At the end of the day, if the mods wanted to do a month long serious event it was going to end up falling on some month and messing with someone's birthday plans. It's unfortunate, but the alternative is that Zodion can never have long plot events, which I don't think is what people want either.

It sucks that it's messed up your plans, but it had to happen at some point. Maybe try contacting the mods and see what they have to say?