Even factoring in the weird way that years work on a flat earth there's still ages and ages of shit going on.
The general history of Wheelbreaker can be separated into several distinct eras, some of which are firmly in the past and no narratives happen in them. While other eras may exist in the past narratives and stories can still take place in them. The most recent era is considered to be the "narrative present" and everything else is more or less just backstory, world building, or setup for that era. That's not to say that the narrative present is the most important part of Wheelbreaker but rather that it is the part of the setting where stories can shake things up the most as they aren't required to flow towards an already determined tomorrow.
A generally accurate timeline is as follows:
| Prehistory Orks and cats exist before the universe did. Other stuff happened too I guess. |
| The Age of Exploration Everyone is leaving their home worlds in spaceships for the first time. This takes forever. |
| The Ethnostate Wars Everyone wonders if you can run an eternal empire on racism so they have a bunch of wars about it. They ball so hard they kill a few gods and decide not to be racist. |
| The Kobold Slave Revolts We already did wars about whether or not racism was cool, time for a war about whether or not slavery is cool. Turns out the answer is no even if you used blood magic to grow your slaves. |
| The 3rd Orken Holy War Orks don't want to be racist anymore but they do still want to do war and their war god won't physically manifest anymore so they march right up to their war god and murder him. The new god also declines to manifest and they lose motivation. |
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| Golden Age of Navigation Now that there's 3 more species in space and everyone stopped using the full force of their interstellar economies to make power armor for god there's plenty of time to do what really matters. Repairing the mass transit lanes. |
| The Final Void War Can we use space to do war? Yes. Should we? No. Are we going to do to again after this time? Yeah probably but we'll be coy about it. Also ocean goo is here and they're friendly-ish. |
| Silver Age of The Forge Ocean goo fun times forever. Monks are thriving but not the monks that everyone was expecting to thrive. |
| Killing the Violence God Tee hee :P |
| The Computer Age Don't tell anyone, but we're just calling them computers. |