2202

It is unsure which experiment first released the mobius patterns into our Universe. It is known that several experiments are likely to blame, but results are erratic, though all of them involve the warping and ripping of space itself, causing the fabric of our Universe to move in ways it was never intended to, and, likely, to brush hairs with another. Regardless of what experiment unleashed them, and exactly when, it is known to have happened sometime in February of 2202.

An accident at the West Laboratory resulted in the official death of several members. Rumors that they were still alive persisted, and the Consortium began a program of hunting them and others with accidents like them down, not made official until the Jovian Massacre. They would come to be called pyrrhans.

By June, certain patterns, dubbed 'supersongs' by some, flee their containments to choose hosts among humanity, the resulting symbiosis calling themselves striatvari. Like the pyrrhans, the Solar Consortium begins hunting these individuals across the Solar System, and named bounties are common. With nowhere to flee to, they begin congregating in groups around Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.