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 21st Century (2000 - 2099 A.D.)

		- The original viral outbreak of MARD-18 (Meta-Acute Respiratory Disorder) appears in China.
	+ December
		- The first patient in china gets sick from the viral outbreak from a food market.
		- Chinese laboratory identifies the viral agent as the (MARD-CoV-18).
		- Chinese doctors were arrested in trying to make the viral MARDs known to the public.
	+ In-Universe/Continuum Lore:
		- July
			* CMDR Blackwood turns 40. She was also promoted to the rank of Captain and is given her own ship to command (The USS Charon)

		- Dr. (Li Wenliang) dies by contracting the viral infection. Some suspects that it was the Chinese government. He started having symptoms on January 10th, on 12th, having a fever. He tested positive on Jan 30th.
		- Hong Kong imposes strict monitoring for the ACoV in the city.
		- In the first week of January, The cult of CotL had warned that this is the virus that will show which religion is unpure.
		- Singapore had its first suspected case of ACoV.
		- China continues to release information about ACoV. WHO, UN and WICON set plans in motion in finding out what ACoV actually is.
		- 59 cases were suspected to be infected with ACoV and seven were in critical condition.
		- China continues to suppress any indication of ACoV in China by suppressing hashtags and investigating anyone that was asking about the information.
		- CDC posts warning for any travel to Wuhan, China.
		- China Scientists finally announces the discovery of ACoV.
		- Unified Korea has its first case of ACoV.
		- First Death occurred on January 11th.
		- CDC:US announces that the ACoV genome is posted in the NIH database.
		- Thailand receives its first ACoV case.
		- The second death occurred on the 15th of January.
		- Macau has its first Case of ACoV.
		- By the end of January, Italy was struck with its first case of ACoV. The pope assured the world that just because the cult of CotL said people infected with the virus is "unpure" is untrue.
		- The 13 Americans that were confirmed to have ACoV were returned to the US and quarantined despite the protests. Before their return, there were no confirmed cases within the US. Leyla Santingo
	+ February:
		- Cruise ship out of Tokyo had its first case of ACoV
		- Lombardy, Italy, had a spike of 16 cases of ACoV infections. By the next few weeks, Italy had more than 60 cases. First Death in Italy happened on the 22nd.The CotL said it was just the beginning.
		- Blackwood and several other companies in Eastport City set up stockpiles for a ventilator and ready to build site hospitals in preparation for ACoV. Blackwood had petitioned to the government that ACoV is aggressive and will spread across globally, including the states. The government refuses to listen.
	+ March:
		- The first week of March saw all of Italy, including the Vatican, was infected with the ACoV. The Pope tries to assure the Italian population calm.
		- By the third week of March, Italy was the only heavy hit country in the world with a high rate of infectivity and death rate. over 33 thousand cases were discovered (Double of any other countries globally), and far exceeding China and Iran combined. Total confirmed cases were 41,035 with 3,405 deaths.
		- What's amazing is that CotL members were found not to be infected. The CotL's membership worldwide shows signs of no infection. The CotL leaderships prohibit the study of their membership's DNA makeup until Christianity, Catholicism, Islam, and Jewish faiths recognize CotL as a real religion, not a cult.
		- Theresa Blackwood was promoted to the rank of Captain and is given a ship to command. She commands the USS Charon, an amphibious landing ship.
		- New York City creates New Rochelle Containment Zone
		- New Jersey imposes curfew on its citizens.
		- United States Navy/Army suspends global movement for 60 days.
	+ April:
		- With the ACoV death tolls in the US rising, Capt. Theresa Blackwood calls to her stand-in CEO of Blackwood Investments; Nathaniel (???) about supplying coastal metropolises with BI's owned cruise ships as floating hospitals and various in-land locations to establish emergency regional hospitals for the influx.
			* Theresa Blackwood turns 40.
	+ Blackwood's subsidiary SOL Resources and ISRO's space agency reaches Asteroid 99942 Apophis.
* Technology:
	+ Supercomputer produced by Blackwood's BAST program reaches 1 Zettaflops

### The 2020s

* 2020
	+ November
		- The United States of America
			* With ACoV threat still around, Online Election happens.
			* Sofia Ximena Coelho wins the presidential election.

