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 +This timeline is not accurate and is in a state of flux.  Most of the things did happen to Zxarr, but the order needs adjusted.
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 <dwtimeline title="The Life of an Immortal" description="">  <dwtimeline title="The Life of an Immortal" description=""> 
  
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 Once word got out, it wasn't long until they discovered who he was.  The butcher.  The executioner.  The destroyer of worlds.  Most species had a term for Zxarr now.  His name, which was once praised for his research, was only spoken with disdain. Once word got out, it wasn't long until they discovered who he was.  The butcher.  The executioner.  The destroyer of worlds.  Most species had a term for Zxarr now.  His name, which was once praised for his research, was only spoken with disdain.
 +</milestone>
  
 <milestone title="Year 210.1" description="Escape"> <milestone title="Year 210.1" description="Escape">
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 <milestone title="Year 210.6" description="Arrival: Universe 2"> <milestone title="Year 210.6" description="Arrival: Universe 2">
 +The arrival to a new universe does not bring with it any reprieve for his torment.  How did he lose himself like that?  It happened so easily, lost in his work, completely ignoring everything outside of his little bubble.
 +</milestone>
  
 +<milestone title="Year 211" description="Search">
 +After months spent roaming around a galaxy in the StarDiver, Zxarr finally finds somewhere with life.  A primitive society, agrarian based for the most part.  He's found no signals from any advanced societies this entire time.  He lands in an unpopulated area, hides the ship and proceeds to find the locals.
 </milestone> </milestone>
  
-<milestone title="Year " description="">+<milestone title="Year 211.2" description="Nu'mer-Shi"
 +After observing the locals for a few months, he finds them to be quite interesting.  They seem to be a very enlightened people, even with their simple ways, or possibly because of?  They called themselves Joji and this planet is named [[zxarr:planet_numer-shi|Nu'mer-Shi]], or rather the land is called this.  These people have no concept of things like planets. 
 +</milestone>
  
 +<milestone title="Year 212" description="Observation">
 +Most of the first year was spent just observing their customs, watching from afar and practising changing his form to look just like a Joji.  Their language, for some reason, came easily to him.  During this time, flashbacks of his previous life continued to haunt him.
 </milestone> </milestone>
  
-<milestone title="Year " description="">+<milestone title="Year 212.4" description="Acceptance"
 +Eventually, he made his way into a village, looking just like any other Joji.  He was greeted kindly and offered his services to a few of the farmers there, in exchange for a place to stay.  This wasn't an unheard of custom and soon he found himself growing and harvesting food, helping in any way he could.     
 +</milestone>
  
 +<milestone title="Year 219" description="Quiet">
 +At first, nights were spent sleepless, as memories continued to plague him, but with time, those memories started to become easier for him.  He'd spent over 6 years living in a small village, tending the land, enjoying the calmness and peace as much as he was able.  He'd made friends.  He was known as someone who is strong, and reliable.  He even managed to find new medicinal purposes from some of the local plants.  Life was starting to become bearable again.
 </milestone> </milestone>
  
-<milestone title="Year " description="">+<milestone title="Year 221" description="Home"
 +It'd had been almost a hundred years since he'd visited his mountain.  96 years, to be precise, 96 years since since he started on the path that led to an entire planet being destroyed.  One night, he slipped out of the village, closed his eyes and pulled himself into that other universe.  He opened his eyes and looked around his cave.  Pictures of his old friends stared back at him.  Dust had settled everywhere, it was cold.  After a few moments to build up his will, he began to clean.  He returned the next morning, slipping back into the village.  He felt a little better that morning. 
 +</milestone>
  
 +<milestone title="Year 240" description="Peace">
 +Slowly, he'd begun to master his shapeshifting, moreso than what the Great Order had wanted.  He could form more and more complex shapes.  Adjust his form in very precise ways.  He was slowly making himself age, at least to the others in his village.  They didn't need to know what he was.  While his memories would never fade, he'd come as close as he could to 'terms' with his past.  Now, he just wanted to help those who needed it.  Maybe, if he could keep this up, just maybe, he could finally atone for his crimes.
 +
 +He spent time with the village elders, learning their history through their songs and stories.  Every night most of the village would gather at the center and share a meal.  More and more the horrors that plagued his mind faded.
 </milestone> </milestone>
  
-<milestone title="Year " description="">+<milestone title="Year 263.9" description="Rock Slide"> 
 +As he and a few of his village returned along a narrow trading route, they were caught in a rock slide.  He managed, with a lot of effort, to keep the others safe long enough to push them to safety, but he was pulled down the hill and as far as the villagers were concerned, killed in the process.  He took that time to sneak away, slithering through the rocks and returning to his ship.
  
