Timeline

The following is a **timeline** of known events in the *Project Sagittarius* universe. The universe' timeline uses three distinct calendar systems: *anno Domini* (AD), Epoch of Interplanetary Colonization (EIC) and the Interstellar Martian Calendar (IMC). The sol date is also a popular timekeeping system.

*Project Sagittarius* takes place in a universe that diverged from our own in the early 20th century, most importantly in November 1963 when John F. Kennedy survived his assassination attempt. His survival triggered an epiphany that resulted in improved relations with the Soviet Union and the birth of the World Initiative for Space, which funded space exploration and invigorated public enthusiasm of national space programs. This culminated in the discovery of sagittarius fields in the late 22nd century and the subsequent colonization of other star systems; in less than 40 years humanity reached planets as far away as 600 light-years and eventually expanded into a 1800 light-year area known as the Settled Systems.

Despite the divergence, some details are consistant with or heavily resemble historical events and milestones in our universe.

## 2,000,000 BCE

* The travellers, an early technologically-advanced race of humanoids, begin colonizing the Milky Way

## 150,000 BCE

* Approximate extinction or "devolution" of the travellers according to the devolution theory
* *Homo sapiens* begin migrating out of Africa

## 1945

* **September 2nd:** End of World War II
* **October 24th:** United Nations begins operations

## 1963

* **November 22nd:** U.S. President John F. Kennedy survives an attempted assassination in Dallas, Texas

## 1969

* **May:** By presidential decree, Apollo 10 carrying Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan lands on Luna before the scheduled Apollo 11; John Young subsequently becomes the first man on the Moon instead of Neil Armstrong

## 1976

* In a deal brokered by former U.S. president JFK, the space agencies of the United States, European Economic Community, Soviet Union and China form the World Initiative for Space, an international spacefaring effort to establish a permanent human colony on the Moon and another on Mars before the end of the 20th century

## 1978

* The World Initiative for Space begins operations, with JFK as its first Director

## 1979

* Space Shuttle *Colombia* begins service

## 1981

* The *Endeavour* space shuttle enters service, carrying cargo between Earth and Luna

## 1982

* Pioneer Station, the first space hotel in low Earth orbit, opens for business

## 1984

* Lovell City is founded on the Moon, becoming humanity's first settlement on a body other than Earth

## 1988

* **Skirmish of '88:** American and Chinese lunar astronauts briefly exchange fire near Albategnius crater

## 1990

* The first primitive sublight engines are invented, halving commute times between Earth and Luna

## 1992

* **October:** Ares III launches for Mars

## 1993 (0 EIC, 0 IMC)

* **May:** Ares III lands on Mars' Acidalia Planitia, establishing both the EIC and IMC calendars; Edward Parkinson becomes the first man on Mars

## 1995 (2 EIC)

* Olympus City, humanity's first permanent extraterrestrial colony, is established by Ares V

## 1998

* Scientists of the World Initiative for Space discover an anomalous black body at the farthest edge of the Sol System; despite its low gravitational pull, the object is able to warp light passing by it. It is agreed that the object's existence be kept secret, including from the government

## 1999

* The top-secret Crusader Program is officially launched with the singular mission of studying Bifrost, the object at the edge of the Sol System
* Frontiers is established by former WIS engineers

## 2002

* The Crusader Program launches *Crusader 1* and *Crusader 2* to study Bifrost; each is equipped with the latest sublight engines to allow an arrival in 45 years time

## 2004

* The *Endeavour* joins a Mars-bound supply convoy

## 2009

* **March 7th:** Launch of the Kepler Space Telescope; the area of space it studies will eventually be termed "Kepler Space"

## 2019

* The Japanese *Kibō* station begins operations; it is the first space station equipped with a von Braun wheel module to generate artificial gravity

## 2022

* Sedna reaches 84 AU (1.26×1010 km) from Sol

## 2023

* Commercial space travel, space tourism and "spaceliners" all become widespread thanks to companies such as Frontiers and Astra Aerospace

