Splendid engineers convert the outer three asteroid belts of the Delta Pavonis star system into a cognitive matter entity called Peacock, a third Power.

• 34th Millennium A . D . / 36 V

Starfarers from Splendor use weather control technology to decimate the Oneness, and return Earth to a technological footing. Rise of the Ninety-One-and-Nine Realms. Labor market for slaves both on and off Earth is abetted by a return to plantation and factory work.

Epsilon Eridani creates a Power called Atramental. Under his guidance, the Sacerdotes of Nocturne, in advance of the Third Sweep, launch a voluntary multigeneration colony ship toward Rigel, and colonize Orphan.

The Splendids prevail upon Jupiter to take closer control of mankind.

Deneb is the Pole Star

Third Sweep—The Long Golden Afternoon

• 35th Millennium A . D . / 35 V

The Long Golden Afternoon of Man—Earthly society, under the gentle guidance of the Jupiter Brain, using Cherished technology and Oneness Edenwork (a type of biotechnology), produces a stable yet flexible genetic caste system.

Widely regarded as a near-Utopia, the Long Golden Afternoon endures from the 35th to the 53rd Millennium, over eighteen thousand years, one of the most stable forms of society in human history. Wars are contained as small and local, executed with punctilious chivalry on all sides; disease is unknown, except as a weapon; poverty is unknown, except as a voluntary spiritual discipline. Sacerdotalism persecuted.

Atramental, perhaps due to malign influence from Jupiter, suffers psychotic spasms, and commits suicide.

• 36th Millennium A . D . / 34 V

The Great Revival. Under the pressure of Hierophantic persecution, Second and First Sweep Sacerdotalism transformed into an intolerant, exclusive religion, as Judeo-Christian elements in the lore absorb or render moot other, less coherent elements such as ancestor worship. Much of this set in motion by a martyr named Purewater.

Under pressure from the Sacerdotal Order, Jupiter grants certain rights and immunities to First and Second Humans.

(A.D. 35400) First ignition of the deceleration starbeam directed at M3.

A Hierophant named Photinus proposes a different calculation of the first ignition date, due to changes in Earth’s orbit, and the unreliability of records. The matter, at first academic, gathers all dissatisfied elements of society to question the entire basis of cliometry, and all planned history.

Onset of the Ahistorical Wars. Mutiny, tumult, and the highly ceremonial, tournament-like, but still deadly warfare of the Golden Era spreads to all worlds.

Immaculate, a Fourth Power, created by Covenant of Altair by gathering all the material of their Oort cloud together into a single superjovian mass.

• 37th Millennium A . D . / 33 V

THIRD SWEEP.

The plasma-based Virtue called by astronomers Shcachlil but popularly called The Salamander takes up its position inside Sol. This time, the Hyades does not bother to bring ships to transport the weeping millions to their fates, but merely orders the construction of them, and directs solar-prominence-powered energy-discharges at any who defy or delay. Jupiter no longer possesses control of the starbeams which power interstellar sailing.

The Third Sweep worlds are colonized as Hierophantic world contingents. At the same time, Myrmidon populations are deracinated to Second Sweep worlds, which now have the technological base to support them. The Myrmidons compel these worlds to enter the tight cliometric controls of the Golden Lords.

Shcachlil commands the resumption of M3 deceleration beam. Photinine heresy suppressed. Rosycross and other First Sweep worlds are taken under the command of cliometric planners, local Hierophants called Golden Lords.

The Isolation. Human-based starfaring suspended due to lack of resources.

• 38th Millennium A . D . / 32 V

End of the Isolation. Starfaring Guild removed to December of Tau Ceti, declares independence from Jupiter’s control.

(A.D. 37400) Second ignition of the deceleration starbeam directed at M3. Energy budget of the Empyrean Polity impoverished by this extravagant uses of energy. Economic collapse.

Photinine controversy revived under the prophetess Lares, who claims to be in communion with extragalactic cherub named Dorado, alleging that the Monument mathematics, and all cliometric calculations, are false.

The Grand Duel of Time. Orthodox Golden Lords challenge those of their order who are disciples of Lares to reorganize history, in order to see whose cliometric calculus is more accurate.

Unexpectedly, in less than four hundred years, the Orthodox Golden Lords are compelled by socioeconomic developments to capitulate, and embrace Laresianism.

The Crusades. Covenant and other anti-Domination worlds still ruled by Swans or Myrmidon Potentates raise troops to send to Earth, to make war upon the Golden Lords.

Vega is the Pole Star

• 39th Millennium A . D . / 31 V

Establishment of a short-lived Crusader Kingdom under Prestor Pfin Aiven Bromion on the surface of the terraformed moon.

Laresianism persecuted.

Kitsune Era

• 40th Millennium A . D . / 30 V

(A.D. 39024) Arrival of the Penultimate White Ship.

News reaches Earth of a Second Empyrean polity of ninety stars in the Sagittarian Arm spreading outward from the Omega Nebula. Decryption of signs from the interior of the Second Monument found at the Omega Nebula leads to a revolution in cliometry, nanobiology, and terraforming praxes.

Tellus is revived by techniques discovered from the Second Monument, and emerges from Halt-State (entered in the 24th Millennium).

FOURTH HUMANS: KITSUNE

Rise of the Fourth Humans, the totipotent Kitsune, also called Fox Maidens. These nanobiological shapechangers are able to alter organs and neural configurations at will, adopting different personalities as need arises. Every cell can carry neural charge, allowing the entire body mass to become a brain mass, which is standardized to interlink with other Kitsune and compatible systems. The race is monosexual, reproducing by parthenogenesis. There are no male Kitsune.

Legend names their founder Cazi Regina.

• 41th Millennium A . D . / 29 V

(A.D. 40522) Launch of the Ultimate White Ship by Peacock, the Power of Delta Pavonis.

The Kitsune aid the Covenant crusades on Earth, but then establish their own hierarchy under Cazi the Fox-Queen (whether the same immortal individual, or her remote descendent, history does not say). Kitsune upset the genetic balances of the Golden Afternoon caste system.

Kitsune create the “psychic spinal” system of pluripotent cells in Swans and Firstlings, allowing them multiple personality appliances, with the associated benefits of temporary expertise.

Tellus damaged during a Kitsune experiment, and disintegrates, returning to subsuperposthuman levels of intellect and organization. Further Kitsune activity, allegedly attempts to repair Tellus, spread the insanity.

Oceans fill with alcahest, a nanotechnological waste product. Demeter, a near-surface Archangel used for earthquake control, begins a Telluric reclamation project.

(This is the predicted last Noösphere, had Jupiter not been brought into being.)

• 42nd Millennium A . D . / 28 V

Renaissance of the Golden Lords: Jupiter intervenes. A new balance is struck within the cliometric dynamics of the Golden Afternoon, allowing the Hierophants to retain power despite ever-growing turbulence from the Kitsune and Myrmidon underlings.