Alpha Mission Timeline
| Year | Mission | World events | Tata | Helen |
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| 2125 | 2128 Tata meets David Rodrigues
2127 (September) Tata reaches Arcadia 2127 (September) David Martinez is killed by Nova Brasil forces, Tata escapes
2127 (June) Tata finally reaches Manaus |
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| 2120 | 2022 the Barrier forms around as Comunidades Livres | 2122 Tata with the Tupi
2021 Tata signs on as a ‘hostess’ aboard the Fitzcarraldo |
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| 2115 | 2119 Tata flees Olinda | |||
| 2110 | 2115 Tata meets Gustavo | |||
| 2105 | 2108 Miss da Guia abducted from her estate, later dies in botched rescue attempt
2106 Miss da Guia presents AMA ’06 |
2107 onwards widespread disorder in Brazil – local Camposetta’s begin military campaign
2106 Collapse starts – bombs in Sao Paulo |
2109 Camposettas drive civil authorities out of Olinda
Tata loses her job |
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| 2100 | 2104 Felipe born
2103 Tata reaches Olinda 2100 Tata reaches Brasilia 2098 Tata escapes from her ‘uncle’ |
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| 2095 | 2095 Tata living with her aunt Fernanda | |||
| 2090 | 2093 Tata’s mother dies | 2094 Helen Choi dies | ||
| 2085 | 2087 Zhao Su-ying and Raj Desai are born on A5 rest of the Children follow at yearly intervals | 2085 Helen places Tata with the Camacho’s | ||
| 2080 | 2083 Mission achieves planetfall on Alpha 5
2081 Mission arrives at solution – return message sent 2080 Miss da Guia born 2080 The Probe reaches the heart of the Centauran system |
2084 Tata ‘born’ | 2083 Helen’s 70th birthday | |
| 2075 | 2075 (April) message reaches Mission control | 2078 Alex dies following a third heart attack
2076 Helen resigns from the Mission to nurse her husband
2075 (July) Helen meets and is briefly held by Network representatives Helen returns with the good news – Alex has a second heart attack 2075 (April) Helen returns to active science heading up a team to find a solution |
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| 2070 | 2070 original twelve found not to be viable, Probe sends message to Earth | 2073 Helen has professorship conferred upon her | ||
| 2065 | 2068 Helen awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics | |||
| 2060 | 2063 Helen ceases to be a working scientist and becomes Mission head of Physical Sciences | |||
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| 2050 | ||||
| 2045 | 2048 Probe leaves Earth orbit | 2044 Helen gives birth to first child, Calvin | ||
| 2040 | 2042 NASA budget withdrawn – staff join Alpha Mission in droves
2041 USA effectively splits in two |
2042 marries Alex Choi
2040 Helen meets Alex |
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| 2035 | 2036 Russia pulls out of the Mission after arguments over funding |
2038 Texas secedes from the Union
2037 (Sept) Threatened with Federal shutdown at the start of her second term, Madeleine Park rules by decree |
2038 Helen awarded PhD
2035 Helen graduates from HKU and joins Mission |
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| 2030 | 2033 Nations sign secret treaty bringing
Alpha Mission into being |
2033 Madeleine Park is inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States | 2031 Helen leaves St. Hilda’s | |
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| 2015 | ||||
| 2010 | 2013 Helen Cheung born |