## 2024

* **September—December:** First Corporate War begins and ends between Translunar and EMA

## 2026

* The first true artificial intelligence is activated by MetaCorp

## 2028 (35 EIC)

* Frontiers' expedition to the Jovian system lands on the moon Callisto, followed by a landing on Europa three months later

## 2031 (38 EIC)

* A shuttle from Europa lands on Ganymede

## 2033

* NASA's Cronos II arrives in the Saturn system and lands on the surface of Titan

## 2036

* The Republic of Schiaparelli, the first country on another planet, is established on Mars

## 2042

* Declaration of the Earth Directorate and beginning of the Directorate Wars

## 2047

* ***Crusader* Program**
	+ *Crusader 1* and *Crusader 2* arrive at Bifrost and return the first images: a featureless black body surrounded by warped space; *Crusader 1* approaches and immediately disappears without a trace
	+ *Crusader 3* and *4* are approved
* Four more martian countries are established

## 2051

* End of the Directorate Wars; all nationalist governments are subjugated, uniting all national governments into a single entity

## 2059

* Anthropologists declare the inhabitants of Mars, known as aresians, to be physiologically and culturally distinct from Earthers, who are subsequently called "terrans"
* Start of the aresian-terran conflict

## 2060

* The Confederation of Aresian Republics is formed by several aresian separatist groups with the goal of achieving martian independence from Earth

## 2061

* Venera 4 lands on the surface of Venus
* The Earth Directorate declares the C.A.R. to be a terrorist organization

## 2062

* **August 6th:** Fleet Day Attack
	+ A unit of C.A.R. bombers attack various Fleet Day parades across Earth
	+ The Earth Directorate declares war on the C.A.R.; the Earth-controlled martian government follows suit

## 2064

* The Hermes IV mission lands on the surface of Mercury

## 2068

* The United Jupiter Company is founded and purchases a lifetime lease on Jupiter and Callisto

## 2069

* **'69 Martian coup d'etat:** The C.A.R. overthrows the martian government and declares independence from Earth
* To avoid further war, the Earth Directorate and Confederation of Aresian Republics sign the Treaty of Olympus, officially recognising martian sovereignty and forming the Interstellar Collective to ensure humanity's peaceful expansion

## 2070

* The Collective agrees to declare Lovell City its capital

## 2075

* Cronos Incorporated purchases a lifetime lease on the Saturn system, with only Titan remaining under government control
* Nanotechnology becomes commercially available

## 2087

* *Crusader 3* and *4* arrive at Bifrost; they discover that the object is composed entirely of an unknown material that warps spacetime to a massive degree

## 2089

* The United Jupiter Company is acquired by Cronos Incorporated

## 2097

* **Late:** The arms industry is nationalised by the Collective
	+ At some point past this date, the German company Heckler & Koch is rebranded simply as "Heckler"

## 2130

* Astronauts of the United Jupiter Company land on the surface of Sedna and subsequently establish Sedna Salvage & Shipping

## 2176

* Cameron Hammond and Zhōu Mǐn are assigned to lead research on Bifrost's composition; they name the warped areas of space "sagittarius fields"

## 2183

* Second Corporate War begins between rival GMO corps Roh BioCorp and Petrochem

## 2188

* Second Corporate War ends with Petrochem's victory

## 2189

* Aged just 15, David Sinclair starts AmpMind; his company's A.I.s are leagues above MetaCorp's

## 2191

* **May:** Physicists Cameron Hammond and Zhōu Mǐn use antimatter and a kugelblitz to reproduce the material isolated from Bifrost; they name it "Hammond-Zhōu Quintessence", or HZQ. Further experiments reveal that warped areas of space created by HZQ could effectively allow for FTL travel
* **October:** The discovery of HZQ and sagittarius fields is publically announced
* David Sinclair starts Sinclair Space, dedicated to building new thrusters and engines capable of utilizing sagittarius fields

## 2192

* Anvil Engineering and Frontiers both begin research into an engine capable of using sagittarius fields; they independently create the first roemer drives
* 7.77mm ammunition is invented

