The attack took place on the 250th day of the year of Ura . . . It will be remembered while life remains on the planet Elekton . . . and for good reason.
One fateful day in the year of Seck, an atmosphere craft was flying low over the plain of Vorg. The crew of the craft saw a lone rider on the plain below.
On the 700th day of the year of Yuss, Trigo and his wife Ursa were led to the great open square of the city . . . and there Trigo was crowned the first Emperor of Trigan.
Shortly before dawn on the twenty-seventh day of the year of Nad . . . a tragic date in the history of the Trigan Empire . . . a human pyramid formed against the high walls of the city . . .
In the fourth month of the year of Rass, the people from the far-flung limits of the Empire journeyed to Trigan City to join the expectant crowds who massed before the Imperial Palace. Early one morning, a figure appeared on the balcony . . .
In the third year of Zemm, a cataclysm took place in outer space which was to have far-reaching consequences for the teeming millions of the Trigan Empire. Two planets collided !
Peric read . . . and they saw it all in their minds’ eyes. . . . “On the eighteenth day of the year of Yen, my comrades and I landed on the shore of the forbidden continent. . . .”
The affair of the stolen plans took place in the year of Orgo. Two solar years passed uneventfully. The Trigan Empire grew in greatness and peace.
In the month of Yuss of that solar year, atmosphere craft from all over the Trigan Empire swarmed to Trigan City.
In the seventeenth year of Neva, the Red Death came to the planet Elekton. It came from out of the trackless wastes of space . . . in the form of a strange cylinder.
The beginning of this episode dates back to the year of Jedd, the second year of Trigo’s reign. It was market day in the great square of Trigan City.
It was in the eighteenth year of Neva that the Lokans—a subject race of the Trigan Empire—rebelled against their masters. The Emperor Trigo himself led his ground forces into battle against the rebels.
All that happened during the 18th year of Neva. It was in an early day of the following year that the great liner “Daveli” set off on her maiden voyage.
All that happened in the years of Yarri. Our next strange story begins in the month of Yuss, on the day of the Imperial Examinations.
In the fourth lunar month of the year of Yedd, the “Princess of Vorg”, largest ocean-going liner ever, was launched in Trigan City harbour by Salvia, daughter of Elekton’s top scientist.
All that happened in the year of Zooth. It was shortly after the summer solstice of the following year that, one night, as the great scientist Peric was working late in his laboratory . . .
The second year of Venni went down in the annals of the Trigan Empire as the year of revolutions. It began with a terrible riot in the City.
In the second year of Ziss, there was a great jubilee in honour of the Empire’s founding. Trigo rode in procession through the streets of his Capital.
By the third year of Ziss, a great rebuilding programme had been completed in Trigan City, which was now the wonder of the planet Elekton.
The end of the third year of Ziss brought great dissension in the Trigan Empire. In the land of Tharv, there were riots and street battles.
The dawn of the fourth year of Ziss was celebrated with great pomp and splendour as the anniversary of the founding of the City and Empire. Trigan City was now the wonder of the planet Elekton.
The dawn of the year Hectar, a staggering palace of transparent beauty rose high above the towers of Trigan City. This was the palace of the planet, setting for the forthcoming Trigan Global Exhibition.
On the morning of the fourth day of the second month of the year Hectar, all Trigan City flocked to see the return of an intrepid voyager of outer space.
It was in the second year of Serth (begins the seventh book) that dwellers in the river valleys beyond the plain of Vorg noticed a strange phenomenon.
It was in the fourth lunar month of the year of Zooth that an astral phenomenon was observed in the sky above Elekton.
On the third hour of the twenty-fifth day of the year of Hoth, people in the streets of Trigan City began suddenly to act in a most remarkable manner.
The new Air-Fleet carrier “TRIGAN HERO” was launched by the Emperor, with great ceremony, on the seventeenth day of the year of Zenf.
In the beginning of the year of Zemm, an eruption of cataclysmic proportions rent the remote mountain range of Zeros, in the continent of Tharv.
In the fourth year of Zeer was opened the Imperial Trigan Museum, amidst scenes of the most superb splendour and pomp, by the high and mighty Trigo, Emperor of all the Trigans.
In the fifth year of Zeer was fought, between the Trigans and their traditional enemies the Catons, a destructive and sickening war.
In the year of Lott, the Emperor flew over the massive piece of electronic engineering that went by the simple name of “the digger”.
