< 1900 >
16-year-old Amos Fortune starts making money playing poker against older kids in his neighborhood.
Jenny Sparks is born in London. She is a techne, a manifestation of creation tied to the potential of the new century as the technology from the recent Martian invasion proliferates through England, building toward a new industrial revolution.
Arnold Munro is born on Attabar Teru, his father's hidden island lab, the product of his experiments injecting him in utero with an experimental serum. He grows up inside gravity-enhancing parabolic chambers, unable to touch his parents.