## 2193

* Cameron Hammond starts Hammond Robotics
* David Sinclair is blinded by an autoimmune disease

## 2194

* Frontiers tests the first experimental roemer drive on the X-50; pilot Warren Caine becomes the first human to travel faster-than-light on a test flight between Earth and Mars, a journey of approximately three minutes reaching a top speed of 303,093,000 m/s

## 2196

* Frontier's FTL spacecraft *Endeavor I* crosses the 180,000 AU Oort Cloud at the edge of the Sol System, becoming the first manned spacecraft to leave the Sun's region of gravity

## 2197

* Biosignatures are detected on Ross 128 b, indicating that the planet is home to complex multicellular life

## 2198

* Frontiers' Starshot Initiative lands a manned shuttle, *Endeavor II*, on the surface of Proxima Centauri b, officially designating the planet Centaurus. It is the first human landing on an extrasolar world

## 2202

* Start of the Great Migration into interstellar space
	+ Luyten b is settled by terran colonists and renamed Asgard
	+ Ross 128 b is settled by terran colonists and renamed Magellan
	+ Teegarden's Star b is settled by terran colonists and renamed Teegarden
* Colonised space is divided into two regions - the Home Systems and Kepler Space - collectively referred to as the Settled Systems

## 2204

* The city of Trinidad on Magellan is founded as the first extrasolar city

## 2206

* The foundations of Arcadia are laid
* Collective Mandate 404 is passed, outlawing heavy weapons systems on civilian ships

## 2209

* Antimatter production becomes commercially available thanks in part to the negative-mass properties of sagittarius fields
* The population of the colonies reaches 1 billion

## 2210

* Harriot and its moon Cassini are settled by aresian colonists
* Axion Energy is founded by the merger of several energy corporations

## 2214

* Sinclair Space and Anvil Engineering publically announce the second generation of roemer drives, with a maximum range of 250 light-years

## 2215

* Gliese 832 c is settled by aresian colonists and renamed Gagarin
* Interstellar News Service is founded on Arcadia

## 2222

* Aresian explorers reach and settle Harmony, formerly TRAPPIST-1e; a colony is built on the terminator line due to the planet being tidally locked

## 2226

* Invention of the stargate, simplifying interplanetary travel for larger spacecraft

## 2229

* The population of the colonies reaches 3 billion

## 2231

* Aresian colonists land on Kepler-22b, renaming it Schwarzschild; it is the most distant planet yet settled by humanity

## 2232

* Arcadia is officially designated a "supercity"
* **'32 General Election:** The Scientism Party wins a majority in the Collective parliment, becoming the governing party for the first time

## 2233

* NovaCola Corporation is founded; its star product, NovaCola, quickly becomes the most popular soft drink in the colonies
* **June:** The Battle of Schwarzschild
	+ The original aresian settlers of Schwarzschild, with help from Solomon Jayne and reinforcements from Harmony, forcibly take back the planet, resulting in hundreds of terran deaths

## 2235

* Antimatter production is boosted by the invention of stronger magnetic containers
* **April 11:** Harmony, Schwarzschild and Gagarin sign the Free Republic Charter, forming the Herschel Nations
* **April 18th:** Interstellar Collective collapses
	+ Mars and Cassini sign the Charter, effectively dissolving the Collective parliment
	+ The Earth-loyal colonies are officially form the United Colonies
* **April 20th:** In response to DFFR mobilisation, the United Colonies declares war on the Herschel Nations, marking the start of the Herschel Wars

## 2236

* **Sol Theatre:** Open warfare breaks out in the Sol System over control of the outer planets and the asteroid belt

## 2239

* DFFR scientists develop black rock, jumping their stealth technology decades beyond that of the United Colonies
* The helium war begins as both warring factions begin running low on helium-3

## 2240

* **February 12th:** The Camp Constantine Summit aimed at settling a peace between the U.C. and H.N. fails, resulting in the Herschel Nations formally declaring war on the United Colonies

