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• [WING COMMANDER II: VENGEANCE OF THE KILRATHI prologue] An attack on the Enigma Sector Kilrathi headquarters at K’Tithrak Mang falls short when the renowned TCS Tiger’s Claw is ambushed and destroyed by a wing of Kilrathi stealth fighters. Lieutenant Commander Christopher "Maverick" Blair, the carrier’s sole survivor save for a few other pilots on patrol that had been an instrumental pilot during the Vega Sector Campaign up through the Firekka dilemma, lands on the TCS Austin and reports the sighting of the Kilrathi stealth fighters responsible but is nevertheless charged a day later with negligence (but in suspicion of treason) and placed under house arrest into 2656.322. After a full court-martial, Blair is reduced in rank to captain. Rear Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn, believing him a traitor, disgustedly reassigns Blair to In-System Security (Insys/ISS) duty on Caernarvon Station in the Gwynedd System, far from the front lines of the ongoing Intergalactic War on the other side of the Enigma Sector. WC2, WC3, WCKS

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• An Enigma Sector colony of Kilrathi on the planet Ghorah Khar, after a period of subtle rebellion, declares independence from the Kilrathi Empire and goes to the Confederation for protection. As Prince Thrakhath learns of this, he orders Khasra "Redclaw" nar Kiranka, his cousin and brother of Bakhtosh "Redclaw" nar Kiranka, the deceased Kilrathi ace, to annihilate the Ghorah Khar shipyards to prevent the rebels and Confed from utilizing the Kilrathi stealth fighter technology housed there. WC2

• A secret Confederation superweapon project codenamed Behemoth is begun, an effort led by an officer named Ubarov in the Weapons Development Office to end the Kilrathi War in one swift stroke. Though the project is estimated to take a decade longer to complete, its potential is unbelievable. WC3, WC3N, WCFC
• The Church of Man Retro Terrorist Plot is unraveled in the Gemini Sector, having flourished for five years from not only their support during the treasonous Meshach administration, but now from Clan Sihkag of the Kilrathi Empire to assist them in tying down the Confederation forces in the area. PRV

• In the Hari Sector within Kilrathi space, a region formerly occupied by the long-defeated Hari race, the royal Kiranka Clan begins construction of a fleet of Hakaga-class supercarriers. Project Hari, as it is called, is predicted to take five years to complete. WCFA

• The focus of the Intergalactic War drifts away from the decade-long Battle of Repleetah. Supply ships and reinforcements have long since ceased to visit the research planet. Finally, only a handful of troops remain on either side. The sole surviving Terran officer, Lieutenant Miles D’Arby, leads his men in a last-ditch effort to overrun the Kilrathi position. No one but a handful of Terran refugees live through this last action on either side. The Battle of Repleetah has finally come to an end. WC3, WCKS
• While the war progresses, the Society of Mandarins surfaces, a human organization who believes that humanity is doomed to utter defeat by the Kilrathi, so they serve them in order to gain favor for when they are victorious. These people betray the Confederation, often supplying the Kilrathi with TCSN carrier coordinates, mission specifics, etc. WC2

• [WING COMMANDER II: VENGEANCE OF THE KILRATHI begins] Captain Christopher "Maverick" Blair is called to action after a decade of Insys duty on Caernarvon Station when the nearby TCS Concordia falls under heavy Kilrathi attack and sends out a distress call. He subsequently applies for a transfer, but despite Rear Admiral Tolwyn’s strong misgivings about Blair and refusing the transfer request itself, Blair is allowed to stay aboard as a result of his much-needed skill in the cockpit. Blair meets old Tiger’s Claw acquaintance Colonel Jeannette "Angel" Devereaux, now the wing commander aboard the Concordia, and again becomes romantically involved with her. WC2
• After Confederation forces are able to successfully defend Olympus Station—a Terran starbase established for the rebel Kilrathi world of Ghorah Khar—from Kilrathi assault, Confed liberates the Heaven’s Gate System on 2666.356. Despite Rear Admiral Tolwyn’s better judgment, Christopher Blair is called upon to play a large and vital role in these struggles. After much investigation, a Mandarin traitor is discovered aboard the TCS Concordia: Major Zachary "Jazz" Colson, a pilot who lost his brother, a Marine, when the Kilrathi attacked Goddard. After an ensuing space dogfight he is apprehended through the efforts of Colonel Blair and is subsequently sentenced to death for his acts of treason on 2667.069. When Terran forces launched from the Concordia daringly jump behind enemy lines, Blair disobeys orders and goes on a solo mission to destroy the Kilrathi sector headquarters of K’Tithrak Mang on 2667.077. After engaging Prince Thrakhath in a space battle that leaves the Kilrathi royalty floating in space without a ship, Blair succeeds and, as a result, secures the Enigma Sector for the Confederation. In addition, the sightings of cloaked Kilrathi stealth fighters are confirmed on 2667.063, freeing Blair from all possible blame for the destruction of the Tiger’s Claw. He is promoted to colonel with Admiral Tolwyn’s approval. [VENGEANCE OF THE KILRATHI ends] WC2, WC3, WCKS

