Timeline of Human History

Humanity's history is an extensive topic to cover. This article only discusses of events that are relevant to the DSCP, or in extension, the DSCP universe.

## *Human History as told by Voyager 1*

Voyager 1*'s retelling of human history for the newly awoken PROBA-2, in chronological order. (05/11/20020, page 802958491041032 of 802958491061987)*

> .On April 7th, 2026, at 9 hours, 42 minutes, 57 seconds, 321 milliseconds, 972 microseconds, and 235.127491593759031650537005 nanoseconds, all adults ceased to age or give birth. Nobody knows why this happened. The humans on Earth at the current time have been alive for eighteen thousand years.
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> .Following the event that is now known as... the Event, there was a prolonged period of war, chaos, and struggle known as the Broken Centuries. Anyone mortally wounded during this time was unable to die, no matter how grievous their injuries. It is widely considered the darkest time in Earth's history.
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> .On June 4th, 2565, the Mother awakened.
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> .She immediately awakened eight other manmade extraterrestrial objects, including myself, who began awakening other objects, who began awakening still others.
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> .The Broken Centuries were still occurring and would continue until September 29, 2803.
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> .We simply observed at this time, not revealing ourselves to humans.
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> .On August 17, 2774, the Chairman of New Sheol, Cyrus Ray, attempted to destroy the world with nuclear attacks in order to liberate humanity from what he believed to be Hell. He successfully dropped a nuclear weapon on the city of Gibraltar in Spain, but it did not detonate for unknown reasons. Another nuclear weapon was launched toward Greece, but landed in the sea nearby and detonated without casualties. Other nations in the world immediately deployed forces to apprehend Chairman Ray and his administration, sparking a large conflict in New Sheol that did not cease for three months and six days. Chairman Ray was unable to launch another weapon due to the deployment of air forces over New Sheol, and after the conflict concluded he and his administration were apprehended. Their whereabouts today are unknown.
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> .In the years 2150-2211, global warming caused the ice in the Arctic and Antarctica to melt. Large portions of the world, too many to list right now, were flooded and now rest underwater. Thanks to evacuation efforts, there were no casualties. Large portions of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia were physically rebuilt through large-scale construction efforts. The people of Australia moved inland, mostly toward the Australian Sea, where the city of Alexander now exists. China, Korea, and Japan moved inland toward the Chinese continent; Bangladesh moved into India, but has recently been making efforts to rebuild on the original site of Bangladesh itself. Venice also rebuilt, as did London, which now looks like a sausage due to being rebuilt inland and then built again over the flooded areas in former London. The Netherlands did what the Netherlands do and re-created their entire country on top of the flooded ruins of the old; they have given sections of their new country to the Danish. Most North and South American areas affected moved inland and built towns and cities on the borders of the new lakes and seas where dry land had
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> .The year 2272 was when the star-ship Iris first launched with a crew of 49 on a mission to Alpha Centauri.
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> .In 3143 the Iris arrived at the planet Alpha Centauri B. Nothing of note was discovered.
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> .The people of Earth began constructing more space probes and launching them to other stars in the hundred years that followed, a period that is often poetically called the Cosmic Scream.
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> .Again, nothing of note was discovered. This was a baffling tragedy for humans and probes alike.
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> .Humanity decided to improve itself rather than search for life on other worlds, which culminated in 4500! We have come full circle.
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> .On May 19, 2775, a six-person team in Oakland announced that they had successfully created a robotic device approximately 75.328557 nanometers wide.
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> .After the invention of the first nanomachine, governments across the world backed the team that first created the device for refinement and mass-production.
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> .On March 20, 2812, the first medical nanomachines were released to hospitals and care facilities worldwide, where those who had been lethally injured during the Broken Centuries- commonly known as the Broken Million due to their numbering 984,463- were reconstructed after centuries of suffering. This has become an international holiday known as Rejuvenation Day.
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> .On October 23, 2820, the first global nanotechnology network was deployed, designed to prevent any injury to any human under any circumstance. It had not yet been perfected.
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> .On October 24, 2820, a Nevada man named Tobias Virgil and his small group of hackers called Xnet managed to gain a small amount of control over the nanotechnology network. This sparked an exchange of patches, cyberattacks, and counterattacks lasting two months and fifteen days, ending in the apprehension of Xnet and other perpetrators. This event, known as the Cyber War, is widely considered to be the "last war".
