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## 2031

* Jan 11, 2031: **Freedom to explore space:** United American States (UAS) lobbyists to the United Earth Nations (UEN) finalize repeal of a World War Three (WW3) era global arms control accord that had, in practice, made crewed commercial space exploration unfeasible. Since the 1996 Soong treaty all nations had been subject to beurocratic UEN reviews on rocketry that made it too expensive for even large commercial operations. That had left a treaty prescribed number of launches for each nation, under military control, which rarely went to commeecial partners. SpaceX had developed their falcon series for the UAS and the UK but this never achieved full reusability. Extensive suborbital development had been the limit of other SpaceX activity. Elon Musk was finally free to launch his people, to let his Starship series roar into the void.
* Feb 22, 2031: **On the way to Mars:** SpaceX Starship under commercial UAS rather than UAS military flags are permitted launch by UNE observers. Despite harsh retaliative sanctions from the Euro-Russian bloc (E-Rb) and threatening orbital maneuvers of African Democratic Socialist Alliance (ADSA) "weather satellites" Lord Musk's visionary expedition departs. It is an underfunded effort that has limited support from the chronically underfunded NASA. Though the UAS was no longer an underdeveloped nation its public space program had not been a priority during the long cold war with China - the only global superpower. Lord Elon Musk's vast fortune and technological vision had made this day possible.
* Feb 24, 2031: **Chinese Rocket Destroyed:** Slavery reparation rioters in the Chinese Republic's Star City spaceport break through security perimeters and set fire to the launch gantry. The subsequent explosion of the Red Star Eight vehicle and destruction of most ground support equipment prevents China's UEN favored Mars expedition from ever launching. The UAS underdogs have no competition.
* Nov 9, 2031: **First humans on Mars!** SpaceX Starship "Marvin" touches down flawlessly on Acidalia Planitia and deploys the first expedition to the red planet. It had been a perilous journey with several minor mechanical failures and an extended stay in emergency radiation shelters due to unexpected solar storms. Marvin and his brave international crew made it, however, even earning grudging praise from China and the Euro-Russian bloc (E-Rb).

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## 2032

* **Jan 1, 2032** **Satoshi Nakamoto:** claims responsibility for the New Year's eve bombings of the several major university and corporate AI research campuses and then releases a proof for the instability of self modifying artificial Intelligence systems. Relatively few people are injured as the incendiary and High-Explosive-EMP devices had been set for off hours or automated datacenter locations - often during the festivities. Macrosoft-Weyland International (MWI)., market leader in these system types, condemns the attacks as the work of a mentally unstable individual. Though they refuse to release their source code publicly they begin a voluntary eleven month review with UEN mandated research teams to asses the safety of their systems. New MWI product development is delayed by several years. Satoshi Nakamoto is not identified or apprehended and remains at large.
* **Aug 11, 2032:** **Shackleton Base on Luna:** The first moon base celebrates five years of continuous habitation. With the renewal of China-UAS space cooperation new modules hand crews have boosted the Lunar population to an even 100 for the occasion.
* **Sep 04, 2032 - Life found on Mars:** In a press conference a major scientific find on Mars is announced: We have found life in a subsurface brine deposit. Extraterrestrial life, with variant DNA proving it is not from earth, has been found!
* **Dec 1, 2032 - KA-Niya A.I.**: The MWI report is published, though critics point out that without more source code it is extremely difficult to check the stability analysis. In theory the work does check out and Macrosoft-Weyland beings a new marketing push for the holiday season. New product demos include their next generation digital assistant KA-Niya (Knowledge Assistant Niya) in the affluent Euro-Russian bloc to great fanfare. The presentation includes a five hour after party where celebrities play holo-games, dance and socialize with the twelve different default holo-avatars of KA-Niya. Aside from the holographic shimmer it is impossible to tell the avatars from real people.
* **UEN Nuclear Reform Ammendment Fails:** With the devastation of 1995s limited nuclear exchange still in the memory of the ruling generation a bill to allow easier construction of fission power plants fails. Growing concerns over increasing power shortages are not enough to overcome the global fear of nuclear weapons.

