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The Last World War escalates out of an African proxy war, ultimately pitting the Pan European Anglo Alliance and the Chinese against the Japanese-led Easterner Coalition and its Russian and Indian allies. A summer offensive in Central Asia results in a general use of weapons of mass destruction throughout the northern hemisphere, killing nearly a billion people. Skirmishes and full scale space battles occur in Earth orbit and among scattered vessels and stations all the way out to Saturn. After eight months of widespread warfare, the struggle officially ends on November 1 with the signing of a general armistice at the UNSA Copernicus Headquarters Complex on Luna. Plans for the formation of a federal world government, the Commonwealth, go into effect and relief efforts start. Most areas of Earth are without power and essential supplies remain scarce. The temperature in the northern hemisphere is twelve degrees below normal as winter approaches. Medical facilities are nearly non-existent and biological agents remain a hazard. Except for a band of separatist guerrillas in Tibet and a few renegade Russian and Japanese spacecraft, all fighting has ceased. No city of more than 100,000 remains intact; Earth's transportation systems are in ruins; the Beanstalks have fallen. A coordinated relief effort directed from Copernicus and the temporary capital in the ruins of Istanbul saves many, but hundreds of millions die in the cold northern winter. Late in the war, the Easterner Space Military Command seizes a military research facility in the Belt; Admiral Narita leads nearly a thousand hibernating soldiers and scientists aboard a small ramscoop-propelled planetoid, dubbed the Battlestar, as it departs for Tau Ceti at over .1 light speed. |
| 2053 | The Commonwealth Era officially begins. The Commonwealth holds temporary elections. Most posts go to former members of the Pan European Anglo Alliance and the Chinese Republic, the winners by default of the devastating conflict. The spring brings fresh epidemics and starvation deaths. Massive reconstruction projects begin, centered primarily on food production and environmental cleanup. Commonwealth forces eradicate the Tibetan guerrillas and account for all but two Russian spacecraft. Lunar, Martian and space station colonies formally join the Commonwealth, uniting Humanity for the first time. |
| 2054 | Government operated hydroponic farms begin massive food production; increasing global rations to 1,500 calories per day. Mass vaccinations control the epidemics in refugee camps. A Commonwealth naval task force destroys the last two Russian spacecraft in separate engagements in the Belt and near Jupiter. The Commonwealth Provisional Executive Council officially declares hostilities at an end. |
| 2055 | The Commonwealth holds its first regular elections and the conservative Horizon Party gains control of the Executive and Legislative Councils. The government adopts a British model to issue non-hereditary titles of nobility for exceptional service and bravery. Food rations increase to 2,000 calories per day. Commercial mining and processing operations begin in the main asteroid belt. |
| 2056 | The new Commonwealth government takes up permanent residence in Byzantium, rising from the ruins of Istanbul. Food rationing and martial law ends on Terra. Recovery projects concentrate on construction and transportation. The Commonwealth federalizes all military forces and then reduces troop strengths by half. The Legislative Council passes laws limiting the capabilities of Constructs, Cyborgs, and Robots to mid-range human levels in all forms of achievement. Other legislation confirms the property status of all sentient created beings except enhanced primates and dolphins. Martian colonists found the University of Deimos at the site of the moon's research base. |
| 2057 | The Legislature cuts global funding for public education and bans genetic alteration and sex selection of Human embryos. Anti-Commonwealth riots break out in some cities and in the remaining relocation camps. Farside Labs tests an improved plasma drive; it explodes on the third trial, killing three engineers. The Commonwealth begins recruiting its own independent space and military police force, the Commonwealth Security Force (CSF), and cuts remaining federalized national troop strength by 50%. |
| 2058 | The Commonwealth Legislative Council passes a revised constitution, reorganizing the world into fifty Regions (plus one off-world), establishing citizenship prerequisites and confirming powers to create orders of nobility and knighthoods. The "Freedom Revolution" erupts and spreads through regions of North America, Australia and Asia. CSF marine units quickly suppress dissent, killing over four thousand and arresting at least twenty thousand. |
| 2059 | In Lunar orbit, construction begins on the first ramscoop Cityship, the Atlantis. The Commonwealth closes down the last post-war relocation camps. |
| 2060 | The Commonwealth holds its first census and begins plans to wholly national boundaries with administrative Regions and Districts. The Census Bureau estimates that the death toll from the Last World War exceeded two billion. The Horizon Party maintains control of the Executive and Legislative councils. |
| 2061 | All reconstruction projects end amid great fanfare, but for the majority, conditions remain much worse than ante-bellum circumstances. The Commonwealth Space Exploration Administration (CSEA or "CC") begins talking applications for colonists to travel to Alpha Centauri aboard the Atlantis. A CSEA expedition to Halley's Comet captures the popular imagination. Australian nationalists begin a campaign of terror against Asian settlers. |
| 2062 | Researchers at the University of Deimos introduce a new anti-aging and rejuvenation technique (Renuex Therapy) that when combined with conventional genetic manipulations is expected to double, or add another century and a half, to the human life span; cost precludes use by all but the wealthy. CSEA resumes Outer System exploration by proposing science stations on the moons of all four gas giants. |
| 2063 | Citing budgetary restraints, the Commonwealth cuts research and naval expenditures by 20% and absorbs all remaining national space forces into the CSF. Funding for civil construction projects in North America, Europe and Asia increases. |
| 2064 | CSEA begins construction of a second Cityship, the Voyager. Continuing natural disasters and food shortages prompt increased government spending on hydroponic farming. The Renewable Resources Bureau (RRB) reinstates food rationing and enforces conservation. CSF troops raid several facilities, effectively ending the Australian Nationalist movement. CSEA establishes a twenty person research base on Callisto. |
| 2065 | The Atlantis departs for Alpha Centauri at .115 light speed with five thousand colonists aboard. The Commonwealth holds its first general elections under the new Regional boundaries; the Horizon Party maintains its grip on power. A strong show of force by CSF military patrols discourage election protests planned in North America and Asia. The first NEAR habitat, Utopia One is completed by the Nedelin Corporation and opened for colonization. |
| 2066 | Under CSEA contract, Farside Labs tests its new prototype high-thrust plasma drive spacecraft, the Gagarin; this vessel is the first non-Cityship to use meta-stabilized metallic hydrogen (MSMH) fuel for power and propulsion. The CSEA establishes a twenty person research base on Titan and a second Jupiter base on Ganymede. |
| 2067 | With near and main belt asteroid mining and settlement quickly increasing, the CSF sells many of its wartime era vessels as surplus and begins procurement of a small fleet of MSMH powered Sword class fast frigates for inner system patrol and courier duty. The CSF also plans construction of a dozen new outposts throughout the Sol System to support naval operations. |
| 2068 | RRB hydroponic farms now produce 45% of Terra's food needs and control distribution of much of the rest. The Census Bureau reports that the average standard of living has reached ante-bellum levels; the independent press loudly disputes this claim, resulting in legislation strengthening libel laws that effectively restrict freedom of the press. All local military and police units disband in favor of the CSF. CSEA establishes a small research outpost on the Uranian moon Oberon. |
| 2069 | The annual Commonwealth budget cuts funding for public research and exploration by 25%. The Legislature funds the PSM Project, a world-wide plastcrete superhighway/monorail system. CSEA establishes research outposts on Enceladus and Triton. |
| 2070 | In elections, the Horizon Party solidifies its hold on the Executive and Legislature. The Census Bureau produces detailed documentation of the world administrative districts, claiming the eradication of hunger and the remaining war plagues. Unofficial experiments aimed at terraforming Mars begin, despite an official ban protecting native life. |
| 2071 | The Commonwealth Secret Service uncovers a coup plot by several senior naval officers; broadcasted trials result in convictions of all 32 conspirators, with twelve quickly executed and the rest imprisoned for treason. CSEA establishes a research base on Pluto and begins exploration for the Kuiper Belt. |
| 2072 | The Voyager departs for Alpha Centauri at .12 light speed with five thousand colonists that are overwhelmingly dissenters. The Commonwealth legalizes what is effectively lifetime slavery, officially "Artifact Status" or AS, for convicted felons and chronic debtors. The CSF puts down violent protests by civil rights groups, killing hundreds and sentencing thousands to lifetime AS. The Legislature passes a law requiring mandatory "social adjustment treatments" for all AS. |
| 2073 | CSEA receives approval for the Venus Terraformation Project with initial funding for a detailed study and preliminary bombardment with diverted comets. |
| 2074 | CSEA launches the Cousteau, a short-range ramscoop ship, to explore the Scattered Disk and inner Oort Cloud. |
| 2075 | The Horizon Party wins a veto-proof majority in the Commonwealth elections, leaving the opposition in the hands of four minor parties: Green, Justice, Freedom and Progressive. |
| 2076 | A bill which would have effectively prevented offworld colonization by Residents barely fails to pass the Commonwealth Legislature. |
| 2077 | At a congress in Paris, three Commonwealth opposition parties, the Justice, Freedom and Progressive, unite to form the Liberal Party. |
| 2078 | PhillipsEricsson begins commercial sale of high-efficiency energy absorption/storage panels (ASP panels) for collecting and storing electromagnetic energy; these panels soon replace solar panels and most batteries and fuel cells in commercial and residential operation. |
| 2079 | The CSF crushes the New Munchen "slave revolt", killing over three thousand AS and sympathizers who had seized the arcology in a political protest. |
| 2080 | The Horizon Party narrowly maintains its veto-proof majority in the Legislature, with the Liberal Party becoming the second largest party with 31% of the popular vote. |
| 2081 | CSEA receives funding to construct two additional upgraded Cityships, capable of over one quarter light speed. Pavel Karinsky publishes The Mechanist Universe, outlining his manifesto for immortality achieved though technological means and for the rejection of spiritualism; Karinsky soon achieves a substantial cult following. |
| 2082 | The CSEA-sponsored Charon Research Lab opens on Pluto's moon to conduct hazardous high energy physics research. |
| 2083 | CSEA establishes the Aperture research base on Mercury, using corporate sponsorship to compensate for funding shortfalls. The Vesta Mining Consortium builds the Vesta Star a transport ship powered by an improved low thrust MSMH CNO-protium fusion engine and capable of sustained .1 gee acceleration. The Amun Settlement agreement ands a vicious trade war between the Nedelin and Tata Corporations and begins the transformation of the NEAR planetoid into a sprawling mining installation and habitat. |
| 2084 | Venus Terraformation Phase I: Bombardment begins with the diversion of short period comets. CSEA and private partners dispatch robotic drones to the Kuiper Belt to divert larger bodies toward Venus. |
| 2085 | The Liberal Party shows significant gains in Commonwealth elections, receiving 39% of the vote and with assistant from the small Green and People's party, are able to block some Horizon legislation through filibusters and coalitions with the moderate wing of the Horizon Party. The Midas mining habitat, first of over a hundred to roam the Belt, is completed at Vesta. |
| 2086 | Pavel Karinsky receives Commonwealth certification of Mechanism as a recognized philosophical organization. CSEA launches the Hesperus to explore within 2 million kilometer's of sun's photosphere and to deploy probes deep into the solar core. |
| 2087 | An antimatter containment accident destroys the Charon Research Lab, killing all twenty personnel. |
| 2088 | The Liberal Party succeeds passing a compromise amendment that allows for the colonization of Tau Ceti's presumed habitable planet by anti-government activists. The Commonwealth hereditizes titles of nobility. In subsequent legislation, Legislative membership is restricted to the nobility or knighthood, and Executive Council membership is restricted to the Peerage, though these changes do not affect the composition of the present government. |
| 2089 | The CSF crushes the last major slave revolt in Commonwealth history, overrunning the Lake Michigan Arcology and killing forty-two hundred AS and sympathizers. Personality adjustment programs become more stringent. |
| 2090 | The Cityship Libertas departs for Tau Ceti with ten thousand mostly libertarian dissidents aboard, eventually reaching .265 light speed. The Liberal Party suffers losses to the reform wing of the Horizon Party, which focuses on fiscal responsibility and reforms of contracts and procurement practices. |
| 2091 | The Hesperus is lost after a massive solar flare. A rescue attempt by vessels based on Mercury saves half the crew, but Captain Khalid Masoud and the command crew goes down with their ship, into the sun. |
| 2092 | A rebuilt Charon Research Lab opens near the site of the original installation. The Cityship Constellation departs for Alpha Centauri with ten thousand aboard. CSEA secures funding from the Martian local government and from asteroid mining companies to build another Cityship at the Vesta shipyard. |
| 2093 | A massive drought begins in sub-Saharan Africa, crippling food production and starting massive dust storms that sweep across the Sahel, the Saharan Desert and over the Atlantic into the Caribbean. Funding increases for the Environmental Control Bureau (ECB). |
| 2094 | The Commonwealth Legislature narrowly passes the Artificial Status Progeny Act, effectively hereditizing Artificial Status. |
| 2095 | The reform wing of the Horizon Party unites behind Count Alphonso Dubrin to take effective control of the Commonwealth government. In the ensuing election, the Liberal Party splinters, leaving Horizon with a veto-proof majority in the Legislature. |
| 2096 | Alphonso Dubrin becomes the effective leader of the Executive Council and pushes through the Balanced Budget Act. Government cutbacks mandated by the Act slashes 35% of CSEA funding, forcing the abandonment of all Commonwealth-sponsored civilian space projects except the Venus Terraformation Project and a few research labs. |
| 2097 | The Great Droughts spread across the American Midwest and into Central Asia and Eastern Europe. A massive earthquake strikes the Ganges River basin, killing nearly two million people. |
| 2098 | The Commonwealth nationalizes all food production under the RRB. The ECB begins the Lombardi Project in an attempt to control earthquakes via seismic feedback. |
| 2099 | Pavel Karinsky founds the Mechanist settlement of Eternity north of the Hellas Basin on Mars. |
| 2100 | The reform wing of the Horizon Party maintains control of the party and the Commonwealth in the elections. The Census Bureau produces a documentary of the 21st Century called Triumph from Ruin, touting the progress made in material well-being, life expectancy and peace during the Commonwealth era. |
| 2101 | The Terran economy begins a period of stagnation, with growth falling below population increase levels. Strong economic growth continues in the off-world colonies. A group of sixty futurists forms the Time Travel Society and begins a voluntary fifty year hibernation at an undisclosed facility in the Australian Outback. |
| 2102 | A series of powerful earthquakes devastate California and the Mediterranean, causing few deaths but massive property damage. The Quake Depression begins with the crash of the Byzantium and Zurich markets. The Lombardi Project terminates. The final Cityship, Mariner, departs for Alpha Centauri from Vesta. Among the ten thousand colonists is Baron James McKnight, commander of the first Mars and Saturn expeditions. |
| 2103 | The Commonwealth raises taxes to pay for quake reconstruction projects, further weakening the Terran economy. Tax protests begin in the off-world colonies. Alphonso Dubrin resigns from the Executive pressured over both economic mismanagement issues and his support for the Lombardi Project. |
| 2104 | The Quake Depression deepens, with a quarter of the Terran Citizen population out of work. The CSF patrols urban areas to break up protests, but limit arrests to the worst offenders. The Uranus Sky Mining Corporation begins operations out of the small moon Mab. |
| 2105 | The Cityship Atlantis arrives in the Alpha Centauri System, taking up orbit around the outer world of Alpha Centauri B, and naming the cool watery world Atlantis. While some colonists immediately settle on the surface, many remain in orbit as the Atlantis Modification Project begins to improve the world's chilly climate. The reform wing of the Horizon Party collapses, with fiscal conservatives joining the main conservative wing. The new administration promises steps to promote private sector growth and lower taxes. |
| 2106 | The Commonwealth Executive and Legislature force through an austerity program, cutting funding across the board and essentially dismantling CSEA. Alphonso Dubrin joins the Progressive Party and forms an alliance with the Justice Party. The first large Kuiper bodies begin to impact Venus adding water and altering the rotation of the planet. |
| 2107 | The RRB resumes food rationing in response to the depression and continuing droughts. Hurricanes and typhoons ravage the coastlines in what becomes the warmest year on record. Food riots spread among Resident populations in South America and Asia. |
| 2108 | Mars, the Belt and NEAR colonies apply direct funding from local taxation to keep alive basic CSEA programs, including the Venus Program, and to keep open the series of research bases from Mercury to Charon. More than a third of Sao Paulo burns during a massive food riot that kills twelve thousand people. |
| 2109 | The Commonwealth imposes stricter censorship laws and restricts the free movement of Residents. Taxes increase to fund expanded government food production. |
| 2110 | The Progressive-Justice Alliance wins 31% of the electorate, but falls short of the executive strength necessary to act as an effective opposition. The Constellation reaches Alpha Centauri, barely passing the Voyager. |
| 2111 | Count Alphonso Dubrin joins the Executive Council as a member of the opposition. The Voyager reaches Alpha Centauri; the two newly arrived Cityships take up orbit above Atlantis. Some leaders among the new Atlantian arrivals press for a declaration of independence from the Commonwealth, but the resolution fails to pass. However, a second resolution, harshly condemning Commonwealth policies toward Residents and people of Artifact Status receives overwhelming approval and is formally transmitted back to Sol. As with the Atlantis, more than half the population of the new Cityships remains in orbit as the surface modifications progress. |
| 2112 | The off-world District assemblies on Mars and the Belt begin pressing the Commonwealth for greater autonomy. |
| 2113 | The Great Droughts continue for a twentieth year. Typhoon Wanda submerges the entire Bangladesh region, killing at least four million people. |
| 2114 | The Commonwealth Legislature passes and confirms the Home Rule Amendment, giving colonies almost complete freedom over their internal affairs, provided they do not attempt to subvert or leave the Commonwealth. |
| 2115 | The Progressive-Justice Alliance wins 34% of the electorate, enough for a viable opposition. The Census Bureau reports tentative data that suggests that Earth's population has begun to decline. |
| 2116 | CSEA mothballs the Cousteau at Charon, lacking funds for additional Oort explorations. |
| 2117 | The Terran economy enjoys real growth for the first time since 2100, but the government refuses to lift Depression Era restrictions. The new budget increases spending on basic services by 10%. |
| 2118 | Urban and campus demonstrations against the censorship and passport laws spread across Terra. The CSF storms the University of Miami after a student takeover, killing over four hundred protesters. The Commonwealth Executive declares a state of siege and imposes curfews in many localities. |
| 2119 | The off-world colonies assume full control over the Charon Research Lab to avoid its closure as part of a Commonwealth austerity measure. The Mariner reaches Atlantis. A new motion to secede based on lack of representation in the Commonwealth Legislative Council passes overwhelmingly. Atlantis declares itself a Republic, broadcasts its declaration of independence back to the Solar System and elects Thomas Atkinson its interim president. Urban riots decrease on Earth as increases in food production, the end of rationing for Citizens and growth of employment and government services improve living conditions. The CSF curtails continuing demonstrations in the universities with a massive show of force and numerous arrests. |
| 2120 | The off-world colonies assume full control over the Venus Terraformation Project, as the Commonwealth continues to shift its limited resources to Terran domestic needs. The Census Bureau confirms Terra's population decline, with deaths exceeding births for the first time since 2057. The Horizon Party regains total control of the Commonwealth, winning 67% of the vote; the Progressive-Justice Alliance manages only 28% in this election. The Martian local government overturns restrictions on terraformation and begins full-scale atmospheric modifications with biological agents. |
| 2121 | Hurricane Yolanda strikes New Orleans, leaving the city submerged for a month; controversial rebuilding efforts begin under the sponsorship of Executive Councilor Count William DuBois. Atlantis holds its first regular elections, electing Thomas Atkinson to a six-year term as president of the Republic. Robert Dunbar becomes the first person to celebrate a 200th birthday. |
| 2122 | The off-world colonies formally take control of CSEA, renaming the organization the Colonial Space Exploration Agency and transferring its headquarters to Juno in the main Belt. |
| 2123 | The world-wide Great Drought reaches its thirty year but shows signs of dissipating. Midwest American crops succeed for the first time since 2105. |
| 2124 | Word of the Atlantian revolt reaches Sol. The Commonwealth Legislature adopts Edict 14356, a ban on all interstellar travel and colonization. The CSF puts down pro-Atlantian riots in California, detaining and reprogramming hundreds of protestors. |
| 2125 | The Horizon Party wins 71% of the votes and full control of the government in what opposition parties claim was a rigged election. Alphonso Dubrin is among the thousands of protestors arrested, but he is soon released. Decreased demand for helium 3 contributes to the bankruptcy of the Uranus Sky Mining Corporation. |
| 2126 | The Commonwealth ECB declares the Great Droughts ended. An ECB study shows that Terran surface temperatures have increased four degrees Celsius since 2000, and the sea level has risen over two meters. The ECB begins carefully monitored and peer-reviewed work to control tropical storms. |
| 2127 | A pro-opposition documentary released by LaGrangeNet, a semi-autonomous Near Earth Colony media outlet, leads to mobilization of a CSF Naval Fleet under Admiral Hu. Mediation led by Alphonso Dubrin defuses the crisis; the compromise agreement allows for more independent media in the colonies but imposes greater censorship on Terra. James McKnight becomes the second president of Atlantis. |
| 2128 | A small asteroid impacts in the Sulu Sea, causing twenty thousand deaths and widespread damage from tsunamis and demonstrating the inadequacy of the current planetary defense grid. |
| 2129 | Funding for the planetary defense grid increases 20%. An amendment that would relieve Earthbound press restrictions fails to make it out of committee, prompting Alphonso Dubrin to begin a series of protest meetings across the world. |
| 2130 | The Horizon Party again wins a solid 70% of the vote in the general election, despite the strong showing from a reunited Liberal Party led by Alphonso Dubrin. Protests over voting irregularities are widespread, but a heavy police presence quickly defuses violence. |
| 2131 | After a failed attempt to challenge Commonwealth election results, Alphonso Dubrin refuses to be seated on the Executive Council and begins a protest outside the Capitol in Byzantium, shutting down the Executive and Legislative councils. On the twentieth day of the protest, CSF troops storm the protestors and arrest Dubrin on charges of treason. |
| 2132 | Alphonso Dubrin allegedly commits suicide under house arrest while awaiting his trial. Massive protests and riots rock Earth and spread to the off-world colonies. The Anarchist Revolution begins as a coordinated band of protestors seize control of key installations and cities across Earth. Though the actual number of conspirators is small, their successes cause Lord Admiral Hu, fleet commander of the CSF, to assume massive collaboration. Hu orders the planetary defense grid to attack the rebel stronghold of Houston, resulting in over three million deaths. Once the Revolution collapses and the true facts become evident, the off-world colonies threaten secession and begin arming themselves. After some delay, Commonwealth authorities arrest, try and execute Hu, defusing the crisis. Over five hundred Anarchists face Artifact Status sentences; the final death toll from the Revolution tops five million. |
| 2133 | An investigative panel finds three mid-level CSF police officials guilty of conspiracy in the death of Alphonso Dubrin and two officers guilty of committing the murder; they are sentence to Artifact Status. Janet Hwang becomes the third president of Atlantis. |
| 2134 | The Legislative Council passes a law that relaxes Earthbound press restrictions. Combined with an increase in social spending, the Horizon Party publicly appeals to voters to support them in the upcoming election. |
| 2135 | The Libertas reaches Tau Ceti. The crew and colonists name the only habitable world Libertas, form the Council of Citizens and immediately vote for independence. Work begins on improving rainfall on Libertas's supercontinent. CSEA begins to refit the Cousteau with an improved ramscoop system. The Horizon Party wins a narrow 52% majority in the general election against a fragmented opposition and barely manage to maintain a executive Council majority. |
| 2136 | Bombardment of Mars by water-bearing comets begins. Viggo Turki is born on Atlantis. |
| 2137 | Hurricane Zeke devastates Cuba, killing thousands. |
| 2138 | Under the command of Captain Jose Cardenas, the Cousteau begins a deep exploration mission to the Oort Cloud |
| 2139 | Construction begins on a high thrust ion engine at Vesta Shipyards. Thomas Atkinson reluctantly agrees to a second term as president of Atlantis. |
| 2140 | The Horizon Party manages to win an increased majority against the fractious opposition. |
| 2141 | The Cousteau encounters a derelict alien vessel half a light-year from the sun; no systems remain functional but science teams date the hull at twenty million years old. ECB scientists successfully divert Hurricane Emma from the North American coast. |
| 2142 | CSEA launches the Xenon Sprinter experimental ion vessel from Vesta, accelerating at up to two gees in a round trip to the Jovian Leading Trojans. |
| 2143 | The Cousteau returns from its five year mission, arriving at Charon to a hero's welcome. |
| 2144 | The CSF begins construction of the Caesar class patrol cruiser, incorporating new high thrust variable ion engines. |
| 2145 | Confederation elections result in little change in the overall government composition and show declining voter turnout. |
| 2146 | News of the Libertine revolt reaches the Solar System. Captain Cardenas takes the Cousteau on a second cruise into the Oort Cloud. |
| 2147 | The Tangerine Plague brings the TerraNet Terran/Orbital web-sphere to a near collapse. Lunar technicians and AIs isolate their nodes and recover TerraNet. |
| 2148 | The Colonial Party is founded on Luna, pressing for more autonomy for the off-world colonies. |
| 2149 | Several opposition groups, including the Colonial Party, unite to form the Liberal Alliance in advance of the general election. |
| 2150 | The Horizon Party ekes out a 51.5% majority in the general election, barely maintaining control of the government against the upsurgent Alliance. |
| 2151 | The Cousteau returns to Charon and enters mothballs for a second time. Members of the Time Travel Society emerge from hibernation and complain that little has changed in fifty years; installing newer equipment and recruiting more members, they divide into three groups, vowing to hibernate for 50, 100 and 150 years. |
| 2152 | General Electric begins selling relatively compact MSMH protium fusion reactors for use in medium-sized land, sea and air vehicles. Zhang Ping is arrested for instigating the Tangerine Plague. Tomas Johannessen is born on Atlantis. |
| 2153 | An ECB survey indicates that temperatures have stabilized at six degrees above 2000 levels with sea levels three meters elevated. A software virus infects several Renuex regeneration clinics, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of regeneration patients. |
| 2154 | The Green Party withdraws from the Liberal Alliance after platform differences on ECB policy. |
| 2155 | In the general election, the Horizon Party wins a 53% majority over the weakened Liberal Alliance; election turnout reaches a record low. The Venus Terraformation Project reaches Phase II with heavy bombardment ending as permanent steamy oceans form. The first Venusian permanently staffed ground stations become operational on the Ishtar Terra plateau. |
| 2156 | A large hyperbolic comet (HC 36) enters the solar system from interstellar space. Captain Rajiv Kumar leads the expedition to HC 36 aboard the CSEA research vessel Athena. Robert Dunbar dies at age 235. |
| 2157 | Three major software plagues and a robot "insurrection" infect many Commonwealth government facilities. The Atlantis Modification Project reaches official completion with most of the surface accessible without cold weather clothing, but ten thousand of the fifty thousand colonists remain in Cityship orbital habitats. The CSF shuts down illegal mind-machine research at the Mechanist settlement of Eternity on Mars. |
| 2158 | The Athena, with a crew of 114 mostly Colonial scientists and officers, announces that it is staying on HC 36 as it exits the Solar system. CSEA officials decline to mount a recovery expedition, and begin to refer to the passing comet as the Kumar Colony, headed into Taurus and for another stellar encounter in half a million years. |
| 2159 | Unknown terrorists attack the CSF base on Juno with a fifty gram antimatter charge, killing three hundred twenty people and destroying three vessels. |
| 2160 | The Easterner ramscoop asteroid Battlestar reaches Tau Ceti, precipitating the Libertas War. After losing three frigates and one hundred personnel in three outer system skirmishes, Admiral Narita negotiates a truce and the Battlestar retreats, accelerating toward Epsilon Eridani. The Libertines lose four vessels and nearly four hundred personnel in the war. In the Commonwealth elections, the Horizon Party maintains control with a 55% majority. The Census Bureau reports that the Terran population has begun to increase after nearly fifty years of decline; while birthrates remain very low, most of the increase comes from increased lifespan. |
| 2161 | Horizon Party leader Lord Andrew Timmins begins his first term on the Commonwealth Executive council, proclaiming a hard-line agenda. |
| 2162 | A Commonwealth law to make Citizenship exams more strenuous passes as an amendment to a bill increasing funding to evaluate new regeneration treatments. |
| 2163 | University protests over new citizenship restrictions begin on campuses across the Solar system. |
| 2164 | The Green Party re-joins the Liberal Alliance to provide a united opposition against the Horizon Party. Progressive leader Baron Yatindra Gupta becomes chairman of Alliance. |
| 2165 | A series of software plagues linked to university protest groups causes damage to CSF systems on Terra. In the general election, the Horizon Party maintains a 52% majority after a series of debates pitting Executive Councilor Timmins against Gupta. |
| 2166 | Yatindra Gupta assumes a seat on the Executive Council as the leader of the opposition. After a software plague causes a collision between two airships, killing 730 people, the Commonwealth places TerraNet security under the CSF and increases monitoring and censorship. |
| 2167 | Ultra regeneration therapy begins limited trials. Pavel Karinsky and four hundred followers establish the Eternity Two settlement on Varuna in the Kuiper Belt, allegedly to further mind-machine research without legal interference. |
| 2168 | Asteroid Belt miners stage a three week strike to protest CSF monitoring of private communications. The Commonwealth agrees to provide greater safeguards on monitoring, but does not end the practice. |
| 2169 | Executive Councilor Yatrindra Gupta accepts enfranchisement as the Count of Tharsis and moves to Mars, retaining leadership of the opposition Liberal Alliance. |
| 2170 | The Horizon Party increases its margin of victory in the general election, winning 54% of the vote and retaining Executive control. Executive Councilor Andrew Timmins becomes the Duke of Texas. |
| 2171 | Protesters disrupt the inauguration of the new Legislative Council; the twelve protest ringleaders use their trial to denounce Commonwealth restrictions on free expression and voting rights. The Count of Tharsis intervenes to allow the ringleaders to emigrate to Mars under probation. News of the Libertine War reaches the Solar system. |
| 2172 | Unknown individuals steal the Cousteau from Charon and launch it toward 82 Eridani, with an expected arrival in 2232. |
| 2173 | The Commonwealth institutes personality testing at government educational institutions to weed out dissidents; Mars and the Belt refuse to implement the new procedures. Dame Catherine Jones becomes the first person to celebrate a 250th birthday. |
| 2174 | A Horizon-sponsored measure to increase Executive Council terms to ten years fails narrowly in the Legislative Council; a Legislative term limit proposal offered by the Liberal Alliance also fails to pass. |
| 2175 | Ultra regeneration therapy receives full approval. In conjunction with advanced nanomed therapies, it is expected to add another century to the human life span for those that can afford it. Ultra marketers claim that a newborn child can live over six hundred years with NB therapy and the maximum five Ultra regenerations. The Horizon Party wins 55% in the general election, but carries no precincts beyond the Near Earth Colonies. |
| 2176 | Pavel Karinsky enters extended hibernation after beginning to suffer minor mental degradation. A software plague disrupts opening ceremonies at the Cairo Summer Olympics. |
| 2177 | Pirate news stations spread throughout the Belt, often spewing virulent anti-government rhetoric; a doctored 3vid of the Duke of Texas performing immoral acts with children and animals circulates widely. |
| 2178 | Security forces sweep through the Belt, arresting dozens of net broadcasters on libel charges, but pirate broadcasts spread to Terra. On Libertas, the Committee for Environmental Improvement declares its task completed and disbands, effectively reducing the Libertine government to the Navy and the Committee for Justice; however, vast stretches of the Libertine interior remain uninhabitable wasteland. |
| 2179 | A bill requiring further monitoring of system-wide web transmission passes easily. The Progressive Party Executive and Legislative Councilors, including the Count of Tharsis resign from the government. Despite restrictions, protests grow on Terran universities. Belters begin several strikes and work disruptions. |
| 2180 | The Horizon Party easily wins a 60% majority against the weakened Liberal Alliance. After the Near Earth Asteroid Colonies allow a series of very critical documentaries, the Executive Council declares a violation of the Home Rule Amendment. As negotiations falter, Colonies begin seceding from the Commonwealth in late December. Terra claims direct rule over the Colonial governments and mobilizes CSF naval forces. |
| 2181 | All Solar colonies secede from the Commonwealth by January 2nd. Nearly half the CSF fleet defects and sides with the Colonies. The Colonial War begins with a series of skirmishes in Earth Orbit; neither side is willing to begin bombardments of populated areas. On Earth, Colonists and sympathizers seize several spaceports and fight their way off world through an AI plague-infested defense grid. The Battle of Mars demonstrates the deadliness of direct engagements and the war quickly settles into commerce raiding and skirmishes. The Commonwealth fleet begins commerce raiding in the Belt and launches an abortive raid to seize Venus. |
| 2182 | With its fleet unable and unwilling to achieve a major victory at the Battle of Amun and domestic unrest on the rise, Terra agrees to an armistice. The Colonial War officially ends in September with the signing of the Treaty of Tycho. All Colonies, except the remaining Terran orbital power stations and factories, gain complete independence. |
| 2183 | A constitutional convention meets at High Aphrodite in Venus orbit and creates a Colonial Confederation with a permanent capital in the Lunar city of Copernicus. The convention recognizes the Near Earth Orbital and Asteroid Colonies (NEAR Colonies), Luna, Mars and the Asteroid Belt Colonies as sovereign, and holds Venus in trust as a future fifth member; it gives the Belt control of the Outer Worlds and Mars control of Mercury. The Kuiper and Oort systems, including Pluto and Charon, are held in a common trust under CSEA and an industrial commission. Yatindra Gupta, Count of Tharsis, becomes interim president of the Confederation. |
| 2184 | In reaction to continued unrest and growing dissatisfaction with the handling of the Colonial War, the moderate wing of the Horizon Party becomes dominant and forces the Duke of Texas to resign his position. The Atlantian Republic funds a major three-year interplanetary expedition to the Alpha Centauri A system; it is led by Captain Viggo Turki aboard the Palmer. |
| 2185 | On Terra, the now moderated Horizon Party wins 46% of the vote in the general election, forming a coalition with the centrist Citizen Party to govern. Yatrindra Gupta is overwhelmingly elected Confederation President. The God's Children sect establishes a settlement of six hundred pilgrims on Uranus's moon Oberon. |
| 2186 | A CSEA experimental vessel, Freedom Star achieves a high-efficiency ion thrust of 3 gees in trials. On Terra, the ruling coalition lasts just three months as internal disagreements fracture the Horizon Party and cause the Citizen Party to shift allegiance to the Liberal Alliance. The Horizon Party falls from power for the first time in Commonwealth history. A surface expedition from the Palmer to Alpha Centauri's largest planet, Londo, discovers an obelisk on the north pole with markings similar to the Ganymede North Pole Obelisk discovered in 2044. |
| 2187 | The Horizon Party officially splits, with the right wing retaining the name and many of the old policies and the left wing forming the center-right Conservative Party. The Duke of Texas dies in a boating accident off the Yucatan. The Commonwealth reverses most information-monitoring legislation and ends personality testing at educational institutions. |
| 2188 | CSEA launches a re-supply mission to the Kumar Colony with fifty additional colonists and a cargo of updated quantum computers, fabricator boxes and nanomed generators. |
| 2189 | A series of massive solar flares damages Mercury's North Pole station, killing forty personnel and forcing an evacuation of the facility. |
| 2190 | After a fractious election on Terra, the Horizon (27%) and Conservative (24%) Parties agree to form a coalition government. Yatindra Gupta refuses to stand for reelection as Colonial Confederation president and returns to his estates on Mars. |
| 2191 | The new Commonwelath government takes office, with the Conservatives blocking attempts by the Horizon Party to reinstitute data-monitoring laws. |
| 2192 | A bid by CSEA to build a new class of ramscoop ships fails to pass the Confederate council, though authorization narrowly passes for funding of design work and engineering tests. |
| 2193 | Yan Rheyes and the Janus computer sentient at Chiron University on Atlantis discover a governor process that allows macrojump interstellar travel using a focused Wexler field device; the Atlantian Republic funds development of a prototype vessel. |
| 2194 | The Confederation CSEA committee approves funding for three ramscoops capable of transporting up to one thousand sleeper colonists. Plans call for sixty-year voyages to 82 Eridani, Eta Cassiopeiae, and Delta Pavonis. |
| 2195 | The Conservative Party wins a plurality of votes in the Terran general election, proposing a coalition with the Horizon Party as a junior member. |
| 2196 | The Atlantian experimental robotic starship Enterprise makes its first interstellar jump, traveling between Alpha Centauri B and A. After a return jump, the Enterprise jumps to Proxima Centauri and back. Atlantis begins construction of the first crewed starship. On Earth, the government further relaxes laws governing netcasting. A proposal to privatize TerraNet passes the Legislature. |
| 2197 | The Martian government inaugurates the Gupta Station, a large, heavily shielded facility at Mercury's north pole. |
| 2198 | The Earth Defense Grid successfully intercepts an eighty meter asteroid, validating the system's integrity. |
| 2199 | Atlantis launches the Columbus, the first crewed macrojump ship; Captain Viggo Turki leads the crew of eight. The Columbus makes a trial run to Proxima Centauri, then jumps to the Solar system and visits the Belt, Luna and Earth. A second mission, via Sol to Libertas takes place before the end of the year. CSEA suspends plans to launch its three nearly completed ramscoop vessels. On Atlantis, construction begins on four additional starships, equipped with high-efficiency fusion engines; the Atlantian Exploratory Service is chartered. |
| 2200 | The Columbus makes additional trips to Sol and Tau Ceti, exchanging ambassadors and establishing formal diplomatic relations. The Columbus explores the UV Ceti system en-route to Libertas and continues on to Epsilon Eridani, exploring the proto-martian world Vulcan before returning to Atlantis. On Earth, the Conservative-Horizon coalition barely clings to power after the Commonwelath general election. With Atlantis refusing to disclose the secrets of macrojump, CSEA completes its three ramscoops, but mothballs the vessels at Charon pending further negotiations. |
