Primary Inversion (49 page)

Modern Skolian Empire

Circa:

      
AD 1300 Raylicans begin to regain lost knowledge

      
AD 1843 Raylicans regain interstellar flight

      
AD 1866 Rhon genetic project established

      
AD 1871 Aristos found Eubian Concord (aka Trader Empire)

      
AD 1881 Lahaylia Selei born

      
AD 1904 Lahaylia Selei founds Skolian Imperialate

      
AD 2005 Jarac born

      
AD 2111 Lahaylia Selei marries Jarac

      
AD 2119 Dyhianna Selei born

      
AD 2122 Earth achieves interstellar flight with the inversion drive

      
AD 2132 Allied Worlds of Earth formally established

      
AD 2144 Roca born

      
AD 2169 Kurj born

      
AD 2203 Roca marries Eldrinson Althor Valdoria
(Skyfall)

      
AD 2204 Eldrin Jarac Valdoria born; Jarac dies; Kurj becomes Imperator; Lahaylia Selei dies (
Skyfall
)

      
AD 2205 Major Bhaaj hired by the House of Majda to find Prince Dayj (“The City of Cries”)

      
AD 2206 Althor Izam-Na Valdoria born

      
AD 2207 Del-Kurj (Del) and Chaniece Roca born 

      
AD 2209 Havyrl (Vyrl) Torcellei Valdoria born

      
AD 2210 Sauscony (Soz) Lahaylia Valdoria born

      
AD 2211 Denric Winward Valdoria born

      
AD 2213 Shannon Eirlei Valdoria born

      
AD 2215 Aniece Dyhianna Valdoria born

      
AD 2219 Kelricson (Kelric) Garlin Valdoria born

      
AD 2220 Eldrin and Dehya forced to marry

      
AD 2221 Taquinil Selei born

      
AD 2223 Vyrl and Lily elope at age fourteen and create a political crisis (“Stained Glass Heart”)

      
AD 2227 Soz enters Dieshan Military Academy (
Schism
)

      
AD 2228 First declared war between Skolia and Traders (
The Final Key)

      
AD 2237 Jaibriol II born

      
AD 2240 Soz meets Jato Stormson (“Aurora in Four Voices”)

      
AD 2241 Kelric marries Admiral Corey Majda Corey

      
AD 2243 Corey Majda assassinated (“Light and Shadow”)

      
AD 2255 Soz leads military rescue mission to colony New Day and meets Hypron (“The Pyre of New Day”)

      
AD 2258 Kelric crashes on Coba
(The Last Hawk)

      
AD 2259 Soz and Jaibriol II go into exile
(Primary Inversion)

      
AD 2260 Jaibriol III born (aka Jaibriol Qox Skolia)

      
AD 2263 Rocalisa Qox Skolia born; Althor Izam-Na Valdoria meets Coop (“Soul of Light”)

      
AD 2268 Vitar Qox Skolia born

      
AD 2273 Del-Kelric Qox Skolia born 

      
AD 2274 Radiance War begins (also called Domino War) 

      
AD 2276 Traders capture Eldrin. Radiance War ends; Jason Harrick crashes on the planet Thrice Named (“The Shadowed Heart”)

      
AD 2277–8 Kelric returns home
(Ascendant Sun)
; Dehya coalesces
(Spherical
Harmonic);
Kamoj and Vyrl meet (
The
Quantum Rose);
Jaibriol III becomes Emperor of Eube (
The Moon’s Shadow)

      
AD 2279 Althor Vyan Selei born; Del sings “The Carnelians Finale”
(Diamond Star)

      
AD 2287 Jeremiah Coltman trapped on Coba (“A Roll of the Dice”); Jeejon dies
(The Ruby Dice)
 

      
AD 2288 Kelric and Jaibriol Qox sign peace treaty
(The Ruby Dice)
 

      
AD 2298 Jess Fernandez goes to Icelos (“Walk in Silence”)

      
AD 2326 Tina and Manuel in New Mexico (“Ave de Paso”)

      
AD 2328 Althor Vyan Selei meets Tina Santis Pulivok (
Catch the Lightning; Lightning Strike, Book I; Lightning Strike, Book II)

Catherine Asaro

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Catherine Asaro is a Nebula Award winner for her novel
The Quantum Rose
, part of her popular Skolian Empire series, and the novella “The Spacetime Pool.” Her novels have three times been named the best science fiction novel of the year by
Romantic Times Book Club
. She has won numerous other awards, including the
Analog
Readers Poll award, the Homer, and the Sapphire award. She has an M.A. in physics, and a Ph.D. in chemical physics, both from Harvard, and has done research at the University of Toronto, The Max Planck Institute, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. A former ballet and jazz dancer, she founded the Mainly Jazz Dance program at Harvard and danced on both the west and east coasts. Her near future thrillers include the novels 
Alpha
,
 Sunrise Alley, The Phoenix Code,
 and
The Veiled Web. 
Her
 
most recent Ruby Dynasty books are 
The Ruby Dice, Diamond Star,
 and
Carnelians.
For
Diamond Star,
she also cut a CD of the same name with the rock band Point Valid, which offers a soundtrack to the book. She continues to compose and perform, and appears in concert at science fiction cons. Catherine has written fourteen novels in the popular Skolian Saga—
Carnelians
being the latest—several fantasies, including
The Charmed Sphere, The Misted Cliffs,
 and
The Night Bird.