Sime~GenChronology

Sime~Gen
where a mutation makes the evolutionary
division into male and female
pale by comparison.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE SIME~GEN UNIVERSE

In the Days of the Ancients, Simes and Gens lived together without strife, the Gens freely giving selyn to the Simes, the Simes protecting and caring for the Gens. But then the Gens grew selfish. They wanted to keep all the selyn for themselves. The Simes grew weaker and weaker, and finally they went to the Ancients to ask for help, that they should make the Gens give up the selyn they could not use.

The Ancients called the Gens before them and asked why they kept for themselves the energy of life that they could not use. "It is a great treasure," they said. "See how the Simes desire it. It must be very valuable, and therefore we will store it up."

At that the Ancients became angry. "You have not the wits to know that this substance has value only when you share it! For your foolishness, we make you subject to the Simes, to be their cattle. And to the Simes we give the power to take selyn from you, whether you will or not."

This table layout was typed for us by Mary Arens from the work by Katie Filipowicz in the Paperback First Channel.

Unity Calendar Date	Elapsed Time	Pivotal Event	Published/ Planned Story	Historical Background
*	Here and Now	*	*	*
-1833 Unity Calendar	at least 1,000 yrs	*	As a matter of policy, no authoritative novels or stories are to be written describing the collapse of Ancient Civilization. The people who must live as Sime or Gen never can have any proof about what caused the mutation or how it happened. Simes and Gens, of course, have written many such novels and even Sacred Texts and have thousands of theories about how it happened.	First Simes appear; civilization collapses; Ancients die out. Nomadic existence. Some Ancient knowledge blamed for the mutation preserved secretly by isolated communities (e.g. School of Rathor: esoterica). Gens develop gunpowder, partition of world into settled Sime and Gen Territories, leaving nomad groups such as gypsies and Freeband Raiders.
-833 -533	several centuries	*	*	Organized Territory governments; Gens raised in pens in Sime Territory. Raiding across the borders. Ways of the Starred Cross help Gens escape from Sime Territory. Gen Church of the Purity calls Simes demons to be destroyed.
-533 -530	3 years	Self-identification of the first channel, Rimon Farris. Rimon has a son, Zeth, when he's about 18 natal years. Fort Freedom set on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains.	*FIRST CHANNEL (pub. 1980)**	First known community of Simes and Gens living together, in Sime Territory. Channel transfer dominates there, some renSime (ordinary Sime) /Gen transfer.
-527 -518	9 years	*	*	*
- 518 -517	1 year	Zeth Farris, Rimon's son, changes over and is handed leadership before the end of his First Year, when Rimon and Kadi die at the age of about 29 years. Zeth discovers anti-kill conditioning.	*CHANNEL'S DESTINY (1982?)**	First recorded incident of unofficial Sime/Gen cooperation across the border.
-516 Established in RenSime and FARRIS CHANNEL	few years	First "Householdings" formed, called "Forts" including Zeth's Fort Rimon. Zeth has a son, Del Rimon born (unknown to them at the time) in the year that will be known as -516 -- 48 years before he founds Zeor. Fort Rimon breaks up and the Forts scatter for protection, hoping some will survive.	COMPANIONS by Jean Lorrah The story of the breakup of Fort Freedom into seed Forts that scatter to the winds for survival of the non-junct lifestyle. (unwritten) *	The cultural status of Gens as authority figures among Householders is formed.
-516 -500	*	First "Householdings" formed, called "Forts" including Zeth's Fort Rimon. Zeth has a son, Del Rimon. Fort Rimon breaks up and the Forts scatter for protection, hoping some will survive The farflung Forts collapse, economically and strategically overrun during political instability among the juncts.	"Willing Victim" unpublished short story by Jacqueline Lichtenberg The Need is the title of the movie script based on this short story.	Politically, Nivet Territory is falling apart, and economically the Pens are not able to cope. This happens periodically within every living memory, but this time it seems worse.
