuses. Mexican forces are put on alert.
51 March	In the Name of the Prophet by Duke of Ramus - The existance of the Darjee wiki becomes general knowledge.
52 April	A Fire in the Sky by swarmfic (unpublished)		The Einherjar and other pro-Earth organisations begin to be noticed. Being military organisations they are initially regarded with suspicion but as time goes by their aims become understood and the Confederacy begins to provide intelligence support.
55 July	Surprise, Surprise by Thinking Horndog - nanites get fed to the general population	First Cube Ship built. Extractions take wider variety of population regardless of CAP Scores. Less opposition to extractions due to less perceived exclusions.
Year 6
61 January
	The Academy by Thinking Horndog. - first pickup by a Cube ship, The Valhalla.
65 May	A Perfect 10 by Akarge - pickup and founding of Vulcan. Founding of "Space Bats" Space Construction Battalions.		A Scheduled UK General election returns a massive Earth First Majority.
67 July	In the Name of the Prophet by Duke of Ramus - Saladin with its complement of Arabs departs Earth.
71 November	Start of Maquis by Starfiend.		Rise of an underground opposing the UK's Earth First Government. First public appearance of Truth and Freedom Party.
Year 7
73 January			Peter Lester becomes PM of Great Britain.
75 March			In Great Britain the House of Lords are abolished due to its obstructive behaviour in blocking the amendments the government wishes to enact.
77 May			The Confederacy is banned from Great Britain and all citizens are required to hand in their CAP cards - possession of a card is punishable by five years in prison, and probably a severe beating.
84 December			Graham Thorn becomes PM of Great Britain in an internal party coup.
Year 8
85 January
	Basic Training by Akarge (unpublished)
Year 9
97 January	Part 6 of Maquis by Starfiend
Year 10
109 January	Part 9 of Maquis by Starfiend
~ 112 April	Sa'arm initially forecast to arrive on Earth. Part 10 of Maquis by Starfiend
Year 11
121 January
Year 12
133 January
136 April	Part 15 of Maquis by Starfiend
140 August	The Chinese Obligation by Thinking Horndog First Sa'arm ships reach the solar system and return to report. A hive ship is destroyed near Saturn, but one of it's escorts escapes. The Swarm now knows the location of Earth.
Year 13
145 January
150 June	Three more hive ships arrive, two are destroyed, but one lands in Africa near lake Victoria. Humans still have complete control of the orbitals so extractions are still possible.
	Water, Water, Everywhere
Year 14
157 January
162 June	Three hive ships arrive, two are destroyed in space, and one more as it attempts to land in North America.
163 July	Six hive ships arrive: one is destroyed in space; one damaged as it attempts to land in North America, and crash lands in Antarctica. The remaining four land in Australia, central India, western Siberia, north-western Brazil. Fly By by Akarge - Three hives and two recon hives destroyed in space. Conan County By Akarge (unpublished)
	The Last Train from Moscow by swarmfic (unpublished) - All the adults in Russia have been drafted to defend the Motherland from the invading swarm. NATO sends military aid, and as the transports would otherwise return nearly empty from the front, Mother Russia sends her children west hoping she can buy their lives with their parent's blood.
Year 15
169 January
	Front-lines in northern Columbia, the Spanish/French border (the Swiss are holding out), a north-south line just west of Magadan, and a long front stretching from Chumikan to Beijing to Bangladesh. Concentration of GC fleet prevents further landings.
Year 16
181 January
	The swarm controls at least 70% of all the continents except North America, where it only controls 9%. Swarm makes first successful crossing of English Channel.
	Drake's Drum by swarmfic (unpublished) - The Home Guard defends the coast of Devon. Bilfrost by swarmfic (unpublished) - Home Guard remnantes make their way north after being cut off by the swarm.
Year 17
193 January
	The swarm invades Japan and Ireland. All bar a small fighting force in and around the City of Cork fall within 3 days, but Japan proves to be an incredibly hard nut for the Swarm to crack.
Year 18
205 January
	Australia completely controlled by the Swarm, Antarctica abandoned by both species as too inimical to live there. 17% of North America still in human control - mostly east and west coasts, 2% of Africa - around the Capes of Good Hope and Agulhas, 4% South America - around Cape Horn, 8% of Asia and 7% of Europe - Mostly in Northern Scandinavia. In addition, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Caucasus and Alps still completely free above about 11,000 feet, and only minor incursions above about 9000 feet. Only New Zealand, Iceland and other smaller island nations, mostly in the Pacific/Indian oceans still completely free, but are now very heavily armed and defended.
Year 19
217 January
Year 20
229 January