VII. CALENDAR

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Pre-opening schedule November 27, 2015: Test drive begins. December 18-22, 2015: Reserves open. December 23, 2015: Applications open for reserved characters. December 24-27: Reserves expire; free-for-all applications open. January 1, 2016: Gameplay begins. Schedule after opening Morning Star Route: Week 1: Character arrival, introduction of Captain Chie Tanaka, doing repairs on the damaged ship. Week 2: Attack by Colonial forces (first interaction with Plot-PCs). Week 3: Visit to Clamshell’s inventor. Week 4: Downtime in neutral port (first opportunity for interaction with Colony-PCs). Week 5: Scheduled plot-free breather. Pericles Route: Week 1: Character arrival, introduction of Commander Casmir Hayes, doing repairs on the damaged ship. Week 2: Attack by Earth forces (first interaction with Plot-PCs). Week 3: Visit to leading scientist on Solar Quartz. Week 4: Downtime in neutral port (first opportunity for interaction with Earth-PCs). Week 5: Scheduled plot-free breather. Plot-PCs and Home-PCs: Week 2: First opportunity for interaction with Morning Star and Pericles routes; for characters who enlisted in the military only. Week 4 onward: Opportunity for interaction with Morning Star and Pericles routes. Time compression The game will have 1:3 (1 IC day to 3 OOC day time compression).