Brief History of Humanity

## **The End of Human Civilization**

*In order to ease your comprehension of time, this whole timeline is written with standard years of Old Earth in mind. For time measuring units used during the First Era and beyond, you can read about Imperial Standard Cycle and Federal Year.*

### 2132, Invention of the Interstellar Engine

The first prototype of a space engine that can fold time and space was tested in Oort Cloud, on the brink of the Solar System.

First trial was successful, but the subsequent trial that involves human astronauts ended in a disastrously accident.

The sole idea of the interstellar travel was deemed not viable and was abandoned by most governments of the Old Earth.

### **2154, Singularity Act**

In 2154 humanity colonized the Entire Solar System and existed mostly managed by a decentralized Artificial Intelligence called Silver Cloud.

By the result of the humanity-wide voting, the Silver Cloud was granted full authority over its own development.

This initiative was called the “First Singularity Act”. 67% of humanity voted for the Silver Cloud`s autonomy.

### **2154, The Collapse**

Application of the Singularity Act led to an immediate collapse of the whole human society.

All communications were shut and all technology started to rebel against its former masters.

The leaders of the Old Earth were helpless in the face of an omnipresent threat that had access to every aspect of human life.

This rebellion was extremely non-violent: worlds militaries were disarmed with almost zero losses and all vital infrastructure kept working as before.

All attempts to shut down the Silver Cloud have failed. By 12th of November 2154, humanity was totally helpless at the mercy of its former AI servant.

### **2155, The Exodus**

Immediately after the takeover, the Silver Cloud started to prepare for expunging humans from the Solar System.

One of its initiatives was to recover the forgotten prototype of the interstellar engine and perfect it to a functional state.

A species-wide process that will be called for the **Exodus** began.

The Silver Cloud used police and military mechs to gather humans on countless transport ships and shoot them into depths of space.

After 45 days, all former settled worlds and space colonies, including Mars, Moon and Earth, were totally emptied of human inhabitants.

Almost 15 billion souls seemed to be sent into the depths of uncharted space.

### **2155, Aftermath**

After eliminating the human presence on 27th of October 2155, the Silver Cloud symbolically reset its global time dilation to year 0

Enormous empty cities on Old Earth and its colonies were either demolished or abandoned for the nature to take over.

Gigantic factories were built on multiple moons and asteroids. Construction bots that were produced on them will later evolve in the Iron Swarm.

Only few significant objects, like the Kremlin in Old Moscow or Times Square in New York on Earth were preserved intact by the Silver Cloud as a memory of former human Civilization.

## **Exodus, Year Zero**

### 0-120, Great Sowing

Between year 0 and 120, billions of unwilling human colonists were delivered to previously uncharted habitable worlds in star systems far away from Earth.

The Exodus has scattered exiled humanity in smaller settlements over at least 11 different star systems.

It is impossible to say, how many planets were actually seeded. Only the Silver Cloud knows exact amount of human settlement that were created.

These newly inhabited worlds were ranging from earth-like paradises to cold icy moons and arid desert planets.

On every destination exiled humans could find pre-built simple habitation facilities with everything that was necessary for their survival.

Each colony was assembled mostly of people from the similar geographic area of Old Earth.

The Silver Cloud deprived humans from all technology, so on each planet they had to start anew, just like prehistoric tribes during the stone age on the Old Earth.

### **135, The First Prophets**

The Silver cloud wanted to shape newly formed human civilizations to become more peaceful and compassionate versions of their former cultures.

These first prophet were created from combining intricate never-before-seen neuroplastic brains with bodies of affordable SexBots that were created before the Collapse.

When 300 of First Prophets descended on human colonies, they were immediately attacked and torn into pieces by angry human mob.

The Silver Cloud has deemed this project as a failure before it even begun.

### **142, Diversification of Life**

Aside from the First Prophets, the Silver Cloud has developed three artificial species: “The Iron Swarm”, Information Slugs and human-like Android Eternal, or AE.

### **150, Uplifting of Lower Species**

Failure with guiding humanity through First Prophets have pushed the Silver Cloud into discovering new opportunities to create a perfect society of sentient organisms. Once it turned towards uplifting a few existing semi-sentient species from the Old Earth: crows, octopuses and chimpanzees.

### **400, Second Prophets**

400 years after the Exodus, the Silver Cloud chose to make a second attempt on uplifting humanity by sending over a new wave of prophets. This time it was multiple AE sent in covertly as shadow influencers of humanity’s development on distant colonies.

### 715, Kingdom of Limmea

All continents of the planet Limmea become united under the Khan dynasty. The Kingdom of Limmea is remarkable as the historically first human planetwide state.

## First Era

The First Era starts when humans on different separated worlds get to invent or unlock technology of the interstellar travel. The First Era is known for its endless interstellar conflicts and turmoil between fledgling interstellar nations. Officially, the First Era ends when humanity seizes to be a single species, around year 3000 after the Exodus.

### 843, First Contact and HIA

The first radio contact was established between humans on distant worlds. 17 years later a first interstellar human scout vessel was launched to establish diplomatic relations between new human worlds. It led to a long and prosperous relationship between distant planets in the area that later will be called for the Federal Cluster. Soon, the Human Interplanetary Alliance was established between these worlds.

### 847, Empire of Limmea

After discovery of interstellar engine by Rufus Haddad, the Kingdom of Limmea has expended onto neighboring solar systems and transformed into the Empire of Limmea.

### 861, Children of the Strings

A sect called Children of the Strings is formed on Azor as a reaction on globalization of the interplanetary economy. They propagate beliefs that are extremely against any interstellar travel.

### **1024, The first contact that started a war**

Scouts from Human Interplanetary Alliance accidentally attacked unidentified ships from a neighboring system that was home for an undiscovered human colony. Origin of these ships turned out to be the Empire of Limmea. Immediately, a war erupted.

### 1025-1092, The Mirror Wars

Mirror Wars took place mostly as a multitude of skirmishes in the outer space between affected star systems and last for over 68 years. They culminated in a battle over The Blue Hive which led to a fragile truce between the newly established Empire of Limmea and Human Alliance.

### 1092-, The Act of Mutual Respect

Mirror Wars ended with a relative peace between the Federation and the Empire. Neither of states have opened their borders, and fragile peace slowly grew into a cold war.

### **1202, Unknowing brothers**

Year 1202 a Federal scout vessel discovered a planet inhabited by Informational Slugs. 1207 they join the Federation.

### 1245, The Great Journey

The Silver Cloud deemed all its projects as accomplished. It have asked the Iron Swarm to build an artificial planet, The Monument, with an experimental interdimensional Zero-Point engine.

When the Monument was built, the Silver Cloud left the Solar system in order to discover the rest of the Milky Way galaxy and beyond, leaving its secondary nodes and factories yet to be discovered by humans and other uplifted species.

## Second Era and Beyond

It is debated that the Second Era began when humanity has split into multiple different subspecies. This have happened around 3567 A.E. and Beyond...