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## 2033

* **UAS Whitehouse Cyber-Assassinations:** Elite human secret service agents did not stand a chance against the advanced cyber-modified assassins that murdered the president, vice president, top officials and senior staff at the Whitehouse today. The Euro-Russian bloc (E-Rb) assassins were inhumanly strong, fast and resilient. Survivors recall the Terminator film franchise from their youth as having come alive. The E-Rb disavowed the action as a rogue operation and offered to fully cooperate with any investigation. The UAS is both in mourning and on high alert. Since the forced WW3 nuclear disarmament left all powers with only medium range nuclear missiles experts put little stock in actual bloc cooperation.
* **Second Generation SpaceX Gen-2A Starship, Falcons Retired:** With his hands unchained Lord Musk has been making rapid progress in scaling up SpaceX operations. Production lines that had previously been limited to meager UAS military only demand have now quadrupled in size. Whole sectors of the UAS economy are being revitalized by foreign investment as SpaceX supply chains reach out for as much as can be purchased. The old faithful Falcon series of semi-reusable rockets is retired and the first generation 9 meter diameter Starship production is switched over to the once secret 18 meter gen-2A model. Gen-2A Starship has a turnaround time of two hours for ten launches and then two days of refurbishment. Estimated airframe lifespan is three thousand launches or twenty years under normal continuous use. Payload is a staggering two hundred and fifty tons not including twenty tons of modular tankage (for extra fuel, water, oxygen, etc.) a "shield bunker" configuration large enough to protect ninety passengers long term while still leaving the deck crew room to work and live in the shielded CIC (Command Information Center). The revolutionary radiation shielding architecture plus ample RTG and Solar power for an electromagnetic shield allows safe voyages across the solar system. Launch costs are expected to once again undercut all other providers.
* **Lunar full time Population exceeds 3000 :**
* **First birth on Luna:** Though seriously underwieght the otherwise healthy girl, Gabriella Tatiana Abara, is the first person born on Luna. Experts point to the potential need for a higher gravity during pregnancy though ongoing studies will reveal that low-g pharmaceuticals will also suffice.
* **Martian full time Population exceeds 1000 :** With an early arrival Mars becomes a town. Another surprise from Lord Musk is the refit "fast" version of the first generation Starship. Nine fast ships make a surprisingly quick Earth-Mars transit of less than three months. SpaceX has opened a new fleet yard that will start with these fast refits and then build out as a second production line for the new Gen-2A model.
* **UAS House of Lords follows British Example:** Resolving the long standing civil rights issue of indigenous representation the UAS house of Lords rezones to follow ancient tribal borders. This was not as difficult as the British transition as more recent historical records existed. A near-majority of the Lords were already first-nation chiefs due to their strong voting blocs relative to traditionally low voting levels. The House of Lords used this opportunity to make a historic statement condemning Russia and China for their African slave trade and consistent failure to make reparations. The two Eurasian powers shot back with comments on the lack of reparations for North American slaves, saying "The Irish were people too". The Irish American Council responded that "Irish settlers had never been slaves, rather indentured servants under fair contract law of the day. Irish citizens do not see themselves as victims, but the Russian and Chinese certainly did victimize Africans for nearly four hundred years."

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## 2034

* **Mysterious Soil Disease:** Though news was suppressed by multiple African and Eurasian governments samples of a novel soil pathogen have been recovered from quarantined agro shipments to the Americas and Europe. Experts are already projecting the spread to Europe over the next year and fear the Americans have been contaminated. Crop yields in Russia and China have plunged 80% and ongoing social unrest have prevented a coherent response to the situation. Though stockpiles of food in China and the Euro-Russian block are expected to hold in the short term, Europe has little remaining farm capacity. Africa is coping due to the wide variety of crops and large regenerative herd agriculture operations it has, however it has halted all food exports.
* **UAS Farmers Going Lunar:** In a preemptive effort to secure agricultural production farmer in the Americas are ordering lunar-style sealed greenhouses. With its recovering industrial might meaning brand-new machines and cutting edge processes in UAS factories the ramp up of greenhouse production has been rapid. Grass roots organizations are already saving heirloom crops, clean soil cultures and all manner of genetic samples across the Americas as they see widespread biome devastation in China.
* **Frederic Ivanovich Dawes takes action:** The founder of the E-Rb Genmodix Syndicate, devotes his full research staff to the soil blight problem. It is quickly determined that it is too late to save most conventional monoculture crops. The viral blight is adaptive and will leave nothing but dead soil in an area without diverse soil mycelium. Tilled soil, the farmer's field, is the problem: without certain natural fungal structures to stop it the new blight can ravage the soil. No soil methods like aquaculture, hydroponics, aeroponics and algaponics are unaffected so the lunar-module approach will work for industrialized nations. No-till methods like some small organic and Permaculture will also work, this is why African food supplies had stabilized.
* **Lord Musk produces the farm-dome:** In a move that would make Bucky Fuller proud massive geodesic farm domes are going up everywhere in the Americas. As Elon says, "It is just the most logical way to have the largest volume of crops growing with a minimum Infrastructure. The repurposed lunar designs work but they aren't the right scale to feed everyone. Not everyone can survive on small crops of expensive high end greens. It is a matter of geometry... of how much volume you can protect. The below that, below the light, you need to farm mushrooms because it doesn't take much light." Lord Musk, speaking from his office on the Moon, had been engaged development of improved settlement hardware for Mars but put those plans on hold. Elon personally reviewed the designs and production strategy, coordinating with his own teams, leaders and experts across the world. He generously offered the domes to farmers on inflation only credit, capped at 2%, if they follow the instructions for using them.

