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PRE-CANON
1000 years ago: Obsolescence
Adamantine Colony originally seeded by an early polity, probably via cold sleep ship, pre-Corporation Rim
Start of Corporation Rim
X years ago: The people who ended up going to Preservation were seeded into a colony that later failed.
280 years ago: Beginning of trip to Preservation in suspension boxes, taken there by "an independent ship" by Captain Consuela Makeba
90 years ago: The Pressy arrives in Preservation system
80 years ago: Terraforming begins on Preservation (planet)
72 years ago: Settlement on Preservation, alliance with two systems settled the same way but earlier
40 years ago: Adamantine Colony discovered
37 years ago: Adamantine Colony re-seeded through the wormhole by a company called Adamantine Explorations
30 years ago: Second colony site (AdaCol2) established near terraforming engines
20 years ago: Second colony site (AdaCol2) stops contact with main (AdaCol1) site
5 years ago: Alien hivemind and new symptoms at AdaCol1 site
4 years ago: Ganaka Pit (35,000 hours = 4 years ago)
3.75 years ago: Hacked governor module (33,000+ hours = 3.75 years ago)
Compulsory: on episode 44 of Sanctuary Moon
58 days before Day 1: Tarik joins crew of Perihelion (387 days before adventure with AdaCol2)
10 days prior to Day 1: Mensah not wanting to rent a SecUnit
ALL SYSTEMS RED
Day 1: Arrive on survey planet
Day 24: Hostile One worm attacks Drs Bharadwaj and Volescu
Day 25: MB repaired, PresAux analyze the information packet about the planet and determine they have missing sections
Day 26: Trip to missing map sections. PresAux are unable to contact DeltFall, rescue team begin flight to DeltFall and fly through the night
Day 27: Arrive at DeltFall habitat at dawn, find everyone dead, fight SecUnits, Mensah rescues MB, MB shoots self to stop override module, group flies back
Day 28: MB wakes up, PresAux habitat abandoned, PresAux setup temp camp and take watches overnight
Day 29: "Mid-afternoon the next day", return to abandoned habitat for drone info, lasts until at least the night
Day 30: Meet at GrayCris habitat, set off beacon
Day 31-37: PresAux hides on-planet until rescue arrives
Day 43: PresAux and Murderbot arrive at Port FreeCommerce
Day 44-45: Expedited legal battle to preserve evidence (i.e., not wipe Murderbot's memories) and allow Dr. Mensah to buy it.
Day 45: Mensah gives an interview to the journalist who writes the full piece MB reads at the start of AC. This includes saying she purchased MB.
Day 46: MB wakes up on Port FreeCommerce, MB is taken custody of by PresAux. It runs away that night, hitching a ride with an unmanned cargo ship on a 7 cycle trip
ARTIFICIAL CONDITION
Day 53: MB arrives at station where it meets ART (free agent for less than 7 cycles)
Day 54: MB leaves with ART
Day 55: Newsburst posted saying MB is unsecured
Day 54-75: MB and ART interactions, configuration change
Day 75: ART and MB arrive in RaviHyral Mining Facility Q Station, initial meeting with Rami, Tapan and Maro occurs later the same day
Day 76: MB, Tapan, Maro, and Rami take shuttle from Station to RaviHyral proper, first meeting with Tlacey, corridor fight, Rami and Maro head back to Station while Tapan stays behind, MB goes to Ganaka Pit
Day 77: Travel time to and from GP plus MB spends over 5 hours reviewing the ComfortUnits' logs. MB meets back with up Tapan and they spend the night at a transient room. ComfortUnit visits during the night cycle
Day 78: MB meets with Tapan's friend and gets their files back, Tapan picked up by Tlacey's goons, Second Meeting with Tlacey on her shuttle, ART, MB, and Tapan & Co go their separate ways to avoid being connected with the murders
ROGUE PROTOCOL
Day 78: MB leaves RaviHyral. 7 cycle trip
Day 79: Interview where Mensah says Milu should be investigated is posted
Day 85: MB arrives at interconnecting station and hitches a ride with the contract labor transport (Ayres, 26 cycle trip)
Day 111: MB arrives at HaveRatton. Gerth and Wilken board Ship 20 hours later
Day 112: MB leaves HaveRatton. 20 cycle trip
Day 123: Volescu, Bharadwaj, Overse, and Arada leave Port FreeCommerce to return to Preservation
Day 132: MB arrives at Milu, adventures on the CombatBot-infested terraforming platform (Don Abene and crew took a rest period before their first assessment, which was supposed to last 12 hours), Miki dies, MB immediately leaves with Ship once the shuttle gets back to Milu station
EXIT STRATEGY
Day 137: GrayCris accuses Mensah of corporate espionage.
