Earth (Elves, Dwarves, Humans, Orcs, Halfling, Half Elf, Gnomes, Half Orcs, Kenku

# Overview

**Planet Name:** Earth

**Native Races:** Dwarves, Elves, Gnomes, Half-Elves, Halflings, Half-Orcs, Humans, Kenku

**Capitols:**

African Union - New Cairo

Eurasian Federation - Paris

Lunar Corporate Imperium - Armstrong City

**Environmental Landscape:** Partially ravaged from the environmental disasters of the 20th to 24th centuries, much of the Americas and Australia are still recovering while efforts have been more successful in Europe, Asia, and Africa.

**Political Landscape:** The Eurasian Federation allows for loosely independent control of local governments, but is somewhat contradictory in name as much of the Federation answers to the an overseeing intra system council of various planetary governments in exchange for long time aid as outlined in the Terran Recovery act of the early 25th century. The African Union, a Democratic Republic is less amicable to the Terran Recovery Council, but still abides within its rulings, if only to avoid risking intra system sanctions. The newly renamed Lunar Corporate Imperium, founded upon the ashes of the old Atlesian Aristocracy, is all but openly hostile to the act, and actively works to abolish it, and establish a new agreement far more favorable to their Mega-corporate interests.

**Leader(s):**

Aleksandra Kowalczyk - Prime Minister of the Eurasian Federation

Akande Okusanya - President of the African Union

Iris Swanson - CEO of the Lunar Corporate Imperium

**Culture:** The cultures of Earth are as varied as ever and carry links to a number of civilizations. Both the Eurasian Federation and African Union value diversity, freedom, and independent opportunity, while the largest divides remain in the European Federation’s Socialist Economic Tendencies as opposed to the African Union’s more Capitalistic ones. Life under the 5th Terran Recovery Act means that environmental protections are paramount. Carbon emissions are closely monitored and Carbon Credits, which allow for producing a regulated amount of carbon emissions, are often more valued than even Primes. While Poverty remains an issue, it is perhaps the worst for those souls caught in the clutches of the lowest rungs of the Lunar Corporate Imperium’s legacy as the former Atlesian Aristocracy. Mega Corporate interests drive nearly every aspect of life in the Imperium, everything has a price, and while there appears to be a vast diversity of purchasing choices, in reality as most brands are controlled by the same few mega corporations, there are actually staggeringly few options to choose between.

**Demography & Population**:

Earth’s populations remain diverse with humans edging out other races in numbers and Kenku existing as the least percentage populous. Approximately 3.5 billion people inhabit the Earth, a majority of them in Europe, Asia, and Africa with a number of marine colonies and a vast landscape of industrial and biospheres spanning Luna.

**Foreign Relations:** While the Eurasian Federation and the African Union remain on amicable terms with most planetary governments, they are viewed as relatively toothless due to the restrictions of the Terran Recovery Act. The Lunar Corporate Imperium maintains a troubled reputation with other governments, though its vast mega corporate influence is yet greedily accepted all the same, creating a seemingly contradictory dichotomy that allows the government to yet thrive in foreign relations through its corporate interests.

**Military:** The Eurasian Federation and African Union maintain only a symbolic defense force with an option to enlist more in the case of an authorized wartime situation under the Terran Recovery Act. The Lunar Corporate Imperium bypasses the Terran Recovery Act through its Mega Corporations’ use of large scale private security groups that exist entirely outside of the government itself under the law, but are very widely known to be overseen by the Imperium for the time being.

**Religion:**

Religion is just as varied as the Earth’s peoples, and any number of beliefs can be found amongst them, varying from ancient earth religions, to new unions of old beliefs, and a number of environmentally oriented neo-shamanistic beliefs that center around revitalizing the Earth’s Environment, often involving a figure referred to as ‘Mother Nature’.

