The Final Key: Part Two of Triad (46 page)

circa 3100 bc Raylicans launch first interstellar flights; rise of Ruby Empire

circa 2900 bc Ruby Empire declines

circa 2800 bc Last interstellar flights; Ruby Empire collapses

irca AD 1300 Raylicans begin to regain lost knowledge 1843 Raylicans regain interstellar flight 1871 Aristos found Eubian Concord (aka Trader

Empire) 1881 Lahaylia Selei born 1904 Lahaylia Selei founds Skolian Imperialate 2005 Jarac born 2111 Lahaylia Selei marries Jarac 2119 Dyhianna Selei born 2122 Earth achieves interstellar flight 2132 Allied Worlds of Earth formed 2144 Roca born 2169 Kurj born

2203 Roca marries Eldrinson Althor Valdoria {Skyfall)

2204 Eldrin Jarac Valdoria born

2205 Prince Dayj Majda runs away ("The City of Cries")

2206 Althor Izam-Na Valdoria born

2209 Havyrl (Vyrl) Torcellei Valdoria born

2210 Sauscony (Soz) Lahaylia Valdoria born

2211 Denric Windward Valdoria born

2219 Kelricson (Kelric) Garlin Valdoria born 2223 Vyrl marries Lily ("Stained Glass Heart")

2227 Soz goes to Jagernaut military academy (Schism)

2235 Denric trapped on Sandstorm ("The Edge

of Never-Haven") 2237 Jaibriol II born

2240 Soz meets Jato Stormson ("Aurora in Four Voices")

2241 Kelric marries Admiral Corey Majda 2243 Corey assassinated ("Light and Shadow") 2258 Kelric crashes on Coba (The Last Hawk)

early 2259 Soz meets Jaibriol (Primary Inversion) late 2259 Soz and Jaibriol go into exile (The Radiant Seas)

2260 Jaibriol HI born (aka Jaibriol Qox Skolia)

(The Radiant Seas) 2263 Rocalisa Qox Skolia born; Althor Izam-Na

Valdoria meets Coop ("Soul of Light") 2266 Lily dies 2268 Vitar Qox Skolia born

2273 del-Kelric Qox Skolia born

2274 Radiance War begins (also called Domino War) (The Radiant Seas)

2276 Traders capture Eldrin. Radiance War ends; Jason Harrick crashes on the planet Thrice Named ("The Shadowed Heart") 2277-8 Kelric returns home (Ascendant Sun);

Dehya coalesces (Spherical Harmonic); Kamoj and Vyrl meet (The QuantumRose); Jaibriol III becomes emperor of Eube (The Moon's Shadow)

2279 Althor Vyan Selei born

2287 Jeremiah Coltman trapped on Coba ("A Roll of the Dice"); Kelric deals with Coba and Jaibriol III (The Ruby Dice).

2298 Jess Fernandez goes to Icelos ("Walk in Silence")

2326 Tina Pulivok and her cousin Manuel go to the desert ("Ave de Paso")

2328 Althor Vyan Selei meets Tina Sands Pulivok (Catch the Lightning)

About the Author

Catherine Asaro grew up near Berkeley, California. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemical Physics and her M.A. in Physics, both from Harvard, and a B.S. with Highest Honors in Chemistry from UCLA. Among the places she has done research are the University of Toronto, the Max Planck Insti-tut fur Astrophysik in Germany, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. A former ballet and jazz dancer, she founded the Mainly Jazz dance program at Harvard, and was a principal dancer for and artistic director of Mainly Jazz and the Harvard University Ballet. Her husband is John Kendall Cannizzo, the proverbial rocket scientist. They have one daughter, a ballet dancer and mathematics enthusiast.

In addition to the Skolian Saga, Catherine has also written The Veiled Web, The Phoenix Code, Sunrise Alley, and Alpha, near future science fiction; and the fantasy novels The Charmed Sphere, The Misted Cliffs, and The Dawn Star. Her work has won numerous awards, including the Nebula for The Quantum Rose. To receive e-mail updates on Catherine's releases, join groups.yahoo.com/group/ asaro-announce/. To discuss Catherine's books with other readers, join groups.yahoo.com/group/asaro/.

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