Mission Chronology · Sol Zero to Year 100

The Eden Archive Timeline

Ten books, one century. Here's how the saga's timeline maps to the reading order — useful for placing a scene, or for deciding where to jump back in.

SOL ZERO · YEAR 0

Landing at Hellas Planitia

Carter and Alina touch down on Mars on humanity's first one-way colonization mission. The mission record — later called the Eden Archive — begins.

Covered in: NovaSeed: Eden Rising

PRE-MISSION

Carter and Alina's separate paths to selection, told before either knew the other would be on the mission.

Covered in: Carter Before the Selection · Alina Before the Selection

SOL 1–150 · YEAR 1

The founding of the colony's first permanent structures and SOLEN's earliest mission logs.

Covered in: SOLEN: The First Record

~SOL 300 · YEAR 2

Carter and Alina's relationship deepens under the pressure of the first Martian year.

Covered in: Carter & Alina: The Bond

SOL 441 · YEAR 3

Nova Donnelly-Vasquez becomes the first human born on Mars. Her first word is "SOLEN."

Covered in: Children of Dust

YEARS 3–40

The first Mars-born generation grows up biologically adapted to a planet their parents were not.

Covered in: Children of Dust

YEARS 40–70

The colony's population and politics outgrow Earth oversight — a new governing order emerges.

Covered in: The Red Dominion

YEARS 70–100

The century-long arc of the founding mission reaches its close.

Covered in: Final Ascent

NovaSeed: Eden Rising opens the Archive at Sol Zero.