Chronology // Star Cycle dating
Timeline
Twenty events, SC 1186 to SC 1219. Every date on this page uses the invented Star Cycle calendar — this is fictional chronology for a fictional character.
Reading note: "SC" = Star Cycle, an invented in-world calendar. "Now" is SC 1219. None of these events happened; they are fan-built lore. See Methodology.
SC 1186 — Birth on the Meridian Ring
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Cassian Arden is born on the Meridian Ring Habitat to dock rigger Dia Arden and seal technician Tomm Arden. In the fiction, Ring children grow up within meters of vacuum; the airlock is the front door.
Cassian Arden is born on the Meridian Ring Habitat to dock rigger Dia Arden and seal technician Tomm Arden. In the fiction, Ring children grow up within meters of vacuum; the airlock is the front door.
SC 1195 — The failed vacuum drill
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Age nine. Cass panics during a youth-program vacuum drill, fogs his training helmet, and is walked back by an instructor. He responds by volunteering for every drill offered for the next year.
Age nine. Cass panics during a youth-program vacuum drill, fogs his training helmet, and is walked back by an instructor. He responds by volunteering for every drill offered for the next year.
SC 1198 — The perfect suit check
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Age twelve. Instructors begin using Cass to demonstrate the pre-EVA suit check. The phrase "the suit is the mission" enters his vocabulary — later the first of his signature lines (invented dialogue; see Sayings).
Age twelve. Instructors begin using Cass to demonstrate the pre-EVA suit check. The phrase "the suit is the mission" enters his vocabulary — later the first of his signature lines (invented dialogue; see Sayings).
SC 1202 — Dock apprentice
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Age sixteen. Cass signs on as a dock apprentice, working suited cargo ops outside the Ring hull under his mother's crew. He logs his first thousand hours in a pressure suit before his eighteenth birthday.
Age sixteen. Cass signs on as a dock apprentice, working suited cargo ops outside the Ring hull under his mother's crew. He logs his first thousand hours in a pressure suit before his eighteenth birthday.
SC 1204 — The Kestrel Rescue
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Age eighteen. The ferry Kestrel breaches during docking. Cass, in a rigger's work suit, holds a failing pressure seal with his own body for eleven minutes while passengers are moved to the lock. He takes a micrometeorite graze to the shoulder plate — stenciled over later with his first mission patch.
Age eighteen. The ferry Kestrel breaches during docking. Cass, in a rigger's work suit, holds a failing pressure seal with his own body for eleven minutes while passengers are moved to the lock. He takes a micrometeorite graze to the shoulder plate — stenciled over later with his first mission patch.
SC 1204 — Recruited by StarTeam
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Commander Ilya Voss, newly given the Starhold Vigil, watches the Kestrel dock footage and recruits Cass into StarTeam's cadet program — the youngest in his intake.
Commander Ilya Voss, newly given the Starhold Vigil, watches the Kestrel dock footage and recruits Cass into StarTeam's cadet program — the youngest in his intake.
SC 1206 — Fastest EVA certification on record
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Cass EVA-certifies in record time. Instructors' notes (invented) cite "preternatural suit-sense" — reading suit telemetry like weather. He is a mediocre student of everything except the outside of the hull.
Cass EVA-certifies in record time. Instructors' notes (invented) cite "preternatural suit-sense" — reading suit telemetry like weather. He is a mediocre student of everything except the outside of the hull.
SC 1207 — The Longhaul
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Cass takes the first production AEGIS Mark VII "Longhaul" EVA suit — orange and graphite, the visual signature he keeps for the rest of the chronology. He begins the mission-patch tradition: one patch per op, stenciled, never removed.
Cass takes the first production AEGIS Mark VII "Longhaul" EVA suit — orange and graphite, the visual signature he keeps for the rest of the chronology. He begins the mission-patch tradition: one patch per op, stenciled, never removed.
SC 1208 — Active roster: EVA-1
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Cass joins StarTeam's active roster with the designation EVA-1. His first year includes the Silent Array op — a solar-array repair conducted during a solar storm, finished with the array at 4% power and Cass's suit at 6%.
Cass joins StarTeam's active roster with the designation EVA-1. His first year includes the Silent Array op — a solar-array repair conducted during a solar storm, finished with the array at 4% power and Cass's suit at 6%.
SC 1209 — First meeting with Dax Harlow
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Boarding specialist Dax Harlow transfers to the Vigil. The rivalry begins immediately: Harlow's doctrine is breach-and-board; Cass's is seal-and-save. They argue about it for the next decade. See Allies & Rivals.
Boarding specialist Dax Harlow transfers to the Vigil. The rivalry begins immediately: Harlow's doctrine is breach-and-board; Cass's is seal-and-save. They argue about it for the next decade. See Allies & Rivals.