**Agriculture & Industry:** Much of Earth’s agriculture comes in the form of regulated farms using advanced technology that is considerably more environmentally conscientious than the practices of the 20th to 24th centuries. Farming is considered a trade which requires a higher degree in agricultural sciences and is often pursued. The Earth’s industrial power is rooted in planetary and lunar districts which employ the use of advanced robotic factories, drone based mining, and vast oceanic green facilities, existing as sources of self-sustaining green power.

**Trade & Transport:** Much of Earth’s modern cities sport state of the art environmentally conscientious mass transit models and a variety of launch facilities are available for planetary departure. While both the Eurasian Federation and African Union maintain healthy trade with other governments, the Lunar Corporate Imperium’s Mega Corporate ties position it as a crucial aspect to most intra system planetary economies, despite the begrudging requirement to deal with the Imperium. This has garnered a fair amount of animosity toward the Imperium and at any time, there are almost always a number of lawsuits filed against these corporations.

**Infrastructure:**

Though much of the traces of Earth’s historical infrastructure remains, much of Earth’s current infrastructure consists of environmentally conscious structures and transportation conduits. A building’s ability to be self-sustaining is just as important as its structural integrity, and as such, a number of technological innovations have been included in design to solve for power needs without producing carbon emissions.

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# Nations of Earth

## African Union

Founded in the aftermath of the Great Juno Catastrophe of 2208, the African Union is a Democratic Republic that spans the African continent, and portions of the middle east. After the catastrophe ravaged a significant portion of the Americas, The Union played a pivotal role in accepting Elvish refugees at a time that saw the European powers taking a significantly more closed off approach. This has led to a diverse population of peoples in the nation, including a significant portion of Half-Orcs and Elves with a lower population of Humans, Halflings, Gnomes, and other races.

The people of the African Union are both industrious and resourceful and their collective cultural heritages span any number of diverse peoples. Economically speaking, there is widespread opportunity for those with the means and the connections to make a success of oneself, though for those without, life can be hard and work weeks are often long and toiling. The African Union inherited the Elvish global entertainment industry and as such, their influence is particularly strong.

### New Cairo

The teeming capital of the African Union, New Cairo was founded in the wake of the Juno Catastrophe by the combined efforts of a number of peoples. Though its roots are built upon the ancient foundations of its namesake, New Cairo proper exists today as a modern marvel, with spiring towers, grand sporting complexes, state of the art transport systems, and a diverse and thriving restaurant and entertainment industry, all while remaining environmentally conscientious under the Terran Recovery Act. Easily the most recognizable monument in New Cairo is **the Great Pyramids of Giza.** These ancient structures exist as perhaps one of the most significant icons of Terran culture and are overlooked by New Cairo’s **TerranCo** branded **Omari Tower**, the city’s center of trade.

While the city itself exists today as one of Earth’s pinnacles of architectural and cultural triumph, it is not without its own dark past. Despite numerous efforts by local authorities, a thriving underworld of crime yet exists in the recesses between the intricate societal webs that have been spun throughout the city. This elaborate machine of illegal activity exists in a combination of physical and virtual space in a way that makes differentiating red herring alerts from genuine threats exceedingly difficult. Even more, the threat of this underworld is typically significantly separated from the world of petty crime, thriving instead in white collar and other related spaces. To a visitor, they may not even know it actually exists, but to those attempting to conduct business, or to pass information within the city’s limits, even practicing the utmost caution is often not enough to stop this thriving world of espionage.

## Eurasian Federation

While the Eurasian Federation is only one of many historical attempts at unifying the European and Asian peoples, it is the most historically successful one to date. This unique coalition of nations owes much of its stability to lessons learned from early attempts dating all the way back to the failed European Union to the more recent successes of the African Union. In function, none of the nations holds any actual ruling power of the others, but instead a central council of representatives from each government is overseen by an elected Prime Minister oversees national affairs, while much of member nations’ affairs are yet controlled by local governments. While this does create some level of need for national oversight over local matters in certain cases, the relative independence of each nation has fostered a system of government where smaller nations gain the benefits of being a part of a much larger unified system, while having the freedom and relative sovereignty of being a smaller government.

