They never fought a war. They sold tickets.
TX4WALL broke the light barrier, patented the drive and never licensed it. By 2150 the Company is the galaxy's airline, port authority, bank and clock. It does not govern planets. It schedules them.
“You believe it is a slogan. It is a measurement.”ORRERY · The Great Timetable
- 2061Tranquility Terminal opens on Luna, the first TX4WALL spaceport.
- 2071A nearly bankrupt consortium in lunar orbit tests Wall-space, a folded layer of space where distance behaves differently.
- 2074TX-3 carries six crew into Wall-space. They are still listed as “in transit”.
- 2079The uncrewed TX-4 reports in from Alpha Centauri eleven days after launch. The whiteboard reads “TX-4 · WALL: BROKEN”. The company takes the name.
- 2106ORRERY comes online, trained on every star catalogue and flight log.
- 2112ORRERY is given the Departures Board. No ship leaves without its clearance code.
- 2138Six thousand worlds on the board. Three words are added to the charter: “We own the galaxy”.
- 2150You arrive at Sol Port with a provisional travel permit and nothing else.