-468 (established in RenSime)	1-2 years	Zeth's son Del Rimon Farris, ~ 48 Natal Years Old, founds Zeor. Del Rimon discovers that all the data on channeling makes perfect sense if you just leave out all data on Farrises, thus founding Modern Transfer Mechanics as a science.	THE FARRIS CHANNEL A new S~G novel of the founding of the House of Zeor after the collapse of the Forts.	Del Rimon Farris, son of Zeth Farris, known as Delri to his family, and Rimon to everyone else, gathers the refugees from the fallen Forts and founds The House of Zeor with 400 sworn members, ambrov Zeor. History records that Zeor was founded by Rimon Farris, thus confusing the two Rimons.
-500 -120	380 years	*	*	Householdings proliferate and spread to other Territories in North America, then around the world. Other places in the world only hear that such a thing as channeling is possible, and re-invent the process for themselves. Thus variations abound.
circa - 117	*	Tallin is First Companion in Dar while his son is Sectuib	"The Problem of the Pilfered Pen" by Mary Lou Mendum and other Tallin&Eskalee stories	The Householdings thrive in Nivet Territory but Zelerod hasn't published his famous Paper yet. The Pen system is working well, fortunes and reputations are being made In-and-Out-Territory. It is not apparent that this society is doomed.
*	*	*	*	*
- 20 years	1-2 years	Risa Tigue becomes Sectuib in House of Keon, one of only two Householdings in Gulf Territory. The other is Carre.	AMBROV KEON (1986)**	Householdings spread to other Sime Territories, spurring technological redevelopment. First Tecton, barely legal organization of Householdings. Houses emerge as vital economic force.
-16-17 years	*	Jimin Vandyke and Kareen Alldean arrive in Zeor	SHINING STAR AND STEP AFTER STEP by Marge Robbins	*
*	*	*	*	*
- 15 years	one month	Klyd Farris, Sectuib in Zeor, meets Hugh Valleroy, leading to Hugh's founding House of Rior.	HOUSE OF ZEOR (Doubleday 1974)	*
- 2 to 3 months	*	Aran a second order channel , son of Kareen and Jimin, changes over and is served First Transfer by Klyd Farris	Untitled by Marge Robbins unwritten	*
Year 0 UNITY CALENDAR	YEAR ONE	Third Order channels identified. Klyd founds "modern" Tecton. Hugh founds Distect. Keon opts for Tecton. The Secret Pens are established.	ZELEROD'S DOOM * (1986)**	Tecton takes over Territory government, initiates negotiations with nearby Gen government; they cooperate to eliminate last great group of Freeband Raiders. First Contract signed: Tecton undertakes to see that Simes never feel need. RenSimes denied direct Gen transfer. New calendar established. Simes allowed in Gen Territory, but with retainers confining their tentacles.
Year 0	Year 0	The Last Kill is announced, and the Unity Treaty takes effect Zhag disjuncts before meeting Tonyo	TO KISS OR TO KILL by Jean Lorrah -- A Sime~Gen Romance	PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE flashes back to this time though set in Year 250
Year 1	*	Jimin and Kareen leave Zeor to found Householding Chanel with Kareen as Sosectu	THE LIGHT OF ZEOR by Marge Robbins and Jacqueline Lichtenberg	*
Year 1	few years	*	(SHEN THE TECTON) (unwritten story of conflicts over the First Contract)	*
Year 1	(10-15 yrs after Unity)	The Life and Times of Zhag and Tonyo, Musical Diplomats from Gulf Territory - and of Oliver Tigue. The golden age of Gulf Territory during which basic telegraph and radio ELECTRICITY BASED technology becomes borderline commercially viable despite the expense of metals. It all rests on a political base of optimism and trust.	3 stories about Zhag and Tonyo "Best of Fools" by Jean Lorrah, "The Story Untold" by Jean Lorrah "Reflection of a Dream" by Jean Lorrah	Schools for channels, Donors, and renSimes founded. Tecton spreads around the world. Householdings become non-localized corporations. The Distect, supporters of direct Sime/Gen transfer for all, rebel, are defeated at Battle of Leander Field, arid go into hiding.
