Timeline of Human history

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## A Timeline of Human History

### 2020's

The beginning of Mankinds true space age were a humble one. Plans were established, the first prototypes and parts for lunar orbiting stations were sent to the heavens, and for the first time in decades all humanity looked to the stars and wondered once more.

### 2030's

The 30's saw the dawn of humanity as an interplanetary civilization. The first permanent colonists were dispatched to Martian and Lunar soil, and various private organizations began establishing true space infrastructure. In the closing years of the decade, the first true crops and complex goods were grown and manufactured on Mars and in the Asteroid Belt, marking both as capable of self-sustaining.

### 2040's

On the outer worlds, prosperity and fortune spread their arms wide and welcomed the pioneers of the stars into their hold. The populations of both began to grow as true habitats were established on Ceres and the poles of the Martian landscape, and terraformation efforts began on the red world. On Earth, however, the first signs of humanities greed began to rear its head, massive climate change finally catching up with the world as it dove head first into another mass extinction event. Additionally, large amounts of solar sails were launched towards Alpha Centauri, Proxima Centauri, Barnard's star, the Adranus system and Viatorem.

### 2050's

Humanity plunged head first into chaos, in these years. Mass rioting turns to rebellion turns to outright nuclear armageddon as nations and their civilian populaces wage war for what scraps of food and water remain. The colonies, still reliant on Earth for the majority of their most complex supplies, fall into disarray as they are cut off from their lifeline. Martian and Belt independence movements begin as communications from Earth fail, and progress stagnates.

### 2060's

The early half of the years saw both the peak and the wind-down of the chaos on Earth. Flooding as the ice-caps melted renders the majority of Earths coastlines uninhabitable by traditional means, but, the world begins to recover. Carbon Capture devices are built en masse, and efforts began to repair what could be saved, and regain contact with their lost sisters in the stars. Large probes were sent towards the Barnard's star system with the discovery of unicellular life on Nodens, for more investigation.

On Mars and beyond, independence is declared as little more than a formality - with no ears from Earth able to hear their words, their populations begin to grow exponentially in true booms. The Martian terraformation efforts begin to take effect as atmospheric gasses are imported from the asteroid belt, and colonies begin to expand out from the icecaps borders as water-laden asteroids are delivered en masse from the belt.

### 2070's

The Earth reached out to its former lunar colonies, quickly reclaiming the deadened places as the light of Mankind returned to the stars around Earth, and set hungry eyes towards its former colonies. Those who did not seek to repeat the fate of the old world fled in what ships and platforms they could muster and bodge into movement, and fled out into the distant Kuiper Belt, never to be seen or heard from again.

### 2080's

Humanity reconnected with itself and became whole once more in violent, if brief, clash. The nations of the Earth recognized they would have no way to keep hold of the old colonies with the limited capabilities they now held, and so, withdrew into meager attempts at an alliance.

The Belt dispatched its first colonizing expeditions to the great sphere of Jupiter, populating her moons as the worlds of the Sol system began to unify after a fashion, lead by the Martian industrial capabilities.

As humanity strengthens its grip on the Solar System, the Republic of Cygnus-Orion is founded to help establish law and justice across previously ununited planets. Space remains a dead and dangerous place to wander, but colonies on planets begin to work as a singular entities as the RoCO grows in its members.

### 2090's

Scientific colonization efforts are sent far and wide throughout the solar system from the newly formed Coalition of Worlds. The Explorer Program is initiated and the Explorer II Sleeper ship is sent to Proxima Centauri.

The Martian moons are converted into immense stations, acting as equal parts foundry, dock, and launching station as the colonies below become stable enough for everyday citizens to live without sacrifice of the luxury on Earth.

Eris acquires a permanent population at the end of the decade, acting as a permanent residence for hundreds of scientists working on more outlandish theories and designs, safe from the prying eyes of the Republic-controlled solar system. Venutian orbital colonies appeared, sending gargantuan blimps down to harvest the vast clouds for valuable materials as humanity grew at exponential speed.

### 2100s

The turn of the century was met with a celebration unlike any other seen before. A renewed humanity embraced across all the worlds of their home system, and a series of stations were erected between every world, to commemorate both the union of the system, and as trading hubs designed to further permit the transit of resources, ideas, and colonists between worlds.

### 2110s

These years saw the beginning of the true golden age of humanity, as mankind spread into the stars in greater and greater numbers, filling up every world, every moon, every asteroid they might reach, scientific advancements began to race ahead in leaps and bounds. Work began on Eris in highly theoretical propulsion methods, huge quantities of materials being shipped to the planet for testing purposes as the world declared itself fully independent, too distant and dark for any within the the system to truly care, beyond fringe scientists who flowed into the world in small droves and trickles. The Explorer ii also arrives at Proxima 4, data is sent back to Earth which reaches it in a matter of 4.22 years.

### 2120s

The newly-christened 'Technocracy of Eris' saw its work come to the beginnings of fruition, as far as the inner system knew. Powerful gravitational waves emanated from the surface of the world periodically, along with the space around it lighting up with a light comparable to the sun itself. The world became an isolationist place, no communications in or out of its borders, now seemingly wholly independent and productive, with mining drone swarms working the Oort Cloud for resources.

### 2130s

Mankind sent its third wave to the stars, setting out in vast sleeper-ships and generation ships for the heliosphere and beyond, to colonize what may lie out there in the dark. Within the system, all grew steadily, the first Martian unicellular lifeforms manifesting on the surface as ships began to ply its seas, Earth and Mars working together to populate the land with hardy species, turning the world steadily into a true green paradise. The first large scale cities have been built up on many close exoplanets by now, civilisations much like the Republic appearing around nearby stars albeit isolated from one another.

