6422

Oenoe hibernates for the first time.

6500

Neotany. Use of childlike neural structures in adults to condition the population to simplicity and trust in their Elders.

6600

Elders overthrown by the Nocturnal Council, night-adapted Nymphs conditioned to acts of terror to maintain peace and order, but who forget their dark crimes by day. (Nocturnal battle-cocoon metamorphosis establishes the basics of Hormagaunt biology.) End of Neotany.

6660s

Naturalist Weather Control begins to erode.

6700s

Summer Queens. Naturalists begin custom of annual hibernation to avoid winter.

6746

Oenoe is wakened by the Summer Queens during the “Wine of Violence” Crisis to aid in the spread of Wintermind techniques. It is during this time she teaches Del Azarchel the Wintermind techniques. Oenoe hibernates again.

6800

Leeches (early Hormagaunts) found the Yakutsk Analeptic Empire. (Their language continues until 7300.)

6840–7000

Winter Queen Nymphs expand throughout Canada and Patagonia. Widespread use of seasonal hormones to produce battle-frenzy in winter. Winter wars decimate the remaining Nymphs.

Age of Hormagaunts

7000–7200

Leeches corrupted by their victory. Dark Ages. Rise of the Hormagaunts. Asvid, the first nonanthropoid Hormagaunt, created at about this time.

7200

Rise of the Therapeutae in the northern hemisphere (an early form of the Iatrocracy).

7234

Montrose wakes for the Therapeutae, sets in motion the biotechnological revolution that leads to the erection of the Clades, then hibernates. His bio age is 47.

7280

The Therapeutae of the Clades formalize the geriatric “spoils” system into an official register of protocols called the Iatrocracy. Formation of a permanent Donor class. Effective end of the aging process for high-status members of the Iatrocracy, for Hormagaunt or upperclass Clade archetypes. Darwinian code of battle established.

7330–7385

Hemoclysm. 155 million deaths worldwide caused by the Iatrocrat global wars and genocides.

7380–7480

Burning of the World-Forest. Other biomes, including plains and prairies conducive to Clade burgs, become predominant. Large-scale industrialized warfare rather than Bronze Age champion combat becomes the norm. The Darwinian code abandoned.

7385

Atrocity of Yap Islands, Micronesia. Hermeticist Order carries Clades to Mariana Trench to be reverse engineered. The crime is hidden from Pellucid by the white noise of the Hemoclysm.

7466

During this period, Reyes y Pastor suffers a crisis of faith. Soorm hibernates.

7470

Using Montrose’s Clade science, Coronimas creates the Locusts, in an effort to achieve world peace. Early-period Locusts, altruistic and pacifistic, are decimated.

7490

A Locust scientist called Seir redesigns his race to a warlike nature. These Second Locusts are called Seers or Svartschrecke.

7500

Hormagaunts are able to maintain a space program. (Actually, this is an extremely rare Locust-Hormagaunt cooperative venture.) Beginning of the Fourth Age of Space Travel.

7520

Anti-Locust riots. Beginning of the genocidal Locust Wars.

Gload hibernates.

7520–7840

For three hundred years, Hormagaunts and Clades attempt worldwide extermination of Locust population. Locusts endure in hiding; they colonize and partially terraform Mars. Beginning of the Triage system of population control. First Tendrilless Locusts created.

7810

Crile hibernates.

7810–7840

First Interplanetary War. An atomic exchange between Earth and Mars ends the precarious colonies on Mars, and reduces the technology level on Earth to pre-industrial levels. Diebacks. End of the Fifth Age of Space. Many Locusts enter the Tombs. Locust Wars enter a period of armistice.

7850–7950

Reindustrialization. Imposition of genetic uniformity ends the Clade system. World reunified under the leadership of Ceto (a Tendrilless Locust serving Coronimas). Locust data passthrough volumes dramatically increased. Founding of the Noösphere.

7880

Establishment of the First Mental Configuration; Ceto grants Locusts legal rights. Effective end of the Locust Wars.

7900

An advance in Locust neural technology allows for Hormagaunt-Locust mental interface. Many Locusts re-emerge from the Tombs.

7950

Locusts lose individualism. These are the Third Locusts, or Scorpions.

7960–7980

Age of the Scorpions. Rival groups attempt total extermination of nonconformists, also attempt to destroy the Tombs housing each other to prevent their reawakening. Coronimas leads a worldwide effort to seize control of all Tomb sites, so that he can control the waking-to-slumbering population ratio.

7982

Coronimas introduces pain-broadcast mechanisms to all Locust Clades. Triumph of the Noösphere Configuration.

7983–7985

Montrose wakes to hunt down and murder Coronimas. It takes him two years to find him. His bio age is now 50.

7990

Elton Linder, a Nymph scientist released from the Tombs, redesigns the Locusts toward altruism, creating the Fourth Locusts, or True Locusts. Beginning of a seven-hundred-year period of Utter World Peace and Total Conformity. Linder releases Inquiline Codes into the Noösphere.

Age of Locusts

8000–8700

Global cooling begins. Fifth Locusts or Onyx Men (a smaller version) guide Hormagaunts gently to demographic insignificance and then extinction. Noösphere degenerates badly, and develops inquiline groups, including Simplifiers, in reaction to the Linder virus.

8765

Jubilee. Public business suspended. Individuals re-arm.

8766

Noöspherical Cognitive Order dissolved. Violent shattering of the Configuration into eight local organizations called Confraternities. Linder’s protocols break down; Wars of Extermination. Rise of the Sixth Locusts.

8770–8790

Confraternities introduce cellular thought-control mechanisms, the so-called Helot Code. Simplifiers and other Inquilines retreat to rural areas. The Seventh through Fourteenth Locusts exist during this period, driving each other into extinction rapidly. Illiance hibernates.

8790–8800

The Grays rise to prominence. They are an Inquiline group of Tendrilless Locusts detached from Confraternal control who are attempting a return to Linder’s original principles, seeking the reestablishment of the Noöspherical Cognitive Order. Infrastructure supporting Locust Confraternities fails regionally, then globally, with shocking swiftness. Fifteenth Locusts arise, now called the Fifteenth Mental Configuration.