1897/PAe35

Rome city of light comes online

The Papacy returns to the Vatican over Portuguese objections and with Hansiatic encouragement.

Pope Pious calls for crusade to retake the holy lands from the Ottomans.

The British government voices concerns over this action with the Hansiatics, Italians and the Vatican

Hispanic League vigorously supports the call for crusade creating a fissure between they and the Ottomans.

The Portuguese Hansiatic war begins.

The Portuguese government declares war on the Hansiatic League over the insult of their support for the papal move to Rome.

Resurgence of KKK in the Former Confederacy in response to the newly risen papists. This is a secret order adopting the Masonic model.

Lights in the sky across the eastern seaboard referred to in the press as “Aester Ghosts” further spur the spiritualist movement in British America that sees the Aester as the gateway to heaven

Secret- The British Admiralty is highly alarmed as evidence points to the

fact that there may be ships in these halos of light.

First Aester liner leaves New York City of Light for London City of Light.

Clans of the Air begin consolidating control of the trade between cities of light in British America.

1898/PAe36

Pope puts the Portuguese under interdiction over Portuguese aggression against the Hansiatic League

Hispanic League issues demands for the return of Hispaniola, Mexico and Puerto Rico the Hispanic League control. This is refused.

Hispanic League declares war on Britain.

Spanish fleet flattened in the Mississippi bay

French lose Belize but hold the line at the Yucatan.

Spanish invasion repulsed from Puerto Rico.

Texas churns out weapons at a break neck pace consuming 70% of the total raw materials production in British America involving the production of high quality steel.

Fast Packet routes established between Philadelphia and other cities of light.

Dallas becomes the armament hub of British America.

1900/PAe 38

2^nd German Portuguese War

1905/43 pÆ

3^rd Sino Siamese War

1910/PAe 48

3^rd Ottoman War

1912/PAe 50

October 12^th, 1912/PAe 50 – After nearly 30 years of imprisonment, Nathan Bedford Forrest is hanged in Havana, Cuba for treason.

1918/PAe56

EUROPE

Facing being entirely overrun by an organized army of Nightmen, the city fathers of the Budapest City of Light detonate charges to destroy the skyhook, Aeroplex, and key industrial facilities to deny them to the Hunnish Army. The detonation of the insulators on the skyhook prompts an Aester strike to ground that results in an explosion utterly destroying the City of Light, killing all of its inhabitants as well as killing 90% of the attacking force.

The explosion is heard as far away as Paris and the flash is seen as far away as Vienna. The resulting Aester storms and effects are witnessed across most of Eastern Europe in the form of lightning storms in the Aester.

Physicists visiting the site in the aftermath are staggered by the sheer force evidenced in the remains of the explosion (A three thousand foot crater and a thicket of twisted girders five stories tall is all that remains where the city once stood).

Secondary effects reported included such things as melted train tracks up to ten miles from the city, fires caused by static discharges at telegraph stations up to three hundred miles away.

The destruction of the Budapest City of Light highlighted problems in the City of Light system. Months after the city was destroyed, the effects of the interruption of the Night Train, air and shipping routes are felt all through Europe.

1920/PAe 58

3^rd German Portuguese War

1921/PAe 59

THE MISSIPPI LEVIATHAN

Years of unconfirmed reports of small boats being attacked by large fish of some kind in the Mississippi Bay are confirmed. The size is confirmed when a monster fish is killed by a group of fishermen.  It measures twenty feet long and when it opened up, the remains of the hapless fisherman were found inside.

The "Mississippi Leviathan" is no longer just a fisherman's tale.

1922/PAe 60

Admiralty experiments with Mycological Silk yield an extraordinarily flexible and resilient Aester resistant cloth.

1925/PAe 63

4^th Sino Siamese War

1927/PAe 65

The Admiralty succeeds in finding a method to produce what they coin Aester Combat Cloth, or AECC (pronounced Ache) in large quantities.

1930/PAe 68

4^th Ottoman War

June 27^th, PAe 68, The Aester Pathfinder Vessel Forger Perseus is lost with all hands after being drawn into the wall of an Aester storm. The captain of the Perseus, Captain Samuel Ward, sacrificed the ship to allow her sister ship, the Forger Agamemnon who was under fire and trying to render aid, to escape. This loss and sacrifice is remembered by members of the Pathfinder service in the toast “Remember the Perseus!”

1933/PAe 71

Anton Tschevnensky, the “American Ratter” appears in Fort Wayne Indiana in the middle of one of the worst winters since the ‘82. He arrives as the embattled citizens are losing the fight against a massive rat swarm in the city. Through the month of December he works tirelessly rooting out the vermin, digging, blasting, poisoning and burning his way into the warrens. Almost half of Fort Wayne is destroyed by Tschevnensky in his single-minded pursuit of the vermin. With the rats destroyed, The American Ratter is paid an undisclosed sum and disappears into the snow.

1935/PAe 73

The American Ratter shows up in Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, and Missouri hunting vermin and burning his way into legend. By the time he arrives in the St. Louis City of Light, his name is nearly a household word.

1936/PAe 74

January 20^th 1936/PAe74 – King George V dies of cardioresperatory failure.

Prince Edward ascends the throne to become King Edward VIII

1937/PAe 75

February 1^st 1937/PAe 74 - King Edward VIII weds American divorcee’ Wallis Simpson.

On November 22^nd 1937/PAe74, the American Ratter, Anton Tschevnensky goes into a rat warren in Propp’s Mill, a small town on the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio and is never heard from again.

1938/PAe 76

The largest Wild Hog ever recorded in British America is killed by legendary Nachtjaeger Ehrlich Rasmussen. The monster boar name “Old Nick” tipped the scales at over 4,200 pounds.

1940/PAe 78

July 23^rdSeptember 25th 1940/PAe78 – An assassination attempt on Queen Wallis is thwarted by Special Service Agent Nick Fokker. Agent Fokker gives his life to stop the hideously transfigured monster Mr. Humbaba. While never confirmed, suspicions clearly point to an Ottoman plot.

1942/PAe 80

February 10^th, PAe 80 The Mathilda Rhiannon, an Aester processing ship, slams into the Aeroplex in St. Louis, seriously damaging part of the Aero Park structure.

First “Triphibian” vessel; Aester/Hybrid vessel capable of landing on water and submerging, built and launched at Hobart.