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Cycle of the Elderhood 77:54:06

The Council of the Elderhood receives reports of primitive spacecraft in flight between inner planets of
the core-star. The Eldermost establishes the core-star observatory to determine the nature and
intentions of these evolving spacefolk.




Sun Year 3 House of Kwan forms subsidiary, Sun Power, Inc., to hang skywires. тАЬLadders to the
planets,тАЭ these will be the means to realize old IvanтАЩs dream.




Sun Year 7 Moon mines in production. Mars Station planted.




Sun Year 13 Solar power beamed to Earth. Kwan Labs designs genetic tests to select individuals able
to live and work effectively in minimum-gravity environments.




Sun Year 17 Comet Yamamoto captured and steered into Earth orbit to supply water, oxygen, and
other volatiles for the CompanyтАЩs space operation.




Sun Year 19 First test skywire fails when unpredicted harmonics snap ballast link. Falling cable drags
satellite out of orbit. Cable burns in atmosphere, but satellite strikes Quito. Killed and injured number
2 million.




Sun Year 23 Successful skywire dropped from satellite station Kilimanjaro High to Kenya Down.




Sun Year 25 Sun Company obtains outlawed nuclear materials from Nucleonics Repository to be used