Sandbox Earth Universe Index
Placing the stories in Time and Space
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This is an Index post, but I am pushing it to emails because I am excited about it.
The Sandbox Earth universe has long had it’s own tag but a stream of stories doesn’t give as much context to the universe in which these stories are set. Below, you will find an organized listing by year and location along with other important information about the stories.
Eventually, this page will be updated with a better map, but for now here is the one that I used when I wrote “The Adventures of Tylus Worran” which is a snapshot of Innerspace around the year 2536. As I’ve written things, some systems have “moved” mentally, some names have changed, and some new names have been added—so when an updated map is posted I’ll be sure to alert all involved. For now you can use and contextualize the stellography the way I do.
Legend
F - Fiction
WB - World Building
S- Serial (at least 9 parts)
LS - Limited Serial (less than 9 parts)
AS - Asynchronous Serial (standalone stories linked by theme or narrative style, but not directly connected to each other)
O - One-Shot
WE - Writing Exercise (typically less than 1,000 words)
🔒 - All or part of this story is behind a paywall1
📖 - This story is free to read
The Timeline
Year - System - Planet - Story Title [type]- Description
21st Century
2035 - Sol - Earth - Sandbox Earth [F-S-🔒] - Events of humanity’s first contact with alien races.
2086 - Sol - Earth - Sandbox Earth [F-S-🔒] - The interviews that make up the story Sandbox Earth take place.
2096 - Sol - Saturn - Be Not Afraid [F-O-📖] - Traveling near Saturn, a ship experiences an emergency
22nd Century
2101 - Sol - Earth - A Brief History of Inner Space [WB-O-📖] - The first wave of colonization began
2150 - Sol - Earth - A Brief History of Inner Space [WB-O-📖] - The Genetic Protocols are established2
2175 - Sol - Earth - A Brief History of Inner Space [WB-O-📖] - The second wave of colonization began
23rd Century
2208 - Sol - Earth - A Brief History of Inner Space [WB-O-📖] - Our Glorious Revolution begins and the foundation of the Jovian Union
2230 - Sol - Neptune - A Brief History of Inner Space [WB-O-📖] - The third wave of colonization began
2230 - Sol - Neptune - Out of the Black [F-O-📖] - The departure of the colony ship Hearken and the launch of the third wave of colonization
2230 - Interstellar Space - The Trials of the Hearken [F-LS-📖] - Coming Soon
24th Century
2350 - Sol - Ganymede - A Brief History of Inner Space [WB-O-📖] - The fourth wave of colonization began
2351 - [unspecified] - Surveyor Corps: The Dinosaur [F-WE-📖] - A Surveyor explores a mysterious life-abundant planet.
2355 - [unspecified] - Planet 4 - Surveyor Corps: Discovery [F-AS-📖] - The Survey Ship Observator explores a potentially habitable planet
2357 - Rouge - Planet 3 - Surveyor Corps: Dust to Dust [F-AS-📖] - The Survey Ship Interpolator explores a research mission to the Rouge System.
2362 - [Unspecified] - Surveyor Corps: The Commission [F-WE-📖] - A son confronts his father about receiving a commission to the Surveyor Corps.
2377 - Sol - Ganymede - A Brief History of Inner Space [WB-O-📖] - A description of the state of human-explored space up through this point in history.
25th Century
2449 - Tharsis - Graben - Surveyor Corps: Brood [F-AS-📖] - The Survey Ship Extrapolator explores a mysterious signal around the outer Tharsis system.
2486 - Gaaban - Planet 4 - Bounty Hunt [F-AS-📖] - Two Smugglers run from the dangerous bounty hunter, Black Zaelland
2489 - Harman - Planet 5 - Bounty Hunt: Awake and Alive [F-AS-📖] - A Robot considers the nature of it’s life before confronting the dangerous bounty hunter, Black Zaelland
2492 - Sol II - Eden - Droid Dealer [F-O-📖] - A man looks to buy a droid
2493 - Interstellar Space - Bounty Hunt: Powerless [F-AS-📖] - Scavengers happen upon a derelict ship in interstellar space
2498 - Sol II - Eden - Duel [F-S-📖] - A tech-noir story featuring private investigator James McElroy and his sidekick droid DB431.
26th Century
2505 - [unspecified] - Authors Note - The Treason
2520 - Iris - Tilade - Letters from Armin [F-S-📖] - An epistolary serial where a young man must navigate life as his family is turned upside down.
2523 - [Unspecified] - Personal Journal of Juror No. 6 [F-O-📖] - Notes from a juror on a case where a droid is tried for murder
2525 - Adille - Adille - Mother Knows Best [F-O-📖] - Two thieves scheme to steal a droid from a Droid Mother
2536 - Koslov - Koslov - The Adventures of Tylus Worran3 [F-S-🔒] - A young man eager to explore the universe runs away from home and falls in with a band of smugglers.
27th Century
28th Century
2766 - Montecaas - Cassini - Out of the Black [F-O-📖] - The arrival of an invading force at the Montecaas system
This timeline will be continuously updated as I continue to write in this universe! Thank you for reading!
If you would like to read more, please check out my collection of longer fiction at The Volume.
God bless!
AJPM
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This is a minor retcon, the article says they were established in 2220 by the Jovian Union.
Please note this serial is unfinished, though it is on the docket for a re-write and refresh at some point in the future.