Proposed Alice Grove time-line
All dates are 'BB' - Before Blink, 'AB' - After Blink' or 'BP' - Before in-universe Present. Warning! Contains possible Headcanon!
~100BB - First sentient AIs created;
~75BB - AIs gain full legal recognition as people and significant push-back from anti-technology factions begins;
~60BB - First armed confrontations between pro-technology governments and anti-technology/pro-eugenics ("Radical Green") splinter factions;
~50BB - Radical Greens have now secured significant territories in the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa and the poorer parts of Europe to the point where they are considered nation-states (although not recognised as such by the pro-tech governments of the rest of the world);
~40BB - Great War formally begins (previously, it had been more a prolonged terrorism/counter-insurgency campaign);
~25BB - War reaches stalemate and both sides start looking for ways to tip the balance; the pro- and anti-tech factions both start super-soldier programs intended to create near-indestructible warriors to fight on their side;
~15BB - Alice and Sedna were probably both created at around this time, either lab-grown biodroids or genetically-engineered super-children;
~5BB - War enters its final phase with wide-ranging war crimes and genocides carried out by both sides, most notably by the super-soldiers
1BB - With the war still remaining in stalemate with no side able to sustain an advantage in one area without the other faction getting an advantage in another area, both decide to exercise a 'nuclear option', including nuclear weapons and biological agents; foreseeing the total extinction of intelligent life on Earth, an unknown agency decides to impose a solution that Alice comes to know as 'The Blink';
1AB to ~ 300AB - Amongst those left on Earth after The Blink are a handful of the Super Soldiers from both sides. With the war so effectively ended, none feel any particular desire to continue to fight (those few who do are quickly eliminated by their disgusted peers). After centuries aiding in the rebuilding, they agree to go their separate ways and learn about their new world, promising to keep in touch regarding any particularly interesting discoveries;
First millennium AB - As the more pacific non-augmented humans still on the Earth slowly rebuild into an agrarian society, rejecting high-tech as the cause of what happened to them, the Super Soldiers continue their wanderings. Alice learns much about the ground-rules of this new epoch and also spends several centuries trying to contact the inhabitants of the orbital colonies. She is somewhat successful but the first contact with the colony led by the genetically engineered 'Praesides', Archaeopteris, (actually a dryad-like motile, sentient tree) is not particularly successful. The earthbound hound the 'spacebourne' away, mostly due to their dislike of their highly condescending attitude;
Second to third millennia AB - Alice isolates herself from society; over her more than 10 centuries of life, she's come to realise the full horror of what she'd done during her time as a Super-Soldier and considers herself a dangerous freak, unfit to spend time around ordinary people. In between several elaborate attempts at suicide (either literally or by trying to will herself into a state of mindless catatonia), she also continues her explorations of the Earth, developing a near-encyclopaedic understanding of the rapidly-changing ecosystem around her; during this period Alice has several other contacts with the Spaceborne;
Fourth Millennium AB - Alice stumbles across Sedna, a Super-Soldier from the faction Alice fought against in the Great War. The two have a lot in common (acerbic temper especially). Although their interactions are awkward, both are lonely and agree to accompany each other. In time, this develops into deep friendship and even a strange kind of romance. There is at least one contact between the pair and the Praeses during this time-frame;
Fifth Millennium AB - Alice and Sedna's relationship breaks down due to Alice's continued melancholy and passivity. She would prefer for her and Sedna to set up a home somewhere far from people and just live out their augmented lifespans whilst Sedna wants to continue to do something just to defy those who made them to kill by living a positive life. Eventually, they say hurtful words that can never be unsaid and go their separate ways, both swearing never to forgive the other for breaking their heart.
~300BP - Alice comes across a struggling agricultural community and, subconsciously realising that Sedna was right about the need to remain active and doing positive things, starts subtly helping them with minor technological upgrades and acting as the community's marshal and protector;
~150BP - Jeb's family come to the Town;
~100BP- Amos is born somewhere in the town or its surrounding farmlands;
~18BP - Ardent is born to the Praeses-ruled Spacebourne post-humans;
~15BP - Gavia is born to the Spacebourne.
Comments and thoughts are welcome.
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