Advanced CAT-astrophe

Baseline time setting: Divergent
1770 AD: Divergent point – Louis Randal born in Caen.
1801: Louis Randal discovers Law of Heritability and codifies it in Descent of Bloodlines.
1860: Charles Darwin, Francesco Randal, and Alfred Russel Wallace independently publish their theorem of evolution.
1892: Roger Kowler publishes Five Laws, a treatise on the five known mechanisms of evolution among multicellular life: Artificial Selection, Natural Selection, Migration, Mutation, and Typic Drift.
1903: Russo-Nipponese War ends in brutal stalemate, both sides declare victory and adamantly refuse to pay reparations.
1919: League of Nations forms, and passes stringent laws against the artificial creation of life.
1935: Great Depression ends when Jonathan Whelstein creates the Claimator device, which uses the embryonic theory of Equivalency of Matter and Energy to render several industrial processes dramatically more efficient.
1937: Silver Legionnaires defect to Nazi Germany, and lead over two hundred thirty thousand others around the world to abandon their homes for the Axis Powers.
1946: President Roosevelt formally declares a cessation of hostilities in the Great World War Two, at a human cost of forty million civilian casualties of battle and starvation, twenty two million military casualties of battle and disease, and well over thirty million fatalities by atrocity.  Four hundred Axis leaders are hanged, and all of their scientific research is seized without compensation by the United States, along with several hundred scientists, in Operation Stapler.
1950: Kaito Asunagi publishes The Miracle Helix, a thorough and accurate summation of the role, size, origins, shapes, and activities of nucleic acids in human cells.
1958: Norman Borlaug wins his first Nobel Prize for a hybridized grafting and breeding experiment that results in history’s most productive kelp and rice strains, saving over one and a half billion Indian, Chinese, Mexican, Belizean, and Bhutanese lives from starvation.
1967: A bacterium has its genome sequenced from beginning to end: Haemophilus influenzae.
1969: For the first time, a multicellular living being has its entire genome sequenced from beginning to end: the Kettlebell jellyfish.
1970: Polio, Malaria, Smallpox, Rinderpest, and Scorolis are formally declared eradicated, and all humanity rejoices as Michael Collins becomes the first man on the Moon.  The Decade of Science and Progress is declared by a joint resolution of all twelve seated members of the UN Security Council.
1975: Professor Albert Einstein dies mere days after delivering The Thesis of Spatial Displacement and Time, a seminal and groundbreaking work on which natural laws break down as the Planck Distance is approached.
1979: Colliard Station is established as Earth’s first permanent space station in geosynchronous orbit over Ecuador.
1984: Roger Dunmach and Xi Jianpen successfully sequence their own DNA in Project Concurrency.
1989: Project Concurrency successfully sequences the genome of Paris japonica, the organism with the longest known genome.
1993: The Soviet Union collapses, as does the bifurcated Germany; covert actions by the Soviet Union’s surviving intelligence operatives are revealed to have been setting Cuba up as a retreat for senior Party members, who are torn apart in the street by enraged mobs of starving Kazakh peasants.
1995: The entire Kim family of North Korea dies in a freak nuclear accident while visiting the Inchon Experimental Breeder facility, North Korea dissolves into chaos as millions of starving Koreans rush the Chinese and South Korean borders and are slaughtered in droves.
1996: The United Nations formally rescinds the vestigial ban on artificial life for those academic organizations that sign binding contracts to never attempt to release said life into the wild.
1997: Norman Borlaug wins his second Nobel Prize for using genetically-enhanced fungi in the stomachs of insects to create polymoveric symbiotes that can digest plastics and excrete fertilizers, saving another eight hundred million lives in ecological devastation zones.
2000: Professor Merrick Skuse creates the first purely artificial organism by creating each base pair artificially and assembling it in a nanite-PCR matrix, then breeding it in a peptide broth filled with fatty acid chains to create synthetic cell membranes.
2005: President Hayes of the United States signs the Ecological Reconstitution Act, making legal for the first time the creation of edible synthetic life.
2010: United Nations Panel on Climate Preparedness warns that rising hydrocarbon use threatens collapse of all agriculture.