| 2201 | The Columbus explores the Barnard's Star and Lalande 28115 star systems and undertakes more diplomatic missions to Sol and Libertas. The fifty-year sleepers of the Time Travel Society thaw and half of them decide to remain awake, proclaiming the dawn of new era of exploration. |
| 2202 | The Columbus continues diplomatic shuttles and explores Ross 154 and Epsilon Indi during a research mission. Discussions concerning a unified human government begin on Luna. |
| 2203 | The Columbus conducts a research mission to Sirius and Procyon, including detailed examinations of the white dwarf companions. After completing another series of diplomatic missions, the Columbus leaves service after the discovery of serious stress damage to the jump generator. Viggo Turki retires as captain to begin a political career. The starship Drake enters service with Tomas Johannessen as captain, conducting an exploratory mission through Epsilon Eridani to 82 Eridani and surveying the worlds eventually know as Dante and Amaterasu. The Cabral enters service as a diplomatic shuttle, running missions between the three populated star systems. |
| 2204 | Viggo Turki becomes the Atlantian ambassador to the Colonial Confederation and the chief Atlantian negotiator on Luna. The Drake conducts a deep exploration mission, discovering and surveying Paradise around Chara and continuing on to Beta Coma Berenices, where the crew discovers an abandoned alien starport on the third planet and a primitive sentient alien species, soon dubbed the Comans, on the fourth world. The Magellan enters service, discovering and surveying Aphrodite at Delta Pavonis and Cyclops at Eta Cassiopeiae. The Gagarin enters service as a detailed survey vessel and conducts an in-depth examination of the 82 Eridani system. |
| 2205 | The Eastern Battlestar arrives at Epsilon Eridani, disables the recon probes left by the Columbus and establishes a settlement of two hundred terraformer colonists before accelerating onwards toward 82 Eridani, reaching one third light speed with an upgraded ramscoop. After reviewing Atlantian survey data, CSEA decides to begin crewing two ramscoops, Zeus and Chronos, for a colonization voyage to Aphrodite, but keeps its third ship, Gaea, in reserve. The Drake surveys Kalmar at 61 Virginis during a looping route to Arcturus. The Gagarin crew makes first formal contact with the ice cave-dwelling Comans and explores the alien ruins on both BCB III and IV, uncovering evidence of repeated visits between thirty thousand and one thousand years ago; symbols discovered on BCB III and IV match those on the Ganymede and Londo obelisks. The Magellan discovers and surveys Delphi around Alpha Mensa. A Liberal Alliance victory (52%) in the Commonwealth general election breaks the impasse in reunification negotiations. Karl Turki, grand-nephew of Viggo Turki and one day King, is born on Atlantis. |
| 2206 | The Confederation Era begins. Negotiators at Shackleton Station establish the Terran Confederation. The eight member states maintain total internal autonomy and their own armed forces. The only powers of the Confederation concern the maintenance of trade and a common currency, immigration, relations with outside powers, and an interplanetary justice system. Atlantis keeps its monopoly on macrojump technology after forcing through the Comparative Advantage Amendment. Venus is held in trust by the four members of the now disbanded Colonial Confederation pending completion of the terraformation. The Colonial Industrial Commission retains control of the Kuiper and Oort regions, but cedes Pluto and Charon to the Confederation as research reservations. Atlantis begins construction of a new class of starships. The Zeus and Chronos ramscoops set out for Delta Pavonis each with one thousand sleeper colonists and a rotating crew of one hundred twenty working five-year shifts. The Drake explorers Fomalhaut and Vega. The Magellan discovers a chlorine-based ecosystem on Medusa in the 72 Hercules system; the Drake rescues the Magellan after its last ignition chamber burns out at Barnard's Star during its return voyage. The Gagarin conducts a detailed survey of Paradise. Easterner colonists on Vulcan begin producing rapid-growth clones to vastly expand the population. |
| 2207 | All members ratify the Confederation Constitution. The old CSEA complex at Copernicus on Luna becomes the site of the Confederation administrative headquarters. The Drake discovers Osiris at 61 Ursa Majoris and surveys ruins on the world Enigma in the 10 billion year old Groombridge 1830 system and the 47 Ursa Majoris system. The Magellan conducts a detailed survey of Kalmar and the Gagarin conducts a detailed survey of Medusa. |
| 2208 | Atlantis assigns the Magellan to aid in diplomatic shuttle missions. The Drake discovers Thor at 59 Virginis and continues on to 70 Virginis and Tau Bootes. Adverse reaction to the elevated status of the colonies strengthens the Horizon Party on Terra. The Gagarin conducts a detailed survey of Aphrodite. Tor McKnight, future King of Kalmar, is born on Atlantis. |
| 2209 | To provide for travel to and from Proxima, Atlantis leases the Gaea from CSEA in return for crew assignments on exploratory vessels. The Drake delivers an archeological team to Egaeus (Beta Coma Berenices III) and continues contact with the Comans. The Gagarin conducts a detailed survey of Cyclops. |
| 2210 | The Confederation holds its first elections. The Grand Senate comes under the control of a right-wing coalition lead by the Horizon Party. James McKnight and Viggo Turki serve as Senators from Atlantis; Yatindra Gupta reluctantly serves as a Martian Senator. Terra regains the lead in Solar affairs. The Gaea sets out for Atlantis with a crew of thirty and eleven hundred mostly Martian and Belter colonists. Atlantis launches the Einstein, the first 13m starship; Captain Tomas Johannessen leads its crew of eight on a deep penetration mission to Pollux, Capella and Aldebaran. The Drake discovers Apollo and Utopia. The Gagarin surveys Enigma at Groombridge 1830, detailing seven separate twenty million year old installations. |
| 2211 | The Grand Senate votes to avoid interference with the development of the Comans. The first attempt to establish a Confederation exploratory service fails. The Charon Research Lab begins a massive expansion under Confederation authority. The Einstein and Drake place a staffed research outpost on Beta Comae III and robotic monitors on Beta Comae IV. Later, The Einstein discovers Odin and the Drake discovers Artemis. The Gagarin spends months surveying Delphi. A consortium on Vesta duplicates Atlantis's high thrust fusion drive, though Atlantian drives prove more efficient. |
| 2212 | Martian medical labs on Deimos perfect reanimation techniques that restore full mental function up to a day after death. The Byzantium and Zurich stock exchanges crash in response to fears that Terra has permanently lost its competitiveness in technological development and a severe Solar System-wide recession begins. The Einstein discovers Thebes en route to Canopus. Atlantis establishes a staffed outpost on Paradise to evaluate possible colonization while the Gagarin performs a second survey of the entire Chara system. The Drake discovers Prometheus. August Timmins is born in Austin, Texas. |
| 2213 | The Einstein travels to Achernar, discovering the nearly Terran compatible Class A world of Eden en route. The Drake conducts shuttle service between Atlantis, Sol and the outposts at BCB and Paradise. The Gagarin conducts a survey of Thor. |
| 2214 | Atlantis launches the Newton, equipped for multi-system survey missions; it discovers Hercules on its first mission. The Einstein explores several white dwarf systems during an expedition to Regulus. The Drake begins conducting routine surveys of solar systems in addition to its BCB to Paradise route. The Gagarin surveys Eden with an eye toward colonization. |
| 2215 | Confederation elections show little change in the make-up of the Grand Senate, though the Horizon Party continues to win strength at the expense of the Conservatives. The Einstein explores several systems, discovering Horizon and Helicon. At Oracle, the Newton discovers the Quadrons, a stone age sentient race living among ruins of an earlier industrial civilization. The Gagarin surveys Apollo. |
| 2216 | The Newton notes the Easterner colony on Vulcan; Atlantis announces the finding to the Confederation, which takes no action. The Drake and Gagarin shut down the survey base on Paradise and place a new base on Kalmar. Terran scientists perfect the hyper-string pseudo-gravity (HSPG) thruster, an engine which allows for reactionless thrust without perceived acceleration. An expedition by the Einstein first visits Tripoli and Champa. |
| 2217 | The Einstein departs on an expedition to the nearest neutron star GRN-014, nearly 200 light years from Sol. The Gagarin conducts a survey on Oracle and uncovers the a Quadron semi-subterranean early-industrial culture; after the deaths of two crew members, the Gagarin departs; Oracle is placed under provisional quarentine. Scientists at CERN on Terra discover that an HSPG thruster in a "gravstar" configuration can effectively accelerate past light speed. Viggo Turki becomes president of Atlantis. |
| 2218 | The Einstein returns from the GRN-014 Expedition and begins an extensive overhaul to repair radiation damage. Captain Johannessen retires from exploratory duty. The Gagarin conducts a survey of Utopia. The Newton discovers Avalon and Ishtar. The Galileo enters service as a diplomatic shuttle. The Atlantian Republic approves funding for a class of 30m starships. The Drake conducts a covert mission to observe the Easterners on Vulcan. |
| 2219 | The era of early deep exploration ends, as the Drake, Einstein and Newton begin to focus on routine exploratory surveys. The Gagarin conducts a detailed survey of Artemis and the Maxwell enters service as an additional survey vessel. The Terran navy launches its HSPG gravstar ship, the Pride of Terra with a crew of twenty commanded by Captain Aaron Timmins, Duke of Texas; the ship begins a voyage to Atlantis at 2g, breaking the light barrier after six months. Atlantis begins converting the Cityship Voyager into a massive orbital factory. |
| 2220 | The Horizon Party continues to gain strength on Terra, again dominating the right-wing coalition in the Grand Senate. Tomas Johannessen becomes one of the Senators from Atlantis. The Wexler enters service as a diplomatic shuttle, replacing the Cabral, which is retired at Atlantis. Atlantian scientists develop macro-molecular materials. The Einstein discovers Daedalus and the Gagarin conducts a detailed survey of Odin. |
| 2221 | The Pride of Terra reaches Atlantis after a two and a half year voyage. The Starship Rheyes enters service on Atlantis in a ceremony also marking the decommissioning of the Drake. The Gagarin conducts a detailed survey of Prometheus. |
| 2222 | Atlantian scientists duplicate HSPG technology and begin incorporating the technology into their 30m starship project. The Magellan is decommissioned. The Maxwell discovers the mechanistic culture of the Lagrush on a gas giant moon in the Orion Sector. Libertas begins converting its orbiting Cityship into an automated factory. The Gagarin conducts a detailed survey of Ishtar. |
| 2223 | The ramscoop Gaea arrives at Altantis. Yan Rheyes begins her unsuccessful term as president of Atlantis. The Gagarin conducts a detailed survey of Avalon. Dame Catherine Jones becomes the first human to celebrate a 300th birthday. Mechanist scientists on Varuna revive Pavel Karinsky and successfully treat his brain condition. |
| 2224 | The Pride of Terra triumphantly returns to the solar system. The Gagarin conducts a detailed survey of Lagrush, initiating a formal contact. An industrial recovery begins on Terra and spreads through the Solar System. |
| 2225 | The election of a Liberal Senator from Luna shifts the balance of power, with a Liberal-Colonial coalition gaining control of the Grand Senate. Atlantis completes the North America, a 30m starship with a crew of eighty; starship improvements include a longer range (Type IIa) macrojump drive, HSPG thrusters and a macro-molecular hull. On its first voyage, the North America expands the research stations on Kalmar and BCB. In its final mission, the Gagarin conducts a detailed survey of Hercules. The Newton conducts the Third Oracle expedition focusing on the artifacts of earlier Quadron civilization, but encounters violent resistance and departs after loosing four crew members. The world of Oracle is permanently quarantined. Lord John Anderson of Libertas and Viggo Turki begin discussions on eliminating the threat of Vulcan expansion. |
| 2226 | In the Centaurus (2) Sector, the Rheyes contacts the Alimeen, a subjovian hydrogen-breathing race with a technological level nearly equivalent to Terra and an apparently older culture. The North America places a contact base in orbit around Lagrush. Another bill to form a Confederate Exploration Service founders in the Grand Senate. The ramscoop Gaea sets out on a year-long colonization voyage to Proxima. |
| 2227 | The Europa enters service at Atlantis and immediately sets out on an diplomatic mission to establish an orbital contact base orbiting Alimeen. Atlantis tests a high power positron beam weapon for its Continent class starships. Rain falls on Mars for the first time in nearly one billion years. An influence peddling scandal in the Atlantian Justice Ministry seriously damages the President Rheyes' credibility. The Gaea establishes a settlement of five hundred people on Proxima Prime. |
| 2228 | On Atlantis, the Republic authorizes the creation of the Atlantian Navy. The North America sets out on the Hyades expedition. The Maxwell temporarily evacuates the crew of the Lagrush station as resources shift toward Alimeen. The Gaea returns to Atlantis, beginning round-trip service to the Proxima colony on a two year schedule. |
| 2229 | Viggo Turki becomes President of Atlantis for a second time; he appoints Tomas Johannessen as Admiral of the Atlantian Navy. A sedated Alimeen delegation travels aboard the Europa to hold meetings with Confederation representatives on Luna. Negotiations on Libertas form the basis of planning for the invasion of Vulcan. The South America enters service, conducting a shuttle mission to support the bases on Kalmar, BCB and Alimeen. |
| 2230 | Admiral Johannessen leads a covert scouting mission to the Epsilon Eridani system, discovering that the clone-enhanced population now tops thirty thousand. The Asia enters service as a transport capable of carry up to four hundred passengers. The Liberal-Colonial coalition maintains control of the Grand Senate. Atlantis installs a positron accelerator in the North America. |
| 2231 | The Vulcan War begins. The two battle tenders, Midway and Waterloo, enter service. Accompanied by North America, Europa, Asia, Einstein, Newton, Maxwell, and six Libertine gunboats, they invade Epsilon Eridani under the command of Admiral Johannessen aboard the Einstein. A brief battle destroys the obsolete Easterner fleet. Subsequent missions bring three battalions of Atlantian and Libertine Marines to capture the ground installations and end resistance. |
| 2232 | The Atlantian and Libertine governments declare Vulcan open for colonization and maintain marital law, eventually declaring all clones as Artificial Status but conferring Resident status to the surviving fifty-two Easterner colonists and their thirty-five natural descendents. The Confederation Grand Senate narrowly approves conduct of the war after a bitter debate. Interrogations lead to the impression that the Battlestar will reach 82 Eridani in 2251. The renegade ramscoop Cousteau arrives at 82 Eridani and is met by the Maxwell; a boarding party determines that the vessel is completely empty and its logs wiped clean. The Cousteau is parked in orbit around the main gas giant Tartarus. The Belt's Flora Research Labs discovers a dark energy antimatter distillation technique. This process, developed by a group of Belter and Lunar scientists, greatly reduces the cost of antimatter production. The Belt and Luna claim patent rights over the discovery and invoke the Comparative Advantage Amendment to avoid disclosing the technique. The Australia passenger transport enters service. |
| 2233 | At Atlantian prompting, the Grand Senate repeals the Comparative Advantage Amendment. Atlantis releases the details of macrojump drive and molecular materials technology in return for the vacuum distillation technique. Terraformation work on Vulcan, started by the Easterners, resumes under Atlantian and Libertine supervision. The Confederation establishes a joint Exploratory Service (CES), authorizing the construction of twelve Explorer Class 25m vessels capable of carrying crews of forty. The Africa passenger transport enters service. |
| 2234 | The first Terran macrojump starship, the 30m Odysseus, enters service. The last continent class starship, the Antarctica, enters service as a research vessel leased to the CES. Libertas begins fast cloning AS with imported Easterner stock to meet labor needs in the Inback. |
| 2235 | The Odysseus establishes a survey base on Paradise. The first four CES vessels enter service. The Liberal-Colonial coalition maintains control of the Grand Senate despite growing right-wing sentiment on Terra. Tomas Johannessen becomes President of Atlantis. |
| 2236 | The Confederation and the Alimeen sign formal diplomatic relations and trade treaties on Luna. An Alimeen observer team begins attending Grand Senate sessions. |
| 2237 | The starship Mayflower, a 55m transport with the capacity of up to two thousand colonists, reaches completion over Terra. Dame Catherine Jones dies on Terra at age 314. |
| 2238 | The colonization of Paradise begins with the maiden voyage of the Mayflower. The CES Shackleton and Livingstone embark on a deep space mission to Spica at the edge of their range. Atlantis retires the Gaea, transferring Proxima resupply service to macrojump vessels. |
| 2239 | The Battlestar enters the 82 Eridani system. While still decelerating towards the outer habitable world, Amaterasu, the Battlestar encounters and captures the CES Boone and takes the crew prisoner. Determining the status of Vulcan and the state of Confederation forces and intelligence, Admiral Narita orders the settlement and fortification of Amaterasu, beginning immediate clone production to supplement troops strengths. Disassembling the Boone, scientists set to work duplicating Confederation technology, including macrojump, anti-matter distillation, molecular armor and HSPG thrusters. |
| 2240 | The CES Livingstone disappears while attempting to retrace the Boone's route; it is also captured at Amaterasu and the Easterners transfer the crews of both vessels to a camp on Dante, the marginally habitable second planet of 82 Eridani. The CES discovers a macrojump drive defect that seems to explain the two vessels' disappearances. The Grand Senate approves funding for overhauls on all Explorer class starships and the construction of four additional vessels. A shift in Lunar voting patterns leads to the ascendancy of a right-wing Conservative-Horizon coalition in the Grand Senate. |
| 2241 | On Amaterasu, the Easterners begin construction of Samurai class HSPG gunboats and six experimental macrojump vessels. The Confederation trades macrojump technology to the Alimeen for techniques in hyper-string force manipulations. James McKnight, Tomas Johannessen and Yatindra Gupta first begin plans for the colonization of Kalmar. Libertas completes the Freedom, its first macrojump starship. Viggo Turki becomes President of Atlantis for a third time. |
| 2242 | Easterner Samurai gunships destroy the Freedom at Amaterasu. The CES Hillary and Scott jump to Amaterasu to investigate the Freedom's disappearance; the heavily damaged Scott escapes the Easterner ambush and jumps directly to Sol. The Confederation begins deliberations over a response to the attacks. |
| 2243 | The Amaterasu War begins. The Confederate Joint Expeditionary Force under command of Admiral Aaron Timmins aboard the cruiser Invincible consists of twelve starships and ten gunboats; it jumps to 82 Eridani and fights five indecisive skirmishes during three months in 82 Eridani's outer system. The task force withdraws to Libertas after Easterner forces destroy the Asia and Waterloo, then cripple and capture the Invincible at the Battle of Tartarus, killing Admiral Timmins. In the lull, the Battlestar heads coreward (to Victoria/Hachiman/Nova) under the command of Captain Hiroshi. Six jury-rigged macrojump vessels, each with a crew of twenty-four, depart coreward to establish new enclaves. A new task force under the joint command of Admirals Zhang and Johannessen achieves orbital supremacy in the Battle of Amaterasu, where Admiral Narita dies ramming the Europa. Subsequent orbital bombardment of Amaterasu paves the way for a Marine force landing. |
| 2244 | On Amaterasu, Easterner ground forces continue to resist and launch guerrilla raids until the last mountain redoubts fall in May. The Confederation raids Dante, destroys the garrison and rescues the surviving CES crews from the Boone, Linvingstone and Hillary. Final toll for the war, not including the three scout ships and the Freedom lost earlier, is seven Confederation starships and nine Confederation gunboats lost, with three thousand soldiers killed and over two thousand injured. The Easterners lost all their vessels but only four thousand people, mostly clones. Of the thirty-seven surviving Battlestar crew, twenty-five are tried, convicted and executed for war crimes; the last twelve, all scientists, are exiled to Dante. Interrogations fail to reveal the destinations of the six colony ships or the Battlestar. Easterner macrojump ships settle the enclaves of Honshu, Shikoku, Manchukuo and Chosun. |
| 2245 | A centrist coalition of Conservative, Liberal and Libertas First members dominates the new Grand Senate which fails to agree on plans to form a Confederation Navy. A short recession spreads through the Confederation. Unification talks between the Confederation and the Alimeen begin on Luna. A group of Atlantian and Martian colonists settle on Kalmar, appointing James McKnight as Lord Kalmar, a symbolic head of state. Easterner macrojump ships settle Formosa and Kyushu. Terra authorizes two more Mayflower class transports, the Coventry and the Dover. |
| 2246 | Discussions begin on constitutional changes to allow for the new colonies and the Alimeen to receive Confederation representation. The Grand Senate expands funding for the CES and establishes the Confederation Communications Service (CCS), allocating funds for ten courier vessels. The CES abandons active efforts to search for the Easterner macrojump ships. |
| 2247 | The Alimeen join the Confederation and reveal the existence of the Grand Federation; all Alimeen historical records become available to Human scholars. The CES establishes a survey base on Eden to support future colonization. The Terran Navy cuts its forces by 25%, selling its surplus vessels to the CCS. A M'kkiae patrol vessel makes contact with the Easterner enclave on Kyushu. |
| 2248 | A large majority of Citizens ratifies a modified Confederation constitution. Based on new powers, the Grand Senate approves a Confederation-wide 1.5% value added tax (VAT). Alimeen archaeologists identify several outposts on BCB III as being of Grand Federation origin. The Confederation resumes extensive contact with the Comans. Atlantis begins production of the 40m Hastings class of frigates, which most navies incorporate as patrol vessels. The M’kkiae absorb the Kyushu colony as a subject world and conduct a perimeter sweep, discovering and occupying Chosun and Formosa. |
| 2249 | The University of Deimos perfects an energy absorbing "black" radiant forcefield generator. The M’kkiae Council of Clans decides that Humanity constitutes a threat to the M’kkiae Combine and begins debate on the best method for neutralizing this threat. Additional M’kkiae sweeps occupy the three remaining Easterner colonies and M’kkiae scout vessels travel to Human space, scouting the 82 Eridani system. |
| 2250 | After another failure to create a Confederation Navy, the Grand Senate authorizes the High Command, a permanent staff and logistics organization to coordinate member Naval forces. The VAT increases to 2%. Avalon and Xanadu, the first 40m CES starships with a crew of 100 and onboard artificial gravity compensators, enter service. The Terran Navy installs Deimos shields in its two 55m battleships. Atlantis completes the Alexander, a 55m battleship equipped with a spinal positron mount and a Deimos shield, and two Hastings class frigates, Hastings and Culloden. The M'kkiae supply the Easterner enclaves with support ships to launch improved Samurai gunships. In the first reformed election, a Liberal-Progressive coalition takes control of the Grand Senate and is supported by the six Alimeen Senators. |
| 2251 | The M'kkiae War begins as Easterner gunships attack and destroy the CES station on Mulligan in the Aquarius (5) Sector. Two Samurai gunships attack and destroy the Nansen while it conducts a deep exploration mission in the Hercules Sector. The Zephyr class of 13m fast (Type IIb) deep-range exploratory starships begins production. A Belter patrol frigate destroys an automated alien probe near Juno. Some members of the Time Travel Society awaken in Australia; though a few members withdraw, more new members sign up for a fifty year slumber that will end in a Grand Reunion in 2301. |
| 2252 | Easterner raiders conduct seven attacks on the Confederation rim, including raids that destroy the Ibn Buttuta and occupy the CES base on Delphi. The Confederation responds with aggressive patrols and reaction forces. After retreating from Delphi, the Easterners establish forward bases in the Arcturus and Fomalhaut systems. The Confederate High Command mobilizes all naval forces, including Alimeen vessels, but does not yet realize it is fighting an alien-backed invasion. |
| 2253 | The Easterner Arcturus Fleet invades 61 Virginis to capture Kalmar, but are thwarted at the Battle of Kalmar by the Atlantian First Fleet, under the command of Admiral Johannessen. The Arcturus Fleet later launches another raid on Delphi, crippling the Armstrong and destroying the ANS Powell. The Easterner Fomalhaut Fleet launches commerce raiding expeditions against Amaterasu, Vulcan and Libertas. The M'kkiae Council of Clans ends the Great Debate and orders full mobilization. Viggo Turki becomes President of Atlantis for a fourth time. |
| 2254 | A M'kkiae forward battle group musters at Fomalhaut and launches a combined attack, beginning the 82 Eridani Campaign. Admiral Lord Henke's Terran First Battle Fleet, supported by Libertine auxiliaries, meets the assault. At the Battle of Dante, the first contact between Confederation and M'kkiae forces ends in a draw. Alimeen forces recognize the alien remains as M'kkiae, and call for full war mobilization. At the Battle of Tartarus, the Confederation looses the battleship Grant and the flag staff, including Henke, in an unsuccessful attempt to dislodge the enemy from the system. At the Battle of Amaterasu, Captain August Timmins, Duke of Texas, forces the Combine fleet to withdraw after a bloody attempt to take the planet. The Zephyr enters service as a military scout. |
| 2255 | The Grand Senate creates the Confederation Navy, incorporating all member naval and marine units; it imposes a 25% VAT and begins selling war bonds. Easterner gunships reinfest the 82 Eridani system. Four Conqueror class 60m dreadnoughts, Sargon, Napoleon, Caesar and Genghis Khan, reach completion at L-5 Shipyards. Admiral Zhang's Confederation First Fleet destroys a M'kkiae reinforcement squadron bound for Fomalhaut at the Battle of Typhon. The Combine launches a massive attack at the Battle of Alimeen; its bombardments destroying much of Alimeen industry before withdrawing in response to the arrival of Admiral Johannessen's Confederation Second Fleet. The Confederation establishes forward naval bases at Tripoli and Champa. On Atlantis, work begins on a disintegrator device. A rightist coalition regains control of the Grand Senate amid charges the liberals left the Confederation unprepared for war. |
| 2256 | Construction of the 150m planet buster Hellkings begins in the Belt. Admiral Johannessen chases Easterner raiding forces from Kalmar and BCB and disperses a second assault on Alimeen. The M'kkiae muster at Fomalhaut and launch a sustained Libertas Campaign. In the First Battle of Libertas, Easterner Marines supported by M'kkiae drone armor capture the world after a crushing M'kkiae naval assault. Fleeing the towns, Libertine guerrillas control the Inback and harass the occupation force until the Second Battle of Libertas when Admiral Timmins' Third Fleet retakes Libertas on Christmas Day. The First Fleet evacuates forward positions at Tripoli under pressure from M'kkiae probing attacks. |
| 2257 | Admiral Singh's Confederation Fourth Fleet reoccupies and fortifies Tripoli. Atlantian disintegrator-armed Hector class 50m cruisers enter service. Two more Conqueror class dreadnaughts, Attila and Timur enter service. The Confederation Marines introduce unsupervised robot troops in limited numbers. At the Battle of Vulcan, the M'kkiae win an orbital engagement, but ground-based fire destroys the Easterner landing boats and troopships and the M'kkiae withdraw after bombarding Vulcan. Belter patrol vessels destroy a M'kkiae scouting expedition near Jupiter. Admiral Zhang becomes Confederation Grand Admiral, retaining control of the First Fleet. The Fifth Fleet, under command of Admiral Shelton, musters at Libertas. |
| 2258 | At the First Battle of Tripoli, the Fourth Fleet defeats a Combine task force and engages M'kkiae ground troops for the first time. M'kkiae forces depart Arcturus to engage in the Second Battle of Alimeen, retreating after inflicting heavy damage to population centers and industry. With the Second Fleet at Alimeen, Easterner Marines supported by M'kkiae orbital bombardment and select ground units invade lightly defended Kalmar, but the Easterners surrender to partisans after the bloody two month Kalmar Campaign ends with the return of the Second Fleet and a M'kkiae withdrawal. The Combine Fomalhaut Fleet strikes the 82 Eridani system , meeting the Confederation Third and Fifth Fleets at the Second Battle of Dante, the heaviest fighting to date. Timmins and Shelton survive to win a pyrrhic victory, loosing the Napoleon, Attila and half their fleets. Confederation forces fortify and mine the 82 Eridani system after destroying the last Combine raiders. |
| 2259 | The M'kkiae begin their Grand Offensive. At the Battle of Champa, the M'kkiae Prime Fleet overruns the Fourth Fleet destroying the Alexander and the Caesar and killing Admiral Singh. The M'kkiae fleets combine and muster at Procyon, where the Third Fleet fights a rearguard action at the Battle of Procyon, withdrawing to Sol for fear of an imminent invasion. Admiral Zhang anticipates M'kkiae strategy and combines the First, Second remnants of the Third and Fifth Fleets to fight the Battle of Sirius. In a battle even bloodier than Second Dante, the combined Confederation fleets destroy the massing Combine invasion force, but Admiral Zhang dies in the aftermath. At the Battle of Sol a small M'kkiae force escaping from Sirius approaches to within two million kilometers of Terra before being destroyed. Tomas Johannessen becomes Grand Admiral and creates three new battle fleets out of the surviving Confederate vessels. Commanding the First himself, he gives Timmins the Second and Shelton the Third. |
| 2260 | The First Fleet defeats the Combine at the Battle of Fomalhaut and the Second Fleet wins the Battle of Arcturus. New vessels form the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Fleets under Admirals Khalid, Reynard, and Ombutu. At the Second Battle of Tripoli the Fourth Fleet routs a retreating Combine convoy, capturing several Easterners, and discovering the locations of Honshu and Shikoku, which quickly fall. At the Battle of Manchukuo, the Sixth fleet destroys the remnants of the Easterner Fleet and conquers two more enclaves. By year's end all Easterner enclaves have surrendered and signed the Treaty of Manchukuo. Hellking Satan, first of five, enters service. Admiral Johannessen travels to Alimeen to discuss strategies for ending the war. The Grand Senate grows more conservative, with the Libertines joining the coalition in favor of a vigorous campaign against the M'kkiae. Both Viggo Turki, serving as a Grand Senator from Atlantis, and the Alimeen call for unconditional surrender. The Hellking Hades enters service. The terraformation of Venus officially finishes, but colonization is limited by the war. |
| 2261 | The First, Second and Sixth Fleets push coreward into M'kkiae territory. At the Battle of Norma Jean, the Second Fleet, led by the Satan, defeats a M'kkiae fleet in the the first battlefield use of a Hellking. At the Battle of Hammersmote the Hades destroys a M'kkiae outpost after Johannessen authorizes the first use of a Hellking against a planetary body. The M'kkiae prepare for total war, refusing to discuss surrender. Ceres Industrial Labs perfects a two station teleportation device, but range is limited to 30,000 km in a gravity free environment. The last three Hellkings, Lucifer, Pluto and Loki enter service. At the Battle of Khzraut, the Sixth Fleet liberates the Khzraut race of chlorine breathers. The remaining M'kkiae naval forces retreat to their home system for a final stand. The Zenith regeneration therapy procedure gets full approval, allowing up to ten regenerations and adding a theoretical 300 additional years to the human lifespan. |
| 2262 | Four Confederate fleets sweep the eight M'kkiae colonies, firing Hellking bursts as necessary against colonists bent on fighting to the death. Admiral Johannessen combines the fleets to launch the M'kkia Campaign, enters the M'kkia system and reduces outposts piecemeal. The M'kkiae launch a massive assault, meeting the Confederation Combined Fleet on approach to M'kkia. The Confederation looses nearly three fifths of the fleet at the Battle of M'kkia, which rages until the two surviving Hellkings, Lucifer and Hades, turn M'kkia into a sterile inferno. |
| 2263 | After an extensive search of all M'kkiae worlds fails to find a single M'kkiae survivor, the Grand Senate declares peace on December 31. The Confederation establishes a contact station on Khzraut and the first Khzraut envoys travel to Luna. Admiral Johannessen retires to Kalmar. Admiral Timmins, crippled at M'kkia, returns to Texas to enter politics. Admiral Reynard, the last remaining Fleet Admiral, becomes Grand Admiral. Full scale colonization of Venus begins. |
| 2264 | The CES authorizes the colonization of Eden and the Coventry and Dover finally enter civilian service. The Grand Senate passes the Space Exploitation and Homestead Act allowing commercial development and colonization of any uninhabited body within a designated surveyed settlement radius. An amendment gives oversight powers to the CES on the settlement of all class A through E planets. Surplus naval vessels greatly enlarge the CES and CCS. The Grand Senate reduces the VAT to 10%. The Khzraut join the Confederation, which adjusts the composition of the Grand Senate in accordance with protocols of the 2248 Constitution. |
| 2265 | The ramscoops Zeus and Chronos arrive at Delta Pavonis and settle Aphrodite. The CES establishes a liaison with the Aphrodite colony, which officially joins the Confederation. The Grand Senate expands to fifty-nine seats, of which the Alimeen hold eight and the Khzraut six. The rightist war coalition maintains control of the Grand Senate, with the Khzraut refusing to join either faction and usually abstaining from votes on matters that do not directly affect them. Viggo Turki becomes president of Atlantis for the fifth and final time. |
| 2266 | The Mellon Reconstruction Program begins massive aid to rebuild industry on Alimeen and Khzraut while expanding cross-species cultural contacts. |
| 2267 | The CES cancels a proposed mission to the star Shaula, 300 light-years coreward and near where the Alimeen estimate the Grand Federation border lies. |
| 2268 | The Khzraut colonize Medusa to maintain a settlement near human space and demonstrate their new-found freedom. CES Ranger, the first 10m singleship, enters service. |
| 2269 | The Mars Terraformation project officially reaches completion with ceremonies at Lowell attended by James McKnight, Lord Kalmar, the first person to walk on Mars 250 years earlier. |
| 2270 | An extremely strong showing by the Liberal Party leads to a Liberal-Progressive coalition joined by Libertas and the Alimeen. The Khzraut join the ruling parties but factional differences prevent the delegation from voting as a block. The Easterner enclaves of Honshu and Manchukuo return to civilian rule; the CES declares the remaining four enclaves unviable, but allows residents to remain if they choose. |
| 2271 | The Grand Senate passes the Alien Races Protection Act to end fears of exploitation of lesser developed races, specifically the Comans, Quadrons and Lagrush. |
| 2272 | The CES Curie discovers a quiescent stellar-sized black hole 200 light years from Sol in the Hercules (25) Sector. Joseph Bartos, future King of Venus, emigrates to Venus and starts the Maxwell Biogenics Corporation with his younger brother and son as partners. |
| 2273 | The CES sponsors the colonization of Apollo. A bill to free AS naturals fails by a significant margin in the Grand Senate. Atlantis emancipates its AS, but no major worlds follow suit. Libertas, heavily dependent on an AS clone underclass withdraws from the coalition government in protest, fearing the eventual emancipation of all AS. |
| 2274 | The CES Swift discovers a second Alimeen ecosystem subjovian world, White Wind. The Khzraut settle Fortuna, Jade and Saltfire, chlorine ecosphere planets that once hosted ancient Khzraut colonies. |
| 2275 | A right-wing coalition backed by Libertas gains control of the Grand Senate; an election focus on AS polices strains the Liberal Party leadership. Sir Joseph Bourasaw becomes the first person to celebrate a 350th birthday. |
| 2276 | Disillusioned Liberals join with the Progressive Party to form the Reformed Party at the Conference of Hellas. The party's central tenets include abolishing all AS restrictions and eliminating legal class distinctions; Roland Willenski becomes Party Chairman, with the Count of Tharsis, Yatindra Gupta, acting as a senior advisor. |
| 2277 | After a large contingent of Confederation naval personnel and dependents elect to remain on Tripoli despite the closure of its naval base, the CES authorizes an in-situ colonization of the planet. Mechanists on Varuna develop templates for transferring memories between human and electronic brains, but warn that the procedure does not preserve personality; in a press release Pavel Karinsky lauds the progress but cautions that true Mechanist transfers are still decades away. The patented Mechanist transfers quickly allow the transmission of knowledge and experiences to human brains, prompting a revolution in training and education techniques. |
| 2278 | CES Mustang singleship pilot Dirk Hermann discovers a twenty million year old Gatebuilder installation on Hermann's Moon around a gas giant in the Orion (8) Sector. The first Type IIc macrojump vessels, capable of 30 light year jumps, enter service as CES singleship scouts and couriers. |
| 2279 | Citing reduced threat levels and aging equipment, the Grand Senate cuts the Confederation naval budget by 15% and mothballs a quarter of the fleet. |
| 2280 | The Khzraut Civil War begins. Warfare erupts during a dispute over the selection of Khzraut Senators. The Khzraut quickly fragment into nearly a dozen philosophically-based factions and all government and diplomatic missions return to their worlds to aid in the fighting. A CES research station opens on Hermann's Moon, uncovering the Gatemaze. The Reformed Party does well in the general elections but its eight Grand Senate seats weaken the Liberal Party, and the Horizon-Conservative-Libertas coalition retains power. |
| 2281 | In a referendum, Kalmar overwhelming votes to free AS naturals. Khzraut commerce raiding discourages Human and Alimeen merchants from supplying the warring factions and Confederation mediation efforts fail to end the civil war. Hermann Station and the Gatemaze disappear without a trace. The CES sponsors the colonization of Delphi. |
| 2282 | Private exploration and trading companies protest new licensing regulations by starting a two month strike that brings interstellar shipping to a standstill, prompting the Grand Senate to withdraw the new regulations. The CES Roanoke discovers the Timbor, a stone age race of amphibians in the Leo (4) Sector. |
| 2283 | A brief Khzraut truce collapses. The Confederation Navy quarantines Khzraut worlds and escorts merchants through contested systems. Soon, single factions control all Khzraut colonies, but bitter fighting continues on the homeworld. All major political parties agree to call a constitutional convention to solve structural problems and modify the Confederation's powers and Grand Senate composition. |
| 2284 | Most naval personnel on Champa elect colonization over transfer as its base faces closure. As the Confederation Constitutional Convention convenes in Miami, unknown assailants assassinate Reformed Party leader Roland Willenski during a University of Miami rally. The Convention delegates rewrite the constitution to exclude the Khzraut and reduce Alimeen Grand Senate seats to five at their request. An additional seat assigned to the new colonies shifts the balance of power slightly away from Terra, but Horizon Party delegates resist strengthening civil rights guarantees. Member governments quickly ratify the new constitution. |
| 2285 | Colonial liberal reaction against the assassination of Willenski and a strengthening of the Reformed Party allow a liberal coalition to gain control of the Grand Senate. Yatindra Gupta returns from retirement to lead the Reformed Party. An economic boom spreads throughout the Confederation. |
| 2286 | The Terran colony transport Coventry disappears en route to Apollo with 3,200 lost. Teleportation booths begin linking co-orbiting NEAR habitats at the Terra/Luna LaGrange points. A CES team on Ares discovers the extensive ruins of a fifty thousand year old Founders city in the Sanchez Desert. Willy Donner is born in Chicago on Terra. The Alimeen establish a colony on White Wind. |
| 2287 | The right-wing fringe of the Horizon Party forms the Order Prosperity Party (OP) at a convention in Brasilia. Its ranks include several economists claiming credit for the current prosperity. August Timmins, Duke of Texas, becomes the party Chairman. Party membership outside Terra and Luna is scant. Atlantian and Martian colonists settle Odin; a settlement pact outlaws AS status and gives full citizenship rights to all sentients, including biological and artificial Constructs. The CES Rodriguez discovers the planet New Rome. |
| 2288 | The Restoration regeneration procedure receives full approval, theoretically expanding the Human lifespan to over 1,400 years with twelve full and timely regenerations and continual age NB reduction treatments. |
| 2289 | Khzraut factions invited to the Grand Martian Exposition in Lowell attack each other, killing most of the Khzraut present and nearly two hundred bystanders. |
| 2290 | A rightist coalition gains power in the Grand Senate, with the Order Prosperity Party absorbing over a third of the Horizon Party's membership. The Confederation begins implementing OP economic policies. The CES authorizes colonization of Utopia. |
| 2291 | Experimental Life Therapy genetic manipulations at the University of Deimos breed "immortal" mice. |
| 2292 | The CES Moroney discovers the planet Bengal. The CES authorizes general colonization of Cyclops. |
| 2293 | Economic growth levels off as new regulations take effect. Smaller corporations begin to suffer under OP policies, though the transworld corporations generally benefit. |
