Earth/History

## Planet Earth Articles

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* Earth
* **Earth's History**
* Earth's Inhabitants
* Earth's Government
* Earth's Alien Species
* Earth's Genetically Modified Plants
* Earth's Salvaged Species
* Earth Rolling News
* Education Earth
* University Earth
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By the 23rd Century Earth is a planet of overpopulation, countries are still in conflict with each other, fighting over fewer and fewer resources. The skies are heavy with pollution but yet it is a time of great technology and scientific advancement.

## Twenty-Third Century

The 23rd century was a time of great change on Earth. It was an era of great technological advancements and scientific achievements.

2206 Portal technology is invented. This changes everything on Earth. Just by stepping through a portal you are instantly transport to any place on Earth. Transportation vehicles are no longer necessary. Streets, highway's and turnpikes are no longer necessary. Large cities are no longer needed as people could live anywhere they wanted and not necessarily near where they worked, shopped or played.

Portal technology was only the beginning. Portals were located every where, in the larger cities on every street corner. They could portal to a different country for a meeting and another one for dinner.

* Humans had Web's implanted in their heads at age 7 so they could access the Earth data Net with a thought.
* The amazing city of Eden was built in Earth Africa.
* A United Government was formed and a common language was ratified.

The end of the glorious diversity of Earth with it's varied and distinctive cultures. But also the end of wars, poverty and hunger.

* Hover technology was discovered.
* Food dispensers that reconstituted meals from cartridges.
* Vat grown proteins were introduced, ending world hunger.
* Solar energy was available replacing pollution causing and hazardous energy sources.

The portals helped some but the world was still heavily polluted and over crowded. Streets and highways were torn up and replaced with greenways. Genetically modified species were created to reclaim the deserts and repopulate the rain forests.

Under a united government there were five of the United Earth Regional Parliament complexes, on five continents. London, New Tokyo, Lagos, Sydney, New York.

## Twenty-Fourth Century

Interstellar portals were invented. The 5 sec drop portals were used to send probes out in the universe searching for new planets for humanity. And they were found. Once the first planet was found and assessed then more planets were discovered and assessed for colonization. Soon people started clamoring to go to the stars and to leave Earth behind them.

### Exodus Century

As People leave for new frontiers Earth begins to decline, first it is slow but like a runaway snowball the depopulation of earth picks up momentum. Some of the people are looking for new frontiers to conquer and for adventure, but others leave because as the cities depopulate and businesses close they have no other safe choices. Strict laws are enacted that makes it nearly impossible for people to walk away from mortgages and other debts. If they try and move somewhere safer then they are literally branded as a criminal, but with the collapse of the Earth economy few can afford to stay. For these people their only hope is to be able to go off world.

By the end of Exodus Century the Earth Government has collapsed too and the Wallam-Crane company has moved to Adonis.

*See also: Exodus Century*

## Twenty-Fifth Century

By the early 25th Century there were less then 100 million people left on Earth.

As Earth becomes a desolate world the colonies are collapsing too. They depended on Earth to keep providing the necessary basics for them, but with Earth's collapse there weren't enough people left to continue producing those goods, including delicate parts for the Interstellar portals

### Earth Datanet

In 2409 half of human knowledge is lost when the Earth datanet collapse and through a series of mishaps, most of the backups are written over with the corrupted data.

### Changelings Era

As baby were brought to Earth to be cared for, they were usually just dumped in any off-world medical care facility and then placed in random settlements.

By 2420 some of the off-world runners that brought the babies to Earth started offering insurance policies to the parents abandoning their babies. The more expensive policies included the option to replace their handicapped baby with a normal baby of similar appearance, stating that it was mostly handicapped on Earth and that the handicapped found it difficult to cope with raising a normal born baby, so they were "happy" to exchange babies.

A group of the runners, armed with off-world weapons would descend on a settlement and forcefully take any newborn babies that fit the descriptions they were looking for, women went into hiding with their newborn, they only had to stay hidden for a few months because the baby would be too old to pass as a newborn. But in response the runners would went hunting for those women.

Without an effective government on earth there is no way to stop these abuses.

Eventually "Parliament of Planets" creates the Hospital Earth Board to organize and administer the care of the newborns and to stop this policy, but the damage was already done and the runners that the handicapped were sub-species had already taken hold. Hospital Earth did nothing to help dispel these myths, instead they used them to keep the handicapped under control.

*See also: Runners and Changeling Era*

## Twenty-Eighth Century

Earth has no government, instead Hospital Earth’s Board is the governing force. They are all Norms, appointed by the Sectors.

The people on Earth have no say, votes or representation in their laws and governing body.

### Year 2789

Alpha Sector invits Earth to be apart of them with full membership and representation in Parliament of Planets.

A vote was held for all Earth citizens to vote if they would accept the invitation, which they did. On November 17, 2789 they became a member of Alpha Sector.

## References

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Scavenger Alliance (Scavenger Exodus Book 1) (pp. 177-178). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Scavenger Blood (Scavenger Exodus Book 2) . Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
3. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories Book 1) (p. 238). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.