Timeline

## 2015-2065 (Traveler Discovered)

* Present Day — Humanity detects and tracks the Traveler as it enters the Solar System and terraforms Mercury, Venus, and the moons of Jupiter. When it reaches Mars, the multinational Ares One mission is launched to make contact with it. The Traveler promises humanity the universe and imparts its vast knowledge to the species, spurring the colonization of the Solar System.

* Early Golden Age – The Cosmodrome is built in modern day Kazakhstan where humanity first takes to the stars in search of what lays beyond and ultimately in hope of escaping their overcrowded planet.

## 24th Century (The Golden Age)

* The First off-Earth Colony – The first off-Earth colony is established in the Ocean of Storms on the Moon and an exobotany laboratory is built in Mare Cognitum.
	+ At the age of ninety, Commander Jacob Hardy records his experiences from the Ares One mission in his diary and explains how the Traveler's dramatic impact on human well-being and civilization changed everything while in the midst of studying the properties of Light-influenced terraforming.
	+ The Cloud Walkers lead the first Exodus.

* The first off-Earth colony is established in the Ocean of Storms on the Moon and an exobotany laboratory is built in Mare Cognitum.

* The foundation of Freehold – The city of Freehold is founded on Mars with the support of Clovis Bray. It becomes known as one of humanity's greatest achievements.

* The Colonization of Venus – The Hesperonauts first descend into Venus boiling mists and place terraforming engines in caldaras, beginning the planet's transformation into a habitable world. They were later remembered by the Last City and the Guardians through a set of armor forged in their honor.

* The Discovery of the Vex – During the initial exploration of Venus, ancient Vex ruins are discovered. Early Vex research outposts like Campus 9 attract Earth's brightest minds, leading to a colonization rush on the planet. The researchers found the Ishtar Collective and the Ishtar Academy.

* The construction of the Warminds – The Warminds are built alongside an array of various defense constructs as a deterrent against possible extraterrestrial threats.

* The investigation of Ishtar Collective – The Ishtar Collective captures a live Vex specimen and nearly go mad until a Warmind intervenes. They send a group of two hundred twenty seven proxies into the Vex ruins to explore the Vex network.

* The Foundation of Future War Cult – The Future War Cult is founded by Maya Sundaresh at Lhasa after experimenting with Vex technology. The group disbands, however, after many of its members either go insane, commit suicide, or leave out of ethical concerns. Maya Sundaresh is among them.

* The development of SIVA – Clovis Bray begins developing technologies geared toward the colonization of the Solar System in the form of SIVA and Transmission. After going through several prototypes, SIVA is approved for deployment.

* The development of human experimentation – Clovis Bray begins developing super soldiers for his "plans" for humanity, splicing DNA from various species to mix with human beings but sadly hundreds of subjects perished during the first trial of splicing until he began adding darkness into their body, allowing them to adjust to the change but sadly Clovis program was shut down by international vote and was removed from the place by military forces. Clovis would continue his experiments for years until the collapse.
	+ SIVA Replication Complex Constructed - Sometime later General Chen Lanshu glides around the Cosmodrome and converses with submind Malahayati about the possibility of invasion and speculates whether or not the Traveler could have been an enemy.Shortly thereafter, Chen Lanshu speaks to Willa Bray about the possibility of accelerating the colonization programs, and whether SIVA could be used for military purposes.