| 2294 | The Reformist government on Mars frees AS naturals and imposes severe restrictions on the private ownership of Constructs. The colonization of Artemis proceeds after CES approval.. |
| 2295 | The right-wing coalition retains control of the Grand Senate as the Order Prosperity Party continues to make gains at Horizon Party expense. Politics on Libertas begin to shift in favor of a more reformist platform, but the Libertine senators still join the ruling coalition. A CES survey mission encounters a multi-species bronze age civilization on Huron in the Orion (8) Sector. |
| 2296 | Adopting the Odin Pact, Atlantis and Kalmar emancipate Constructs and extend citizenship to all Sentients. Members of the old guard of the the Horizon Party establish a colony on Horizon after a tumultuous CES approval process. |
| 2297 | The CES authorizes the Atlantian settlement of Thor. The Confederation Navy establishes a new technology skunkworks shipyard at Troilus in the Jovian Trailing Trojans. |
| 2298 | The economy shows signs of weakening. Order Prosperity policy has encouraged a series of mergers that have decreased competition; small independent interstellar prospecting and trading companies are nearly extinct. The Reformed Party establishes a CES-sanctioned colony on Helicon. |
| 2299 | August Timmins undergoes the experimental Life Therapy process to cure his injuries from the war. The CES authorizes the colonization of Prometheus. The Alimeen establish a second colony on Salt Breeze. |
| 2300 | The Order Prosperity Party continues to gain strength at the expense of the Horizon Party. A right-wing coalition maintains dominance of the Grand Senate, with Libertas and the Alimeen increasingly acting as a moderating force within the ruling coalition. The Colonial Administration Amendment passes the Grand Senate assigning Confederation governors to all worlds with a population under 25,000. The CES authorizes the colonization of Avalon. Protests against appointed governors begin on Odin and Tripoli. |
| 2301 | Colonial protests spread to all worlds with appointed governors. Libertine Grand Senators withdraw from the ruling coalition and join the opposition. The Alimeen Senators maintain the ruling right-wing coalition with increasing misgivings. The CES authorizes the colonization of Daedalus, though three appointed governors resign before the first colonists arrive. Colonists on Odin force the governor and his staff to flee to Luna. The Time Travel Society holds its Grand Reunion in Australia; most members choose to rejoin regular society, but sixty-seven vow to continue their trek into the future in hundred year increments. |
| 2302 | The Grand Senate passes a modified Colonial Administration Amendment that allows colonial citizens to reject a governor by a two-thirds vote. Under these new rules, the colonization of Ishtar proceeds without incident. |
| 2303 | Major religious leaders accuse the Terran Commonwealth and Confederation governments of using separation of church and state as an excuse to persecute members of all faiths. The CES authorizes the colonization of Olympus. |
| 2304 | The Terran Testing Board approves Life Therapy treatment, a permanent genetic alteration that creates what becomes known as Homo Nobilis: Humans with a lifespan then projected at over one thousand years with greatly enhanced health; side effects include complete loss of all hair follicles and nails and a a rare occurrence of a severe immune disorder (CID). Other worlds quickly approve Life Therapy. Religious leaders form the United Faith Party in Algiers and immediately renounce Life Therapy. Libertine settlers establish a colony on Aeneas. The CES also authorizes the colonization of Asgard. |
| 2305 | Tomas Johannessen is one of the first general recipients of Life Therapy and becomes a major spokesman for the process in media ads. The United Faith Party gains Grand Senate seats on Terra, NEAR and Luna, mostly at Conservative Party expense, and joins a Liberal-Reformed-Libertine coalition. Religious unrest, mostly Moslem, spreads throughout the Mideast. The CES authorizes the settlement of Dayan by Israeli Jews and the general settlement of Hermes and Nike. Starting with the colonization of Dayan, the CES administration generally allows the initial settlers of a world to choose their own governor. |
| 2306 | A short recession, which the liberals blame on nearly two decades of Order Prosperity policy, spreads through the Confederation. Pavel Karinsky comments on Life Therapy, calling it promising, but still not a path to immortality. The CES authorizes the colonization of Osiris by secular Arabs fleeing unrest in North Africa. The CES also authorizes the general colonization of Felix. |
| 2307 | Tomas Johannessen departs Kalmar on a private singleship expedition and does not return. "Gray" forcefields and degenerate armor begins appearing on new and refitted Naval vessels, courtesy research at the Troilus Skunkworks. A group of Mormon settlers colonize Deseret. General colonization of Isis begins after a CES report downplays solar instability. |
| 2308 | Confederation naval engineers successfully test a microjump drive prototype at the Troilus Skunkworks. The CES authorizes the general colonization of Diana and Hercules. The Alimeen establish a colony on Storm Seed. |
| 2309 | At Princeton, Willy Donner submits his doctoral thesis on PsychoMacroEconomics, predicting the Crash of '18 as an empirical test, but receives little recognition beyond a PhD degree and an offer to teach at Stanford. The CES authorizes the settlement of Sparta by members of the Geraldi Cult, Niagara as a general colony world, and Macoraba by Islamist purists. |
| 2310 | The microjump starship CNX Cortez begins trials, including public demonstration voyages to Alpha Centauri and Tau Ceti. The CES authorizes a secular Lebenase colony on Levant and general colonization of Arakis and Camelot. The liberal coalition, supported by the growing United Faith Party, retains control of the Grand Senate. |
| 2311 | The CES orders four 40m microjump drive survey vessels and proposes a Grand Federation contact mission. The Asteroid Belt adopts the Odin Pact and frees AS naturals and Constructs. General Computing Devices begins marketing sentient computer implants, called Companion Guides. The CES authorizes the general colonization of Aurora, a Martian colony on Ares and an southern African colony on Zulu. |
| 2312 | The Confederation begins a massive naval modernization project in an attempt to stimulate the economy, authorizing a new fleet of microjump vessels: 40m destroyers, 50m cruisers and 60m battleships. The CES orders four more microjump survey vessels, a dozen 13m scouts and a dozen 8m singleships. A CES survey team contacts the stone age cold nitrogen/ethane Stygian race on a gas giant moon in the Cancer (31) Sector. The CES authorizes the colonization of Agade by secular Arabs, Reich by German nationalists and the general colonization of Hebe. |
| 2313 | Chandra Industries begins selling rapid fabrication boxes, producing most simple objects in real-time. The CES authorizes the colonization of Ghandi by Indian nationalists, Victoria by members of the old British aristocracy and Tanith by members of the faltering Conservative Party. |
| 2314 | The microjump survey ship CES Jason completes a round-trip voyage between Ceres and Kalmar in ten days. The Charon Research Lab tests a teleportation system allowing transfers of up to 30,000 km in a gravity well and 300,000 km in free space; as it still requires transmitting and receiving booths, it proves effective only between civilized end points, precluding use by the CES or Confederation Navy. The CES authorizes the general colonization of Odysseus and the settlements of Mithras by secular Iranians and Rama by Hindu Indians. |
| 2315 | The first teleportation between the Terran surface and the High Amazonia geosynchronous station occurs. Teleportation booths installations spread through the NEAR colonies. The liberal coalition, backed by the United Faith Party, maintains control of the Grand Senate, though observers note the weakening of the traditional Conservative and Liberal Parties. The CES authorizes the general colonization of Tyche, Inanna and Hector. Future unifier and King Albert Kagnon-Mellon is born on Mars. |
| 2316 | The CES authorizes the colonization of Hsia by Chinese settlers, Penance by a Catholic sect led by Bishop Joachim Walter and Lenin by Russian communist idealists. The Alimeen utilize microjump vessels to settle Night Gust. |
| 2317 | Commercial microjump vessels enter service. The CES Jason contacts the pre-industrial and apparently telepathic Swarm race in the Cetus (46) Sector. The CES authorizes the general colonization of Demeter and the twin planets of Romulus and Remus. The CES also authorizes the Chinese settlement of Han. |
| 2318 | The Confederation-wide Donner's Depression occurs as predicted with stock markets collapsing after a rapid rise in inflation and unemployment. The CES cancels the Grand Federation contact mission, but continues to authorize colonization of four more worlds: Yathrib by Moslem fundamentalists, Zimbabwe by Africans, Enlightenment by Western Buddhists, and Hera as a general colony. |
| 2319 | The depression deepens with a 2% contraction of the Confederation economy. A contact mission to the Swarm homeworld, dubbed Megahive, ends in hostilities, prompting a CES quarantine of the system. The CES authorizes the general colonization of Thebes, Icarus and Poseidon and the colonization of Hectate by Pagan cultists. |
| 2320 | A right-wing coalition dominated by the Order Prosperity Party takes control of the Grand Senate after a depression-dominated election that increases extremist political and religious views. The Liberal Party does not hold a single Grand Senate Seat, and though the Reformed Party is the largest block in the Grand Senate, it fails to convince the Alimeen to join a coalition against the Human majority. The CES authorizes colonization of four worlds: Ch'in by Chinese settlers, Amazonia for general settlement, Thoth by the Thoth society, a group of wealthy philosophers and scientists, and Tyr by the Order Prosperity Party. Lord Attila Timmins, son of the Duke of Texas, becomes governor of Tyr. |
| 2321 | Professor Willy Donner finishes his General PsychoMacroEconomics Theory, but receives little support for his views outside the Reformed Party. With the depression continuing, the Confederation re-imposes OP economic policies. James McKnight, the Duke of Kalmar, abdicates in favor of his son, Tor, and drops from public view. The CES authorizes the colonization of four worlds: Heaven and Khronos for general settlement, Islam by Moslem fundamentalists, and Khalistan by Sikh nationalists. |
| 2322 | With half the Citizen workforce unemployed and OP restrictions imposed on free economic and religious activity, unrest begins to spread on Terra and throughout the Solar System. After a decade of calm, violence begins to flare in the Mideast. Willy Donner publishes The Fall of The Confederation, predicting a second economic crash in twelve years unless the entire Confederation economic and social system is radically restructured. The CES authorizes the colonization of Karinsky by the Mechanists led by Pavel Karinsky, the colonization of Kurdistan by Kurdish nationalists and opens the system containing Pyramus and Thisbe for general settlement. |
| 2323 | The left wing of Reformed Party adopts Donnerist Theory as a central tenet and begins calling for a constitutional convention and a stronger, federalist state. The CES authorizes colonization of four worlds: Achilles for general settlement, Catalonia by Catalonians, New Palestine by Palestinians and Salvation by the Owenite Christian sect. |
| 2324 | The Confederation economy begins a slow recovery, for which the OP takes full credit. The Terran government bans Willy Donner from all publicly funded media. To further the recovery, the Terran government begins a massive program to link all major surface and orbital locations by a passenger and cargo teleportation network. The CES authorizes the general colonization of Elysium and Gothia, a Libertine settlement of the planet Freedom and a German nationalist settlement of Preussen. |
| 2325 | The continuing economic recovery and extremist calls for revolution among the Reformist left wing lead to an election victory that further shifts power to the OP in the ruling right-wing coalition. The Alimeen debate for six days before joining the coalition. Sir Joseph Bourasaw celebrates his 400th birthday as a renewed man, thanks to Life Therapy. The CES allows the general colonization of Bengal and Minerva and the settlement of Heimdall by Martians and Bliss by the aesthetic Transmigratory sect. |
| 2326 | The Confederation economy begins a period of rapid expansion. Willy Donner emigrates from Terra to the NEAR habitat of Elysium II at Terra/Luna L4. The Grand Senate approves a modification to the Colonial Administration Amendment, assigning eight sector governors to oversee the governor-ruled worlds and the non-colonial, non-government outposts and bases within their sector. Reaction to the modified amendment is surprisingly muted and even most Reformists support it. The CES authorizes the general colonization of Dionysus and Bacchus, the settlement of New Rome by Orthodox Roman Catholics, and of Purgatory by the entire congregation of the True Church of Christ (Mendota). |
| 2327 | The All Terran Teleportation Network is complete with twenty major and four hundred minor hubs at its core. Basic terraformation work on Vulcan finishes, with the atmosphere fully breathable; CES scientists estimate that additional work to moderate the climate will take another century. The CES authorizes the colonization of Gladsheim by Kalmarans led by Duke Tor's younger brother Odin, Solomon by Reformed Jews, and after some controversy, Quetzacoatl by Aztec cultists and Franklin by American Caucasian separatists. |
| 2328 | NEAR deports Willy Donner, but Terra refuses to accept him back; turning down offers to settle on Mars or Kalmar, Donner emigrates to Bengal, where his great-uncle is governor. The CES authorizes the general colonization of Balder, Perseus and Virgil and the colonization of Pax by the Universal Peace Society. |
| 2329 | At a party conference in Rome, the United Faith Party officially calls for an emancipation of all AS naturals, abolition of the creation of additional biological or mechanical artificial Sentients, and the immediate ban on Companion Guides; but a motion to renew condemnation of Life Therapy does not pass. Repeater Stations complete the teleportation network between all Terra/Luna-based NEAR habitats. The CES authorizes the colonization of Bolivar by South Americans, Biafra by Ibo nationalists and the general settlement of Hestia and Alexander. The Alimeen settle Eternal Fog. |
| 2330 | At the pre-election conference on Mars, Yatindra Gupta throws his support to the Donnerist faction and the Reformed Party adopts PsychoMacroEconomics and a Federal Constitution as party planks; they do not carry the election. The OP and the Horizon Party form a right-wing ruling coalition, excluding the weakened Conservative Party. After much debate, the Alimeen delegation withdraws from active participation in the Grand Senate, seating themselves only as observers, though they clearly disfavor both a Federal Constitution and much OP governing policy. The CES Fairweather discovers stone age amphibian Quanna in the Aquarius (5) Sector. The CES authorizes French colonization of Napoleon, Japanese settlement of Diakoku, African settlement of Kongo and general settlement of Emerald. |
| 2331 | The economy continues a seven year expansion, leading to a lessening of unrest Confederation-wide. Teleportation booth networks reach completion on Luna, Mars and Atlantis. The CES authorizes the general settlement of Selene and Frigg, the colonization of New Armenian by Armenian nationalists and the settlement of Saud by remnants of the exiled Saudi royal family. |
| 2332 | After a fiery speech in the Grand Senate by the Duke of Texas that supports the political and economic status quo and brands Reformed and United Faith Party members seditious, superstitious and shortsighted, the Confederation begins crackdowns against the leadership of those parties. Despite the present prosperity, Resident unrest spreads on Terra and religious violence begins to increase. The CES authorizes the general settlement of Themis and Phoebus, the colonization of Teutonia by German nationalists and Jefferson by American nationalists. |
| 2333 | Atlantis, Libertas, Mars, the Belt, Kalmar, and seven other "Odin Pact" colonies begin actively obstructing Confederation policy. A Reformed Party activist assassinates the governor of Icarus. Retired Liberal leader Viggo Turki, considered by many the father of the Confederation, offers to host a summit between Gupta and Timmins on Atlantis, but the week-long talks resolve little. The CES authorizes the general settlement of Excalibur, Lemuria, and Phoenicia and the colonization of New Java by Indonesian nationalists. |
| 2334 | Confederation Marines raid the Reformed Party headquarters on Atlantis, arresting six top leaders on charges of subversion. The Martian government refuses Confederation Marine access to Gupta's estates in Tharsis, precipitating a crisis defused by Alimeen Senators. In October, the Second Donner Depression occurs as predicted when the financial collapse of several major debt-ridden transworld corporations precipitates a cascading financial crisis. The CES authorizes the colonization of Vishnu by Indian nationalists, New Texas by American nationalists and the general settlement of Regina and Halcyon. |
| 2335 | As the financial crisis worsens, lower class Citizens join Residents in riots across Terra and NEAR. Confederation Marines use lethal force to disperse a march on the Terran Capitol in Byzantium, killing eight hundred protesters. The Reformed Party renews calls for a constitutional convention and publishes a Donnerist prediction for a third depression if current policies continue. Grand Senate election results indicate a dramatic shift to the Reformed Party and the United Faith Party, who announce that they will form a coalition with the Libertas First Party to enfranchise all Residents and radically restructure the Confederation economy along Donnerist lines even before calling a new constitutional convention. In the closing days of the old Senate session, the rightist coalition declares the United Faith Party unconstitutional for violating the separation of church and state and issues warrants charging the leadership of the Reformed Party with treason. Atlantis secedes from the Confederation on September 22nd. By year's end, Libertas, Mars, the Belt, and nearly half of the other colonies follow suit; the Secession War begins. On New Year's Eve, a massive naval mutiny led by Captain Anne Sandoval provokes the First Battle of Mars. Loyalist forces bombard Deimos, shattering the moon and destroying the University. A bombardment of the Tharsis region kills Yatindra Gupta and his household. Before suspending Colonial Office reviews, the CES authorizes the settlement of Home by American Indian activists and the general settlement of Drakkon, though no CES authorities verify if the transport vessel Asimov ever reached Drakkon. |
| 2336 | Class warfare erupts on Terra and Venus, with Confederation Marines defending Nobility and upper class Citizen enclaves; tens of millions die in chaotic raids and sabotage that damages the power, data and teleportation networks. The Duke of Texas assumes command of the Loyalist naval force, ordering a mustering at Luna. Rebel naval forces recapture Mars, seizing Troilus and several major Asteroid Belt naval installations before engaging the Loyalist fleet in the Great Terran Orbital Battles, where heavy fighting destroys many Terra/Luna habitats, killing nearly two million. Terra and Venus suffer through heavy Rebel orbital bombardments and growing surface battles. Rebels seize most interstellar installations, including every major CES base, and bombard Loyalist colonies in hit-and-run attacks. Surface combat spreads on many colony worlds with fractious populations. The Alimeen proclaim neutrality and withdraw to their own six systems; some Khzraut factions join the war on different sides, but mostly continue to attack each other. By year's end the Loyalist fleet controls only Sol from Terra sunward (including Venus, Mercury and some NEAR asteroid habitats) and a few scattered interstellar colonies. A Rebel convention on Atlantis names Viggo Turki as interim President and Anne Sandoval as Grand Admiral, and calls for talks aimed at creating a federal interstellar government. |
| 2337 | A special session of the Loyalist Grand Senate at Byzantium proclaims Grand Admiral August Timmins, Duke of Texas, as Lord Protector. Surface warfare rages on Terra and Venus, with battle lines slowly forming out of the chaos and refugees streaming into self-proclaimed neutral cities. The Loyalist fleet breaks out from Terra, beginning the Siege of Mars, destroying a Rebel fleet at the Battle of Kirkwood in the Belt, and launching waves of raiders into the colonies, bombarding Rebel worlds. Loyalist and Rebel fleets clash at the Great Battle of Libertas where Rebel forces under Sandoval destroy both remaining Hellkings and scatter Timmins's First Assault Fleet. At the Battle of Vulcan, Loyalists, then Rebels, bombard the world before meeting in an inconclusive engagement; all terraformation work stops on Vulcan. Paradise proclaims itself a neutral world. Rebel forces destroy neutral naval installations to prevent them from falling to the Loyalists. |
| 2338 | The Lord Protector names his sons Alfred and Arnam as Dukes of Texas and California, respectively, and consolidates his hold on Terran North America and South America. At the Great Battle of Atlantis, a concentration of Loyalist forces fails to overwhelm the defenses of the Atlantian system and retreats first to Proxima, then to Sol. At the Great Belt Battle, Loyalists destroy much of the Belt's industry before retreating to Mars. Rebel forces finally break the Loyalist siege at the Second Battle of Mars late in the year. |
| 2339 | At the First Great Battle of Terra, the Rebel Second Fleet under Admiral Patel devastates large areas of Terra's surface, with attacks killing over a hundred million people, including a bombing of Houston that kills Duke Alfred. Luna suffers heavy industrial losses as the Rebel fleet withdraws to Mars after a Loyalist counterattack. The Lord Protector recalls all interstellar squadrons to defend Terra from attack. |
| 2340 | At the Second Great Battle of Terra, the Rebel Combined Fleet fails to destroy the massed Loyalist Navy, but conquers Luna in an orbital and ground offensive. The Siege of Terra begins. |
| 2341 | Venus falls to Rebel ground forces after the bloody Battle of Cleopatra's Rim. In December, Lord Protector August Timmins dies in a skirmish in Terran orbit; his son Arnam, recognizing a lost cause, refuses to assume the leadership position, deferring to his older brother on Tyr. |
| 2342 | At the Third Great Battle of Terra, Rebel forces crush the Loyalist fleet and begin bombarding Terran Loyalist positions. Loyalist troops on Terra offer an unconditional surrender. The Confederation lies in ruins, with industry shattered and billions dead. Rebel leaders meet on Titan to plan a new constitutional convention. In the solar system, relief efforts begin, but are hampered by distribution problems. Contact becomes sporadic beyond the core of the colonial worlds. |
| 2343 | Leaders of the United Faith Party delegation withdraw from the Titan Accords after talks collapse over the issues of Life Therapy treatments and artificial Sentients. Fighting begins between Religious and Reformed forces on Terra and Venus. The Battle of Iapetus marks an irrevocable split between Religious and Reformist naval forces after a Religious mutiny kills both Admirals Sandoval and Patel. The Second Phase of the Secession War begins. |
| 2344 | Paradise erupts into Reformed versus Religious violence that ends in the Battle of Paradise, where the Religious Colonial Fleet defeats a Reformed squadron and bombards enemy positions. The Reformed Fleet struggles to consolidate and remove Religious mutineers from ship's crews. Ground combat continues on Terra and Venus and internal warfare destroys or damages several NEAR habitats. |
| 2345 | Most of the Religious Fleet retreats to the colonies after defeat at the Third Battle of Mars. The Reformed fleet consolidates at Ceres and sweeps the Solar system of hostile vessels, but refrains from bombarding Religious surface troop formations on Terra and Venus. |
| 2346 | Reacting to a massing of Religious forces, the Reformed Fleet wins a pyrrhic victory at the Battle of Amaterasu, then returns to secure positions at Sol, Atlantis, Libertas and Kalmar. An attempt by Viggo Turki of Atlantis and John Anderson of Libertas to proclaim a Human Federation fizzles from lack of Solar participation. |
| 2347 | While Viggo Turki is campaigning for his Federation in the Belt, Moslem fanatics crash a one-kilometer diameter asteroid into Juno, killing half a million Belters, Turki, and the dreams of Federation. The Religious Fleet overruns the naval depots at Tripoli and Champa, rearming for a push towards Sol. |
| 2348 | The Religious fleet masses and strikes inward, meeting the combined might of the Reformed fleets at the inconclusive Great Battle of Delphi. After Delphi, neither side retains the resources to conduct a prolonged space campaign. The Dark Ages begin on most colony worlds as the remaining starships restrict themselves to operating near Solar space. The Reformed Solar Fleet begins supporting surface military operations against Religious forces on Terra and Venus. |
| 2349 | Loyalist Nobility and Reformed forces form the Combined Venusian Legion and crush the Religious armies on Venus with help from the Reformed Solar Fleet. Duke Arnam of California requests and receives Reformed assistance in his campaigns against Religious forces in northern Mexico. The Religious Grand Army seizes Byzantium. |
| 2350 | Major ground fighting on Terra ceases with the defeat of the Religious Grand Army at the Battle of Gallipoli and an armistice in North America. |
| 2351 | The Religious Fleet suffers a fatal blow after a revolt by colonists on Champa cripples or destroys all but three vessels. |
| 2352 | Venus partitions itself into sixteen near autonomous duchies. A last attempt by Mars and Atlantis to convene a new constitutional convention fails. |
| 2353 | Libertas withdraws from the Reformed Alliance and takes control of the Libertas Fleet. Fighting winds down on most worlds. Resources are scarcely enough to support life, much less civilization on many worlds. |
| 2354 | The Belt withdraws from the Reformed Alliance, effectively ending even a provisional interstellar government. |
| 2355 | Libertine raiders enter the Solar System to plunder the Troilus Skunkworks and fight off a Belter counterattack in the last space engagement of the war. The Dark Ages begin. |
| 2356 | Warlords carve up China, Central and Southern Asia as attempts to maintain civil order fail. The last remnants of the All Terran Teleportation Network stop operating after maintenance shortfalls cause numerous fatal accidents. |
| 2357 | Two consecutive hurricanes devastate Luzon, flooding parts of Manila and killing thousands. Microjump engines fail on the Atlantian cruiser Mackinaw Bay, engaged in the evacuation of the naval installation on Fomalhaut V, stranding the crew of 200 and the 300 personnel of the base; they continue the terraformation of the deep rifts begun by the Easterners during the M'kkiae War. |
| 2358 | Lord Joseph Bourasaw dies in a monorail accident at age 423; no clear claimant to the title for oldest human emerges, though the 2330 Census showed three other people above 400 and seven above 390. |
| 2359 | Violent storms on Venus prompt the evacuation of some coastal regions, with the Maxwell, Lakshmi and Quetzalpetlatl highlands absorbing the bulk of the refugees. |
|
2360 |
The last independent Alimeen trader, Fiery Mist, departs from Vesta, ending all interstellar commerce in the Solar System. |
| 2361 | The Argentine harvest fails, leading to widespread South American food shortages. Joseph Bartos becomes Duke of Maxwell on Venus. |
| 2362 | The NEAR Terra/Luna L5 habitat of O'Neill III suffers a catastrophic decompression, killing most of the 25,000 residents. Continuing maintenance issues encourage the emigration of many NEAR habitat residents to Luna, the NEAR asteroids or Terra. |
|
2363 |
Anti-technology riots spread through many Terran cities, forcing the abandonment of most remaining vacuum distillation plants. A volcanic eruption and subsequent mud flows devastates the colony of New Armenia, leaving only 60 survivors. |
| 2364 | Flooding and disease following Hurricane Emma's devastation prompts the permanent abandonment of the city of Miami. Hercules adopts a federal constitution based on an American model and begins efforts to develop a methane/hydrogen infrastructure that maintains the world at information era levels until recontact. |
| 2365 | Southern North America suffers widespread riots, flooding and disease. The entire population of Bliss succumbs to a native fungal blight, making Bliss the first failed colony. |
|
2366 |
The last attempts to reunify Terra fail with the collapse of the Conference of Malta. Most regions concentrate on feeding their populations and surviving local politics. |
| 2367 | Duke Tor McKnight of Kalmar embarks on a fact-finding trip to Atlantis, Sol and Libertas aboard the microjump destroyer Cold Harbor; upon his return, he advocates isolation until economic conditions improve. |
| 2368 | The NEAR Terran L2 habitat Winterhome shatters after explosions of undetermined origin, killing all but a handful of its 120,000 residents. |
|
2369 |
The Death King, a cult leader of anti-Noble fanatics, seizes power in New Orleans and begins to fortify the city. A fifth year of crop failures kills the last survivors of the colony on Lemuria. |
|
2370 |
The constitution of the Belt Federation is signed at Ceres. Tor McKnight crowns himself King of Kalmar in a ceremony at New Bergen. |
|
2371 |
Mikhail the Destroyer, the self-proclaimed Khan of Tashkent, begins to consolidate his hold on Central Asia, executing his enemies and enslaving the population. A series of floods and subsequent diseases and malnutrition results in the failure of the colony on Alexander. |
|
2372 |
The First War of Destruction begins as forces of the Death King destroy Baton Rouge and exterminate the local Nobility. The colony on Zimbabwe suffers a mutated blood plague, only the eight Life Therapy treated Nobles on the world survive to live a primitive forest existence, the last dying around 2650. Separately, a combination of weather, nutrition and infighting leads to the failure of the colony on Franklin. |
|
2373 |
A convention of Nobility and Citizens elects Lord John Anderson as King of Libertas. Lord Karl Turki, grand-nephew of Viggo Turki becomes President of Atlantis. |
| 2374 | The Death King gathers thousands of Resident and Citizen recruits to his cause with diatribes against the Nobility and Life Therapy; consolidating his forces into large armies he calls "hordes", he conquers Arkansas and Mississippi. A series of volcanic eruptions on Mithras destroys all but one village, which clings to existence until recontact in 2703. |
|
2375 |
After a violent coup kills his rivals in Dushanbe, Mikhail the Destroyer proclaims himself Grand Khan of Central Asia. The Central Asian Wars begin. The colony on Home is wiped out when the single settlement's antimatter vacuum distiller fails catastrophically. |
|
2376 |
The Death King completes the Black Hold in New Orleans and sacrifices hundreds of Life Therapy-treated Nobles at the dedication ceremonies. A council of Nobles elects Karl Turki as the King of Atlantis. |
| 2377 | The Death King's hordes defeats Duke Harris of Alabama at the Battle of Mobile. The Easterner enclave on Shikoku fails after a nutritional crisis. |
|
2378 |
The Death King loses the Battle of Atlanta and turns his hordes westward. Central Asian armies reach the Volga and Ob rivers and begin slaver raids into eastern Europe. |
| 2379 | The Death King's hordes overrun East Texas. The colony on Lenin succumbs to malnutrition. |
|
2380 |
The Kingdom of Destruction reaches its greatest extent, ranging from the Appalachians to the South Platte to the Rio Grande. The colony on Hebe begins a rapid decline as the jungle overtakes the main settlements. |
|
2381 |
Nobles from western America form the Alliance of Life at Provo, then defeat the Death King's Horde of Skulls at the Battle of Grand Junction. On Bengal, Willy Donner writes The New Order of Man, predicting the emergence of Nobilis rule, the consolidation of Empire and its eventual dissolution after a millennia as the Solar System becomes peripheral to Human society. |
| 2382 | Atlantis receives laser transmissions detailing the stranding of the Mackinaw Bay at Fomalhaut V, but lacks resources to mount a rescue. The freighter Salvador travels from Atlantis to Fomalhaut to confirm the survival of the enclave and deliver MSMH reactors and fabricators to the 450 survivors. Martian central authority collapses after a dispute dissolves the Martian Senate; Nobles begin treating their fiefs as independent states. |
|
2383 |
Holdfasters from Midwestern America join the Alliance of Life and defeat the Death King's forces at the Siege of St. Louis. Mikhail's Central Asian Khanate consolidates its hold on Siberia and marches to the Dnepr River. The colony on Phoebus fails after a series of natural disasters, cumulating with a tsunami that floods the colony region. |
| 2384 | Floodwaters submerge Bangladesh, prompting a hundred million people to flee to refugee camps in West Bengal and Meghalaya. |
| 2385 | Failure of a vacuum distiller plant kills 5,000 people on the asteroid Metis. The colony on Halcyon succumbs to malnutrition and vitamin deficiency. |
|
2386 |
A massed Alliance army commanded by Duke Arnam of California defeats the Horde of Annihilation at the Battle of Texarkana. After failure of its desalination plant, the colony of Arakis collapses, devolving into a tribal pre-industrial semi-subterranean existence. |
|
2387 |
On Venus, Duke Joseph of Maxwell begins breeding Warrior and Servant bioengineered Constructs for personal use and sale through Maxwell Biogenics. |
|
2388 |
The Sack of New Orleans leads to the destruction of Black Hold and the Death King. Mikhail the Destroyer proclaims himself Tsar of Russia amidst the ruins of Moscow and claims all lands belonging to that ancient empire. |
| 2389 | Pirate hydrofoils begin plying the Northern Ocean on Mars. Facing starvation, the remaining 1,500 settlers on Salvation commit mass suicide. |
|
2390 |
The Alliance of Life crumbles following the death of Duke Arnam from CID. Ukrainian and Polish armies, backed by mercenaries from across Europe begin advancing into European Russia to confront Mikhail's armies. In the east, Chinese warlord troops capture Alma-Alta and Vladivostok and retake the Far Easterner provinces from Central Asian forces. |
| 2391 | Wildfires cause massive devastation in the Australian outback, leading to permanent unsettlement of many areas. |
| 2392 | At the Battle of Minsk, Mikhail's armies withdraw, hoping to lead the European armies to defeat in the depths of the Russian winter. The Easterner enclave of Kyushu fails after repeated bad harvests and a deteriorating climate. |
|
2393 |
A massive W-bomb explosion during the Siege of Moscow annihilates Tsar Mikhail and most of the Central Asian and European armies. Europe and Russia fragment with the loss of most of their political leadership. Grand Khan Ali I becomes ruler of a much reduced Central Asian Khanate, continuing slaver raids into Europe and the Mideast. |
| 2394 | A volcanic eruption of Mount Shasta kills thousands and displaces millions in northern California, Nevada and Utah. |
| 2395 | The West Antarctic ice sheet collapses, flooding into the Southern Ocean and raising sea levels world-wide, ultimately by another six meters. Coastal flooding causes evacuations that displace nearly two billion people. On Poseidon, undersea earthquakes and subsequent tsunamis and storms destroy the colony, killing 90% of the population. |
| 2396 | Unrest spreads across Terra's six populated continents as refugees overwhelm the failing infrastructure. The population of the Easterner enclave on Chosun freezes to death after the failure of the last power plant. |
| 2397 | Tensions subside in Africa and the Americas as local Nobles generally manage to absorb refugees into their fiefs. Serious unrest continues in Europe, Asia and Australia. |
| 2398 | A cholera epidemic kills millions in India, spreading to South East Asia during the monsoon season. A religious war begins on Asgard with rival factions destroying the main settlement and civilized infrastructure, leading to the rapid decline of the colony. |
| 2399 | Violence engulfs the Australian Northern Territories as nationalists battle Indonesian refugees. |
| 2400 | Belter Nobles and Citizens convene a conference at Vesta, forming a new federal government but failing to assert effective control over the lawless remains of the Outer System. |
| 2401 | The Time Travel Society emerges after a century to chaos and destruction in Australia; all but two members return to hibernate for another hundred years. One of the emergents is David Travers. A crop failure and food riots on Demeter kills two thirds of the population and drives the rest into a pre-industrial existence. |
|
2402 |
The Black Plague ravages eastern and southeastern Asia. |
| 2403 | Corsican pirates begin plying the Mediterranean, plundering commerce and seizing refugee as slaves. The Belt Federation collapses in the Devolution Crisis as Psyche secedes and declares independence; several other asteroids and habitats, including Vesta, follow suit. |
| 2404 | Drought strikes Australia. David Travers becomes steward to Kevin Mackenzie, Count of Melbourne, who begins a campaign against marauding Indonesian refugees. |
|
2405 |
Central Asian troops isolate and destroy several infected towns to limit the spread of the Black Plague. Mechanists on Karinsky perform the first successful transfer of a human personality pattern into computer memory. Pavel Karinsky hails the achievement, but progress toward restoration into a human brain is hampered by failing equipment; the colony on Karinsky concentrates research on creating backup storage systems that can hold the Mechanist "soul" for thousands of years without degradation. |
| 2406 | The Count of Melbourne takes Darwin, effectively ending refugee violence; many refugees are effectively enslaved by Australia's established population. Flooding kills half the population of the colony of Minerva, leading to a slow decline into life in isolated hilltop villages. |
| 2407 | An expedition of French, Algerian and Italian Nobles under command of Count Jean-Paul Garon of Marseilles invades Corsica and effectively suppresses pirate activity. The Charter of Darwin confirms Australia as a confederation of Noble states. |
|
2408 |
Libertine adventurers salvage three microjump starships, a destroyer and two freighters, and launch a raid on Sol, plundering the inner planets from their base on an abandoned mining site in the Belt. |
|
2409 |
Belter and Martian gunboats attack the Libertine pirates' base, destroying two ships and forcing the third to flee. |
|
2410 |
A joint Solar raid on Libertas using four jury-rigged macrojump drive starships inflicts only light damage at the cost of two vessels lost and the others crippled and stranded; the survivors are offered citizenship by King John. The Libertine navy confiscates the remaining pirate freighter, Winter Breeze, but deems it unsafe to operate. The last survivors of the religious war on Asgard die of starvation and disease. |
| 2411 | Three hurricanes pound Central America, causing widespread loss of life and the abandonment of the silting Panama Canal. |
| 2412 | Central Asian troops raid Afghanistan and Iran, looting cities and estates. With the signing of the Second Constitution at Vesta, the Asteroid Belt Confederation is founded. After the power grid collapses, the colony on Perseus begins a long gradual decline exacerbated by vitamin deficiencies. |
| 2413 | On Mars, Albert Kagnon-Mellon becomes Duke of Hesperia after a bloody palace coup. |
| 2414 | Combined Australian forces defeat an armada of Indonesian warships and refugee transports in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf. |
| 2415 | The Black Plague spreads through Iran and Turkey to Europe. The remnant human population on Hebe becomes extinct. |
|
2416 |
Salvador, the last Atlantian starship, disappears en-route to the Kalmar system; no functional starships remain in Human hands and all interstellar communications end. |
| 2417 | Duke Albert of Hesperia gains control of the Hendricks Station on Ganymede, using it as a base for commercial operations in the Jupiter and Saturn systems. |
| 2418 | The Uranian moon Ariel joins the Asteroid Belt Confederation. The renovated ramscoop Gaea resumes service between Atlantis and the Proxima colony. |
| 2419 | The remaining nationalized Vesta shipyards begin producing 100,000isp high thrust ion engines for new vessels to replacing failing HSPG propelled vessels. |
| 2420 | A small asteroid strikes the northern Pacific, generating tsunamis that cause considerable loss of life in Japan. |
| 2421 | Two earthquakes in northern India cause hundreds of thousands of deaths and widespread damage. |
| 2422 | Count Jakson of Xanthe (Mars) seizes control of Gupta Station on Mercury, using a modified ore carrier as his flagship in the landing action. |
| 2423 | Atlantis abandons attempts to renovate the Atlantis Cityship, moving the remaining residents to the surface or the settlement on the Constellation. King Karl tables proposals to recommission the Mariner as a functional ramscoop. The colony on New Java succumbs after decades of decline from vitamin deficiencies. |
| 2424 | Duke Zachary of Zambia reestablishes authority over the south-central Africa region, defeating a bandit army at the Battle of Bangweulu. |
| 2425 | Lord Commissioner Dante Brenner reunifies Paradise after defeating the warlords of the Southlands in a lengthy campaign. |
| 2426 | Australian Marines occupy New Guinea to prevent further refugee sea crossings. |
|
2427 |
A severe summer hurricane season and ensuing epidemics kill millions in North America and Asia. |
| 2428 | The Winter Breeze disintegrates after an attempt by the Libertine navy to remotely active its microjump drive. |
| 2429 | Central authority collapses in southern Brazil, beginning a prolonged period of warfare and anarchy. |
| 2430 | Winter storms break dikes in the Netherlands and Denmark, causing flooding that kills tens of thousands. A comet impact on Catalonia kills most of the colonists and scatters the few hundred surviving settlers. |
| 2431 | Danish refugees escaping their submerged lands establish a series of settlements in southern Greenland. |
| 2432 | Mount Rainier erupts, killing thousands and destroying the city of Tacoma in a pyroclastic mudflow. |
| 2433 | Factional fighting ends in central Congo after series of peace conferences cumulating in the Treaty of Libreville. |
| 2434 | Warlord violence intensifies in China after civil strife devastates Nanjing. The colony on Odysseus begins a slow steady decline after the failure of its power grid makes processing local foodstuffs more difficult. |
| 2435 | Atlantis abandons plans to recommission the Mariner and begins converting it into an additional orbital factory. |
| 2436 | Vietnamese warlords capture Guangxi province and set up the Republic of Northern Vietnam. |
| 2437 | Willy Donner dies of natural causes related to aging on Bengal at age 151. |
|
2438 |
The Khzraut Pacifist(?) faction wins the civil war. The Khzraut enter a period of isolation, conducting no travel outside their own systems. The last survivors on Poseidon die after the breakup of the remaining settlement in a storm. |
