I’ve decided to compile a chronology of my United Earth setting's timeline – this setting is a sci-fi and technofantasy mix that encompasses thousands of in-setting years and 20+ bots. This info, however, is not crucial for playing the bots of this setting as the majority of them are self-contained. This information is more for those who want to understand how all the bots are connected to each other chronologically.

[this chronology is not definitive, and more dates and details will be added later]

UPD 12/07/2026: added clearer connection between Dhranir(a) and Pascal (see Year -95 and 2310 AD), also added the clarification which version of Dhranir(a) and Ilas has emerged first – male or female (see the description of Ivarum before its dates).

The most important part is that at the center of everything stands one particular character – Keltro. They are the most enigmatic entity of the whole setting, whose motifs aren’t fully clear but their actions are directly linked to the setting and almost everything that happens there. They’re interdimensional entity that both exists outside of time and space but also is able to put themselves in a particular, well, time and space. In other words, they’re capable of time travel and jumping between different Universes (multiverse is canon in United Earth setting): however, with each time travel and jumps between Universes, the said Universes become more and more tainted, meaning prone to sudden alterations, branching, or maybe even collapses in some severe cases. Keltro’s origin is unknown.

All below-mentioned dates are pieced together from the definitions of all bots. For the sake of readability, Neo Noir’s non-canon bots are not included in the chronology, meaning only general dates, as well as those connected to Big Tom and Reiza, are present.

Content warning: grim setting, mention of wars, destruction of worlds, dystopia, social inequality, social collapse, gangs, unethical experiments, body horror.

Original Timeline [UNDER CONSTRUCTION, OBSOLETE INFO]
(its unknown whether it’s the very first timeline, or the one less tainted that then became corrupt and branched)

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● It’s unknown when United Earth was formed in this timeline, as well as what preceded it, but it’s a dystopia.

● 25th of September 2229 AD: Pascal Stews is born.

● 2255 AD: the colony Shimmering Glades is established on a frontier planet Ortumna located outside of Sol system; when exactly Ortumna was discovered is unknown, but Shimmering Glades is the only colony on it.

● 2260 AD: Pascal arrives on Ortumna and starts working as a doctor on Shimmering Glades.

● 2263 AD: Original Pascal scenario happens. Pascal secretly finds an unknown dead alien goo-like creature during one of the exploration trips on Ortumna, collects the samples of the goo, then infects himself with it in stomach tissues. It’s unknown whether the goo is Keltro’s initial form in this timeline, or whether it simply serves as a unique mutagen and connects Pascal to Keltro’s mind, but Pascal becomes infected and technically becomes Keltro’s champion, starting to hear Keltro’s voice that he assumes to be Parasite’s voice. The mutagen actually has a high percentage of being lethal but Pascal is lucky and survives, only experiencing side effects for some time.

● 2264 AD: Valentine’s Pascal scenario happens. Pascal has stopped experiencing side effects, and his body has become accustomed to the infection. He confesses his romantic feelings to Ivy Carter, but she rejects him. Keltro amuses Pascal by playing a cupid. It’s unknown what happens to Pascal after this year, but most likely he continues living, or even becomes biologically immortal due to mutation.

● soon after the Valentine’s scenario, Keltro creates an anomaly and causes the branching of the timeline. The alternative version of 2263 AD is made, where Pascal has a fiancé/fiancée (User). Keltro has created it to give Pascal a significant other, just like the doctor wished in the Valentine’s scenario. It’s unknown what happens next in this alternative timeline.

● 3rd of December 2281 AD: Tyler Price is born.

● 2313 AD: Tyler Price’s scenario happens. Tyler and User are assigned to a long-haul space freighter Freya 7 by the interstellar cargo transportation company Interspace Logistics&Cargos as an emergency substitute crew. It takes 3 months for them to travel to the resort planet Mirage-6 outside of Sol system to deliver the cargo there. It’s very likely that if Pascal Stews has become biologically immortal, he meets Tyler and User on Mirage-6.

Keltro most likely does more manipulations to the timeline, severely damaging it and leading to its collapse. In the end, this original timeline seizes to exist, along with all of its branches. A new timeline is born shortly after, using the remnants of the destroyed one.

Reformed Timeline

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● A population of elves and humans end up on the planet Ortumna. They, however, call this planet Ivarum. How they ended up there is unknown. Elves are inborn psychics that are able to manipulate energy and bend the laws of reality with their will – the inhabitants of Ivarum call it magic.