 +He contemplated staying a while longer... but he had a need growing inside him.  A need to move on.  And so he did.  That night, as his friends gathered in the village center to celebrate his life, the Stardiver took to the skies, before pitching up and out of the atmosphere.  
 +
 +He wasn't leaving empty handed though, he'd managed to sneak an imaging device around, from time to time, so he had lots of pictures to remind him of his life here.  Plus all the little things he'd been given.  Hand woven clothing and blankets, some small pieces of jewellery, mostly made out of old animal bones, but the prize possession, was his sanity.  None of those people, not a single one, will ever know how much they helped him.
 </milestone> </milestone>
  
-<milestone title="Year " description="">+<milestone title="Year 270" description="Exploration"
 +For 7 years, he travelled the galaxy, moving from star system to star system, looking for life more advanced than what he'd already found.  Now and then, he'd stop and observe primitive cultures, but in general, left them be. 
 +</milestone>
  
 +<milestone title="Year 270.1" description="Void">
 +With no luck in this galaxy, he departed and set course for another.  Tearing across the galaxy in the StarDiver was speedy enough, but moving between galaxies was rather a lot of nothing.
 </milestone> </milestone>
  
-<milestone title="Year " description="">+<milestone title="Year 270.5" description="Really?"> 
 +Months into his Journey, an old friend stopped by and asked him a question.  "Why are you moving so slowly?"  He was startled to find Star sitting behind him and explained his reasons for going to another galaxy.  Star then decided to bestow the virtues of the craft he was in.  He explained everything about the ship, admitting that this is probably something that should have been done earlier, but... time isn't something that is normally dealt with.  Past, present, future?  It's all the same.
  
 +Zxarr is a little taken aback when he's told about the multiple forms of FTL travel, figuring out he didn't need to spend months in the void, he could have gotten there in seconds.  With a grumble, he uses his new knowledge and arrives on the outskirts of his destination with seconds.  There's a facepalm moment right there, but when he turns to talk to Star, he is once more gone.
 </milestone> </milestone>
  
-<milestone title="Year " description="">+<milestone title="Year 270.6" description="Rolani"
 +His arrival in the new galaxy must have set alarm bells off somewhere, because he is quickly visited by a number of large star ships.  After some brief explanation, and a few days to travel to a core world for further 'discussions', he is welcomed in on a provisional basis.  Rolani is the name of the interplanetary society, but they call their species Rolans and while they have come across other star faring species before, they've never seen anything like Zxarr and he does not bother hiding what he is with them. 
 +</milestone>
  
