TATTER’DWORLDNew here? ↗Trace the decisions that shaped Earth, from humanity’s first beginnings to Krillion’s world in 2126.
Eight eras follow the rise of dynasties, the collapse of their settlements and the lives that emerge afterward. Dates run from oldest to newest; extended conflicts overlap the events beneath them.
Worldbuilding chronology · BCE → CE · Not to scaleBefore the dynasties reach Earth, humanity has a history of its own.
Humanity emerges naturally on Earth. In this fictional chronology, its beginnings precede both extraterrestrial contact and the interventions that will alter its descendants.
A distant war draws Earth into the ambitions of House Au.
Sirius and Orion wage a struggle lasting hundreds of thousands of Earth years. Both are Type II civilizations, alongside the Lyran Empire, Pleiadians and Arcturians. The other powers’ allegiances remain uncertain.
Against this backdrop, a Sirian scout reaches Earth and sends word to House Au. The report brings a distant inhabited planet to the dynasty’s attention.
Enki follows with 600 other Anunnaki, including ten members of House Au royalty. The rest serve the dynasty, bringing its hierarchy of rank, duty and labor to Earth.
Over the next hundred millennia, Anunnaki genetic intervention reshapes the existing human population. A mounting labor crisis will give that work a decisive purpose.
On Mars, 200 Anunnaki approach revolt. The demands placed on the service ranks threaten the workforce on which House Au depends.
The response transfers that burden to Earth: humans are genetically enhanced and forced into service. Designed to quell the uprising, the program binds humanity’s future to the needs of its rulers.
The struggle for territory becomes a struggle over how victory will be governed.
The resulting settlement proves unstable. Rival celestial families and diverging bloodlines divide over the order they have built, opening further conflicts.
Sirius defeats Orion and claims dominion over Earth and the Milky Way, becoming the first Type III civilization among the Galactica empires. On Earth, the First Truce settles authority between Enlil and Enki.
Under the new settlement, hybrid cities flourish and extraordinary sciences become part of civic life. Those who hold this knowledge acquire the means to govern.
Lesser houses and the Pillars consolidate their influence across Earth, extending the institutions through which power is exercised.
The settlement cannot hold the loyalties it demands.
Enlil receives authority over Earth and its gates. Marduk rejects the settlement, and one-third of the celestial host follows him. Later human traditions within the saga remember him as Lucifer; the imperial account calls his departure a fall, while his followers call it a refusal.
For thirteen millennia, rival administrations and proxy wars contest humanity’s future. Galactic rule endures, but its representatives on Earth no longer speak with one voice.
Earth’s rival powers face a disaster none can contain.
Catastrophe brings humanity and lower-ranking Anunnaki close to extinction. As infrastructure fails and archives vanish, Earth loses contact with the wider empire. The Great Amnesia begins on an isolated world; Sirius survives beyond it.
Without a common authority, the two older camps splinter. Teachings associated with Enlil, Enki, Marduk and Thoth begin to take separate paths.
Cold, displacement and failed attempts to rebuild prolong the crisis. Survivors migrate through a landscape that can no longer support the world they remember.
Some enclaves disappear; others adapt. Reconstruction, the second Eden project and the Soul Fracture reshape what passes to the next generation. Relics and bloodlines preserve knowledge that the surviving accounts cannot fully explain.
Recovery gives the surviving traditions room to establish lasting authority.
A new human order takes shape from these remnants. This is the latest turn of the mega-cycle: emergence, intervention, ascendancy, delegation, collapse and renewal. Its recurrence has no established interval.
The Enlilic, Enkian, Mardukian and Thothian traditions consolidate into four enduring Orders. Former allegiances become institutions, carrying their founders’ disagreements into the rebuilding world.
As the old age recedes, its legacy changes hands and forms.
New centers of power grow beyond the surviving enclaves. Accounts of the imperial age enter ritual and legend; objects and symbols retain meanings their custodians can only partly recover.
Beneath public histories, competing archives preserve different versions of the past. Hidden struggles determine which accounts endure and which are buried.
Old principles find new expression in machinery. What once belonged to sacred knowledge begins to return through technological discovery.
The distance between ancient power and everyday life narrows.
Networked perception becomes ordinary life. Companions and the Grid place observation, interpretation and control within reach of every citizen—and those who govern the network.
In Radix, fifteen-year-old Krillion, born in 2111, stands at the edge of an awakening. He and Ari are about to confront the consequences of decisions made long before either of them was born.
The chronology arrives at a family conflict still unfinished. Enlil and Enki’s divisions pass through Marduk and Thoth to a generation that must live with their consequences.
Will Krillion and Ari break the cycle—or close it?
Select a turning point to trace the connections between Sirius, Earth and Mars.
Earth is humanity’s point of origin. Contact will alter the course of its development much later.
Alongside Earth’s history runs a second planetary story. Beyond the early outpost, dates remain unresolved; the later devastation and restoration are provisional.
The labor crisis described above begins at a frontier station.
After Mars is overtaken, settlements expand into cities and the frontier becomes an inhabited world.
War destroys the cities and the conditions that sustained them, leaving a planetary landscape of ruins.
The Marduk clan returns to make regions habitable and establish new outposts. The scale of recovery remains open.
The saga draws on ancient traditions and modern speculative storytelling. Its dates, galactic empires, Sirius–Orion war, Marduk–Lucifer identity, celestial host and genetic program belong to Tatter’D World. The Fall from Grace is the saga’s fictional synthesis, not a claim that these traditions share one historical account.
The Oxford translation lists eight rulers across five cities before the flood, with reigns totaling 241,200 years. These are reign lengths in a literary tradition, not BCE dates or a roster of the ten Au royals.
| City | Ruler | Reign in the text |
|---|---|---|
| Eridug | Alulim | 28,800 |
| Eridug | Alaljar | 36,000 |
| Bad-tibira | En-men-lu-ana | 43,200 |
| Bad-tibira | En-men-gal-ana | 28,800 |
| Bad-tibira | Dumuzid | 36,000 |
| Larag | En-sipad-zid-ana | 28,800 |
| Zimbir | En-men-dur-ana | 21,000 |
| Curuppag | Ubara-Tutu | 18,600 |
The Ashmolean describes the list as a mixture of myth, legend and historical information that also served to legitimize kingship.
Read the Oxford translation ↗In Atrahasis, overworked lesser gods rebel and humans are created to take over their labor. A later flood threatens humanity. These motifs inform the saga’s labor crisis; the ancient account does not supply the Mars outpost, genetic engineering or this timeline’s dates.
Read the translated epic ↗Zecharia Sitchin’s modern ancient-astronaut narratives propose an arrival about 450,000 years ago and a Martian way station. Those are speculative interpretations, not established ancient history. Tatter’D World develops its own Sirius–Au chronology. Dune provides a creative comparison for the expedition’s aristocratic structure and obligations of service.
Sitchin’s Mars interpretation ↗The fictional transition spans 12,000–8000 BCE. Within it, the Long Winter draws on the Younger Dryas, approximately 12,900–11,700 years ago (roughly 10,900–9700 BCE). The climate interval is distinct from the debated impact hypothesis proposed to explain its onset. These provide creative inspiration for the calamity and recovery, rather than evidence for the saga’s imperial past.
Read the Younger Dryas research ↗The projected 850,000 BCE emergence of Homo sapiens is part of this fictional chronology. For comparison, the Smithsonian places the emergence of our species in Africa around 300,000 years ago. The saga’s genetic enhancement is a later intervention in an already existing human population.
Smithsonian / Homo sapiens ↗