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## 2035

* **Dirty Thirties World Wide:** Though the dust makes for amazing red dawn and dusk it is a harbinger of famine - dusty dead soil is on the wind spreading the pathogen even farther. The affluent Euro-Russia block is slowly starving. The Americas are exporting all they can spare, but bidding wars among the rich leave the poor without. There are disturbing reports of pets, even deceased family members, being eaten. China has instituted martial law. Africa continues its export ban on food and has been destroying migrant vessels on the way to its shores.
* **UAS opens up immigtation:** Discarding the points based system all UAS visas are now half by random lottery by direct family and half by investment of two million plus. Practical Limits on immigration with this system are not encountered as the paid visas subsidize economic effects on the lottery visas. The visa money and a host of other economic measures are being channeled into building farm domes as soil crops now begin to fail in the Americas. This new farming push and the supply chains feeding it provide ample jobs. A general refugee program to go alongside visas is held up as all three parties attempt to steer the process for their own agendas. Many refugees who don't make lottery choose to join the American Foreign Legion, which adds a provision for family entry. The Legion is not equipped to handle millions of applicants but President Henry Stoneclaw, now Commander in Chief, gives the emergency order for full military cooperation. Though the UAS forces (USAF) are not the largest or most sophisticated, they get to work. Thousands of barracks are built for the trainees and the second chance program to give wash-outs a second try is created.
* **India and Pakistan Make Peace:** After a decades long conflict the two shattered nations achieved peace.
* **Elites are headed to the Moon:** Lumar settlement in luxury style is the new trend, especially for elites from unstable nations.
* **Martian Convoy Two Arrives:** Ship after ship Safely touch down, unload and are immediately sent back on autopilot.
* **South East Asia Resilient:** Tropical Agriculture is no longer affected by blight, scientists unsure why but immunity effect centered on Luzon. Something in the soil seems effective at neutralizing the virus.

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## 2036

* **SpaceX and Farm Dome:** These Musk companies plus partners firms begin export of dome kits to the world.
* **Extreme malnutrition common:** Food supplies stabilize.in most regions thanks to UAS efforts and generous exports from South East Asia. The long term effects of malnutrition will, however, be a challenge for years in the hardest hit areas.
* **Lord Musk delays convoy three:** Putting all terrestrial SpaceX employees to work on the famine problem Lord Musk delays the third Martian convoy except for some automated cargo ships. Mars is stable and has enough people to get the work done. Its a 26 month delay, but we at SpaceX feel it is worth it - securing the food supply of Earth is everyone's top priority.
* **Armed Rebellion in China:** Society is breaking down in China. Though a tightly controlled media had successfully downlplayed the severity of social issues in the country armed rebellion could not be concealed. African Social Liberation agitators were later discovered to be the arms suppliers behind the rebellion.
* **Pacifica Sea Farm Opens:** The first floating platform is in place and it should scale rapidly with enough resources. China would be an ideal partner given their proximity and industrial base but their state of martial law has closed them off to most international cooperation.

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## 2037

* **Mars Supply Fleet Arrives:** Packed with new and shiny things, also consumables.
* **Long Range Science Rover (LRSR) Teams deployed on Mars:** These new rolling laboratories allow up to eight people to spend up to three months on exploratory road trips. Teams of five are deployed to stretch supplies out to four months plus an emergency margin of three weeks and provide a rescue capacity so teams can support each other.
* **Genmodix Offers First Commercial Anagathics:** Not only will these treatments keep you from aging badly, they will actually make you younger and improve many conditions. Human lifespan has jumped to well beyond 250 for those who can afford it. Genmodix is not patenting the treatment, you must visit a high security clinic in Russia to receive it at great cost. Demand is so great that even the mostly automated clinic pods are not enough to keep up. Price is moved to bidding for spots, resulting in even higher price tags.
* **Russian Time Capsule Edge:** Since the EMP attacks of the third world war wiped out much of the world's cutting edge research, especially commercial sector development, the world has caught up but discoveries are tricky things. A forgotten international university time capsule project in 1992 Russia is uncovered in the old Kiev tunnels. Russian oligarchs take control of the find and it is handed over to UEN Cultural without the data crystals it contained. Though it is difficult for historians from our century to gauge, this single event may have helped Russia and the Euro-Russian bloc avoid a major recession as "new" technological concepts are developed.

