Timeline

## 2021

* November 25 — On the night of Thanksgiving Day in the United States, NASA and ESA astronomers detect a gargantuan coronal mass ejection from the Sun on a direct collision course to Earth. Estimated to have a power equivalent or higher than the Carrington Event of 1859, it is calculated to hit the Earth in three to four days - that being the night of November 29th.
	+ The United Nations hosts an emergency session with all member countries in attendance. All current major conflicts such as those in Ukraine become paralyzed while resource conflicts such as those in Africa intensify.
	+ Emergency orders are issued by all national governments to their citizens in preparation of readiness against the newly christened incoming Nicholls Event. Mass hysteria and paranoia explode over the globe, leading to riots and surging evacuation routes away from cities. Countless injuries and deaths spread as a result of a mixture of rioting, accidents, and deliberate killings for resource hoarding.
* November 26 — All bank accounts are frozen in multiple major national and international banks as millions attempt to empty their accounts through any means necessary. Robbery and theft become the most prevalent crimes on Earth within a day.
	+ All gasoline, diesel, and other fuel reserves rapidly deplete as civilians resort to hoarding or forceful acquisition. Third world countries face imminent economic and social catastrophe through a global financial collapse and threat of famine from the collapse of food supply chains.
	+ Nuclear power plants across the world rush shutdown procedures in the risk of running fuel rods hot without power or electronic control of cooling systems.
* November 27 — The global transport system is paralyzed. All non-essential flights have been grounded. Most countries at this point have declared martial law, ranging from superpowers such as the United States and China to the rest of the member states of the UN.
	+ Millions are still attempting to escape urban areas and their chaos into more rural territories; in places such as America, this results in an immediate retaliation by local militias conserving basic supplies and logistics. The order of law has collapsed.
* **November 28** — The **Nicholls Event** occurs.
	+ The Nicholls CME strikes the Earth, causing a geomagnetic storm the likes of which having never been seen for over a century, and never in an age of technological proliferation. All power grids and communications systems are destroyed, and millions of vehicles are rendered inoperable due to their reliance on electronics.
	+ Basic rule of law and government collapses across the Earth. In the United States, local and state governments disintegrate overnight, with the federal government having retreated their assets to secure locations and essentially leaving a bulk of the American population defenseless against themselves.
	+ The beginning of Earth's Kessler Syndrome entombment begins with the rapid destruction of orbital satellites and their subsequent fragmentation.
	+ Urban society is essentially destroyed. Massive infighting over food, water, and shelter lead to hundreds of thousands of casualties in the first world for the past day alone.

## 2023

* February — The **Anthropocene Impactor** collides with the Earth in the Pacific Ocean.

## 2035

* July 3 — Saul Marquez and Josiah Harrison announce on the platform of the old California State Capitol in Sacramento the end of the dictatorship over the city and the creation of the "*Senate and People of Sacramento*"; the **Sacramentan Republic** is born.

## 2161

* January 2 — The Battle of San Francisco begins between the Sacramentan Empire and the Republic of the Bay and Silicon Valley.