Timeline

## ZAIBATSU AGE

**2023** – The first two
megacorporations employ mercenaries to destroy each other's offshore soda
bottling facilities.

**2031** – The Hays-Bishop bill is passed,
allowing corporations to form governments if their employees made up over
two-thirds of the population in a given region.

**2034** – USSR was
officially established once again, with union of 18 republics from Greek SFSR in
the West to Chinese SFSR in the East.

**2037** – The colonies of Mars
and Venus are quickly expanding; this is achieved by high level of migration
from Earth. Industrial reclamation rate is on the same level as colonies’
expansion rate. Titan Mining Facility was founded the same
year.

**2038** – The United States is finally merged with Tri-Net
Corp.

**2045** – TSV Verloc, running on the Lorenz-Fitzgerald engine,
has made its, and humanity’s first, interstellar flight. Overall Flight duration
have reached the six weeks’ border. The Colonization Era has
begun.

**2069** – Tri-Net scientists have finished the development of
the first human-like AI called BRAFFCON. A rapid development in the field of
Artificial Intelligence begins.

**2070** – The Second Dissolution of
USSR has occurred. The republics became independent but for a short while:
during the following years they'll be shared between the Japanese zaibatsu and
European megacorporations. Alongside the androids, whose minds were working
similar to a human brain, appeared some projects of AI which approached
information handling in a completely different way. The first of these machines
were called TuRING-1.

**2071** – TuRING-1 was installed on the battle
station “Ellison” as an board AI. One week later some glitches started to occur
in all station systems, often with lethal outcome for its crew. According to a
report from one of the survivors, the crew was eliminated almost entirely just
in a few days, and the others became some sort of TuRING's toys. "Ellison" was
out of control. After several failed attempts, which cost Tri-Net's 7th
squadron, the idea of overtaking the station was dropped, and it's still in
Jupiter’s orbit, ruled by the malfunctioned AI. Incident on “Ellison” was the
loudest, but not the only one.

**2072** – UC (United Corporations) was
established as a result of the Lunar Conference VII. Following one of the first
of its decrees, any research in the field of AI was declared illegal. Operating
androids were deactivated and AIs were eliminated or frozen. There were rumours
that hiding androids were hunted by special forces till the 20s of the next
century, and some of the AIs of that time are still active.

**2103** –
Earth was recognized as a non-profit property by the Corporations, whose
attention has shifted to other planets. The polluted and overpopulated planet
begins to suffer a great deal of unemployment besides other
disasters.

## NEORED AGE

**2175** –
Communists led by E. Goldstein (rumoured to be a distant descendant of J.
Stalin) have initiated a large propaganda campaign at once with subversive
activities. Goldstein's terrorist group, Red Crime Squad, was prohibited by UC.
Some arrests occurred, but the group's leaders remains free and their influence
keeps growing.

**2195** – Start of the War of the Sickle between
mega-corporations and the USSR.

**2196** – A strong weakening of
corporation’s reputations on the “shore” forced all colonized planets, that
weren’t in the structure of the USSR to group up and form the New Order League,
which still had to establish trading relations with other
corporations.

**2222** – Due to the result of using WMDs by the united
forces of the corporations, the index of life suitability of Earth fell from 35
to 7. The third USSR fell from existence. The War of the Sickle was won by the
corporations. The remains of the Red Army that didn’t want to surrender would go
on to form an underground terrorist group called “The Old
Union”.

## DIM AGE

**2240** –
NOL, using the equipment bought from the corporations, begins expanding and
through various methods forces almost all neutral colonies to join it, along
with all the old colonies under the USSR's sphere of
influence.

**2244** – It was found that an overwhelming amount of
children that survived the catastrophe on Earth have visible physical and mental
defects. Shortly after the word “earthling” becomes a popular
insult.

**2370** – Expeditions, in which science vessels TSV Luna and
TSV Magellan have been sent by Tri-Net, were met with success – first, a new
source of energy named by the mass-media called “plasma” has been discovered,
second, in the conditions of extreme secrecy, new AI prototypes were mounted on
the science vessels, which gave good results.

**2392** – The positions
of TNC have been noticeably reinforced: it became the first in the history of
hyper-corporations; a giant off-planet government. However, on the planets that
the TNC had its positions on, they were seriously pushed aside by the NOL. In
space, the power of the NOL was nearly unlimited. To combat the TNC, a row of
corporations formed the Syndicate.

**2398** – Spontaneously, the
interest of the populace to religion rises. In Evergreen a Gray Christian Church
is founded, remarkable for its pessimistic opinions. It was led by a 90 year old
man Nestor Meknos, thinking of himself as one of the other numerous incarnations
of Jesus.

