SC -0080.00 / Closed-loop environments controlled without error
SC -0050.00 / Countdown phase begins
SC -0025.00 / Book 3 — The Advance Mission begins
SC -0020.00 / Final evaluation cycles complete
SC -0000.02 / Star-Children vessel struck by meteor; star-metal created and split between the Scattered Islands and Free Realms
SC -0000.05 / First planetary systems established
SC -0000.08 / Initial interaction with world-aligned magic
SC -0000.10 / Magic classified as unstable
SC -0000.12 / Failed attempts to control world response
SC -0000.15 / Alignment identified as unpredictable threat
SC -0000.18 / Dark Elves / Storm Elves identified as primary aligned population
SC -0000.20 / Propaganda begins: alignment is framed as instability
SC -0000.22 / Control doctrine established
SC -0000.25 / Decision made to remove the Dark Elves / Storm Elves
SC -0000.30 / Dark Elves / Storm Elves displaced
SC 0000.00 / Book 3 ends; remaining Star-Children deploy to Mother Maple Worldroot
II. Early Worldroot Era, Dragon Wars, Great Division, and Six Schools
SC 0000–0250 / Book 4 — The Roots of the Three Pillars
SC 0250 / Book 4 closes with the 250-year report and the dragons' refusal to continue enabling dependence
SC 0300.00 / SIF begins systematic tracking and observation of the Star-Children
SC 0300.10 / SIF begins checking the Star-Children network
SC 0500.00 / SIF interferes with Boone's bloodline
SC 0960 / Book 5 prologue period — The Old Alliance; tension rises before open war
SC 0961 / Book 5 — The War of the Dragons begins; First Battle of the Dragon Wars
SC 0974 / Major turning point of the Dragon Wars; Storm Giants hide the surviving Storm Dragons
SC 1038.4 / Last Battle of the Dragon Wars
SC 1038 / Dragon Wars formally end
SC 1039 / Book 6 — The Great Division begins
SC 1039–2338 / The Great Division: competing histories harden, kingdoms divide, and distrust of magic grows because the Star-Children cannot reliably control, predict, standardize, or use it
SC 2339 / Book 7 — The War of the Six Schools begins
SC 2339–2368 / Thirty-year War of the Six Schools. The Masters are forced into hiding; the Six Schools survive in hidden form; secret roads and libraries grow; Midnight-Smoke is created. Exact internal dates remain reserved for Book 7 drafting.
SC 2368 / The visible War of the Six Schools is driven underground rather than ended; the hidden war continues
SC 2369 / Book 8 begins
SC 2369–5117 / Book 8 carries the hidden conflict and long struggle over control, memory, and resistance toward the corrective generation
SC 5117.00 / Boone, Shon, and Makenna born; Book 8 reaches its historical endpoint
SC 5151.90 / Core conflict established: control vs growth
Series Placement Notes
· Book 1 takes place immediately after the Boone series and lasts about six months.
· Book 2 occurs aboard Den from SC -0250 to SC -0025 and brings the Three Pillars together.
· Book 3 is the Advance Mission from SC -0025 to SC 0000.
· Book 4 covers SC 0000 to SC 0250.
· Book 5 uses the established Dragon War dates SC 0961 to SC 1038.
· Book 6 begins immediately after the Dragon Wars and spans about 1,300 years. Anti-magic pressure grows here, but the full War of the Six Schools does not begin until Book 7.
· Book 7 runs SC 2339 to SC 2368. The visible war is driven underground, not ended.
· Book 8 runs SC 2369 to SC 5117 and ends on the day Boone, Shon, and Makenna are born.
· Book 9 begins immediately after Book 1 of The Clash; Book 10 follows Book 9.
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