Day 138: Palisade kidnaps Mensah. Pin-Lee sends vague message toward Preservation. Transit to TRH begins
Day 138: Volescu, Bharadwaj, Overse, and Arada arrive at Preservation
Day 144: Palisade arrives at TRH with Mensah. Company gunship arrives at TRH with Ratthi, Pin-Lee, and Gurathin. Gunship has been hanging around for 20 cycles by the time MB shows up on Day 164.
Day 145: GrayCris makes demands to drop suit, or they'll kill Mensah. Pin-Lee tells Preservation what's going on in more detail this time
Day 148: Preservation gets Pin-Lee's 1st message
Day 152: Preservation gets Pin-Lee's 2nd message, Bharadwaj makes announcement
Day 153: MB arrives back at HaveRatton. (20 cycle trip, plus a little) Buys clothes, MB boards first transport towards a "major hub" that can take it to TranRollinHyfa (7 cycle trip)
Day 155: Preservation compiles an asset list as they negotiate for Mensah's release.
Day 160: MB arrives at connection between HR and TRH, 10 hour layover, gets Bharadwaj announcement, mails data clips to Preservation
Day 164: MB arrives at TRH, books hotel room, researches PresAux presence, does coding
Day 165: Rescue operation begins. 5 hours waiting for PresAux to leave hotel, lure Serrat to hotel room, free Mensah, flee to docks, get on gunship, fry own brain.
Day 172: Gunship arrives Port FreeCommerce (6 cycle trip), transfer to Preservation ship, "shitty" ship departs for Preservation (15 cycle trip)
Day 187: Arrive Preservation Station, MB somewhat mobile and scatterbrained.
Day 188: MB finishes memory rebuild, pretends to leave
Day 189: MB goes to Mensah's office and spends the rest of the night watching media. Meets her two marital partners and mini-Mensah that morning, balcony conversation. The introduction of Murderbot to Mensah's partners was related in Network Effect. I am placing it immediately after the balcony scene – the two adults who entered with mini-Mensah were Farai and Tano.
HOME
Day 190: Mensah's meeting with Ephraim about SecUnit being allowed on station, she's still hanging with PresAux in the hotel, and her family is in their family quarters on station. She's supposed to be with them, but is instead working with the team, fetching syrup, and being startled to tears by journalists. Murderbot suggests Mensah check out Station Medical's trauma program.
FUGITIVE TELEMETRY
Day 191-204: Mensah meets with councilors about allowing a SecUnit on station. Pin-Lee and Mensah meet with Indah to discuss SecUnit's feed profile. Pin-Lee discussed with SecUnit how it could benefit its refugee status by getting employment. Its employment contract is written up, Station Security briefed on GrayCris. MB pushing for Mensah to have more security.
Day 194: Two cycles after the feed ID discussion, someone sends a picture of SecUnit to the station newsstream identifying it as the rogue SecUnit from the CR newsfeed rumors
Day 196: MB has its first visit with Dr. Bharadwaj 2 days after photo leak, Mensah gives MB two boxes of intel drones
Day 198: MB has its second visit with Dr. Bharadwaj, helps Ratthi with data analysis
Day 200: MB has its third visit with Dr. Bharadwaj
Day 202: MB has its fourth visit with Dr. Bharadwaj
Day 203: Lutran arrives on station and books a room for 2 days, the Lalow was supposed to have a cargo transfer
Day 204: MB has its fifth visit with Dr. Bharadwaj
Day 205: Lutran killed 4 hours before body is found, MB fucks off but then visits Tellus and goes to the docks, breaks into the Lalow with Ratthi and Gurathin’s help, Indah/Aylen/MB go to talk to Lalow crew and get jumped, Lalow crew get arrested. Penis move, right?
