Timeline
TIMELINE EVENTS
-Stellar Year 1
The United States completes the first lunar colony. The AD era ends and the calendar changes to the Stellar Year system. Multiple countries are competing to create lunar colonies.
-Stellar Year 20
Outbreak of World War III. The war lasts just under a year due to mutual destruction of multiple nuclear strikes by all sides. Surviving humans form the United Human Federation government.
-Stellar Year 21
Ethical restrictions on many biological research fields are removed. Cloning and nanomachines become focal points of research.
-Stellar Year 48
Human population is rapidly replenished with new, reliable cloning techniques. The global environment is restored, with temperatures returning to pre-warming figures and radioactivity totally cleared up. The United Human Federation launches the Mars Pioneer Project.
-Stellar Year 76
Genetic enhancement technology is developed, utilizing nanomachines. Deep-learning, self-improving nanomachines are developed and legalized through massive corporate lobbying from the largest mega-conglomerates, despite the voiced concerns of many scholars.
-Stellar Year 121
Mars is terraformed. The Age of Pioneering has begun.
-Stellar Year 160
The human sphere of life has extended into the asteroid belt. Numerous stations are established in the asteroid belt. Total human population exceeds 40 billion people. The human rights of clones are recognized. Simultaneously, human cloning is prohibited.
-Stellar Year 167
Mega-conglomerates and oligarchs control practically all the surface area of Earth. They lobby for and pass a bill evicting all people from Earth below a certain, ridiculous, amount of wealth excluding servants.
-Stellar Year 170
Very-high-power ion engines are developed, allowing for large spaceships to cruise at speeds permitting voyages of only a few months between most neighbouring planets.
-Stellar Year 195
Jupiter’s moons are being terraformed. A malfunction in the dominant line of nanomachines is covered up by the mega-conglomerates.
-Stellar Year 220
Saturn’s major moons begin colonization and some terraforming.
-Stellar Year 243
The first colony on Pluto is established.
-Stellar Year 245
All contact with the Pluto colony is lost.
-Stellar Year 246
The first recorded contact with an unknown creature takes place at a station in the Uranus system. It is quickly discovered that the creatures are created from infected humans.
They are called the Machina.
-Stellar Year 247
The Machina waste no time in attacking/infecting the population of the Saturn system. 80% of the Saturn system is overrun by the Machina by the end of the year. The infection is found to be caused by the runaway evolution of the nanomachines. Nanomachines are banned in all human territory. Under the command of the United Operations Forces, the Anti-Machina Special Forces, commonly called REPAIR, are created. From this point on, Earth becomes totally closed to outsiders.
-Stellar Year 248
The Saturn system falls to the Machina entirely. Luna, the Earth’s moon, is totally fortified to protect the central human government of Earth and the people who live there. Machina move towards the Jupiter system to begin invasion.
-Stellar Year 250
Approximately half of all space stations in the Jupiter system are infected. Major moons of Jupiter are beginning to be attacked by the Machina. Terror attacks by Machina cultists begin.
-Stellar Year 255
Ganymede, the largest and most populated of Jupiter’s moons, falls to the Machina completely. Seven extraordinary Machina are reported among the Queen-class Machina present on Ganymede. They are designated Queen-class Alpha Machina. Approximately half of Europa is lost to the Machina.
-Stellar Year 262
80% of the Jupiter system is lost to the Machina. The United Operations Forces begin withdrawing everything they can and fortifying the asteroid belt. Mars and most space stations face a major resource crisis since they relied on the Jupiter system and the asteroid belt for many resources.
-Stellar Year 265
The Jupiter system is totally lost with all holdouts defeated. A stalemate occurs due to the fortified nature of the asteroid belt. Because the Machina need to infect more humans, and humanity needs the resources of the asteroid belt and Jupiter system, fighting shifts from open warfare to rapid, stealthy raids.
