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A/N: this is A/U and will contain some differences compared to the game. Some big, some small
Official Alliance Timeline.
1967: U.S launches the first man to the moon and discovers ancient alien ruins maintain by a program called a "VI" with a warning to not rely on technology run by a fuel source called element zero. The ruins also contain blueprints to technology independent of element zero such as thorium based reactors and rail guns.
1968: The news of the discovery is released to the press, however the warning embedded inside is only released to top priority governments and kept as a closely guarded secret. Mankind was astonished and were deeply afraid. With the paranoia of the cold war and the social psyche of extra-terrestrial attack, many called for a massive military buildup, however over time this feeling became less and less extreme. The attitude of Earth was 'its us vs. them.'
1969: After 2 years of development the first-world countries of Earth celebrate the end on the reliance of fossil fuels and thorium is the new fuel source.
1975: The terraforming pod is created by a joint British/American/Japanese effort after extensive research. The project is totaled to cost 3.2 trillion dollars.
1978: Soviet Union creates the first space ship measuring at 112 meters, using information gathered from the data archives. It is plan to land the first settlers on the moon.
1979: NATO creates their own version of a ship measuring at 65 meters, but it contains a VI program to help maintain and run the ship.
1981: A new cold war begins with the majority of the world falling into 1 of 2 camps America's lead NATO or the Soviet Union dominated Warsaw Pact.
1984: British, American, and French scientist create the world's first ever successful worm hole teleportation of an object, in laboratory settings. In theory it should be able to speed up space travel. Already rovers are transported to planets like Mars, which merely take days.
1985: Mining Asteroids, by using rovers, has become the most environmental friendly and most profitable method for nations to keep the arm race going. One Asteroid contains more gold and platinum than Earth.
1987: The U.S creates a ship-mountable rail gun cannon delivering a force of 55 kilotons of fire power. Few months later the Soviet Union unveils it's particle accelerator cannon with a force of 10 kilotons, however it is smaller, requires less power, and gives off less heat
1990: The world's first AI is created by General Atomics. The initial reaction of humanity was fear and protest due to a phobia of a robotic rebellion. However, these feelings were quelled once General Atomics stated and provided information that explained the many safety features in an AI to avoid such a scenario.
1991: The, Soviet Union collapses. All the former Union states become independent, however they maintain close relations with Russia. Their economies are still twined together strongly.
1992: All superpowers of Earth and their colonies on Luna, Venus, Mars, and Europa unite under the Systems Alliance banner and pool all of their military might into one super-military with 128 space-capable vessels, after a strange artifact is found orbiting Pluto. Though this is done for the sake of self-preservation as opposed to mutual trust.
1993: Tampering with the artifact now dubbed "Mass Relay", once information was gathered on the device in the prothean archives, is forbidden following a scientific vessel being destroyed by the Relay. Scientists hypothesis that because we do no use element zero, which the artifact is found to run on, it identifies us or any of our vessels as foreign unknowns.
1996: Probes fueled by element zero are flown to the mass relay and a discovery is made. It is an instantaneous method of FTL drive and leads to many garden worlds. This leads to a new race to claim as many garden worlds or any, able to be terraformed as possible.
1997: The world's fist ever worm hole drive is created. All Alliance vessels are ordered to have one equipped and many have already undergone retrofits to be able to have a worm-hole drive installed.
1998: The systems alliance adopts the Bore Doctrine, which is to use probes to find garden worlds and send back it's coordinates, use remote detonation nuclear mines to guard all known relays, and have at least 60 super rail gun platform cannons firing a 112 kiloton of firepower every 34 seconds. The installation of such defense platforms cause settlers and surveyors to delay travel to new-found worlds by at least 4 years.