• [WING COMMANDER II: SPECIAL OPERATIONS 1 begins] Rear Admiral Tolwyn approaches Colonel Blair with an offer to join the covert Special Operations division of Confed. Special Operations forces led by Blair then dispel a Kilrathi attack on Pembroke Station, the gateway system between the Enigma and Vega sectors. These same forces then tend to a mutiny aboard the TCS Gettysburg, where Jason "Bear" Bondarevsky leads a mutiny against an officer who ordered his subordinates to kill Kilrathi civilians. The mutineers split into two factions, Jason’s faction soon being caught aboard the TCS Gettysburg by the Special Operations forces led by Colonel Blair and Major Taggart (though the official court of inquiry dispels all charges in light of the circumstances and Admiral Tolwyn’s influence). Blair convinces Jason and his faction to fly against the pirated Rigel Supply Depot. The depot and its renegade captain are eventually gunned down. SO1, WC3, WCKS
• The Kilrathi unsuccessfully attempt to quell rebelling planets in the Ghorah Khar System. Khasra Redclaw makes an assassination attempt on his cousin, Prince Thrakhath. Thrakhath is captured and brought aboard the Bonnie Heather by Blair and fellow Tiger’s Claw vet James Taggart, but eludes his captors through a daringly engineered escape. Finally, a desperate attack against Olympus Station over Ghorah Khar is thwarted, saving the rebel Kilrathi planet. [SPECIAL OPERATIONS 1 ends] SO1, WC3, WCKS
• [WING COMMANDER II: SPECIAL OPERATIONS 2 begins] "Jazz" Colson, en route aboard the prison ship Alcatraz, is liberated by the Kilrathi. Returning to the Mandarins, Colson puts a plan into effect to steal the new Morningstar-class fighter specs from under the Confederation’s noses. Working with other Mandarins, the specs are delivered, though the victory is short lived. Learning of their hidden base within an asteroid belt in the Ayer’s System within the Deneb Sector, the Confederation’s Special Operations division retaliates and neutralizes the base, effectively terminating the Society of Mandarins. Colson is slain during the conflict in a second dogfight with Colonel Blair. [SPECIAL OPERATIONS 2 ends] SO2
• [WING COMMANDER: END RUN begins] The TCSN Corvette Johnny Greene accepts a surveillance mission to the mysterious Kilrathi Vukar Tag Sector planet Vukar Tag. Encountering overwhelming opposition, the corvette is barely able to make the jump back to Confederation space with the fragmented information it had gathered. Acting on information supplied by the Johnny Greene eight months before, Marine and space-based attack forces led by Lieutenant Commander Jason "Bear" Bondarevsky and pilots aboard the new CVE-class TCS Tarawa, including Kevin "Lone Wolf" Tolwyn (nephew of Geoffrey) are sent to the front lines. The Tarawa then closes on Vukar Tag, seizing the planet in "Operation Back Lash," as it comes to be known that Vukar Tag contains the ancestral home of the Emperor’s mother, the Dowager Empress Graknala. A Confed plan is revealed as the TCS Tarawa, Intrepid, and Kagimasha are dispatched to Kilrah itself to deter the Kilrathi fleet, allowing the full Confed Fleet waiting at Vukar Tag a much greater chance of combating the reduced number of Kilrathi capital ships that would arrive in retaliation. The Terran fleets then strike hard against Kilrathi forces on the front lines at Kilrah itself, eliminating nine carriers under construction and crippling dozens of transports and four shipyards. Running low on combat ships, the Kilrathi military appears on the verge of retreating for supplies. [END RUN ends] WCER, WCKS

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• CICINTEL releases a full report publically confirming the existence of Kilrathi stealth fighters. They were first confirmed on 2667.063. WCKS, WC2

2668

• (A) The frigate TCS Richmond, en route back to Earth, finds itself diverted into Kilrathi territory. There, they find the Kilrathi are testing a new secret technology to mask Jump Drive trails, a technology they refuse to allow the Terrans to discover. The Richmond, full of Marines and civilians along with veteran pilot Steve "Mustang" Hayes and its insane captain, Benjamin Ryer, makes its run and fights its way home. [ Chronicled in the story, Mustang’s Run ]
• [WING COMMANDER: FLEET ACTION begins] As the pendulum of war swings toward the Terrans, a peace accord is unexpectedly offered by Kilrah. All fleets are withdrawn, even those in the midst of combat. In the following months, several frontier colonies refuse to abide by the armistice rulings, investing both forces and ships in an attempt to search out suspected active shipyards on the far side of the Kilrathi Empire. Using captured stealth equipment, private forces intercept a HoloVid of the rumored facility in the Hari Sector, along with a message that Kilrathi forces are embarking to attack Earth. The armistice is renounced, and a hastily assembled force of still-intact Confederation ships prepare to defend against the attack, bolstered by private ships and carriers led by the TCS Concordia. The first hits result in total radiation-warhead destruction of Warsaw, Gilead, and Sirius Prime. Front-line Marines land on the Imperial flagship carrier, where a few brave volunteers place mines in suicide missions. The volunteers destroy three of the Hakaga-class supercarriers, but the remainder of the fleet reaches striking distance. The Kilrathi successfully launch anti-matter rockets on crucial defense cities—Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston, Miami, Quebec, Berlin, Paris, Kiev, and others—then retreat to friendlier space. Captain Jason "Bear" Bondarevsky plays an instrumental role in the defense of Earth, along with Rear Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn, Admiral Vance Richards, and Admiral Spencer "Skip" Banbridge. Veteran pilot and longtime Confederation hero Ian "Hunter" St. John, one of the last Tiger’s Claw survivors, is presumed dead a short time before what becomes known as the Battle of Terra. [FLEET ACTION ends] WCFA, WC3, WCKS