### The 2030s

* World Population reaches 8.12 billion.
* Blackwood's BAST program develops many life enhancements such as:
	+ A drug to slow aging and reverse the aging look of an average adult human decades back.
	+ Synthoid Project to expand into Commercial niche in response to last decade's ACoV scare, The Synthoid Delivery Models would deliver products from the store to the homes of citizens.
	+ Artificial Virtual Reality Platform is expanded to utilize multiple breakthroughs in Nano-particles, computer processing, and AI.

### The 2040s

* 2048:
	+ Hong Kong Civil War (sparked by the assassination of Democratic candidate for the Hong Kong Premier and preceding three month's long riots.)
	+ Macau follows suit and Macau Civil War breaks out.

### The 2050s:

* World Population reaches 9.4 billion and zero population growth nears.
* The whole country of Denmark now runs on renewable energy sources.

### The 2060s

* Little over 1/3 of the world's countries now is powered by a renewable source of energy.
* The Age of Aquarius begins with the Second Space race for Venus, Mars and Jupiter's moons.
* 2068:
	+ In Dubai, construction of underwater city starts after the completion of 1Km tower.

### The 2070s

* The Islam religion surpasses Christianity for the first time.
* The Cult of the Light becomes official religion after the formation of the Council of the Light.

## Earth - Cyberpunk/Post-apocalyptic Future:

Sometimes in the early 21st century, a cult rose in the Appalachians, its members were called the Children of the Light and their leader for their religion was the "Light-bringer". What everybody didn't know was that the Light-bringer cult was almost global, and was thought to be occurring independently in Africa, Philippines, South America and North America. The CIA had started to piece together the Light-bringer puzzle before the great Global War II broke out.

After the dust settled, Eastport City became an City-state on the east-coast of the post-apocalyptic North America and had represented a new hope for anyone trapped outside of its newly built walls.

Because the Light-bringers forbade prevalent technology use, they lived off-grids in the Appalachians when the Global War II had started. The cult became a full-blown religious movement, they began to pester Eastport City-state.

 Sometimes in the mid-21st century, Council of the Light had surpassed other religions on Earth. Global flooding was prevalent, flooding former major coastal cities. Eastport City was one of the few that had made preparations for the global flooding. Eastport City had survived multiple threats, from environmental, politics, economic and terrorism. When United States government had broken apart, Eastport City declared itself independent and established itself as Eastport City-State. Slowly acquiring former cities of US on the east-coast, it soon rivaled the New York City metropolitan area.

Near the equatorial zone, a collective of old-world powerful entities gathered together and established "Federation of Equatorial Zones". They established a gigantic wall on land and underwater mines in the seas and oceans.

Council of the Light established themselves in the FEZ as Dominion of Holy Zion became increasingly weak with each decades that unfolded.

Which faction would you choose? A denizen in DHZ, FEZ or a child of the light (CotL), Eastport City-state resident? Moscow Tunnel Rat? etc.

If you choose to become DHZ's. You would live in Central Asia (comprised of Middle East, Eastern Europe, Western Asia, Northeastern Africa. These are dominion of Holy Zion, situated in Jerusalem, Israel. They had militarized themselves against "blasphemers".

If you choose to become CotL, You have many choices, CotL's main directive is to spread Asherah's maternial light to every human. If they resist, eliminate them.

Choose to become citizen of the City-state, Choices would be randomized (a better perks will be given to your character) or select one of each level with limited perks (however can always work your character to become powerful one).

## 428,898 AD

* Hinduism
	+ The end of Kali Yuga.
* Last of humanity dies out in Sol System and the synthetic lifeforms replace humans as the next evolution by forced singularity. Only surviving biped and organic species existing on Earth is the Human-Animal hybrids that adapted to the conditions of that planet. Pieces of organic humankind are spread all across the Milkyway galaxy, never seeing Earth ever again.