2016: Korean Peninsula Reconstruction Task Force declares the formal reunification of the peninsula under President Choi of South Korea, and choses Nampo as its new capital city.  The former Demilitarized Zone is repurposed as Earth’s largest wildlife preserve outside the Antarctic Circle.
2020: Doctor Howard Raines of Italy creates the first artificial eukaryotic species, an invertebrate sea sponge creature he calls Iascopo minoris.
2026: Ireland becomes the first nation to achieve zero petrochemical power generation.
2029: Professor Emeritus Pietro Cazzanli of Corsica successfully hybridizes two chordate species to create a chimeric organism.
2037: Asteroid ABX90983 is detected on a collision course with Earth by the Bright Web Space Observatory.  United Nations convenes emergency panel to discuss options.
2038: ABX90983 is retitled Sekhmet 0, and the United Nations declares a global state of emergency, asking all participant governments to begin asteroid diversion efforts.
2039: United States, Russia, China, and several private organizations begin Operation Bratana, an attempt to slow or divert Sekhmet 0.  Spectroscopic analysis reveal the asteroid to be almost entirely frozen chlorine, oxygen, and hydrogen except for a bizarrely dense core.
2040: Operation Bratana is joined by the Japanese, Canadian, Indian, and European Space Agencies, and deploys the first of six spacecraft packed with tons of lead dust, in an attempt to divert Sekhmet 0 with their gravity wells and tow cables.
January 2041: The drone Bratana spacecraft send back images of life forms frozen in the ice of the asteroid, sending Earth scientists into a confused flurry.
February 2041: Since the Bratana spacecraft are not diverting the asteroid quickly enough, several manned shuttles are dispatched using advanced chemical/electric hybrid engines to attach rocket boosters to the asteroid.
May 2041: Operation Jollyboat is begun on Earth in secrecy at the behest of the Global Scientific Emergency Committee.  Using the Cazzanli technique as a template, the Operation Jollyboat scientists begin creating entirely synthetic life forms with the best and most enduring traits of all known vertebrate life forms, with the intent of repopulating the Earth with humanity’s superior children if Bratana fails.
June 2041: Subaquatic vaults containing genetic samples of thousands of different lynchpin organisms from ecosystems around the world are completed, along with several that include cloning devices to repopulate the world’s oceans in case Operation Jollyboat fails.
July 2041: The first of the Jollyboat organisms, a female bonobo-fennec hybrid named Susana, is successfully created and stably cloned.  Production of human hybrids begins despite some ethics concerns.
September 2041: The manned spacecraft arrive at Sekhmet 0 and confirm that the organisms within the ice ball are alive and in stasis from the cold.  All attempts to divert the asteroid to a new course fail, but the second wave of spacecraft are able to slow it significantly.
October 2041: The third and final wave of Bratana robot spacecraft arrive at Sekhmet 0, but two hours later, a radiation burst from an unknown source cuts off all contact with all four waves of spacecraft at the asteroid.  Four days later, a weakened crewer reports that the burst came from inside the asteroid.
December 2041: The Global Scientific Emergency Committee reports that the asteroid will hit within two hundred days if it is not diverted or slowed further.  Desperate NASA and USAF personnel recommend use of kinetic kill missiles, and their plan is put into action.
January 2042: Almost unheralded in the chaos of the impending asteroid strike, the Klein Ice Bridge in Antarctica breaks, raising sea levels by five feet in one week.
February 2042: Operation Jollyboat is now considered the only possible means of human survival, and all remaining scientific assets from the world over are diverted to the chimaera project.
March 2042: A corporate space delivery company rocket is diverted into Sekhmet 0 at a measurable fraction of lightspeed, breaking off a chunk of the asteroid.  Subsequent NASA shelling by KK rockets slow the asteroid from Mach 592 to Mach 428.
April 2042: The last living crewer on the manned Bratana rockets self-destructs all the surviving Bratana craft, breaking up the surface of the asteroid.  Shocked ground observers note unnatural radiation and organic signatures inside the asteroid.
May 2042: With only twenty days to go, Operation Jollyboat has successfully created well over two hundred thousand human-nonhuman hybrids, all fertile and of at least human intelligence, and placed them in stasis in the Korean Wildlife Preserve.  Other vaults are hastily built by armies of hundreds of thousands of human construction workers across the globe in Operation Anthill.