SC 1211 — The Driftline Run
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Cass intercepts the tumbling cargo hauler Meridian Dawn with the Driftline maneuver rig — a solo jetpack intercept across two kilometers of debris field — and docks it by hand. Full account in the Mission Archive.
Cass intercepts the tumbling cargo hauler Meridian Dawn with the Driftline maneuver rig — a solo jetpack intercept across two kilometers of debris field — and docks it by hand. Full account in the Mission Archive.
SC 1212 — “Nobody drifts alone” (the phrase)
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During a routine satellite recovery, a cadet's tether snags and Cass talks the cadet through a self-rescue over the radio for forty minutes rather than risk a two-person tangle. The phrase he repeats — "nobody drifts alone" — becomes StarTeam's informal motto.
During a routine satellite recovery, a cadet's tether snags and Cass talks the cadet through a self-rescue over the radio for forty minutes rather than risk a two-person tangle. The phrase he repeats — "nobody drifts alone" — becomes StarTeam's informal motto.
SC 1213 — The patch wall
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Cass's fiftieth mission patch goes up on the airlock wall of the Vigil — the "patch wall" tradition, where every StarTeam EVA op earns a stenciled patch. Petra Lindqvist paints the first fifty in one sitting.
Cass's fiftieth mission patch goes up on the airlock wall of the Vigil — the "patch wall" tradition, where every StarTeam EVA op earns a stenciled patch. Petra Lindqvist paints the first fifty in one sitting.
SC 1214 — Cold Berth
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Cass and Harlow board the derelict Cold Berth together — the only op they have ever run as a two-person team. They find the crew alive in cryo-sleep and bring all fourteen home. Neither has ever said the other did well. Both wear the patch.
Cass and Harlow board the derelict Cold Berth together — the only op they have ever run as a two-person team. They find the crew alive in cryo-sleep and bring all fourteen home. Neither has ever said the other did well. Both wear the patch.
SC 1215 — Voss offers command track (first time)
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Voss offers Cass a command-track rotation. Cass declines: "Somebody has to be the one who goes outside." (Invented dialogue.) Voss offers again in SC 1218. Cass declines again.
Voss offers Cass a command-track rotation. Cass declines: "Somebody has to be the one who goes outside." (Invented dialogue.) Voss offers again in SC 1218. Cass declines again.
SC 1216 — Tether’s End
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Engineer Petra Lindqvist's tether is severed by debris during a hull repair. Cass intercepts her on the Driftline rig with seconds of air to spare. The rescue cements "nobody drifts alone" as doctrine, not just a phrase.
Engineer Petra Lindqvist's tether is severed by debris during a hull repair. Cass intercepts her on the Driftline rig with seconds of air to spare. The rescue cements "nobody drifts alone" as doctrine, not just a phrase.
SC 1217 — The Jackal incident
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Rogue salvagers — the Jackals — attempt to strip the damaged relay station Wayfarer while its crew is still aboard. Cass holds the station's airlock in his suit for six hours until StarTeam security arrives. No shots fired; the Jackals leave.
Rogue salvagers — the Jackals — attempt to strip the damaged relay station Wayfarer while its crew is still aboard. Cass holds the station's airlock in his suit for six hours until StarTeam security arrives. No shots fired; the Jackals leave.
SC 1218 — The hundredth patch
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Cass's hundredth mission patch: a plain orange square, stenciled "100," placed at the center of the patch wall. Jinx Kane says it looks boring. Cass says that's the point.
Cass's hundredth mission patch: a plain orange square, stenciled "100," placed at the center of the patch wall. Jinx Kane says it looks boring. Cass says that's the point.
SC 1219 — The Long Dark
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A debris storm traps the Starhold Vigil with a failing hull sensor grid. Cass spends seventy-two hours solo on the hull in the Longhaul — the longest continuous EVA in StarTeam's fictional record — while the crew shelters. He comes inside, runs his suit check twice, and sleeps for fourteen hours.
A debris storm traps the Starhold Vigil with a failing hull sensor grid. Cass spends seventy-two hours solo on the hull in the Longhaul — the longest continuous EVA in StarTeam's fictional record — while the crew shelters. He comes inside, runs his suit check twice, and sleeps for fourteen hours.
SC 1219 — Now
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Age thirty-three. Still EVA-1. Still first to the airlock. The owner's official bio has not been released; when it is, this chronology will be marked as superseded wherever it conflicts. See Methodology.
Age thirty-three. Still EVA-1. Still first to the airlock. The owner's official bio has not been released; when it is, this chronology will be marked as superseded wherever it conflicts. See Methodology.
Source notes
- All events and dates on this page are invented by this site’s writers; the Star Cycle (SC) calendar is fictional.
- Character identity anchor: Vizlings app card, “Cass Arden” (StarTeam), card description “Body space suit hero.”
- Signature lines are fictional character dialogue; see Sayings.