| 2439 | The Sultan of Borneo invades Australia; David Travers rallies Australian forces and defeats the invaders at the Battle of Katherine. The Asteroid Belt Confederation establishes the Belt Guard as a common defense force. |
| 2440 | The Black Plague epidemic effectively ends on Terra. A sudden drop in solar activity initiates an ice age on Sparta that wipes out the colony within a decade. |
| 2441 | The Kalmaran government reintroduces Reneux regeneration as part of its health plan for senior officials. Age reduction NB treatments become part of the Kalmaran universal health plan. |
| 2442 | David Travers leads an Australian joint strike force to destroy pirate bases in on Timor. |
| 2443 | The Duke of Louisiana begins rebuilding New Orleans behind the New Dike. |
| 2444 | James Hu becomes Archduke of Beijing by popular Nobilis election on promises of peace and stability; the American-born Archduke combines western and eastern philosophy to begin creating an effective government. A mutating plague sweeps the colony on Balder killing all colonists and Terran animal life. |
| 2445 | After a period of balkanization and sporadic warfare, the nations of Eden agree to a federal constitution with a capital at NewPort. |
| 2446 | Atlantis begins suffering a series of cold winters, freezing the Northern Ocean and prompting efforts to improve the world's terraformation. |
| 2447 | A small asteroid detonates over northern Canada, causing widespread damage in Yellow Knife, but fairly few deaths. |
| 2448 | The Central Asian army reoccupies Magadan, effectively regaining control of the Far East. The colony on Biafra succumbs to starvation. |
| 2449 | After a series of floods, a cholera epidemic breaks out in the Great Lakes region of Africa. |
|
2450 |
An Alimeen microjump trader, Phosphor Zephyr, enters the Kalmar system, exchanging its cargo of electronic parts for Kalmaran pharmaceuticals and bioengineered products and marking the arrival first of the interstellar vessel in Human space in a generation. |
| 2451 | Armies of Archduke James of Beijing defeat a Mongolian warlord intrusion in a series of battles in northern China. |
|
2452 |
A ceremony in Alimeen orbit, attended by visiting Kalmaran delegates, inaugurates the Alimeen Economic Community. The AEC theoretically includes the entire Confederation, but with only three working starships, trade encompasses just Kalmar and the six Alimeen worlds. |
| 2453 | A coup against the ruling Nobilis council leads to civil warfare in northern India. The outer system settlements of Triton, Ixion and Varuna join the Asteroid Belt Confederation. |
|
2454 |
Leaders of sub-Saharan African nations meet at Entebbe to form the Confederate African Economic Union to lessen the effects of the continent's chronic famines and plagues. The CAEU succeeds in limiting warfare in black Africa throughout the Dark Age. |
| 2455 | The God's Children of Oberon achieve effective control of the Uranian moons after routing a pirate operation on Miranda. The last survivors of the Catalonia colony perish. |
|
2456 |
Two of the three Alimeen starships collide over Alimeen. The microjump governor on the remaining starship has deteriorated to a point where the Alimeen decide not to risk its use. Fifty Kalmarans are stranded on Alimeen. |
| 2457 | Alberto Suarez becomes Count of Panama and begins a restoration of the Canal. |
| 2458 | On Venus, Maxwell Biogenics, controlled by Duke Joseph of Maxwell, begins offering Renuex Regeneration Therapy, the first regeneration treatments available in the Solar System since 2385. Charon and Pluto join the Asteroid Belt Confederation. |
| 2459 | Laser receivers on Luna pick up the last known transmission from the Kumar hyperbolic cometary colony, a celebration of its tricentennial. |
| 2460 | Belters begin the resettlement of Juno. Atlantian engineers on the Constellation redevelop fabricator box technology, aiding the world's industrial recovery. The climate begins to deteriorate on Vishnu, with warmer summers and colder winters leading to droughts, disease and starvation. |
|
2461 |
The Alimeen complete a gravstar ship, the Black Horizon, and launch it toward Kalmar, carrying a diplomatic delegation and the fifty marooned Kalmarans. |
| 2462 | Australian and CAEU diplomats reach an agreement for anti-piracy patrols in the Indian Ocean and their forces stage a joint raid on Kerguelen. Meltdown of a jury-rigged fission plant kills two-thirds of the thousand surviving colonists on Napoleon and prompts evacuation of the main settlement of Bonaparte. |
| 2463 | The Panama Canal reopens for ship traffic. Vesta Shipyards begins marketing 150,000isp ion engines for Solar System use. |
|
2464 |
The Martian Reunification Wars begin when Duke Albert Kagnon-Mellon of Hesperia becomes ruler of Lowell by marriage, and promptly invades the County of North Hellas to defeat his brother-in-law, a rival claimant. |
|
2465 |
The Black Horizon reaches Kalmar, deposits its Alimeen and Human cargo, loads trade goods and returns to Alimeen with a skeleton crew including eight Kalmaran diplomats. |
| 2466 | Reza III proclaims himself Shah of Iran and announces the creation of the Iranian Navy to defeat pirates on the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. A consortium of Belter investors purchase the Vesta Shipyards in a privatization effort. |
|
2467 |
Martian and Belter armed merchants clash at Titan over berthing rights and trade concessions. A massive solar flare devastates Isis, forcing the surviving half of the population into underground shelters. |
| 2468 | The Belt Guard establishes a base at Janus to protect Saturnian gas mining operations. The Alimeen complete three additional Black Horizon class gravstar ships for trade between their own worlds. |
| 2469 | The large Belt habitat Calumet suffers critical power failures and a serious air leak; all three hundred thousand surviving residents begin a Guard supervised evacuation to other asteroids and habitats. The Black Horizon returns to Alimeen and spends six months refitting before returning to Kalmar with a fresh crew. |
| 2470 | Armies of Duke Albert of Hesperia conquer the entire Hellas region. Duke Albert purchases two ion gunboats from Vesta Shipyards to protect his off-world holdings. |
| 2471 | The Belt Guard establishes an anti-piracy base on Saturn's moon Phoebe. The Central Asian armies of Grand Khan Ali I retake Vladivostok after a six month siege, effectively routing the northern Chinese Manchu warlords. |
|
2472 |
Kalmar completes its own gravstar ship, the Viking, which sets off on a four year voyage to Alimeen. |
| 2473 | Clinics on Atlantis begin offering Reneux regenerations to private individuals. After the Black Horizon arrives at Kalmar, Kalmaran technicians install fifty Human hibernation chambers to facilitate transits. |
| 2474 | Archduke James of Beijing defeats a Manchu army incursion and begins a series of border wars against warlords in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia. The last fifty thousand settlers abandon the asteroid Hygiea. Duke Albert's Hesperian Army wins the Battle of Antoniadi, defeating the forces of Sytris Major and Noachis, annexing both territories and executing their Nobilis ruling families. |
| 2475 | Terraformation work resumes on Vulcan under the authority of the Planetary Council. |
| 2476 | Venusian traders affiliated with the Duke of Maxwell establish enclaves in San Francisco, Melbourne and Pretoria, offering Constructs for sale and regeneration therapy at their facilities. The Viking reaches Alimeen and relieves the diplomatic crew before returning to Kalmar. |
| 2477 | The Peace of Atlanta ends decades of low-level warfare in eastern North America and codifies Nobilis rule over old administrative boundaries. |
|
2478 |
Archduke James of Beijing survives a Manchu assassination attempt that kills his entire family. The Easterner Battlestar and supporting craft reach Victoria. Easterner forces assault and quickly conquer the planet. With the Battlestar and its fleet in permanent orbit, the Easterners rename the world Hachiman and settle on the planet. The surviving 3,500 original colonists soon perish from the harsh conditions of Easterner slavery. |
| 2479 | A stalled hurricane system kills millions in flooding in Central America. Captain Hiroshi orders the commencement of the clone seeding of Hachiman. |
| 2480 | Jasper, the first new habitat in a century and a half, becomes operational near Vesta. The Viking returns to Kalmar for a hero's welcome after its first round trip. After laying out a development plan for Hachiman, Captain Hiroshi begins a two hundred year hibernation. |
| 2481 | Central Asia and Iran sign the Treaty of Qom, agreeing on borders on the Caspian and ending border raids. Northern Martian counties and city-states form the Chryse Alliance to counter Hesperian influence. |
|
2482 |
The Hesperian Army defeats the Chryse Alliance at the Battles of Gill and Crommelin, annexing the Republic of Nirgal and disbanding the Alliance. After continuing negotiations following the arrival of the Black Horizon, the Kalmar-Alimeen Economic Pact, soon known as the Kalmar Pact, is signed on Kalmar. King Tor of Kalmar gives an address to his Assembly of Notables, where he proclaims that the era of isolation has ended and urges economic and diplomatic links with other worlds. |
| 2483 | Duke Albert of Hesperia conquers the Martian County of Xanthe, also seizing control of Mercury through Xanthe's ownership of the Gupta Station. |
| 2484 | Kalmar completes the Norge gravstar ship and launches it on a nine year voyage to the Solar System and Alpha Centauri. |
| 2485 | European Nobles meet at Strasbourg, forming committees to attempt to deal peacefully with border disputes; this pseudo-parliament has moderate success in Northern Europe, but not in Iberia or the Balkans, where warlordism and conflict persists. |
| 2486 | Kalmar completes the Danmark and Sverige gravstar ships. |
| 2487 | The Sverige sets off for Alimeen, the Danmark for Libertas. |
| 2488 | An AIDS-like immune disease, Rio Fever, begins spreading in Brazil's urban slums. |
|
2489 |
The Nobility hold the first Terran General Assembly in Quito. The delegates confirm the independence of the multitude of Terran nations and pledge to uphold Homo Nobilis rule. A commission drafts formal rules of precedence and establishes a framework for the non-violent resolution of disputes; the latter is largely ignored outside Africa. |
| 2490 | Duke Albert of Hesperia signs an agreement with local Nobility on Callisto, gaining joint sovereignty over the moon and legitimizing his rule of Ganymede. |
| 2491 | The Alimeen develop a 4C (F3) gravstar ship engine and begins building a fleet of six new vessels. |
| 2492 | The CAEU intervenes in the Algerian Civil War, forcing a peace treaty on the participants and demonstrating its dominance over African, Indian Ocean and Antarctic affairs. The Asteroid Belt Confederation annexes Jupiter's moon Amalthea and establishes a gas mining base at Metis. |
|
2493 |
The Norge enters the Solar System, visiting Terra, Luna, Venus and Mars, and establishing trade with the Belt. The first 4C gravstar ship, Vapor of Life, leaves Alimeen for Kalmar. |
| 2494 | Ostensibly to police a civil war in Argyre , Hesperia launches the Southern Campaign, quickly occupying Argyre, Acnia, Cimmeria and Promethei. The Norge leaves the Solar System for Alpha Centauri. |
| 2495 | Maxwell Biogenics develops a cure for Rio Fever and begins marketing it aggressively on Terra, effectively ending the epidemic. |
|
2496 |
The Norge visits Atlantis and trades Kalmaran genetic patents for Atlantian microelectronics devices and designs, but diplomatic efforts founder when King Karl refuses to send a delegation with the Norge. |
| 2497 | The remaining Martian polities form the United Martian States to counter Duke Albert's Hesperian hegemony. The Vapor of Life leaves Kalmar for Delphi with a combined Pact crew. The last survivors on Vishnu die during a severe winter. |
|
2498 |
Lord Rogar Farrar is born in Pasadena; he is the grandson of the Baron of Pasadena, a cousin of the late Duke Arnam of California. Kalmar completes two 4C gravstar ships, Amundsen and Nansen. The Amundsen heads for Thor, the Nansen for Utopia. The Pact Advisory Council authorizes all gravstar captains to act as ambassadors, offering Pact memberships to any worlds that sign the Pact charter. |
| 2499 | The Vapor of Life reaches Delphi, establishing trade and diplomatic relations with the ruling Nobilis oligarchy. |
|
2500 |
The Black Plague again devastates Asia, spreading from Mongolia into China, India and Indochina. The Danmark reaches Libertas and comes under fire from Freehaven's city defense systems. The ship responds with an ineffective drone bombing run before continuing on to Vulcan. |
| 2501 | An elderly David Travers greets the Time Travel Society upon its centennial emergence; he returns to hibernation for a century; no other members are willing to venture outside the complex. |
|
2502 |
After a failed assassination attempt on Duke Albert, Hesperia declares war on the United Martian States. Delphi enters the Kalmar Pact shortly after its ambassadors reach Kalmar on the Vapor of Life. The Amundsen arrives at Thor, which immediately joins the Kalmar Pact. The Danmark arrives at Vulcan and meets with the Planetary Council before beginning the return voyage to Kalmar. |
|
2503 |
The Australian Wars begin as a new horde of refugees from Indochina and China overrun Indonesia and push south, occupying New Guinea and the Northern Territories. The Nansen arrives at Utopia, which enthusiastically joins the Kalmar Pact. |
| 2504 | Hesperian amphibious forces win the Battle of Eddie Harbor, giving Duke Albert control of the Martian Northern Ocean, and beginning an arduous pacification campaign in Elysium. |
|
2505 |
Hesperia and the United Martian States agree to the Peace of Korolov after Albert's troops occupy Herschel and threaten the Tharsis. Australian naval and marine forces occupy Timor and launch raids into Sulu Sea, embroiling the Vietnamese Navy in the wars. The Norge leaves Kalmar for Aphrodite. |
| 2506 | Emboldened by the three new Pact members, Kalmar begins a gravstar shipbuilding campaign to provide dedicated routes between member worlds and to develop a smaller class of contact vessels. An Australian raid on Jakarta disperses a refugee fleet and sinks half the Vietnamese Navy. |
| 2507 | The Count of Melbourne retakes Darwin and drives the last refugees out of Australia. The Amundsen leaves for Osiris. |
| 2508 | Hesperian Marines launch a suprise sub-orbital assault on Pavonis Mons, beginning a protracted campaign in the southern Tharsis and Lucus Planum regions. |
| 2509 | The Archduke of Guangzhou invades the Republic of North Vietnam, seizing the Guangxi province. The Nansen leaves Kalmar for Paradise. |
| 2510 | Duke Albert of Hesperia purchases the God's Children operated Uranian Gas Mining Corporation, giving him effective control of Miranda and atmospheric operations on Uranus. The Amundsen arrives at Osiris, where local leaders enthusiastically embrace the Kalmar Pact, later the Amundsen continues on toward voyage to Apollo. The McKnight and Turki, first of the smaller Kalmaran contact gravstar ships reach completion. The McKnight sets off for Cyclops, the Turki for Tripoli. |
|
2511 |
The Count of Cartagena attacks the Panama Canal, instigating the Panama War. The first Kalmaran 24,000mt gravstar freighter, Enterprise, enters service and begins an inaugural mission to Delphi; the Pact maintains control of contact gravstar vessels but contracts out freighter service to private corporations to ensure profitable trade. |
|
2512 |
At Venusian reunification ceremonies in Ishtar City, Duke Joseph of Maxwell becomes King Joseph I, a constitutional monarch responsible to a parliament of Nobility; the constitution confirms the feudalization of Venus. Archduke James Hu of Beijing completes the pacification of Inner Mongolia and Manchuria and crosses the Amur to attack outposts of Central Asian raiders from Nikolayevsk to Mongolia. The Kalmar Pact gravstar freighter Intrepid begins its first dedicated cargo run to Utopia on an eleven year circuit. |
| 2513 | After an air strike shuts down the Panama Canal, Count Alberto retaliates with a tactical nuclear strike on Cartagena, killing the Count and ending the Panama War. The Kalmar Pact contact gravstar ships Hermann and Crawford reach completion, setting out for Artemis and Odin, respectively. |
| 2514 | After years of limited warfare between fortified positions, the Hesperian Army pacifies Lucus Planum and launches a massive armored raid into Solis Planum, ending in the Battle of the Labyrinth. A council of Nobles convened in Bogotá declares that Count Alberto's use of weapons of mass destruction was justifiable; the Bogotá Declaration starts a Terran arms race where most major Noble houses acquire a small arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, mostly tactical nuclear fission bombs. The gravstar freighter Excalibur begins its first fifteen year circuit run to the Solar System (arriving 2521CE) and Atlantis (arriving 2523CE). |
| 2515 | Duke Albert of Hesperia seizes full control of Phobos and begins a massive naval expansion project. The Amundsen arrives at Apollo, negotiating with the local Nobilis government which sends a delegation back to Kalmar. An unknown assassin kills Count Alberto of Panama; his sister, Martina, becomes Countess, but makes no attempt to restore the canal. |
|
2516 |
After the final defeat of his rivals at the Battle of Tharsis Tholus, Albert Kagnon-Mellon declares himself Emperor of Mars, and begins his autocratic rule from the Crimson Throne in Lowell. The wet navy of the Archduchy of Guangzhou begins patrolling the China Sea and suppressing pirates in the Philippine Archipelago. The Danmark begins regular service between Kalmar and Delphi on a seven year loop, the Enterprise begins a regular nine year loop to Thor. Pavel Karinsky has his personality transferred to machine as his body dies of old age on Karinsky. |
| 2517 | The ion-propelled heavy cruiser Ares reaches completion at Phobos, the first of a class of nine heavy cruisers that form the backbone of the Martian Imperial Navy. Kalmar completes two additional contact gravstar ships, Armstrong and Aldrin; they set out for Horizon and Helicon, respectively. |
| 2518 | Central Asia mobilizes an army to assist eastern Nobles in their skirmishes with the Archduchy of Beijing. The Norge arrives at Aphrodite, initiating contact that cumulates in the world joining the Kalmar Pact. |
|
2519 |
The Mars-Belter War begins over the disputed control of the Jovian Trojans. Martian forces quickly defeat the regular Belter navy at Hector, Troilus and Patroclus, but remain unable to operate effectively inside the main Belt. |
| 2520 | Venus begins a Construct-aided re-colonization effort of its lowlands, coupled with a network of weather control satellites and surface installations. A Beijing nuclear air strike destroys the Central Asian base at Irkutsk and prompts a retaliatory strike on Harbin. A Martian Imperial Navy squadron led by the Ares seizes control of the Belter installation on Janus and drives Belter forces from the Saturn system. The major solar powers, including Mars, Venus and the Belt, sign the Terrajoule Treaty arms limitation treaty at Sinus Medii, Luna, but peace talks between Mars and the Belt quickly break down. |
| 2521 | Martian Marines occupy Charon, taking control of remaining surface facilities and solidifying effective control of the Outer System. The Nansen arrives at Paradise and finds the locals bent on independent self-reliance; the gravstar ship leaves for Amaterasu after a few months shore leave. The ruling military government on Tripoli joins the Pact after the Turki's arrival. The Pact freighter Excalibur enters the Solar System and establishes diplomatic relations with the Belt, Mars and Venus. |
|
2522 |
Belter raiders destroy the Martian naval base on Ganymede, destroying the cruiser Aetila, crippling the Barsoom and disabling the Ganymede defense grid. Belters successfully counter a Martian attempt to capture Ceres and Flora. On Terra, Archduke Hu defeats the Central Asian army at the Battle of Kyren by Lake Baikal; the ensuing armistice gives Hu control of Mongolia. A new wave of Indochinese, Indonesian and Philippine refugees head toward Australian possessions. The McKnight arrives at Cyclops, meeting with local officials and surveying damage from a recent asteroid strike on the far side of the planet. |
| 2523 | Belter defenders destroy the Martian cruiser Marduk during an unsuccessful Martian strike on Vesta. Spanish warlords besiege Lisbon, retreating only after the defenders salvage a Confederation Era disintegrator and destroy the headquarters camp of the besiegers, killing the Count of Madrid and six barons. Apollo joins the Pact in ceremonies on Kalmar. The McKnight sets off for Kalmar with a delegation from Cyclops aboard. The Excalibur establishes diplomatic and trade relations with Atlantis. |
|
2524 |
Martian strike units destroy Belter cannons built in violation of the Terrajoule Treaty, foiling an attempt to bombard Mars. The Count of Melbourne dies in a skirmish against refugees in New Guinea. The Duke of Normandy orders a commando strike on Lisbon, bent on recovering its disintegrator, but the device is destroyed in the ensuing firefight; the Count of Lisbon rallies support of other Portuguese Nobles to have himself proclaimed Duke of Portugal and launches naval and air strikes on Normandy, cumulating in the W-bomb destruction of Caen. The Amundsen begins regular service between Kalmar and Osiris on a seven year loop. The gravstar freighter Valiant reaches completion and begins dedicated service to Apollo on a fifteen year loop. |
| 2525 | A second Belter raid on the Jupiter systems results in a Martian victory and a pursuit into the main Belt that ends in the destruction of two Belter naval outposts. Alimeen gravstar colony vessels settle Sweet Vapor, thirty light years from Alimeen. The colony on Minerva begins suffering from a deteriorating climate, resulting in the extinction or abandonment of five of its eight villages over the next few decades. |
|
2526 |
The Grand Khanate of Central Asia begins a push into Afghanistan, with Crown Prince Ali capturing Kabul and the Khyber Pass. Archduke James Hu of Beijing occupies Korea in an effort to drive out Japanese pirates. Continued Belter commerce raiding causes Venus to declare support for Mars in the war, launching an embargo against Belter goods. The Nansen arrives at Amaterasu, where it receives a warm reception, though the locals have no interested in joining the Pact; it then sets off on its return voyage to Kalmar. The Hermann arrives at Artemis and the Crawford at Odin; both worlds choose to join the Kalmar Pact. A second devastating solar flare strikes Isis. |
|
2527 |
The Martian blockade and bombardment at the Siege of Vesta forces the capital of the Belt to surrender under the threat of starvation and suffocation. The terms of the Peace of Vesta give Albert control of Outer System, including the Jovian Trojans, but scattered Belter piracy continues to plague Solar shipping for decades. Competing Venusian biomedical companies begin offering Ultra regeneration therapies at clinics on Venus, Terra and Mars. |
| 2528 | Guangzhou attacks an Australian blockade on Bali, prompting a series of naval and air engagements in the Indonesian Archipelago. |
| 2529 | Terran Mormon forces of the Deseret Republic of Utah defeat the Duke of Colorado in a series of skirmishes in western Colorado and Wyoming, resulting in the Treaty of Boise, which recognizes Mormon rule throughout the Great Basin of western North America |
|
2530 |
An Australian naval hovercraft engagement crushes the Guangzhou Navy at the Battle of Makassar to end the Australian Wars. The Armstrong reaches Horizon and takes aboard a diplomatic mission for a return trip to Kalmar. The aftermath of a comet strike shatters the colony on Tanith, reducing the population by half and rendering the civilization pre-industrial. |
| 2531 | The Helicon Republic joins the Pact after brief negotiations following the arrival of the Aldrin. |
| 2532 | A joint African task force reestablishes order in the Sudan and provides relief supplies to end a famine and epidemic. The Pact freighter Exeter begins dedicated service to Aphrodite on a nineteen year loop. |
| 2533 | The Turki suffers a fusion reactor shutdown as it decelerates toward Kalmar, triggering a successful rescue mission. A third massive solar flare strikes Isis, reducing the surviving population to 12,000 primitive people. |
|
2534 |
A scandal involving undisclosed illegal personal genetic enhancements forces the abdication of King Joseph I of Venus, who is succeeded by his brother, Alexander; Joseph's son, Joseph II, becomes Duke of Maxwell. The former Venusian King becomes the Chairman of Maxwell Biogenics. The refitted Turki sets out for Prometheus. The Pact freighter Excelsior begins dedicated service to Tripoli on a twenty-five year loop. |
| 2535 | After assassinating the Archduke of Guangzhou, a group of southern Chinese Nobles establishes the Guangzhou Federation. Cyclops joins the Pact in ceremonies on Kalmar. The McKnight sets out for Dayan. |
| 2536 | The Excalibur makes its second pass through the solar system; it is harassed by Belter pirates and rescued from an ambush by a Martian task force. The Pact freighter Endeavour begins dedicated service to Cyclops on a twenty-five year loop. |
| 2537 | Vesta Shipyards begins producing high thrust MSMH fusion engines, but refuses to sell them to the Martian Empire. |
|
2538 |
Atlantis completes a functional Type Ib macrojump drive vessel, the 25m Harmony; the crew of the Pact freighter Excalibur witnesses the Harmony's test flight to Proxima. Excalibur first officer Jonas Martin accompanies the Harmony crew on a mission to Kalmar. Atlantis begins construction on a fleet of six 30m armed exploratory merchantmen with 8,000mt cargo capacity. Construction begins on the new Martian capital of Alberta at Schiaparelli. |
|
2539 |
Katrina, Princess of Kalmar, is born in New Bergen. Maxwell Biogenics establishes a trade office and clinic on Vesta. The Harmony visits the Solar System, Paradise, Vulcan and Amaterasu. |
| 2540 | The Harmony visits Vulcan, Amaterasu and Paradise to formalize diplomatic relations. |
| 2541 | Grand Khanate Crown Prince Ali survives a nuclear assassination attempt that levels half of Kabul. The Harmony visits Kalmar for diplomatic consolations, but Atlantis declines to join the Kalmar Pact or share macrojump technology. Martian Imperial naval and marine forces destroy the pirate Omega Base in the Belt. Vesta shipyards begin construction of a fleet of fusion-propelled Venusian fast frigates. The Pact freighters Eagle and Essex begin dedicated twenty-seven year circuits to Artemis and Odin, respectively. The Pact explorers Hermann and Crawford set out for fifteen year voyages to Avalon and Ishtar. Atlantis completes the Marco Polo, Pinzon and Hudson macrojump merchantmen. |
|
2542 |
Atlantis, Paradise, Vulcan, and Amaterasu form the Atlantian Economic Sphere (AES), which begins to compete with the Pact in interstellar and Solar trade. Atlantis completes the Verrazano, Frobisher and Champlain merchantmen. The Harmony travels to Fomalhaut and contacts the surviving colony, starting a series of biannual supply runs to the 900 inhabitants of the nearly terraformed deep rifts. |
|
2543 |
The Grand Khanate of Central Asia begins simultaneous campaigns in Pakistan and the Ukraine. Horizon joins the Pact in ceremonies on Kalmar. |
| 2544 | The Excalibur returns to Kalmar. The Kalmar Pact begins a scientific effort to build a macrojump starship, working to overcome a weakness in material sciences. The Pact freighter Defiance begins its first twenty-eight year circuit to Horizon. The Armstrong sets out for Olympus. Inbreeding and primitive conditions contribute to the deaths of the last surviving humans on New Armenia. |
| 2545 | The Atlantian merchantman Pinzon jumps to Cyclops, but receives a strained welcome after attempting to entice the world to leave the Pact and join the AES. |
|
2546 |
The Chinese Unification Wars begin when Archduke James Hu crosses the Yellow River to assist local Nobles resisting the expanding Guangzhou Federation. James Hu's daughter Hanna is born in Beijing. The Pact freighter Monitor sets of on a twenty-eight year circuit to Helicon. The Aldrin sets out for Aeneas. |
| 2547 | The AES Pinzon and Verrazano travel to Libertas to open trade, but receive a frosty reception from King John when they fail to share macrojump technology. Atlantis retires the Harmony after discovering stress damage. |
| 2548 | The Pact gravstar ship Turki arrives at Prometheus, with the Atlantian merchantman Frobisher arriving three weeks later. The Promethean government deliberates before deciding that the offer of full Pact membership is preferable to trade opportunities offered by the AES. After a similar failure to entice Apollo to leave the Pact, the Atlantian Economic Sphere concentrates its resources on internal, Solar and Pact trade. The Atlantian merchantman Pinzon is ambushed by Belter pirates en route to Mars; the crew abandons ship and destroys the Pinzon rather than allow it capture. The pirates capture surviving Pinzon crew members and hold for ransom until a rescue by Martian Imperial Marines. |
|
2549 |
Grand Khan Ali II becomes ruler of Central Asia on the death of his father, Ali I. The new Grand Khan arranges a truce line with the Ukrainians along the Don River and concentrates his forces in Pakistan. Atlantis completes three additional merchantmen: Cabot, Vespucci and Leon. The ramscoop Gaea leaves service after being replaced by macrojump vessels on the Proxima run. |
| 2550 | Emperor Albert officially inaugurates his capital of Alberta. The gravstar ship McKnight reaches Dayan, where the crew receives a friendly reception, though the world declines to join the Pact. |
| 2551 | The Central Asian Grand Khanate conquers most of historical Pakistan, taking Karachi and controlling the west bank of the Indus river. The Kalmar Pact adds the freighter Potempkin to the Sol-Atlantis circuit. |
| 2552 | During fighting in eastern China, both Beijing and Guangzhou use tactical nuclear weapons, resulting in the destruction of large parts of Wuhan and Nanjing; thereafter both sides reach an understanding to prohibit weapons of mass destruction in their ongoing war. |
|
2553 |
The Kalmaran attempt to construct a macrojump drive starship ends in failure when the prototype 13m Quantum disintegrates on its uncrewed test flight. A failed attack by Beijing on the neutral city of Shanghai results in Shanghai joining the Guangzhou Federation. The last sterile descendants of the survivors of the nuclear meltdown on Napoleon die. |
| 2554 | Belter pirates raid the Saturnian moon Phoebe, destroying a Martian naval outpost and three gunboats. |
| 2555 | Tensions over the Atlantian monopoly on macrojump drive lead to an AES conference on Paradise where Atlantis retains its monopoly, but offers additional aid and technical assistance to the other member worlds, including access to Ultra regeneration therapy and better NB treatments. |
| 2556 | The gravstar ship Hermann arrives at Avalon, which agrees to join the Pact. The Crawford reaches Ishtar, which also joins the Pact after prolonged discussion and negotiation produces a confederate government on the planet. |
|
2557 |
On Venus, Duke Joseph II of Maxwell leads a coup against his uncle, King Alexander. The Venusian Parliament names Joseph II Emperor of Venus, and agrees to the liberalization of the Genetic Laws, but retains ultimate law-making authority. |
| 2558 | A coalition of Indian Nobles crosses the Indus to attack the Grand Khanate's positions in Pakistan. The Atlantian merchantman Leon disintegrates during a jump from Sol to Vulcan, killing the crew of forty and six Martian passengers, including the Count of Xanthe, the Emperor's nephew. A fourth destructive solar flare strikes Isis, reducing the surviving population to less than 6,000. |
| 2559 | The Pact gravstar ship Armstrong arrives at Olympus, finding a fairly primitive, fractious world unable to agree on a government able to negotiate for Pact membership. |
|
2560 |
At the Battle of Multan, Ali II uses trickery and superior tactics to regain control of all of Pakistan west of the Indus; he begins collecting an annual tribute from the cities of the Punjab. Construction begins on the kilometer-high Crimson Pyramid on the plain of Schiaparelli Crater, north of Alberta on Mars. After loosing three crew to factional fighting on Olympus, the Armstrong heads back to Kalmar. |
| 2561 | The Pact gravstar ship Aldrin reaches Aeneas which has little interest in joining any interstellar organization that does not include its parent world, Libertas. Atlantis completes three more merchantmen: Peary, Henson and Byrd, the first with HSPG drives. |
|
2562 |
Archduke Hu captures Shanghai from the Guangzhou Federation, resulting in an armistice that guarantees him control of northern China. Martian Marines raid and destroy the Bifrost Hold, the last pirate stronghold in the Belt. |
|
2563 |
A Conference in Copernicus establishes the Lunar Republic; only the Nobility have full citizenship, but the government is no more authoritarian than the Lunar regime during the Confederation. The Republic bans natural human slavery, but allows the Nobility nearly complete control over their Construct servants. Luna begins importing Constructs from Venus under an exclusive agreement with Maxwell Biogenics. The Pact gravstar freighter Merrimac sets out for Prometheus to begin a thirty year loop. |
| 2564 | The Lunar Portective Service is formed to protect the Republic, its dependant habitats and commerce. The Pact gravstar ships Turki and McKnight set out for Daedalus and Hermes, respectively. The Atlantian starships Peary and Henson travel to Medusa in an attempt to open trade negotiates with the Khzraut but local forces destroy the Peary without warning and damage the Henson, which limps into the outer system for repairs. |
| 2565 | The crippled merchantman Henson jumps back to Atlantis to announce the failure of its mission. Construction begins on the Great Martian Canal Project, with planned links between the Northern Ocean at Iani Bay, the Argyre High Sea and the Hellas Low Sea. |
|
2566 |
Complaining of restrictive patent and trademark practices in Solar trade, the Kalmar Pact begins to place punitive tariffs on Atlantian goods. The Excalibur trades HSPG drive technology to Mars in exchange for assistance in enforcing the Pact tariffs within the Solar system. |
|
2567 |
Archduke Hu invades Japan from bases in Korea on the pretext of piracy suppression. |
| 2568 | The Martian Imperial Navy begins a modernization drive, authorizing a new fleet of HSPG cruisers, frigates and gunboats. |
| 2569 | Marines and army units from the Archduchy of Beijing overrun the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku. |
|
2570 |
Fernando, Duke of Peru, gains control of Ecuador through marriage and proclaims himself the King of the Incas, establishing his capital in Cuzco. The Incas begin to develop economic ties with the rest of South America. The first Martian HSPG cruiser, the 250,000mt Thalia enters service. |
| 2571 | Atlantis sends a delegation to Kalmar to discuss trade issues and a possible union, the Pact puts a hold on further gravstar travel as the negotiations continue. |
|
2572 |
The Atlantian Economic Sphere joins the Kalmar Pact in a deal that ends economic tariffs and shares macrojump drive technology. The Pact begins constructing a fleet of 30m freighters to make annual contract voyages to all member worlds from the Pact hub at Kalmar and works with Atlantis to coordinate Solar trade. |
| 2573 | Fearing domination by larger worlds, the Kalmar Pact votes to exclude all Solar members after considering a petition by the Emperor of Mars for membership. |
|
2574 |
Archduke James Hu subdues Japan with the surrender of the Duke of Sapporo at the Battle of Akita. Shifting forces to the Chinese armistice line, Hu resumes his drive into southern China by skirmishing with the Guangzhou Federation while coercing, invading or subverting independent warlords in central China. The first Pact macrojump trader Alimeen, sets off for Alimeen. Later in the year, the Delphi and Thor enter service. |
| 2575 | Pact macrojump service to Utopia, Osiris and Apollo begins. |
| 2576 | North American Nobles mark the eight hundred year anniversary of the founding of the United States with a ceremony in Washington that ends in the assassination of Duke of Maryland, a duel were the Count of Columbus kills the Baron of Eire, and a disagreement thatcauses a short border war between the Carolina duchies. Pact macrojump service to Tripoli, Aphrodite and Cyclops begins. |
|
2577 |
The Grand Khanate of Central Asia annexes the Punjab then attacks and conquers Delhi. On Venus, construction begins on the PARVATT parabolic vacuum transit tunnel system to link the continents of Ishtar, Aphrodite and Lada. At a Kalmar Pact conference, Atlantis agrees to the privatization of trade with the Solar System and non-member worlds. The Pact forms a exploratory service and agrees to procure four 20m contact scouts. Pact macrojump service to Artemis, Odin and Prometheus begins. |
| 2578 | Pact macrojump service to Horizon, Helicon and Avalon begins. |
| 2579 | Pact macrojump service to Ishtar begins. Pact merchants sell HSPG thruster technology to Venus and the Belt in return for trading concessions, prompting an angry reaction from the Emperor of Mars. |
| 2580 | The first Pact scout vessel, Shepard, enters service. The Shepard and the Byrd travel to Daedalus to meet the Turki as it decelerates into the system. The combined fleet makes contact with the primitive local population, whose quarrelsome warlords are clearly unready for Pact membership. Leaving the Turki in orbit around the major gas giant, the Byrd brings the crew of the Turki back to Kalmar. |
|
2581 |
Libertas rediscovers macrojump drive technology, and begins construction of the 20m Stellar Clipper. Maxwell Biogenics establishes trade offices on Atlantis and Kalmar. The Pact scouts Grissom and Glenn enter service. The Grissom and Cabot meet the McKnight over Hermes orbit. Hermes agrees to Pact membership, with ambassadors and the McKnight crew traveling back to Kalmar while the Grissom's crew mothballs the McKnight and continues contact with the locals. |
| 2582 | The Pact scout Carpenter enters service but funding for two additional Pact scouts founders. The Glenn travels to Nike, which has weathered the Dark Age very well, and whose governing Nobilis parliament quickly agrees to join the Pact. The Shepard visits Deseret, a thriving world that values its theocratic isolation and chooses not to join the Pact, though it opens itself for trade relations. |
| 2583 | The Count of Buffalo declares himself Duke of Western New York, and annihilates Albany to solidify his independence; Jefferson, son of the old Duke of New York, proclaims himself Duke of Eastern New York and establishes his capital at West Point. The Carpenter arrives at Felix, a world that has stagnated and regressed during its isolation. After negotiations on Kalmar, Felix joins the Pact. |
|
2584 |
Atlantian engineers build a practical vacuum distillation plant; patent licensing quickly spreads the technology through the Pact. The newly launched Libertine starship Stellar Clipper visits the Sol System and Atlantis. Libertas begins construction of four 30m armed merchantmen. The Glenn and Grissom travel to the re-contact the distant Kalmaran colony of Gladsheim, whose 27,000 residents eagerly join the Pact. The Shepard arrives at Asgard to discover the remains of the failed colony; the Pact annexes Asgard as a protectorate and dispatches the Shepard and Carpenter to investigate the extinction. |
|
2585 |
The Guangzhou Federation surrenders to Archduke Hu after the Battle of Foshan; the Archduke declines the offer of the Imperial Throne of China, arguing that he must first reunify the entire nation. The Pact scout Grissom arrives at Diana to find a world divided into two small and belligerent industrial era nations currently at war. Captain Jonas Martin negotiates a peace treaty that also results in Pact membership for the world. |
| 2586 | The Pact gravstar freighter Endeavour returns to Kalmar from Cyclops and reports for decommissioning, ending the gravstar ship era. The Glenn arrives at the devastated planet Isis and makes contact with the surviving population. After some debate, the Pact declares Isis a protectorate and begins planning a relief mission. |
|
2587 |
Archduke Hu begins land campaigns in Tibet and Xinjiang aimed at reuniting China. The Grissom contacts the planet Hercules, whose thriving information age democratic government overwhelming votes to join the Pact. |
| 2588 | The Shepard re-contacts the planet Champa, whose surviving population is eager to join the Pact. The Glenn arrives at Sparta to find an extinct colony. At a Pact conference on Kalmar, King Tor toasts the twenty-eight human and seven Alimeen members, but suggests that the discovery of two dead and three failing colonies indicates that the Pact should pause in its aggressive expansion, lest it overextend itself. |
|
2589 |
Negotiations concerning Libertine entry in the Kalmar Pact break down over Libertine protective tariffs. The Stellar Clipper contacts Aeneas and continues on to re-contact the Libertine colony on Freedom. |
| 2590 | After a series of construction delays, Libertas completes two merchantmen, Liberty and Justice, which begin trading with Sol, Aeneas and Freedom. |
| 2591 | The Venusian PARVATT system becomes fully operational, allowing sub-hour transits between the three continents. The Alimeen adapt the Hiss of Freedom to carry vacuum distillers, allowing it to operate at 6C and begin to adapt their remaining gravstar ships to continue passenger service between Alimeen and its colonies. |
|
2592 |
After finishing the pacification of Tibet and Xinjiang and seizing Taiwan, Archduke Hu proclaims himself Emperor James of China and founder of the Hu dynasty, ending the Chinese Unification Wars. In India, a Central Asian hovercraft army sweeps down the Ganges to capture Varanasi and begins to extract tribute from all of northern India. |
| 2593 | A dynastic marriage between the King of Vietnam and the Duchess of Laos forms the Kingdom of Indochina. Libertas completes the merchantmen Victory and Triumph. |
| 2594 | The Pact scouts Glenn and Carpenter travel to Niagara, establishing contact and negotiating the world's admittance into the Kalmar Pact. |
| 2595 | Libertas establishes a trading base on Olympus, quickly gaining influence over King Harko of Illios, a local warlord. |
| 2596 | With Emperor Albert aboard, the Imperial yacht Victory becomes the first surface ship to travel the length of the Great Martian Canals system, from Argyre to the Northern Ocean to Hellas. |
|
2597 |
The Kingdom of the Incas peacefully annexes most of Columbia. Libertas begins construction of a fleet of 40m frigates. |
| 2598 | The Chinese Empire and the Grand Khanate of Central Asia formalize their borders with the Treaty of Bangkok, sponsored by the Kingdom of Indochina and the Thai Electorate. |
|
2599 |
Maxwell Biogenics begins breeding Mermen Constructs for work in Venusian coastal waters. |
| 2600 | The Kingdom of Indochina intervenes in a Cambodian succession struggle and occupies the region, annexing it. The King of Illios completes the conquest of Olympus with Libertine support. |
| 2601 | The Pact scouts Shepard and Grissom contact the inhabitants of Arakis, a nomadic, cave dwelling people surviving on their desert planet. The Pact declares the world a protectorate and begins planning aid, including a new desalination plant. The Time Travel Society emerges from another century of hibernation; six members, including David Travers, travel to Alice Springs to meet with the local Nobility before reporting back to their hidden complex. Only one member decides to reenter society; another member's chamber had failed during the interim, leaving sixty-four members, including Travers, to continue their journey into the future. |