 +<milestone title="Year 270.7" description="Exploration">
 +After spending some time exploring this new society, he ends up moving to one of the outer colony worlds, where he finds a position on a Starship, which is continuing out into the unknown to find other colony worlds.  He is well suited to this, as he needs no spacesuit, can withstand extreme environments and can observe without being seen when needed.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 304" description="Intelligence Lost">
 +Decades later, Zxarr is now first officer of an exploratory vessel.  Tasked with finding habitable worlds and resources on the fringes of Rolani space.  They come across a planetary system with huge cities, all struck down.  What once was a peaceful planet, is now in shambles.  The AI life that inhabited it, all gone.  Destroyed by some unknown force.  News spreads rapidly that there may be another race, possibly with aggressive tendencies.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 304.5" description="Kreager">
 +Another AI inhabited world, this one under attack from an AI hating species calling themselves The Krsshh, or that's what it sounds like.  Technologically they're inferior to the Rolani, but the Rolani decide it's not their fight and move on.  Zxarr, sneaks off, using the StarDiver, which has been cloaked and trailing behind the exploration ship the entire time.  He lands on the planet, to find what were peaceful race of AI, sent out to explore the galaxy, under siege from the Krsshh.  
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 +EMP weapons and high explosives are used to wipe out their race, but they refuse to fight back, they're peaceful.  They keep trying to reason their way out of this genocide, but there are so few left.  Zxarr meets one, a terrified humanoid AI named 'Kreager' who is being tracked by a pack of Krsshh.  Kreager is one of the last few of his race left and of course, Zxarr helps him.  Not by attacking the Krsshh, but by saving him.  He brings him aboard the StarDiver, which comes under fire... rather pointless fire as the EMP has no effect and the explosives do even less.
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 +Zxarr catches back up with his exploratory vessel and attempts to bring Kreager on board, but the captain denies it, stating that they'd be taking sides in a war.  Zxarr is unconvinced, but offers Kreager a place to live, somewhere safe, taking him to his mountain.  Kreager accepts.  It begins a life-long friendship.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 350" description="">
 +Zxarr moves on in his life, leaving his career with the exploratory vessel behind.  Instead, he begins attending University, taking any course he can.  All manner of physics and math, calculus just for fun and even starts taking music lessons.  He also manages to convince the government to allow Kreager to roam freely.  Kreager also begins his education, pushing on with his own exploration of the mind.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 420" description="Happiness">
 +Zxarr is happy again.  He's got friends.  Lots of friends.  He's no longer pushing for life extension and immortality for all.  Instead, he's helping them all reach their full potential, helping them enjoy life.  He's even let some of the high end engineers poke around the StarDiver, but it's so far beyond them, they have no idea what they're looking at.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 425" description="">
 +He meets his future mate; Freyd.  She's a lovely young female Rolan, who is intelligent, funny, whimsical and has an amazingly wicked little streak in her.  She's always up for a laugh when needed.  They become romantically involved.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 441" description="Children?">
 +It is at this point, that Zxarr discovers he can have offspring.  This was not something he'd ever considered, being what he is!  But after numerous romantic pairings with his mate, she became pregnant... with Rolan twins.  A male and female.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 442" description="Birth">
 +Joban and Adrei were born in year 442, to Zxarr and Freyd Cgyn.  Freyd was happy to name them after Zxarr's parents.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 444" description="Whoops">
 +So, it wasn't a one off.  Freyd is now carrying another child.  Another female.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 445" description="Another Birth">
 +Their third child, 'Keyan' is born.  Zxarr, for the first time, has a family with his own children.  He is overjoyed.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 499" description="Again">
 +Freyd, after a very happy life, passes away peacefully with her family surrounding her.  Zxarr is distraught, but with his family around him, is able to move through the grief and push on to his memories.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 500" description="Old Man">
 +His family throws him a quincentenary party.  Half the city block shows up.  The police are called because of the noise.  It's a perfect night.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 523" description="Core">
 +Kreager has started expanding his body, using the core of the planet in Zxarr's universe as an energy source.  Soon, his body is an avatar, with his core consciousness stored in the new core.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 541" description="">
 +Joban passes away of old age.  He lived an amazing life exploring the stars and becoming ambassador to the Qi'rani people.  Another newly discovered interplanetary species in 525(Zx).  Zxarr is comforted by his family, which now includes grand children.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 551" description="Graduation">
 +Zxarr has taken, and passed, every course the Universities can offer him.  He's offered a position at his first University, to teach Quantum Physics.  He accepts.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 556" description="">
 +Adrei and Keyan pass away within three months of each other.  It's expected.  They are surrounded by their children, and their father, who hasn't aged a day.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 680" description="Outsider">
 +After so long, with his family expanding out and slowly pushing farther and farther along the tree, he is starting to lose touch with them.  It's just something that happens, over time.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 691" description="Time to Go">
 +Quietly, Zxarr begins to tidy up his life on the planet.  He's a well respected educator and father/grandfather/great grandfather and great great grandfather.  Just about everyone knows his name, at least in passing and usually due to his age.  
 +
 +He and Kreager helped push their society forwards, assisting in building towards a completely self-sustaining existence.  AI now share their planets in a post-scarcity society.  They have expanded into all corners of their galaxy... but now, it's time for Kreager and Zxarr to leave; the decision being mutual.
 +
 +For the few family members he leaves behind, he says goodbye, explains where he's going.  He leaves a message for anyone who wants to hear it.  One of thanks, of peace, and of hope for their future.
 +
 +He departs for a new universe, quietly and without fanfare.
 +</milestone>
 +
 +<milestone title="Year 691.1" description="Universe 3: Firefight">
 +The StarDiver arrives smack dab in the middle of a battle, in space.  Torpedoes and energy beams streak through the blackness of space causing explosions to ripple across the hulls of massive, slow moving battleships.
 +
 +Kreager looks at Zxarr after watching a hunk of debris bounce harmlessly off the hull of their ship, "Can we go back now?"
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 </milestone> </milestone>
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 <milestone title="Year 12,540" description="Yolaran Empire"> <milestone title="Year 12,540" description="Yolaran Empire">
 The Yolaran Empire spanned 15 different galaxies when Zxarr arrived in their universe.  They had a galactic network of [[zxarr:slingshot|Hyperspace Slingshots]] allowing all members of their Empire to traverse the galaxies freely, for trade, pleasure, or scientific research.  The largest of their slingshots was called the [[zxarr:slingshot#Helix Catapult]]. The Yolaran Empire spanned 15 different galaxies when Zxarr arrived in their universe.  They had a galactic network of [[zxarr:slingshot|Hyperspace Slingshots]] allowing all members of their Empire to traverse the galaxies freely, for trade, pleasure, or scientific research.  The largest of their slingshots was called the [[zxarr:slingshot#Helix Catapult]].
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