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==Closed Period (Sept 02 2006 - Nov 28 2006)==
For the first four
* Sept 02 2006:
* Sept 09 2006:
* Sept 16 2006:
* Sept 25 2006:
** Week 4 also contained Sagan 4's first rejected species made by an established member, a handful of motile tree plents created by
* Sept 30 2006: Last new submission, Sagan 4 was considered to have concluded
Sagan 4 was suspended after
==Gamingsteve Period (Nov 28 2006 - April 24 2007)==
Early on in Sagan 4's first revival, the process of submission was fairly similar to before, with each Generation being a real-life day and each Week being a real-life week.
* Nov 30 2006:
** Dec 06 2006: The
* Dec 09 2006:
* Dec 16 2006: Week 6 ended and Sagan 4 went on pause.
On December 21, Hydro opened a vote regarding whether Sagan 4 should continue then or after Christmas, and whether the generation system should be changed. Option D, resuming after Christmas with more time to work on species per generation, received the most votes.
* Dec 26: Sagan 4 resumed with
** Dec 28: Generations were changed to end at 8 species instead, and Weeks were officially defined as 7 generations long.
** Jan 20 2007:
** Jan 27:
* Jan 29:
** Jan 30:
** Feb 07:
** Feb 19-Mar 05: Sagan 4 had its first inexplicable dead period where there was no activity. Even after the dead period ended, activity was slow throughout much of March and early April.
** April 15:
* April 24: Sagan 4 moved to its own website, marking the end of the Gamingsteve period.
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Nearly all dates for this time period are lost, as the original website and forum are gone.
According to accounts from old members and evidence in-universe with many new artists appearing around this time, the early website period saw Sagan 4 gain an influx of new members, which some older members saw as a bad thing. Although some [[Earth clones|Earth clones]] already existed in the form of
* April 24 2007 (presumably):
* <abbr title="Exact date lost">Unknown date</abbr>:
* <abbr title="Exact date lost">Unknown date</abbr>:
* June 25 2007: This wiki was created[[File:WikiLogo2.png|thumb|The original wiki logo]]
* <abbr title="Exact date lost">July 2007</abbr>:
* <abbr title="Exact date lost">Late July or Early August 2007</abbr>:
* <abbr title="Exact date lost">September 2007</abbr>:
** During this time, [[Earth clones|earth clones]] were considered a major problem by the community, leading to the first lineage-wiping [[Plagues|plague]] in Sagan 4 history: the
* <abbr title="Exact date lost">November 2007</abbr>:
** At the beginning of the Week, the gamma ray burst mass extinction event was announced. The generations leading up to the disaster consist primarily of dedicated "survivor" species created to save as many lineages as possible, making it the first widespread instance of [[Metagaming|metagaming]] in Sagan 4 history. In the generations that followed, some dedicated survivors of earth clone lineages such as the
===New Sagan 4===
The post-gamma ray period of Sagan 4 history was considered the "new Sagan 4" at the time.
* <abbr title="Exact date lost">Unknown date c. 2007</abbr>: {{Alpha|Week 16}} began
* <abbr title="Exact date lost">Unknown date c. 2008</abbr>: {{Alpha|Week 17}} began
* <abbr title="Exact date lost">Unknown date c. 2008</abbr>: {{Alpha|Week 18}} began
** In 2008, coinciding with Week 18, Sagan 4 had a sudden wave of new members which resulted in the generation cap having to be increased to 80 submissions. The source of this wave has been lost to time, though it's suspected to be related to Spore.
*** Within this new wave of members, some became regular contributors to Sagan 4 and would come into conflict with older members, especially regarding the subject of [[earth clones]]. Also around this time, Sagan 4 began to reach the age where older contributors' memories of the anatomy of certain lineages started to falter, resulting in waves of strange organisms that were to some extent discontinuitous with their ancestors--most famously including most instances of a femur appearing in spondylozoans.
** At an unknown point around this time, the [[Sagon tribal game]] started, failed, and was decanonized.
* <abbr title="Exact date lost">Unknown date c. 2008</abbr>: {{Alpha|Week 19}} began.
