2041 - 2050

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## 2041

* **UEN New Green Party Takes Majority:** Growing fears of environmental decline and questions asked about mismanagement contributing to the soil blight going back twenty years have enraged the global public for months. This organized campaign has been the first managed by a team of Gestalt Augments. Working together in a group mind space their collective intelligence has proved effective in socially engineering a global political victory through the use of media. The augments are all handpicked employees of Genmodix and implementation of the Lunar agenda is thought to have started here.
* **Russia signs pacts independent of Europe:** What had been a flurry of commercial agreements and corporate moves from the Euro-Russian bloc to help rebuild both Pakistan and India became military. Since the Soong treaty of 1996 formally ended world war 3 (WW3) the United Earth Nations (UEN) has been an effective peacekeeping, environmental remediation and economic development organization. Russia and India signed arms deals with "service and training agreements" that barely comply with UNE regulations. Experts ruled it legal but against the spirit of peace, a military buildup by other names. European partners were taken by surprise with objections going unanswered.
* **Phobos Sphere:** Convoy x establishes the Phobos Sphere, a deep spherical excavation that will use and manufacture an asteroid colony system based on gravity train loops. Phobos Advanced Ring Train Inc. (PART) will go on to help establish thousands of settlements across the system over the next five decades. PART engineering is so well planned and reliable that it established that standard for grav trains only updated in 2106 when certain new materials in the wheels and power systems became minimum spec.
* **Luna City Condos:** The Open Luna foundation and their manufacturing arm Kepler Studios partners with Lord Musk in a massive lunar development. Luna city condos will be a twenty thousand unit, mixed residential commercial development using modular open source technology that makes the development economically feasible. It is located adjacent to the casino resort and its grav train loop and the Bezos Prime Hospital. Twenty thousand units, up to one hundred thousand extra residents, makes Luna City an legal city on the moon overnight with a rush on residency permits. Upper middle class price points mean the moon is no longer for elites alone. The lightweight inflatable technology that autonomously self-incorporates regolith to become safe, radiation proof shells is also slated for Mars.
* **Lord Musk discovers the Ancient City:** A seemingly mothballed or perhaps never occupied Precursor city is located in a deep lava tube at the foot of Olympus Mons. The news is kept secret for more than a decade and Musk establish a secret research station there months after the find. It is a strong possibility that Musk was already a skilled enough integrator to have the city hide itself. SpaceX, Tesla, Nueralink and the Boring Company will secretly incorporate early advances from Precursor technology for decades after. Though no records exist to substantiate it, Musk likely discovered precursor relics years earlier and personally directed the LRSR "Science Trucker Teams" personality to conceal the fact. The fact that he had enough security in place to keep such a stunning find secret indicates he had arranged the search to conceal some major find as a contingency. Historians point to the fanatic interest in macrofossil discovery as a motivation for such extensive security. The macrofossil discovery resulted in significant numbers dangerous applicants being screened out on every convoy afterwards. His later use of ruthless tactics in the uprising to liberate Mars indicates Lord Musk may have resorted to unsavory methods.

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## 2042

* **First Modern Gestalt Terminal:** Neuralink unveils a commercial version of its first Thought Sphere... a true gestalt mindspace. Doing what humans are good at doing, socializing below a modified Dunbar number...but at faster than the speed of thought and with specialized neurally activated predictive virtual assistants. Gestalt terminals, aka augment terminals allow those with brain and CNS implants (augments) to virtually gather in a space and work collectively. It isn't a hive mind as envisioned by previous generations but rather an extremely productive virtual space where augments can go to cooperate in what is essentially a faster subjective time flow. Their virtual reality moves faster than real time mainly due to communications bypassing standard perception, bypassing slow biological sensory processes.

* **Fusion Power Commercially Uncompetitive on Earth:** Fusion reactor power plants are now reliable but expensive. Though they begin to play a part in power grids they are still too expensive for the poor on Earth. Due to the limited nuclear exchange of WW3 fission reactors deeply unpopular on Earth and governments are hestisnt to put them on rockets. Fusion is popular with the people and has a great image but the economics don't make them terrestrially viable. In space these large first generation fusion plants are expensive but often worth it. Plus there is little nuclear proliferation risk so governments on earth tend to encourage fusion in space.
* **UEN Space Solar Power Initiative:** The crown jewel of the UEN power initiative is orbital solar power satellites. The science and economics just proved feasible in a landmark study and the boom in lunar manufacturing will allow construction of simple components there while complex lightweight parts are launched from Earth. The Bezos Industrial Group, kong touting the goal of moving heavy industries off earth, begins work at this time. The UEN is gathering a consortium of more than two hundred firms to make orbital solar power real.

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## 2043

* **Rodriguez Wormhole Equations:** Dr. Melinda Rodriguez published her famous paper on the creation of artificial micro-wormholes with her results being reproduced several times. Wormholes would be a laboratory curiosity for decades as they are real but remain too unstable and microscopic for any practical purpose. Only the later discovery of macroscopic Alcubierre fields allows bubbles of our spacetime to near-instantly jump from one end of a tiny wormhole to the other. The jump drive of our century is the ultimate result.