|
2602 |
In competition with the Kalmar Pact, Libertas forms the Libertas Union with Aeneas, Freedom, and Olympus; Libertine advisers soon dominate the subservient worlds' governments. The first two of seven Libertine frigates, the Vigilance and Prowess, enter service. |
| 2603 | The Chinese Empire occupies Guangxi province over the protests of the Kingdom of Indochina. |
| 2604 | Decades of low-level warfare subsides after eight rival European duchies sign the Treaty of Paris. A series of volcanic upwellings damage the climate on Khronos, leading to two decades of poor harvests that kill over half the population. |
| 2605 | After continual complaints from Atlantis and Paradise, the Pact Advisory Council adds three more human seats to its body and authorizes construction contracts for private starships to operate independent of the subsidized Kalmar and Alimeen centered hub and spoke trade system. The expanded Pact advisory council authorizes the construction of seven 40m frigates to match the Libertine fleet. |
|
2606 |
On Mars, the Crimson Pyramid opens to the public. After Indochinese troops skirmish with border guards of the Thai Electorate, Chinese Imperial troops invade Indochina, beginning the Asian Consolidation Wars. |
| 2607 | Indochinese defenders use four tactical nuclear weapons to stop the Chinese advance at the Battle of Hue; in retaliation, Chinese troops occupying Hanoi retreat from the city and devastate it with a W-bomb. |
| 2608 | Chinese troops occupy Vientiane. The first Kalmar Pact frigate, the Blue Horizon, enters service with Jonas Martin as Fleet Captain. |
|
2609 |
Rogar Farrar becomes Baron of Pasadena on the death of his father and older brother in a helicopter accident. Chinese troops defeat the Indochinese army at the Battle of Kampong Cham and occupy Phnom Penh. The Pact scouts Glenn and Carpenter contact the colony world of Macoraba, whose religious leaders refuse to join the Pact, but allow a Pact trading outpost on the island of Aziz. |
|
2610 |
After occupying Saigon, the Chinese Empire absorbs Indochina and the hydrofoils of the Chinese Imperial Navy begin anti-piracy raids against Philippine and Malaysian city-states. Libertine and Pact starships simultaneously re-contact the colony of Eden. After Eden's government prolongs negotiations with both organizations, Libertas launches a preemptive military strike on Kalmar, starting the First Libertine War. Atlantis and the Alimeen do not remaining neutral as Libertas has anticipated, so the combined Pact forces easily defeat the Libertine strike fleet at the Battle of Kalmar losing one frigate, while destroying four of the five attacking vessels. Jonas Martin becomes Commodore of the Kalmar Pact Navy, which begins converting ten merchantmen for naval duty. |
|
2611 |
Kalmar Pact naval forces backed by ground troops from Kalmar, Atlantis and Hercules seize and garrison Olympus. Pact squadrons destroy Libertine bases on Aeneas and Freedom and blockade the two worlds. |
|
2612 |
The Kalmar Pact besieges Libertas. Under threat of planetary bombardment, and with Pact troop ships arriving in system, Libertas surrenders. The Pact dissolves the Libertas Union and lands 10,000 occupation troops on Libertas to extract reparations payments. The colony on Purgatory, long stable with a population of about 1,000 living in three primitive villages, suffers a blight, followed by famine and disease, killing 95% of the population; the survivors die off within a generation. |
| 2613 | Eden formally declines to join the Kalmar Pact. Libertine assassins blow up a shuttle carrying Commodore Martin, killing him and six aides; Pact forces bomb three rebellious Libertine towns in retaliation and hold King John under house arrest. The Pact occupation government on Olympus executes King Harko of Illios for crimes against his people. |
|
2614 |
Failing to receive prompt tribute, Central Asian Grand Khan Ali II orders his army to occupy the western coastal cities of India, then strikes eastward with hovercraft armor, reaching the swamps at the mouth of the Ganges. The Duchies of Northern and Southern New Zealand join the Australian Confederation. |
|
2615 |
Facing growing terrorist and guerrilla attacks, Pact occupation forces withdraw from Libertas, restoring its independence. |
| 2616 | The Duke of the Upper Nile joins the CAEU, inviting a peacekeeping force to secure his northern and western borders. |
|
2617 |
An Alimeen-led Pact attempt to contact the Khzraut colony on Fortuna ends in the destruction of the three ship Alimeen contact squadron. |
|
2618 |
A special Kalmar Pact conference on Atlantis permanently interdicts Khzraut space and admits Olympus to the Kalmar Pact. The Pact blockade of Aeneas and Freedom ends, but neither world accepts invitations to join the Pact. The scouts Glenn and Grissom contact the inhabitants of the colony of Levant, which joins the Pact. The Pact releases the last merchantmen from naval duty, though all keep their weaponry as part of the naval reserve. A CAEU task force occupies Cairo to subdue warlord activities in the lower Nile valley. |
| 2619 | Libertas begins building a fleet of over a dozen armed merchantmen to replace its destroyed or confiscated fleet. |
|
2620 |
The Chinese Empire begins a massive amphibious invasion of the Philippines to wipe out pirate strongholds. |
| 2621 | A dispute over monetary policy between Kalmar and Atlantis leads to a loosening of Pact economic control, allowing freer capital movements and ending all restrictions on trade routes. The Pact privatizes all commercial starships. The Kalmar Pact encompasses thirty-nine populated systems and has ninety-two registered commercial starships, nearly all 30m merchantmen of various configurations. |
|
2622 |
Amaterasu withdraws from the Kalmar Pact after the election of an isolationist government, but maintains limited trade relations. |
| 2623 | Libertine merchantmen privateers begin raiding and trading on worlds both within and outside the Pact. |
| 2624 | Two Libertine raiders attack an outlying mining settlement on Felix. The Martian navy borders and searches unauthorized Libertine trades off Neptune. |
|
2625 |
Chinese Emperor James visits Manila, declaring the Philippines pacified and steps up amphibious campaigns in Malaysia. Citing policy differences, Paradise stops sending delegates to Pact conferences. |
| 2626 | The Kalmar Pact Navy reduces its size to five frigates, but calls up five auxiliaries. The Pact authorizes the construction of four new 30m scouts to replace its aging fleet. |
| 2627 | A Libertine privateer attacks and boards the Pact freighter Agate in the Eta Cassiopeia system, off Cyclops. A series of earthquakes on Diakoku permanently changes the course of the colony's two main rivers, leading to a calamitous decline of civilization. |
|
2628 |
After a Pact squadron arrives in Libertas orbit, King John formally disavows responsibility for privateers and allows the Pact to station ships and personnel in the Tau Ceti and UV Ceti systems to monitor compliance. An estimated six privateers begin operating from independent bases and temporary depots stocked by legitimate Libertine traders. The Khanate of Central Asia invades Iran to combat banditry and end support for Afghan rebels. |
|
2629 |
Libertine pirates sack Camelot and establish the world as their raiding base. Mars increases tariffs on Venusian NB technology to protect its own industry. The first new Pact scouts, Gagarin and Titov, enter service. |
| 2630 | In response to growing discontent with the Advisory Council process, the Kalmar Pact updates its charter to create the Planetary Congress, which consists of ambassadors from all member worlds and proposes policies to the Advisory Council. Paradise sends a new ambassador to Kalmar. Libertine pirates raid Diana. The Pact scouts Nikolayev and Popovich enter service and the four aging 20m scouts are retired. |
| 2631 | Flooding of the lower Mississippi River leads to the Flood Plains War when the Dukes of Arkansas and Missouri attack Illinois; the conflict terminates in stalemate after the destruction of St. Louis by nuclear weapons. |
| 2632 | The Pact trader Chrysanthemum vanishes on a run between Hercules and Kalmar. The Pact scout Titov contacts the colony of Agade, whose Nobilis feudal leaders choose to join the Pact. |
|
2633 |
The First Mercury War erupts between Mars and Venus after Venusian warships launch a surprise bombardment against Martian military and tax authority installations on Mercury. In retaliation, the Martian navy destroys Venusian orbital stations and blockades the world. Martian commerce raiders seize or destroy Venusian shipping throughout the Solar System. The Chinese Imperial Army invades and conquers the Thai Electorate after uncovering Thai nobles aid to Malaysian pirates. The Indonesian Confederacy joins with the Malay states to resist the Chinese invasion and the CAEU enacts sanctions against China. The Kingdom of the Incas invades and conquers Bolivia and the upper Amazon basin. The Pact scout Popovich reaches Camelot and detects two Libertine pirates in system; the Popovich jumps before being detected and reports back to Kalmar. |
|
2634 |
Venus defeats the Martian blockade squadron in a series of engagements in Venusian orbit, ending the orbital embargo. Orbital and ground battles for the control of Mercury begin with fighting on and below the surface at the Gupta and Australis stations. A Pact naval task force of four frigates, five auxiliaries and two scouts attacks and eradicates the Libertine pirate base on Camelot, destroying two pirate vessels and capturing a third. A liberated Camelot joins the Kalmar Pact as a full member. |
|
2635 |
Faced with a growing Venusian fleet presence and an untenable ground position, the Martian navy evacuates its army forces from Mercury under a flag of truce. A subsequent raid on Mercury by a brigade of orbit-deployed Martian commandos surrenders after failing to seize any surface installations. Venusian squadrons engage Martian naval elements throughout the inner Solar System and fight a skirmish on approach to Mars orbit. Australia invades Indonesia and quickly gains control of the island of New Guinea. The Chinese Empire conquers mainland Malaysia and invades Borneo; Indonesian Nobles offer to end the war, but China demands an unconditional surrender and naval control of the Java Sea. A group of Libertine pirates establish a base on Blackbeard, a moon of a large singleton brown dwarf 6.5 light years from Deseret. The Kalmar Pact authorizes the construction of two 50m cruisers and four additional frigates to provide an anti-piracy force. Alimeen gravstar colony vessels settle Warm Wind. |
|
2636 |
Mars accepts an armistice after Venus wins the Battle of March Second in Martian orbit and the Belt indicates readiness ready to enter the war. Martian Emperor Albert abdicates in favor of his half-nephew Stanislov, who is also a cousin of Emperor Joseph II of Venus. Disgruntled Martian naval officers assassinate Albert at his Escalante estate. Mars ends protective tariffs on Venusian products and allows Venusian business offices to open in the Outer System. Chinese forces defeat the combined Indonesian fleet at the Battle of Madura. |
| 2637 | Emperor Stanislov moves the Martian seat of government back to Lowell. Three Libertine pirates attack Deseret, destroying the orbital station and raiding outlying settlements. The Deseret Defense Force destroys one pirate vessel in a suicide attack. Chinese Imperial Marines pacify Sumatra. |
|
2638 |
Chinese forces sack Jakarta, ending Indonesian resistance. Joint Chinese-Australian naval patrols fight the continuing pirate menace in the Banda Sea. The CAEU fails to extend sanctions against China. Four pirate vessels raid Deseret, destroying the city of Youngstown with a W-bomb attack and extorting precious metals and food stocks from the inhabitants. The Pact cruisers Zhang and Johannessen enter service. |
|
2639 |
William Kagnon-Mellon, younger brother of Albert, leads a coup that ends in the assassination of Martian Emperor Stanislov. William becomes Emperor of Mars, and concedes Venusian control over Mercury in return for recognition of his ascendance by Joseph II and the Venusian Parliament. The Pact trader Orion's Belt visits Deseret and receives information on Libertine raids from the local government. Three Libertine pirates make a slaver raid on Hermes, carrying off hundreds of villagers. |
|
2640 |
Emperor William moves the Martian seat of government back to Alberta and interns Emperor Albert's remains under the Crimson Pyramid. A Kalmar Pact task force led by the Zhang intercepts the two pirate vessels returning to Deseret to extort tribute; destroying one ship and capturing the other. With information from the Deseret encounter, the Pact task force attacks and destroys the pirate base on Blackbeard. A subsequent raid destroys a pirate depot in the Hercules (1) Sector. |
|
2641 |
Emperor William purges the Martian military, arresting and executing over a hundred officers and forcing thousands more into retirement. The Incan Army occupies northern Chile. Central Asian Grand Khanate forces withdraw from Iran after negotiating an end to banditry and a cutoff of aid to the Afghan rebels. |
| 2642 | Deseret joins the Kalmar Pact after receiving assurances on religious protection and controls on media access for the domestic population. |
| 2643 | Chinese and Australian diplomats agree to common borders in Indonesia, with Australia occupying Ambon and the Chinese annexing Sulawesi. Maxwell Biogenics purchases outright four medium-sized main Belt asteroids for use in risky research and development projects. |
|
2644 |
Vulcan withdraws from the Kalmar Pact in reaction to new subsidy policies that channel more trade and assistance to more distant newer member worlds. |
|
2645 |
The Chinese Empire invades Burma to end smuggling and drug traffic. The Khanate of Central Asia occupies central India south to the Godavari River. After pirates seize the trader Godiva, King Karl authorizes the formation of the Atlantian Interstellar Navy, with two frigates and eight 20m escorts. |
| 2646 | A series of undersea earthquakes on Venus and subsequent tsunamis devastate coastal regions in Lada and Aphrodite and shut down the PARVATT system; geologists determine that plate tectonics have begun on Venus. Pact scouts Titov and Nikolayev contact the colony on Ghandi, establishing relations and negociating Pact membership for the struggling settlement. |
| 2647 | Additional earthquakes on Venus led to massive evacuations of coastal areas by all but Merman Constructs; efforts at earthquake control begin. After a second pirate raid on Hermes, a Pact task force led by the Johannessen enters the Libertine system and demands that Libertas control its raiders; Libertas agrees to comply, but refuses to allow Pact monitoring of its macrojump merchant vessels. Libertas effectively cuts its privateers loose, no longer actively supply them, but making no efforts to stop or report on their activities. |
| 2648 | A Pact advisory council resolution authorizes all member worlds to arm their interstellar vessels and recommends convoys for trading missions in systems not actively patrolled by the Pact navy. Ten more Pact merchantmen receive upgraded weaponry as naval auxiliaries. |
|
2649 |
After the death of Countess Marina, the Incan Army occupies Panama and begins renovating the canal. |
| 2650 | The Terran General Assembly holds a conference in Rome, with African delegates pushing for an overturn of the Bogotá Declaration and for a permanent arbitration board to mediate international disputes. China, Central Asia and the Kingdom of the Incans all refuse to agree to either proposal. Pirates raid primitive Daedalus, seizing food and slaves; withdrawing as the Pact trader Castrovalva enters the system. |
|
2651 |
Emperor William uses Martian army troops to put down dissident activity on Mars and declares martial law in several cities. |
| 2652 | The Pact frigate Nebula defeats two pirates over Hermes, crippling both pirate vessels and capturing the crew. |
| 2653 | Based on information gathered by the Nebula, a Pact task force discovers two recently abandoned pirate bases, one in the outer belt of a red dwarf, the other on the moon of a large rouge gas giant half a light year away. |
| 2654 | With convincing evidence that Isis's sun has ended its flare stage, Kalmar begins limited settlement on Isis to supplement the planet's small population and aid recovery. |
| 2655 | Venusian geologists gain control of the emerging crustal plates and propose modifications to allow the restoration of the PARVATT system. Privateers raid the colonies of Rama and Aurora. |
|
2656 |
The Chinese Empire claims control of the Bay of Bengal, occupying Sri Lanka and the Andaman Islands as protectorates. An explosion, probably from a disintegrating comet, destroys the colony of Kurdistan, killing all but a handful, who survive for a few decades in the devastated ruins. |
|
2657 |
The Asian War begins as Chinese and Central Asian forces clash after the Chinese Army advances to the Brahmaputra River. Privateers begin annual tribute runs to Hector after conducting a demonstration W-bomb detonation. |
|
2658 |
The Asian War intensifies as Central Asian forces invade Xinjiang and the Chinese Army crosses the Sayan Mountains. Attempts by Australian and African diplomats to negotiate an Asian cease-fire fail. |
| 2659 | The Chinese Army invades mainland India at Tuticorin and occupies Bangalore at its Count's invitation. Chinese defense systems thwart a Grand Khanate missile strike on Bangalore and Pondicherry. Resettlement of Venusian costal regions begins, though cities and towns incorporate protection against both earthquakes and tsunamis. |
| 2660 | China begins importing Martian HSPG armored vehicles. The Kalmar Pact authorizes four additional scout vessels for survey work within Pact boundaries. King Tor's younger daughter Lydia marries Paradisian Roban Kamarov, Count of Veedar; the couple settles on Kalmar. |
|
2661 |
The Chinese Imperial Army, with support from Martian advisors, breaks through the Central Asian lines near Hyderabad and sweeps north, gaining control of all India and forcing the retreat of Central Asian troops to the Indus River. |
|
2662 |
Olav Kamarov is born on Kalmar. Grand Khan Ali II dies in victory at the Battle of Karaganda; his grandson, Ali III, becomes ruler of Central Asia and orders a withdrawal from Pakistan to strengthen his Eastern Front. A Chinese missile attack on Central Asian positions fails, but a Grand Khanate counterstrike devastates Amritsar. Under African and Australian pressure, both China and Central Asia agree to forgo the use of weapons of mass destruction. |
| 2663 | Emperor Joseph II of Venus makes the first transit in the restored PARVATT systems linking Venus's three continents. The Asian War becomes a bloody of ground warfare against static positions along a five thousand kilometer front line. |
| 2664 | The Pact scouts Gagarin and Popovich contact the colony on Reich; the contact mission commanders deem the xenophobic local regime unsuitable for Pact membership, but make a pro-forma offer that is predictably rejected. |
|
2665 |
Central Asia withdraws from Afghanistan after loosing the Battle of Khyber Pass and the Battle of Kabul. In South America, the Incas occupy the lawless southern regions of Chile. |
| 2666 | Chinese Imperial Marines invade Central Asia's Far East regions, overrunning territories until crossing the Lena River but withdrawing to fortified positions east of the Lena after the Battle of Yakutsk. Pirates begin annual tribute raids against the colony on Hsia. |
| 2667 | The Chinese Imperial Marines put down the mutinous Chinese 4th Army in Afghanistan. Emperor William of Mars orders the construction of the massive Face of Mars (his) north of the Crimson Pyramid. |
|
2668 |
Chinese Imperial Marines capture Irkutsk. The Brazilian War begins when the Brazilian duchies unite to fight Incan economic exploitation of the upper Amazon basin. |
| 2669 | A Chinese Imperial summer offensive ends with the capture of all of Siberia east and north of the Ob River. Maxwell Biogenics begins clinical trials of low-gravity genetic modifications to enabled humans to thrive indefinitely in gravity fields below .05 g and to limit adaptation problems when returning to standard gravity. |
|
2670 |
After China fails to break the fortified Ob Line, Imperial Marines strike south to occupy the Arabian Peninsula and the Chinese 1st Grav Army conquers Iran and begins an attack into Central Asia through Turkmenistan. |
| 2671 | The Central Asian Army counterattacks in Turkmenistan, enveloping the Chinese 1st Army at the Battle of Kerki. The Incan Army begins an airborne assault on Brazilian army positions throughout the middle Amazon region. |
|
2672 |
Central Asia breaks the restraint agreement on weapons of mass destruction and launches a mostly countered nuclear missile attack on Chinese position in Siberia and Iran; China exercises restraint and does not respond to the attacks, but begins a conventional bombardment of Tashkent. The Treaty of La Paz ends the Brazilian War, with the Brazilian dukes granting concessions to the Incas in return for continued independence. Raman authorities refuse to provide tribute to pirate raiders, prompting a conventional missile attack on the capital, but the pirates withdraw after raiding a few scattered settlements. |
| 2673 | The Chinese Imperial Army occupies Iraq. The Pact scouts Titov and Nikolayev re-contact the failing colony on Tanith and the Pact accepts the world of iron age villages as a protectorate. |
|
2674 |
The Central Asian Army launches a failed offensive through the Caucasus mountains into Iran. The surviving Terra/Luna NEAR habitats join the Lunar Republic in exchange for the technologies and support needed to keep their stations habitable. The Belt Congress authorizes the availability of low-gravity genetic modification therapy for all Citizens. |
| 2675 | The Pact freighter Morning Star vanishes out of Hercules; authorities suspect a pirate hijacking. The Chinese Imperial Army marches through Jordan and Palestine to the Mediterranean and seizes Turkey. China attacks Central Asia through the Caucasus and conducts an amphibious landing south of Rostov. |
| 2676 | Chinese Imperial forces sweep into Central Asia from all sides, but Ali III refuses to surrender, launching a failed missile attack on Chinese population centers. Pirate raids on Aurora begin to occur on a nearly annual basis. |
| 2677 | Tashkent falls to the Chinese, ending the Asian War; Ali III is presumed dead. James declares himself Emperor of Asia with western borders on the Sinai and the Don and Volga rivers. |
|
2678 |
European nobles on the Asian border form the Eastern European Confederation at Warsaw and sign a peace and friendship treaty with the Empire of Asia. The climate on the colony of Preussen begins to worsen as the world slips into an ice age, causing a rapid decline in population and driving the survivors to a nomadic existence. |
|
2679 |
Terran nobles meet at the Conference of Casablanca to work on mutual security concerns, an unspoken reference to Asian expansion, though Asian Emperor James disavows any territorial ambitions. |
|
2680 |
African Nobles including the Count of Pretoria and the Duke of Zambia begin funding increased settlement of Antarctica, drawing protests from the Kingdom of the Incas. The Chinese Imperial Army announces a reduction of troop strengthen from five Battle Armies to three. On Hachiman, Captain Hiroshi awakens after a 200 year hibernation and orders the remaining Battlestar complement awakened to finish developing an interstellar civilization. |
| 2681 | The Kalmar Pact authorizes a new class of 30m scouts to replace its aging Cosmonaut class vessels. |
|
2682 |
Emperor James of China dies of natural causes at the age of 650; his daughter Hanna becomes Empress of Asia. At the Kalmar Pact bicentennial celebration on Kalmar, Kings Tor of Kalmar, Karl of Atlantis and President Henry Neroutsos of Hercules celebrate the union of thirty-five Human and eight Alimeen worlds with over two hundred million Human and three hundred million Alimeen residents and the progress made in achieving trade integration and technological parity throughout the Pact. |
|
2683 |
After defeating a uprising against Incan corporations by the Brazilian Nobility, the Incas occupy the rest of Brazil and the remaining independent South American cities and proclaim the Inca Empire, a federal South American state with a rotating elected Noble Emperor. |
|
2684 |
The Incan Nobility begins a colonization of Patagonia to enlarge their holdings. The Narwhal, first of the new Kalmar Pact scouts enters service. |
|
2685 |
Venusian diplomats seal an agreement for six of the remaining eleven NEAR asteroid habitat settlements to join the Venusian Empire. Libertine pirates seize Thebes as a pirate base. |
| 2686 | Emperor William celebrates the completion of the Face of Mars. |
| 2687 | With the Treaty of Hobart, Australia, the Inca Empire and the CAEU agree to divide claims in Antarctica, with the Incans gaining control of the Antarctic Peninsula, Australia annexing Wilkesland, and Africa holding the remaining territory. |
|
2688 |
The Death King and his agents reappear in New Orleans, beginning a campaign of terror throughout the Duchy of Louisiana. |
| 2689 | The Kalmar Pact scout Baleen detects pirate activity during a pre-contact mission to Aurora and returns with a Pact fleet led by the Johannessen. The governing council of Aurora welcomes the fleet and accepts Pact membership and protection. |
|
2690 |
The Pact fleet destroys a pirate vessel at Aurora, but a second ship escapes. Citing anti-government activities by exiled Brazilian Nobility, the Incas occupy Central America north to the Yucatan and annex the Lesser Antilles islands. |
|
2691 |
The Death King murders the Duke of Louisiana and his immediate family, taking control of the Duchy and expanding his control along the swamps of the Gulf Coast and the lower Mississippi Valley. |
|
2692 |
Libertine pirates raid Agade and Odin, destroying major cities and seizing booty and captives before withdrawing. Pact naval patrols intensify and the Advisory Council authorizes the modernization of the fleet and the addition of four more frigates and five escorts. The Asian Navy begins aggressive anti-piracy patrols in the Pacific Ocean, seizing Guam. |
| 2693 | Empress Hanna of Asia authorizes a Asian Space Navy, buying three surplus Martian frigates and the Gherman Titov spaceport facility to serve as a geosynchronous base. |
|
2694 |
The Kalmar Pact scout Orca contacts the inhabitants of Inanna, whose leadership accepts Pact membership. The Empire of Asia formally annexes all the islands of the North Pacific up to the International Date Line. A Libertine pirate fleet of four vessels from Thebes raids Reich, and retreats with heavy casualties after sacking two cities. |
|
2695 |
The Death King maintains and expands control of the Duchies of East Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi through assassination and terror; refugees begin trickling westward from the Plains Duchies. |
| 2696 | A Brazilian exile group based in Havana claims responsibility for the assassination of Incan Emperor Antonio of Mendoza. Fernando permanently reassumes the Inca crown. After failed negotiations with the Cuban government, the Incan army invades the island with airborne infantry troops. |
|
2697 |
Libertas sides with the loosing faction in a Amaterasu power struggle and occupies Amaterasu to reinstate their puppets as proxy rulers; a guerrilla war ensues, with Libertas pouring troops onto the world to maintain order in the cities. Havana falls to the Incan army, but several wanted Brazilian exiles remain at large. |
|
2698 |
The Incan Empire annexes the entire Caribbean Sea Basin, occupying major cities and hunting down all but two of the remain fugitive Brazilians. The Kalmar Pact debates sending aid to the Amaterasu Legitimist rebels, but only agrees to denounce Libertine aggression; Hercules independently begins secret shipments to the rebels. |
|
2699 |
Libertas reinstates the Libertas Union, inviting Aeneas and Freedom to join the political and economic federation. Death King terror spreads to the Rio Grande Valley and the border with Utah. The Horde first appears as an organized military force and Death King-sponsored submarine and hovercraft pirates begin plying the Gulf of Mexico. |
|
2700 |
Libertine commandos and secret police ruthlessly stamp out the Legitimist guerrillas on Amaterasu, which formally joins the Libertas Union. Baron Rogar Farrar of Pasadena begins campaigns in Baja California in favor of Jorge, a claimant to the Baja Duchy. The Kalmar Pact scout Manatee contacts the rulers of the colony world of Zulu, who quickly join the Pact. |
| 2701 | The Time Travel Society emerges from hibernation and sends a delegation to Alice Springs. After reviewing the world situation, twelve members decide to rejoin society, leaving fifty-two to sleep for another century. Climatic conditions on Pruessen fall into terminal decline, with the surviving population fading to extinction after ice covers the entire southern continent. |
|
2702 |
Fearing Libertine aggression, Vulcan rejoins the Kalmar Pact. Pressures of refugee migrations and Death King assassinations lead to the Nevada War, where Rogar Farrar defeats the Mormon Army of Utah and becomes the Archduke of the Pacific American Confederation. |
|
2703 |
Archduke Rogar launches the Second War of Destruction, crushing the Horde and destroying the Death King in a lightning campaign. Rogar incorporates territory from the Arizona Corridor to the Duchy of Mississippi into the Pacific American Confederation. The Kalmar Pact scout Orca contacts the remaining village on Mithras and its seventeen inhabitants; the Pact absorbs Mithras as a dependency and begins planning to establish a small naval base on the world. |
| 2704 | The Kalmar Pact scout Baleen surveys the failed colony of Hebe and determines that the flora is hostile to future colonization attempts; the Pact establishes a research station on the planet's surface. The Libertine government begins providing assistance and ships to the pirate regime on Thebes. A protracted drought and subsequent plague wipes out the faltering colony on Diakoku. |
|
2705 |
Venus and the Belt sign a formal military alliance in ceremonies on Vesta; subsequent agreements provide for a trade of discounted Venusian biomedical products for a large shipbuilding contract that greatly enlarges the Venusian Navy. Archduke Rogar reorganizes his realm into the Archduchy of Western America, incorporating Utah, Colorado, and Kansas. The Northern Campaigns begin between the new Archduchy and several northern and Midwestern duchies backed by the Dukes of Georgia and Virginia. The Incan Empire invades and conquers northern Mexico in a futile search for Baroness Aracruz, assassinator of Emperor Antonio. |
|
2706 |
Archduke Rogar besieges and sacks Chicago, finishing his conquest of the entire old United States west of the eightieth parallel with the Peace of Gary recognizing his sovereignty over these gains. Western America and the Incan Empire reach a border agreement after Rogar agrees to aid in the search for Baroness Aracruz. A series of massive volcanic eruptions strike the colony of Frigg causing a five year long dark winter that kills most of the population. |
|
2707 |
After two prototype failures, Mars completes the 15m macrojump vessel Phoenix and sends it on a test mission to Atlantis. The Eastern Europe Confederation crumbles into low-level warfare after various members support rival claimants for the Bavarian throne. |
|
2708 |
The Kalmar Pact scout Narwhal contacts Rama, which joins the Pact in return for protection against pirate activity. Lunar and Venusian diplomats sign a secret anti-Martian alliance. The North American Unification War begins as Georgian-led eastern and Canadian duchies attack Western America. |
|
2709 |
King Tor of Kalmar dies of natural causes; Katrina becomes Queen of Kalmar and chair of the Pact Advisory Council. In an address to the Planetary Congress, Katrina proposes a more aggressive approach to expansion and re-contact, arguing that a civilized interstellar community will lessen the risks of piracy and war. The Martian Empire begins construction of a small fleet of macrojump frigates and merchantmen. Archduke Rogar of Western America orders the execution of his wife, Elizabeth, after she becomes implicated in an espionage ring; later, Atlanta falls to Rogar's forces after the Battle of Decatur and resistance in the American Southeast crumbles. |
| 2710 | The Kalmar Pact begins a fleet modernization campaign to replace its two aging cruisers and six oldest frigates with a new fleet of three Type IIb cruisers and eight frigates plus an additional five escorts. Martian diplomats make contact with the Libertine government and discuss a potential alliance. The Western American army begins an offensive against the Canadian duchies, winning the Battle of Red River. |
|
2711 |
The Martian War begins with a surprise attack at the Battle of Troilus by a coalition of Venusian, Belter and Lunar forces; subsequent actions attack and overrun Martian positions in the Jovian Trojans. A Coalition fleet begins the interdiction of Mars. Western American troops occupy the duchies of New England on request of the Duke of Massachusetts and drive into the Duchy of New York, crossing the Hudson at the Battle of Troy. |
|
2712 |
The Imperial Martian Navy breaks the Coalition's siege, but an offensive against the Belt quickly stalls with a withdrawal after the Battle of April Fourteenth. The Coalition seizes Martian outposts at Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, though the Jovian moons hold out, defeating the Coalition at the Battle of Callisto. The Kalmar Pact scout Baleen contacts the struggling settlers on Penance, who decline an offer to join the Pact as a protectorate. Buffalo and Toronto fall to the forces of the Archduke Rogar after an amphibious campaign on Lakes Eire and Ontario. The last survivors on Preussen die under the onslaught of the ice age. |
|
2713 |
Coalition forces attack and occupy Charon and Pluto and agree to a neutrality pledge by remaining Kuiper settlements. The Citizens of Europa revolt against their Martian Nobility and seize control of the world, aiding in the Battle of Ganymede, which forces the Martian Jupiter Fleet to withdraw. Emperor William of Mars dies when his flagship Broadsword disintegrates during the Battle of Iris in the Belt; his son, Charles, ascends the throne and requests an immediate cease-fire. Libertine pirates from Thebes raid Daedalus, destroying the Pact freighter Orion's Belt and the escort Viper. The armies of Western America sweep though the Canadian duchies, meeting little resistance. |
|
2714 |
The Treaty of Copernicus ends the Martian War and the Belt gains administrative control of the Outer System and Jovian Trojans. Mars becomes a constitutional monarchy under Emperor Charles and a Parliament of Nobles. Venus achieves macrojump technology and sells the secret to other Solar governments. After the pacification of Alaska and the Yukon, the Treaty of Chicago confirms Rogar Farrar as King of North America. After receiving word that Rogar allowed the Baroness Aracruz to escape justice, the Incan Imperial Army crosses the Rio Grande, starting The American War. A Kalmar Pact task force under command of Captain Lord Olav Kamarov aboard the new cruiser Shelton destroys the Libertine pirate base on Thebes and four pirate vessels. A Pact Marine brigade occupies Thebes and executes captured pirates and Theban sympathizers. The Pact scout Narwhal contacts the pre-industrial colonists on Odysseus; the world joins the Pact as a protectorate. The Pact scout Manatee contacts the leadership of the colony on Hector, which joins the Pact as a full member. |
|
2715 |
After installing a friendly government, Kalmar Pact forces withdraw from Thebes. The Pact scout Orca discovers the failed colony on Lenin. After heavy ground and air fighting over the southern duchies of the North American Kingdom, King Rogar's forces regain the initiative from the Incas after the Battle of Houston. North America begins ballistic and airborne commando insertions into Ecuador and Peru and purchases orbital combat craft from Mars. |
|
2716 |
Libertine pirates raid Daedalus, Hsia and Reich, and reestablish their base on Thebes, executing the Pact- sympathetic Nobility. Venus completes its first macrojump vessel, the 13m Joseph II and conducts a test voyage to Atlantis. Cuzco falls to a massive North American commando assault; Emperor Fernando dies in the storming of the Imperial Palace. Rogar crowns himself Emperor of America, though pacification campaigns in Patagonia continue. The Pact scout Orca contacts the colony on Tyche and the Baleen contacts the colony on Ares, both worlds join the Kalmar Pact. |
|
2717 |
The Belter government convenes a constitutional convention on Vesta, updating laws to accommodate an orderly federal government for the Outer System and guaranteeing Citizen rights in the region. Kalmar Pact patrol vessels and Theban pirates clash at Ares, downing one pirate landing boat on the world. After discovering current Libertine equipment in the pirate wreckage, the Pact breaks off diplomatic relations with Libertas. A Terran General Assembly of Nobles at Reykjavik recognizes Rogar as Emperor of America; it is the first meeting between Rogar and Empress Hanna. African and Australian emissaries call on both Empires to help provide stability in Europe, the only continent without a united government. |
| 2718 | The Kalmar Pact scout Manatee and its escort contact Hsia, which joins the Pact and provides information on recent pirate activities. A pirate vessel flees Hsia after detecting the Pact presence. |
| 2719 | Emperor Charles of Mars founds the city of Charleston on the equatorial rim of Pavonis Mons and secures funding for the construction of the Pavonis Obelisk, to stretch one hundred kilometers into the Martian sky. Libertine pirates raid Daedalus and Reich. |
|
2720 |
Libertine pirates raid Hsia, capturing the Pact traders Bounty and Wanderlust and destroying the escort Asp. A mobilization of Pact forces forces Libertas to disavow the pirates' actions. The Libertine government stands by as a Pact task force again attacks and occupies Thebes, destroying two pirate vessels and executing captured pirate leaders. The Theban Nobility refuse to join the Pact, but do allow the stationing of a squadron in system to discourage returning pirates. Daedalus joins the Pact after its leaders agree on a confederate government and the need for protection against pirate depredations. The Kalmar Pact begins construction of a fleet of six 30m armed scouts to replace its aging fleet. Anti-Australian agitation begins in the Indonesian archipelago and on some South Pacific islands. |
|
2721 |
The Martian Parliament vetoes the Emperor's attempt to move the seat of government to Charleston, but funds construction on the Pavonis Obelisk. The Kalmar Pact scout Orca contacts the twin worlds of Romulus and Remus, who join the Pact. Duke Harold of Wessex conquers London and assumes the vacant throne as the King of England, receiving support from the Welsh Nobility, but starting the War of Britain when the Scottish Nobility unite under the banner of the Duke of Edinburgh. Hachiman builds and tests a prototype macrojump starship, the 30m Yamamoto, and quickly follows with production of a dozen 40m armed troopships. |
| 2722 | Captain Hiroshi dies on Hachiman, naming Hideki Tanaka his successor. Tanaka names himself Fleet Admiral and prepares his world for a campaign of conquest. The Yamamoto secretly scouts Heaven. |
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2723 |
The first of the new Kalmar Pact scout vessels, Virgo, enters service. After the planet Heaven refuses to surrender to the Hachiman First Fleet, Tanaka orders a nuclear bombardment of the world, followed by a Hachiman Marine invasion and occupation that leaves over two million dead. |
|
2724 |
Asian Imperial forces occupy New Guinea and Timor and sweep the remainder of the Pacific basin to support a faltering pro-Asian Islander coup, precipitating the Asia-Australian War. Australia declares war on Asia. The CAEU imposes economic sanctions on Asia. The Kalmar Pact scout Boötes and escort Rattlesnake contact Hachiman, resulting in a tense stand-off and the eventual transport of a Hachiman envoy back to Kalmar. The Pact scout Virgo and escort Cobra encounter a Hachiman navy squadron above Heaven and retreat after the Hachiman forces forbid Pact access to the world. On its final mission, the Pact scout Manatee contacts the pre-industrial villagers of Demeter and arranges a Pact protectorate of the world. |
| 2725 | Libertas quietly begins resupplying the remaining pirate vessels, now operating from two remote bases on marginally habitable worlds. Asian Marines seize New Zealand and make limited raids on the Northern Territory of Australia. King Harold narrowly defeats his Scottish enemies at the Battle of Carlisle, but significant resistance continues, supported by the Irish dukes and some French Nobility. |
|
2726 |
At the invitation of King Harold, the American Empire occupies the British Isles without resistance, ruling through Harold, King of the United Kingdom and guaranteeing rights to the Scottish and Irish Nobility. Emperor Rogar formalizes feudal self-rule throughout his realm with the Atlanta Constitution. Asian Imperial Marines invade Australia in full force, seizing Darwin and Brisbane and sweeping into the interior to besiege Alice Springs. An Australian missiles strike on the Asian mainland is ineffective. The CAEU withdraws its diplomats from Asia. The last surviving colonists on Frigg perish. |
|
2727 |
The Kalmar Pact and Hachiman establish formal diplomatic relations and reach an informal agreement with on spheres of influence. The Hachiman navy re-contacts and asserts control over the three surviving Eastern enclaves, Honshu, Manchukuo and Formosa. Asian Imperial forces capture Alice Springs, Sydney and Canberra, marching to Melbourne before the Australian Nobility offers surrender at the gates of the city. Libertine pirates begin periodic tribute raids on Reich, Tyr and New Rome. |
| 2728 | Hachiman scouts visit and lay claim to the failed enclaves of Shikoku, Chosun and Kyushu. French and Dutch agitators attempt to stir Scotland and Ireland into rebellion against King Harold; American intelligence agents penetrate the agitator network and present evidence to the CAEU and Asian Empire before demanding a cessation of anti-Harold activates by the responsible European states. |
|
2729 |
King Harold of the United Kingdom dies from an assassin's bomb; in response an American Imperial expeditionary force crosses the English Channel and sweeps to the Rhine, meeting little resistance. The Asian Empire declares war on America, precipitating the European War and advances from the Urals to the Vistula to defend the independence of the European states; but the Archduchy of Poland petitions for annexation into the America n Empire as the Asian Army captures Warsaw. The Kalmar Pact scout Lyra and its escort survey the dead colony world of Zimbabwe; the dormant blood plague infects and kills three crew members of the Lyra, which remains in quarantine over Paradise for a full year. The Pact posts a warning beacon over Zimbabwe and declares it a quarantined protectorate. |
|
2730 |
After a year of sporadic air and suborbital engagements, Asian and American ground forces clash at the Oder River, but avoid major engagements. The Hachiman Navy attacks the industrial civilization on the world of Han, destroying military centers and occupying major cities with Hachiman marines. Hachiman begins a decades-long struggle to eradiate resistance in the Southern Islands of Han. Hachiman scouts survey the failed colony world of Catalonia and lay claim to the planet. The Kalmar Pact navy begins a second wave of modernization aimed at bringing the entire fleet up to twenty-eighth century standards. Alimeen colony ships settle Soft Zephyr. |
