Timeline

A high-level chronology of Phantom Epoch's oldest surviving history and the return to Volan.

Age of the Vanished

The Vanished once united the inhabited planets of the galaxy before vanishing in the collapse of their age. After they were gone, interstellar travel fractured and surviving peoples were stranded on separate worlds while conflicts over Vanished technology intensified. ^{*1 *2}

Volan Before the Exodus

Ayoshen opened a gate above Volan, guided the Volanen, and taught them to work with Keor. Volanen traditions also remember him reshaping Volan's environment, preserving its people, and leaving behind pendants, facilities, and visions for a future return. ^{*5 *6 *7 *8 *9}

Fall of Volan

A great evil associated with Shaylang threatened Volan and forced the Volanen to flee through a hidden gate to Orbos. The exile left Volan as a lost homeworld marked by corruption, abandoned facilities, and unfinished Ayoshen-linked defenses. ^{*6 *10 *11 *12}

Return to Volan

The return to Volan reactivates Ayoshen-linked sites, recovers memory units and relics, and reopens paths across the world. ^{*12 *13}

Gaps in the Record

The exact sequence connecting Ayoshen's wider Keor'drin work, Shaylang's corruption, and the fate of the larger gate network remains uncertain in the surviving record.

Several ancient transitions and later gate-war connections are still incomplete in the surviving record.