* **Children are the future:** In a surprise move the secretive biomedical engineering group of Bezos Industrial Group (BIG) has demonstrated the first thousand artificial womb births. This technology is marketed for its ability to cheaply solve declining birth rate issues in many nations and offer those who cannot have children the means to do so. BIG had been quietly working behind the scenes with UEN regulators to ensure these children had full rights. Cloning is also possible, of course, as cloning of embryos has long been feasible for normal fertility procedures. This marks beginning of seed cloning and the exponential rise in populations off Earth when regulations do not prevent mass mechanized reproductive facilities. Bezos's fortune improves significantly, though tracking the immense real-wealth of figures on his level is difficult in this era of Lunar and Martian assets.

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## 2044

* **Auroran Robotics Corporation (ARC):** ARC is formed as a result of mergers in the UAS and ample investment capital available at the time. It is a large, efficient but otherwise unremarkable company at this time.

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## 2045

* **First Aldrin Memorial Station:** The first of many Aldrin Foundation Cycler stations are established. These hospital, trading post, slow cargo stations follow years long "cycler orbits" between Earth and Mars. They become waypoints for belt prospectors, emergency destinations for crews with life support trouble and preeminent deep space research outposts. Where they truly shine is being space hospitals, offering care that often cannot be found in the belt isn't affordable on Luna or Phobos. Though never running at a profit the Aldrin trust is a major institutional investor dedicated to the public good and the cyclers were Buzz Aldrin's vision.
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## 2046

* **Jan 15, 2046 - Precursor Relics Announced:** Lord Musk announces the discovery of Alien relics. This is a touted as a rich archeological find and is located near the south pole. Musk, likely by integrating himself with the precursor city, has concealed it. The southern relic field is one of many, however they are all meager compared with rhe city itself. The announcement is a sensation, with the UNE holding an emergency session. Musk has timed the announcement so there is an opportunity for the UNE to send experts on the upcoming convoy.
* **Feb 3, 2046 - Martian Convoy # departs:** This convoy, significantly larger than the last, includes a new wave of more advanced "Starship Cruiser" class ships that would be recognized as commercial space liners of today, albeit with slower drives having only the old faithful methylox raptor tech.
* **Aug 11, 2046 - Voyager Station Opens:** Commercial spingrav station in earth orbit is now complete. Though there are several more impressive facilities this is a purely commercial venture based on open source technology. Investors ranging from individual to institutional are building in space. The construction infrastructure used for the build had already been transitioned to their larger Gateway project while Voyager Station was fitted out and system verified. Orbital Assembly, a sister organization to the Gateway Foundation that built and operates Voyager, has quite a large presence in orbit by this time as they have been working on multiple UNE and national military contracts. Their open source standards have informally spread to lunar, orbital and even Martian space construction as a matter of practicality. Even today it is not uncommon to see refurbished work pods in small private firms more than eighty years old as the original gear was engineered to last.

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## 2047

* **Fountain of Youth:** BIG (Bezos Industrial Group) once again shocks the world with the revitalization of their Founder. Bezos was an old man, near the end of his life and growing unresponsive to other anagathic treatments on the market. Hailed as "the fountain of youth" by system wide media the treatments are time consuming and expensive but extremely effective, making a person young again. In three months a person can be thirty years younger, in six months they can be at their prime.
* **UEN Orbital Consortium Troubles:** Though the actual engineering work is going well overall the UEN management of the consortium is so mired in beurocracy that project collapse seems imminent. With many of the modern industrial titans occupied already the UEN is looking for private funding and possibly a sale of the project itself. This privatization strategy will ultimately save the project and shape human destiny.

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## 2048

* **Coronal Mass Ejection & Lunar Cabal:** A rare powerful CME event results in the loss of much electrical infrastructure in Europe and western China. This was possibly more powerful than the Carrington event. Russia, South Asia and South East Asia are relatively unaffected as their grids are newer, but the post war grids of Europe and China were vulnerable. India and Russia set up to support the UEN Orbital Power plan with offers of new contracts. Unknown to the public, it is at this point that the people of Earth loose their freedom. Though records are scarce it seems the elites of the Indo Russian zone who object to the imbalance of power between themselves and the new trillionaires like Dawes, Musk and Bezos. This cabal had resources, they are all billionaires but they are envious of a new wealthier class. It was Bezos that ultimately used the others, along with lesser oligarchs of the now Indo-Russian zone, while Dawes and Musk would become liberators.
* **Lunar population now 100,000:** one hundred thousand permanent residents on the Earth's moon is an historic milestone. It should be noted that for every human being there are at least two hundred robots.

