From the Lore series, this video goes over the chronological order of what occurred during the The Before - The Golden Age - The Dark Age and The City Age Extra information The Ages The Before ->The Golden Age -> The Dark Age -> The City Age In our last report we discussed the hive, that information was designed to give a fighting chance against them, both on ground, and potentially in your own morals as a guardian. But to understand our morals, and who we are, as guardians, we have to look at what we are fighting for. We are not just, tools of the traveler, We are defenders of the great the City, the last refuge on earth, We call Home. In this report, we will discuss the ages of humanity, and how the city, in which we defend every day with our lives, came into existence. The Before To start, we have to break down the ages in their proper chronological order, unfortunately, due to the collapse and other unforeseen reason, we are unable to put together the exact dates and times in which these events occur, but we can, with some unreasonable doubt, place them in order, in which this reports intends to do. Starting with the Before, an age pre traveler, some would say 21st century to potentially 23rd century earth would encompass the age of the before, but at this point, those values are speculation. Pre-Traveler arrival The age in which we believed we understood the universe, most of secrets, an age in which humanity was full of pain, sorrow, earth and the surrounding areas were dead or dying plants and progress was considerably stagnant. The Golden Age Also regarded as the arrival of the traveler. From Lore - Golden Age The Traveler changed everything. It reshaped our solar system as decisively as it shattered our scientific and philosophical frameworks. To our ancestors it must have been a hammerblow - a glimpse beyond the horizon of expected possibility and into a realm of transcendent power. The Traveler kindled the Golden Age. But we built it. We remember this with pride, even after so much else has been lost. We settled our solar system and filled it with our work. Today Cryptarchs and scholars work to distill the legends of the Golden Age into truth. We know that humans lived longer, flew further, and knew more. We know that countless ancient diseases and hatreds were extinguished forever. Human aspiration gives birth to vast engineering projects, sweeping social movements, and even new forms of life. The Golden Age was not without challenges. Sources speak of internal strife, philosophical rifts- particularly around questions of machine intelligence and 'mind forking' - and enduring scientific enigmas. But humanity and its machine children tackled these problems with pride, vigor, and a contagious sense of pluralist compassion. On Mind Forking - "Rapture of the Nerds", award-winning science fiction writers Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross have imagined a future whereby anyone can be uploaded to the cloud if they tire of their "meat body" existence. It ties in to the notion of the "singularity", and the eventual advancement and convergence of technology to the point that we can simply upload a complete copy of our consciousness to a computer if we so desire. The technological singularity has been gaining mainstream attention for more than a decade, but the idea of humans moving into virtual realms has its conceptual roots in culture and literature spanning back centuries. Source - http://technologyvoice.com/ From Lore When I was your age, people thought they knew almost everything. We had scientific laws and human truths, even a model of the universe. People carried pictures of the past and tried to have a clear vision of their difficult future. I didn't know everything, of course. But when I was a boy, I had every expectation of living a smart short life and learning quite a lot more. Father Speaks to his Child, about “The Before”, a time before the golden age, when humanity was distraught with knowledge, a sadness in which we thought we knew everything. Then The Before was Finished - (Arrival of the Traveler?) “That's when everybody, particularly the smartest of us, learned that we knew nothing. We were children and our little ideas were toys, and the universe was cut apart with great ideas and magnificent, immeasurable potentials." The father had shown the child the the old world, in “The Before” was unhappy, We stepped back into the real sun, the real world. I blinked and looked around, surprised by how green and bright everything was. How happy everything was. Even the saddest face was happy. The Golden age, didn’t just bring security of technology, it brought peace to our minds, It saved us from our doubts, and provided us the structure in which to build new hopes. The Dark Age - Post Collapse The Golden Age burned bright - and the night that overtook us after the Collapse was swift and total. The tally of suffering may be beyond comprehension. But the City lifted itself from the ash, gathering survivors. Guardians rose to challenge alien hordes. The Dark Age swallowed so much of our history...but hope never died. The City Age (Current Age) and the Formation of the Consensus When did the City Age begin? Perhaps when the bulk of the world's survivors lived beneath the Traveler, rather than in the wilderness. Or when the Titans raised the first wall. Or at Six Fronts, when the City first faced coordinated, overwhelming attack - and repelled it decisively. The City did not rise without struggle. Warlords and wilderness fiefdoms clung to power. Starvation, disease, and anarchy menaced. But the Guardians held the frontier, and the children of the Golden Age kept the fire burning through the long climb back. Legends walk through this history. The Iron Lords. Saint-14's crusade against the Fallen. The mask of the Speaker. The great Ahamkara Hunt. Toland's madness. Terrible Faction Wars - and the horrifying, disastrous effort to retake the Moon. As the City learned to walk again, it found a world overrun by alien menace. It faced disaster and defeat. Even in recent years, as Guardians begin to venture back to the Moon and the inner planets, the City's territory has withdrawn - outer sections abandoned and converted into fortifications in the wake of the Battle of Twilight Gap. But the City's shipwrights and foundries hum with energy. The probability kilns and work cooperatives produce new wonders. The Darkness is rising again. But so is the Light. The Consensus The Consensus was made after the rise of the city which lead to the faction wars. Ruled in joint by the speaker, the vanguard and the other city factions. The following conflicts, known as the Faction Wars, brought the City to its knees. When the chaos grew intolerable, a gathering of Guardians fought to end the conflict. The new peace brought a new order: the City Consensus and the Speaker ruled together, and the surviving great factions worked through civil channels to pursue their agendas. All Info I got/gather from cards and extra sources.