likealeafonthewind | Speculative timeline of early Haixing history (Reply)

This is a kind of a follow-up/companion to

rheasilvia 's lovely timeline for events involving the SID which covers everything from the treaty onwards but this focuses more on the history of Haixing and Dixing.

There's a lot that we aren't told in the show about just how much time passes between each event so I've written my own thoughts in italics and would welcome any thoughts/suggestions/speculation any of you may have! If you're interested in looking at just the order of events, there's a list here which is still a work in progress.

This contains spoilers for the whole series.

Over 10,000 years before the start of the show, a spaceship lands on Haixing; the aliens on board either intermingle with humans and create two new species (Yashou and Dixingren) in addition to humans (ep 01) or the aliens already belonged to two different species and decide to live peacefully alongside humans (ep 34). Generations pass (ep 35)
Shen Wei and his brother are born. Their parents die when they were children and they eventually decide to leave home and make a living elsewhere (but as soon as they did, the meteor hit) (ep 35)
A meteor hits Haixing and destroys the ecosystem of the planet, resulting in a depletion of resources in Dixing (ep 34)
- Honestly not sure how long it would take for an ecosystem to be destroyed by a meteor to the point of depleting underground resources. I would guess that there are some immediate effects and some long-term effects, so maybe we're talking months to years?
An extremist Dixing Chieftain forms a rebel force because of the lack of resources and starts a war trying to take over Haixing. (ep 34)
The Dixing Chieftain comes across Shen Wei and Ye Zun when they're children and try to recruit Shen Wei into the rebel force he's putting together. Shen Wei declines and the Chieftain manipulates Ye Zun into going with him instead. (ep 40)
The Yashou (under Fu You), Haixing people (under Ma Gui), and Dixing people form an allied coalition. They plan to recruit Kunlun, but he's killed by the rebels before they can. (ep 34)
Fu You and Ma Gui create the holy tools out of fragments of the meteor (ep 34)
- I would guess that they fought in the war for some time before 1) deciding to create something like the holy tools, 2) figuring out how to use the meteorite to create the holy tools, and 3) actually crafting the holy tools
The holy tools are stolen by the rebels (ep 34)
Zhao Yunlan is dropped off by a wormhole and saves the Black Cloaked Envoy during a battle against the rebel forces. Zhao Yunlan is asked to assume the identity of Kunlun, as his death had been kept secret for the sake of morale. (ep 34)
Zhao Yunlan helps Ma Gui make baijiu, which takes about a month. (ep 35)
- There's been some discussion around this already but how long was Zhao Yunlan in the past? It's at least a month but probably not more than a year? Although it could be up to a few years and we wouldn't necessarily see much difference in his appearance, but he couldn't have been there long enough to show visible signs of aging.
Ye Zun kills the rebel leader and takes over, the rebels declare outright war against the allied forces, Black Cloaked Envoy and Zhao Yunlan ambush the rebels in a forest and steal back the holy tools, and the holy tools are activated during a battle which results in Kunlan/Zhao Yunlan being pulled into a wormhole in the sky, Ye Zun getting trapped in a pillar, and Black Cloaked Envoy being buried underground. (ep 35)
- This last series of events look like they happened one right after the other in the show, but there's room in there to say that a few days to a few weeks could have passed between Ye Zun declaring war and Black Cloaked Envoy and Zhao Yunlan ambushing the rebels