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Stellar Calendar
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 caused by multiple nuclear strikes from all sides. Surviving humans form the United Human Federation government.
Stellar Year 21
Many scientists were hidden away by their countries, who now no longer exist. Coming together, they work towards a better humanity. Old ethical restrictions on many biological research fields are removed. Cloning and nanomachines become focal points of research among humanity's scientists.
Stellar Year 48
Human population is rapidly replenished with new, reliable cloning techniques based on normal, genetically-fit humans. The global environment is restored, with temperatures returned to pre-warming figures and radioactivity totally cleared up. The United Human Federation launches the Mars Pioneer Project.
Stellar Year 60
Breakthroughs in genetic engineering occur and designer baby technology becomes widespread. Clones before now were considered people, but by now their production has ceased in favour of blank-slate clones with optimized genetics but subservient limitations and few rights.
Stellar Year 76
Nanomachines are developed and legalized through massive corporate lobbying from the emerging conglomerates, despite the voiced concerns of many scholars. Genetic enhancement technology is augmented with these new nanomachines. Humanity becomes a genetically-engineered species thanks to the newest genetic enhancements being able to not just affect babies, but also children and adults. In doing so, almost all genetic disease is eradicated and humanity in general becomes smarter, stronger, healthier, more beautiful, and longer-lived.
Stellar Year 121
Mars is terraformed. The Age of Pioneering has begun, driven by megacorporations who have expanded extremely aggressively following decades of booming industry.
Stellar Year 160
The human sphere of life has extended into the asteroid belt, where numerous stations have been established. The subservient blank-slate clones had become so great in number that 'natural' humanity was easily the minority. Fearing a clone revolt, the human rights of clones are recognized in a United Human Federation constitutional amendment which simultaneously prohibits the continuation of cloning. While the overall genetic integrity and traits of the clones are equal or superior to 'natural' humans, an unforeseen complication occurred as they began interbreeding which resulted in an irreversible gender imbalance of at least 5 women for every man. Total human population exceeds 10 billion people.
Stellar Year 167
Megacorps and oligarchs control practically all the surface area of Earth. They use their political puppets in the United Human Federation government to pass a bill evicting all people from Earth below a certain, ridiculous, amount of wealth, excluding their 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, assuming they are in roughly similar orbital areas. Stations and cities are built in the Jupiter system, mainly by those evicted from Earth.
Stellar Year 195
Jupiter’s moons are being terraformed. A malfunction in the Deus Ex Machina line of nanomachines, dominant line of nanomachines, is covered up by the megacorp known as Voyager.
Stellar Year 220
Saturn’s major moons begin colonization and some terraforming. Megacorps continue to keep the populace in line despite the distance by sending large private security forces to Saturn.
Stellar Year 243
The first station at Pluto is established by Voyager for unknown purposes.
Stellar Year 245
All contact with the Pluto station is lost.
Stellar Year 246
The first recorded contact with an unknown creature takes place at the stations in the Uranus system. It is quickly discovered that the creatures are created by infecting humans and transforming them into more of themselves.
Stellar Year 247
The Machina waste no time in attacking/infecting the population of the Saturn system. The security forces present are crushed by the Machina, who are unaffected by their simple weapons. 80% of the Saturn system is overrun by the Machina by the end of the year. The United Human Federation passes many powerful bills, such as forming the United Operations Forces. Chief among these bills is the R.E.P.A.I.R. Bill, authorizing the creation of an extra-legal, anti-Machina force-within-a-force of the UOF. The first task REPAIR undertakes is the study of the Machina infection and spread. REPAIR discover that the Machina are caused by the runaway evolution of the Deus Ex Machina nanomachines. Nanomachines are subsequently banned, although REPAIR continue utilizing them in order to fight the Machina. Voyager, once the pinnacle of human technological achievement and multi-market dominator, crashes and burns as a result. In the background of all this, the Earth becomes increasingly closed-off.
Stellar Year 248
The Saturn system falls to the Machina entirely. Luna, the Earth’s moon, is totally fortified to protect the United Human Federation central government and the 'Gaians' who now live in secluded paradise on Earth. Machina move towards the Jupiter system to begin invasion.
Stellar Year 250
Approximately half of all space stations in the Jupiter system are infected by the carefully-planned and quickly-executed first strikes of the Machina. Major moons of Jupiter come under attack by the Machina, who now have beachheads into the system in the form of the conquered stations. With each conquered station and city, the Machina's numbers swell, but as the fighting reaches the ground of the major moons, the Machina quickly learn that humanity has rushed into development new weapons capable of harming them. Humanity strongly fortifies itself on the ground where they can best use their numbers, and Machina can no longer attack head-on without a care as before. Instead, the Machina Queens utilize their greatest strength, their shared network and command ability, to orchestrate their forces' attacks. Almost all Machina Queens begin campaigns of confusion, diversion, feinting, flanking, and weakening human strong-points until the main blobs of defenders are exhausted and cut-off from any help. Only then do the Machina finally attack, so as to not lose their precious lives to the waiting humans and denying the humans their desired 'decisive battles'.
Stellar Year 255
The fight for the Jupiter system takes much longer than the Saturn system partially due to humanity's new weapons, which caused the shift in Machina tactics, and partially because REPAIR Agents were often able to enter Machina territory and disrupt the planned actions of the Machina. However the largest and most populated of Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede, falls to the Machina completely by this year, thanks to its irresistibly large population drawing much of the Machina attention. 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 by now as well.
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. Fighting now reaches a lull between humanity and Machina, but is by no means stopped. Both humans and Machina launch long-distance commando raids into the territories of the other for the resources they each require.