Global Timeline

**2019**

* Metallic hydrogen allows for the first room-temperature superconductor.
* Hydrogen cell technology is successfully tested in trucking and freight shipping.
* The world's first nanofoundry is set up by the People's Republic of China.
* Augmented reality glasses begin to eat away at smartphones' market share.

**2021**

* North Korea invades South Korea.
* US intercedes on South Korea's behalf.
* China moves to annex Taiwan.
* Evidence of Chinese involvement in North Korean invasion.
* US & allies declare war against China.
* Russia declares war against Turkey after fatal border skirmish.
* The European Union & NATO declare war against Russia.
* US declares war against Russia in solidarity with NATO.
* US is now fighting a war on two fronts across Asia.
* US reinstates mandatory draft.

**2024**

* Russia and US exchange a short series of nuclear strikes.
* China launches large scale nuclear strike on the west coast of North America.
* US answers by launching tactical nuclear strikes against Russian & Chinese military infrastructure.
* A Christmas Cease-Fire leads to peace talks in which it is agreed nuclear weapons will no longer be used.

**2025**

* Peace talks break down and fighting resumes.
* No more nuclear detonations take place.
* A hemispheral Nuclear Winter obliterate crop yields.

**2026**

* Fighting between western forces and Russia ends February 19th with the Treaty of Ankara
* Fighting between western forces and China ends November 6th with the Treaty of Pyongyang.
* North & South Korea are reunited under the terms of the Pyongyang Treaty.
* War reparations cripple the Russian and Chinese economies.
* The Serrano Virus wipes out 3/4 of the world's wheat farms.

**2035**

* Major coastal cities are reduced by half.
* The "Bread Riots" break out across US.

**2042**

* Monarch Civic Trust is founded in Kenya by a select group of the wealthiest investors from across Western Europe including Cyril St. John, Yves Durand, Ekkehardt Weber, Ronan Fitzpatrick, and Pietro Antonioni.
* Monarch rebuilds sunken Mombasa, in the process coming to own over 90% of the city.

**2044**

* A "Global Emergency" is declared as over 50% of the world's fresh water sources have disappeared.
* Canada, Russia, India, and Kenya experience refugee crisis.
* Private corporations now own over 90% of all arable land and freshwater rights in the world.
* Monarch becomes the largest employer in Africa.

**2051**

* Overwhelmed by the refugee crisis, nations turn to the new generation of "megacorporations" to supplement their armies, police force, and civil infrastructure.
* Those nations suffering from extreme drought begin to war with one another over water rights.
* The "Water Wars" spread across half the globe.
* Fossil fuels are phased out in order to counter global warming.

**2053**

* All major coastal cities are now underwater. The sea levels have risen 25 meters since 2009.
* Global trade is disrupted as these drowned cities become a shipping hazard.
* With trade severely disrupted local corporations begin to diversify, buying up other local corporations of all kinds.
* Monarch introduces it's first experimental robotic worker.
* Apex, Sterling, and Atlantica merge to form Polaris.
* The majority of the human race now lives in megacities run by corporations.

**2057**

* The United Nations passes the "Corporate Sovereignty Act" granting a dozen corporations the ability to make and enforce laws on land that they own the rights to.
* Robotic workers are introduced throughout corporate controlled areas.
* Global Unemployment hits an all-time high with governments scrambling to provide basic assistance.
* The first cybernetic brain to network interface is installed successfully in a human being.
* The G9 summit in Midgard marks the signing of the inter-corporate trade agreement.

**2059**

* A breakthrough in nanomachine technology leads the Atlas company to announce a cure for genetic disease.
* Monarch introduces a nanomachine cure for cancer.
* Bharat, Garud, and Vajra corporations merge to form Essar-Adani
* Hana-Shen-Nakatomi and Seburo-Arasaka merge to form the ASPARI (Asian PAcific RIm) Syndicate.
* Interactive Holographics are introduced by Polaris Corporation.

**2060**

* Private corporate police and military forces outnumber state authorities 3 to 1.
* India begins the "Unification Wars" against Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and Khalistan.
* East Turkestan is officially recognized by the UN following the collapse of the People's Republic of China.
* The water-rich eastern Congo declares it's independence, choosing the name "New Zaire".

**2062**

* The Info-Socialist Society (ISS) announces it's presence with the bombing of Polaris' mag rail.
* Perseus, the world's first true AI, is born in the labs of Monarch headquarters.
* New Zaire Annexes Rwanda and Burundi.
* The United Nations dissolves following an argument about the role of drought nations in policy making.
* A civil war breaks out after Somalia agrees to allow Monarch to manage their farming program.

**2065**

* Since its first appearance , the ISS has taken credit for over two dozen attacks on corporate holdings.
* Essar-Adani builds a coastal spaceport south of Sri Lanka, launching the first manned mission to Mars.
* Perseus, the Monarch AI, has grown to manage the entire New Mombasa transit system.
* Monarch begins work on the world's first space elevator off the coast of Mogadishu, with the announced plans to found the first human colony on the moon.

**2066**

* Following Sudan's anti-megacorp laws, Monarch lobbies South Sudan to renege on their water contract with Sudan and instead supply the corporate friendly nation of Chad.
* Sudan declares war on South Sudan.
* Chad makes a pact with South Sudan to
* AsPaRi completes construction of the world's first fusion power plant in Manchuria.
* The great Helium3 rush begins as fuel for new fusion technology.
* The African Liberation Army (ALA) takes over Nairobi, beginning a year long siege against Monarch forces.

**2067**

* The Atlas Fusion Reactor in Sevastopol overloads and killing 100,000 Atlas employees.
* Atlas claims sabotage by AsPaRi agents.
* AsPaRi farms on Borneo suffer an outbreak of destructive wheat viruses.
* A central AsPaRi meat cloning plant is lethally contaminated. Hundreds die before it can be recalled.
* This marks a new wave of corporate espionage.

**2069**

* A hacker calling themselves 4L4DD1N becomes famous after the suicide of a high ranking Executive Vice President following the blackmail and subsequent public exposure of their illegal sexual habits.