Root Timeline

This is the timeline starting in the near future. It begins with manned Mars missions in 2030.

## 2030: Age of Consumption

In 2030, the first manned missions to Mars were launched. They confirmed, after several months, humanities suspicions of past life on Mars. Fossils were discovered and brought home to earth, starting great scientific revolutions.

Massive amounts of fossil fuels and precious metals trapped under The Red Planet's surface sent a rush of oil, coal, and most importantly money, throughout The Solar System.

Beginning as a mining town, the rim of the Hellas Impact Basin was host to a domed city on the surface called Hellas City founded in 2053, which remains Mars' capital city to this day.
In 2068, The Martian Terraformation Project went underway, siphoning huge amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere of Venus and adding it to that of Mars. Trees were planted on a massive scale, converting Mars' atmosphere to a breathable one and locking the soil down, preventing large scale sandstorms.

In 2076, Mars was given an artificial magnetic field using massive magnetic coils that ran along the ocean floor and underground from the north pole to the south pole, preventing the atmosphere from being stripped by the sun.

In 2083, the dome over Hellas City was taken down and Mars' citizens were allowed to take off their pressure suits, taking in their first breaths of Martian air. Mars was declared habitable, although slightly more cold.

By this time, The Earth's natural resources had run dry, poured into Mars. It was dependent on Mars to fuel its economy.

Relations were stable until Mars wanted to become independent of Earth in 2154, beginning the interplanetary Civil War.

## 2154: Interplanetary Civil War

With Earth pouring what little resources it had into the war, the first two years were rocky at best. In 2156, the nations of Earth united against the Martian rebels.

The New Earth Union fought against the Martians for 20 Years, barely holding them back until 2177, when Earth ran out of all conventional resources and surrendered unconditionally to Mars.

Mars did not obliterate Earth or force it to change. They simply wished to be left alone.

By 2212 most of the old Earth was gone. All of the old sources of energy such as coal and oil were all gone. Earth, by that point, had switched to solar and nuclear power.

Tritium and Deuterium mining operations beginning in 2225 on the Earth's moon, Luna were extremely profitable, and the Martians had no idea, as fossil fuels were still widely available there. This began the Interplanetary Cold War, lasting 30 years, before conflict reignited again.

## 2255: Second Interplanetary War

With Mars coming up on closest approach to Earth in 2255, development of the JumpDrive was rushed to be completed in time.

When deployed, it caused the destruction of Phobos. Half of it was blown into Mars, leveling half of a large city by Mariner Valley. The other half disappeared into the gravity wake caused by the drive, never to be seen again.

In 2256, several massive fusion powered nuclear warheads were launched, causing almost complete reversal of the terraforming carried out 170 years prior, swiftly and brutally retaking Mars.

Mars was merged with Earth once more in 2283 once Mars was repaired, the New Earth Union renaming themselves "The Solar Planetary Union"

## 2290: Second Terraformation Project

Starting from 2290, Venus was the next target of terraformation. By the 2290s, terraformation required a lot less resources than it did in the 2060s.

This planet required more work than Mars. The rotation was extremely slow but after 30 years of accelerating it through small impacts, the days were 30 hours long, restarting its magnetic field. This part was completed in 2320.

The atmosphere was completed in 2326. Siphoning it to Mars was easy enough, it just got dumped out to the asteroid belt this time.

Part of the atmosphere was kept for atomic conversion, changing the amount of particles belonging to atoms to change what they were. Part of the atmosphere was made into the planet's oceans, and was completed in 2341.

The most difficult part was planting trees in volcanic rock. Dirt from Mars and Earth was taken as a substitute until the water could create some from erosion for us. The Venusian Terraformation Project was complete in 2349.

The Solar Planetary Union has a much stronger hold on Venus than they did with Mars in the 2150s, they didn't want a repeat of what happened there. Sadly, Venus was nowhere near as valuable as Mars, resulting in many colonies failing and abandoning Venus.

The planet was slowly colonized for farming purposes, its warmth and high CO2  atmosphere being extremely good for plants and its uniform seasons meant crops would grow all year. It was considered backwater by the rest of the system.

