TIMELINE OF EVENTS
– Earthling’s Point of View –
2048: First Contact. Humanity receives a shocking message: for half a million years, an extraterrestrial civilization has been watching our every step. For some seemingly inscrutable reason, it offers a journey through time to meet the first among us to understand that the Earth floats in space... the Greek Anaximander of Miletus.
-13.8 giga years
Birth of the Universe
From the Big Bang, space, time and matter are born.
-9.5 giga years
Cunabula System
Birth of the Cunabula planetary system within what would become the Milky Way. Orbiting around the red dwarf Cunabula: Peperit, the only planet in the system.
-8 giga years
Notre Galaxie
La galaxie naine Gaïa-Encelade entre en collision avec la Voie lactée « primitive » et fusionne avec cette dernière.
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First World
Appearance of life on Peperit.
-4.57 giga years
Formation of the Sun
Birth of a future yellow dwarf from the Orion arm: the Sun.
-4.57 to -4.54 Ga
Earth Accretion
Asteroids containing hydrogen and oxygen (the building blocks of water) coalesced to form the embryonic Earth. With temperatures in this region near the Sun reaching nearly 1,000°C, it was far too hot for water to exist in anything other than vapor form.
-4.2 giga years
Cataclysm on Peperit
On the other side of the Galaxy, a giant asteroid crashes into Peperit, tearing pieces of rock carrying microorganisms from the planet.
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Panspermia
Some of these pieces torn from Peperit seed a first planet, which itself will become the site of the same process of propagation of life in the Milky Way [1].
-4.15 giga years
Water on Earth
Icy comets and water-rich asteroids of extrasolar origin [2], similar to chondrite-type meteorites [3], crash into Earth.
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Oceans on Earth
On an Earth that has cooled sufficiently, water in the atmosphere condenses, feeding lakes and rivers; forming primitive oceans.
-4.12 giga years
Life on Earth: Episode 1
The Earth receives its ‘cargo of life’ : some of the microbes that have taken refuge in the bowels of the rocks that transported them ‘awaken’ from their cryptobiosis.
-4,1 à -3,9 Ga
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Late Heavy Bombardment [4] of the planets of the Solar System. Under the violence of the impacts, thousands of pieces of terrestrial rock, some of which contain microorganisms, are expelled into space.
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The Venus Refuge
During this period, when the Earth was being sterilized by the continuous bombardment, some of the terrestrial debris into which life had entered crossed the orbit of Venus. Relatively spared from meteorite showers due to its proximity to the Sun, which acts as a gravitational shield, Venus then constitutes, within the Solar System, an ideal refuge for life.
-3.8 giga years
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Life on Earth: Episode 2
After these episodes of intense bombardment, the water on Earth had once again condensed into oceans. A gigantic asteroid crashed into Venus. Hundreds of thousands of rock fragments torn from the planet, some of which harbored microorganisms, were ejected into space. Some of these rocks crossed the orbits of Earth and Mars, and collided with both planets. Only Earth would be successfully seeded (a second time!). On Mars, the life brought by the fragments of Venus would not awaken from its long lethargy. During the Solar System's journey around the galactic center, some of the ‘life-bearing’ rocks torn from Earth and then from Venus would seed other planets forming within interstellar clouds.
-820 Ma
Alderamin!
Birth of the protostar Alderamin.
-1.4 million years ago
Civilization Ξ A Ξ
On the super-Earth Peperit, 10,000 light years from the Sun and orbiting the red dwarf Cunabula: birth of the Ξ A Ξ civilization.
-901 888
Peperit 2
First exoplanet colonized by the Ξ A Ξ .
-488,614
Alderamin 5b
‘The’ Ξ A Ξ discover the exomoon Alderamin 5b.
-488,229
Colonization of Alderamin 5b
Foundation by the Ξ A Ξ of the Alderaan colony on the exomoon Alderamin 5b, some 49 light years from Earth.
-488 227
Land on the horizon!
Discovery of Earth by the Alderans.
-488 166
Deployment of nanorobots
Thousands of self-replicating nanoprobes sent by the Alderaans arrive on Earth. Their mission: to collect information on the Earth's environment, flora, and fauna in order to prepare for the arrival of future colonists.