The people of the Eurasian Federation are vastly varied, having a higher mix of Humans and Half-Orcs than other populations, though not by significant margins. Culturally speaking, it is an intermixed blend of many historical cultures. This diversity, while not always universally respected, is celebrated by the people at large. Economically speaking, it is far easier on average for a citizen to get by in the Federation than it is in the African Union, but on the other hand, opportunities for significant earning of wealth fall off greatly after a certain point, due to socialist policies. This has led to a decrease in corporate influence and a mixed political environment. While capitalist sentiment does exist, it is highly distrusted due to the tight link with Mega Corporate influence, and in turn, to the former Atlesian Aristocracy, now known as the Lunar Corporate Imperium.

### Paris-New London Megalopolis

In the year 2365, an automated construction team completed work on a series of artificial constructs over the English channel that officially connected the cities of Paris and New London. Since then, this massive nation-state of historical proportions has stood as a bright beacon of civilization at a time where Terran power has been uncertain at best due to recovery from the massive Environmental mishandling of the 20th, 21st, and 22nd centuries. While many of the sights of old yet still exist several were lost in the third world war, and others were significantly defaced. Eurasian Federation citizens that live in the Paris-New London Megalopolis are fiercely proud of their heritage, and it is not overly uncommon for them to refer to other citizens from different member nations as outsiders. Still, for every rule amongst a large enough population, there are glaring exceptions. As the people of the city are diverse, so is their treatment of outsiders. Outsiders in the city are not universally shunned, and it yet still exists as perhaps the world’s largest tourism hub.

## Lunar Corporate Imperium

When Atlas station first opened its doors to non-governmental entities upon the opening of module two in 2274, the station’s entire non-governmental capacity was bought up entirely by the world’s wealthiest people. This dominance only increased when in 2314, the entirely of the third module’s space was purchased up by the top percentile of the planet’s wealth in less than a fraction of a second. These events led to a series of scandals and a massive planetside cultural movement against this perceived Atlesian Aristocracy, and while the movement garnered significant popularity, sentiment amongst capitalist parties created a powerful anti-movement which became the workings of what would later be ratified as the Independent nation of Atlas, widely known by other nations as the Atlesian Aristocracy.

With their roots in the Earth’s largest Mega Corporations including Vertisoft, TerranCo, Accent Industries, and Utopian Enterprises, though the government has earned significant widespread distrust, their crushing grip on the Terran economy and to a lesser extent the Terran populated Martian one, has given them a place in these settings as a sort of necessary evil. For nearly a century, the Atlesian Aristocracy was not an actual sovereign entity, though its military power remained significant through the use of massive Private Security Firms, the mercenaries of the modern era. By the time their independence was declared on the backs of hundreds of failed lawsuits against them, they had long since become a Terran household name.

### The Atlesian ‘Civil’ War

While other smaller conflicts have emerged, it was not until quite recently, after the conclusion of the system wide seven month war, that the powder keg that had been building within the corrupt inner-workings of the Plutocratic regime finally exploded into full blown conflict. In 3123, a coalition of Federation, Union, and Atlesian revolutionaries banded together with the aid of a separate coalition of Martians of Terran descent to launch a series of coordinated strikes on Atlesian assets on the station, Luna, Earth, and those scattered across the system. The ensuing conflict emerged at a time where many governments were yet weary of joining another conflict, but also at a time where the Aristocracy was at one of its most historically weak points due to losses incurred in the Seven Month’s war.

The name itself of the conflict can be misleading as little fighting actually occurred on the inside of the station itself, but instead was waged in a series of naval battles, on the moon, on the Earth, and with several other minor conflicts scattered about the system. For a time, it appeared that the Mega Corporate influence of the Aristocracy may yet prove to be unstoppable without significant outside influence, and in a way, it may still be argued that it was. Most experts agree that the turning point in the conflict occurred when other planetary governments began to throw in significant aid to the Revolutionary coalition. With their support, Revolutionary forces were able to outgun and out produce their enemies. In 3130, the Atlesian Aristocracy surrendered Atlas Station to the coalition, though much of what was left of the facility’s former glory had been sabotaged. Even today, mines and other booby-traps can still be found in the stations’ recesses, and as such, certain areas remain off limits.