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• Colonel Christopher Blair is certified by the Terran Confederation Navy to operate the XCU-50 Optical DataZig Console, meeting all requirements for certification. Beginning in January of 2670, all TCN fleet ships would adopt this keyboard platform as standard issue. WCKS, WC3

• Prices in the bustling Gemini Sector come down and profit is had trading from base to base. The only caveat is that, while being able to buy and sell slaves or drugs, they are not legal. Confed patrol ships and Confederation Militia fighters routinely scan ships en route for such contraband, being authorized to eliminate such pirates and privateers. New Constantinople and Perry Naval Base forbid the sale of contraband through their Commodity Exchange. PRV
• Fleet Admiral Tolwyn is assigned to the Weapons Development Office. He inherits the Behemoth Project from Ubarov. Though his first reaction was to scrap it, his misgivings soon become elated as he realizes it would be the best way available to end the Kilrathi War as quickly as possible. WCFC
• [WING COMMANDER: PRIVATEER begins] Not long after privateering in the Gemini Sector becomes rampant, a young merchant inherits his grandfather’s Tarsus-class ship after he becomes disassociated with his companions aboard the vessel Scarab when it is besieged by Church of Man vessels and its captain is killed. Picking up his new ship, the merchant decides to take on a life of privateering. After acquiring an artifact of the ancient alien Steltek race from a fixer who later turns up dead, Sandoval, the Gemini merchant-turned-privateer proceeds to go world to world on a quest to learn more about it. Eventually recovering a Steltek cannon from a derelict spacecraft in the Delta Prime System, he accidentally activates a Steltek drone ship that begins stalking him. Admiral Terrell of Perry Naval Base recruits the privateer, offering to assist him if the privateer can lure the drone—which he believes to be a Kilrathi secret weapon—into the fire of his carriers. The privateer agrees, and does so, but not before he runs into an actual member of the membranous/tentacle-like Steltek race. The Steltek he encounters in space explains that the drone ship was created to be an automated device meant to eliminate all traces of the Steltek race after they had all migrated to another part of space thousands of years prior, hoping to leave developing civilizations across the galaxy’s worlds no hint of their past presence or even existence when they journeyed to the stars. The Steltek boosts the power on the privateer’s Steltek cannon, giving it enough strength to destroy the drone he then fights and destroys with the help of Terrell’s fleet, led by Admiral Reismann. The Steltek retrieves its race’s forgotten derelict ship and disappears back into deep space. It is unknown if the "Double-Helix" ships seen by CIAI probes on 2654.080 were Steltek vessels, though the configuration of the Steltek ship the Gemini privateer encountered bore several similarities to the description given at that time. From a 2681 analysis of alien races, it reasons to say that the Double-Helix and Steltek peoples are likely two separate races. [PRIVATEER ends] PRV

.001 - .010

• Colonel Jeannette "Angel" Devereaux of the TCS Concordia joins the Special Operations division soon after Colonel Blair returns from it himself, undertaking a covert infilration mission given by Major James Taggart to Kilrah with other Confederation operatives. WC3, WC3N

.011+

• [WING COMMANDER: ARMADA begins] The Terran Intelligence Agency deploys a top-secret, tactical search party through a previously uncharted Kilrathi jump point. A heavy carrier, the TCS Lexington, is equipped with self-sustaining recycling systems, mining apparatus, and a 62-person Special Operations team of which Colonel Jeannette "Angel" Devereaux was likely among. This unit leaves Goddard Transfer Station and passes through a newly discovered jump point. Its alleged mission—to search out and destroy Kilrathi forces, sector by sector. After it evidently succeeded in depositing its Special Operations team on Kilrah, no communications had been received from this special mission at the time of 2669.221. It is not known what happened to the Lexington. [WING COMMANDER: ARMADA ends] ARM, WC3, WC3N, WCKS

