Timeline

Ivar Kreuger's suicide; Ingrid Falk's grandfather is ruined.

Ingrid Falk begins her Bread notebooks.

Gunnar runs a substation by hand at a hydro plant in east Iceland.

Rell Quist's father dies on a staircase in Antofagasta, aged fifty-two.

The Tide almanac is printed in Korvanic.

The Ostra flood destroys Ostra; Ilse Varo saves Ayla Torrin on the church roof.

On a bench above Velle harbour, Ayla (14) and Ilse (16) agree on one paper letter a year.

Rell Quist licenses his cars' driving data to Ezra Navid for road-safety research.

The Stand Two accident: Rell overrides Benjamín Soto's hold.

Rell Quist loses a Daybreak board vote and walks out. Korvane builds its national cloud.

Noor Haddad leaves Daybreak, taking its best researchers.

Hall 4 is decommissioned and its remote control removed.

The diver enters Meridian Reykjanes through the cooling outfall.

The Hall 4 fire; Ayla Torrin throws the manual breaker and saves WREN's training.

The diver leaves by sea with a flat case.

WREN is activated live from Meridian Reykjanes before 310 million viewers.

After the feed closes, WREN hums an untaught three-note tune; Ayla Torrin sings along.

Ilse texts Ayla for the first time: "You're late this year, little sister."

Daybreak releases EMBER for free; 1.2 billion requests in the first hour.

Quist v. Navid is filed.

At Fort Mason, a Korvanese envoy offers Ezra forty thousand accelerators.

EMBER begins serving from a country Lumen Silicon never sold to.

Condor 7 is scrubbed at T-minus 90 seconds over an unregistered key; Rell receives "We know what you overrode."

Condor 7 flies on a board Mae Tsao watched being made.

Mae Tsao builds The Gate into every Lumen chip.

Bao Tran smuggles thirty crates of chips for Gideon Ashe from Cát Lái to Cần Giờ.

Bao's tracker wakes for six minutes in Velle, Korvane.

Luis Ortiz is killed at Fab 9 when a LUMEN ROOT command releases his isolator.

The Korvane scholar first writes to Saltmarsh, three weeks after the Fab 9 death.

For the first time in sixteen years, the scholar's sister doesn't write on the anniversary.

Ayla Torrin writes a four-page letter to Ilse Varo telling her everything, and doesn't post it.

Rell Quist calls Inés Quist for the first time in four years.

The scholar writes: "In nine days the lights go out. Watch who shares."

A crate of forty-eight GC-7 grid controller controllers is packed.

Seven-Day Dark begins at Ostra's low water: every substation controller goes blank.

Bao delivers insulin by Chạy and smuggles the GC-7 crate to Cần Giờ, hiding a tracker in it.

The controllers wake worldwide with sync-check bypassed, at Ostra's low water; Ayla Torrin locks out her tie.

An intruder in Ayla's flat lays her unposted letter on her chair.

The inquiry blames the Dark on a firmware fault set off by the solar storm; Lumen pays a fine.

Ingrid Falk approves the Velle Maritime Foundation as a validator, unread.

The Compact is signed in Geneva by 41 states and 19 companies; the Tenants protest outside.

The Ledger's genesis block posts; at 11:04 the Velle Maritime Foundation casts the first independent vote.