### Rebirth

Following their defeat in the Atlesian ‘Civil’ War, the Aristocracy reformed under the new banner of the Lunar Corporate Imperium with their capital declared as the prolific Armstrong City: Headquarters to nearly all of their Mega Corporate backers. While a massively controversial move, Mega Corporate influences were able to easily control through finances a significant amount of marketing efforts necessary to garner enough of a positive sentiment that even after such a short time following the war, a good bit of anti-government sentiment has died down. For those who grew up on Luna or other controlled territories, woefully little unbiased news was made available and as such, lopsided pro-national support is not uncommon.

Today, the Lunar Corporate Imperium remains perhaps one of the most dominant forces in the twin system’s overall economy, and their intensely controlled insulated environment in their cities has led to massively divisive sentiment. Their government itself is formed of a CEO which oversees a board of Executives. At any given time, there is always a representative on the board from each of the major corporations that financially back the Imperium the most. Citizens can vote with their ‘wallets’ in purchasing shares of a company, and as such, choose which companies have representatives in power. This illusion of power is pushed upon the masses and is the common target of pro-government sentiment in movies and television shows in particular. Still, it is estimated that even with the collective buying power of all but the top .5% of the population, the buying power of the top .5% would still eclipse the rest by a colossal margin, leading to an actual inability to change anything.

### Armstrong City

Existing as the headquarters for the Lunar Corporate Imperium’s greatest corporate backers, Armstrong city is the pinnacle of Lunar civilization. Technically speaking, the city itself spans across nearly a twentieth of the moon itself and is connected to the series of automated industrial zones that span much of the moon’s surface. As Luna does not have an atmosphere, despite ongoing terraforming efforts, all of Luna’s populated areas are in variations of self-contained habitats, such as biospheres. As a result, any actual expected weather patterns that might exist on other planets, are entirely generated in the more wealthy habitats, while lower income areas have little to no weather at all.

As is life in the Imperium, nearly everything in the City has a price and *everything* is branded in one way or another. Massive Corporate influence is an everyday reality which is vilified by those outside of the government, but inside, it yields any number of luxuries to its citizens, again, for a cost. Most citizens work for one of these corporations, and it is not overly uncommon for these very same employees to owe the company they work for more money than they make in a year. While this may be a mindblowing proposition for those on the outside, on the inside, possessing massive debt is simply a way of life. So long as you pay your minimum due each month, it is commonly agreed upon that you will never encounter a real problem.

While the heavy hand of corporate influence weighs crushingly upon its citizens, life is not universally bad. For those who are capable of filling a need within one of the Imperium’s major entities, there is an *incredible* amount of wealth to be earned. This pot of gold at the end of the rainbow serves as a common driving force to work to get ahead in the hopes of being one of the lucky few. Stories of those who have catapulted their way to fame and fortune are household legends, and every child dreams of what they will do when they become a quintillionaire.

# Appendices

## Alternate Timeline of Events

### 16th - 19th Centuries

1521 - Cortes’ incursion into the Central American Elvish Empire results in staggering defeat

1526 - Babur establishes the Halfling and Gnomish ruled Mughal Empire

1572 - Emperor Wanli leads the Half-Orcish people of China to a period of culture blossoming

1577 - Sir Francis Drake, the halfling explorer is the first to circumnavigate the globe.

1582 - Maestro Gregory XIII introduces the Gregorian calendar by eliminating 10 days from the year 1582

1595 - The Dutch attempt to colonize what they dub as the East Indies but are repelled by the native Kenku

1610 - Galileo Galilei, the Gnomish observer makes a series of startling discoveries using a telescope he devised.

1626 - The Elvish city of New York is founded by a coalition of tribal nations.

1707 - Scottish Half-Elves gain their independence from England after more than a century of fighting

1756-1763 - The Seven Years War, from which Great Britain emerges as the world’s most dominant power

1776 - The Elvish Nations on the Eastern coast of North America declare their formal unification.