## 2241

* The Spacers Legion is founded by an alliance of spacer clans originally assigned to fight each other in the helium war
* The Herschel Nations perform the first detonation of an antimatter weapon

## 2242

* **June:** U.C. fleets fail to occupy the Procyon system
* **July:** Battle of Asgard
	+ DFFR forces invade and attack the U.C. colony Asgard but withdraw on the edge of victory; the U.C.'s pyrrhic victory puts their diplomats on the back foot, forcing them to negotiate with the Herschel Nations
* **'42 Emergency Snap Election:** The U.C. General Assembly passes a vote of no confidence in the governing Scientism Party; the Union & Democracy Party wins an emergency election
* **July-August:** Operation Nature's Course
	+ A thirty-strong U.C. Special Forces squad ambushes and assassinates DFFR leader Solomon Jayne, albeit with the death of the entire squad
* **September:** The Trinity Accords are signed, finally bringing an end to the Herschel Wars
	+ The United Colonies formally recognise the Herschel Nations
	+ The Confederation Act allows any neutral colony to join the Herschel Nations, on the condition that all systems within 4 light-years of that colony remain neutral
		- The Transport Union is founded to enforce the neutrality detailed in the Confederation Act
	+ The Sol System is declared a neutral zone
	+ All research and development of antimatter weapons is outlawed
	+ Embassies are to be established, thus opening diplomatic relations
* The Herschel Nations Sovereignty Patrol is founded to protect the H.N.'s claimed borders
* A handful of pirate clans are refused entry into the Spacers Legion
	+ These clans call a parlay on Clan Heim's home station Libertalia and formally form the pirate fleet known as Twin Moon

* Interstellar News Service becomes part of United Media Group

## 2243

* The Herschel Nations calls its first Moot and elects its first Sky Marshals and First Marshal
* Laran becomes the sole legal megacorporation in the Herschel Nations

## 2245

* The United Colonies and Herschel Nations open their respective embassies

## 2247

* **'47 General Election:** The Union & Democracy Party retains its majority in the U.C. General Assembly

## 2255

* Heckler ends their production of the GM12 ballistic pulse rifle

## 2259

* **'59 Moot Elections:** The first democratic elections are held in the Herschel Nations; the ruling Aegis Party wins all but two seats

## 2265

* The Vanguard private military company is founded

## 2270

* The Sentinel military academy is founded

## 2289

* Third Corporate War begins between Petrochem and Liberty Arms

## 2293

* Third Corporate War ends, with Petrochem and Liberty Arms being purchased by Axion Energy and Exo Group respectively

## 2302

* Von Braun Construction begins construction of the *Fortune* and *Event Horizon* ringworlds

## 2305

* The NovaCola biochemistry department accidentally creates a new psychedelic, aurora; the recipe quickly spreads throughout the stars, and numerous versions are created

## 2308

* The gauss sail is invented, allowing for the mining of magnetic fields

## 2312

* **May 19th:** Grissom Disaster
	+ The MV *Armstrong's Footstep*, a superfreighter carrying antimatter, suffers a roemer drive malfunction after entering the Grissom system and explodes; its antimatter cargo is annihilated
	+ Catalysed by the antimatter shockwave, the destroyed roemer drive warps the entire system, killing everyone in the colony; it is the deadliest accident in human history
	+ The Grissom system is permanently blockaded
* Both the United Colonies and Herschel Nations mandate that starships must enter and exit their systems at least 0.5 AU (74,798,935 km) away from the outermost planet as a result of the Grissom disaster

## 2314

* The Sol waypoint, 0.5 AU from Neptune, finishes construction, becoming the first waypoint mandated by the intergovernmental Grissom safety acts

## 2315

* Fourth Corporate War begins between Zetatech and Suen Technologies

## 2316

* Zetatech is acquired by Cronos Incorporated in the midst of the Fourth Corporate War

## 2318

* The first cases of the Denver plague appear in the bridge systems and quickly spread into Kepler Space; it is the most virulent pathogen ever discovered