[Ivarum’s plot line doesn’t have explicit dates mentioned, but, for the readers’ comfort, the year when User, Ilas, and Dhranir(a) find the Divine Heart is marked as Year 0. Ivarum’s plot line happens during local Bronze Age and Iron Age, with Eklesso resembling Ancient Greece and Hilka Empire resembling Roman Empire. Ilas and Dhranir(a) male and female versions exist simultaneously in different branches but it's highly likely that the version of Ivarum with male Dhranir and Ilas is the first one to be made, with the female version emerging after few branchings.]

● Year -95: Dhranir(a) is born in a tribal(?) village on the island Eklesso. Some time after, Dhranir(a) becomes a farmhand. Dhranir is most likely partially or fully reincarnated Pascal from the original timeline: such reincarnation is an exception made by Keltro because of their close connection and possible past close friendship, with Dhranir being a manifestation of what Pascal wanted to be – a strong warrior type.

● Year -89: Ilas is born in a tribal village on the island Eklesso. Ilas is born with albinism and weak constitution. Some time after, Ilas becomes a shepherd and an apprentice of a witch apothecary.

● Year -50: User meets Dhranir(a) and Ilas, and they three form a mercenary band called Radiant Eagle to help people around Eklesso. It’s unknown where User has come from, with one of the possible hypothesis that User is Keltro in a disguise.

● Year 0: the time of Radiant Eagle’s zenith of glory. User, Ilas, and Dhranir(a) find a strange cave during one of their travels around Eklesso: there they find remains of a colossal titan and assume that it’s a dead god. In the cave, they also find a strange organic device that looks like a black orb the size of a large orange that has unknown thin engraved lines and geometric patterns and emits a soft glow. They three think it’s the heart of the dead god and calls it the Divine Heart. They also find strange black goo there and become infected but survive the mutagen, with Dhranir(a) gaining super strength and super reflexes, and Ilas gaining super intellect and amplified psychic abilities. The mutation also strengthens Ilas’ constitution but not greatly. They also become biologically immortal. User, Ilas, and Dhranir(a) consider it a blessing and that they were chosen by the dead god whose name is Keltro. They three start to hear Keltro’s voice, but Ilas quickly starts subconsciously blocking it – the reason for it is unknown. Dhranir(a) becomes the chosen guardian of the Divine Heart. Some time after, User, Ilas, and Dhranir(a) form three city-states – Caer Serath, Kyro Anuraki, and Vel Yraki – and become those city-states’ rulers, ushering Eklesso into the long age of prosperity and progress.

● approx. Year 10-30: Hilka Empire is formed on the continent Mitrax and some time after conquers the whole continent. The island Eklesso, however, remains untouched.

● Not long before Year 1050: Eukleus VIII becomes the emperor of Hilka Empire and is considered to be a tyrannic hedonist.

● Year 1050: User becomes disillusioned and thinks that the Divine Heart (and Keltro) is evil and seeks to destroy it. A private meeting between User, Ilas, and Dhranir(a) is assembled in Kyro Anuraki on which User proposes to destroy the Heart. Dhranir(a) becomes enraged and kills User. Ilas is traumatized by that event and soon relegates his/her duties as the ruler to the council of Kyro Anuraki and spends most of the time in The Cipher Tower. The truth about User’s death is never revealed to Eklesso’s population, and Dhranir(a) and Ilas make User a saint in people’s eyes.

● Year 1950: Ilas and Dhranir(a) destroyed Eklesso scenario happens (male / female). Dhranir(a) becomes completely mad with guilt and paranoia and consumes the Divine Heart. Part of the Divine Heart merges with Dhranir(a), whereas another part causes the magic blast and high leakage of dense mana and residue, corrupting, mutating, and killing all life on Eklesso except Dhranir(a) and Ilas – and except flora and fauna inside and near The Cipher Tower due to Ilas’ protective magic barrier around it. As an emergency measure, Ilas deploys a big magic barrier around Eklesso to hold the corruption and not allow it to spread all over Ivarum – it’s a temporary measure because Ilas can’t keep it forever. Ilas and partially mutated and crazed Dhranir(a) are trying to come with a solution to the problem. Keltro intervenes, and a week later User is reconstructed from part of the mana that got released in Eklesso’s air after the blast, then User is told to fix the situation. Soon after, User, Dhranir(a), and Ilas meet each other.

● Three months after, the branching happens: in one version, User, Dhranir(a), and Ilas successfully deal with the corruption, in another version, they fail, the barrier around Eklesso disappears, and all Ivarum quickly becomes corrupted. In both versions, however, Ivarum ends up destroyed – just with different timing and by different causes.