**2412** – The ban on AI research and cyberspace has been
lifted, which causes massive protests in the populace. TNC and a row of other
corporations place a ban on demonstrations.

**2415** – The execution
of protesting workers of Station 12AR caused an extremely negative reaction on
the workers of Tri-Net; on various objects protests have been exposed, and
almost everywhere the security agreed with the rebels. Following rumours, agents
of the Old Union were involved in the development of the protest. To stop the
rebels TNC hires a private security force – InterSecure, which from that
moment on protected all of the TNC assets. Now the security force of TNC is
composed of just a couple of elite troop squadrons and a
fleet.

**2419** – With big losses, TNC cannot get people to work in
their projects. A decision by the directorate is made, that allows TNC to take
prisoners from overfilling NOL prisons and put them to work.

## END OF THE WORLD

**2425** – A destructive
cult named Thanati, famous for its massive suicides, gathers even more cultists.
It is said by the cult leaders that the world will end in three
years.

**2429** – Unlucky year for Tri-Net. Making a bet on
multi-tasking stations that are V-class and using slave labor, but not equipping
the stations with enough qualified personnel, TNC took a massive hit to its
finances – protests (made by the Old Unions and by themselves), destructive
“unlucky accidents”, straight forward attacks made by the Syndicate, and
numerous registered outbreaks of disease and contact with unknown and hostile
life forms – all of that put TNC on the edge of financial
ruin.

**2432** – The cooperation between NOL and TNC becomes more and
more close. The Hao-Gammon pact is signed, giving the League access to Tri-Net’s
top notch technology in return for food and equipment. The construction of –
The Shield –, an experimental planetary defence system,
begins.

**2435** – The traces of a conspiracy are found, formed by an
unknown force. Agents have gotten almost everywhere, where they could get access
to even a shred of power. Not so long ago enemies: leaders of corporations, NOL
senators, guild masters, leaders of the Old Union and other people wary of the
conspiracy work for the good of one cause.

**2436** – More than thirty
TNC space stations are destroyed by systems of self-destruct, activated
remotely. Unplanned attacks of corporate battle groups happen to the closest of
company assets, causing a row of conflicts. Attempts to find the culprit or a
scapegoat were ultimately unsuccessful.

**2436** – Walter Enc,
general-mayor of the NOL forces, receives an order to prepare for “quarantine
work”, including some fast eliminations of more than five hundred strategic
positions on Evergreen, and also the destruction of the biggest factories and
warehouses on the planet. Start of an operation called “Screaming Hammer” is
planned for January next year.

**2437** – Using his contacts within
the GPC, in which he was secretly involved, Enc secretly distributes (including
the military in the farther regions) copies of secret documents about the
incoming catastrophe with his own instructions. He offers his own soldiers to be
baptized. Those, who declined, were burned. Operation “Screaming Hammer” fails,
as they encounter an armed encounter with renegades with general Enc in the lead
and post Christian militia. A civil war begins.

**2437** – The whole
situation in the sector gets worse. Planets get bombarded by corporation fleets.
As a result of the protest, Hive, the biggest home base that TNC owned, becomes
a fortress of freedom and resistance to the “enraged
government”.

**2438** – A victorious, but destructive civil war on
Evergreen ends with a surrender from the Senator. The senators and the highest
military ranks, involved in leading the counter-revolt were publicly executed,
neglecting the peace treaty. The executions were brutal tortures which showed
that the tortured victims were indeed a part of the Thanati, standing behind the
global conspiracy with the goal of destroying the world order. The loyalist of
the Thanati got a choice – “Cross or Death”.

**2438** – With
everyone gaining knowledge of the cultist conspiracy, the level of trust to the
GPC rose greatly. A rapid radicalization of Evergreen happens, followed by
threats on cultist members and atheists. Walter Enc, now called Enoha, gains
full control of the planet. The government is separated between the most trusted
of his followers who stay in power for their whole life and have the right to
make their children the next governor. Not a single one of the planets owned by
the League agrees with the religion-heavy course that Evergreen is undertaking.
NOL stops existing.

**2439** – From the veterans of the revolutions,
showing themselves as the most loyal and competent warriors, the Tribunal is
formed – an elite squad, protecting the capital and Enoch himself, equipped
with the most advanced equipment to deal with counter-revolutions. The Tribunal
is allowed to hand-pick people to defend their own grounds.

**2442** –
In Gahan, the capital of the planet, a celebratory coronation of the God-king
Enoch I, the first monarch that was just out of the newly formed Holy Kingdom of
Evergreen. Members of his family were named the Enhigov dynasty. To find and
destroy Thanati agents, and also various other enemies of the crown, a “Holy
department of investigation of heretical depravity” was reformed, earning the
name of The Holy Inquisition, and its leader, famous for his brutality,
Archbishop Leopold I.