|
2731 |
American amphibious forces occupy Hawaii and defeat the Asian Imperial Navy at the Battle of Bikini. The war stalemates in Europe with neither side willing to fight a major battle, though America occupies Norway and Sweden and Asia occupies Finland. The CAEU calls for world and interplanetary blockades against both America and Asia, but the Solar powers and the Kalmar Pact refuse to endorse the measure. The Kalmar Pact scout Centaurus contacts the Muslim colony world of Yathrib, which refuses contact with outsiders. The Martian macrojump vessel Crimson Sands makes contacts with the Martian-descended colonists on Heimdall, who accept diplomatic contact but refuse an offer to join the Martian Empire. |
|
2732 |
The Hachiman Second Fleet and marine forces occupy primitive Gothia and crush resistance. The Hachiman navy establishes an outpost and a small settlement on Shikoku. American forces liberate New Zealand with ballistic troop landings. Australia revolts against Asian rule, allowing the entry of American troopships at Sydney. American forces stop an Asian artic invasion and occupy Greenland and Iceland to guard against a further attack. The Kalmar Pact Planetary Congress approves a censure of Hachiman, but the Pact navy takes no action, other than stationing spy vessels in Hachiman systems. |
|
2733 |
Emperor Rogar takes personal command of his European armies, defeating the Asians at the Battle of Prague in the spring, and leading a penetrating force to the Volga, defeating the Asian Second Imperial Battle Army at the Battle of Kazan then driving toward the Ural Mountains in a fall offensive. In Byzantium, Empress Hanna agrees to an armistice based on current positions, giving Rogar control of geographic Europe and evacuating all Asian forces from the Australian mainland. Over Atlantian objections, the Kalmar Pact signs a friendship treaty with Venus, angering Mars. |
|
2734 |
The Hachiman Second Fleet seizes control of the colony world of Ch'in. Tanaka proclaims the Hachiman Empire and becomes Emperor Hideki. The Kalmar Pact recognizes Hachiman's current conquests and territorial claims after it receives Tanaka's assurances of no further conquests and humanitarian treatment for subject populations. Hachiman begins the resettlement of the worlds of Chosun and Kyushu. Australia formally joins the American Empire. |
|
2735 |
The American and Asian Empires conclude the Peace of Byzantium, based on the earlier armistice, and agree to cooperate internationally. Ambassadors from the CAEU attend the peace conference and drop sanctions against the two Empires. A drought begins in Northern Africa. The Hachiman Empire begins the resettlement of Catalonia. |
| 2736 | The Kalmar Pact scout Hercules re-contacts the world of Enlightenment, which agrees to Pact membership after ensuring religions freedoms. Emperor Charles of Mars opens the completed Pavonis Obelisk to the public. The Kalmar Pact scout Aquarius contacts Heimdall, which declines an offer to join the Pact. |
|
2737 |
A joint American-Asian security force occupies the city of Tunis after food riots kill thousands, including a few American and Asian citizens. |
|
2738 |
American-Asian troops occupy northern Egypt after minor border incidents on the Sinai border of Asian Palestine and a riot against Asian rule in Mecca. A Moslem suicide squad kills Prince Consort Vladimir in Beijing. The Kalmar Pact scout Lyra contacts the world of Thoth; its philosopher rulers show no interest in Pact membership, but offer to trade their mystical knowledge for working technology. |
|
2739 |
Emperor Rogar marries Empress Hanna in a Byzantium ceremony. Joint American-Asian forces cross the Sahara in punitive raids against Moslem cities. The CAEU declares war on America and Asia, beginning the African War but many southern African states maintain effective neutrality. The American Navy blockades the West African coast while Asian Marines occupy East African coastal cities. |
|
2740 |
The CAEU agrees to the formation of the Terran Empire under Rogar and Hanna. The Emperor and Empress crown themselves in Byzantium. The Terran Empire confirms the Atlanta Constitution and its feudal guarantees, but adopts the Asian Imperial economic and bureaucratic model created by Emperor James Hu. |
|
2741 |
Emperor Rogar establishes the Terran Imperial Navy with surplus eight Martian warships and begins a major shipbuilding program. |
|
2742 |
Paulus Reornan of Atlantis publishes The Future of Mankind, outlining the basic framework of Technologism philosophy with its emphasis on the gradual evolution of humanity with technological assistance. The Kalmar Pact scout Centaurus contacts the Pagan settlers of Hectate who vote to join the Pact. |
|
2743 |
The Belt and Luna, aided by Venusian "volunteers", attack Mars over a disputed mining operation in the Martian Trojans. The System War begins. The Terran Empire sends it nascent fleet to join the Martian cause, fighting at the Battle of Phobos. Empress Hanna travels to Venus to convince the Emperor and Parliament to remain neutral and recall its "volunteer" forces. Rogar authorizes the formation of Terran Imperial Marines, who see action on a raid on three Lunar NEAR settlements at Terra/Luna L5. |
|
2744 |
Terran and Martian naval forces scatter the Belter fleet at the running Battle of the Trailing Martian Trojans. The Treaty of Ishtar City ends the Systems War and acknowledges Terran dominance of Solar affairs. The Kalmar Pact scout Aquarius contacts the world of Hera, which gladly joins the Pact. |
|
2745 |
The Lunar Republic voluntarily joins the Terran Empire as an Autonomous Kingdom. The Martian Empire annexes the Outer System despite Belter and Venusian diplomatic resistance. Scattered resistance to Martian rule in the Jupiter system and the Kuiper Belt ends when support is not forthcoming. The Kalmar Pact scout Hercules contacts the struggling colony on Amazonia, which joins the Pact. |
| 2746 | Emperor Charles of Mars dissolves the Parliament and rules by decree. The Hachiman Empire enters a "voluntary union" with Champa, stationing thousands of marines at key installations; the Kalmar Pact protests the move, but Atlantian reservations scuttle any military response. The Terran Imperial Navy completes its first interstellar vessel, the 40m frigate Hammer; a major macrojump shipbuilding effort begins with two cruisers and five more frigates authorized. |
| 2747 | The Terran Imperial Army puts down a major revolt by Muslims in Arabia. The Terran Emperor and Empress travel to Jerusalem to sign a decree promising religious freedom and tolerance throughout the Empire, but promising no tolerance for any religious violence or bigotry. During a pirate tribute raid on Reich, the local populace detonates a nuclear device, destroying the city of Danzig and killing thousands of natives, but also destroying both pirate vessels. |
|
2748 |
The Atlantian firm Chiron BioSolutions, Ltd. begins offering Zenith regeneration therapy to Pact customers. The Hachiman navy intercepts a ship of Herculean volunteers bound for Han and returns them to their homeworld, downplaying the incident. The Pact scout Virgo surveys the failed colony world of Poseidon, which is placed under a Pact protectorate. Libertine pirates raid Tyr, killing Lord Governor Attila Timmins. |
|
2749 |
Empress Hanna conceives Robert Farrar by artificial means. The infant becomes heir to the Terran Empire. Emperor Rogar's natural sons Alexander and Arnam become Kings of North and South America, respectively. The Kalmar Pact scout Lyra attempts contact with Tyr, but sustains damage from missile fire and is unable to establish a dialogue with the populace. |
| 2750 | The Kalmar Pact scout Hercules contacts the Mechanists on Karinsky, who gladly join the Pact. The Hercules crew speaks to the personality of Pavel Karinsky himself. |
| 2751 | The Terran Imperial Army puts down a revolt by Australian colonists in Wilkesland with minimal loss of life. The Kalmar Pact scout Boötes contacts the colony of Icarus; the local leadership forms a confederate government to qualify for Pact membership. |
|
2752 |
Terra and Venus sign the Treaty of Kepler, a non-aggression and trade agreement. Terran and Mars complete the Emperor's Protocol, a formal personal alliance between Emperors Rogar and Charles. The Kalmar Pact scout Virgo contacts the barely industrial colony world of Khalistan, which accepts Pact membership. The Pact trader Bohemian Dream vanishes out of Paradise; piracy is suspected. |
|
2753 |
The Vulcan government accuses Libertas of continuing to tolerate pirate attacks on Pact vessels and outposts, but fails to adequately prove its case before the Pact Advisory Council, though the Planetary Congress passes a vague condemnation of piracy that does not name Libertas. Vulcan-sponsored terrorist attacks begin against Libertine installations on UV Ceti, Amaterasu and Aeneas. |
| 2754 | The Pact scout Centaurus contacts the pre-industrial inhabitants of the colony moon of Khronos, who accept a Pact protectorate. Vulcan terrorist strike in the Libertine capital of Freehaven, destroying a police station and killing a dozen bystanders. |
|
2755 |
Paradise adopts an anti-Libertine stance in Pact proceedings after Libertas accuses it of harboring Vulcan terrorists and conducts threatening military maneuvers in the outer Chara system. |
|
2756 |
Empress Hanna of Terra gives birth to James Farrar after artificial conception; James becomes King of Africa, a position whose creation causes some unrest among African Nobles. The Libertine ambassador to the Kalmar Pact dies in a aircar bombing on Kalmar; Libertas blames Vulcan terrorists and besieges Epsilon Eridani. The Second Libertine War begins as the Pact declares war on Libertas. Slow to mobilize, the Pact navy braves the Libertine blockade to provide supplies to Vulcan but takes no offensive action and Vulcan falls after two months. The Kalmar Pact patrol frigate Kuiper contacts the colony of Islam, which fires ballistic missiles at the vessel. |
| 2757 | Atlantian, Kalmaran and Herculean forces begin commerce raiding against Libertine vessels. Libertas issues letters of marque to all private vessels and unrestricted piracy spreads throughout re-contacted space. The Kalmar Pact First Battle Fleet forms under Atlantian Admiral Lady Jenna Gallagher and jumps to Vulcan, fighting the indecisive Battle of Point Gamma, before withdrawing to Atlantis. Venus declares its neutrality in the war and attempts mediation through the personal efforts of Emperor Joseph II. A Kalmar Pact patrol by the frigate Halley discovers the failed colony on Kurdistan. |
|
2758 |
The Libertine Union formally annexes Vulcan after securing the system from blockade runners and pours 20,000 troops onto the world. A Kalmar Pact raider fleet under the command of Commodore Lord Olav Kamarov defeats the Libertas Colonial fleet at the Battle of Aeneas. The Terran Imperial Guard Special Service Branch is established to conduct operations against disloyal Nobles, specifically agitators against the toddler King of Africa. The Terran Imperial Navy authorizes the construction of four additional frigates and six 40m troopships. |
|
2759 |
A second Pact attempt to invade Vulcan falters when Libertine raiders attack the mustering fleet at the Battle of Atlantis, destroying the cruiser Singh and killing Admiral Gallagher. The Kalmar Pact Third Fleet, under Commodore Kamarov destroys two pirate vessels raiding New Palestine and offers the world membership in the Pact; Kamarov receives a formal censure from the Planetary Congress for this action after the war, as the pre-industrial planet technically should only have been offered a protectorate. |
|
2760 |
Queen Katrina appoints Olav Kamarov Admiral of the Kalmar Pact First Fleet. The First Fleet jumps to Vulcan and wins several engagements, cumulating in the orbital Battle of Vulcan. The Pact fleet maintains an orbital blockade, refraining from retaking the surface, fearing severe ground casualties. Libertine raiders continue to harass the Pact fleet from the outer Epsilon Eridani system. Piracy spreads to the Solar System with attacks on shipping in the Belt. |
|
2761 |
In response to pirate attacks on commercial shipping, Terra enters the war against Libertas, winning the Battle of Amaterasu and freeing the world of Libertine domination with an Imperial Marine orbital assault. A Libertine counterattack on Vulcan falters at the the Battle of August Twenty-second. The Kalmar Pact Third Fleet, commanded by Herculean Admiral Kevin O'Connor besieges Aeneas. Atlantian Admiral Lord Samuel Cohen leads the Pact Second Fleet to Libertas, but withdraws without an engagement. |
|
2762 |
The Second Libertine War ends with the Treaty of Ishtar City wherein Libertas agrees to surrender Vulcan and end all piracy in return for an end to terrorism and a protectorate over a semi-autonomous Amaterasu. Terran Imperial Marines evacuate Amaterasu though Emperor Rogar publicly expresses his displeasure at the treaty terms. Libertine troops evacuate Vulcan in good order, though Vulcan guerillas destroy one troopship on the ground, killing several hundred Libertine and Aenean soldiers. The Atlantian Kalmar Pact advisor, Prince Mark, resigns in protest after the council rebukes Kamarov but lets him retain his rank, while forcing Cohen to retire for cowardice. The Pact scout Centaurus performs a full survey of the failed colony on Kurdistan. |
|
2763 |
The Second Mercury War begins when Mars, with Terran backing, attacks Venus to regain its rights to Mercury; the Terran Imperial Navy besieges Venus, while Martian naval and marines forces attack Mercury, defeating the Venusan protective force at the Battle of Mercury High. The Kalmar Pact scout Aquarius contacts the worlds Pyramus and Thisbe, which have maintained industrial civilizations and radio contact throughout the Dark Age; both worlds receive Pact membership. |
|
2764 |
Martian ground forces win the Southern Mercury Campaign but prove unable to dislodge the Venusians from northern Mercury. Venusian squadrons fail to break the Terran siege of their homeworld. The Kalmar Pact and Libertas both declare neutrality in the Mercury conflict and Queen Katrina offers personal mediation. |
|
2765 |
The Terran Imperial Navy conducts orbital bombardments on Venusian cities, causing heavy civilian casualties. Venus agrees to cede Mercury and evacuates its troops from Gupta Station, ending the Mercury War. The last survivors of the colony on Perseus die. |
|
2766 |
Atlantis withdraws from the Kalmar Pact ostensibly over a tariff dispute, but really over leadership issues with Queen Katrina. Terra and the Kalmar Pact verbally renounce the Treaty of Ishtar City after a pirate attack destroys the Pact trader Narvik, but take no action against Libertine positions. Libertas tightens controls on Amaterasu, appointing a new puppet government under Lord Ato Tul. |
|
2767 |
Atlantis recognizes the new government on Amaterasu. The Atlantian Royal Navy undergoes a massive shipbuilding program, aiming to produce three cruisers and six additional frigates. Libertas openly occupies Thebes, allowing "outworld" vessels, or pirates to use facilities on the planet. |
| 2768 | Terra and the Kalmar Pact begin joint anti-piracy patrols. The Terran Planetary defense grid intercepts and destroys a fifty meter asteroid bound for southern Africa. The Kalmar Pact scout Hercules discovers the failed colony of Salvation. |
|
2769 |
A revolt in Ukraine starts a general insurrection in southeast Europe, requiring two Terran Imperial Armies to occupy cities from Kiev to Bucharest. Hachiman occupies the colony world Teutonia after the bombing of a Hachiman trading expedition and thousands die in Hachiman retaliatory attacks. The Kalmar Pact protests Hachiman aggression, but takes no action, despite Herculean objections and a subsequent walk-out of the Planetary Congress by Hercules, Apollo and Vulcan. |
|
2770 |
Libertas takes advantage of the weakened Pact position by attacking and occupying Eden in support of Prince Tomas, a claimant for the Edan throne. The Third Libertine War begins as the Kalmar Pact settles its differences and declares war on Libertas. |
|
2771 |
Avoiding major fleet actions, Pact and Libertine navies fight only minor skirmishes in remote systems and the war quickly reverts to uncontrolled piracy in outlying space. Libertas occupies Pact facilities on Amazonia, Poseidon, Mithras and Hebe. In return for promised immunity from Libertine pirate attacks, both Atlantis and Terra decline to enter the war on the Pact side. The Kalmar Pact Third Fleet contacts the colony on Elysium, offering it Pact membership and protection. The Pact patrol frigate Nessus destroys a pirate vessel and discovers its base at the failed colony of Pruessen. |
| 2772 | Terran Imperial military and special service forces eradicate the rebellion in southeast Europe. The Kalmar Pact First Fleet, under Admiral Kamarov defeats the Libertas Second Fleet at the Battle of New Palestine. The Pact Third Fleet under Admiral O'Conner bombards Thebes, destroying several pirate vessels. The Kalmar Pact scout Boötes and its escort Anaconda contacts the colony of Achilles, which accepts Pact membership. |
| 2773 | The Kalmar Pact First Fleet fights the indecisive Battle of Aeneas against a Libertas First Fleet supported by Aenean system defense craft. A Libertine raid on Vulcan causes severe surface damage and thousands of causalities. |
|
2774 |
The Third Libertine War ends after Terran mediation produces the Byzantium Protocols. Libertas agrees to surrender all captured Pact facilities and to end pirate activity in return for a protectorate over Eden and formal annexation of Thebes. The Kalmar Pact advisory council approves a resolution to replace its aging scout fleet. |
|
2775 |
Terra and Mars propose a union under the Imperial Banner of Rogar and Hanna, with Crown Prince Robert of Terra marrying Princess Lyra of Mars. Mars becomes an autonomous Terran Kingdom, though Charles maintains the title of Martian Emperor. Venus protests the union, especially the incorporation of Mercury and the Outer System as integral Maritan territory and attacks Mercury, beginning the Third Mercury War. The Belt and the Pact refuse requests to come to Venus's aid. The Pact scout Virgo discovers the failed colony of Bliss; the fungal blight infects the crew, but the infection is easily treated onboard the vessel. The Pact puts Bliss under protected quarantine. |
|
2776 |
The Belt enters the Third Mercury War against Venus. Terran and Maritan naval forces repulse the Venusian attack on Mercury and besiege Venus, which quickly surrenders as Terran Imperial Marines establish beachheads on Ishtar Terra. Rogar accepts the crown of the Emperor of Sol in a ceremony in Philadelphia on July 4, with Venus and the Belt joining the Empire as autonomous Kingdoms. |
|
2777 |
The Belter Nobility elect Athena of Flora as the first rotating ceremonial Belter monarch. Emperor Rogar forces the remaining independent NEAR colonies to choose Venus or the Belt as their sovereign kingdom, completing the unification of the Solar System. Sol and Atlantis independently begin introducing robot military troops in special units. Separate Solar and Kalmaran diplomatic overtures to Atlantis fail to entice the world to end its isolation. The first updated armed Kalmar Pact scout, Mensa enters service. |
| 2778 | The Kalmar Pact scouts Aquila and Indus enter service as the old scout fleet is decommissioned. |
| 2779 | The Kalmar Pact scout Aquila contacts the colony world of Bacchus, which joins the Pact as its sixty-second and final member. The Pact scouts Orion and Cancer enter service. |
|
2780 |
The Imperial Solar Navy begins the secret construction of three Hellkings in Belt shipyards. The Kalmar Pact scout Leo enters service. The Pact scout Orion contacts the world of New Rome and learns of continued Libertine pirate activity. New Rome refuses to join the Pact, but allows the Pact Navy to place a naval outpost on its moon to discourage piracy. The Pact scout Indus discovers the dead colony world of Purgatory. |
| 2781 | The Kalmar Pact patrol frigate Nova and its two escorts destroy three pirate vessels over New Rome, but fail to gather information on their base of operations. |
|
2782 |
The Solar Empire abolishes all natural slavery and allows full Citizenship rights to qualifying emancipated Constructs. Atlantis and Libertas form a secret anti-Pact alliance in a covert meeting at the Libertine base at UV Ceti. |
|
2783 |
The Atlantian-Libertine Alliance makes secret overtures to the Hachiman Empire concerning the division of Kalmar Pact territory into spheres of influence. The Pact scout Indus contacts the remaining three villages on Minerva and finds a primitive xenophobic culture that rejects offers of a Pact protectorate. |
|
2784 |
Libertas, Atlantis and Hachiman formalize the TriWorld Alliance against the Kalmar Pact. Pirate attacks and Alliance terror raids begin against Pact vessels and installations. The Hachiman Empire attacks and occupies the Pact survey facility on Asgard, and attacks and conquers the un-contacted colony world of Bolivar. The Pact War begins. |
|
2785 |
The Solar Hellkings Apollyn, Azazel and Beelzebub and supporting vessels make a surprise appearance near Atlantis and announce Sol's support for the Pact. Atlantis quickly withdraws from the Alliance. The Hachiman Second Fleet destroys the Kalmar Pact naval depot at the Battle of Deseret and besieges the planet, making landings in outlying areas and attacking the urban defense systems. The Hachiman Third Fleet besieges Prometheus, but withdraws after losing two troopships to ground fire. The Pact patrol frigate Nessus discovers the failed colony of Franklin, which after four hundred years, leaves hardly a trace. The Pact scout Mensa and supporting escort Anaconda contact the Aztec colony of Quetzacoatl, but given religious practices, decline to offer it pact membership. |
|
2786 |
Libertas surrenders to the Solar Hellking fleet. The Hachiman Imperial Army uses nuclear and biological weapons in an attempt to subdue Deseret, but faces heavy organized and guerilla resistance. Hachiman raider fleets sweep through Pact space, capturing six outlying outposts and concentrating to besiege both Alimeen and Kalmar. |
|
2787 |
Alimeen forces drive off the Hachiman Third Fleet. The Hachiman Fourth Fleet seizes Heimdall. Solar Imperial Navy reinforcements help Admiral Kamarov defeat the Hachiman First Fleet at the Battle of Kalmar. After the Apollyon and Azazel arrive in orbit over Hachiman, Emperor Hideki agrees to an immediate ceasefire, evacuates Deseret and Heimdall and agrees to the Treaty of Kalmar, returning all Pact installations in return for recognition of its control of Asgard and Bolivar. Emperor Rogar begins negotiations for a united human realm. |
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2788 |
The Hachiman Imperial Navy re-contacts the extinct colony on Balder and claims and colonizes the planet. Libertas recognizes Rogar as Emperor in return for strong autonomy guarantees. The Libertas Union dissolves, with its member world joining the Solar Empire. Libertas reveals the location of two remote pirate bases, but Imperial Navy raids only capture three vessels and some crew and slaves. Heimdall accepts Rogar as Emperor. A small group of remaining pirate vessels seek and receive logistical support from the Hachiman Empire. |
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2789 |
The Kalmar Pact scout Leo contacts the colony world of Dionysus, but negotiations on its status falter as the Kalmar Pact formally dissolves, recognizing Rogar I as Emperor of Humanity. On the first of June, Rogar crowns himself in Byzantium, proclaims the Empire of Humanity and claims all old Confederation territory not occupied by the Hachiman Empire. Anti-piracy campaigns continue in Imperial Space. Negotiations on the status of Alimeen and its seven colonies commence on Kalmar. The Emperor publishes the Imperial Charter on October 10th, signed by Rogar, Hanna, Katrina of Kalmar for the Pact, Joseph II of Venus for the Solar states, King John for Libertas and the Alimeen ambassador to Terra for his race. Atlantis joins the Empire on December 31st after King Karl travels to Terra to sign the Charter. |
| 2790 | The Imperial Congress meets for the first time. After passage of the First Amendment, Diana, Enlightenment, Hectate and New Palestine join the Empire as full Members despite their low populations. Dionysus joins the Empire after concluding negotiations with the new Ministry of State. The Kalmar Pact scout fleet transfers to the Ministry of Science. The scout Mensa contacts Solomon and the scout Aquila contacts Pax before the Ministry of Science institutes a review of contact procedures. All Member interstellar warships come under control of the Ministry of Defense. The Emperor establishes orders of knighthood for Sapiens: the Order of the Emperor's Sword (OES) for soldiers, the Order of the Golden Seal (OGS) for civil servants, the Order of the Imperial Sun (OIS) for scholars, and the the Order of the Emperor's Banner (OEB) for other outstanding service. |
| 2791 | The Imperial Congress ratifies the Second Amendment, guaranteeing full religious freedom. The worlds Dayan, Macoraba, Penance, New Rome, Quetzacoatl and Solomon join the Empire. The Imperial Navy authorizes the construction of a class of 55m troop transports and gunship tenders. Autonomist unrest begins on Atlantis, Mars and several Pact worlds over Imperial restrictions on interstellar activities. Pirates raid Reich and Tyr. |
| 2792 | Construction begins on a class of 60m Imperial Navy battleships. Pax joins the Empire as a protectorate. The Atlantis-based Autonomist terrorist group White Hand attacks the Imperial convoy over Malta, killing Empress Hanna and several aides though Emperor Rogar escapes unharmed. Rogar orders the Imperial Guard to purge the Atlantian Nobility and destroy the White Hand. Reich and Tyr join the Empire to provide protection against piracy. The Hachiman Empire establishes a naval outpost in the Vega system. |
| 2793 | The Ministry of Science releases a report on colonization policy, detailing failures and remedies; it recommends that future colonies be limited to class A-D and have a target initial population of at least ten thousand in the first decade. After further analyses of hazardous native life, the Ministry of Science reclassifies Hebe and Zimbabwe as Class F planets under permanent quarantine. The Ministry of Defense establishes a naval base on Typhon. The Imperial Golden Palace in Byzantium reaches completion. |
| 2794 | Rogar orders the Ministry of Science to conduct a complete survey of Imperial systems, authorizing the construction of eight scout bases, two dozen survey vessels, and three dozen singleships. The Ministry of Science reestablishes a contact base on Coman IV and a research station on Coman III. To establish fiscal responsibility and address some Autonomist issues, the Imperial Congress approves the Third and Fourth Amendments to the Imperial Charter. An Imperial-wide recession begins. A Imperial Marine battalion establishes an outpost on Minerva, claiming the world as a Dependency, despite the objections of the 170 local inhabitants. |
| 2795 | The Comans enter the Empire as a Minor race, conceding research rights to Beta Comae III. The Ministries of Science and State reestablish contact with the Quadrons and Lagrush. The mutating plague attacks the Hachiman colony on Balder, killing half the population before a cure is found. Yathrib joins the Empire after after extensive negotiations on religious and cultural issues. A Ministry of State expedition led by Ambassador Stannis Morkahn establishes radio contact with the Khzraut colony on Medusa. |
| 2796 | Faced with heavy opposition from Venus, Mars and Libertas, Rogar abandons attempts to push through an amendment on Construct rights. The Imperial Navy reaches its initial deployed structure with four fleets each with two battle groups, a dozen separate patrol squadrons and three Hellking groups. A patrol squadron engages and destroys a pirate vessel off Rama. The Ministry of science quarantines the Lagrush system after the race requests Protected status. The Hachiman Imperial Navy occupies the failed colony world of Perseus. The Ministry of Science establishes a mixed Human and free Mermen colony on Poseidon. |
| 2797 | The Quadrons enter the Empire as a Minor race. The Empire of Humanity refuses a request by the Hachiman Empire to colonize Franklin and Sparta. Thoth agrees to enter the Empire as a Dependency after its Council of Wisdom appoints one of own members as Imperial governor. The Caliph of the world of Islam breaks off all negotiations with the Ministry of State, prompting the Imperial Navy to quarantine the world. |
| 2798 | After King John of Libertas makes a racist and bellicose speech, the Hachiman Empire breaks diplomatic relations with the Empire of Humanity. An Imperial scout expedition contacts the colony on Virgil. |
| 2799 | Autonomist terrorists destroy the Ministry of Commerce offices on Apollo, killing thirty Imperial bureaucrats and prompting the Imperial Marines to deploy two brigades to the world to support Census preparations. The Hachiman Empire occupies Franklin and establishes defensive positions on the planet. Virgil joins the Empire of Humanity as a Dependency. Pirates raid New Rome. |
| 2800 | Emperor Rogar marries Queen Katrina of Kalmar, and names Crown Prince Robert the Prince of Asia. The Empire conducts its first Census amid moderate Autonomist protests, notably on Apollo, Atlantis, Hercules and Mars. Imperial scouts discover the remains of the failed colony on Home. The Ministry of Science reestablishes a research station in Timbor orbit. An Imperial Navy patrol fights off a pirate attack on Reich. |
| 2801 | Citing continued support of piracy, the Empire of Humanity begins the Hachiman War by declaring war on the Hachiman Empire, and attacks and seizes Champa, Asgard, and Teutonia and destroys the Hachiman Third Fleet and its base at the Battle of Vega. The Hachiman First and Second Fleets counterattack, defeat system defense forces and Imperial Navy patrol vessels at the Battle of Prometheus, but withdraw after an unsuccessful landing attempt. The Time Travel Society emerges in Australia; the Emperor takes time to meet with a delegation in Sydney; ten choose to rejoin society, leaving forty-two to sleep another century. |
| 2802 | The Empire of Humanity sweeps the Hachiman Empire, destroys military outposts and occupies Catalonia, Ch'in, Bolivar and Gothia, and wins the Battle of Heaven, initiating a surface guerilla struggle against the occupying Hachiman forces. An Imperial naval patrol discovers and destroys a pirate base on the failed colony world of Diakoku. |
| 2803 | The Hachiman Empire equips the Battlestar with macrojump engines and orders Crown Prince Hirohito and one thousand leading citizens to travel far to coreward. The Imperial Navy forces the surrender of Hachiman troops on Han and Heaven, then masses with the Apollyon and Beelzebub battle groups at the Battle of Hachiman where the Hachiman fleet continues to resist until the two Hellkings begin a six hour bombardment of the planet, rendering large portions of the surface uninhabitable and killing over one hundred million. With the capitulation of Emperor Hideki, the war ends, and Imperial Navy forces quickly seize and occupy the remaining outlying Hachiman systems and outposts. Following up information from Diakoku, a naval patrol attacks and destroys a pirate base on the failed colony world of Biafra. |
| 2804 | The Empire of Humanity officially annexes all Hachiman worlds and enforces martial law on the nineteen inhabited systems until such time as pro-Hachiman guerilla activity ceases and the worlds can form civilian governments. The Imperial Navy sends patrol vessels up to two hundred light years coreward in a futile search for the Battlestar. Emperor Rogar proclaims the beginning of an Era of "Peace, Prosperity and Promise", declaring sovereignty over all Human Space. An Imperial Naval tribunal tries and executes Emperor Hideki and fourteen senior officers and officials for crimes against humanity for the occupation of Heaven, Ch'in, Han and other crimes. Cleon Farrar is born to Rogar and Katrina after an artificial conception. Rogar names Prince Cleon heir to the Imperial throne, but confirms Prince Robert as perpetual Prince of Asia. The Imperial Navy repairs and occupies the naval base at Vega. |
| 2805 | The Emperor sends Prince Alexander of North America with the Apollyon and the Agincourt battle group to Islam to negotiate the world's entry into the Empire; Islam agrees to sign the Charter. The former Hachiman-occupied world of Heaven, Han, Gothia, Ch'in and Champa join the Empire as full members. Imperial scouts contact the colony of Hestia. Autonomist saboteurs damage computer nets on Kalmar and Venus. The Ministry of Science declares the Timbor a Protected species an quarantines the system. |
| 2806 | The former Hachiman-occupied worlds of Teutonia and Bolivar join the Empire as full members; martial law remains in force on the remaining Hachiman settled worlds. Hestia joins the Empire as a Dependency. The Ministry of Science begins limited contact with the intelligent species of Huron. Despite a ban in the Imperial Charter, Charles of Mars returns to using the title Emperor instead of King in internal documents; Emperor Rogar threatens to revoke Mars's claim to the Outer System, forcing Charles to publicly renounce the title of Emperor. The test gravstar vessel Infinite Horizon begins a four year journey from Alimeen to Paradise, reaching a top speed of 30C. |
| 2807 | The remaining Hachiman colonies, though not Hachiman itself, enter the Empire as Members or Dependencies. The Imperial Navy evacuates the last colonists from Balder after another outbreak of mutating plague; the Ministry of Science declares the world Class F and quarantines the system. |
| 2808 | Imperial scouts recontact the colony on Saud and discover the failed settlement on Napoleon. Autonomists Nobles take power on Odin and Apollo. |
| 2809 | Saud joins the Empire as a full Member. Autonomist demonstrations spread on Atlantis, Mars, Apollo and Odin. Anti-Martian sabotage begins on the Jovian moons. |
| 2810 | Rioting breaks out during Census canvassing on Venus, prompting Rogar to dispatch the Imperial Marines. Robot troops prove unsuited to riot duty on Venus and the Ministry of Defense disbands all robotic formations after a massacre of rioters in the Duchy of Alcott. Princess Melisa Farrar is born to Rogar and Katrina after an artificial conception. |
| 2811 | Backed by Imperial troops, King Joseph of Venus imposes planetary marital law after widespread rioting and sabotage and evidence of Atlantian and Martian support for Autonomist agitators. Imperial scouts discover the failed settlement on Alexander. The Ministry of Science declares Huron a Protected system and imposes a quarantine. The colony world of Bengal independently achieves macrojump technology with the launch of its 10m prototype, Nova, commanded by Captain Lord Khandas Herttog. |
| 2812 | A planetary defense disintegrator destroys Emperor Rogar's shuttle over Atlantis. Queen Katrina becomes Regent of the Empire, and immediately moves the Hellking Azazel and Imperial Fourth Fleet to Atlantis, which promptly revolts and launches system defense attacks that destroy the Azazel and most of the fleet. The Autonomist Civil War begins as Mars, Apollo and Odin secede from the Empire and Autonomist forces on Venus assassinate King Joseph. Nearly a fifth of the Imperial fleet defects to the Autonomists. The Bengal starship Nova jumps to Solomon, where it meets with local and Imperial officials before escorting Ministry of State and Science vessels back to Bengal. Kalmar's McKnight Yard produces a improved (Type IIc) macrojump engines system that rivals the pinnacle of Confederation macrojump technology. |
| 2813 | Autonomist forces proclaim Charles of Mars the White Emperor. Prince Alexander leads the First and Third Fleets at the Battle of Mars, destroying the defending fleet and the planetary defense grid. Imperial Marines quell the revolts on Venus and occupy Mars, prompting Charles to commit suicide to avoid capture. The First Battle of Atlantis ends with the loyalist Second Fleet withdrawing after destroying the factory Cityships Voyager and Mariner and devastating Atlantian orbital industry. Daniel, a grandson of Joseph II, becomes King of Venus. The Alimeen worlds confirm their loyalty to the Empire. Imperial scouts discover the dead colony of Vishnu and the struggling colony of New Texas. Bengali diplomats aboard the Nova travel to Hera and meet with loyalist Ministry of State officials. |
| 2814 | King Karl of Atlantis declares himself the new White Emperor. The Autonomist rebels seize the naval base on Typhoon and gather their forces. The combined Imperial Second and Fifth Fleets, under the command of Admiral Lord Olav Kamarov and supported by the Apollyon battle group, attack and scatter the Autonomist fleet and vaporize the resisting base at the Battle of Typhon. The Autonomist rebellion spreads to over twenty former Pact worlds, led by Apollo and Nike. Prometheus narrowly votes to remain within the Empire. The Autonomist warships that escaped from Typhon begin commerce raiding against Loyalist systems and shipping. The Outer Solar system appeals to the Regent to be released from Martian rule; Katrina assumes direct rule of the Outer Solar system pending full Membership. Imperial scouts contact the colony world of Kongo. |
| 2815 | Autonomist terrorists assassinate King Daniel of Venus; his brother Harold becomes King and authorizes the Imperial Marines and Imperial Guards to suppress all rebel activity. Facing long odds against a strong planetary defense force, Admiral Lord Kamarov leads his combined fleet to victory at the Second Battle of Atlantis, destroying the Cityship Constellation and prompting Karl to surrender his world and himself into Kamarov's custody. Amaterasu declares for the Autonomist cause. Prince Alexander's Imperial First Fleet defeats King Michael II and the Apollo Defense Forces at the Battle of Apollo, killing the King and destroying the last cruisers held by the Autonomists. Imperial scouts, working with naval escorts, contact the colonies of Selene and Jefferson. The Imperial Third Fleet bombards and subdues Nike, installing a pro-Imperial Prime Minister. Maxwell Biogenics begins public trials of the reintroduced Restoration regeneration technique at clinics in the Solar Asteroid Belt. |
| 2816 | Prince Henry of Amaterasu declares himself White Emperor and musters the remnants of the Autonomist fleet. Imperial Marines invade and occupy Odin. Katrina names her nephew Lord Olav Kamarov as Grand Admiral of the Imperium. The Imperial Guard puts down a riot at the University of Clotho on Venus, killing hundreds of demonstrators. Imperial patrols backed by Hellking support assert control of most Member worlds. Bengal joins the Empire as a full member. Imperial scouts discover the failed colonies of New Armenia and New Java. |
| 2817 | Kamarov defeats the remaining Autonomist forces at the orbital Battle of Amaterasu. The subsequent pursuit to Tartarus results in the capture of Prince Henry, effectively ending organized Autonomist resistance, though piracy in the name of the cause continues as Lord Dolphus of Odin declares himself White Emperor after a failed raid on the Vega naval base. The Imperial Congress convenes with a proper quorum and confirms Katrina as Empress of Humanity, with Cleon affirmed as Crown Prince and Olav Kamarov named a Prince of the Realm. Prince Henry of Amaterasu commits suicide while under house arrest, pending his treason trial. Karl of Atlantis agrees to abdicate in favor of his great-grandson Kane and accepts exile to Isis, though Atlantis remains under Prince Olav's martial law. Imperial scouts contact the colony world of Emerald. |
| 2818 | Katrina declares the Autonomist War over, but maintains Imperial marital law on twenty-six worlds, including Atlantis, Mars, Venus, Apollo, Nike, Odin, Amaterasu and Hachiman. Kongo enters the Empire as a full Member and the worlds New Texas, Selene, Jefferson and Emerald enter as Dependencies. Imperial scouts discover the failed colony worlds of Frigg and Halcyon. |
| 2819 | Imperial Marines crush new Autonomist revolts on Nike and Odin. The Jovian moons of Callisto, Ganymede, Europa and Io enter the Empire as full Members, as does Titan for the Saturnian system, Oberon for Uranus, and Triton for Neptune. Katrina assumes direct rule of the Kuiper-Oort region and Mercury as Imperial Fiefs. Prince Olav finishes a purge of the Imperial military, removing all personnel with Autonomist ties. Imperial scouts contact the thriving mid industrial colony of Themis. Vesta Shipyards reconstructs a radiant forcefield device for shipboard use. |
| 2820 | The Ministry of Commerce successfully conducts the Imperial Census with Ministry of Defense assistance and only minor disturbances. Themis joins the Empire as a full Member. Marital law ends on Venus, with Imperial Marines withdrawing from the world. Imperial scouts contact the pre-industrial colony on Excalibur and discover the failed colony on Lemuria. Autonomist pirates raid Khalistan, occupying the world for a month before being driven off by elements of the Third Fleet. |
| 2821 | The Imperial Third Fleet seizes a Autonomist pirate base on a gas giant moon of a red dwarf system near Tyche, destroying or capturing four pirate vessels. Imperial scouts discover the failed colony of Phoebus and make contact with the colony on Phoenicia. Excalibur joins the Empire as a Dependency. |
| 2822 | Imperial Marines put down an Autonomist riot on Odin, marking the last major rebel demonstration. Imperial Navy patrols destroy three additional pirate vessels and a supply depot, greatly diminishing the pirate threat. Phoenicia enters the Empire as a full Member. Imperial scouts contact the colony on Regina. |
| 2823 | The Imperial Navy frigate Alabama contacts the colony of Drakkon while on a piracy patrol and notifies the Imperial scout base on Bengal, which makes formal contact with the early industrial era world. Drakkon was the last world settled by the Confederation and the last world re-contacted by the Empire of Humanity. In ceremonies on Terra, both Regina and Drakkon enter the Empire as full members. Katrina orders the Ministry of Science to concentrate efforts in completing the full Imperial Survey and conducting studies of failed colony worlds suitable for re-colonization. The Alimeen Industrial Council produces the Fast Vapor modified vacuum distiller-powered gravstar vessel; capable of 36C travel, it is the first of a class of four vessels that continued to ply Alimeen trade lanes until the 35th Century. |
| 2824 | Crown Prince Cleon travels to Kalmar to study government at the University of Uppsala. The Empire establishes formal diplomatic relations with the Khzraut, exchanging ambassadors. Sir Stannis Morkahn becomes Minister of State, the only non-Nobilis in the Empress's cabinet. Autonomist pirates raid Romulus and Remus, attempting unsuccessfully to inspire a revolt against marital law. |
| 2825 | The Ministry of Science completes a revised report on colonization policy based on the analysis of all Confederation colonization attempts. Katrina authorizes the re-colonization of Alexander. |
| 2826 | Empress Katrina begins construction of the Summer Palace in the mountains near New Bergen on Kalmar. The first colonists settle on Alexander. |
| 2827 | The Empress ends marital law on all Autonomist rebel worlds except Mars, Atlantis, Apollo, Nike, Amaterasu and Odin. Hachiman also remains under martial law, continuing the "Imperialization" of the population. |
| 2828 | The Ministry of Science sponsors the re-colonization of Halcyon. The Ministry of Defense begins procurement of classes of new Imperial cruisers, frigates, and escorts in an effort to modernize and standardize naval equipment. |