.012 - .219

• The Special Operations operatives on Kilrah are discovered and taken before Crown Prince Thrakhath and the Emperor. After the other operatives are flash incinerated before a crowd of Kilrathi, Jeannette Devereaux is personally slain by Thrakhath. WC3, WC3N

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• [WING COMMANDER: PRIVATEER - RIGHTEOUS FIRE begins] Nearly a year after his first outing, the Steltek cannon relic is stolen by Retros from the Gemini Sector privateer’s ship while he enjoys some relaxation on the pleasure planet Jolson. As Church of Man activity reaches an all-time high, the privateer unsuccessfully embarks on another adventure through the four quadrants the sector is composed of to track it down, as the cannon represented all of his previous efforts and hard work, eventually eliminating the Retro leader, Mordici Jones. The Retro planet New Eden is ruined due to Jones’ demise. [RIGHTEOUS FIRE ends] PRVRF

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• Veratek, a planet located between two Kilrathi jump points found to be rich in plutonium, is discovered to have two indigenous species that produce ascilotriptostolene, the chemical found in 1998 to stop the spread of cancer. The Terran Confederation military court grants limited rights to Veratek, though the construction and mining operations contaminates the atmosphere, killing off most lifeforms. All operations are ordered ceased, and the intergalactic Environmental Protection Association initiates resorative action. WC3

.221+

• The La Belle Dam Sans Merci ("the beautiful woman without mercy") massacre. A Confed fighter is captured by the Kilrathi, then sent back with Kilrathi symbols painted on its hull with the female pilot’s blood. WC3
• [WING COMMANDER III: HEART OF THE TIGER begins] The TCS Concordia crashes on the planet Vespus is the Enigma Sector, the flagship carrier having faced a Kilrathi rear guard of unexpected ferocity in the Vespus System. Colonel Blair, out of action during the battle due to damage his fighter craft had suffered, surveys the wreckage with General James "Paladin" Taggart. After denying his transfer to the TCS Bradshaw, Admiral Tolwyn assigns Colonel Blair to the TCS Victory, where he begins his tour of duty as wing commander of the Victory’s 36th Fighter Wing. Ralgha "Hobbes" nar Hhallas’ treachery to the Confederation, though unwitting, is revealed. WC3, WC3N

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• The Kilrathi biochemical destruction of Trafalgar, Locanda, and Delius is witnessed by the TCS Victory. WC3, WC3N

.242

• The Cabrea System is liberated from the Kilrathi through the efforts of the TCS Victory. WC3, WC3N

.247+

• As the war continues to go badly for the Confederation, Tolwyn’s plans to eliminate the Kilrathi Empire on a gradual scale with the Behemoth are hastily revised to put it to use on Kilrah immediately after the superweapon is tested on an uninhabited and unstable planet, as it possesses the power to destroy an entire world with a supercharged blast that disrupts a planet’s core, exploiting its seismic activity to destructive levels. After Tolwyn takes temporarily takes command of the Victory to see the Behemoth Project through, once a transmission from Prince Thrakhath received on the Victory triggers the emergence of an alternate personality within Ralgha, he goes to work the feeding the Kilrathi Empire Admiral Tolwyn’s Behemoth project plans and movements. Though the Behemoth project itself proves to be successful in a test that annihilates an entire planet devoid of life, Loki VI, the Kilrathi, acting on the information Ralgha provided, ambush the Behemoth and destroy it before it can make the jump to Kilrah. After being discovered, Ralgha kills fellow pilot Lieutenant Laurel "Cobra" Buckley and attempts to escape back to the Empire. Colonel Blair, who had grudgingly come to trust the Kilrathi defector during the Enigma Campaign, chases and shoots him down before his hijacked fighter can make the jump to Kilrathi space. During the ensuing battles it is revealed to Blair that Jeannette Devereaux, whom he had been involved with before she undertook Tolwyn’s covert mission, was killed by Price Thrakhath. Fortunately, General Taggart of Special Operations comes up with an alternate plan to bring the war to a quick close even after the destruction of the Behemoth. In studying the data on the planet Kilrah gathered from when the TCS Tarawa, Intrepid, and Kagimasha made their run in 2667 and the Special Operations mission headed earlier in the year by Colonel Devereaux, it is discovered that it is seismically unstable, suffering earthquakes regularly (which the Confederation believes to be the origin of the Kilrathi’s aggressive nature). Taggart, working with TCS Victory pilots, is brought Doctor Philip Severin, a Terran scientist who had been captured by the Kilrathi. He possessed the knowledge to build a bomb that could exploit Kilrah’s instability and effectively destroy it. WC3, WC3N