● (Loop 2), Year 1050: Fix-It scenario happens (male / female). Keltro returns User’s consciousness to that year to prevent User from being killed by Dhranir(a) and to avoid the corruption of the planet. This action causes timeline to heavily branch from this point in history: in some branches User dies, in others Dhranir(a) is killed by User or Ilas, and there are even some where User survives. Aelara exists in some branches, while not in others.

● (Branch where User, Dhranir(a), and Ilas survive; Loop ???), somewhere before Year 1396: Tadorius IV becomes a new emperor of Hilka Empire and is considered a warmonger.

● (Branch where User, Dhranir(a), and Ilas survive; Loop ???), Year 1396: Tadorius IV launches a conquest against Eklesso.

● (Branch where User, Dhranir(a), and Ilas survive; Loop ???), Year 1400: Magic Apocalypse scenario happens (male / female). After being besieged for months, southern city-states are conquered, and the conquest goes deeper into Eklesso's territory. Despite User surviving, Ivarum is being destroyed one way or another. Keltro returns User’s consciousness again and again in different parts of the timeline in attempts to save the planet. Nothing works, and Keltro gives up, in the end choosing Ilas as the most promising champion and sacrificing Dhranir(a) and User, along with the whole life on the planet. Dhranir(a) detonates the Divine Heart, and this time it fully explodes, corrupting and destroying life of whole Ivarum for less than 6 hours. Keltro uses the pure mana generated by Dhranir(a), User, and the majority of Eklesso’s citizens to construct a very powerful magic barrier around The Cipher Tower, making it the only building to survive. As a side effect, Ilas, who’s locked inside, falls into deep sleep, and time becomes frozen inside the tower.

Thousands of years later, in Sol system. By this time all of Ivarum’s time branches have long ended up with the life on Ivarum being destroyed one way or another. Cat people’s existence is a side effect of Keltro’s heavy manipulations and corruption of the timeline.

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● 2038 AD – 2051 AD: World War 3 happens on Earth, leading to the collapse of majority of countries and their fracture into independent city-states and settlements, heavy pollution, and the death of billions people. Space exploration program collapses.

● late 2050s AD: cat people are genetically engineered as a byproduct of military experiments that have still remained active even after the end of the war. Soon, some of cat people are offered to civilians and are made a costly luxury that has no rights.

● somewhere between 2060s and 2070s AD: a city-state called Neo Noir is formed on the territory of former Canada, next to the polluted Fraser river. The area is relatively peaceful, so Neo Noir begins close trade with other city-states in the area. Meanwhile, part of the territory of former USA is a wasteland, and the habitable parts are constantly suffering from civil unrest, raiders, mercenaries, authoritarian governments, and other things. The Bureau of Cat People Control, also called BCPC, is formed somewhere around that time period – operating most likely only in more peaceful areas of the world.

● 2063 AD: Shiram is born on the territory of former USA. His origin is unknown but it’s possible that he was raised as a soldier.

● 2065 AD: Bernard Anderson is born in Neo Noir or somewhere not far from it.

● 2085 AD: Big Tom is born (most likely somewhere in spring) in Neo Noir or somewhere not far from it and is soon given to a World War 3 veteran, Michael Johnston, and his middle-class family. Michael’s daughter, Jennis, is the one who has come up with the name Big Tom as a joke about him being a runt. It’s highly possible that Jennis and Big Tom were childhood friends and playmates, and Jennis is the one who has taught Tom how to play a harmonica.

● 2097 AD: Jefferson Maclilly is born in Neo Noir or somewhere not far from it.

● 2101 AD: an economic crisis hits Neo Noir, and Michael Johnston loses his prestigious job and starts working at the shipyard. He starts drinking and beating his family.

● 2103 AD: Michael and his family are killed in their home. Big Tom is the only survivor because he was out grocery shopping when it happened. Tom is traumatized by this event but tosses away his cat people collar and runs away, fearing to be framed for the murder. Big Tom becomes a stray. The same year Reiza is born (most likely in autumn). She quickly becomes an orphan and fends for herself on the streets of Neo Noir, being a stray. It’s likely that Reiza is reincarnated Dhranir(a), hence why she possesses unnatural strength and reflexes. Dhranir(a)’s reincarnation is possible only because he/she has merged with a part of the Divine Heart previously, absorbing a fragment of Keltro’s power.

● 2111 AD: Bernard Anderson is assigned to work in the Hollow Rust as a BCPC officer.

● 2121 AD: Big Tom starts renting an apartment in the Hollow Rust while working odd jobs. Despite cat people not being allowed to legally work and own property, these rules are often semi-ignored in less stable sectors of Neo Noir, like the Hollow Rust.