Day 206: Off shift crew comes in early, search of docks, they use Mensah’s office to hail the responder, MB gets the life tender, Ratthi and Gurathin are still awake or awake again and in the food court, refugees are saved, MB is shot, at the end of the day cycle they decide to set a trap for Lutran’s killer, the docks are deserted when a crane nearly falls on MB, MB fights Balin
NETWORK EFFECT
Day 207: The assassination attempt happens. Mensah is poised, controlled, and has a good grasp on how GrayCris is gunning for her. It would seem that Mensah's family was not present on station, because later in NE, Thiago was not aware this happened.
Day 208-239: Six short, boring meetings on ships in dock or orbit that Murderbot accompanies Mensah to.
Day 208-265: MB sets up regular meetings with Dr. Bharadwaj (mentioned in FT, no idea how many or how often)
Day 239: Festival. Murderbot blackmails Mensah into attending trauma therapy as a condition of it going on Arada's water planet survey.
Day 257: Barish-Estranza exploration party enters Adamantine Colony system
Day 266: First drop box trip in Adamantine Colony system – B-E explorer contact party taken over by targets
Day 272: Water planet survey begins (4 days transit to planet, 26 days planned with 20 actual on-planet or in orbit, 4 days back)
Day 274: Mensah had her first set of appointments for therapy/trauma treatment
Day 290: ART arrives in Adamantine colony system
Day 295: ART attacked (via Eletra and Ras being brought on board, both suffering memory issues from carrying targetControlSystem kernel), ART's crew removed (5 days 14 hours before second drop box trip), ART leaves for Preservation (3 hour trip) to get a weapon
Day 295: Water planet survey departs water planet 3-6 days earlier than expected after raider conflict
Day 295-300: ART hangs out in standby in Preservation space (5ish days)
Day 300: Water planet survey returns to Preservation space, MB and Amena abducted by ART, Ratthi, Arada, Overse, and Thiago brought along in base ship, wormhole journey (3 hour trip), ART arrives in Adamantine colony system (8 hours before second drop box trip), Second drop box trip transports down ART's crew for additional implants, ART encounters B-E supply transport (4 hours after second drop box trip), ART reaches space dock (4 hours later), search space dock (1 hour), B-E explorer shows up, ART leaves space dock to engage, deploys MB 2.0, MB, Thiago, and Overse use drop-box (1 hour), find ART's crew, MB gets captured, B-E explorer destroyed by MB 2.0, Three shows up with some of ART's crew and informs ART of MB 1.0 being captured
Day 301: Rescue planned, MB 1.0 wakes and escapes the contamination pit, finds MB 2.0, finds targetContact, destroys AdaCol 1 and MB 2.0, flees, Three rescues MB 1.0, escapes in shuttle, targetContact hit with armed pathfinder, ART offers to include MB in their next mission
Day 304: B-E crew sent back to Leonide, MB gives Three additional files
Day 320: Preservation responder shows up with Mensah and Pin-Lee, MB discusses going on the next mission with ART
SYSTEM COLLAPSE
Day 324: B-E party shows up 4 days after the responder
Day 325: 12+ hours after the B-E ship shows up, [redacted] happens
Day 326: Ratthi and Tarik have a sexual discussion
Day 330: MB on the ground dealing with ag-bot while Karime and Three are dealing with AdaCol1 colonists, flight of undetermined length to polar region (12 hours based on ASR travel time)
Day 331: AdaCol2 adventure, 5 hours to make the documentary
Day 332: Holism arrives, flight up to ART
Day 339: Getting colonists off the planet, MB recommends Three to listen to Holism's infrastructure proposals
End of published canon