.262

• The Temblor Bomb is successfully tested on an uninhabited world. WC3

.267

• In an organized sortie on Kilrah itself, it is Colonel Christopher Blair who makes the trench run to the fault line most vulnerable to tectonic impulses and drops Dr. Severin’s Temblor "T" Bomb after shooting down Prince Thrakhath in orbit. Kilrah is destroyed, and in an explosion hurling the mass of the planet in every direction, much of the Grand Fleet in orbit is annihilated with it. Humbled by the destruction of their homeworld and the death of their Emperor and Prince Thrakhath, the Kilrathi Empire offers unconditional peace with the Confederation. The treaty is accepted and the vast number of Kilrathi that surrender agree to dismantle all of their warships under the conditions of the Treaty of Torgo. This brings an end to 40 years of hostilities and 35 years of declared war. As the Kilrathi stand down, however, they speak of an alien race they had fought into a mutual stalemate 71 years ago, the Mantu, now having come back in force after finishing their own conquest of another race. The Mantu had been reportedly skirmishing along their borders opposite the Confederation, indicating that with the Empire in shambles there will be little to prevent them from ravaging across the galaxy. It is unknown what race the Mantu had conquered, but the following Kilrathi-conquered races and others are known in the outer reaches of space, some deep within the Spinward and Coreward Unknown Territories: the Dioscuri, Dolosians, Eyoka, Hagarin, Haggans, Hari, Gorth, Jarma, Ka, Mopokes, Oasians, Shata/Utara, Sorn, Varni, Wu, and Yan. It is possible the race in question was the mysterious "Double-Helix" race sighted by probes on 2654.080 or the Steltek race. From a 2681 analysis of alien races, however, it reasons to say that the Double-Helix, Steltek, and Mantu peoples are likely three separate races. [HEART OF THE TIGER game & novel ends] WC3, WC3N

• [WING COMMANDER: FALSE COLORS begins] Fleet Admiral Tolwyn, now working for the Free Republic of Landreich Navy as a result of the disastrous Behemoth incident, is faced with the problem of ambitious independent Kilrathi warlords attempting to rebuild the fallen Kilrathi Empire. Retired Commodore Jason "Bear" Bondarevsky is reinstated by Landreich President Max Kruger and called to the Landreich to refit and take command of a damaged Kilrathi Bhantkara-class supercarrier, the KIS Karga, later renamed the FRLS Mjollnir when captured by the Landreich Republic, in what is called Project Goliath. From there, the threat of the Kilrathi uprising is fought directly. In the aftermath, Jason decides to stay with the Landreich Republic and aboard the Mjollnir. Tolwyn leaves to head off the Strategic Readiness Agency (SRA). [FALSE COLORS ends] WCFC

• The Border Worlds, a series of backworld planets on the outer fringes of space, secedes from the Confederation of which it had previously been an official part of during the Intergalactic War, becoming the Union of Border Worlds/Border Worlds Union. Trouble begins brewing. WC4, WC4N
• The TCS Victory is officially decommissioned, put on public display in an orbital space museum over Saturn as a Kilrathi War memento. WC4
• The factions of the beaten Kilrathi Empire’s eight Great Clans that had not surrendered with Prince (now "chancellor") Melek nar Kiranka’s (the late Thrakath’s aid and heir) followers nor adhered to the Treaty of Torgo fight amongst each other, each striving to become the next supreme clan after the failure suffered under Clan Kiranka’s leadership and administration. It is a battle for dominance that, once won by any of the clans, would one day reinstate the Empire under a new emperor. Even though it is a conflict estimated to take years, even decades, it is feared by the Confederation they could return, more motivated and even stronger than before. Much of it transpires on the "Feudal Planets." WC4N, WCP

• [WING COMMANDER IV: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM begins] After three years of peace, Confederation transports begin falling prey to an enemy who is believed to be part of the Union of Border Worlds. The question soon came to the Confederation council: should war be declared on the Border Worlds? The lack of hard evidence against anyone makes James Taggart, now a senator, give the new commander of the SRA, Fleet Admiral Tolwyn, the objective of looking into the situation. Recalled from his quiet farming life on Nephele II by a visit from Major Todd "Maniac" Marshall to active Confed duty, Colonel Christopher Blair is assigned aboard the TCS Lexington (not to be confused with the TCS Lexington launched in 2669.011) by request of Admiral Tolwyn, where he is reunited with TCS Victory commander Captain William Eisen and Winston "Vagabond" Chang. After Eisen is mysteriously reassigned and Vagabond defects to the Border Worlds Union, Blair and Marshall defect as well when it becomes clear there is something terribly wrong brewing within the Confederation. Coming aboard the carrier BWS Intrepid (formerly the TCS Delphi. Not to be confused with the TCS Intrepid that participated in "Operation Back Lash" in 2667), they become part of a struggle against the mysterious forces massing against them apparently coming from the Confederation. The attacks against the Border Worlds and Confederation are later discovered to be the work of the Black Lance, a Black Project division group of anti-peace elite pilots posing as Border Worlders to influence the Confederation to go to war, led by a genetically enhanced human known only as Seether. Much to the surprise of the entire Confederation, it is revealed that Admiral Tolwyn himself assisted the Black Lance, sharing their beliefs that the only way humanity could remain strong and "vigilant" into the next intergalactic conflict would be if it was always fighting. After destroying Tolwyn’s supercarrier, the TCS Vesuvius (with the help of its twin, the St. Helens), and defeating Seether in a space dogfight en route, Colonel Blair comes before the council on Earth to confront the admiral, who was reporting back to the senate in an effort to stir another war after just being promoted to the rank of space marshal. Space Marshal Tolwyn is accused of creating the nanobot bio-weapons that had killed 90% of the population on the planet Telamon IV and other unapproved Black Projects. He is found guilty of "crimes against humanity" and is sentenced to death by a tribunal. Tolwyn commits suicide in his cell only a short time later. Geoffrey is survived by his nephew, Kevin. [THE PRICE OF FREEDOM game ends] WC4, WC4N
• Christopher Blair rejoins the Confederation Space Force and is promoted to the rank of brigadier general. He is officially given wing command of the Intrepid and is appointed the task of commanding the Confederation forces in the newly re-allied (but still independent) Union of Border Worlds, tracking down privateers and any remnants of Tolwyn’s Black Lance forces. Todd "Maniac" Marshall is given wing command of the TCS Kiev on its policing of the Confederation border and is promoted to colonel. [THE PRICE OF FREEDOM novel ends] WC4N

