Basically Chapter 6; “humans had been on the moon for 5 years”
From the dates given in Wolf Moon, we can see this story takes place mostly in 2102 or early 2103. The end of the novel takes place in the first month of 2103, but this could be Lunar New Year aka February.
Adriana is 79
* born 2022 (or early 2020s)
* In 2050 she first visited the site that would become Boa Vista
* Been on Moon for 50 years
* at 40 she got pregnant (2062)
Robert McKenzie
* ae 103 [2103]
* age 48 when he came to the Moon [circa 2048]
* Been on Moon 55 years, 5 years longer than Adriana [2103]
| Month | Lunar Month | Nº |
|---|---|---|
| Jan | Aries | 1 |
| Feb | Taurus | 2 |
| Mar | Gemini | 3 |
| Apr | Cancer | 4 |
| May | Leo | 5 |
| Jun | Virgo | 6 |
| Jul | Libra | 7 |
| Aug | Scorpio | 8 |
| Sep | Sagittarius | 9 |
| Oct | Capricorn | 10 |
| Nov | Aquarius | 11 |
| Dec | Pisces | 12 |
We now have dates!
2103-01
The ending of New Moon took place in month/lune Aries 2103 (Jan)
2105-06
Virgo 2105 (June): Robert McKenzie’s 105th birthday party where he is killed by the Ironfall sabotage of the Crucible sun mirrors. Robert McKenzie born circa year 2000.
2030s – Adriana watches protests on YouTube. The Automation Revolution is putting many out of work.
2040s – As a student, Adriana watches the “Moon Landing” - McKenzie moving industrial machines to the Moon. This is late 2040s (2045-2050). She applies to go work for McKenzie Metals and undergoes three months of training, and she leaves, circa 2048/49.
2050s – US-Russian duopoly on Helium 3 keeping fusion prices too high to be practical for power generation. Around 250 Adriana Corta realizes she can mine Helium 3 on the moon and with two years Earth is importing almost all of it. Her family becomes famous on Earth, but she cuts them off after ten years in the early 2060s. Around that time she is aged 40 and becomes pregnant for the first time.
2060s – described as the rough wild-west period of Lunar development with trials by combat the norm. Mid-decade the garden city of Twé is founded.
| Date | Events |
|---|---|
| 2102-08•10 | A hurricane viewable on Earth (p.128) |
| 2102-10•11 | Adriana’s birthday party |
| 2102-11•12 | Wedding suggestion & attack on Ariel |
| 2102-11•12 | Adriana dies two weeks before the wedding date. A cyclone is visible on Earth |
| 2102-12 | “Wedding of the Year” |
| 2103-01 | Trial by Combat and attack on the Cortas |
| 2105-03 | Lucas arrives on Earth and travels to Rio; his relative A* meets with him |
| 2105-07-12 | Mohalu of Libra 2105 at 13:00 Orion Quadra Time: Ariel’s scheduled appointment with the Jonathon Kayode, the Eagle of The Moon at The Crystaline. He contracts her to be his lawyer ahead of a meeting of the board of governors of the Lunar Development Corporation, where Kayode has the governors arrested. |
Hurricane ⇒ Birthday party ⇒ wedding arrangement ⇒ Ariel is attacked ⇒ Adriana dies as a tropical cyclone spins north by northwest ⇒ funeral ⇒ wedding
The wedding is ⇒ less than a month since the attack on Ariel Corta (p. 346) & two weeks ago, death of Adrianna