## 2319

* The Fourth Corporate War abruptly ends with the collapse of Suen Technologies
* The death toll of the Denver Plague reaches 30 million

## 2326

* John Mazov publishes his "Materialist manifesto", birthing the revolutionary ideology known as Mazovism

## 2337

* The Battle of Cheyenne results in Communard victory, making Cheyenne the only planet to fall to Mazovist forces during the revolutions

## 2343

* The Herschel Nations Moot decides to annex the neutral Caspian system, forcing its inhabitants to petition the U.C. for aid; a U.C. flotilla is dispatched to the system despite formal H.N. protest

## 2344

* The Herschel Nations declares war on the U.C. over the status of the Caspian system, triggering the Caspian War

## 2347

* The first use of artificial intelligence in warfare is recorded as the U.C. SPACECOM sabotages DFFR comms with self-aware programs

## 2351

* **Caspian War**
	+ Battle of Hyrcania
		- The DFFR launches an attack on the innermost planet Hyrcania and seizes it from U.C. corporate ally Anvil
		- The U.C.-Anvil counterattack is smashed, followed by the proclamation of the Free Republic of Caspian
	+ The death toll of the Caspian War surpasses 6 million
* Vaccine rollout for the Denver Plague is finally completed, bringing an end to the pandemic with close to a 750 million people dead

## 2353

* The Treaty of Hyrcania is signed by the U.C. and H.N. to end the Caspian War; the treaty recognises H.N. rule over the system but severely restricts further aresian expansion into frontier systems

## 2361

* House Izar declares its autonomy via the Izar Proclamation, establishing the planets of the Boötes constellation as an executive territory

## 2379

* *Event Horizon* is abandoned by Von Braun Construction, leaving its inhabitants to finish the station

## 2380

* The final Communard cell surrenders to the U.C., closing the armed conflict period of the Mazovist revolutions

## 2384

* The Dolorian Church is recognised by the United Colonies, bringing an end to the Mazovist revolutions

## 2387

* The Station-State of *Event Horizon* is proclaimed with electrician Nick Edwards as Chief

## 2392

* The Dolorian Republic is founded on Asgard

## 2402

* NetCrush initiates the Crash, the largest cyberattack in history
	+ The aethernet is rendered almost inoperable as petabytes of information leak into cyberspace
	+ NetCrush's program rewrites millions of A.I.s and grants them self-awareness
		- Despite several attempts, the A.I.s ignore recovery programs and escape into cyberspace, becoming rogue A.I.s
	+ The galactic communications network shuts down, isolating hundreds of colonies
	+ Twin Moon conducts hundreds of simultaneous raids as planetary and station defence systems shut down; it is later dubbed the "Long Night"

## 2403

* Unable to use A.I. for crucial roles due to the Crash, the galaxy's governments authorize the creation of the quantums, humans augmentated to think as quickly and as accurately as an artificial intelligence or quantum computer

## 2404

* The mining planet Jeddah is destroyed by House Izar to harvest its core; among the few survivors is Josia Price, rescued by a Clan Trace raiding party
	+ Josia Price is inducted into Clan Trace via a sponsorship from Saw Trace himself

## 2419

* Saw Trace is elected as the eleventh Pirate King of Twin Moon
	+ Clan Trace is erased and replaced by Clan Venture
* Salen Dune is born to the mistress of Cornelius Izar

## 2420

* Josia Price splits from Clan Venture to form Clan Price on the *King Trace's Revenge*

## 2423

* Saw Trace is killed by U.C. military police; fearful of new blood, a cabal of pirate captains led by Herrik Venture conspire to frame Josia Price, have him arrested and thrown into Takhar Prison on Venus
* **'23 Takhar Escape Attempt:** Price and several hundred inmates attempt an escape from Takhar Prison; Price is the only one to make it out alive, albeit with severe acid burns
* Price returns to Libertalia and exposes the captains that acted against him, unanimously winning election as Pirate King, the youngest in Twin Moon's history