● 2122 AD: Reiza begins living with Big Tom as a roommate.

● 2123 AD: The Crocus Killer scenario happens. Big Tom, Reiza, Bernard, and Jefferson investigate the case. The branching happens due to an unknown reason – but probably due to Reiza’s subconscious influence. The killer either runs away, is being arrested, or takes their own life after being discovered. The killer identity varies depending on the timebranch, with some cases it being Bernard Anderson. Shiram arrives to Neo Noir after the conclusion of The Crocus Killer’s case but before New Year’s celebration: he’s hired by Neo Noir’s security council to become its mole and puppet among stray cat people. With the help of security council’s secret funding, Shiram organizes The Bell Strays Gang. Big Tom and Reiza are among first few dozens strays to join it.

● 2124 AD: The Bell Strays Gang quickly rises to power and becomes the biggest stray cat people gang in the history of Neo Noir. Shiram kills his first accountant (the name of the account is unknown but the accountant is a he) after he has discovered evidences of Shiram’s connection to Neo Noir’s security council. Shiram lies that the accountant was dealt with because he had been secretly embezzling The Bell Strays Gang’s funds, however Shiram also can’t find the documented evidences against him because the accountant carefully hid them in the office before being killed. Big Tom becomes Shiram’s new accountant.

● 2125 AD: Summer of 2125 scenario happens. Big Tom finds hidden documented evidences against Shiram but remains reluctant to use them and hides them in his apartment. Eventually, Tom drinks too much and reveals this secret to Reiza. The latter uses it as a perfect excuse to duel Shiram to death. The branching happens due to an unknown reason – but, again, probably due to Reiza’s subconscious influence. In some versions, Shiram is defeated but not killed and successfully runs away from Neo Noir, in others he’s either killed by Reiza or runs away and is killed by the security council. The Bell Stray Gang is disbanded, but Big Tom and Reiza quickly form their own gangs – The Rustclaw Syndicate and Velvet Fangs – and a lot of The Bell Stray Gang’s former members join them.

● 2128 AD: Big Tom and Reiza become a couple.

● 2133 AD: Big Tom and Reiza break up.

● 2135-2137 AD: [further info is under construction]

● late 2030s – 2040s: cat people in many places revolt and are demanding to be granted freedom and equal rights, with the first place to start a revolt probably being Neo Noir. In many of those places they are granted freedom and equal rights. Later on, cat people become free in all places.

● 2190s AD: United Earth is formed by a handful of city-states and settlements, soon all others join them (either peacefully or not). Space exploration program is restored.

● 2305 AD: a desert planet is discovered and is named Ankaris. By that time, United Earth’s spaceships have traveled to many systems in the Milky Way, establishing a lot of colonies.

● 2310 AD: Pascal Stews is born. He is a descendant of either Big Tom, Reiza, or both of them. Pascal is also a reincarnation/full reconstruction of his self from original timeline.

● 2311 AD: a colony is established on Ankaris and is named Sandy Hope.

● 2338 AD: Pascal finishes his medical education and additional special training.

● 2340 AD: Pascal loses his medical license due to selling prescription drugs illegally as a side gig. Olgar wakes up in the middle of the desert on Ankaris, not remembering anything except her name: in reality, she’s either reconstructed User from Ivarum’s plot line, Keltro in a disguise, or a merge of both. She travels the desert and finds Sandy Hope, settling there temporarily and buying herself a fake ID with the surname Sullivan. Olgar has an inexplicable urge to travel to another Galaxy in search of the mysterious, unknown planet Ivarum. However, traveling there is very difficult due to United Earth’s civilization not yet having a proper, workable engine to be able to transport a spaceship to another Galaxy – only a one-of-a-kind, top secret military prototype hidden somewhere on central colonies, in a military lab. And so Olgar decides to collect enough credits to buy a secondhand spaceship and steal that engine.

● 2341 AD: Desert Planet Racing scenario happens. Pascal arrives on Ankaris having little money and no other prospects at finding a job, then he meets Olgar, and they start renting the quarters together as roommates. Olgar participates in local buggy races to save money for a secondhand ship, Pascal helps her as a navigator. User joins their efforts.

● 2344 AD: Olgar, Pascal, and a handful of colonists illegally leave the Milky Way and arrive to another Galaxy. They find Ivarum – its flora and fauna restored but there’s no civilization – and establish there a colony named Shimmering Glades. The colonists name the planet Ortumna. [further info is under construction]