Timeline

The Eras of Groundbreaking

Groundbreaking's chronology is divided into distinct historical eras, each defined not merely by battles, but by changing ideas of power, leadership, responsibility, and recovery. As the timeline progresses, the narrative focus shifts from survival and warfare to governance, reconciliation, institution-building, and the long-term consequences of victory.

First Cosmic War

900 BCE – 798 CE
The Mythic Age

The First Cosmic War serves as the mythological foundation of the setting. Classical Dragon Ball events are reinterpreted as part of an ancient, multiversal struggle between the Cosmic Sages and the Fallen Order, later aligned with the Zaroth Coalition.

This era culminates in a universal merger and a series of foundational sacrifices that permanently reshape reality. Many of the philosophical, political, and spiritual tensions that define later ages originate here.

Major Outcomes

• Rise of the Cosmic Sages

• Formation of the Fallen Order/Zaroth Coalition

• Universal convergence and restructuring

• Foundational sacrificial events

• Establishment of the world's earliest ideological divisions

Second Cosmic War

Age 798–799
The Age of Contested Governance

The Second Cosmic War marks the transition from mythic conflict to political struggle.

At its center stands the conflict between Gohan's Cosmic Convergence Alliance, Solon's Obsidian Dominion, and the Axis of Equilibrium. Unlike earlier wars focused primarily on survival, this era asks who should govern the multiverse and under what principles.

The war concludes with the creation of the Accord of Eternal Horizons and the emergence of the Luminary Concord, establishing the first durable framework for multiversal cooperation.

Major Outcomes

• Formation of the Cosmic Convergence Alliance

• Rise of the Obsidian Dominion

• Conflict with the Axis of Equilibrium

• Signing of the Accord of Eternal Horizons

• Creation of the Luminary Concord

• Birth of coalition-based governance

Third Cosmic War

Age 799–805
The Age of Covenant

The Luminary Concord faces its greatest challenge when confronted by the Bastion of Veil and Zaroth's Shadow Legion.

This era expands the conflict beyond military victory into questions of identity, legacy, and institutional responsibility. It is during this period that the ideological foundations of the modern era are forged.

The war culminates in the Covenant of Shaen'mar, the establishment of the Ecliptic Vanguard, and the sacrifice of Grand Priest Zhalranis Valtherion, one of the defining moments in Groundbreaking history.

Major Outcomes

• War against the Bastion of Veil

• Rise of Zaroth's Shadow Legion

• Formation of the Covenant of Shaen'mar

• Founding of the Ecliptic Vanguard

• Sacrifice of Grand Priest Zhalranis Valtherion

• Consolidation of Shaen'mar philosophy

Fourth Cosmic War

Age 805–806
The Order Reborn Conflict

Often referred to as the Order Reborn Conflict, the Fourth Cosmic War challenges the assumption that peace can be maintained through singular heroic authority.

The conflict pits Gohan and Solon's Liberated Order against Goku and Vegeta's Sovereign Order, while the Twilight Concord attempts to mediate between competing visions of leadership and responsibility.

Rather than producing a single victorious ruler, the war ultimately dismantles the model of heroic sovereignty itself.

Major Outcomes

• Emergence of the Liberated Order

• Formation of the Sovereign Order

• Mediation by the Twilight Concord

• Collapse of centralized heroic authority

• Transition toward distributed governance models

Luminary Era

Age 806–808
The Reconstruction Age

Following centuries of escalating conflict, the Luminary Era focuses on rebuilding.

Attention shifts away from battlefields and toward institutions, infrastructure, healing, and public accountability. During this period, the secrets of Project Shaen'kar are uncovered and dismantled, forcing a reevaluation of many existing systems.

The era also sees Pan's rise as High Piman and the gradual replacement of older Accord-era structures with the decentralized UMC Mental Network.

Major Outcomes

• Exposure and dismantling of Project Shaen'kar

• Rise of Pan as High Piman

• Institutional reconstruction efforts

• Expansion of multiversal civic systems

• Creation of the UMC Mental Network

• Decentralization of governance

Horizon's Rest Era

Age 808–830
The Era of Living Peace

The Horizon's Rest Era serves as the current overarching age of the narrative and represents the maturation of the postwar world.

The Unified Multiversal Concord evolves into its stable seven-branch form, and the story's focus increasingly turns toward domestic life, civic responsibility, accessibility, family dynamics, cultural memory, and the maintenance of peace.

Rather than asking how heroes win wars, this era asks how societies live after them.

The current continuity anchor remains Age 810, positioned within the early decades of Horizon's Rest.

Major Outcomes

• Stabilization of the seven-branch Unified Multiversal Concord

• Expansion of civic and household-focused storytelling

• Preservation and reinterpretation of war memory

• Development of mature postwar institutions

• Consolidation of Shaen'mar governance principles

• Establishment of Age 810 as the present continuity anchor

Together, these eras chart Groundbreaking's central evolution: from stories about winning battles to stories about building worlds worth living in afterward.