## 2430

* **War of Thunder:** a coalition of pirate clans led by Herrik Venture attempts a mutiny against King Josia Price

## 2431

* The Hanseatic League splits from the Spacers Legion and promptly begins planning an attack against the United Colonies

## 2435 (465 EIC)

* **March:** The Hanza Republic is proclaimed between Laconia, Sparta and several space stations
* **April:** A Herschel Nations antimatter research station is raided by the Hanseatic League, who steal an experimental antimatter bomb

* **May: The Lesson**
	+ The Hanseatic League detonates a stolen antimatter bomb on the surface of Luna, breaking apart its surface and devastating Earth; lunar asteroid impacts and the sudden reduction in tidal forces cause sea levels to rise by 70 metres, completely drowning most coastal areas of the world
	+ Most of the southern United States is drowned by flooding, forming Tranquility Bay
	+ Inland seas form across Earth from the massive flooding
* **May 6th:** In response to the Lesson, the United Colonies declares war on the Hanseatic League and the Hanza Republic, beginning the Great Galactic War

## 2436

* Chancellor Xander Comstock ascends to the Secretary-Generalship
* **Attack on *Norfolk*:** To deter Herschel Nations involvement in the Great Galactic War, the Hanseatic League launches an assault on the military station *Norfolk*; thanks to "faulty intelligence", the attack arrives during a family weekend and kills hundreds of innocents, including children
* **Kepler Campaign:** United Hanza Fleet begins a full-scale invasion of Kepler Space

## 2437

* **Kepler Campaign**
	+ United Hanza Fleet commences Operation Strangehold
		- A fleet under the command of the UHFS *Augusta M. Sutton* leads an invasion of the Kepler 22 system
		- Both divisions of the fleet are caught in a surprise attack from DFFR forces, forcing a full retreat before Hanza ships reach Schwarzschild
	+ The League commences Operation Platinum Shard
		- United Hanza Fleet occupies Vanderburg for six weeks before its liberation

## 2438

* Twin Moon rejects the Hanza's call to take up arms against the Alliance
	+ Salen Dune conducts a state visit to Libertalia and brokers neutrality with Pirate King Josia Price
* James Goode is born to Kirk Goode and his wife

## 2439

* **Triton Conference:** Representatives of SPACECOM and the DFFR sign the Interstellar Charter of Common Aggression, colloquially known as the "Common Enemy Pact", forming the Stellar Alliance against the Hanza Republic

## 2440

* Space station *Event Horizon* joins the Spacers Legion
* Kirk Goode is killed in action; shortly after, pirates kidnap his wife and young son

## 2441

* **Second Lesson:** An attempted antimatter bombing of the U.C. world Magellan by the Hanseatic League is thwarted by officers of the Magellen Defensive Corps
* The Nemesis Group lays the foundations of the Free City of Nemesis
* Kirk Goode's wife and son are rescued by a U.C. police squad; his wife is killed and his son adopted by officer Pliskin

## 2442

* Sky Marshal Marcia Jade succeeds Shevic Reeves as High Marshal of the Herschel Nations

## 2443

* A collective of corporations declares the Free Economic Zone
* **January:** The Hanza Republic begins the Home Systems campaign, a military theatre seeking to seize humanity's core systems
* **June:** The Battle of Earth begins
	+ A Hanza strike force led by the *Olympus Mons* destroys the Combined Fleet of the Outer Planets around Saturn, leaving just 20 ships remaining under the command of Lieutenant Damon Snow
	+ Snow's fleet regroups with the Earth Defence Fleet, forming the Shield of Sol
	+ The Shield and the Hanza fleet engage in a battle of attrition in Earth's orbit
	+ Thanks to the aid of Josia Price and the *Ivan the Terrible*, the *Mons* is lured into the ring of lunar debris around Earth
	+ The *Mons* is destroyed in a pincer movement and antimatter explosion
	+ Beginning of the liberation of the Home Systems
* For their actions against them during the Battle of Earth, the Hanza declares war on Twin Moon; the conflict becomes known as Price's War