-487,551
Colonization canceled
The Alderans abandon the colonization project after discovering animals on Earth that are certainly primitive but whose intelligence seems comparable to their own. A discreet mission of observation, sampling, and analysis begins.
July 7, 610 BC
Anaximander of Miletus!
Birth of Anaximander in Miletus, Ionia.
May 28, 585 BC
The Eclipse of Thales
A total solar eclipse predicted by Thales interrupts a battle between Medes and Lydians.
July 31, 546 BC
457 BC
1905
Death of Anaximander.
DNA sampling from the remains of Anaximander of Miletus by Alderan nanorobots [5].
The Miraculous Year!
This is Albert Einstein's annus mirabilis (‘miraculous year’). At the age of 26, the physicist published four articles that would lay the foundations of ‘modern physics’.
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1954
Scientific maturity
The Alderans learn of Einstein's work : the time has come to make contact with Earth!
April 1955
Launch of the ‘A N A X I M A N D E R’ project.
January 23, 1956
Birth of the clone
On Alderamin 5b, a clone of Anaximander of Miletus is born. He will leave for Earth in his seventh year, that is, at 43 years and 7 Earth months, the same age at which the Milesian philosopher undertook his first great sea voyage [6].
August 11, 1999
Departure from Alderamin 5b
The A N A X I M A N D E R, a ship bound for the planet Earth, leaves Alderamin 5b for a journey that will last 100 years [7]. Alone on board is Alderan Captain Adrien Maanx. Before falling into a stasis sleep, he records a message for humans that will precede his arrival.
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May 5, 2014
Birth of Amin Alder
Birth of Amin Alder at the hospital in Saintes, France.
May 22, 2048
Signal Discovery
Astronomer Amin Alder (SETI Berkeley Research Center) discovers, while analyzing data collected by the NenuFAR radio telescope, a signal coming from the Alderamin planetary system [8].
February 21, 2111
Arrival of the A N A X I M A N D E R on Earth.
7500
New North Star!
Seen from Earth, Alderamin becomes the North Star (i.e. the closest to the North Celestial Pole).
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[1] During their wanderings around the galactic center*, planetary systems move closer to or further away from one another**, in the second case increasing the probability that life could travel from one planet to another. Furthermore, approximately 10% of the stars in the Galaxy migrate far from their ‘birthplace’, generally toward the outskirts of the Milky Way, also causing some planetary systems to come closer together. N.B.: It seems that the Sun is indeed one of these great travelers: when comparing its physico-chemical characteristics with those of ‘neighboring’ stars, everything indicates that the Sun is not native ‘to the area’***, but was likely born much closer to the galactic center, from which it is now 26,000 light-years away. *The Sun completes its revolution in 250 million years. **Much like the planets of the Solar System, which experience fluctuating distances from each other over the course of their orbit. ***From the interstellar gas cloud that gave birth to the Sun, several thousand other stars formed at the same time. This cluster of sibling stars later dispersed: the stars it contained, pulled in different directions by gravitational forces, have since lost sight of each other! [2] Or at least in hydrogen (one of the components of water). [3] These stony meteorites (less than 35% metal) are made up of tiny submillimetric spheres (chondrules) mostly composed of silicates. [4] The question of ocean formation is still debated: it is unclear whether the water they contain was actually delivered by meteorites or if it originated from degassing of the Earth’s mantle, in which case its origin would date back to the formation of the Earth. On 28 August 2020, a French CNRS team published work in the journal Science suggesting that the Earth’s primitive rocks may have contained the equivalent of at least three times the current oceans in water. This study does not rule out the scenario of a later meteoritic contribution, even if in that case it would have been minimal. [5] Or ‘state of stasis’, referring to a completely halted metabolic state in a living organism. [6] The most developed scenario to explain this bombardment (now questioned) was proposed in 2005. It suggests that the trigger was a 2:1 orbital resonance between Jupiter and Saturn, meaning that Jupiter’s orbital period around the Sun would have become exactly twice that of Saturn. This phenomenon is thought to have caused massive destabilization of small bodies in the outer Solar System, some of which then acquired highly eccentric orbits, allowing them to reach the inner regions of the Solar System, where they could collide with terrestrial planets. [7] Ξ ENCRYPTED DATA Ξ [8] Ξ ENCRYPTED DATA Ξ