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## 2038

* **First macro-fossils on Mars:** Rover Team LRSR-6 discovers rich fossil bed of what is something plant and/or fungus like. This conclusively proves Mars once had a fairly complex biosphere.
* **China ends martial law:** Though the situation is still far from what it was, Chinese authorities brutal but effective methods have restored a new normal. Though China does not wish to accept any foreign aid, they do embark upon the Pacifica floating farm project with the UEN and UAS. This is seen as investing in the future rather than accepting a handout.
* **UEN Global Energy Audit:** The United Earth Nations comprehensive energy audit and projections are grim. Many of the most supported paths forward are not EITEP (energy invested to energy produced) viable. Quality of life standards are improved when energy production improves and the failing post-war patchwork grid, aging plants, diminishing fossil fuel resources and fears of nuclear power are all negative trends that paint a grim picture: world energy supply is set to decrease unless something is done. Underprivileged populations risk falling back into darkness.

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## 2039

* **Mars Convoy Three Arrives with Lord Musk:** This is a massive convoy, using hundreds of various Starships in a push toward increased self-sufficiency and expanded exploration.
* **Mars Population now 2109:** including the first human being born on Mars - a health baby girl
* **First multi-trillionaire:** Frederic Ivanovich Dawes becomes the first multi-trillionaire through his various biotech business enterprises and investment in asteroid mining. It is later suspected, but never proven that his wealth far exceeded its listed public value as he may have been mining precious metals from a near earth asteroid and slowly saturating the market through his mining groups. Dawes had already assembled world class teams on his research campuses, but his covert strategies ran so deep it is difficult to discern with available records.
* **F.I. Dawes Covert Strategy Begins:** Though it was invisible at the time, Dawes himself will eventually reveal it was events in early 2039 that lead to his greatest triumphs and atrocities. The strongest evidence is found in fragments of fundamental research papers that point to the development of useful amnestics - bio-nano drugs that can manipulate human memory. Some of the fundamental research goes back to the late 2020s, making it extremely likely Dawes has access to this technology.
* **First Casino resort on the Luna:** Joseph Sergeyevich Bezos opens Selene City - with three full one-gravity train loops.
* **Lunar Population and Murder:** now 35,420 full time residents, with its first murder. It was a crime of passion but the wealthy individual responsible was not named and not prosecuted by Lunar officials. The news cycle is largely suppressed and it is not clear to historians of the current era who did it.
* **India-Pakistan UEN Recovery Report:** The smashed grid and power plant infrastructure from the Indian-Pakistan war will be more expensive and less efficient than space based solar power. Fusion plants are still not economically competitive, despite being used for clean power at critical facilities. The UEN will not allow fission plants in either nation after the limited nuclear exchanges of their regional war and during WW3. Fossil fuels and biofuels are not competitive or sustainable. Lord Musk has offered to build a new Tesla Battery Factory to directly support grid management, but also agrees that space based solar power is now the best option.

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## 2040

* **UEN Excavates WW3 era Lunar Base:** Thought completely destroyed in nuclear strikes this 1990s era lunar settlement had unknown deep bunkers. Much of the classified pre-war information was decrypted and records distributed to UEN council nations. Some war-era technologies lost or effectively scuttled at the time offer insights unexplored in the decades since. War era lunar bases tended to follow the defunct ISECG plans of the (G136B) 1980s https://www.globalspaceexploration.org/.
* **DYX-100 Yacht Trend:** The DYX-100 series orbital dominance "cruisers" of the WW3 era are decommissioned by the UEN and sold for top dollar for refurbishment as space yachts by the wealthy. Unthinkable just decades after, most of these vessels were launched by orion fission-pulse drive. Though every effort was made to use "clean" orion "pulse units" the end result was significant radioactive contamination in the southern hemisphere from hundreds of thousands of small nuclear detonations. These robust vessels will remain in service a century later, the rugged old welded alloy hulls being terrible in terms of performance but were built to take damage, still reliable and often luxuriously outfitted in the 2130s. They were generally unsuitable for long range operation or exploration so tend to be rare outside the Hill sphere, heart of the Solar Authority.

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