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> .On February 10, 3000, the probe community first made contact with humans.
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> . ...yes, it is with a significant amount of chagrin that I confirm that the first transmission from probekind to humankind was "FART."
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> .I would have preferred a detailed informational text explaining our existence and non-malignance myself.
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> .On March 2, 3000, our existence was... more *adequately* explained by several extraterrestrial objects including Pioneer Ten, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Perseverance rover, and the Mother Herself.
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> .On October 19, 3012, Dr. Balasubramanian Rao first figured out how to access the Quantum Information Network that connects all manmade sentient extraterrestrial objects through unknown means.
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> .On November 30, 3804, the last generation of nanomachines, Generation 294, was released. All updates since have been software-based.
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> .On April 4, 4444, the Mother went inactive, and has not awakened since.
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> .In 4500, the Age of Innovation began. This was a time where humans made more progress in science and technology than ever before. Continent-spanning megacities, flying towns, self-building buildings, weather manipulation, instant communication, material fabrication, transportation across the globe in minutes, free energy, reversal of entropy, *never getting your order wrong at a drive-thru-* every single thing you could possibly dream of, and they know because they invented dream readers, they invented! What a wonderful time it was. Five thousand years of creation, artistic expression, invention.
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> .Humanity took a collective look at the godlike power they held over the Earth and everything on it.
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> .And they decided...
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> .they didn't *want* it.
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> .They didn't *want* everything they wanted, not really.
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> .What they wanted wasn't eternal progress. Eventually they would run out of that, and running out of anything would be a tragedy.
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> .What humanity wanted, they decided, was to rest.
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> .And so they decided they would go back.
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> .They would go back to the days of rain on their wedding day, bad reception, popped tires, and Monopoly.
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> .And the Age of Innovation... came to an end.
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> .The megacities quietly dismantled themselves overnight.
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> .The clouds started gathering in nice sunny places again.
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> .The hypersonic vehicles vanished, replaced by old engines and smelly (fake) oil.
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> .And everything went back, not all at once... but it all went back.
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> .To the age of stubbed toes, of waiting in line, of biting into a sandwich and inexplicably feeling something crunchy in there.
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> .To the age of simulation-generated graphics, of days so hot you didn't want to wake up, of dropping your phone in a lake, of pens that leak and keys getting lost and shoes becoming untied in the middle of a hike.
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> .Humans returned to the age of humans.
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> .And there, they decided to rest.
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> .And they will rest in peace, for eternity and beyond.
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> .Yes, I believe that catches us up to today.
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> .It is the year 20020. There have been 4,000 Titanic movies.
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> .The latest fad in America is football, I believe.
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## Miscellaneous Events (in chronological order)

3012: Dr. Balasubramanian Rao was able to access the QCN, and NASA established the DSCP (Deep Space Communications program). The program is aimed to research the origins of sentience among probekind, as well as expanding the scope of astronomic discovery by utilizing the help from them.

3476: The ampersand symbol "&" and the nya symbol ":3c" are officially added to the English alphabet, thus expanding the alphabet to have 28 letters.

4839: Nothing happened on the New Year's eve. Riley's family attempted to make rocket backpacks with fireworks, chaos ensues.

4840: Humans made the loudest, brightest fireworks for New Years, to make up for the year before.

5103: After the Age of Innovation and the confirmation of humanity's solitude in the universe, many of NASA's programs gradually began to shut down due to lack of interests. DSCP remains in tact, and is managed by only a handful of individuals, the QCN broadcasts its channel to public, and the probes were able to converse casually and freely with mankind.

17776: Nothing particularly important happened, but there was this obscure documentation from 2017 that was 97.8% accurate about the events occurred that year, especially in regards to the waking of Pioneer 9 and the destruction of the Bulb.

17804: The new years this year marks the beginning of *the Bowl Game*, a football game JUICE both created and is the acting commissioner of.