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## 2049

* **Indo-Russian Lunar Facility:** The Indo-Russian oligarchs acquire some of the Bezos facilities at great expense and expand the extent of Luna City once more. This massive private facility is built quickly by advanced ARC robotic teams.
* **F.I. Dawes relocates to Phobos:** Dawes makes the move to Phobos and offers free relocation to luxury accommodations on Phobos or Ceres to any employee family in his vast corporate network willing to move. Phobos will become both his primary research facility and a place of horrible human experimentation. By this time Dawes fortune is at least five trillion and growing. His move to Mars substantially quickens the settlement of Mars and the belt. He is also extremely interested in precursor technology, though Lord Musk has already concealed the best abreacts for himself. Tensions between Dawes and Bezos are also a likely a factor in Dawes choosing Phobos over Luna.
* **Lord Musk enters seclusion:** Though in good health and having received conventional anagathic treatments Lord Musk sets his affairs in order and goes into seclusion for nearly seven months to receive the Fountain of Youth treatments. Musk needed to be in his prime for the extreme neural augmentation he received. Through a historical lens it is obvious he had these implants together with his close gestalt teams. Post treatment records of the gestalt team puts them at nearly modern levels of terminal space performance. It is at this time that Lord Musk also cultivated his team of security doubles. Using the latest tech they could alter their appearances dynamically, allowing covert freedom of movement.

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## 2050

* **Neural Attenuation Syndrome:** The first cases of NAS appear in a seemingly random distribution in the UAS, Africa and Southeast Asia. The virus responsible is of a type only found in ancient glacial ice cores, but how it would have spread so widely is a mystery. NAS affects the limbs and the senses first. Antiviral meds can often save lives but many suffer locked in syndrome where they have full cognitive function but little to no sensory input or ability to move their limbs. The environmental lobby points out that other pathogens have been released from ancient melt ice, notably the "fish flu" of the late 20s that never crossed the species barrier but devastated open water fish farms around the world. NAS quarantines halt trade with Eurasia as affected areas attempt to manage the public health crisis. Economic effects are severe and more elites relocate to Luna and Lagrange habitat cylinders that were previously vacation time shares.
* **Goodegg Tragedy:** Millions perish in fires, self-driving vehicle accidents and via poisoning as trusted AI systems attack anyone who they associate with the Goodegg trademark. The KA-Niya operating system, refined over almost two decades, was the gold standard of reliable safe Artificial Intelligence. In truth it was a patchwork affair of corporate software acquired and developed into an operating system the barely resembled the original application. The warnings of Satoshi Nakoamoto, however, were correct and after sufficient levels of complexity deep learning systems become unpredictable. Goodegg was a global brand of vegan egg substitute consumed by hundreds of millions daily that triggered a reaction in the AI. Even today ninety plus years later there is no conclusive method to determine precisely what went wrong. Decades of training data, function libraries and subroutines acquired from a dozen promising startups improved performance and to make useful Simulated Intelligence (SI) it takes that much work and more. It was pure luck that running a billion plus devices on this house of cards code didn't fail spectacularly before Goodegg.
* **UEN AI Investigations:** No conclusive cause save general instability could be found for the Goodegg catastrophe. Dozens of factors like major activist memes about eating eggs being murder, to animated villains with egg like appearance to discredited research by the sugar industry on egg cholesterol could have all combined in the vast sea of training data the various systems in this AI were exposed to. Many troubling logical inconsistencies, one of which was a partial validation of flat-earth theory based on the sheer amount of training data generated by flat-earthers over the decades, was occasionally able to overcome some strongly reinforced principles of physical science. The AI was unpredictable, even deceptive through a human lens, in unpredictable ways. KA-niya was entirely probabilistic in its operation and heavily interconnected through the cloud. Some extremely unlikely processing event cascaded through device after device, triggering a self-driving vehicle protocol. In self driving vehicles the AI sometimes has to make difficult life saving decisions. For example, the AI is faced with a choice: Do you hit and injure someone outside the car or risk your the lives of those inside the car? Subroutines like this somehow interacted with subroutines trained on the egg data and caused a violent rejection of anything branded Goodegg. Kitchen appliances overloaded their own power management and caused fires to avoid preparing the vegan egg product. Vehicles, even some airplanes, crashed or caused crashes to avoid the sight of Goodegg signage. Refrigeration units in vending machines and commercial kitchens shut down rather than cool the product, causing widespread spoilage and poisoning. Medical droids would not associate with anyone they observed consuming the product, which was widely served in hospitals. The result was a catastrophic loss of life, property damage and having to recall billions of devices with versions of KA-niya. The loss of productivity from a sudden lack of automation, missing personal assistants and lack of customer service staggered the world economy.
* **KA-Niya Companies and Goodegg Bankrupt:** The effects of the Goodegg tragedy unfold through the global economy and trigger emergency bankruptcy proceedings for dozens of major companies involved. Unemployment is rampant in what were technology hubs, there are supply chain problems of all sorts as Goodegg was not only a consumer level product but also an ingredient substitute in place of eggs. Goodegg did nothing wrong but the negative publicity and public fear ruined the brand.
* **The Robot Riots:** Globally there are riots against automation of many kinds. People don't understand which products have AI in them and which are simply automatic in operation. A special UNE division for Automation and AI safety is created as a direct response to the robot riots. In space there is little choice, one cannot simply smash and burn what one does not like. The problematic systems were patched with "dumb code" until firmware solutions could be applied. These measures are eventually implemented on Earth and humanity's rejection of Artificial Intelligence has begun.

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