Year 2 or3	2-3	The Tecton forces Chanel to chose a Sectuib or lose its recognition as an independent House	Untitled by Marge Robbins. Unwritten	*
*	??	Oliver Tigue announces the existence of the Secret Pens to Gen Territory. This bursts the political base of optimism and trust, and ends the Gulf Territory technological explosion in a terrible economic depression.	*	*
Year 10 Year 15	10-15 years?	Secret Pens Abolished	THE ONLY GOOD SIME . . . by Kerry Lindemann-Schaefer, and all her stories about Freven, the last Disjunct Channel to be trained and allowed to work.	*
Year 12	YEAR 12	Aran Sectuib in Chanel puts his career on the line to train Frevven Alymeer the last disjunct channel	CONTROLLERS DILLEMA by Marge Robbins and Kerry Lindemann -Schafer	*
Year 15	*	A young channel learns the hard way what it means to be Ambrov Chanel	BE NOT AFRAD by Marge Robbins	*
Year 23	*	Kareen dies at hostile Gen hands saving the life of a changeover victim while serving in an out-t Sime Center	Untitled by Marge Robbins unwritten	*
Year 30	*	Setting for the Bender Cove RPG which might be regarded as invented by Simes and Gens on the cross-Border Internet	*	*
Year 30	*	Lisa, Sectuib Aran's daughter leaves Chanel and becomes Ambrov Zeor for a time in a search for her Sectuib's vision for Chanel That same year Aran retires making Lisa Sectuib in Chanel	Untitled by Marge Robbins unwritten	*
Year 45	*	Aran dies saving lives during a fire set at an o-t Sime Center	*	*
Year 65	*	First Publication of Mathematical Description of selyn flow. This first description eventually proves incorrect, as are subsequent modifications of the theory, but over the next 60 years the theory is refined to be good enough to generate and support a burgeoning selyn driven technology based on the selyn-battery. The battery technology slowly begins to give rise to selyn powered lighting, cars, slideroad trains that "mag-lev" over a refractory bed, and eventually to digital technology. This is not in common usage in-and-Out-T and on outlying farms and homesteads until about 130 to 140. The science that produces the slideroad's bed leads to the integrated circuit and chip technology. This will be seen in the digital telephone network in use around the year 125 in-T and spreading slowly out-T by the mid-130's.	*	*
68	*	Research and statistics (remember statistics is a math redeveloped to a very high degree OUT-TERRITORY --- Sime society doesn't think in terms of averages, medians etc. and doesn't tend to think about the behavior of large numbers of things.) -- statistical records are finally amassed and studied and it is established that a Channel's or Donor's "Order" is an inherent characteristic of an individual.	*	*
76	*	End of 8 years of political struggle over the Inherent Rank theory of Channels.	*	*
94	*	First scientific papers in the Journals about breaking down the Ratings into Rankings -- so that each of the 3 Ratings has 4 rankings within it. (i.e. QN-1 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0) arbitrarily assigning the Farris to the QN-1 4.0 Rate/Rank.	*	*
Year 103	*	Digen Farris born	*	*
113	*	Digen Farris's Changeover	"To Strike a Spark; To Light a Fire" (unpublished, but posted to the web)	*
115	*	Rankings Officially instituted. Official testing and re-testing schedules adopted.	*	*
125 127	Yr. 125 - 127	Sectuib Digen Farris begins his out-Territory Medical Schooling, and from changeover to his death held the World Controllership a record 6 times (1 year terms -- often not completed).	"A Change of Mind and Heart" "A Legacy of Trust" by Mary Lou Mendum; My Life Is My Own, by Cherri Munoz, posted . A Shift of Means by Mary Lou Mendum --	The Tecton vies hard to place Sime Centers in every small town Out-Territory. The World Controllership is created. Cross border phone service established, digital selyn-powered networking. It takes nearly a hundred years for the selyn-powered digital phone services to lead to the cross-border Internet because of political resistance, economic instability, and assorted problems not related to technical capability.