1788 - Halfling Captain Arthur Phillip Leads a colonial expedition of explorers, religious practitioners, and tradespeople in the colonization of Australia

1789 - The French Monarchic government enters a new golden age of prosperity thanks to shrewd economic decision making

1798 - Napoleon invades Egypt, is pushed back by a combined alliance of Gnomes, Half-Orcs, and Dwarvish mercenaries.

1821 - The expanding Central and Northern American Elvish nations under a new imperial banner

1837 - Algerian led Half-Orc and Gnomish ambassadors establish formal trade with France

1850 - Taiping Rebellion in China is ended before it officially begins in trial by combat

1856 - Russia claims victory in the Crimean War over the British, Turkish, and Crimean alliance

1860 - Half-Orcs, Gnomes, and Humans unify to create nation of Italy

1861-1865 - The Unified American Elvish Empire falls to what would become the most bloody Civil War in Earth’s history.  The conclusion sees the creation of the Imperial States of America and the Republic of Mexico.

1870-1871 - Franco Prussian diplomatic summit sees the creation of the German Empire

1891 - The Dwarvish led Russian people begin the construction of the trans-siberian railroad.

### 20th Century

1904-1905 - Russo-Japanese War ends in what by modern day terms is considered a stalemate

1914-1918 - The First World War breaks out between the Central Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Russia,  and the Imperial Powers of France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and later, the Imperial States of America.  The War culminates in a victory for the Imperial Powers and the resultantly lopsided treaty of Versailles.

1939 - 1945 - The Second World War breaks out between the Imperial Powers of France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire, the Imperial States and the Norwegian Emirate against the Allied Nations of Germany, Russia, Japan,China, Australia, and later on, the Republic of Mexico.  Though the war was bloody and saw the early conquering of the Germanic Republic, the Allied Nations eventually came out victorious.

1947 - Post War De-Imperialization begins, seeing the French and British Monarchies being dismantled into mere formalities, replaced by constitutional governments.  The winds of an authoritarian communist revolution stir in Russia, China, and India. The Cold War begins. An experimental alien spacecraft crashes in the New Mexican desert, becoming the source of a coverup that would last for decades.

1949 - The Imperial States reforms under Mexican oversight into the United States of America.  Russian and Chinese refugees escaping the authoritarian revolution in their countries allied with Northern Elves are granted land in the northern reaches of North America and form the nation of Canada.

1956 - The Korean war ends in the defeat of NATO forces

1957 - Improved telescopic imagery  and early space expeditions confirm the presence of alien life.  An announcement is made to the world and the space race begins.

1958 - Jack Kilby, a Kenku immigrant to the United States of America invents the world’s first microchip

1961 - the Iron Curtain is built on the western border of the Soviet Union

1964 - International Civil Rights Act is passed, granting freedoms previously unknown to significant groups of people.

1969 - A coalition of Western Nations puts the first man on the moon, beating the Soviet and Chinese efforts by months.

1975 - Viet Cong forces officially surrender, ending the Vietnam War

1977 - Voyager spacecraft is launched with its golden record on a mission to establish communications with near-earth alien life.

1979 - Long range radio broadcasts mark the first connection between Earth and Mars.  Though long range telemetry confirms that life does exist on Venus, communications go unresponded to.

1980 - International efforts begin in full to decode Martian communications data.

1981 - Second set of records are sent to Mars, dubbed the Sonnenfeld Set after gnomish scientist Numa Sonnenfeld, the mind behind the encoding and linguistics methods used in the communication.

1982 - Martian Cache 1 descends into orbit in Northwestern Algeria.

1986 - Numa Sonnenfeld cracks the language used in the communications, previously dubbed ‘Martian’, but discovered properly as “Draconic”.

1989 - The second Russian Revolution sees the overthrow of the Soviet Union, Replaced by the Russian Federation of Clans and culminating in the tearing down of the Iron Curtain.