** Week 19 opened with a mass extinction event which wiped out all species over 1 meter. This resulted in a colossal loss of several major groups, including entire phyla of flora such as the tree plents and blue palms.
* <abbr title="Exact date lost">Unknown date c. 2008</abbr>: {{Alpha|Week 20}} began.
** Sometime early in week 20, though it may have been a factor in week 19 as well, misguided sentiment that all the continents were the same according to newer members (which was false) resulted in the "banes" being introduced, which wiped out all members of certain kingdoms from various locations. This now-regretted instance of [[metagaming]] resulted in the complete extinction of all terrestrial non-sauceback beastworms and nearly wiped out all saucebacks and lizardworms, which were native only to the region where the chitinbane struck.
* <abbr title="Exact date lost">Unknown date c. 2009</abbr>: {{Alpha|Week 21}} began.
** During Week 21, the Terran Diversification Project (TDP) began, spearheaded by Clarke and intended to take effect in Week 22's snowball event, which had already been announced.
* <abbr title="Exact date lost">January 2010</abbr>: {{Alpha|Week 22}} began.
** This Week opened with an extinction event which wiped out the vast majority of life on Sagan 4, as the whole planet was encased in ice.
** Life was seeded on Mason, thus beginning the [[mason:Main Page|Mason project]].
** The Terran Diversification Project entered full swing. Nodents were being killed off left and right and skuniks were taking over their niches. Plans were in place to replace all shrews with alienified versions.
*** The TDP was, according to legend, halted by TheBigDeepCheatsy and a few other veteran members tearing into it and into skuniks. This resulted in the TDP being cancelled, nearly all skuniks being wiped out by the end of the Week, and Clarke ultimately leaving Sagan 4.
** The snowball event still saw a number of lineages wiped out by metagaming, but with more purpose, as it was mostly those with unfixable issues and a few lineages that had been very popular pre-snowball that were taken away instead.
* <abbr title="Exact date lost">September 2010</abbr>: {{Alpha|Week 23}} began. This Week opened with an extinction event that ended the snowball event and wiped out all megafauna.
* Nov 03 2013: [[:alpha:Week 25]] began▼
===The Post-Snowball Epoch===
After the snowball event, as Sagan 4's members worked to refill the empty biomes, Sagan 4 went through a time of unprecedented peace and support for all clades, and modern systems such as the genus system were introduced for the first time. The ancestors of many modern families of organisms began to appear.
* <abbr title="Exact date lost">Unknown date c. 2011</abbr>: {{Alpha|Week 24}} began.
* <abbr title="Exact date lost">Unknown date</abbr>: {{alpha|Week 26}} began
==Limbo Period (February 09 2017 - March 18 2020)==
On February 9th, 2017, Hydromancerx announced that {{alpha|User:LadyM|LadyM}}, who hosted the Sagan 4 forum and wiki up to that point, was leaving and that Sagan 4 would need a new home. In the months that followed, several bad things happened at once, ultimately resulting in the complete loss of the old forum and apparent loss of all wiki data past 2011 (which the community was led to believe was "corrupted" beyond repair). This was not at all helped by Mnidjm, who was managing the wiki's migration, seemingly going MIA. With Mnidjm's disappearance, another proposal was made to restart Sagan 4 at Generation 54 because this was the last generation to occur on Gamingsteve, the forum where Sagan 4 was originally hosted, which was still available at the time. This fell through as well because of many of the images being missing. Thus, Sagan 4 entered a period known to the community as the "limbo".
===Beta Epoch===
A "reboot" of Sagan 4 began in august of 2019. This reboot, which would later be known as the Beta Timeline, was proposed and spearheaded by {{Beta|User:Bufforpington|Bufforpington}}. A map was created by raising the water levels in Week 1's map, and it was decided that the results of the first mass extinction event would be re-rolled. Unlike in Alpha, where the survivors were picked by the members at the time, in Beta the survivors were left entirely up to weighted RNG. Though this resulted in 15 surviving species rather than Alpha's 10, the results were skewed heavily in favor of microbes and binucleids, the latter of which were naturally more resistant to radiation. The ancestors of plents, anipedes, purple flora, and other iconic lineages went extinct, but amazingly {{Alpha|Protosagania}} actually survived, as did lineages which were dead ends in Alpha such as the goliathpseudopodians. This resulted in a very different assemblage of starter organisms compared to Alpha.