132 - date established in RenSime	*	*	UNTO ZEOR, FOREVER by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Dbdy 1978 UZF won the Galaxy Award for Spirituality in Science Fiction and is still available on paper. A different version of the history can be read in Sime Surgeon, a rough draft of this novel, posted online as a text for the WorldCrafters Guild but available to everyone to read free.	The donor shortage is remedied by Hayashi's machine-training of Donors. (biofeedback training)
*	~4 years	*	*	*
*	*	Aild Ercy Farris, Digen's daughter and Sectuib Apparent in Zeor is born	*	*
152	*	Aild Ercy Farris changes over and discovers how to distill Kerduvon, Moondrop, and "disjunct" Digen. This leads to eruption of his Endowment.	MAHOGANY TRINROSE by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Dbdy, 1981	*
172	*	A mathematical definition of the Levels of selyn storage (the equivalent of the invention of Quantum Mechanics) is devised: the initial publication contains errors. With revision, the math becomes useful beyond theoretical physics.	SPECIAL DISPENSATION by Jean Lorrah	*
*	*	Aild Ercy Farris returns to Zeor to give birth to a son and die, leaving Digen to raise his grandson, Mairis Farris in Zeor.	*	*
*	*	Orbital flight and satellites become commonplace.	*	*
185	*	The Math Description of Levels gives rise to the DeBroglie technology which comes into common usage over the next 40 years In-and-Out Territory. (against enormous resistance by those who fear the unknowable effects of "Nageric Pollution" on Sime and Gen alike.) Levels Math also gives rise to the technology underlying the Attenuators.	*	*
224	*	Mairis Farris saves an important Senator's life and furthers his campaign to get Attenuators accepted as a substitute for Retainers.	"Operation High Time" by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Jan 1969 issue of IF Magazine, posted to the web.	*
230	*	Beginnings of the Cross-Border Internet Satellites for communication relay, weather, and space exploration by telescope well in place. Relied upon In-and-Out-T.	"Borderlands Co-operative Fiction Scenario" rumored to have been invented by players on the Cross-Border Internet.	This group is generally considered to have created the cross-border Internet. Up close and personal stories about life on the Border.
232 - date established in print	*	Digen's Funeral -- The Digen Coin first minted - 700 years after Delri's founding of Zeor. Digen's profile on one side, the Starred-Cross shaped Monument to the Last Berserker on the obverse.	RenSime by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, DAW Books Dec 1984 (working title was SIME FROM GEN DIVIDED)	Laneff Farris ambrov Sat'htine discovers how to tell Sime from Gen before birth.
245	6 months	Rialite campus computerized. Vret McClintok and Ilin Sumz meet and become Troubleshooters. They meet an unnamed renSime nicknamed Blissdrip on the Secret Boards who believes he lived a life as the telepath sadist Aunser ambrov D'Zehn founder of the Secret Pens. Now he's a computer geek at the cutting edge of the e-revolution.	PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE by Jacqueline Lichtenberg RECOGNIZANCE flashes back to the historical period of TO KISS OR TO KILL (Year 0).
250	*	Internet Burgeons to 30% penetration and hits "critical mass" as a commercial megatrend	*	*
260	*	Th Internet connectivity among In-And-Out-T Universities spurs out-T Gen contributions to DeBroglie Technology and discussions and publications on the theory of FTL drive begin to appear in legitimate Scientific Journals.	*	*
280	*	First funding of serious FTL experiments. Over the next decade, several experimental FTL flights go out of our solar system and never return.	*	*
302	*	The FTL Mystery is solved with the advent of Orgonics Technology, and the first FTL ship makes a round trip -- the galaxy is open for exploration. Keon begins immediate plans to fund a colony as soon as practical - leaving Zeor in the dust.	*	*
1200	*	Yone Farris leads a group of stranded passenger liner refugees to found a colony on a lost world	"The Channel's Exemption"	Endowed Channels use Endowment openly
13??	*	Xigram Klairon Farris takes a terrible risk while astrogating the cargo ship Pebble Beach on a mercy mission	"Easy as Hop, Skip, and Jump" by Jacqueline Lichtenberg (unpublished early attempt at a story -- posted to Rimon's Library)	*
1400	*	Xigram Klairon Farris brings Yone's World into the Intersteller Tecton and changes everything.	Untitled	House of Zeor goes Dark.
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