Vilyehm asked: > > What number galaxy is it for: > > Kithrup > Gubru home planet > Synthian home planet > Thennanin home planet > Information not available.
> Now, Streaker is gone for three years. The siege of Earth was a little over > two years. > That's possible. I still don't have a fix on its date. > When did the Thennanin arrive, and would it be logical that there was a > short lifting of the siege? > I don't know the dynamics of hyperspace sieges :-) > Dates? I seem to get two different dates from looking in two different > places on the web. > The Web has wrong information, based on wrong dates from the 1st edition of GURPS Uplift. The 2nd edition and the Contacting Aliens book have more accurate dates. FWIW: 2192: Bureaucracy Ends 2212: Contact with the Tymbrimi 2246: Sundiver incident [*] 2489: Streaker in Kithrup and invasion of Garth [**] 2490: Gubru expelled from Garth [***] 2491 or 2492: Streaker in Jijo 2492: Streaker comes back to Earth Of couse, I kept on updating things, I could just point you to... http://www.geocities.com/albmont/brin.htm ... but that timeline is horribly wrong. Alberto Monteiro [*] explicit year mentioned in the book!] [**] most references get it wrong, ignoring the fact that while Uplift War lasts about 1 year, Startide Rising takes about a month [the core action, from Chapter 1 to Chapter 124, lasts even less], and is almost completely located inside UW [***] probably _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
