On 2021-07-23 11:30 a.m., Hubert Figuiere - hub at figuiere.net (via tml
list) wrote:
> On 2021-07-22 5:11 p.m., Greg Nokes - greg at nokes.name (via tml list)
> wrote:
>> According to MT’s Imperial Encyclopedia page 10 year 0 on the Imperial
>> calendar is AD 4518 Terran. MT was full of errata, so not sure how
>> cannon that is… but…. There ya go. ;D
>>
>>
>
> Don McKinney integrated timeline (v2.1 - 2006) give the year -2551 for
> the Moon Landing (1969 AD). So that makes 4520 AD.
>
> I was hoping the information would be clear there, but I had to look
> through the timeline to find a know reference (the Moon Landing will do).
>

I must add:

In GURPS Interstellar Wars (May 2006, a few month before the integrated
timeline), page 21, they list Archimedes Station in 2013 and Copernicus
in 2022.
The integrated timeline give -2510 for the former (Archimedes) and -2501
for Copernicus.

Both lead to 4523 AD for the Imperium.

Another cross reference between the timeline and history with Vostok 1
in 1961 give a date of -2559 still give 4520 AD.

Looks like Interstellar Wars pushed back the dates a little bit.

The timeline use as a reference Dragon mag #87 (July 1984) which only
give Imperial years[1]. In there the moon landing is at -2552, but it's
unclear whether it is THE moon landing, or earlier probe, but the first
probe was 1959 (Luna 2, USSSR), 10 years before, and the first soft
landings in 1966 (Luna 9, USSR and Surveyor 1, USA), so it's likely THE
moon landing, Apollo 11 with a year difference.

Cheers,

Hub

[1] checked my copy