### 2140s

Eris releases its first communication in decades. A garbled mass of code and ciphers with no possible translation. Observatories aimed at the world to try to glean what they could of the research thereupon were born witness to the sight of the entire planet cracking apart in an implosion of unknown nature. The world was surrounded for hours by the flickering lights of unknown entities, a billion billion tiny explosions of energy surrounding the ruined husk of the icy dwarf world.

### 2150s

In the early years of the 2150s, a small, backwater tech corporation was given a deal on a new piece of technology. The Bussard Ramscoop. Able to cut travel time between the stars down by reducing on-board fuel, the corporation quickly patented and distributed the technology, becoming practically overnight one of the largest private entities in the solar system. Mankind exploded outwards in a matter of years, new ships being designed and crafted around these ramscoops, able to ferry humans safely to the stars with less needed resources than had been anticipated with use of the Daedalus drive. On the contrary, ramscoops generate a lot of drag as they pull in a lot of matter that counters the ship's velocity; Daedalus technology remained preferable in extreme cases where travel times were critical. Humanity entered its true era of eternal expansion into the stars, as the first pioneers sallied forth to reach the nearest of the sun's neighbors.

Towards the 2200s, the difficulty of maintaining contact with extrasolar colonies becomes too much to bear, and those inhabiting Proxima slip away from the Republic. As the communication times between relatively near stars rivals that of presidential terms, it becomes impractical to keep a grip on other systems.

### 2200s

A group of extremists railing against the leaders of the Republic hacked into the Dyson swarm providing energy to the Sol system, redirecting the full output of billions of reflectors towards Phobos, boiling the surface away. The incident left millions dead and prompted the Republic to deorbit almost all the reflectors orbiting Sol, which in turn left a gap in the infrastructure of the Sol system to be filled.

### 2300s

Human influence has spread up to 70 light years around Sol as ships are mass produced by Sol and other systems inhabited by humans, but development and long-term cooperation around the inner core systems slows down as the assumptions made by the design philosophy of interstellar ships here fall apart when trying to carry massive amounts of cargo to other systems. Starshot Enterprises recognises the need for reliable interstellar spacecraft that can carry hundreds of thousands of tons between systems and unveils the Millennium, weighing in at 573,600 tons without payload and being capable of colonising an entire system and transforming into a spinning station from which to jumpstart development in uninhabited systems - to move such a large ship, Starshot also revealed new propulsion techniques, an Alcubierre-augmented rocket capable of augmenting the output of a Bussard ramjet, enabling heavy ships to move between stars in conceivable timeframes. Its highly volumetric design still appears in ships through the following centuries, as opposed to the ships preceding the 2300s whose mass is largely contained in the engine and combustion chambers, with habitats and sections being connected by thin girders and corridor tubes.

The aforementioned Alcubierre Rocket saw Bussard ramscoops able to power against the drag of the interstellar medium with more force than previously possible, fully pushing the Daedalus drive into antiquity. Most vessels use this technology now, allowing for extremely high velocities to be attained. Shielding against dust, however, remained a challenge for speeds exceeding 0.8c.

### 2400s

In the early years of the decade, A minority of dissidents starts to appear on Earth, the Sol System and its early colonies outside Sol. They call themselves the ***Alliance for Free Scientific and Technological Advancement of Society*** (The **FASTAS**). They seek to free humanity for morality and society restriction, as well as from the oppression of pyramidal, corrupted and corporation-driven leadership. After decades of trying to make a change in the population and the government, they fail at attaining significant political power or relevance. After decades of political activity their followers are counted in the millions, and soon its decided with the invention of the ramjet and the possibility of colonization, to seek its own society. Soon, they start collecting money to invest it and create massive colony ships. The project is called " The Arc", and it started to be build on Earth, and was followed by other activities in the rest of Human territory. Around 10,850,000 million people left on the colony ships in 2315 - by 2506 they had reached the Planet Astarte, founding what would be known as the Heptarchy of Orion.

### 2985

The current year. What has happened in the interim, and what shall happen ahead, shall be the players decision. This is a place where every moment matters, each of the decades above are more than fully welcome to be expanded upon, reorganized, and altered however wiki-goers see fit.

## Minor Events

### 2037

First Martian colonies established

First major drone stations were established around Ceres, autonomous mining begins

Mars rover Perseverance rendered inoperable

The predicted ninth planet "Persephone" is confirmed to exist

### 2038

**03:14:07(UTC) on 19th Jan:** Time formatting in computers still using Unix time causes minor malfunctions worldwide due to the 32-bit integer representing time overflowing.

### 2125

Grandather of the founder of Starshot Enterprises, Yamaha Forrison, begins doing small-scale shipping operations in Sol

NASA is dissolved into the Coalition of Worlds

99942 Apophis collides with Earth. Entering over the Atlantic ocean, the asteroid hits the African-S.African plate boundary causing tsunamis to wash over exposed coasts. Global impacts do not last long.

### 2180

Yamaha Forrison buys the patents to the now-stagnating Bussard Ramjet technology and pours the rest of their assets into their grandson's newly founded business: Starshot Trades, Inc.

### 2271

The mining cities covering Mercury are now 98% automated.

### 2780

The maiden voyage of the Bolyeria class cityship (operated by a human-indistinguishable AI) begins, taking passengers to the colonies of Planet Nine and back.