2673+

• [THE PRICE OF FREEDOM game epilogue] Presumably at the conclusion of his tour of duty patrol of the Border Worlds, Brigadier General Blair resigns his active commission in the Space Force. He remains aboard the Intrepid as a flight instructor, the carrier now becoming an addition to the TCNSA Academy. WC4
• (A) The Kilrathi grow tired of their existence as a subordinate state to the Terrans. The Kilrathi Imperium (the Ninth Kilrathi Empire) is founded under the leadership of Clan Caxki, and a series of blitzkrieg attacks reestablish Kilrathi presence in space formerly taken away by the Confederation. The Battle of Zu’naga results in Confed being pushed back. [ Chronicled in the PBMs, Operation Crusade and Assault on Tr’Pakh ]

• Brigadier General Christopher Blair, after teaching a few years at the TCNSA Academy on the BWS Intrepid and Earth, is approached by Senator James Taggart, now chairman of the Confederation Senate’s Armed Forces Committee, to become the Senior Operational Consultant on a team that would be developing the "megacarrier" line, beginning with the design and construction of the TCS Midway. For administrative reasons, Blair transfers his commission from the Space Force to the Space Navy, and attains the rank of commodore by the time of the Midway’s shakedown cruise in 2681. After observing the final phase of the Midway’s cruise, Blair plans to retire from active duty and move to Earth, where he’ll divide his time between consulting for the Space Navy and the Space Force, and lecturing at the TCNSA Academy. WCP
• Colonel Todd "Maniac" Marshall’s tour as wing commander of the TCS Kiev ends as he transfers aboard the TCS Midway, where he is forced to take a grade reduction back to major. WCP

• In the Andorra Sector, Governor Devika Subramanian rashly decides to raise taxes on the Andorrans and place all of its industry under direct Confederation control. Almost overnight, the entire sector goes on strike. Stubborn and convinced of her own righteousness, the governor refuses to negotiate, and eventually orders military units to break up the strikes and forces the Andorrans back to work. This action causes the Andorrans to riot and eventually Governor Subramanian is forced to flee the sector capital at Covenant. Infuriated, panicking, and trembling at the prospect of losing her career, Subramanian orders the sector capital of Covenant bombed. The order is carried out and millions of Andorrans perish. The bombardment of Covenant shocks all Andorrans, and soon the Andorra Sector secedes from the Terran Confederation. Governor Devika Subramanian is captured and sentenced to death for her crimes by the Andorrans.

[ Chronicled in the PBM, The Secession War ]

• The Secession War intensifies as the Confed advance into Andorra Sector is halted at Neudresden, the Kilrathi Imperium enters into the Secession War, and the Gemini Alliance is destroyed by the Confederation and Kilrathi Imperium.

[ Chronicled in the PBM, The Secession War ]

• After much consideration in light of the incidents in the recent past, the Confederation purges itself of one sixth of the officers in the Confederation Space Navy, Marine Corps, and Space Force in an effort to rid it of underlying corruption. Most of these officers, however, simply retire. Some are found guilty of various charges ranging from misuse of Confed resources to embezzlement after a meticulous examination of records.
• The Andorra Sector successfully halts a Kilrathi incursion in the First Battle of Colin’s Corridor.

[ Chronicled in the PBM, The Truce of Dayan ]

• Further Kilrathi incursions are repulsed in the Second and Third Battles of Colin’s Corridor.
• Led by the highly capable now-Vice Admiral Lenida DeLuge, the Andorran Spinward Fleet is dispatched in an offensive codenamed "Operation Cerulean" against the Kilrathi. In a bold attack that completely surprises the Kilrathi, the Andorrans sweep through the Jih’tahn Sector and smash two Kilrathi battlegroups. The annexation of the Jih’tahn Sector and the fortification of its frontiers effectively puts the Kilrathi threat out of the picture. DeLuge then turns his attention to the Confederation.