## 2444

* **Price's War:** Attack on UHFS *Galaxius*
	+ Twin Moon raiders led by Josia Price assault Salen Dune's personal warship *Galaxius*
	+ Price and Dune engage in a duel that ends in Price's victory; preferring that Dune live to see his inevitable failure, Price walks away
* **Great Parlay of '44:** Secretary-General Xander Comstock and High Marshal Marcia Jade meet with Josia Price on *Event Horizon*; amnesty is given to all Twin Moon members in exchange for the pirate fleet's aid against the Hanza
* **Liberation of Thermopylae:** A two-month Alliance campaign invades and liberates Thermopylae, reducing the Hanza Republic to just two planets

## 2445

* Operation Broadsword commences
	+ **October 16th:** The Alliance fleet enters Hanza space
	+ **October 16th—31st**: Operation Hammer of Justice
		- Laconia is destroyed by an antimatter bomb
		- Werewolf assassins execute Salen Dune
	+ **October 16th—November 21st:** Operation Terra's Revenge
		- Sparta falls to the Alliance
* The Hanza Republic collapses, finally bringing an end to the Great Galactic War

## 2446

* A baby boom occurs throughout the Settled Systems as soldiers return home
* **'46 General Election:** Snap elections are held in the General Assembly; the U.C. officially becomes a three-party government as the new Constellation Party wins just under a third of seats to become the new opposition

## 2447

* **Insurrection**
	+ Four outlying planets of the United Colonies attempt to declare independence

## 2455

* Josia Price, Twin Moon's longest-reigning Pirate King, dies of natural causes

## 2464

* Fifth Corporate War begins between the Free Economic Zone and rebellious member Sedna

## 2469

* Gallowglass perform their first gig
* Forbidden FM begins broadcasting in Nemesis City

## 2470

* The antiproton reactor of the UCS *Archduke* malfunctions just as the ship enters the orbit of an uncharted planet, destroying the frigate and leaving only one crew member alive, cartographer John Pliskin, who crash lands on the planet's surface; after 55 days, he is rescued by a Sovereignty Patrol vessel led by Harley Burton
* During a televised awards ceremony, John Pliskin rejects his medal and accuses SPACECOM of covering up the *Archduke*'s destruction; Pliskin subsequently changes his name to his birth name, James Goode, and resigns from SPACECOM.
* James Goode and Cole Miller found the *Disco Volante* prospecting company
* Supporters of Paradox and Forbidden FM launch the Good Fight, a protest movement seeking to expose the Nemesis Group

## 2471

* DFFR soldiers are dispatched to quell a rebellious colony, triggering the Mechanist War

## 2473

* Disgraced SPACECOM Marine Corps lieutenant Rick Goodspeed saves nearly 100 colonists during a Twin Moon raid on a distant world; he receives the Medal of Valor for his actions

## 2474

* Paradox recruits Adam Belladonna into the Good Fight

## 2475

* The events of *Ad Astra: To The Stars* begin
	+ Myra Beach joins *Disco Volante*
	+ *Disco Volante* captures four Eclipse lieutenants
	+ *Disco Volante* rescues and recruits Dustcorp analyst Tennyson
	+ James Goode accepts a contract by Free Economic Zone chairman Adam Rockwell to find his daughter Felecia, a leader of the Workers Union
	+ *Disco Volante* thwarts an Ascendency plot to unleash a modified Denver plague on Asgard
	+ *Disco Volante* aids a pact of homesteaders in thwarting a pirate invasion of their land
* **August:** Commander Rick Goodspeed is selected to captain the UCS *Voyager* on its exploratory mission in Messier 23
* **September:** The events of *Voyager* begin
	+ The UCS *Voyager* launches from *Jamestown* station to begin its five-year mission
	+ The *Voyager* arrives at Grissom III and commences colonisation

## 2477

* Leading quantum analytics predict, with 75% confidence, that a second galaxy-wide war will occur by this year