June 2 2042: Desperate launches by all space-capable parties on Earth slam into Sekhmet as it comes into visual range, but unknown artificial objects erupt from the surface and divert most rockets.  Sekhmet accelerates to six hundred times the speed of sound.
June 3 2042: Objects begin moving under the surface of Sekhmet 0.  Radiation levels from the asteroid’s core rise substantially.  US Armed Forces Command declares Earth to be under attack from unknown hostile aliens.
June 7 2042: NASA moon base succeeds in launching the Forlorn Hope, a spacecraft loaded with over forty hydrogen bombs welded into a lattice inside a plutonium sphere, flooded with Tritium.  The bomb impacts Sekhmet 0 and detonates at a yield of seven hundred megatons.  The objects inside stop moving.  Sekhmet 0’s mass decreases by fifteen percent, and begins trailing evaporated chlorine gas.
June 8 2042: Operation Jollyboat continues seeding Earth with chimaera beings, complete with extensive genetic memory implants that will give them language and comprehension.  An internet poll is held to establish their species name.
June 12 2042: Sekhmet 0 suddenly slows by fourteen percent, and radiation spikes inside the asteroid halt.  Chemical explosions from an unknown source on the far side of the asteroid re-direct the asteroid onto an inescapable intercept course with Earth.
June 15 2042: Corporate evacuation shuttles launch hundreds of wealthy humans into space.  Thousands more retreat into bunker complexes.
June 19 2042: European Space Agency KK missiles slow Sekhmet to Mach 392 and break off four percent of its remaining mass.
June 22 2042: New chimeric race name is determined by popular result to be Kemomimi.
June 23 2042: Last-ditch attempts to divert Sekhmet 0 with additional KK rockets from the moon and Krakow AFB fail.  Earth has four days to impact.
June 24 2042: Spectroscopic scans of Sekhmet 0 reveal artificial chemicals comprise 96 percent of its inner core, which is resistant to all laser and nuclear weaponry.
June 25 2042: All intact space rockets on Earth deploy to NASA moon base, carrying as many supply packs as can be carried.
June 26 2042: All operational Earth antennae begin prerecorded broadcast of farewell message to the universe in forty languages.
0034 UTC, June 27 2042: Sekhmet 0 slams into the Arctic ice cap at superterminal velocity.
1020 UTC, June 27 2042: A bizarrely slow shockwave reaches McMurdo Ice Station in Antarctic.  Human population has dropped to one billion.
1103 UTC, June 27 2042: Orbiting space stations report hundreds of thousands of tiny black objects emerging from Sekhmet 0 impact crater and flying into the air, then descending into the wake of the shockwave, then going completely still.
1205 UTC, June 27 2042: Unknown seismic activity in thirty nine spots around Earth’s tectonic plates begins simultaneously.
1258 UTC, June 27 2042: All ice molecules on Earth spontaneously transform into their liquid state.  Human population has dropped to forty million.
1823 UTC, June 27 2042: Moon base evacuees and corporate escape rockets coordinate retrieval mission to land all craft at Moon base and consolidate.
1839 UTC, June 27 2042: Unknown radiation signatures emerge from black objects.  Dead lifeforms around black objects begin dissolving at physically improbable speeds.  Human population has dropped to four million terrestrially, four thousand in space.
2209 UTC, June 27 2042: Earth-spanning water wave crashes against Antarctica, rebounds and begins sweeping back towards north pole.  Human population on Earth has dropped to three hundred thousand.
0313 UTC, June 28 2042: Unknown spike of radiation appears over Asian landmass, all surviving humans aboveground instantly drop dead.  Space station crews report no unusual sensations.
0423 UTC, June 30 2042: Surviving Operation Jollyboat personnel test atmosphere and establish that between unknown alien weapons, unknown radiation, and planetary dust storms, life will not be possible for their Kemomimi for another four hundred years at a minimum.  All Operation Jollyboat personnel activate emergency transponders on their bunkers and signal Moon base, telling them to establish new lives there and never return to Earth.
