Zero Gravity Universe (Prime)

### Timeline of ZG universe:

* Private aerospace companies sends its first colonist to the Moon (Luna) as a stepping stone for Mars.
* Private aerospace company builds first orbital shipyard above the Moon (Luna) to reduce costs to send spacecrafts to Mars and other planets in the Sol's inner system.
* Private aerospace companies sends first colonists to Mars after series of successful automated landing of supplies that colonists requires to set up an colony.
* Lagrange Observer 1 discovers a planet in Alpha Centauri system.
* Global War II (World War III) crippled the previous superpowers of the world and the third world nations suddenly became regional powers. Earth is provoked into further chaos as other nations scramble to take control of natural resources before the old world nations attempts to get back on its feet.
* Surviving scientists and settlers on Mars found themselves stranded. Divided among themselves was factions of two former superpower alliances (The United States/UN/NATO and the Russia-China coalition).
* Climate crisis heightens as the new superpowers utilizes more crude fuel powerplants than before. United Nations falls apart and reforms into United Earth Protectorate (UEP) government.
* Powerful city-states of Earth's equatorial zones coalescence into Federated Equatorial Zones, opposing UEP's new harsh policies regarding to stemming climate crisis.
* As chaos continues on Earth, supplies sent to Mars was cut off and was focused entirely on sustaining the Moon's (Luna) colonists,
* Global War III (World War IV) is fought entirely through proxies. UEP's proxies was surviving city-states not yet aligned to UEP, megacities of former United States, UK, Europe, West Russia, Japan. FEZ's proxies was nearly every population within the equatorial zone and was growing in influence in South America, Africa, and Australia.
* After GWIII, UEP declared that they were going forward with their plan; to designate Earth as a protected world. UEP would start building a network of cities on Luna (renamed shortly after GWIII), to move population who wishes to live in a society of technology while the rest would live in pre-industrial communities. Several of city-states threatened to reignite revolution against UEP. Treaty was struck, that the city-states remain technologically active on Earth but promises to switch entirely to nuclear fusion and fission technologies, to remain at least 5k radius of their centers.
* EMP Domes were established, strategically arrayed all over the surfaces of earth and the city-states were allowed to go into former cities and towns to salvage all necessities and to offer surviving humans to live in city-states.
* UEP begins to shuttle colonists and workers to Luna to build and expand colonies there.
* After moving high ranking officials and governing body to Luna, UEP reestablishes itself as United Earth System (UES), comprising of two ruling bodies; Luna Federation based on Luna and Earth Protectorate.
* UES begins to send probes to Mars to determine the sources of radio signals on Mars.
* UES probes finds descendants of Mars' colonists survived. Mars colonists managed to survive by ingenuity, innovation, by the grace of AI and 3-D printing. Communication between Mars Colonies and UES begins to strain as UES tries to assert ownership of Mars and its moons.
* Mars colonists decided to form united government and establishes Mars Colonial Confederacy. They begin to systematically change codes within old satellite systems orbiting Mars, preventing UES to spy on MCC's progress.
* MCC begins to rapidly expand their industrial base, using Fourth-generation Synthoids (Human-piloted humanoid androids) that can survive in the harsh atmosphere of Mars and on the moons of Deimos and Phobos.
* TauKoga is contracted by UES to produce several lines of spaceships designed to harvest asteroids from the Inner System Asteroid belt.
* MCC, using AI help, designed weak but efficient mining barges, begins to compete with TauKoga industrial barges in the belt.
* UES begins to establish Earth Protectorate Navy to safeguard Earth and to maintain its network of EMP domes and clean up satellite graveyard while Luna Federation Navy was responsible for safeguarding Earth-Luna and its Lagrange zones from rising threats of Mars' newly formed navy.
* MCC claims ownership of Vesta, Pallas and Hygeia after UES claims Ceres. Before publicly announcing MCC's ownerships on three asteroids, their navies were sent ahead to guard.

### Official Anthologies:

* "Story of Jaze"
	+ Jason "Jaze" was a United States Marine turned private contractor tasked with guarding high-profile people.
	+ Spoiler: