Timeline (Posterus)

Major Events:
* 2030s - Australia is first to receive a signal from a nearby star roughly 100 lightyears away. The complexity of it insists it's extraterrestrial, but skeptics remain. The message is sent via radio waves and is roughly 13 minutes long.
* Kurdistan establishes itself. Taking up large portions of northeastern Syria, the Kurds enter war the first day they're established with Turkey, citing self-defense. Turkey begins a military campaign to quell the new country at the behest of the rest of the world, and conquers parts of Syria, Cyprus and even begins fronts into Armenia citing Kurdish uprisings. Russia, the US, UK, Australia and numerous other nations step in. This is essentially the largest war that is to come, known as the War of the Battleborn, or the Old Kurdish War. Turkey loses large swaths of their eastern territory to Kurdistan, which the other powers let them keep. To appease their land loss, Turkey gains control of Cyprus.
* United Amazonia forms, largely due to political unrest, but they gain lots of global support as they fight for the preservation of the Amazon in lieu of climate change. Most of the Amazon region of Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana and parts of Columbia join up. The remnants of Brazil form South Brasil.
* Kashmir declares independence, deemed the most significant political event of the century. The locals largely accept death is inevitable from their stance, but do so anyways. Pakistan, China and India keep weapons pointed at one another and now Kashmir, but localized movements near the border with Kashmir on either side gain traction and convince both governments to step down and let Kashmir rule themselves. This also leads to a worldwide Nuclear Agreement to begin decommissioning all nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, China does not back down from Kashmir and refuses to do anything about their nuclear weapons, so the protest movements quickly turn to an anti-China sentiment that spreads even further.
* 2040s - China collapses. Riots begin in Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as the western regions with a few terrorist attacks. During this, Kim Jong-Un dies of medical issues (conspiracies of poisoning) and the power vacuum within North Korea causes China to attempt to take control, but they fail miserably with the other fronts drawing their attention. South Korea, Japan and the Philippines begin taking in NK refugees and NK declares itself a new government of the people, Choson. However, the damage is largely done and those who do remain don't see any kind of drastic change in quality of life, rather the military just isn't around anymore. World pressure coupled with internal instability causes their government to collapse. Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang, Tibet, Yunnan and Guangdong declare independence. Northern regions vote to join Mongolia. What remains of China reforms into Zhongguo.
* Canada splits into three new countries, Canada which makes up the southern portion from Vancouver to Toronto, Athapask which makes up the northwestern territories and most of the islands, and Quebec, which makes up the eastern part.
* 2050s - The Singularity. Japan invents a very advanced AI that in turn creates a digital haven for us. Everyone "plugs in" to shed their physical bodies and download their brains to the internet to live there forever, as it's seen as the natural evolution of humans. In the first few microseconds, it collapses and everyone is booted out back to their bodies. The AI self-delete the digital world they created, as well as themselves, with only a message to never do something like this again. As the AI was basically seen as the closest thing we could call a god, everyone listened and the plans for it were scrapped entirely The general assumption was that everyone suddenly gained access to all information, but because we're humans, we did the wrong thing with it. Instead of consolidating all we know about engines to make the most efficient engine, we looked up our spouse's internet history, checked financial records of our employers, followed paper trails of our politicians, etc. and within seconds, everyone was out to get everyone else essentially. The AI determined this was inevitable with this kind of power, so it deleted itself and what it created to "save humanity." We never tried it again.
* Shortly after, humanity develops the Cure for Death. The technology is largely based around nanobots and simple upkeep of the body manually. They're taken daily in the form of shots. Normal people appear perpetually 25ish or "prime," though this depends on when you started taking the shots. If you're 80 when the cure is discovered, you'll appear 45ish perpetually instead. This discovery spurs a new grouping of people called the Naturalists who choose to take on immortality until around 100 years of age, and then choose to die through voluntary suicide, which becomes legal worldwide. It's mostly the older generations that choose to die.
* This begins the opening of Cryogenics labs and new medical advancements to bring people back, one of the few successful ways to do it. People frozen even from our time are brought back with minor side effects, given immortality and de-age. Some opt to be frozen again.
* 2060s - Oil Famine. Nicknamed as such because of the economic unrest it causes in the middle east, the large players get desperate and the area breaks down into small wars once more. Saudi Arabia forcibly annexes Yemen and Oman and begins oppressive waves of control in the regions, met with much resistance. Bahrain and Qatar band together with diplomatic relations to Kuwait, Iran undergoes a revolution to form New Persia, Afghanistan loses its northern territory to be Hazarastan, and Israel receives invasions from numerous sides before collapsing itself. Palestine forms and with the area beginning to calm down a bit, other world powers ensure the captured nuclear weapons from Israel are used for reactors to supply power to the local regions, something that seems to actually occur.
* 2070s - USA Collapses. During a "cold civil war," the federal government loses power over the states, as the states realize they can pass legislature in direct conflict of federal law and if enough of them do it, the feds will cave. They begin doing this increasingly so until the 2070s when some states begin pardoning federal prisoners and exercising state law to release them within their borders. It leads to numerous genuine stalemates between state and federal authorities and even a few shootings. State nationalism soars and local military bases, staffed with locals, begin disregarding federal orders in favor of state orders. Before long, President Jameson decides that if the American people don't want a federal government, there shouldn't be a federal government. Nationwide county votes decides what counties will join what newly formed republics, and a push in the north even allows some counties to join Canada and Quebec. Out of the USA, 25 new republics are formed; New Arcadia, Pacifica, New Mojave, Phoenix, Apache, Young-Lane, Askan, Fisher, Jeremiah, Texas, Franklin, Atlanta, Jackson, Florida, Roanoke, Muscogee, Chicago, Gray, Virginia, York, Barnett, Boston, New Maine, Alaska and Hawaii.
* We finally translate the first 4 minutes of the alien message, and it turns out to be physics equations. Most line up with what we already have, but one stands out as being different than our version. Our equation for the gravitomagnetic field for a rotating body differs from theirs. Debate spurs over who's incorrect, us or the aliens. The message, past this point, appears to shift drastically in structure and still has not yet been deciphered. By this point, we send a message back, though by the 2130s it still hasn't arrived.
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* 2100s - Time travel is invented in 2112. It's done on a special space station in a large orbit around the Earth and Luna, what they call the moon. It's a small room that you're put into, and once secured floating in the center where you can't touch any sides, the agency in charge sends a signal to the station and you're sent back in time after all the preparations are made. from the outside, a person who "warps" back in time appears to freeze before slowly shifting to a red color and then vanishing altogether. The grandfather paradox doesn't exist and you can't change your future. Essentially all they're doing is slipping into a different dimension that occurs however long in the past from theirs, with minor differences. These differences are the equivalent to an atom having a different charge on the other side of the universe, nothing insanely big. Long story short.
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* 2130s - 2137. By that time, over 50% of the species alive today have gone extinct in the wild, though many remain in captivity for reintroduction at a later time. Coral reefs are no more, the sea levels have risen a few inches on average and global temperatures are very high. Things seem to be going in a better direction, however, with massive CO2 condensers everywhere and desalination programs along most coasts. Most of our energy in the future comes from nuclear and solar power.
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