2321 UTC, June 30 2042: Unknown black objects begin taking on the forms of terrestrial chordates.
April 24 2045: Moon base loses half atmospheric pressure thanks to freak meteorite impact.  Surviving Moon base personnel attempt evacuation and lose control of life support equipment during escape.  Total human race survivors: 1204.
December 2046: Operation Jollyboat director Sanford Koenig detects unexpected decline in atmospheric radiation to pre-Industrial Revolution levels.  Subsequent tests by orbital robots confirms that Earth pollutant levels are declining far faster than natural processes alone can explain.
February 2047: Source of atmospheric cleaning detected by orbital scans: unknown group of humans in China have cobbled together terraforming device from the artificial objects in Sekhmet 0.
April 2047: Unknown humans activate second terraforming engine and are promptly assaulted by unidentified black monsters, which fade into radioactive dust when killed and devour human flesh.  Devices remain operational, but all Jollyboat attempts to contact unknown humans are met with radio silence.
June 2047: Unidentified Chinese humans finally respond to radio hails after securing remains of crashed ultra-high-altitude weather plane.  Identifying themselves as members of PLA high command science staff who hid underground in Cold War era bunkers, they explain that they were not a part of Operation Jollyboat, but did manage to salvage pieces of alien weapon with nuclear submarines.  They surmise that Operation Jollyboat will be able to proceed with Kemomimi project in only fifty years, but it will take over six thousand for Earth’s oceans to return to pre-impact levels, and seven thousand to return to pre-industrial levels.
August 2047: Chinese survivor team locates nearby Operation Jollyboat vault and camps outside, but are promptly assaulted by black alien creatures.  Animals show no signs whatsoever of advanced self-preservation nor cognitive abilities and assault humans without hesitation on sight.  Chinese military personnel repel monsters at first, but suffer eighty percent casualties in second wave.  Total human race survivors: 923 left on Earth.
December 2047: Chinese survivors and Operation Jollyboat crew coordinate establishment of surface fortress over Chinese Jollyboat base, but Chinese crew’s life support gear runs out days before completion.  Without atmospheric filtration equipment, Chinese crew begin dying quickly.  Operation Jollyboat crew quickly finish work and seal fortress against outside air.
January 2048: Operation Jollyboat supreme command in Oslo is abruptly contacted by Danish survivalist billionaire Roland Volstag, who has finally managed to dig his antenna out from under the scattered remains of his bunker’s surface structures.  Volstag reports that black alien monsters have attacked his bunker and begs for aid.  Operation Jollyboat refuses.  Volstag goes silent as monsters breach his bunker.
February 2048: Radio signals from unknown American military base reach Operation Jollyboat secondary bunker in Cheyanne.  American Army personnel report sudden clearing of atmosphere over Salt Lake, with radiation and dust levels reaching half of the breathable threshold.
July 2048: Waves of unnatural lightning erupt from dust storm over Rifleman Bank survival bunker for Operation Jollyboat weather personnel, destroying surface structures.  Operation Jollyboat personnel repel subsequent sudden alien attack with stockpiled light machine guns, but two aliens escape, wounded.
August 2048: Signal from last operational space station reaches Oslo, reporting that the lightning storms and at least some of the black alien objects are being controlled by pulses of radiation from Sekhmet’s remaining intact artificial components.  Operation Jollyboat personnel are unable to reach the site, but station de-orbits space telescope on site, destroying its ice cover.  US Military base launches cruise missile from subterranean silo and nukes Sekhmet broadcaster.  Alien machine goes haywire, causing freak lightning storms that destroy New Zealand and parts of Australia with energy discharges.
December 2048: Operation Jollyboat personnel calculate that surviving human race is now too small genetically to sustain itself more than four additional generations.
August 2050: Dust storms begin to fade again, clearing completely over parts of Siberia.  Operation Jollyboat probes begin testing ground for contaminants and find parts of Baja peninsula and Florida panhandle completely clear of alien radiation and material.
December 2051: Operation Jollyboat scanners detect Morse code signal from Norway.  Sealed aircraft deploy from Oslo and arrive at Crop Trust facility that has miraculously survived impact, and determine signal to be from automated seed perpetuation machine attempting to restart Earth plant life.
