Rather nice, a shame there is no new information for someone familiar with the games. But it's good for newcomers to the series.

I take it the 2242 date means the one mentioned in the Arcean page is wrong.

Also the FAQ states the campaign takes place five years after the events in Twilight of the Arnor, which took place in 2232, which would make the starting year for GCIII 2237.

Emm, the Terror Star was used to destroy the known shrads, not a stronghold. And the Thalans then destroying not only that but also the plans?

Interesting. In the past the events (after the Dread Lords' return) were thought to take place faster with Dark Avatar taking place in 2227 and the Coalition fleet returning in 2230 - fitting the 'five years too early' Thalan claims.

Which would also be closer to the claim of 10 years since Earth' imprisonment behind the force field, which is stated in the Story part of the Databanks. According to the timeline, this would have happened somewhere between 2228 and 2230.

I'm still a little baffled that the destruction of the Drath homeworld by the Korath isn't mentioned.

Also, according to the GalCiv 2 manual, the Thalan arrived in 2224, not in 2216.

Very nice. A great visual that helps tremendously to understand the story line.

Two comments:

Interesting placement for the entry for the 22nd Century AD being at about 2200 instead of 2100.

Also, on my PC the text for 2216 and 2228 overlap and is very difficult to read. If anyone at SD wants a DxDiag I can provide one. I also captured a picture of it, but I haven't figured out how to place it in a reply on this forum.

Alien loving liberals got in government.

I love history. Espeically game history.

So this might be interesting, could we be looking at not one or two but THREE Terran factions?

I figure possibilities are:

Patriots of the Second Fleet/Odyssey task force

Mutineers of the Second Fleet/Odyssey task force.

But then there is the return of the Terran First Fleet which if they were stuck in a pocket universe may very well have experienced accelerated time and advanced considerably which would explain why they were LOSING the war and then suddenly they make a brutal curbstompish return in the game intro.

So perhaps the First Fleet will be their own faction on the Crusade the Thalan feared so much while the other two Terran Factions (Patriots and Mutineers) will also have their own things going on.

Or maybe the First Fleet spent the last years to study and reverse-engineer the artifacts left behind by the Dread Lords in the pocket universe. Just a guess.

Thanks for catching those discrepancies upthread, guys. Timeline has been changed and vetted, everything should be accurate now.

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Thanks for catching those discrepancies upthread, guys. Timeline has been changed and vetted, everything should be accurate now.[/quote}

Have you any idea why the text for years 2216 and 2226 overlap each other? I am on windows 8.1 using Firefox.

So... you agree but you disagree? 

Stardock worked on a project with a very specific faction divide; TEC Loyalists, who want to continue their original mission , and TEC Rebels, who are ravenous xenophobes and violent sociopaths. Then, Stardock worked on a new game set in a similar sci-fi setting, and creates a faction divide where there are 2nd Fleet Loyalists, who want to continue their original mission, and 2nd Fleet Mutineers, who are ravenous xenophobes and violent sociopaths.

Do you really think that's a coincidence?

I don't really care, but it is pretty intriguing nonetheless

Neither.  There's nothing to agree or disagree *with*.  As I've already stated, what you said was irrelevant to my point. 

Just because Stardock helped with developing the game itself, doesn't mean they had anything to do with helping write the lore for it.  It would be a little like saying (to borrow another sci-fi example) that the special-effects and make-up personnel for the various Star Trek shows & movies contributed to writing the scripts as well. 

Actually, yes I do.  There's a large, but still finite, number of tropes/themes common to science-fiction, so it's really not that odd that both universes might borrow a page from the same "book" (if you'll excuse the somewhat tortured metaphor). 

Not that I'd be entirely surprised if it turns out Ironclad was partially inspired by the GalCiv storyline (assuming Brad or someone else at Stardock leaked a little bit of the GalCiv lore to them).  On the other hand, it's very possible -- if not likely -- that Ironclad had already come up with the rebel factions on their own; we can only guess just how much of the Sins storyline they'd already written when they joined forces with Stardock.