Though intended to continue as Alpha had, Beta would soon take on a life of its own. Scientific plausibility became favored, and it even had a [[Plagues|plague]] very soon after it started to remove a lineage of Earth clones. Though three new lineages of fauna evolved from cells during Beta Week 2 (Asterzoa, Lituslugs, and Charnlits), new fauna were also banned soon after. Extinction event information was kept secret, preventing designated survivors or other preparations from occurring. All of this actually led to Bufforpington leaving, as in his own words he could not adapt to the changes.
====Beginnings of Alpha's Revival====
In late 2019, [[User:Disgustedorite|Disgustedorite]] was googling saucebacks out of interest in the lineage and discovered that the backup wiki, with data up to {{Alpha|Week 23}}, had gone back up. A failed attempt was made to contact Mnidjm about this, but nothing came of it and the website eventually went down. Hope for Alpha's revival died almost as soon as it had been revived.
It was then, however, that a much bigger discovery was made. Unsatisfied with what had just occurred, Disgustedorite continued digging and found two download links which had originally been posted by {{Alpha|User:LadyM|LadyM}}. The larger of the two was the {{Alpha|Week 26}} backup which had supposedly been too corrupted to recover data from. Disgustedorite did not have the tools or knowledge to open it, but Squidy, a non-member who created a species- and ecosystem-searching bot used in Beta, was able to open it. He provided proof of it containing data beyond the previous backup by posting an excerpt from the description of the {{Alpha|Tamjack}}. Disgustedorite immediately made attempts to create a wiki to contain this data, but failed due to her lack of familiarity with using MediaWiki software.
In early 2020, Mnidjm returned. He was immediately informed of the week 26 backup existing and all species descriptions being fully intact in plain text. This kickstarted a successful attempt to revive Alpha, resulting in the creation of this wiki and the Sagan 4 Alpha forum. It was found that there was an open submission slot in {{Alpha|Generation 160}}, so to make her membership in Alpha official, Disgustedorite filled it with the {{Alpha|Opportunity Shrew}}--the first new submission of the revival. Members wanted to continue both Alpha and Beta, so despite fears that one would sap activity from the other both proceeded to continue, thus ending the limbo.
==Revival Period (March 18 2020 - Present)==
In early 2020, Sagan 4 Alpha was successfully recovered, and a new wiki was made on Miraheze.
===Miraheze
The Miraheze era is a period distinguished by Sagan 4's wiki being hosted on Miraheze. During this time, many changes to the wiki were made and the robust set of features offered by the wiki farm--which had been unavailable for the previously self-hosted wiki--were put to use in vastly improving navigation and other features. Meanwhile, the community prospered, and old members began to return one by one.
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On May 12, 2021, the "polar purge" was announced. It was effectively a minor extinction event set between weeks 26 and 27 which served to correct a past science error where ectotherms and uninsulated endotherms were allowed to be placed in polar biomes without justification. Its early announcement served to intentionally spark a wave of [[metagaming]] to save any unique organisms that would be affected, as the extinction was happening for meta reasons rather than being a regular game event.
On June 15th, 2023, Miraheze announced that it would be shutting down, causing a mass migration of various communities to other wiki farms. Though Miraheze was saved by an influx of volunteers less than a week later, Sagan 4 followed through with its migration over concerns about whether the new volunteers would actually last long term.
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Sagan 4 migrated to WikiTide in the days following the announcement that Miraheze would be shutting down. During the process, in anticipation of potentially having to move wiki farms or forum hosts in the future, subdomains of sagan4.org were created and set as custom domains for various parts of the Sagan 4 project, including the forum and all four wikis. This resulted in the unification of the entirety of Sagan 4 under sagan4.org.
* November 26, 2023: A new wiki logo is finalized for the [[alpha:Main Page|Sagan 4 Alpha wiki]], as part of an effort to modernize Sagan 4.[[File:Alpha_Wiki_Logo_small.png|thumb|New alpha wiki logo]]
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