| 2829 | Crown Prince Cleon receives a doctorate in government, graduating at the top of his class at the University of Uppsala. The Ministry of Science authorizes the re-colonization of Frigg and establishes a base on Balder to study the mutating plague. The Ministry of Defense begins construction of a new class of modular 40m troopships/transports. |
| 2830 | The Empress celebrates the completion of the inner complex of Summer Palace on Kalmar. The Imperial Census completes without incident. |
| 2831 | Based on the recent census, the Ministry of Commerce recommends the Alimeen colony of Soft Zephyr for full Membership in the Empire; the Empress requests that the locals form an independent government and the colony becomes a full Member. The Imperial Congress passes the Fifth Amendment, spelling out specific rights of Imperial Citizens. |
| 2832 | The Empress authorizes open colonization of Minerva, effectively dispossessing the small remnant population. Autonomist pirates attack the naval outpost on Minerva, claiming to represent the local populace. An Imperial naval patrol retakes the Minerva after a brief struggle, destroying one pirate vessel, killing Dolphus I; his son, Dolphus II claims the title White Emperor. |
| 2833 | A Quadron hive city revolts against Imperial Commerce agents and tourists, killing and eating dozens of Humans, including Lord Austin Decker, younger son of the Duke of Aphrodite; Imperial Marines occupy the Northern Plains of Oracle to maintain the peace after the Duke lands a battalion of Aphroditian troops on the world to extract revenge. |
| 2834 | Governor Lord Anson DuVahl of Khronos begins developing and marketing the Dependency as a tourist destination. The Ministry of Science authorizes the re-colonization of Lemuria. |
| 2835 | The Empress establishes the Office of Minor Race Relations within the Ministry of Commerce to buffer the Quadrons and Comans from direct Human contact and potential exploitation. Crown Prince Cleon negotiates the Treaty of Minerva, setting aside a 100,000 square kilometer reservation for the two hundred original Minervans and moving two new colonial settlements outside its borders. |
| 2836 | Marital law ends on Mars, with King Albert II, a grandnephew of Charles, assuming the throne of a constitutional monarch. Mars formally cedes the Jovian Trojans to the Asteroid Belt, and receives a firm claim to the Martian Trojans in return. |
| 2837 | The Ministry of Science authorizes the re-colonization of Phoebus. Autonomist pirates seize Jefferson, holding the world for three months until driven off by the Second Imperial Fleet. |
| 2838 | Marital law ends on Nike, with a republican civilian government assuming power. |
| 2839 | The Ministry of Science announces that it has conquered the Balder Plague, allowing for eventual re-colonization of the planet. Marital law ends on Odin with Colonel Lord Desmon Hurley, a distant relative of the Empress, assuming the title Duke of Odin. Empress Katrina dedicates The Unifier, a two hundred meter statue of Emperor Rogar, on the grounds of the Golden Palace during ceremonies marking the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Empire of Humanity. |
| 2840 | The Census Office completes its work without major incidents. The outer complex of the Summer Palace on Kalmar reaches completion. Vesta Shipyards delivers to the Empress the Imperial Yacht Galaxia a 40m luxurious Type IIc starship. |
| 2841 | Civil strife begins on Ishtar after an unsuccessful republican coup against Queen Tabeth. The Ishtar Insurrection begins in earnest when the Eastern Duchies overthrow their rulers and set up the Ishtar Peoples Republic. The Ministry of Commerce reports that the worlds of Tanith and New Texas qualify for full Imperial Membership. |
| 2842 | Katrina refuses to support an amendment giving rights to Constructs, prompting the resignation of some liberal Ministry Officials, including Sir Stannis Morkahn, who retires to become Knight Commander of the Order of the Golden Seal. Fighting spreads on Ishtar, with IPR rebels detonating an antimatter charge that kills the Queen and her court. Her sister, Galena, retaliates with missile strikes against Eastern cities. Citing violations of the hazardous materials clause of the Imperial Charter, the Empress sends Grand Admiral Prince Olav Kamarov to quell the fighting with a show of force that includes the entire Second Fleet and the Beelzebub. The Ishtar Insurrection ends with a hastily arranged constitutional convention that appoints Queen Galena head of a constitutional monarchy. Tanith and New Texas assume full Membership in the Imperial Congress. |
| 2843 | Europan and Ganymedan forces start the Jovian War by attacking Callisto to counter its influence over Io and the minor Jovian moons. Fighting escalates with Callisto striking Europan and Ganymedan surface settlements and destroying local shipping. The Ministry of Science authorizes the re-colonization of Balder. The Swarm develop macrojump technology and begin interstellar exploration and settlement expeditions in Sector 46. |
| 2844 | Terran, Lunar and Venusian system defense elements led by Prince Alexander of North America and Crown Prince Anthony of Venus attempt to force a truce in the Jovian system, prompting the disastrous Battle of Io, where half the combatants die, many ships crashing into the moon or the giant planet. Prince Alexander dies of acute radiation poisoning aboard his crippled ship. Empress Katrina orders the Imperial Navy to intervene, leading to the Battle of Himalia and a general truce, followed by the Imperial dictation of the Treaty of Leda by Crown Prince Cleon, settling complaints between the moons. |
| 2845 | To encourage settlement of coastal regions and sea farming, King Harold begins a fifty year program to free all Merman Constructs on Venus and authorizes Sapien-Merman conversion modifications. Marital law ends on Amaterasu, with local Nobles electing Count Joachim Tanaka the new Prince. |
| 2846 | The Imperial Congress approves the Sixth Amendment, allowing the legitimately recognized government of a world to request Imperial aid in the event of an insurrection. |
| 2847 | With the help of covert agents, the Imperial Guard seizes the last three Autonomist bases, destroying all pirate vessels and killing Dolphus II and hundreds of Autonomist troops, effectively ending the Autonomist movement. |
| 2848 | Martial law ends on Apollo, with the institution of a constitutional monarchy led by King Willam Torgeirsen, a second cousin of the Empress. |
| 2849 | Crown Prince Cleon begins an extensive incognito journey across Terra, starting his historical work, The Ancient Planet. |
| 2850 | Several Members of the Imperial Congress dispute Ministry of Commerce enumeration procedures during the Census, especially as they apply to Constructs on worlds where Construct status is low; Empress Katrina submits a clarification statement, prompting renewed debate on Construct status Empire-wide. |
| 2851 | The Imperial Congress ratifies the Seventh Amendment to clarify census enumeration procedures, but refuses to consider amendments to Imperialize Construct status regulations. |
| 2852 | Several million Hachiman residents peacefully demonstrate against continuing marital law on the world, nearly fifty years after the end of the war. |
| 2853 | An antimatter containment accident on Nike kills two million civilians in the city of Churchill. Resulting litigation bankrupts the transworld Arias Corporation. The Churchill Incident and subsequent economic fallout contributes to the start of an Empire-wide recession. |
| 2854 | Marital law ends on Hachiman, with the populace narrowly voting to change the name of the world to Nova. Establishing a republican government, Nova joins the Empire as a full Member. |
| 2855 | Martial law ends on Atlantis, with King Kane assuming executive authority; the Empress refuses to let the former king Karl return from exile, and maintains Imperial Naval and Marine assets on the world. |
| 2856 | Economic conditions worsen, causing Katrina to lower the world GDP tax rate and the interstellar VAT to stimulate growth. Several major banks fail on Hercules, prompting the world to review commercial lending regulations. |
| 2857 | Empress Katrina appoints several Donnerist officials to the ministry of Commerce and begins adopting Donnerist spending policies aimed at stimulating interstellar trade. |
| 2858 | Crown Prince Cleon publishes The Ancient Planet under the pseudonym Robert Farley; the work becomes an Empire-wide non-fiction best seller. |
| 2859 | In the first test of the Sixth Amendment, Imperial Marines intervene on Artemis to support the local Nobility after a Sapien revolt. Crown Prince Cleon begins incognito journeys on Venus and Mars to study the lives of people in the Solar colonies. |
| 2860 | The Imperial Census Office confirms a five percent fall in real wealth over the past decade. Census officials proclaim that Odysseus has met the requirements for full Imperial Membership. |
| 2861 | Governor Lord Jon Duvall of Odysseus become Lord Protector of the world as Odysseus becomes an official Member of the Empire. |
| 2862 | The Empress authorizes the Ministry of Science to conduct exploration operations beyond the de facto Imperial border of one hundred light years radius from Sol. |
| 2863 | Crown Prince Cleon continues his travels through the Solar system with visits to Mercury, Luna, the Belt and the Outer System. |
| 2864 | The Imperial economy begins a sustained recovery, though the effects are uneven on many worlds. The Donnerist Lady Donah Morish becomes Minister of Commerce. |
| 2865 | The Empress authorizes the Ministry of Commerce to designate certain Dependencies as "threatened" worlds, and work to stimulate the economy and population of those worlds. The Ministry of Science re-establishes a research contact station on the homeworld of the Stygians, who have progressed to primitive urbanized societies since last contact. |
| 2866 | Baxter Technology Products, based the asteroid Flora, reintroduces zero gravity teleportation booths which soon become common in the Belt and between habitat colonies. The Ministry of Commerce declares the Dependencies Thoth, Virgil, Shikoku, Hestia, Selene, Jefferson, Emerald and Excalibur to be threatened and enters them into the Dependency Economic Program (DEP). |
| 2867 | Katrina names Crown Prince Cleon head of the Dependency Economic Program; Cleon appropriates a cruiser, the Scythian, to act his base of operations as he travels between the worlds. |
| 2868 | The Imperial Navy intervenes to protect Imperial Citizens sentenced to death for relatively minor infractions on Horizon. The Fifth Fleet and a full Marine division convince the world's Grand Senate to modify legal proceedings against Imperials and proscribe exile for some formerly capital offenses. |
| 2869 | The Ministry of Commerce offers aid to the Member worlds of Bolivar and Phoenicia, who are struggling under faltering economic systems. |
| 2870 | Preliminary Census results indicate that seven Dependencies have qualified for full Membership, prompting the Empress to request that they establish qualifying governments. A scout expedition to the GRN-014 neutron star meets with disaster, with systems failures resulting in the loss of the Venezia and severe damage to the surviving scout Zanzibar. |
| 2871 | Poseidon and Isis enter the Empire as full Members. Cleon suggestions importing and breeding Constructs to increase the population and aid the economy on Thoth. |
| 2872 | Kyushu enters the Empire as a full member. |
| 2873 | Under Imperial Edict, the Ministry of Science publishes requirements for new colonization beyond the old Confederation border. Arakis, Mithras and Demeter enter the Empire as full Members. |
| 2874 | After a threat by the Empress to revoke full Membership, Enlightenment begins adopting a Thoth-like approach of importing long life Constructs to supplement the native population. |
| 2875 | Katrina declares the world of Rogar to become the first new Imperial colony opened for settlement. |
| 2876 | The DEP graduates Thoth and Virgil from the program, with Cleon congratulating the worlds on their progress. |
| 2877 | The Ministry of Commerce showcases Bolivar a successfully assisted Member state. The DEP places Chosun and Asgard under its administration. |
| 2878 | The Ministry of Science authorizes the colonization of Valhalla. |
| 2879 | Crown Prince Cleon resigns as head of the DEP and begins travels across the Empire aboard the Scythian. |
| 2880 | The Imperial Navy begins a program of mothballing aging vessels, eventually reducing the fleet size by half to 350 ships. The Kuiper outpost of Ultima Thule, ten billion kilometers from Sol, becomes the primary fleet mothball yard, with the Hellking Apollyon becoming the first resident; the Beelzebub remains on active duty. An Imperial Edict allows the Ministry of Science Colonization Office to authorize one new colony each year; the office authorizes settlement of Haven. |
| 2881 | The Ministry of Science confirms that a retrovirus plague is causing widespread sterility on Inanna. Settlement of Koyote commences. |
| 2882 | After a second failed expedition to GRN-014, the Empress orders the Ministry of Science to shift funding from exploration projects to survey, colony oversight, and new technology research. Sif is settled. |
| 2883 | Countess Donah Morish resigns as Commerce Minister after a scandal involving the kickbacks from the Lunar Republic. Marduk is settled. |
| 2884 | A strong economic boom begins to spread from Terra to the Solar Colonies and then, unequally, to the Interstellar Colonies. Athena is settled. |
| 2885 | The DEP graduates Shikoku and Chosun from the program. Himerus is settled. |
| 2886 | Crown Prince Cleon speaks about economic development for the Empire at ceremonies at Bengal's Donner Institute, marking the six hundredth anniversary of the economist's birth. Horus is settled. |
| 2887 | The DEP graduates Asgard from the program. Ull is settled. |
| 2888 | The Ministries of Defense and Science establish a joint space technologies research lab at Ultima Thule. Iskur is settled. |
| 2889 | The Empress presides over Imperial Centennial celebrations on Terra, Kalmar and Libertas. Jubilee is settled, named in honor of the centennial. |
| 2890 | Preliminary Census results indicate that Khronos and Formosa qualify for full Membership. Mabon is settled. |
| 2891 | Khronos joins the Empire as a full Member, with Governor Lord Anson DuVahl becoming Count Khronos. Janus is settled. |
| 2892 | A fairly bloodless revolution on Dionysus topples the Noblis government and replaces it with a provisional constitutional republic. After the Dionysian government-in-exile requests intervention, Katrina sends Prince Olav on a fact-finding mission, where he recommends that the Empire recognize the new government in the interest of order and unity; Empress Katrina accepts the recommendation, leading to extensive debate in the Imperial Congress. Dagda is settled. |
| 2893 | With patrols routinely traveling over one hundred light years from Sol, the Ministry of Defense divides the Empire into eight numerically designated 100 light year per side cubic sectors and six frontier regions, North, South, Coreward, Rimward, Spinward and Trailing. The Imperial Navy divides its strength into eight Sector Fleets and six Frontier Fleets. The Imperial Guard squadrons, soon known as the Zero Fleet, assume full responsibility for defending Sol. Formosa joins the Empire as a full Member. Sargon is settled. |
| 2894 | Researchers at the White Forest Institute on Hercules announce a cure for the Inanna plague. Min is settled. |
| 2895 | The Ministry of Science adopts the Ministry of Defense sector model, developing a system that will expand sectors in cubic "rings" as the Empire expands, with the six frontier regions beyond settled sector borders. Katrina formalizes the Sector numerical and Frontier name designations for Imperial Ministry operations and standards. Imra is settled. |
| 2896 | The Ministry of Science opens up surveyed regions of the twenty-four nearest second ring sectors for colonization and exploitation, starting with the colonization of Eos in Sector 44. |
| 2897 | Imperial Marines assist the Dionysian Republic in quelling an attack by the deposed Duke Rodulf, supporting a ground operation that ends in the death of the claimant. Ptah is settled. |
| 2898 | A massive earthquake strikes northern Chile on Terra, killing over fifty thousand people. Yng is settled. |
| 2899 | Archeologists uncover a Gatebuilder installation beneath a kilometer thick lava field on Oracle. The Ministry of Science and the Quadron government begin a joint investigation of the site. Parvati is settled. |
| 2900 | Imperial Navy researchers at Ultima Thule demonstrate a functional microjump drive vessel, the X-11. The Ministry of Defense opens bids for the construction of four 60m, four 55m and eight 50m and thirty-four 40m microjump vessels to supplement the aging fleets. Zeus is settled. |
| 2901 | The Ministry of Science requisitions eighteen 30m microjump vessels and thirty-six 13m vessels for survey and exploration work. The Time Travel Society emerges in Australia; in the last century, former members have secured legal rights to property and facilities, making this emergence a less secretive event. Only six individuals rejoin society, and five former members return to hibernation, leaving forty-one to continue the experiment. Leto is settled. |
| 2902 | With permission from the Empress, the Ministry of Science Colonial Office begins approving two colony settlements per year, staring with Danu and Geb. |
| 2903 | An economic boom begins on Earth and spreads though most Imperial worlds. Dagan and Coatlicue are settled. |
| 2904 | The first production microjump vessel, the frigate Kumar, enters service. Nammu and Daphne are settled. |
| 2905 | The Ministry of Commerce begins issuing commercial licenses for the construction and operation of microjump starships. Hathor and Enki are settled. |
| 2906 | The Census Office notes a baby boom following the economic cycle. Tivoli and Siva are settled. |
| 2907 | A series of volcanic eruptions prompt the evacuation of Odysseus's northern settlements. Gaia and Amun are settled. |
| 2908 | Crown Prince Cleon leads an expedition aboard the microjump scout Cook to search for the Kumar colony and finds an abandoned settlement, with logs indicating that 220 survivors set out towards Betelgeuse in 2734 aboard a gravstar vessel, Salvation; if successful, they should just have arrived. Utu and Gargarin are settled. The Salvation reaches Kumar and establishes a settlement. |
| 2909 | Despite Cleon's support, the Empress refuses to authorize a mission to Betelgeuse, but allows a new expedition to GRN-014. Vertumnus and Flora are settled. |
| 2910 | Vesta Research Products announces the introduction of longer range teleportation devices similar to the teleportation network devices of the twenty-fourth century. Lack of Imperial adoption slows the spread of the teleporters, though networks begin between space habitats in the Belt and Hercules and Atlantis plan world networks. The census indicates that Shikoku qualifies for full Membership. Darwin and Ganesa are settled. |
| 2911 | The economic boom ends in a short recession. Atlantis officially recognizes Technologism as a religious movement. Three Imperial microjump scout vessels return from a successful expedition to GRN-014. Narmer and Hebron are settled. |
| 2912 | Shikoku enters the Empire as a full Member. Mandela and Adonis are settled. |
| 2913 | The microjump scout vessel Mackenzie contacts the Swarm race at their colony on Danzig. Freyja and Vairacocha are settled. |
| 2914 | The Ministry of State sends a delegation to Megahive, but fails to establish diplomatic relations. Linclon and Valinor are settled. |
| 2915 | The Swarm War begins when Swarm starships attack the Imperial colony of Athena, killing all 24,000 colonists. The Empire declares war on the Swarm and mobilizes the Seventh, Eight and Rimward Frontier Fleets. The Imperial Navy orders an additional fifty microjump vessels. The Ministry of Science places a moratorium on new colonization authorizations. |
| 2916 | As Swarm ships raid Dagan, Selene and Emerald, Prince Olav takes command of the war effort, moving the First and Sixth Fleets to the front, along with the Beelzebub squadron. The War Fleet rallies at Bengal, where the Beelzebub suffers a drive failure, leading to a major overhaul. The Navy pulls forty vessels, including the Apollyon, out of reserve status at Ultima Thule, bringing the vessels out to protect colony worlds along the Rimward regions. |
| 2917 | Prince Olav leads the War Fleet to a costly victory at the Battle of Athena, destroying the Swarm occupation fleet and retaking the world, but loosing fourteen vessels, including the microjump battleship Dunbar. A squadron led by Commodore Janis Trimble raids Megahive, bombing the world and returning without loosing a ship. Cardinal Technical Products, based on Hercules, begins offering Intelligent Companion Implants. |
| 2918 | After the Apollyon fails trials at Hera, Olav recalls the bulk of his War Fleet to Bengal and completes construction of the Bengal Naval Base. Imperial patrol squadrons defeat Swarm raiders at Dagda, Dagan and Drakkon. Commodore Trimble's raider squadron captures the Swarm settlement at Radomir and takes several prisoners; Katrina knights Trimble for her victories. The Swarm launch a massed attack at the Battle of Bengal, but withdraw after heavy losses when the Beelzebub enters the battle. |
| 2919 | In a series of offenses, Imperial forces capture all six remaining Swarm settlements with minimal casualties, except for the loss of five vessels at the pitched Battle of Danzig. Dame Janis Trimble becomes Admiral of the Rimward Frontier Fleet. Imperial Naval ships begin sporting experimental gray forcefields. |
| 2920 | The Swarm War ends after the Imperial War Fleet arrives at Megahive and demonstrates the Beelzebub on the world's small moon. After a cease fire and lengthy negotiations, the Swarm agrees to pay reparations to the families of the Athena victims and damages to those affected by other raids. The Swarm signs the Imperial Charter and enters the Empire as a Major Race, subject to a ten year occupation and integration plan. The Ministry of Science resumes authorization of new colonies, starting with Chameleon. The Census Office indicates that Emerald qualifies for full Membership, leading to a review of the Dependency Economic Program on the world. |
| 2921 | Dame Janis Trimble assumes the duties of Proconsul of Megahive in addition to her role as Frontier Fleet Admiral. A scouting expedition recontacts the stone age Quanna race, placing their homeworld under protective quarantine. |
| 2922 | The Ministry of Science reports the completion of the survey of all old Confederation territory and all worlds surveyed by Confederation scouts except those within the old M'kkiae Combine. Surveys and explorations spread into uncharted territory. |
| 2923 | The Imperial Navy orders a third batch of fifty microjump vessels to replace war losses. Citing conflicting duties, Admiral Trimble resigns as Megahive Proconsul; the Empress replaces her with Duchess Heather Timmins of Tyr. The DEP graduates Emerald from the program to allow it to conduct elections as a prerequisite for full Membership. Athena is resettled at Swarm expense, with a large memorial preserve devoted to the original colony site. |
| 2924 | The Imperial bureaucracy begins purchasing teleportation booths for internal and military use. Public works projects to establish teleportation networks begin on Terra, Mars and Venus. Emerald enters the Empire as a full Member. |
| 2925 | The Ministry of Science Colonial Office begins authorizing four new colonies per year. Surface to geosynchronous orbit teleportation systems begin operation on Terra and many major worlds, prompting a permanent decline in the interface shuttle market. |
| 2926 | The Ministry of State formally contacts the Stygian race, offering them Minor Race status within the Empire. |
| 2927 | Empress Katrina approves an Imperial bureaucracy reorganization establishing Sector department capitals at Hercules, Kalmar, Paradise, Artemis, Prometheus, Ishtar, Libertas and Bengal. |
| 2928 | The Imperial Navy places the Apollyon and Beelzebub in mothballs at Ultima Thule, and begins the gradual retirement of its remaining macrojump vessels, planning towards a 400 ship microjump navy. New naval vessels begin sporting degenerate armor hulls. The Stygian homeworld of Stygia enters the Empire as a full Member. |
| 2929 | With the end of martial law, the Swarm homeworld of Megahive officially enters the Empire as a full Member. The Swarm colony worlds revert to joint administration with an Imperial governor and a Swarm advisory council. |
| 2930 | Atlantis begins construction of the Centauri Ring, a geosynchronous framework encircling the world and incorporating industrial, residential and entertainment centers. Alexander becomes the first Imperial resettled world eligible for full Membership. |
| 2931 | A massive solar flare scars the surface of Isis, killing 6,000 and prompting discussion over the evacuation of the planet. Lawrence Industries introduces the Rapid Fabricator system, allowing real-time assembly of most common mechanical and organic matter. The Rapid Fabricator (or RFab) becomes the baseline technological requirement for Post-Materialism. |
| 2932 | Admiral Trimble retires from the Imperial Navy, returning to her homeworld of Hercules. Alexander joins the Empire as a full Member. |
| 2933 | In a referendum, the citizens of Isis overwhelming vote to remain on their world, but the Empire offers to evacuate those who choose to leave, promoting a slow but steady exodus from the world. |
| 2934 | A research report from the University of Quito History Department indicates that the Empire has reached technological parity with the peak Confederation accomplishments of six hundred years earlier, but notes that Life Therapy remains unavailable. With Imperial permission, the former King Karl of Atlantis returns from his exile on Isis and takes up residence in the Atlantian city of Chiron as a private citizen. |
| 2935 | Archeologists on Ares find a submerged Founders site under the silt in the shallow Yellow Ocean; excavations offer well-preserved 55,000 year old cultural artifacts, but no working equipment; a police action ensues to keep looters from the site, eventually involving a request for Imperial Marines to establish control over the area after local police are caught caught smuggling contraband. Katrina signs an Imperial Edict drafted by the Ministries of State and Science that provides for the quarantine and protection of all sentient species that have not achieved space travel. |
| 2936 | Empress Katrina vetoes a joint request by the Ministries of Science and State to launch a Grand Federation contact mission, citing political uncertainties. A Ministry of Science development project produces flexible molecular materials that become known as living metals. |
| 2937 | Civil unrest begins on Aeneas, starting with demonstrations, riots and occasional political assassinations. |
| 2938 | Empress Katrina vetoes Crown Prince Cleon's second proposal to launch a Betelgeuse expedition to search of the Salvation. |
| 2939 | A squadron of Swarm microjump frigates joins the Rimward Frontier Fleet despite protests from local colony worlds. Integrated squadrons begin operating on Rimward patrol missions, but physiological and environment constraints allow for few joint crews, though some Swarm personnel serve as liaisons on Human ships. |
| 2940 | Dame Janis Trimble wins election as the President of Hercules. Frigg and Halcyon qualify for Imperial Membership. |
| 2941 | Lord Roban Mellon discovers and reveals the suppression of Life Therapy research before dying at the hands of household troops of Count Hernando Batitisa of Quito. Frigg and Halcyon join the Empire as full Members. |
| 2942 | The Imperial Guard suppresses the Mellonite riots of Sapiens on Terra, Venus and Mars with minimal loss of life. Katrina acquiesces to the rioter's grievances and orders the arrest of Count Hernando and instructs the Ministry of Science to publish Life Therapy specifications. An Imperial Court finds Count Hernando guilty of murder and conspiracy charges, sentences and executes him. |
| 2943 | The Ministry of Commerce licenses Life Therapy procedures but imposes a 50% surcharge and lengthy authorization procedures. Debate on whether to tie Life Therapy to Nobility requirements begins on many worlds. A Ministry of Science expedition resurveys the devastated world of M'kkia, discovering two subterranean complexes housing hibernating M'kkiae. One complex activates, prompting a battle that destroys most of the expedition; a single surviving vessel returns to Prometheus, prompting the activation of the Fifth Fleet. |
| 2944 | The Fifth Fleet blockades M'kkia. Prince Olav reactivates both Hellkings, which travel to M'kkia and begin a sustained bombardment, stripping the crust from the planet. The Empress proposes the Eighth Amendment, limiting Life Therapy to Noble candidates, elevating the debate to the Imperial Congress. |
| 2945 | A severe drought linked to solar cycles begins on Pyramus, prompting an increase in emigration to Thisbe, the system's outer habitable world. The Fifth Fleet and the Hellking battle groups survey the former M'kkia colony worlds, searching for other facilities or survivors and sterilizing the worlds as a precaution. |
| 2946 | The Imperial Congress approves the Eighth Amendment, linking Life Therapy to Imperial Noble status and requiring Imperial authorization for the procedure. The Hellkings return to Ultima Thule and mothballing. |
| 2947 | The initial loop framework of the Centauri Ring reaches completion, incorporating living metal elements. After ten years of unrest on Aeneas, the Empress approves a peacekeeping force of Libertine and Freedom soldiers to keep order and supervise elections and a support new constitutional framework for the world. |
| 2948 | A new mega-flare strikes Isis, but protective measures and subterranean shelters limit damage and prevent any direct deaths. Katrina cancels Dependency Economic Program, calling for specific programs to help the remaining struggling worlds. |
| 2949 | Peacekeepers leave Aeneas after the inauguration of the Consuls of the new republican government. |
| 2950 | The Census Office announces that Balder and Lemuria have achieved the requisite population for full membership in the Empire. The Swarm Beta colony also qualifies for full Membership. |
| 2951 | Balder joins the Empire as a full Member. Dame Janis Trimble turns down an offer of Nobilis treatment. |
| 2952 | Lemuria joins the Empire as a full Member. The Empress authorizes six new fleets, splitting the existing Frontier Fleets into Patrol and Frontier Fleets. The Ministry of Science opens an additional twenty-four second ring Sectors to colonization. |
| 2953 | After a carefully orchestrated election process, the Swarm Beta colony enters the Empire as a full Member. William II becomes King of Mars after the death of his father, Albert II, from complications of CID. |
| 2954 | The Ministry of Science launches the Orion-Taurus Expedition, a six ship scouting mission under the command of Sir Tomas Rydell, to the Pleiades and on to Betelgeuse and environs to search for the Salvation and crew. |
| 2955 | The Orion-Taurus Expedition reaches the Pleiades and discovers the habitable planet Glorious in an older star system within by the cluster; the Asimov and Clarke remain to survey the world and the cluster while the rest of the expedition continues on to Betelgeuse. |
| 2956 | The Orion-Taurus Expedition begins studies at Betelgeuse with the Heinlein and Verne and sends the Burroughs and Bester to search habitable systems for a settlement from the Salvation. |
| 2957 | The Heinlein's crew abandons the vessel after it suffers a drive failure in Betelgeuse orbit, prompting the expedition to return to the Pleiades to rejoin the other two vessels and begin the return to Imperial Space. |
| 2958 | The Orion-Taurus Expedition returns to the Exploration Office rimward scout base in Sector 49. |
| 2959 | Crown Prince Cleon honors Sir Tomas Rydell and his crews in ceremonies at Byzantium. |
| 2960 | The Census Office pronounces Phoebus qualified for Imperial Membership; additionally the Swarm Alpha colony qualifies for Membership, prompting a struggle on the world to establish a proper government. |
| 2961 | After voting to initiate a hostile take-over of Maxwell Biogenics, the entire board and senior management team of Consolidated BioProducts vanishes; the Imperial Ministry of Justice begins a fruitless seven year investigation; the new management team of Consolidated BioProducts does not attempt a merge with Maxwell. |
| 2962 | Phoebus joins the Empire as a full Member. |
| 2963 | King John of Libertas celebrates his one thousandth birthday in year-long ceremonies on Libertas. Empress Katrina, Minister of Commerce Donal Dejuris and staff die in a landing boat accident on Mars. Cleon I becomes Emperor of Humanity after a pro forma confirmation by the Imperial Congress. |
| 2964 | On Kalmar, Emperor Cleon opens the Outer Complex of the Summer Palace to the public, showcasing art and artifacts from a hundred worlds. |
| 2965 | After achieving recognition of its government by Cleon, the Swarm Alpha colony enters the Empire as a full Member. |
| 2966 | The Ministry of Science launches a four ship expedition to the Pleiades to conduct science in the cluster and to fully survey Glorious. |
| 2967 | The Ministry of Science launches a four ship expedition to the Betelgeuse region under the command of Captain Gwendolyn Pyrell, with instructions from the Emperor to search again for the Salvation and the Kumar colonists. |
| 2968 | Economist Artur Beal of Hercules publishes the Post-Materialist Manifesto, demonstrating that his world has achieved the wealth and equality necessary for most people to live without materialistic concerns. Cleon travels to Atlantis to encourage the world to regain its leadership in Imperial affairs, declaring the Autonomist War "ancient history", and visiting the resident of ex-king Karl. Cleon increases the Imperial value added tax to 5% over colonial opposition. |
| 2969 | The Imperial Guard microjump battleship Saratoga undergoes renovations to prepare it to house the Emperor and his household. The Betelgeuse expedition recovers the Heinlein from orbit around Betelgeuse. The Pleiades Expedition returns to Imperial Space after a successful mission. |
| 2970 | The Swarm Gamma colony qualifies for full membership, starting a scramble for power among three factions. Cleon begins his Grand Tour of the Empire, promising to visit every Member world. In Sector 391, the scouts Wells and Niven discover the planet Kumar and its colonists from the Salvation; establishing contact and inviting a group to return to the Empire. The Betelgeuse Expedition assembles over Kumar, then begins the return to Imperial Space. |
| 2971 | The Betelgeuse Expedition rendezvous with the Saratoga at Achilles and the Emperor meets with the Kumar delegation, offering full Membership despite the small (under 700) population of the world. |
| 2972 | Cleon dismisses his senior Ministers, retaining only Prince Olav as Minister of Defense. Citing lack of need to staff a full department, the Emperor assumes the duties of the Minister of State and runs Khzraut and other alien relations though a new created Alien Relations Office of the Ministry of Science. |
| 2973 | The Second Betelgeuse Expedition returns to Kumar to offer full membership and establish an exploration base on the world, under thirty light years from Betelgeuse. |
| 2974 | Cleon recognizes the military government on the Swarm Gamma colony and allows it to take its seat in the Imperial Congress as a full Member. After the return of the Second Betelgeuse Expedition, Kumar enters the Empire as a full Member. |
| 2975 | Cleon returns to the Golden Palace in Byzantium after completing his Grand Tour of all Member worlds except Kumar. |
| 2976 | The Emperor announces the start of the Lunar Terraformation Project as a showcase of Imperial technology. Muted opposition to the terraformation of Sol's richest Member state spreads through the colonies, but Atlantis supports the Project and receives several large technology contracts. |
| 2977 | The Third Betelgeuse and Second Pleiades Expeditions leave Bengal on survey missions. |
| 2978 | Cleon declares Mercury and the Kuiper/Oort region Imperial Member worlds and appoints a government for both Members. Cleon unveils the Solar System Reorganization Plan, to consist of three major projects: The terraformation of Luna, the moving of Mercury to Terran opposition orbit and its concurrent terraformation, and the gravitational collapse and ignition of Jupiter with subsequent terraformation of Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. The Imperial VAT increases to 7%. |
| 2980 | The Census Office announces that Minerva, Perseus and the Swarm Delta colony have achieved the requisite population for full membership in the Empire. Additionally, Rogar becomes the first new colony to qualify for full Membership. Cleon announces the beginning of the Cleonian calendar reform: the year 3000, to be designated year 0 of the New Era, the alteration of Terran rotational and orbital distances to make a 360 day year, 30 day month, 24 hour day and 3600 second hour, and the change of the length of the second to define it as the time for light to travel 300,000km. |
| 2981 | Minerva and Rogar become full Members of the Empire. Miniature antimatter power cells become commercially available. Cleon allows the Swarm to begin colonizing additional worlds in the Rimward region. |
| 2982 | Perseus and the Swarm Delta colony become full Members of the Empire. Sporadic tax protests strike many colony worlds, notably Apollo, Deseret and Nike. |
| 2983 | The Technologist Synod recognizes Post-Materialism as a basic tenet of Technologism and one of Paulus Reornan's Milestones to Perfection. With the completion of an initial set of HSPG thrusters, Luna's orbit begins shifting induce a thirty day orbit and create a 24 hour day on the moon. |
| 2984 | Actual terraformation begins on Mercury as its orbit begins to spiral out from the sun and comet bombardments commence. A software virus damages the orbital teleportation grid system on Terra, killing 126 people before the system is shut down. All teleportation systems shut down Empire-wide for security reviews. |
| 2985 | Initial studies on the Jovian gravitational collapse indicate considerable technical problems, prompting further study. |
| 2986 | Cleon cuts naval appropriations, derailing a modernization program. The VAT increases to 8%. |
| 2987 | Imperial teleportation systems return to service after a complete rework of their security models. |
| 2988 | The Third Pleiades Expedition leaves Bengal. Construction of Calendar Reformation HSPG thrusters on Terra slows after studies indicate tectonic stability issues with any rotational or orbital changes. Scouts discover the Turgil race in Sector 32; an atomic level culture with a small orbital research outpost. The Alien Relations Office authorizes open contact with the Turgil. |
| 2989 | The Third Pleiades Expedition establishes a research base on Glorious. The Emperor presides over Imperial Bicentennial celebrations on Terra and Kalmar. |
| 2990 | The Census Office announces that Pax, Thoth, Franklin, Excalibur, Adonis, Valhalla, Haven and the Swarm colony on Radomir have achieved the requisite population for full Membership in the Empire. Cleon orders the mothballing of all remaining naval and scout macrojump vessels. |
| 2991 | Thoth becomes a full Member of the Empire. The Imperial economy begins a boom period of rapid growth and euphoric capital market expansion. |
| 2992 | Pax, Franklin, Adonis, Valhalla, Haven and Radomir become full Members of the Empire. |
| 2993 | Excalibur becomes a full Member of the Empire. The Turgil enter the Empire as a Minor Race. |
| 2994 | Cleon orders a streamlining of the Imperial bureaucracy, prompting cutbacks in the Ministries of Commerce and Science as their departments move to zero-based budgeting. |
| 2995 | A second technology review of the Jovian Collapse Project leads to requests for additional funding. The construction of pilot replicant modules on Io begins. The Imperial Congress ratifies the Ninth Amendment, formalizing protocols for the inclusion, protection and dealings with alien races. |
| 2996 | Cleon increases the VAT to 9% to cover the growing costs of the Solar System Reorganization Plan and also increases the GDP tax to 6% after a century of stability at 5%. Unknown assailants detonate an antimatter power cell in the Golden Palace in an attempt to assassinate the Emperor. At least 355 people, including the assailants die in the attack. Security tightens on Terra, and public access to the Outer Complex of the Summer Palace ends. |
| 2997 | The collapse of Lawrence Industries leads to the Crash of '97, a general stock market collapse that wipes out the decade's profits. |
| 2998 | The Imperial economy begins a slide into depression. The Golden Palace reconstruction project ends with the completion of a fortified wall and security system enclosing a ten square kilometer area of Byzantium. |
| 2999 | Cleon bows to technical, economic, religious and conservative pressure and reverses his decision to begin his New Calendar Era at year 0 and change the length of the second. Cleon unofficially abandons the Terran rotational and revolutional change projects by cutting their budgets. Cleon acknowledges the continuing economic deterioration and appoints the neo-Donnerist Lord Ivan Roosevelt as his new Minister of Commerce. The Colonial Office opens up the last eight second ring Sectors (the "corners") for possible colonization. |
| 3000 | The VAT increases to 10% to aid economic recovery projects. Lord Roosevelt and Cleon agree to a delay of the Jovian Collapse Project to divert funds to economic recovery, but the Luna and Mercury projects continue on schedule, utilizing reallocated Terran thrusters. Koyote, Sif, Marduk, Himerus, Dagda, Eos and the Swarm worlds of Memel, Danzig and Carpathia qualify for full Membership. |
| 3001 | Construction of an Atlantian-style ring above Luna begins. Himerus, Eos and Sif join the Empire as full Members. The Time Travel Society emerges in Australia and meets with former members and the Emperor in Alice Springs; eight members choose to remain awake, and two former members return to hibernation, leaving thirty-five members to continue into the future. |
| 3002 | Imperial austerity measures cut funding for new Ministry of Science vessels and force cutbacks in the Alien Survey and Protection Offices. Marduk joins the Empire as a full Member. |
| 3003 | The Ministry of Commerce cuts subsidies to interstellar trade, hoping to allow market forces to correct imbalances. Koyote, Dagda and Memel join the Empire as full Members. Count David Bartholomew becomes Minister of Justice. Gaia and Enki join the Empire as full Members. |
| 3004 | The Depression officially ends as sluggish growth resumes. Cleon resumes funding for the Jovian Collapse Project despite Lord Roosevelt's objections. Olav Kamarov becomes King of Kalmar after the death of his mother, Queen Lydia. |
| 3005 | Cleon reforms Imperial Bureaucracy promotion and performance standards in an effort to purge Nobilis bloat and return to a Huist ideal. Peer review of the Jovian Collapse Project leads to recommendations of a test collapse in an uninhabited system. Danzig and Carpathia join the Empire as full Members. |
| 3006 | After saboteurs destroy the Saratoga just before an Imperial visit to Kalmar; Cleon declares martial law, putting the Ministry of Justice in charge of securing interstellar travel. A rebellion begins on Libertas after a riot at the Freehaven spaceport results in the deaths of six Ministry of Justice agents and ten civilians. After widespread rioting and eight murders, Imperial officials evacuate Libertas. The economy slides back into recession. |