1990 - Human Genome project begins

1991 - Plans begin for Martian expedition

1995 - First manned mission to mars results in disaster when a mid flight malfunction leads to the loss of the crew

1997 - Second manned mission to mars begins.  Multiple reports of UFO sightings in the skies over the US states of Arizona and Nevada as well as the Mexican State of Sonora are denied by both governments.

1998 - International Space Station launched

1999 - Second manned mission to Mars, Expedition 2, lands successfully on the red planet.  Contact with the crew is lost approximately two weeks after landing.

### 21st Century

2000 - First International orbital militarization effort begins

2007 - The iPhone is released

2010 - Third Manned mission to Mars begins, headed by the International Space Coalition.

2011 - Touchdown of the second visitors to land on Mars occurs and a formal meeting of peoples begins.

2012 - Leaked imagery of Kobolds, Dragonkin, and Tieflings hits the internet.  The Terran-Martian Accords of 2012 are struck, seeing the formal initiation of diplomacy, trade, and sharing of information.

2013 - Joint Terran and Martian agents uncover a Yuan-Ti spy ring operating in secret within several global governments.

2016 - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg steps down on the same day that formal communications are established with the Venusian Yuan-Ti government.

2020 - First Lunar outpost established.  First manned mission to Venus begins

2021 - Diplomatic talks with the collected Venusian governments fails when a kobold spy assassinates the Yuan-Ti ambassador.  Earth enters its first interplanetary conflict

2022 - First ship to ship battle occurs in earth orbit, seeing the destruction of two orbital defense satellites and three Terran ships as well as four Yuan-Ti vessels.

2023 - Protests over the rising cost of the Terran-Ssethic war lead to a declaration of peace between the two sides, notably without Martian diplomats present.

2024 - Formal non-aggression pact is signed with the Ssethic Imperium, overseen by Vedalken ambassadors.

2025 - International Climate Coalition fails to gain sufficient backing from international governments beyond formal agreements to provide token support

2050 - Climate crisis results in record storms and increased global temperatures year-by-year.  Lunar colonization begins.  International summit recognizes expansion of guaranteed basic rights to include Kobolds, Tieflings, Dragonkin, Yuan-Ti, Vedalken, and Lizardfolk.

2075 - Food shortages driven by worsening climate conditions and overpopulation lead to mass protests.  Global population control measures lead to rioting as unrest continues.

2098 - Refugees from areas with decreased inhabitability flood nations with more hospitable conditions leading to the largest humanitarian crisis yet seen.

### 22nd Century

2104 - Third World War breaks out, seeing devastation across six of the seven continents globally.  Fears of Thermonuclear War return to heights not seen since the Cold War Era.

2106 - Biological attack against a major populated area leads to a rapid escalation of conflict to catastrophic levels.  Orbital countermeasures stop all but a small portion of nuclear strikes.  Mass rioting breaks out across the globe amongst survivors..

2107 - Attack on peace summit leads to a renewed escalation of conflict and a second wave of WMD strikes.

2108 - Venusian and Martian governments intervene, beginning the Peace Summit of 2108.

2109 - Formal peace is declared.  Final death toll vastly eclipses all conflicts in Earth’s history, ending up at roughly 25% of the population.

2110 - Global environment coalition forms, passing mandates on environmental regulations for all countries.

2143 - Climate crisis reaches a peak despite reduction in fossil fuel usage.  Drastic measures begin implementation globally, resulting in increased global unrest. Planning for orbital station Juno begins.  International efforts see in-orbit construction beginning at the end of the year.

2145 - Core module initiates for Orbital Station Juno.  Additional module construction continues as a part of a multi-step plan to expand station capacity over the next century.

2150-2200 - A series of first contact events occurs with civilizations native to Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.  Planetary fossil fuel usage reaches an all time low, though damage to the climate exceeds the threshold necessary to repair in the near future through reduction in carbon emissions alone. Construction finishes on Juno’s second and third station modules.

