Timeline

### T-150y

Humanity unites into a post-national, post-capitalist world order. Large amounts of resources are invested into long-term scientific projects and space exploration not commercially viable under capitalist production, leading to the invention of interstellar travel and the colonization of space to meet mounting resource demands of a growing population.

### T-140y

During interstellar exploration, humanity encounters unknown spacecraft of seemingly alien construction. Attempts at contact are unsuccessful and encountered vessels are behaving erratically at first and increasingly aggressive.

Public opinion on how to deal with the matter ranges from people embracing all sentient life, advocating all attempts be made to establish contact to those preaching caution and advocating preparation for conflict. While attempts at contact continue to be made, none such efforts ever succeed. As perceived hostility/aggression of encounters increases, vessels operating near the frontier start running armed, though a formal policy of non-aggression is maintained.

### T-130y

Armed alien vessels sporting basic weaponry on a comparable level start appearing. Various engagements and skirmishes ensue, causes and instigators being largely unknown. Skirmishes usually end with one side or the other retreating from the contested system.

### T-120y

As skirmishes increase in intensity, dedicated warships are constructed and doctrine of space battle developed. A standing military is declared and tasked with defending human colonized space.

Eventually, a large alien fleet is spotted moving towards a settled human colony but successfully intercepted and repelled by a defending fleet.

A post-invasion panic ensues and prompts renewed discussion of the aliens, this time focusing around the presumed existential threat posed to humanity by these aliens. A wave of xenophobia sweeps across the frontier worlds. Military spending is increased and ground forces formed in addition to the space fleet.

### T-100y

The planet AoA is set on is surveyed and deemed suitable for colonization. A large alien biosphere is present and deemed a hindrance to human habitation due to the large amount of aggressive megafauna. The decision is made to conduct terraforming and eradication efforts, conservationist voices are silenced amidst a general mood of xenophobia.

Preparations begin for terraforming and colonization.

### T-80y

The planet is settled and an initial settlement established. Terraforming efforts are established and an experimental advanced multi-purpose AI assigned to assist colonial administration. A military detachment is stationed and assigned to assist in the eradication efforts.

### T-10y

The colony is well-established and continuing to grow. City centers have become hubs of economic and scientific activity. A group of transhumanist researchers working in conjunction with the AI develop a method for “digitizing” the human brain, transferring consciousness to an artificial vessel.

As the discovery is announced it sparks significant public debate. Transhumanist factions demand its immediate implementation, touting it as the next step of human evolution while naturalists oppose them on a variety of philosophical/ethical grounds.

### T-7y

As preparations for digitization continue, tensions mount. Public discourse is dominated by a singular subject. Colony-wide demonstrations escalate into riots. Peacekeeping forces, unable to contain them, call on the military for help.

Despite the pressure, the project is pursued and initial batches of volunteers successfully processed, prompting renewed rioting. Automated gun drones employed by the military and controlled by the central AI break formation and start gunning down rioters. Military personnel use force of arms to destroy the rogue drones. Shortly after, a colony-wide rebellion of automated UGVs, UAVs and other automated defense systems ensues.

Automated orbital defenses engage orbiting vessels and impose a planetary blockade.

Military response is frantic and hampered due to the AI’s deep integration with their C3 systems. Unable to effectively stop the rampaging drones, both civilian and military casualties mount. As the civilian government collapses, military command declares martial law and assumes authority.

Economic collapse ensues from the chaos, as well as AI-managed automated factories ceasing production.

### T-4y

After the initial chaos, a reformed military manages to put up a successful resistance, forcing AI forces to prioritize them over the civilian population. While initial AI forces consisted mostly of rogue military drones, the AI is increasingly fielding original designs, produced by repurposed auto-factories.

As fighting concentrates around city centers, destruction is widespread. Surviving civilian populations are largely displaced and struggle to survive.

Eventually, military forces mass their remaining forces for a decisive attack on the fortified command bunker housing the AI’s processing units. The assault ends in a pyrrhic victory. Remaining military forces are depleted, barely organized and unable to conduct large scale operations. The AI survives but is severely crippled in the assault, rendering it largely unable to conduct operations as well, causing many of its drones to switch to autonomous behavior.

### T-2y

The civilian population has largely degraded into scavengers and raiders, forming various post-apocalyptic factions. While the dying down of the military conflict has led to some increase in scavenging activity inside the city centers, they remain highly dangerous places as mechanoid units continue to patrol on “last orders given” routines.

Military remnants have retreated to remaining strongpoints and continue to claim authority, though actual control is limited to areas immediately around their bases. Some commanders remain dedicated to their mission and continue to deploy combat patrols against mechanoids and raiders.

### T-0y

The player’s group of survivors is violently displaced from their previous location. They gather what resources they can before being overrun and escape into the woods.

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