[ Chronicled in the PBM, The Truce of Dayan ]

• The Andorrans launch "Operation Magenta," making an offensive into the Belfor Sector. They penetrate deep into the Confederation rear and cut off its front-line fleets. The front-line fleets eventually find themselves critically short of supplies and are lured into a trap that becomes known as the Calgary Ambush.

[ Chronicled in the PBM, The Truce of Dayan ]

2679

• J. Guentzel, the Confederation chief of Stellar Cartography in the ES, authorizes a revised Akwende Projection of Confederation sectors. Among the larger changes made to the projection is the merging of the Deneb and Antares sectors into one unified sector, the Epsilon Sector (Deneb and Antares become quadrants within the Epsilon Sector, beside the Sa’Khan and Tr’L Rass quadrants). The majority of the boundary and name changes to streamline the projection result in the removal of a great deal of previously established sectors. WCP
• (A) With their fleets destroyed and the Andorran raiders operating deep in their rear, the Confederation has no choice but to sue for peace. The Truce of Dayan is signed, ending the Secession War and securing the independence of Andorra. [ Chronicled in the PBM, The Truce of Dayan ]

2680

• (A) Skirmishes occur along Kilrathi-Confed border in Gemini Sector. Much of the sector falls to the Kilrathi Imperium, nearly the entire Clarke Quadrant being taken by the Kilrathi fleets. Perry and New Constantinopole are among those systems that fall to utter Kilrathi conquest. [ Chronicled in the PBM, Hell in a Handbasket ]
• (A) A sun’s flare in the Gemini Sector opens the Cynium System. A planet within that had been no more than a dead moon until a stellar flare struck it changes the stones of the planet to crystallize with power estimated to be 900% more powerful than any modern reactor or fuel engines in use. The amazing discovery is named Cynium. A conflict of galactic proportions ensues as the powers of the galaxy fight to obtain this incredible power source, though the planet Cynium is eventually destroyed, leaving no side to harness the power it held. [ Chronicled in the PBM, King of the Mountain ]
• (A) Mangkrah nar Caxki, Emperor of the Kilrathi Imperium/Ninth Kilrathi Empire, dies. Heir D’golik nar Caxki assumes the throne.

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• The megacarrier TCS Midway receives what is perhaps its maiden voyage as it is called to take on the Kilrathi "Demon’s Eye Pack" in the Valgard System of the Epsilon Sector. Colonel Gash Dekker, formerly of the BWS Intrepid, leads the Midway’s Marines on the ground without incident, while two pilots from the megacarrier become the only casualties of the operation. WCP

• Hostilities between the Kilrathi and the Confederation are quelled, leaving a state of uneasy peace between the two former enemies. After infighting ceases on the Feudal Planets the Kilrathi become fairly solidly known as the "Kilrathi Assembly of Clans." The Confederation is allowed to occupy the Kilrah System, where mining operations are begun. WCP

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• Thirty-six Kilrathi in the "Demon’s Eye Pack" that was captured through the efforts of the TCS Midway convicted of piracy, murder, and malicious disorder are executed at Valgard. Included in the mass execution was the pirate’s leader, Krahtagh N’Ryllis, AKA "Bloodeye." The executions are carried out at 0700 hours at the Valgard Military Prison complex. Despite the protests of the Kilrathi Provisional Counsel that the prisoners should be turned over to the Kilrathi for their own traditional execution, the prisoners are executed as a group, by flash incineration. WCP

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• Confed Astronomical Station K-105 picks up an unidentified energy surge near Kilrah Prime. The surge is identified as an equipment malfunction or the reflection of a solar flare. It is feared, however, to be the opening of a jump gate or wormhole of some kind. A short time later, TOBY drones from the TCS Devereaux are destroyed while exploring the asteroid belt near Kilrah Prime. Three hours later, the Devereaux itself is destroyed. Meanwhile, the Sivarist monastic outpost on asteroid K-14G is destroyed as well, followed by the Astronomical Station K-105. Fighters are scrambled from Surveillance Outposts Bravo and Delta to recon and respond. WCP

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• The recon group from Outposts Bravo and Delta jump to the site of K-105. They do not reestablish contact. The Kilrathi colony on Kilrah 6 and a previously unknown Kilrathi smuggler/insurgent base on Kilrah 7.4 are destroyed. Surveillance Outposts Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, and Delta attacked, then presumed destroyed. Kilrah System is presumed to be in full enemy control. The first of seven recon missions dispatched into the Kilrah systems from Tal’q Naval Station. It does not return as scheduled and all contact is lost. Tal’q sends a FLASH message to Earth and goes to full alert status. Major Leeward Washington and Hugyn squadron then discovers the remains of a smuggler’s base on Kilrah 7.4 during the seventh recon attempt from Tal’q. Major Washington quickly completes his recon of Kilrah 7.4 and returns to Tal’q with photos and possible enemy artifact: an irregular slab of hard, crystalline substance, with a hand-print of one of the appendages of the enemy within its central cavity. Washington’s is the only recon mission of the seven to return as scheduled, and the others are presumed lost. Recon missions are terminated pending the analysis of known data. A short time later a strike group, lead by Corvette TCS Brack, is dispatched from Tal’q to Kilrah 6. WCP

