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The Frontier Chronicle
The history of the Frontier, from the Deep Before to the Long War.
The powers of the Frontier under the failing light of Aurelia.
Humanity did not come to the Frontier. It fled there.
Four centuries ago the arks of the Scattering limped out of the dark and found a dying red star called Aurelia. Everything that followed was built in its failing light: an empire, a rebellion, a dozen schisms and a war that has never truly ended. Twelve powers now contest the Frontier, and all twelve are human. They share one ancestry, one catastrophe and one enemy.
That enemy is older than any of them. It is older than the star. It ate the world humanity was born on, and it has come back.
The Chronicle
Ten chapters, from the first harvest to the questions that keep Frontier Command awake. See every date on the timeline →
Chapter 01 · Before recorded timeThe Deep Before
The Tide is ancient, patient and purposeful. It has harvested civilisations for longer than the Frontier's stars have burned.
Chapter 02 · ≈ 140 years before LandfallThe Scattering
The Tide takes humanity's homeworld. The colony arks flee into the dark with no destination and no way home.
Chapter 03 · 0 ALLandfall
The surviving arks reach Aurelia, a dying red giant ringed by a rich asteroid belt, and begin to build.
Chapter 04 · 60 – 190 ALThe Golden Age
The Solar Empire completes the Aurelian Ring and rules the Frontier in light. Everything that will later tear it apart is founded in this age.
Chapter 05 · 191 – 204 ALThe Belt Uprising
The belt miners rise against the Throne and win. The first blow is struck against the Empire, and the first smugglers learn the unregistered lanes.
Chapter 06 · 231 – 262 ALThe Sundering
Aurelia flares and a fifth of the Ring burns. The Empire shatters into the powers that fight the Long War today.
Chapter 07 · 371 – 374 ALThe Tide Rises
The Farsight beacons go dark. Harvester swarms pour across the Rim, and humanity learns that the thing that ate the Cradle has found it again.
Chapter 08 · 374 ALThe Frontier Accord
No faction can stand alone against the Tide, and none will trust another. The Accord founds Frontier Command to train the commanders who will.
Chapter 09 · 374 AL – present (412 AL)The Long War
The present day. Twelve human powers fight for the Frontier while the Tide grows in the systems it took. This is where you begin.
Chapter 10 · The futureWhat Comes
The star is dying, the artifacts are counting, and the Tide has not yet shown its full strength. What Frontier Command knows, fears and suspects.
Powers of the Frontier
Twelve human powers, all descended from the same colony arks. All dossiers →
Miner RebellionThe Unbought
Solar EmpireLight Eternal
Void SyndicateKnives in the Dark
FreelancerNo Flag But Pay
Crimson FleetJoy in the Fire
Deep Space ExplorersBeyond the Last Star
Technocrat UnionEfficiency Is Mercy
Nomad ClansThe Wind Owes No One
Shadow BrokerageWe Already Know
Celestial OrderJudgment in Light
Iron VanguardThe Line Does Not Break