June 2053: Director Koenig makes decision to consolidate all intact Earth medical supplies in a single Operation Jollyboat Kemomimi vault to begin making more Kemomimi and placing them in stasis.  All intact aircraft worldwide dispatch to intact surface cities and begin collection.
September 2059: The replenishment cloning labs in the world’s oceans run out of their stockpiled organic mixtures and shut down.  Earth’s oceans begin naturally repopulating.
June 2064: Human colony in Oslo is formally reopened by President Koenig, who acknowledges that it is the final act of mankind and asks all humans to begin preparing for extinction.
September 2069: Radiation levels outside of underground colony in Oslo drop to tolerable shirtsleeves level on half of all days.
November 2070: President Koenig dies of cancer, leaving Presidency of humankind to Jack Lomar.  Lomar declares that all surviving humans shall spend their remaining time expanding the subterranean archives of all knowledge that form the core of Operation Jollyboat labs, so that the new race can pick up where mankind left off.
March 2076: Black alien lifeforms, now known as Shadows, observed emerging from subterranean chambers in areas where they have never before been spotted.  New Oslo is assaulted by over two hundred thousand organisms that charge mindlessly into killing fields, managing to kill four hundred humans before being destroyed utterly.  Survivors of Operation Jollyboat are unable to explain this sudden aggression.
July 2078: An unknown sailing vessel of distinctly human manufacture but of no known model is sighted off the coast of Norway by Operation Jollyboat recon drones.  It flees contact and does not respond to hails.
October 2078: Four Operation Jollyboat vaults go offline within seconds of each other in Mexico and the southern US.  President Lomar vetoes recon mission, citing lack of fuel for return journey.
January 2080: The black alien lifeforms no longer release sand upon death, but begin turning into harmless clouds of helium instead.  Their mechanisms of existence remain as enigmatic as ever.
February 2080: Seven unknown sailing craft arrive unannounced at Operation Jollyboat vault in Aarhus.  To the utter shock of Jollyboat staff watching remotely, the craft are crewed by Kemomimi, fully grown and clothed in ragged human garb.  They are able to speak fluent English and converse with each other unintimidated by the skeletons of the Danish city.  Using drones and loudspeakers, the Jollyboat crew direct the Kemomimi to New Oslo.
June 2080: The Kemomimi, numbering over a hundred and apparently fully grown, arrive at New Oslo by following drones.  The New Oslo humans, including the last fifteen living Operation Jollyboat personnel, welcome their descendants with open arms, and begin to educate them on the history of the world and how to use the machinery of mankind.  The Kemomimi, it transpires, are incredibly intelligent, perceptive, and by human standards, kind and playful.  The humans of New Oslo observe with awe as the Kemomimi instantly master nearly every technology put before them, even given that the base tech levels programmed into the mental imprint machines in the chimaera labs were that of the 1800s.
August 2080: President Lomar orders the activation of all intact Operation Jollyboat and Crop Trust vaults, since the experiment to create a successor species is a clear success.  The surviving human race has climbed back to five hundred by this point, with only fourteen Operation Jollyboat personnel left alive.  The Kemomimi race begins its conquest of the Earth as hundreds of thousands of man-beast hybrids of three subspecies emerge blinking into the light of their new domain.
December 2080: The Kemomimi of New Oslo, numbering over four thousand, begin to learn the more advanced technologies of mankind, including their computer technologies and the new material created by the people of New Oslo.
January 2081: A scientist named Annabeth Kimura of the New Oslo laboratory cracks Einstein’s relativistic vault and discovers the secret of matter-to-energy conversion, using only the energy of the original object.  The surviving New Oslo humans elect not to make this technology available to the Kemomimi until the new species has shown greater foresight than the humans of Old Earth.  However, the decision to use a new calendar to commemorate the greatest scientific discovery in all Earth history is made, and January 2081 becomes January 1 Anno Creatio, in honor of the day physics was defeated, and the secrets of creation unveiled.
