3,277 Years. 12 Books. One Pattern.
The Complete Timeline
From Bronze Age Egypt (1177 BCE) to the post-collapse future (2100 CE), follow two networks through every major collapse in human history. Each book reveals another layer of the pattern—and another generation in the bloodlines.
Timeline Legend
Bloodline continuation from Gen 1
Major civilizational breakdown
Genetic memory activation key
The First Key
The Founding | Bronze Age Egypt
Egyptian scribe Nefertari recognizes the Bronze Age Collapse as systemic cascade failure. She develops the Pattern Eye methodology and encodes it in genetic memory, founding the Genesis Protocol. Her colleague Amenhotep reaches the opposite conclusion, founding the Order. Two networks emerge from the same catastrophe.
The Nazarene Protocol
Roman Judea | Generation 48
Miriam of Magdala experiences genetic memory as "demon possession" until Jesus recognizes it as inherited knowledge. His "miracles" are Egyptian medical techniques, his parables are pattern recognition training. The movement embeds defensive methodology in Christianity—but the Order infiltrates Church leadership.
The Aethelred Cipher
Medieval Germany | Generation 90
Scribe Thomas of Eltville inherits an iron key from his dying mentor Brother Hamo. With cloth merchant Margarethe (whose father Heinrich was tortured by the Order), he gathers all seven fragments of the Genesis Protocol—discovering 2,500 years of genetic memory warfare. The Black Death provides perfect cover for both networks' operations.
The Renaissance Protocol
Renaissance Italy | Generation 96
Leonardo da Vinci's genius is spontaneous genetic memory activation—96 generations of accumulated knowledge. Isabella Medici recruits him into the defensive network. The printing press revolution forces both networks to adapt: whoever controls mass knowledge distribution controls the next 500 years.
The Enlightenment Machine
Enlightenment France | Generation 105
Diderot's Encyclopédie systematically encodes pattern recognition across tens of thousands of copies. The French Revolution is a defensive network operation to destabilize Order-controlled monarchies—but revolutionary fervor proves impossible to control, becoming the Terror.
The Industrial Collapse
Victorian England | Generation 114
Ada Lovelace recognizes her mathematical genius as genetic memory. Her work on Babbage's Analytical Engine embeds defensive methodology into machine logic itself. The Order seizes industrial capitalism as bloodline observation system—factories track which lineages thrive under industrial pressures.
The War Protocol
World War II | Generation 125
Nazi eugenics are corrupted versions of Order methodology, stolen by operatives who broke away. The Holocaust is the Order's nightmare: their techniques weaponized without philosophical framework. Manhattan Project scientists realize nuclear physics unlocks controlled evolution at technological speed.
The Cold War Equation
Cold War Era | Generation 132
Nuclear deterrence creates strategic stalemate. The Order can't trigger controlled collapse—nuclear war would be uncontrolled. Defensive network can't distribute knowledge freely—Cold War paranoia treats information sharing as treason. Solution: the internet. ARPANET is hijacked by defensive operatives recognizing distributed networks as ultimate knowledge preservation.
The Network Wars
Digital Revolution | Generation 135
The internet was supposed to democratize knowledge, but social media weaponizes it through misinformation and algorithmic radicalization. The Order funds platform development: giving people "unlimited information" while controlling recommendation algorithms is more effective than censorship. Let them have knowledge—just make sure they're too distracted to use it.
The Genesis Protocol
Modern Era | Generation 107
Dr. Sarah Chen discovers an engineered bioweapon hidden inside GenVault Corporation. THRESHOLD—designed by Dr. James Morrison to reduce the global population by four billion—has already activated its first hub. Sarah races to prevent forty-six more deployments while navigating a classified cover-up that will silence her permanently. The company that caused the pandemic becomes the company that builds the vaccine.
The Collapse Threshold
Climate Crisis | Generation 139
Climate collapse triggers the cascade patterns Nefertari predicted 3,200 years earlier: agricultural failure, refugee crises, economic breakdown, governmental collapse, violence spirals. Order's prepared bloodlines retreat to climate-controlled enclaves. Defensive network attempts mass pattern recognition education—but pattern recognition can't overcome resource scarcity.
The Final Protocol
Post-Collapse Rebuild | Generation 140
Humanity survived—barely. Both networks' descendants must rebuild, but after 3,200 years of conflict, a radical question emerges: what if both philosophies were wrong? Collapse couldn't be prevented (Order was right). But optimal survivors can't rebuild alone (Genesis was right). The final protocol synthesizes both: distributed knowledge AND selective preparation. Free choice AND intelligent design. The pattern may simply repeat—or humanity finally learns.
Pattern Recognition Across History
Every collapse in the timeline follows the same seven-stage pattern Nefertari identified in 1177 BCE: optimization trap → early warnings → cascade initiation → positive feedback → threshold breach → collapse & selection → rebuild & reset. The saga explores whether this pattern is truly inevitable (Order's view) or preventable through distributed pattern recognition (Genesis's view).
Each book reveals another layer of the conspiracy while showing the same collapse structure operating across different historical contexts. Bronze Age trade network failure, medieval plague cascade, modern climate collapse—the underlying mathematics remains constant even as surface details change.