### 23rd Century

2208 - The Great Juno Catastrophe: At approximately 01:42 UTC on March 24th, communication is lost with Orbital Station Juno. Catastrophic systems failure results in the station falling into Earth’s gravity well.  International efforts to reduce the impact only manage to mitigate the damage as the station finally impacts in the Western Regions of North America.  Earthquakes and Tsunamis occur across the region.  Global temperatures decrease by nearly 8C initially and debris clouds cause mass planetary crop failure.  Starvation leads to global unrest and rioting.

2215 - Planning begins for a second Orbital Station designated ‘Atlas’ at a time of what is considered the worst environmental conditions seen on the planet in the history of Terran civilization.  Interplanetary scientific liaisons work together with Terran nations on the design.

2220 - Construction begins on Atlas Station.

2245 - Initial opening of core station operations.

2256 - Construction begins on the Parisian Metroplex.

2274 - Second module opens on Atlas Station, occupied nearly entirely by the top percentile of corporations and inter-planetary elite.

### 24th Century

2314 - Third module opens on Atlas station.  Maximum reserved occupancy is reached approximately fifteen seconds following opening of slots.  Average lifespan of citizens of Earth reaches a three hundred and fifty year low.  Station occupants are dubbed by the Global News Network as participants in “the greatest aristocracy since the fall of the French Empire post the second World War.”

2315 - Thronigar “Thron” Irenfeld, famed GNN news anchor dies of a heart attack in his Paris home just four days after completion of a charity marathon..

2322 - Pop supergroup Wonder Revival’s release of the album “Ransom of Dreams” tops charts for a record 83 weeks.  Atlas Station bans the album after a GNN interview with band leader Nerali Deskin confirms the album’s message as attacking the station's crippling regulations that all but prevented any but the wealthiest of Earth's citizens from living there at a time where the planet was still recovering from the worst environmental crisis in the planet's history.

2344 - First Interplanetary Olympic Games sees critical success despite mass boycotts due to corporate backing heavily linked to the Atlasian Aristocracy.

2347 - The Imaginetworks incident results in heavy handed global regulations against Neural connected VR games.

2353 - Fourth module on Atlas station opens, this time filling up in less than a hundredth of a second thanks to queued requests after a leak confirmed the opening of the module mere hours before the announcement.

2354 - Mass protests lead to an international investigation into the Module Four incident.

2357 - Construction begins on Atlas Station’s Shipyard Module: Module Five, regulated entirely by the international community.

2365 - Repeated incidents of sabotage on the construction of Module Five lead to an international inquiry against Vertisoft and Crystal Industries.  Parisian Metroplex officially merges with New London, connecting the two cities.

2366 - Antitrust suit leads to the forced divestiture of Vertisoft, marking the biggest such successful lawsuit since the 20th century.

2374 - After a series of acquisitions, Specter Communications rebrands itself as the newly relaunched “Vertisoft”, sparking controversy over the perceived ineffectiveness of planetary antitrust regulations.

2378 - Module Five officially opens.  Over five hundred separate lawsuits are filed by corporate interests within minutes of opening, stalling all planned operations.

2383 - The Landmark lawsuit of Electron Space Navigations versus The United Terran Coalition results in legislation, making the banning of corporations as bidders in the leasing of non-military orbital assets illegal.  Five days later, independent investor Drogak Shengtian purchases the rights to Module Five from thirteen separate corporations for a total of 326 trillion Terran credits.  Shengtian provides full access to the United Terran Coalition in exchange for the ability to lease out a portion of shipyard capacity to corporate interests.

2393 - Construction on near earth Colonization ships begin with the assistance of Funding from Shengtian Enterprises.

2397 - Drograk Shengtian dies of natural causes and is memorialized on earth in Beijing.

### 25th Century

2401 - Construction of the Colony ship UTCS Shengtian is completed, the first of its kind.

2403 - The UTCS Shengtian launches from Atlas station carrying colonists destined for Mars.

2405 - Four more colony ships launch from Atlas carrying colonists destined for Mars.  Three additional launches for Venus.