August 1AC: A horde of over four hundred thousand alien Shadows assaults New Oslo without warning, but the machines of the city are ready.  Fed hundreds of millions of pounds of rubble and debris from the old city, the Conversion Platforms produce thousands of identical robotic guards that assault the alien monsters with ferocity no less than that of their enemies, and the city is saved without a single human fatality.  The Kemomimi begin to secretly worship the Earless as gods for their clearly magical power.  When the New Oslo humans learn of this, they realize that just because the Kemomimi have an innate understanding of the use of technology, they do not necessarily have a comprehension of the underlying mechanisms of its physical components.  They resolve to use the Operation Jollyboat vault computer networks to begin teaching the new societies of Kemomimi what the old world was really like.
February 5AC: The last of the original Operation Jollyboat personnel, Doctor Lewis Phillip, records a secret message in the computers of the remaining Chinese submarine and sets it on an automated course for the North Sea Caverns, where he hopes the Kemomimi will find it and understand its contents.  Into it, he has packed all of his secret research into the aliens, their anatomy, and their pre-Forlorn Hope intentions, as well as the theories as to what the Shadows actually are, and the mysterious energy spike that killed all of the humans that survived Sekhmet without going belowground.
December 8AC: The Kemomimi of New Oslo begin to disperse across Europe and Asia with the knowledge of the Earless, but only after reluctantly vowing not to regard humans as gods.
August 11AC: Lewis Phillip finally succumbs to radiation poisoning.  Operation Jollyboat concludes.
January 12AC: Genetic modification devices in New Oslo and Outpost Reykjavik begin creating new organisms to populate the world’s oceans and landmasses to better cohabitate with the world’s new owners.  Fueled by the functionally infinite resources of the Conversion Platforms, these machines begin restocking Earth with life that does not conform perfectly to the pre-Sekhmet cladistics.
October 15AC: New Oslo researchers, the children of Operation Jollyboat, finish miniaturizing the Conversion Platform technology, and use a space-capable rocket to send one to the long-abandoned Moon base to begin repairing it, intending to move there and bequeath Earth to their spritely Kemomimi children.
January 16AC: New Oslo researchers watch in awe and joy as the Kemomimi societies of what was once Australia begin mapping human ruins and stockpiling its goods and books, building a new society, without a single one of them having ever seeing an Operation Jollyboat recording outside of their orientation videos in their stasis cells.  The Kemomimi do not seem to know what all of these devices actually do, but their combination of spirited joi de vivre and unreserved curiosity are inspiring to all of the surviving humans.
December 16AC: As an experiment, the Outpost Reykjavik researchers provide a Conversion Platform with a few hardcoded products like toilet paper, fresh water, fabric, and simple digging tools to a Kemomimi village in what was previously Iceland.  To their fascination, the Kemomimi seem to know how to use it without effort, and begin enthusiastically feeding human wreckage into the machine to produce their goods.  Astonishingly, they do not fight over the material or even hoard it, but share it freely.
22AC: The Kemomimi population flourishes in peaceful communes of adventure, exploration, and family, as hundreds of thousands of Kemomimi females give birth to the first generations of natural-born Kemomimi.  The last known human populations of Earth consolidate in the great underground bunkers of New Oslo to prepare to leave for space and give Earth to its more deserving residents.
26AC: The Chinese weather machines are given hundreds of robotic guards by the last humans on Earth using Conversion Platforms to ensure that they never stop working to restore Earth to pre-industrial climate.
30AC: All known humans left on Earth record farewell messages for their Kemomimi heirs and board the rocket Third Genesis to travel to the Moon, where Conversion Platform robots have begun coring settlements into the endless rock, and gene labs are cloning the next generation of human life.
33AC: A Conversion Platform left in New Oslo begins to malfunction, and combines its matter conversion and robotic design functions to create autonomous but non-reproducing robots that slowly spread into some Kemomimi-settled areas.  The humans watching from space shut down the machine, but certain other Platforms made from the same template also begin malfunctioning in identical ways, and the humans do not manage to shut them all down.