## 2378: Population War

In 2378, the human population had grown to almost 20 billion people. 11 Billion of which were living on Earth and Luna, 4 billion on Mars, and 5 billion having been evacuated to the previously abandoned Venus.

With the entire Solar Union having been dependent on Mars' natural resources for almost 250 years, the drying up of every natural resource was inevitable.

The Solar Union put a population control policy in place in 2380, forcing mandatory sterilization and enforcing a strict 1 child policy.

Several small factions took up a foothold in underground cities on Luna, deliberately disobeying the Union and hiding from sterilization.

Some descendants of the original Martian survivors from the second Interplanetary Civil War caught communications from the Lunar rebel colonies and paid for their passage to Mars.

The Martian government was overthrown, Mars' sovereignty was reinstated and threats were made against major cities of Earth. Both pieces of news were not taken well by the Solar Union. Battles broke out every few months.

In 2392 the Union used another prototype drive system, called the JumpDrive model 2, to enter Martian orbit near instantly. The fleet encountered there was roughly the same size but their weaponry was far superior, only losing a few fighters and the carrier that had them aboard.
Once arriving at Earth, the Martians were met with a fleet 10 times the size of their own. They fought through half of it before having their last ship destroyed.

The crew decided to cause as much damage as possible while they still had control of the ship. They were carrying the bulk of their weaponry, loaded with several thousand fusion powered nuclear weapons. They fired off as many as they could before crash-landing on the west coast of Africa, creating a crater the size of pluto on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean.

4% of Earth's atmosphere was lost forever. The debris was ejected into orbit, creating dark rings that will mark Earth's sky for millennia to come.

As seawater rushed into the shallow crater, radiation slowly contaminated the ocean. The body of water that the crater formed was named the Great Congo Bay.

This was seen as the end of the Population War as Earth's government surrendered yet again, leaving Mars as the head of the solar system and being left with no way to recover in the middle of a massive nuclear winter in the year 2393.

## 2393: New Ice Age

This period of time was peaceful. (Story 2412: New Ice Age)

Venus became well allied with Mars. Both remained happy and independent from one another for a long while.

Earth humans struggled to survive their partially self-inflicted ice age. The population of 8 billion Earth humans dwindled below 1 billion due to infighting, exposure to cold, radiation sickness and whatever else. This strengthened humankind to have longer lifespans.

Lunar humans remained unaffected as they didn't change much about how they lived during this point. Luna remained a crime-infested orb trapped over a freezing earth.

150 years later, the Earth had thawed. The humans that rejoined The Solar System were peaceful ones, trying to avoid bad diplomatic relationships with both Mars and Venus.

It was during this time that humankind decided to colonize other stars, as Mars' resources were dwindling and Venus never had much to begin with.

## 2542: Galactic Mapping

By far the longest period in solar system history. Using the JumpDrive M2 technology developed for the Population war, probes were sent out to catalog the galaxy, These probes are able to send and retrieve probes to and from thousands of lightyears away in under a century, and were launched in 2595. As the distances involved were massive, the probes took decades to even bring back scans from a single location.

By 2650 a habitable world was found. Construction of the massive liveship named "*Traveler*" would go underway, entirely constructed using Terrestrial design, materials and labor. The Martian government would discover their own world soon after, but their plans for colonization were less ambitious.

In 2887 all of the probe data would be retrieved, in 2894 an AI called ATLAS would be created allow quick access to it, and in 2897, a near galactic map would be completed.

## 2901: The Evacuation

Earth would finish it's colony ship in 2901. Nearly the entire population of earth escaped the tomb that used to be home, leaving the Martian and Venusian governments to their own devices.

They filled *Traveler* and took her to the pre planned destination, the Kyandor System.

The nearly 11 billion inhabitants of Venus, Mars and Luna were left behind. It would take the Martian government hundreds of years to finalize the plans and send dozens of smaller ships to colonize the two liveable worlds in the New Sol System.

(See Main Timeline)