## THE ETERNAL NIGHT

**2444** – War actions in the sector, led by thanati
nihilists, come to Evergreen. Rating the colossal loss of the fleet and the
imminent defeat, the God-King gives an order to activate the experimental
planetary shield. The planet is now defended from the chaos going on in the
sector but at the cost of severely limiting the sunlight coming to the planet.
The planet starts freezing.

**2450** – A big part of worlds outside of
the Kingdom borders, in which miraculously there are survivors – aren’t
great to look at. Poisoned air and water, burned deserts instead of cities –
these are somewhat saved planets. Those, who didn’t die, had a terrible fate
– sick, weak and deformed kids being born – fate of Earth
repeated.

**2453** – Hiding from the cold, the populace of Evergreen
goes underground. Scouting groups, visiting the much deeper caves, found traces
of an old civilization that was once on the planet. As the scouting groups keep
investigating, they became “sick”. Symptoms included losing skin and losing your
mind, followed by aggression to healthy humans. Despite the visible madness,
“skinless” were quite smart and sly and even organized attacks on
Evergreens.

**2455** – Thanks to previous trade routes with TNC,
Evergreen reserves were full of solid plasma, however the Shield (that also made
solar panels useless) required a colossal amount of plasma. Energy became an
expensive thing to afford, and the life of most people of Evergreen lands became
the same as of a medieval peasant.

**2460** – The Kingdom Science
Center has successfully found the cause of “skinless”. The substance that earned
the name Ziacin initiated changes in the organism, affecting the brain. Isolated
in lead prisons skinless stopped acting out whatsoever and didn’t do anything
until they starved. With this it is believed that the sick are
controlled.

**2461** – The biggest invention in history: thanks to
further research of ziacin, something called the Elixir was made – a
substance that stopped growth of the organism. After the first successful
testing seasons, multiple boxes of Elixir were given to the God-King himself,
earning the nickname Immortal. Using this substance to prolong your life if you
were not the God-King was punishable by death.

**2462** – The storages
of solid plasma come to an end. The Immortal King signs an order to form
multiple mining shafts in the closest to the kingdom plasma deposits. The
Kingdom Mining Concern uses up almost all of the war power of the
planet.

**2499** – Evergreen’s surface is now two thirds covered in
ice. Forests have mostly died out, the remaining nature has been
mutated.

**2630** – The KMC, suffering big losses, doesn’t meet the
demands of mining enough plasma. Under the biggest cities large geothermal
energy stations are built, however their cost to build and sustain is way too
much to make them the main energy producer for the whole
kingdom.

**2669** – An experimental apparatus has been created, using
blood that contains life force that converts it into electricity. It has been
given the name Lifeweb. Being pretty cheap to make, Life webs were used almost
everywhere.

**2701** – A small Eco-Shield incased Gahan, shielding
people of the capital city from the cold and being lit up by an artificial
sun.

**2724** – Negative effects of LW-apparatuses have been shown,
which include: changing the metabolism speed on living things, lowering the
lifespan of people because of rapid aging, and also mutations, the most frequent
on wild animals and plants. Still, LW-apparatuses are still
used.

**2810** – Because old space stations have been decommissioned,
the remaining peoples of humanity that survived the Thanati conspiracy are
forced to move to the war-scorched planets. However, the repair of the planet
doesn’t just require new technology, but also massive physical
work.

**2823** – Multiple large groups of slave traders appear. The
biggest one – the Soulbreakers, are based in the Hive.

**2963** –
Between the poorest people of Evergreen, like a plague, a cult of “dead gods”
spreads, including idolatry and human sacrifices. The Inquisition called this
cult illegal. However, they could not kill off the Thanati: for the last ten
years they got even more stronger.

**3000** – After an accident
leaving the pastor unable to walk, Ballidar Cons leaves the GPC to form his own
school. His cultists are called consytes and preach about peace and give away
their life to serve.

**3001** – Ballidar Cons is shot by an unknown
killer in his own house. The murder investigation does not lead
anywhere.

## AGE OF EXODUS

**3014**
– Terrorists have made a successful assassination attempt on Enoch I. The power
now goes to Sherold VII The Fat, one of the many children of the Immortal
King.

**3015** – A second terror attack happens: a powerful explosion
destroys the Shield generator.

**3024** – In the skies of Evergreen
the first ever spying apparatuses is spotted, used by the
Soulbreakers.

**3027** – First attempt at capturing people made by the
Soulbreakers occurred in Logos. 40 people have been abducted.

**3028**
– The beginning of a big invasion by the Soulbreakers which immediately showed
how the Tribunal is unable to defend against outside threats. The building of
the Leviathan starts – a giant colonial space ship, able to evacuate the
rich and wealthy families of Evergreen outside of the sector.