ISO-1124 Timecluster

The ISO-1124 Timeline is the primary timecluster of the Isoverse, and was primarily responsible for the initial creation of the System AETHERIA.

Multiverse Classification
Several decades into the future, a scientist by the name of Sarah C. Ventura invented a device known as the Axis Transfer (An alternate version of The Transfer), capable of opening a rift in space-time that led to multiple alternate universes. It confirmed the long-withstanding multiverse theory, which states that everything that could have happened has happened, is happening, and will happen in an alternate universe. To organize recorded timelines under one system, the recorded documentation would fall under a certain pattern.

Specific Classification
All documents recording alternate universes fallow a basic order in their classification. The following list the primary format, explains it, and tells how it works:

The standardized timeline classification format follows a simple pattern in its listing: Universe, Timecluster, Time Subset, and Timeline.

Universes
Universes are broad, general umbrellas for timelines that follow a certain pattern or characteristic (similar to the classification of a biological lifeform). If a timeline is similar fundamentally to a preexisting group or universe, it is usually classified under that name.

For example, a massive group of timelines containing the overarching theme of an advanced spacefaring civilization being contacted and interacted with by the same alien race would be put together under one universe. So, in that fashion, all other timelines with that theme would be classified within that universe.

Timeclusters
Timeclusters function similarly to universes, except for the fact that they are generally more specific. A main deviation (or lack thereof) from a universal thematic arc warrants a more specific classification. Ex: Multiple timelines consist of the destruction of the human race due to another invading species, but not all. In others, the humans may have destroyed the invaders, or both races may have cohabitated.

However, in the cumulative universe, it is the same species that makes contact with the human race, one way or another. It is this distinction that separates timelines into timeclusters as opposed to other universes, as it sticks to a consistent theme within an already overarching universal theme.

Time Subsets and Timelines
Following the theme, time subsets are relatively major variations on a timecluster, while still sticking to a basic pattern and ultimately leading to the same rudimentary outcome. Ex: A timecluster with the theme of the human race dying via an alien civilization, but a time subset with the theme of a massive attack on Earth or Sol that ends the war. Under these subsets, there are an unquantifiable number of slight/minor variations.

Then there is the simplest classification; a timeline. This is an individual set of events, actions, and choices that led to a certain outcome or produced a certain condition.

Format
Now that the order is understood, here is an example listing format:

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