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* <abbr title="Exact date lost">November 2007</abbr>: {{alpha|Week 15}} began
** 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 {{alpha|cavehog}} were also plagued to extinction.
* <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">Unknown date c. late 2009</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">Unknown date c. 2010</abbr>: {{Alpha|Week 23}} began. This Week opened with an extinction event that ended the snowball event and wiped out all megafauna.
===The Post-Snowball Era===
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.
* Nov 03 2013: {{alpha|Week 25}} began
* <abbr title="Exact date lost">Unknown date</abbr>: {{alpha|Week 26}} began
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