Radiance

For Heath, who taught me about light

and my father, who taught me how to get the shot

Chronology

(Some dates are approximate due to known issues with reconciling standard and sub-light transit calendars.)

1858: Conrad Wernyhora and Carlotta Xanthea launch the Tree of Knowledge from the Hawaiian islands, Earth

1872: Violet El-Hashem born in Marrakech, Earth

1876: Hathor Callowmilk Corporation founded

1883: Percival Unck born

1891: Mary Pellam born

1902: Proserpine, an American colony on Pluto, is destroyed. Cause unknown.

August 1908: Mary Pellam’s first significant role (Meet Me on Ganymede, dir. Hester Jimenez-Stern)

24 March 1914: First episode of How Many Miles to Babylon? broadcast throughout the inner Solar System

29 October 1914: Severin born in the Lunar city of Tithonus

6 January 1915: Premiere of The Re

d Beast of Saturn (dir. Percival Unck)

25 January 1916: Erasmo St. John born on location in Guan Yu, Mars

1917: Enyo, a Russian mining settlement on Mars, is destroyed. Cause unknown.

3 July 1919: Premiere of Hope Has No Master (dir. Percival Unck)

1921: Severin sees Mary Pellam for the first time in The Seduction of Madame Mortimer (dir. Thaddeus Irigaray)

1922: Percival Unck and Mary Pellam wed

1924: The Abduction of Proserpine (dir. Percival Unck) released

3 July 1924: Anchises St. John born in Adonis, Venus

14 January 1930: The Achelois sets sail from Tithonus Harbour for The Miranda Affair (dir. Thaddeus Irigaray) wrap party

1936: Self-Portrait with Saturn (dir. Severin Unck) released

Christmas 1937: Erasmo and Severin become romantically involved

1938: The Famine Queen of Phobos (dir. Severin Unck) released

1939: The Stone in Swaddling Clothes departs for the Outer System

1940: The Clamshell built

1940: Fifth Venusian census, the last to record the village of Adonis

1941: And the Sea Remembered, Suddenly (dir. Severin Unck) released