34AC: Horrified by their sloppiness, a team of five descendants from Operation Jollyboat staff return to Earth and manually destroy the machines, but it is far too late.  Driven by coding impulses they can’t self-delete, there are now hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of self-fueling robots loose in ancient human cities and ruins, aggressively driving off any Kemomimi that approach.  Sick with self-loathing for managing to ruin the new Earth in just four years, the Operation Jollyboat descendants vow to remain on Earth until death, and spend their every waking day destroying these machines.  The legends of these five young heroes outlive them by thousands of years among the Kemomimi who watched in awe as they strode across the broken Earth, immune to lightning and Shadow attacks, reaping hundreds of thousands of robots and Shadows with weapons made of flame and steel and waves of sound.
50AC: Elandra Addid, the last human born before the impact of Sekhmet 0, dies in her sleep on the Moon.
55AC: Using the Operation Jollyboat networks one last time, the five Moon humans remotely reprogram the remaining Platforms to only accept synthetic materials as components and fuel for their conversions, so that the Kemomimi do not accidentally destroy the biosphere of Earth.  Leaving the Jollyboat vaults wide open so curious Kemomimi can explore them safely if they want, and destroying the remote controls of the network, the five humans don their power armor and go on one final campaign of destruction against the Shadows, walking through their ranks like ships through water towards the North Pole.  They are never seen again.
74AC: The last humans on Earth, the inbred descendants of some people trapped in the remains of Cheyenne Mountain Complex, die.  The Earless are now extinct on their homeworld, and live on only in their shinies, the fond memories of elder Kemomimi, and a few recordings in the surviving Jollyboat vaults.  The Moon humans have long disappeared into the warren of expanding tunnels on the Moon, never to return to Earth.
104AC: A sudden burst of signals from the Moon base imparts thousands of new blueprints from the Conversion Platforms.  All surface lights on the Moon base go dark.
1356AC: Kemomimi evolution progresses at the same pace as humankind’s did, and in time, slow diversions of population emerge among Kemomimi, some of which become more bestial than others, and some of which become more humanlike.  Regardless of human appearance, all are more resistant to wounding, chemicals, the effects of aging, and radiation than humans ever were.  Some eventually develop tails, but no other genetic aberrances arise.  Slow expansions of the populations’ gene pools lead to ever broader ranges of hair, skin, and eye colors.
4498AC: Continued diversification of Kemomimi populations leads to a distinct separation of two population groupings: Land and Sea.  Land Kemomimi tend to be calmer, quieter, and have sharper senses, while Sea Kemomimi tend to be stronger, more emotive, and more energetic.  The sheer variety of artificial life forms created by the Outpost Reykjavik laboratories increase the diversity of marine life in flooded human cities significantly.
5325AC: The Chinese weather machines finally break down after thousands of years of covert maintenance by their robot guards, but the Earth is now on a path of permanent healing.  So long as the Kemomimi keep on their subconscious orders to rebuild the lost forests of Earth, keep growing as much kelp as they need, and never start tapping the world’s last few petrochemical deposits, Earth will soon come to be a natural paradise from pole to pole despite being heavily inhabited.
5966AC: To the shock of the nearby populace of Kemomimi, an island appears off the coast of Ohalo Port City, which appears on no maps and was not present according to any of the local fishermen.  The island rises one foot from the water and is surrounded by dangerous suboceanic outcroppings of rock and sand.
5992AC: Seventeen new islands appear, covered in dead plants and fish, off of the southern coast of the Basket Mountains.  While no Kemomimi records denote an origin for these islands, their presence is noted on a few Earless maps in the Basket Mountains Museum of Weird Earless Stuff.  The meaning of this is unclear.
6303AC: The Kemomimi of Nedralt Peninsula note that their fishing fleets have to move further and further afield to collect fresh fish, and two days later, a new island suddenly rises from the sea in the Atlantic Ocean.  Shocked Kemomimi scholars discover that for some reason, sea levels in some parts of the world have begun to drop dramatically, but other bodies of water are completely unaffected.
6320AC: Roka is born.
6324AC: Brincal is born.
6325AC: Kassia is born.
6326AC: Droma is born.
6328AC: Colossal drops in Shadow numbers and aggression observed across the entire Western Hemisphere.  Kemomimi are unable to find a cause, but enjoy the reprieve.
6329AC: Kibbie is born.
6347AC: The Grey Trawler deploys from Washer City for the first time, with Captain Brincal at the chair.
5 April 6348AC: Present day.