2006: The system alliance fleet creates it's first battle cruiser, the SSV Nile measuring at 1 kilometer long and it is the current flagship of the third fleet. It is the first ever vessel to field test a thermo-nuclear reactor as a main engine. The Alliance has been looking for ways to replace the aging Thorium powered engine as it is slow, cost inefficient, and constant maintenance with a better space vessel engine that can operate better in all these categories.
2025: It is now mandatory for all schools to teach basic medical, and survival training at a safe and reasonable standard in each grade. Its more of a boy scouts training than 'military training' as some have put it.
2029: Deeming all AI's as valuable resources, they are only equipped in military and science vessels. VIs are used for civilian purposes.
2057: The System Alliance creates a cloak projector enabling anything within a certain radius invisible. It has only been able to cloak corvette size vessels (55 - 128 m)
2072: Pirates steal several frigate class vessels from a lightly guarded alliance ship-yard and use it to raid shipping freighters, which cause the alliance navy is tested.
2078: Pirates deal a crushing blow to the Alliance navy, destroying 1 battle cruiser, 19 cruisers, and 48 frigates after luring them into a minefield and ambushed them. The pirates suffered minimal casualties with 7 cruisers, 8 destroyers, and 24 frigates lost.
2083: The Alliance deploys a Titan team to an Asteroid dubbed LB-429, where Alliance military officials predict there to be a massive pirate base. After destruction of the Asteroid was successful, the Titans deployed reveal many other pirate bases with the information gathered. The Alliance navy goes on the offensive.
2089: The Alliance launch an all-out assault on the pirate's headquarters. With the pirates finally defeated, new naval tactics and weaponry is created.
2091: The system alliance navy turns to 20th century tactics and create it's first super-carrier measuring at 4.5 km, the same size as a Defender-class dreadnought, and along-side the Shield of Sol dreadnought, leads the 12th fleet
2122: System alliance creates the 14th fleet and is the first ever to only have all of the fleets prowlers, frigates, and some destroyers to be remotely-piloted, though they do require a skeleton crew to maintain the ships.
2148: Shanxi and it's relay is discovered and quickly inhabited. Construction of the nuclear mines and rail-gun platforms begins.
2157: First contact with the Turian Hierarchy and the Batarian Hegemony. Contact with the Turians is friendly, while contact with the Batarians is not. A fight between the Hegemony and the System Alliance starts, as Batarian slavers believed contact with the new race would bring easy slaves. They were repelled and killed. Later that same year the System Alliance makes contact with the Citadel.
2170: Batarians slavers nuke the colony world of Mindoir, prompting the Alliance to construct heavy defenses in the Attican Traverse to repel any slavers.
2176: The Asari colony world Elysium is attacked by Batarian slavers. The attack is repelled thanks to the efforts of Spectres, Titans, and civilians who bravely fought to defend the world. Following the attack, the Asari give the Alliance Elysium for their efforts in repelling the attack and also to avoid criticism. Obviously this was a ploy to have the Alliance take the brunt of the pirate attacks, which they are well aware of.
2177: A Batarian terrorist attack wipes the colony world of Akuze. Only three survivors managed to make it off planet.
2178: The Alliance funds a new mercenary group called the Red Hand to attack Batarian interest in the Terminus systems. Their first mission on Torfan was considered a success.
2183: The start of the Terminus-Citadel war. A batarian named Balak leads a rouge army of Batarians and never before seen versions of the Geth against the joint Citadel army. After two months of fighting, Balak is confirmed killed in the massive assault on Eden Prime and without a leader his rouge army surrenders. The discovery of live Protheans shocked the galaxy as many believed them dead. Liara T'soni is is credited with finding the Protheans and their history. The existence of the Reapers is tightly concealed by the Council to avoid a public panic, however ship production has sky rocketed. In other news the Volus have been granted a Council seat and Ambassador Din Korlack is elected to the position of Councilor for the Volus protectorate.
2184: Fearing the return of the Reapers, the Council begins assembling a team consisting of the deadliest operatives in the galaxy. Prothean General Morak is currently overseeing their training.