| 3007 | Cleon orders King Olav Kamarov to crush the Libertine revolt. Olav mobilizes the Fourth and Second Fleets and ends the rebellion with minimal bloodshed by reaching a private agreement with King John of Libertas. Cleon sacks Olav as Minister of Defense and places King John under house arrest, pending a trial for treason. A full army of Imperial Marines occupies Libertas and enforces marital law. Cleon assumes the role of Minister of Defense himself. The Imperial VAT increases to 11%. The Ministry of Justice procures twelve microjump frigates and assorted heavy weaponry to enforce martial law. |
| 3008 | Mercury passes the orbit of Venus on its spiral out to one AU. Cleon moves the capital of Sector 7 to Eden. Cleon names 800 new Life Therapy Peers from among his supporters. Cleon indefinitely delays the trial of King John, citing security concerns. The Jovian Collapse Project begins to build replicant modules on the test site at Gilese 876. |
| 3009 | Peaceful protests against marital law spread to dozens of worlds. A majority of world leaders, including King Olav of Kalmar, sign a petition protesting the Marine occupation of Libertas and the continuing detention of King John. Cleon promises to withdraw from Libertas by 3015 and to begin scaling back marital law restriction in 3012, satisfying few. Citing budget concerns, the Colonial Office reduces colony authorizations to three per year. Cleon and Lord Ivan Roosevelt tout positive economic growth for the year. |
| 3010 | The first span of the Lunar Ring reaches completion. Lord Ivan Roosevelt resigns as Minister of Commerce to protest Cleon's political policies and the continuing Solar System Reorganization projects. Cleon does not name a new Minister of Commerce, but increases the VAT to 12.5% and the GDP tax to 7%, prompting a return to recession. The Census Office declares the Asgard and a dozen new colonies qualified for full Membership. |
| 3011 | The test Collapse at Gilese 876 results in a significant variance from predicted values, forcing a reevaluation of the Jovian plan. Two of three top project managers resign from the Jovian Collapse Project. Baroness Gail Nuerell resigns as Minister of Science, leaving Cleon with only one senior Minister, Count David Bartholomew, of Justice, in place. |
| 3012 | A worsening of the guerilla war on Libertas prompts Cleon to indefinitely delay the departure of occupation forces and to increase troop strength to two full Marines armies. The Emperor announces that King John's treason trial will begin within months. Cleon makes minor revision to martial law, but cuts Ministry of Science funding by 10% to lessen the continuing recession. |
| 3013 | After a long public trial, Cleon sentences King John to death for treason. King Olav Kamarov leads a coup against Emperor Cleon, forcing the Emperor's abdication and freeing King John. Count Bartholomew and a squad of Justice Department troops die resisting arrest in Byzantium. After Prince Arnam Farrar and Princess Melisa Farrar swear allegiance to Olav, ending risks of a succession battle, the Imperial Congress meets and confirms Olav as Emperor by a narrow margin. Cleon accepts exile as the Prince of Mercury and becomes director of a vastly reduced Reorganization Plan as Olav cancels the Jovian Collapse Project. The VAT falls to 10% and marital law ends, with troops beginning a staged withdrawal from Libertas. |
| 3014 | Emperor Olav appoints a new cabinet, with Lord Ivan Roosevelt as Minister of Commerce, Dame Janis Trimble as Minister of Defense, his brother Count Roban Kamarov as Minister of Justice, Gwendolyn Pyrell as Minister of Science, and Arnam Farrar as Minister of State. The Ministry of Justice disbands all paramilitary units. The last Marines depart from Libertas and King John resumes the throne. The Imperial Sector 7 bureaucracy moves its headquarters back to Libertas. The Emperor issues pardons to participants on both sides of the recent conflict, including a full pardon for Cleon. |
| 3015 | Emperor Olav decides to retain the Kalmaran throne as his own and appoints his brother Roban to the vacant throne of Paradise. Olav marries Cleon's sister, Princess Melisa Farrar, to further legitimize his rule. The economy shows signs of stabilizing. On the narrowest two-thirds vote of 114 to 57 and after a fierce constitutional debate, the Imperial Congress approves the Tenth Amendment, establishing an Imperial High Council for those member worlds with over one million residents. |
| 3016 | Olav announces a major naval renovation program. Crown Princess Cynthia is born after an artificial conception. A definitive study proves that the Quadron race descended from domesticated animals bred by the Gatebuilder race twenty million years ago. |
| 3017 | The Ministry of Science Colonial Office resumes authorizing four new colonies per year and starts processing requests for limited colonization worlds of ethnic, cultural or religious heritages. Olav lowers the VAT to 8% and the GDP tax to 5% to stimulate growth. |
| 3018 | Scouts discover the information age Khaddahl race in Sector 27. Colonists from Deseret colonize Moroni, the first limited colony of the Imperial Era. The Quadron Rebellion begins when the Quadron rise up against the Empire after provocative statements by cultural leaders. Quadrons slaughter and devour dozens of Human Citizens and seize a number of armed merchants, launching a raid on Delphi. |
| 3019 | Olav leads the Imperial Guard Fleet to Oracle, bombarding and occupying the world. The Second Fleet tracks down and destroys the Quadron pirate fleet. A guerilla war ensues on Oracle, with some cultural leaders calling on the Gatebuilders to return from beyond and destroy Humanity. |
| 3020 | Olav orders the Beelzebub out of mothballs. Most resistance ends after the Beelzebub appears over Oracle. Imperial Guard and Marine units hunt down remaining Quadron fanatics. Olav orders martial law and reeducation to continue on Oracle for a five-year period, appointing a military governor. Two dozen new colony worlds qualify for full Membership, prompting Olav to designative a Membership Office under the Ministry of State to process new Memberships in a more orderly fashion. Olav also transfers the Colonial Governor's Office from the Ministry of Science to the Ministry of State. |
| 3021 | Anti-alien sentiment rises in the private press, prompting Olav to cancel plans to allow a small enclave of Quanna to settle on Titan. Riots against Swarm interests in the Rim lead to Imperial Naval and Marine intervention to protect Swarm Citizens and assets. The Imperial Congress passes a resolution calling upon Olav to strip Noble titles from the Cleonian Peers. Noting his earlier pardon of all parties, Olav instead reaffirms titles to all but two of the Peers. Janis Trimble resigns as Minister of Defense and returns to retirement on Hercules. |
| 3022 | Anti-alien protests and riots occur on Terra, Mars, Freedom, Apollo, Hector, Dionysus, Reich and several other worlds hard hit by the decades-long economic slump. Imperial Consort Melisa gives birth to James Kamarov, future Prince of Europe after an artificial conception. |
| 3023 | The Ministry of Commerce institutes currency reform measures to strengthen the interstellar economy. |
| 3024 | The orbit of Mercury begins to circularize as its perihelion shifts beyond Venus's orbit. A mob attacks the Quadron embassy on Reich killing and dismembering dozens of Quadrons. |
| 3025 | Anti-alien feeling begin to subside after a concerted Imperial media campaign and the arrest of several anti-alien agitators on fraud and libel charges. Olav personally lifts martial law on Oracle and orders the Beelzebub to return to mothballs at Ultima Thule. |
| 3026 | The economy begins a sustained, if sluggish recovery after the institution of currency reform, streamlined trade procedures and a new electronic Imperial Kredit. Olav encourages the Ministry of Science Colonial Office to slow its approval process for new colonies to lessen the backlog of suitable, but unsettled worlds. |
| 3027 | Workers excavating for a new entertainment complex on Khronos uncover Founder ruins beneath a basalt lava field, prompting a media-frenzied scientific expedition. |
| 3028 | The second span of the Lunar Ring reaches completion, allowing the wholesale dumping of Kuiper and Asteroid water onto the surface of the moon. |
| 3029 | King Roban Kamarov resigns as Minister of Justice, returning to Paradise to concentrate on ruling his world. |
| 3030 | The Founders Caverns entertainment complex opens on Khronos, with appropriate, though commercialized, scientific oversight. |
| 3031 | The Khaddahl enter the Empire as a Minor Race with the Membership of their homeworld of Khaddahl. |
| 3032 | The government of Apollo falls into chaos after a failed coup kills King William and several Ministers. Factional fighting spreads across the planet, prompting Imperial Marine intervention. The Alimeen economy slides into crisis as most Alimeen worlds struggle to adapt to a Post-Materialist economy. |
| 3033 | The Ministry of Science opens for colonization and exploitation the inner twenty-four sectors of the third ring of sectors. The poor and erratic economic performance of the worlds that have achieved a Post-Materialist economy prompts Minister Roosevelt to acknowledge that neo-Donnerist doctrine is insufficient to describe the new economic realities; he begins funding think tanks on Kalmar, Hercules and Prometheus to study the situation. The civil war on Apollo worsens, prompting Olav to dispatch a full Marine army to attempt to restore order. |
| 3034 | After failed mediation efforts, Prince Arnam travels to Apollo to negotiate, then enforce a cease fire. A provision government headed by a council of Nobles takes power on Apollo, backed by Imperial Marine troops. |
| 3035 | The new Apollo constitution takes effect, with a Grand Senate of thirty-nine Nobles establishing order on the world; Imperial Marine forces begin a three year withdrawal plan, turning peacekeeping over to local troops. |
| 3036 | Olav denies permission for a Grand Federation Contact Expedition, but does authorize the Ministry of Defense to conduct intelligence missions further Coreward. Alexander Kamarov, future Prince of Austrialia is born after an artificial conception. |
| 3037 | The last Imperial Marine forces evacuate Apollo. The Alimeen economy stabilizes into sluggish growth. |
| 3038 | The Atlantian Grand Exposition showcases Post-Materialist culture and achievements, cumulating in the opening of the second span of the Centauri Ring. Norman Buchanan of Atlantis emerges as a major spokesman for Technologism after Paulus Reornan dies of CID during the Exposition's last week. |
| 3039 | Rain falls on Luna for the first time. An Imperial scout mission first encounters the Brennar, a late industrial race, on their homeworld of Dushtunigar. They seem posed to begin space exploration, prompting the Ministry of Science to begin covert observation. |
| 3040 | Olav begins a massive reform and streamlining of the Imperial bureaucracy, cutting 10-40% of the staff and instituting civil service exams for Noble as well as Citizen employees. Prince Arnam Farrar resigns as Minister of State. The Colonial Office begins authorizing five new colonies each year. |
| 3041 | Minister Roosevelt and several leading economists announce the Promethean Principles, which attempts to codify and strengthen Post-Materialist economies. |
| 3042 | Olav meets with Pope Pius XXXIII of New Rome, leader of the reunited Catholic Church in what many consider an endorsement of traditional religions. Olav strengthens and extends intellectual property, patent and copyright laws to meet recommendations of the Promethean Principles. |
| 3043 | The Khzraut Moderate(?) faction gains control of the Khzraut government after a relatively bloodless coup. |
| 3044 | The Imperial economy begins a sustained period of solid growth, with the Post-Materialist worlds strengthening and growing in numbers. Khzraut traders visit the Alimeen colony on Night Gust. |
| 3045 | King Harold of Venus dies of CID. The Dukes of Venus refuse to confirm Crown Prince Anthony as King, choosing his younger brother to rule as King Joseph III. Emperor Olav appoints Anthony Prince of Kuiper to avoid a possible crisis, vowing to fund the construction of a palace complex on Pluto. |
| 3046 | In ceremonies on Byzantium, Crown Princess Cynthia marries Lord Ivan Roosevelt, the Minister of Commerce, whom Olav names Duke of Triton, a ceremonial position approved by the Triton parliament. |
| 3047 | Emperor Olav meets with Yusef bin Abdullah, Protector of Mecca, at the Emperor's resident on the island of Malta, again demonstrating support for traditional religions and encouraging the Protector to strengthen ties with the Moslem worlds of Islam, Yathrib and Macoraba. |
| 3048 | The Ministry of Science places a permanent research station in orbit around the neutron star GRN-014. |
| 3049 | Khzraut traders visit Kalmar and allow an Imperial trade expedition to visit Medusa. With Imperial permission, Prince Cleon travels to Kumar and receives a hero's welcome and honorary citizenship; after a tour of the Betelgeuse research station, he returns to Mercury. |
| 3050 | Mechanist clergy announce that the full pattern of Pavel Karinsky has degraded to the point of unrecoverability, prompting work to improve storage procedures and changing doctrine to keep soul patterns offline. |
| 3051 | The Ministry of Science begins studying stellar processes in the Sirius system by launching probes into the photosphere of Sirius A and sending drone vehicles into close orbit around Sirius B. |
| 3052 | Prince Rogar, the future Emperor, is born on Kalmar to Cynthia and Ivan after a natural conception. |
| 3053 | Mechanist missionaries begin recruiting members on several worlds after achieving religious organization status on Atlantis and Hercules. |
| 3054 | Minister of Commerce Lord Ivan Roosevelt convenes a second conference on Prometheus to work out methods to ease worlds' transitions to Post-Materialist economies. |
| 3055 | The Ministry of Science begins a systematic program to locate and survey singleton brown dwarfs and rouge planets within Imperial borders; the Dark Worlds Project begins to drain resources from the expansion survey. |
| 3056 | Pope Pius XXXIII issues a denunciation of artificial conception and maturation, calling on United Catholics to end the practice. |
| 3057 | Khzraut traders open an embassy on Kalmar to explore commercial contacts with the Empire. |
| 3058 | The Second Promethean Principles publish methods and draft legislations for smoothing economic transitions to Post-Materialism. |
| 3059 | In a media interview, Emperor Olav admits his belief in a "higher being and purpose", though he does not profess adherence to any particular faith. |
| 3060 | Prince Ivan Roosevelt, future King of Kalmar, is born to Cynthia and Ivan after a natural conception. The Colonial Office begins approving six new colonies per year. |
| 3061 | The Imperial Marines begin accepting Khaddahl recruits, integrating them with human units. |
| 3062 | King Joseph III begins a series of democratic reforms on Venus, giving Citizens more input in Duchy and Planetary affairs. Emperor Olav receives a Khzraut diplomatic delegation at the Summer Palace on Kalmar. |
| 3063 | The Ministry of Science issues a health warning on the effects of Passive Virtual World Immersion, recommending standards and safeguards to limit negative physical effects and encouraging Active Virtual World use as an alternative. |
| 3064 | The Imperial Guard begins training Khaddahl soldiers for duty in the Solar system. |
| 3065 | Lower level parliamentary elections occur on Venus, with a pro-monarchist party dominating regional councils. |
| 3066 | Crown Princess Cynthia announces plans for a public Mall in Byzantium, including museums and zoos dedicated to the diversity of the Empire. |
| 3067 | Maxwell Biogenics announces availability of nanomechanical supplement treatment that lower the fatality rate of CID, effectively increasing the mean Nobilis life span from 650 to over 1000 years. |
| 3068 | A Khzraut trade and diplomatic delegation reaches the Solar System, establishing formal relations with the Empire and seating an observer in the Imperial Congress. Ibrahim Mustafa is born in Cairo as the twelfth son of an impoverished Sunni preacher. |
| 3069 | The first phase of the Imperial Mall opens in Byzantium. Cynthia announces plans for a complementary Mall on Kalmar, just outside the grounds of the Summer Palace. |
| 3070 | In planetary elections, the Citizens Council of Venus, the new lower house, elects a pro-monarchist liberal majority. |
| 3071 | The Emperor approves an enlargement of the Ministry of Science facilities on both Glorious and Kumar. |
| 3072 | Princess Melisa Roosevelt, future Duchess of Triton is born to Cynthia and Ivan after a natural conception. |
| 3073 | The Khzraut petition for Major Race Membership in the Empire. Emperor Olav grants the Khzraut petition in ceremonies at the Golden Palace. Astrophysicists accidentally induce sub-nova flares in Sirius A, destroying their asteroid research station and prompting a full evacuation of the Sirius system. |
| 3074 | The Imperial Malls reach completion on both Terra and Kalmar and Crown Princess Cynthia leads ceremonies that open both to the public. |
| 3075 | The Herculean Congress overwhelmingly approves an amendment on religious freedom of expression, broadly defining religion, but limiting expressions of bigotry and prejudice. As a follow-on, the Herculean government bans preaching of United Catholic anti-Artificial sermons. |
| 3076 | The Emperor authorizes a squad of Khaddahl in his personal bodyguard detail. |
| 3077 | The Herculean United Catholic Church breaks from New Rome and forms the more liberal Free Catholic Church, allowing Artificial members, but preaching against the practice and against Construct creation and ownership. The Free Catholics recognize Artificials and Constructs as legitimate sentients. |
| 3078 | After an extensive education at the Golden Palace, Prince Rogar moves to Svartfjell, the Kamarov family estate on Kalmar. The Free Catholic movement spreads to several worlds and becomes a recognized religion within the Imperial military chaplain system. |
| 3079 | The Brennar launch a crewed orbital vessel. Following Ninth Amendment protocols, the Ministries of Science and State initiate contact and make an offer of Minor Race status in the Empire. The Brennar accept the offer and a delegation travels to Terra to meet the Emperor and join the Imperial Congress. |
| 3080 | Crown Princess Cynthia presides over the Delphian Virtual Exposition, a showcase of active Virtual worlds and experiences. |
| 3081 | As effects of the Sirius sub-nova dazzle the Solar night sky, a research expedition returns to the Sirius system to reestablish a monitoring station on Sirius Prime. |
| 3082 | The Delphian Virtual Exposition road show travels to Terra to begin a tour of major Imperial worlds. |
| 3083 | Emperor Olav announces a major increase in research funding for applied science and technology projects. Documents released two hundred years later reveal that a secret Imperial Guard expedition returned in this year after verifying the existence of the Grand Federation by venturing "near Antares". |
| 3084 | After a period of transition, the Venusian economy reaches Post-Materialist maturity. |
| 3085 | Advanced fully sentient artificial intelligent implants become commercially available, acting as interfaces to the data spheres on most Post-Materialist worlds. |
| 3086 | A Ministry of Science study indicates that Terra would be entering a new Ice Age if left in its natural state; however, the climate remains at 25th Century levels as a result of human activity. |
| 3087 | The Ministry of Science Colonial Office begins authorizing settlement of the next forty-eight third ring sectors. |
| 3088 | Rain first falls on Mercury, emptying into the nanosculpted oceans of the evolving world. |
| 3089 | Pius XXXIII, Pope of New Rome and the United Catholic Church, denounces all Sentients of artificial descent, condemning artificial conceptions as well as the use of artificial sentient devices and constructs. The clerical government of New Rome expels all Nobles of artificial conception, strips citizenship from all artificially conceived Sapiens, enslaves all freed Constructs and bans sentient implants. Several other religious dominated worlds, such as Islam and Macoraba, though not Deseret or Yathrib, pursue similar policies, especially discrimination against Artificials. The Emperor presides of tricentennial celebrations at the Imperial Malls on Terra and Kalmar, also opening up the Summer Palace and Golden Palace for the first time in nearly a century. |
| 3090 | The Khzraut Defense Forces, now equipped with microjump-era equipment joins the Imperial Naval Command, contributing squadrons to the Coreward fleets. |
| 3091 | The government of Islam bans the Delphian Virtual tour from exhibiting on the planet, citing religious and moral objections to the artificial representation of people and the decadent nature of virtual recreation. |
| 3092 | Emperor Olav refuses to interfere with local regulations and discrimination against Artificials, even after more mainstream worlds and the African parliament ban Artificial Nobles and Sentients from service. |
| 3093 | Several firms begin marketing more limited "Idiot-Savant" implants to cater to regulations against sentient implants; Pope Pius XXXIII authorizes his flock to accept such devices. Ibrahim Mustafa begins preaching in Cairo, developing a sizable following of lower class Sapiens across Terra. |
| 3094 | A nanomechanical containment accident on Apollo kills 300 people and prompts permanent evacuation of a large section of the city of Neutros. |
| 3095 | Investigations on Apollo point to the inadequacy of local nanotech processes and leads to Imperial assistance to Apollo, Nike and other worlds struggling to reach a Post-Materialistic economy. |
| 3096 | Norman Buchanan begins an active media campaign to spread Technologism as an alternative to traditional "bigoted" religions, leading to growth of the religion on Hercules, Prometheus and many other advanced worlds with diverse populations. Reception of Technologism on Terra is limited. |
| 3097 | The Ministry of Commerce announces that the Terran economy has successfully transformed itself to Post-Materialism. |
| 3098 | Minister of Commerce Duke Ivan Roosevelt speaks to the Imperial Congress on his plans to aid worlds like Apollo toward the goal of a Post-Materialist future and announces increased funding to provide more robust rapid fabrication technology and infrastructure to those worlds that request it. |
| 3099 | Islam becomes the only world to reject Post-Materialist aid. |
| 3100 | Pope Pius XXXIII makes a Christmas address, calling Artificials the "spawns of Satan" and effectively urging his followers to kill Artificials. Some incidences of violence against Constructs and deliberate destruction of maturation machinery occurs, but attacks on known Artificial Nobilis or Sapiens are very limited. The Emperor prosecutes the few dozen hate crimes against Imperial Citizens to the full extent of Imperial law, executing nineteen perpetrators. |
| 3101 | Baron Jarrel Tilgares of Prometheus assassinates Pope Pius XXXIII at the grand Cathedral on New Rome. The Baron does not dispute his guilt, but Emperor Olav declines his appeal to Imperial Law and makes no effort to stop his execution by immolation on New Rome. The Time Travel Society emerges in Australia and assesses the current situation on their Millennial Emergence, where they are joined by Prince Rogar and a media circus; two members choose to rejoin society, leaving thirty-three to continue their hibernation. |
| 3102 | The Congress of Deseret officially recognizes the practice of Technologism and refuses to disenfranchise Artificials, prompting a splinter group of fundamentalist Mormons to petition for and receive permission to settle on three colony worlds: Smith, Young and Sandworth. |
| 3103 | Street protests for and against Artificials force the temporary closure of the Imperial Mall in Byzantium before the Emperor prohibits all protests within the Mall grounds. |
| 3104 | The Emperor refuses a request by several planetary governments for him to clarify Imperial policy on Artificials with an amendment proposal. |
| 3105 | The Ministry of Science test vehicle Condor achieves Mode II microjump travel from its base on Ultima Thule, demonstrating an effective 50% increase in microjump performance. |
| 3106 | Planetary defense systems intercept a 900 meter rogue asteroid headed toward Mars after a near-Jovian encounter eight years earlier altered its orbit. |
| 3107 | Anti-Artificial riots turn violent on Terra and several colonial worlds, notably Apollo, Nike and Aeneas. |
| 3108 | Ibrahim declares himself Mahdi and seizes Mecca with thousands of his followers. Pro and anti-Ibrahim rioters clash in Byzantium, resulting in over 4,000 deaths. Emperor Olav recognizes Ibrahim as Protector of Mecca in return for the Mahdi's allegiance to the Empire as the supreme temporal authority. Religious war breaks out on Yathrib as pro and anti-Ibrahim factions clash. |
| 3109 | The ruling clerics of Islam and Macoraba recognize Ibrahim as Mahdi. The Imperial Navy begins a major modernization campaign, building several classes of Mode II microjump vessels. |
| 3110 | A Shiite congress in Tehran recognizes Ibrahim as the Protector of Mecca, effectively reuniting the Shiite and Sunni braches of Islam. The Ministry of Science begins construction of Mode II survey vessels and scouts. |
| 3111 | Massive anti-Artificial riots spread through Terra and dozens of worlds, resulting in the imposition of local martial law on many worlds and the introduction of Imperial Guard troops to several Terran cities. |
| 3112 | Imperial Consort Princess Melisa dies of a drug overdose in an apparent suicide; prompting Olav to declare a thirty day period of mourning, during which he sees no visitors. |
| 3113 | With traditional religious support, Emperor Olav introduces a draft Eleventh Amendment, diminishing the rights of all Artificials and preventing the succession of Artificial Nobles. The Artificial Civil War begins as Crown Prince Adam of Atlantis rallies the Artificial Nobility and their heirs in an attempt to overthrow the Emperor and the Imperial Congress. Emperor Olav, having anticipated the revolt, uses the Imperial Guard Fleet and both Hellkings to drive Adam and his supporters toward the frontier in a series of lopsided encounters, starting with the Battle of Alpha Centauri. |
| 3114 | Adam declares himself White Emperor and inspires sympathetic revolts of Artificial Nobles and Citizens on dozens of worlds. Olav assumes direct command of the war effort and fully mobilizes the Imperial Navy and Marines to put down revolts and stamp out mutinies. Warfare and piracy spreads through the New Colonies. Adam's supporters disseminate media calls for unrestricted terrorism and attacks on Imperial facilities and personnel. |
| 3115 | Adam dies at the Battle of Enki and rebel forces disintegrate into scattered commerce raiders. Most rebels surrender when Olav offers a general amnesty, but the Emperor makes no move to intervene as local loyalist forces slaughter many of the rebels in the Black Purge. The Emperor withdraws his Eleventh Amendment proposal and abdicates in favor of Cynthia, stating that his reputation has been permanently soiled by the Purge. Olav retains the crown of Kalmar, but Cynthia becomes Empress upon confirmation from the Imperial Congress and High Council. |
| 3116 | Cynthia issues a new Eleventh Amendment proposal on Artificials, grandfathering rights for Artificials conceived before 3100, initiating vigorous debate in the Imperial Congress. Scattered Artificial piracy and attacks continue, especially in the New Colonies, but violence in the Solar System and Old Colonies virtually ends. |
| 3117 | Prince Consort Ivan and Prince Arnam Farrar convene a council between secular and religious leaders to tone down rhetoric on the Artificial Question, leading to a preliminary compromise agreement and a new Eleventh Amendment proposal. |
| 3118 | Negotiations on the Eleventh Amendment continue in the Imperial Congress. The Alimeen agree to act as intermediaries with the remaining rebel forces on the frontier. |
| 3119 | The Imperial Congress passes the Eleventh Amendment, ending the practice of artificial conception and maturation, but retaining rights for existing Artificial Nobles and Citizens, and limiting the rights of artificial mechanical and biological Constructs. A separate Imperial Ministry of Justice enforced amnesty ends piracy among remaining rebels. |
| 3120 | Empress Cynthia ends martial law restrictions on all Imperial worlds, proclaiming an era of peace and good feeling across the thousand Imperial worlds that becomes known as the Cynthian Age or the Golden Peace. |
| 3121 | The Lunar government declares the surface of Luna safe for excursions without breathing apparatus. The Colonial Office changes standards for colony approval, resulting in a delay of at least thirty years between a world's discovery and settlement. |
| 3122 | Empress Cynthia appoints Duke David DeBeers of Aphrodite as her Chief of Staff. |
| 3123 | Ibrahim begins construction of the Black Mosque near Mecca. DeBeers gains control over Imperial economic policy and begins a series of taxes cuts aimed at stimulating growth among backward economies. |
| 3124 | The Imperial Navy places both Hellkings in inactive reserve in orbit around Ultima Thule. |
| 3125 | The Empress, after failing to attend several cabinet meetings, names Duke David DeBeers Prime Minister, delegating most executive authority to his office. Prince Consort Ivan attempts in vain to rule in the Empress's name, but DeBeers becomes the de facto ruler of the Empire and the head of the Imperial bureaucracy. |
| 3126 | The Empress presides over the opening of a massive expansion of the Imperial Mall in Byzantium, including the Virtual Traveler Complex, which mimics the surfaces of all Member worlds and other interesting locations. |
| 3127 | Crown Prince Rogar begins a series of goodwill and fact-finding journeys across the Empire on various Imperial yachts and naval vessels. |
| 3128 | Tired of struggling with Prime Minister DeBeers, Prince Consort Ivan resigns as Minister of Commerce and retires to his estates. |
| 3129 | Empress Cynthia commissions the Ministry of Culture, and names Baroness Mona Tigarvati Minister. |
| 3130 | By a slim majority, the Imperial Congress approves budget and charter for the Ministry of Culture. |
| 3131 | The Ministry of Defense creates fifty-six Sector fleets to patrol the second ring of Imperial sectors and designates Sector headquarters and command staffs for each. The Ministry creates Six Commands (Coreward, Rimward, Spinward, Trailing, North and South) with full Admirals and staff to coordinate the new small fleets and the corresponding Frontier and Patrol fleets operating beyond the second ring. |
| 3132 | The Ministry of Culture begins construction of a series of Imperial Museums on major worlds and sponsors the creation of the Imperial University system. |
| 3133 | A 3km asteroid impacts the Member world Sahkmet, causing widespread ecological and property damage, but little loss of life. The Republican cabal, composed mostly of Artificial Civil War veterans, grows out of a series of meetings between Sapiens disillusioned by Nobilis rule. |
| 3134 | Industrial facilities in the Solar Asteroid Belt begin a slide into permanent decline as most shipyards move production closer to the frontier; in subsequent years, the Asteroid Belt becomes known as the Dust Belt. |
| 3135 | Imperial scouts discover two million year old ruins of a technologically advanced race on the Trailing frontier world Tannenbaum in Sector 60. |
| 3136 | The Imperial University of Terra at Byzantium, with its towering neo-gothic spires, begins operations as the center of the Imperial University system. |
| 3137 | Researchers on Tannenbaum decipher the Hitzarch language and determine the location of the homeworld of the ancient microjump-capable race, now in Sector 150. |
| 3138 | Ibrahim blesses the first of a horde of missionaries that begin to spread his teachings across the Empire. An Imperial Ministry of Science expedition reaches the Hitzarch homeworld, 270 light years from Sol, and finds a long-dead global civilization with vast ruined cities looted repeatedly over hundreds of thousands of years. |
| 3139 | The Imperial Guard foils a Republican conspiracy to assassinate the Empress and start a revolution; six conspirators die in Guard raids and a further fourteen receive death sentences. |
| 3140 | The Ministry of Justice uncovers a deeper Republican conspiracy, arresting hundreds of mid-level bureaucrats and naval officers. |
| 3141 | Researchers on Hitzarch decipher map information from a wrecked alien macrojump salvage vessel half a million years old and determine its homeworld, tracing it to a system nearly 300 light years from Sol in Sector 128. |
| 3142 | Crown Prince Rogar visits Prince Cleon on Mercury and publicly reiterates the Empire's support for the completion of the terraformation of Mercury and Luna. The two princes venture outside without protective equipment, though the Mercurian surface is still unsuitable for long-term excursions. |
| 3143 | Admiral Rickard DeYoung, head of the Northern Command, resigns after his brother and his chief of staff are both implicated in ongoing Republican investigations. |
| 3144 | At the dedication of the completed Black Mosque in Mecca, Ibrahim addresses a crowd of ten million faithful. |
| 3145 | The sun of the Alimeen Member world Storm Seed enters a period of unstable flare activity, causing widespread damage to orbital installations and effectively isolating the system for months at a time. |
| 3146 | A conference in New Rome led by Pope Pius XXXIV fails to unite the Christian faithful. |
| 3147 | A Republican sniper assassinates Minster of Culture Countess Mona Tigarvati; a subsequent investigation, a purge and a series of trials effectively ends the Republican movement. The Empress appoints Countess Jazmine Therras, chancellor of the Imperial University, as the new Minister of Culture. |
| 3148 | Professor Bane Dryscol publishes The Fall of Hitzarch, an account of the collapse of the Hitzarchi civilization after thousands of years of interstellar culture and over a hundred colonies; the central thesis revolves around an over-dependence on robotic servants, widespread technological ignorance by the common Hitzarch, and an unidentified system virus that collapsed control systems throughout the Hitzarchi sphere; critics noted no evidence remaining to support the virus hypothesis for the final collapse and suggest that a documented nearby supernova was a more likely cause. |
| 3149 | The Imperial University publishes the definitive Guide to DNA-Based Life; a comprehensive analysis of life on most oxygen/water ecospheres, providing evidence that DNA-based life forms evolved no more than three times in the area of the Human Sphere and probably no more than five times in the entire galaxy, and sets the age of the first DNA organisms at nearly eleven billion years. |
| 3150 | The Colonial Office authorizes the colonization of Kitza by the Quadrons, marking the first approved settlement by a Minor Race. |
| 3151 | The Imperial Navy and Marines intervene to support the Noble government in a civil war on Ghandi; post conflict investigations discount rumors of Republican influences. |
| 3152 | Anthony, Prince of Kuiper dies under suspicious circumstances; an investigation by the Ministry of Justice and the Imperial Guard blames an unspecified biotoxin for his death, but no one is charged with a crime; his oldest son, Bandar, becomes Prince of Kuiper. |
| 3153 | The Imperial scout service discovers a derelict Gatebuilder installation on Brazen, a marginally habitable gas giant moon in Sector 189. |
| 3154 | Mormon rioters on Deseret sack a Ibrahimite mission, killing 78 missionaries and dependents. Cynthia issues an Imperial Edict, limiting the immigration of individuals who profess beliefs that might destabilize a Member or Dependent world. |
| 3155 | The Imperial University of Kuiper establishes the Cardenas Research Facility to conduct high energy physics and cosmology research deep in the Oort cloud. |
| 3156 | A Technologist conference on Atlantis adopts the Tolerance Protocols, binding missionaries and preachers to respect opposing philosophical and spiritual beliefs, thereby removing most Imperial objections to the spread of the philosophy. A Technologist mission opens on Islam with only minor protests. |
| 3157 | A fast-spreading system virus attacks Virtual World systems on several Member worlds, shutting down the damaged networks. The virus kills a few hundred participants and sickening millions. |
| 3158 | The Ministries of Culture and Justice issue joint guidelines for the security of Virtual World networks, lessening the risks of another system virus attack. |
| 3159 | Promethean stellar engineers successfully control the sporadic mega-flares emanating from the sun of Isis. |
| 3160 | In a speech before the Imperial High Council, Duke David DeBeers outlines the philosophy and goals of the Era of Golden Peace; emphasizing harmony, tolerance and economic well-being. |
| 3161 | The Empress opens the Great Imperial Exposition on Terra, a four-year showcase of Imperial culture and technology. |
| 3162 | Mercury reaches its final orbit, in direct opposition to Terra. Promethean stellar engineers stabilize the sun of Storm Seed. |
| 3163 | Researchers at Chiron University on Atlantis successfully demonstrate two-way teleportation using only a single transit chamber (single node teleportation), greatly increasing the utility of teleport chambers on ships on the frontier and on scouting expeditions. |
| 3164 | The Virtual World Nexus begins operation on Terra and spreads across the Solar System, offering a high-security linked system of billions of Virtual World Nodes; similar, though less elaborate, Nexi spread throughout the Core worlds. |
| 3165 | The Cardenas Research Facility in the Oort completes a billion kilometer accelerator for advanced hyperstring research, the GigaString Machine. |
| 3166 | An Imperial scout mission reaches Thanatos, the homeworld of the unnamed race that looted Hitzarch half a million years earlier, and discovers a dead civilization, apparently felled in its prime. |
| 3167 | The Ministry of Culture establishes the Tigarvati Prize, an annual award for outstanding achievement in the four category of arts (literature, music, visual arts, dramatic arts) and four categories of science (physics, biology, socio-economics, paleontology). |
| 3168 | The GigaString Machine undergoes an unexpected dimensional shift, leaving the Universe and taking two ships and forty researchers with it. |
| 3169 | A research team on Thanatos confirms the existence of the Hitzarch virus, proving Dryscol's hypothesis, and fortunately also demonstrating that the quantum system virus is incompatible with Imperial data system interfaces. |
| 3170 | The first "personal" starship, the Starblazer, a 8m Mode I vehicle capable of supporting eight for up to a month in space (c. 100 light years range), becomes available on Hercules, but availability, training and licensing requirements make the model a limited distribution item, with fewer than one thousand produced per year. |
| 3171 | The Ministry of Commerce issues the Thanatos Standards: import/export regulations mandating security interface standards for all quantum computing devices. |
| 3172 | The Imperial Navy receives authorization to conduct a full fleet modernization, replacing all remaining Mode I drive ships and installing single node teleportation chambers on all cruisers and capital ships. |
| 3173 | Atlantis completes the third and largest span of the Centauri Ring. |
| 3174 | The Coman poet Chin'tar!tu wins the Tigarvati Prizes for both literature and music. The Ministry of Science begins fitting all new scout vessels, even singleships, with one step teleportation. |
| 3175 | The Chairman of Vesta Shipyards resigns after a scandal over corruption in Naval contract awards; the resulting fallout permanently shuts down the shipyards. |
| 3176 | A self-sustaining strain of defective quantum nanomechanical replicators rampage though the infrastructure on Nike, causing widespread destruction and nearly four million deaths before local forces resort to anti-matter munitions to contain the outbreak. Total death toll before full containment reaches twelve million. The Imperial Second Fleet quarantines the world for a year. |
| 3177 | The Patriarch of Byzantium and most of his half-billion Old Orthodox followers convert to Ibrahimite Islam. The Imperial Congress votes to adopt the Thanatos Standards for all computing and nanomechanical devices on within the Empire. |
| 3178 | Bandar Faris wins the first Terra-Kalmar stock starship race in 8 days, 16 hours. |
| 3179 | Citing security issues, Prime Minister DeBeers denies permission for a Heshar research expedition over Crown Prince Rogar's objection. |
| 3180 | Mechanist researchers on Karinsky perfect methods to preserve human memory and personality (the Mechanist "soul") in an improved long-lasting format, though attempts to restore Pavel Karinsky's soul are unsuccessful. |
| 3181 | Crown Prince Rogar leads a syndicate that forms the Imperial Racing Federation, sporting contests in sub-light, Mode I and Mode II classes. |
| 3182 | Medallion Entertainment begins distribution of its Advanced Authoring Toolkit for Active Virtual Worlds, beginning the era of "Full Pseudo-Reality". |
| 3183 | The 90m dreadnaught Excalibur, first of the Broadsword class begins trials at Amaterasu Naval Yards. |
| 3184 | Technologists settle the colony world of Progress. |
| 3185 | The Excalibur enters service with the Coreward Command. |
| 3186 | The Cardenas Research Facility completes a second GigaString Machine and implements stringent operational controls. |
| 3187 | The Imperial Racing Federation sponsors the first Betelgeuse Rally, a Mode II race from Terra to the Kumar colony. Bandar Faris and his team win the 490 light year race in 88 days, 14 hours. |
| 3188 | Imperial scouts discover and contact the Feerzi of Roontara in Sector 167, a strange fungal/octopod symbiotic race with late fusion age technology and settlements throughout their home system. |
| 3189 | The Luna Terraformation Project reaches official completion with the dedication of the Cleon Imperial Forest near Mare Imbrium. |
| 3190 | Prince Cleon re-enters Imperial society with a speech at Copernicus to honor the staff of the Lunar terraformation project. |
| 3191 | The Ministry of State establishes formal relations with the Feerzi, who show no interest in joining the Empire, but are open to limited trade and diplomatic contact. |
| 3192 | King Roban I of Paradise dies of CID complications, leaving the throne to his son Roban II. |
| 3193 | GigaString II shifts from the universe unexpectedly, causing no casualties or collateral damage, but effectively ending the GigaString project and putting the General Multidimensional Model in question. |
| 3194 | Bandar Faris and his team die when their sub-light sprinter Talon II strikes debris at .45c and disintegrates during the Atlantis-Proxima Derby. |
| 3195 | Maxwell Biogenics introduces the Eternal treatment for Sapiens, a full body gene therapy that completely stops aging in a single expensive and rigorous yearlong treatment; though it causes complete sterility and prevents cloning, it becomes a option for those who have exhausted regeneration therapies. |
| 3196 | The private salvage vessel Hannah discovers a derelict Gatebuilder starport around a singleton brown dwarf in Sector 91. |
| 3197 | A lethal mutating virus spreads quickly though the population of Nova, prompting widespread panic and a full quarantine. The Novan Plague spreads to Heaven and Manchukuo before the Fifth Fleet enforces the quarantine. |
| 3198 | A team of Novan scientists led by Aki Norda develops a cure for the Plague, which kills over sixty million people before containment. After full inoculation, the Imper |