Radiance

Chronology

(Some dates are approximate due to known issues with reconciling standard and sub-light transit calendars.)

1858: Conrad Wernyhora and Carlotta Xanthea launch the Tree of Knowledge from the Hawaiian islands, Earth

1872: Violet El-Hashem born in Marrakech, Earth

1876: Hathor Callowmilk Corporation founded

1883: Percival Unck born

1891: Mary Pellam born

1902: Proserpine, an American colony on Pluto, is destroyed. Cause unknown.

August 1908: Mary Pellam’s first significant role (Meet Me on Ganymede, dir. Hester Jimenez-Stern)

24 March 1914: First episode of How Many Miles to Babylon? broadcast throughout the inner Solar System

29 October 1914: Severin born in the Lunar city of Tithonus

6 January 1915: Premiere of The Red Beast of Saturn (dir. Percival Unck)

25 January 1916: Erasmo St. John born on location in Guan Yu, Mars

1917: Enyo, a Russian mining settlement on Mars, is destroyed. Cause unknown.

3 July 1919: Premiere of Hope Has No Master (dir. Percival Unck)

1921: Severin sees Mary Pellam for the first time in The Seduction of Madame Mortimer (dir. Thaddeus Irigaray)

1922: Percival Unck and Mary Pellam wed

1924: The Abduction of Proserpine (dir. Percival Unck) released

3 July 1924: Anchises St. John born in Adonis, Venus

14 January 1930: The Achelois sets sail from Tithonus Harbour for The Miranda Affair (dir. Thaddeus Irigaray) wrap party

1936: Self-Portrait with Saturn (dir. Severin Unck) released

Christmas 1937: Erasmo and Severin become romantically involved

1938: The Famine Queen of Phobos (dir. Severin Unck) released

1939: The Stone in Swaddling Clothes departs for the Outer System

1940: The Clamshell built

1940: Fifth Venusian census, the last to record the village of Adonis

1941: And the Sea Remembered, Suddenly (dir. Severin Unck) released

1943: The Sleeping Peacock (dir. Severin Unck) released

June 1944: Moscow Worlds’ Fair / The Clamshell departs for filming of The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew (dir. Severin Unck)

16 November 1944: The Clamshell lands at White Peony Station for Radiant Car principal photography

21 November 1944: Radiant Car film crew sets out from White Peony Station

1 December 1944: Crew arrives in Adonis, Venus, first contact made

2 December 1944: Auditory phenomena commences

3 December 1944: Severin disappears

1946: Erasmo St. John debriefed by Oxblood Films

10 October 1947: Severin’s funeral in absentia

1951: Severin’s funeral

1959: Production begins on The Deep Blue Devil (dir. Percival Unck)

Spring 1959: Posthumous publication of Erasmo St. John’s book The Sound of a Voice That Is Still

1960: Major rewrite on The Deep Blue Devil, retitled The Man in the Malachite Mask (dir. Percival Unck)

Winter 1961: Major rewrite on The Man in the Malachite Mask, retitled Doctor Callow’s Dream (dir. Percival Unck)

Summer 1961: Major rewrite on Doctor Callow’s Dream, retitled And if She’s Not Gone, She Lives There Still (dir. Percival Unck)

December 1961–October 1962: The action of The Deep Blue Devil The Man in the Malachite Mask Doctor Callow’s Dream And If She’s Not Gone, She Lives There Still takes place