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• The last transmission is received from the TCS Brack. An initial Terran Confederation Intelligence Assets (TCIA) report on the incident is compiled and dispatched. The enemy race becomes codenamed the "Nephilim," after the Hebrew legend of the "giants in the earth." Two races suspected by Confed Intelligence to be the Nephilim are the Mantu and the enigmatic "star gods" of ancient Kilrathi myth. WCP

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• [WING COMMANDER: PROPHECY begins] The Nephilim continues their invasion into both Kilrathi and Confederation territories. From the megacarrier TCS Midway on its shakedown cruise, recent TCNSA Academy (graduated on 2680.131) & Flight School graduate and son of Major Michael "Iceman" Casey, 2nd Lieutenant Lance ("Frosty"?) R. Casey, comes aboard and completes a series of tactical operations to stop the Nephilim’s advance under the watchful eye of Commodore Blair, who at one point becomes captured and probed by the aliens before being recovered by Midway Marines. In the end, their wormhole gateway into Kilrathi space in the Kilrah System is obliterated through the efforts of Midway fighters and Marines. When the Marines could not reach the last "tower" of the wormhole gateway’s structure, Commodore Blair boards it himself and completes their work, though not before being attacked by one of the Nephilim. As such, when the gateway is destroyed, Blair is still in it. The undeclared war is feared to continue. Blair is survived by no immediate relatives. [PROPHECY ends] WCP

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• The TCS Midway becomes scheduled to return to the Sol Sector as part of a sector wide tour beginning with a Confederation Military reception at the Jupiter Station. The initial reception is set to feature kenote speaker Governor Cavazos, Admiral Rayak, and Commander Patricia Drake, CAG of the Midway. Executives from Bartok Enterprises are set to be on hand to discuss the launch of the Confederation’s "newest weapon against terror," the "Hades"-class strike cruiser TCS Cerberus. This quick response military vessel is set to be put to work keeping the peace in the systems hardest hit by the alien menace. After the Midway leaves Jupiter, it is scheduled to make its way straight to Earth, where it will stop at the Terran Shipyard Arcology. The governing staff of the Arcology, which is home to more than two hundred thousand, begins immediate preparations for the arrival. WCSO

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• The Kreiger Starbase CIS Operations Liaison calls in the newly commissioned TCS Cerberus. As the TCS Midway returns to Sol System for refit and a tour of the tax-paying colonies, pilots from the Midway including now-1st Lieutenants Lance Casey, Jean "Stiletto" Talvert, and Max "Maestro" Garret are transferred to the Cerberus in the Courage System before the Midway reaches Jupiter. WCSO

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• [WING COMMANDER: SECRET OPS begins] The TCS Cerberus, pilots and crew aboard, begins operations, cleaning house on the leftovers from the Nephilim threat, the stragglers of which and new entrants now having penetrated into the Sol Sector. The threat is halted in the Proxima System, where a Nephilim Stellar-Accretion Device, using the unique energy of Proxima’s twin suns, nearly creates a permanent wormhole. [SECRET OPS ends] WCSO

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• The memorial service for Commodore Christopher Blair is carried out. The festivities are held on Earth in New York City and Hightower Flats, Nephele II. Holo-Link testimonials from as far as the Repleetah and Avalon systems are heard, painting the picture all would wish to remember of Blair. The Nephelese council announce their plans to turn the farm Blair bought at the end of the Kilrathi War as a historical site. His home is to be converted into a museum containing personal effects as well as historic memorabilia from the duration of Blair’s career. Director (of what has been termed the "Heart of the Tiger" memorial and museum of military history) Ushio Jergun is stated as saying, "We look forward to visitors and citizens of Nephele [II] visiting the museum and gaining a deeper understanding of the commitment and sacrifice shown by not only Commodore Blair, but the millions who gave their lives in search of an end to hostile conflict. This will stand as not only a memorial to the memory of a great man, but to the potential all sentient beings have to resolve even the deepest and most critical conflicts through a reliance on the pure mediators of truth and justice." Some criticism is leveled against the council of Nephele II in regards to the appropriateness of a Blair memorial on their world. Blair only spent a short time on the world between the end of the Kilrathi war and the Border World/Black Lance conflict he also helped resolve. Director Jergun points out that the only significant time Blair spent as an adult that was not aboard a military carrier or station was at the Terran Confederation Naval Space Academy. Jergun then adds, "Even though his time on Nephele [II] was brief, this was the world he turned to when he wanted a home. We honor his decision, his memory, and his foresight, with this small gesture of respect." WCSO