1998, June: The Siege of Elysium started by Foehn First Fleet. With the entry of Revolt spacecraft's into Epsilon held Mars, hundreds of battle groups of Pteranodon gunships and hundreds of Foehn fighter craft squadrons battle against Epsilons network of Irkalla Space Fortresses, their dozens of Salamander craft escorts and hundreds of Epsilon interceptors. When the Epsilon space defence grid fell all remaining Foehn forces land in a large canyon outside Epsilons capital, Elysium. With the liberation of the worlds population minds from the Babel Tower, Elysium remains the last Epsilon held area in the solar system. With Intel Foehn had gather from former Epsilon "Proselytes" and the Psychic prodigy Libra, Yuri plans to regroup all his remaining loyal forces at Mars utilizing a series of unstable first-generation Chronoshperes. Mars at this time was considerably underdeveloped, lacking the most basic drilling resources to make valuable minerals available for miner vehicles. It was discovered after the siege that Yuri had not been in the city at all, it was found that he used a stolen prototype FTL spacecraft to escape. With the Babel Towers capture, Elysium city having fallen and Yuri's retreat into deep space the Conscious Slumber had finally ended.
1999, July: Using intelligence gathered from the ruins of Elysium, a new modified version of the infamous "Terranova" is discovered and is contained. The Epsilon High Proselyte identified Mihovil Slavic is captured brought to trial in Geneva. Mihovil Slavic was one of the many Soviet officers that fled the USSR during the Allied occupation and after not returning was reported MIA. His only surviving next of kin, his nephew Davor Slavic, Davor's wife Silvija Slavic and their son Anton Slavic have not commented on Mihovils role as Yuri's second in command, it's presumed they had little contact with him for years since his disappearance. Davor is known to be a member of Euro Alliances espionage organisation, The Black Hand. The small family has been noted to have legally changed their surnames to Silvija's maiden name, Bakula.
1999, August: Around the globe people everywhere celebrate their newfound freedom. With much of Allied and Soviet leadership killed during GWWIII and the Mental Omega War many countries around the world remain without governing bodies but many more countries with provisional governments affiliated with Foehn. The wars left much of the world devastated leaving the Latin Confederation and the European Alliance, not unscathed but relatively intact to become sole superpowers and natural leaders of the Soviets and Allies respectively.
1999, September 15: Chancellor Yunru invites Allied Supreme Commander Jorge Gibson, Premier Ruslan Zadorov, President Izabelle Espinal and Prime Minister Adele Merrick to a conference in Geneva. With their respective countries being leaders of world organizations of the broken world, Yunru negotiates to have the remaining countries of the world forgive past grievances to rebuild. With the national borders of the majority of the planet is long dissolved, New borders are drawn up. The state of Alaska has been essentially independent of the old US, chose to remain under Foehn governance. The state of Hawaii and the Pacific territories of the old US, declare independence as the Kingdom of Hawaii and align themselves with the newly reorganized Pacific Front. The relatively stable states of California, Oregon and Washington unite into the Pacific States of America and also align themselves with the Pacific Front. The Confederation withdraws its military and remaining Soviet soldiers from what used to be America. Tensions rise among the remaining states of America, scattered groups with differing wants and needs and access to military hardware are close to bringing the continent into war.
In exchange for withdrawing troops from Allied territories, the land that was once part of Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina are annexed by the Latin Confederation. Foehn withdraws military assets from the territory of Chile which then allies with the Confederation. French Guyana, Puerto Rico and the Falkland Islands are conceded from the Allied Nations to the Confederation and Allied citizens given the choice to be repatriated to Allied territories.
Iceland is realigned to the Euro Alliance while Greenland and Svalbard join the EA but also allow military access to Foehn. The countries of Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland are organised into the Intermarium Federation as a buffer block between Soviet Russia and the Euro Alliance. The IF is organised into semi-autonomous states with borders based on ethnicity and culture, with rotating capital cities. The Orthodox Church of Kyiv rises to become the new centre of Orthodoxy. To appeal to Russia, Intermarium allows them railroad and warm water port access. To prevent social unrest in parts of western Europe, the island of Ireland is united under the Republic of Ireland, Scotland is given independence from Great Britain and Catalonia and the Basque country are given independence from Spain and France respectively. Controlled artificial earthquakes created using Soviet Hammer technology raise the lowland countries and relieve them from the threat of flooding. Federal Germany and the Austrian Republic Unite. To prevent an ethnic war from breaking out in the Balkans, the nation's of Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia are federated into a new nation, Yugoslavia. Turkey now under President Alan Bilgili gives independence to Armenia and Kurdistan to appease the Euro Alliance.
The entirety of North Africa aligns with Foehn with Daud Rashidi, son of Scorpion Cell leader Ahid Rashidi. The Project "Operation Oasis" utilizing Foehn and the Allies weather manipulation technology is set to begin. Allied West Africa centred around Liberia is reorganized into a confederation model of government. Soviet Central Africa composed of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Zaire, Angola, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique reaffirms its alliance with the World Socialist Alliance.
South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe constitute the Commonwealth of Southern Africa.
Southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania found the Union of Eastern Africa.
The Commonwealth of Southern Africa, The Union of East Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bengal organised into the "Indian Front" after the Pacific Front model.
In the Arabian peninsula, the House of Saud was found to have gone extinct during the previous wars with all its members either dead or missing. The House of Rashid being former rulers of Nejd took the role of new kings of Rashidi Arabia and having Islam reformed just like how Christianity did centuries ago. The fertile crescent except for Allied Israel and increasingly pro-Allied Turkey, are federated under Foehn. The nation's of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan ally with Foehn, with the majority of them having had seceded from Soviet Russia.
The legendary Soviet Commander of GWWIII and the MOW remains the most senior politician within Soviet Russia and as Premier grows content to rebuild his motherland.
The region of Kashmir is taken into Foehn rule as a sovereign state with India, Pakistan and China relinquishing territorial claims to the region. With the politburo of China having been killed by Epsilon and the remaining free-minded Chinese Military command allying with Foehn, it was expected that China remains with Foehn rule. Although areas such as Tibet, Mongolia and Manchuria remain with Foehn the rest of the pre-war provinces of the Chinese Federation were united into the Chinese Directorate as a Foehn associate. The Republic of Japan returns to the Pacific Front from Foehn. Both Korea and Vietnam are united under mixed governments.
The region's of Antarctica and the Arctic remain under direct Foehn control being the only power that can project power that far.
1999, September 26: On the final day of talks the Foehn Federation, the World Socialist Alliance and the Grand Alliance of Nations found the United Nations an international organisation dedicated to maintaining mutual benefits to all nations and to resolve international disagreements from escalating into war. The founding charter maintained that a security council would be formed with representatives from the three powers having permanent seats and another three rotating seats. The Bill of Sapient Rights is established to protect the dignity of all human and human-like life such as cyborgs, AI, mutants, genetically modified humans and possibly in the future, aliens.
1999, October 13: The Chinese Directorate was allowed to renter the World Socialist Alliance seeing as the WSA had two superpowers in Soviet Russia and the Latin Confederation while the GAN had three superpowers in the Euro Alliance, Pacific Front and Indian Front.
Utilizing communication methods developed during the last two decades Foehn creates a worldwide network that would later be developed into what would be called the "internet". A majority of provisionally governed areas receive a connection to this network.
1999, October 31: The Second American Civil War breaks out with the Commonwealth of New England, the Empire State, the Union of Steel, Dixie, Federal States of America and the Republic of Texas. The Commonwealth is the most receptive to the new world order and is significantly pro-Foehn and staunchly independent from the larger unions of America. The Empire State is majority pro-Allies but wishes to remain independent of both the Union of Steel and the Federal States. The Union of Steel is pro-Soviets wishing to reunite the Socialist States of America. Dixie is composed of the traditional states of the old Confederate States of America and is wholly anti-Soviet, anti-Allies and anti-Foehn. The Federal States of America are led under former US Vice President Dustin Bright who has rallied US Rebel forces during GWWIII to restore the Union, they have control over a quarter of former US Military hardware and US bases centred around the Cheyenne Mountain Complex. The last constituent of the war, the Republic of Texas, comprises of unsurprisingly Texas, and also include several less powerful states such as Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. Texas like the Commonwealth and the Empire State would remain independent but conversely to them would remain isolationist and neutral for the time being.
Nevada under Reginald Edgar House, ruling from Las Vegas, choose to remain independent using its robot army to protect its borders.
The Pacific States of America, Allied Canada and the Latin Confederation garrison their borders to protect against the "Dis-United States of America".
1999, November 1: The UN creates branch organisations, each with its own focus.
1999, November 25: The WHO have all cloning facilities, worldwide, built by Epsilon dismantled. By using the conducted worldwide census, all cloned human are relocated to different regions within their own nations to prevent accidental inbreeding and social unrest from clones living knowingly or unknowingly with their or as their "prime" human. There also exist plans to send off these clones to off-world colonies. There are an estimated 100 million clones globally and millions more unknowingly living the lives of their deceased primes.
1999, December: The world census show that the global population is 4 billion, with an expected population boom shortly. Of those 4 billion, 10 million have some form of cybernetic enhancement. The population of AIs number at 21,000.
2000, January 1: With the beginning of the new millennium humanity rejoices the end of their bloodiest war-torn century and tearfully mourn the deaths of over 1.6 billion people.
"We can not change yesterday, we can only make the most of today and look with hope toward tomorrow." - Foehn Chancellor Yunru
2000: Pacific Front designed Seismic Stabilizers are built all over the world to completely prevent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Magma Taps at these facilities provide a sporadic source of useful minerals.
2001, November: The first commercially available space flight to Mt. Hadley lunar colony is brought by a joint effort of Pacific Aerospace Exploration Agency, European Space Agency, Coronian Aerospace Board and the Soviet Agency of Joint Aerospace Exploration. The original colonists had been from Allied nations but after being liberated from Epsilon by Commander Ruslan Zadorov the second wave of colonists arrive, primarily being from free-minded Soviet citizens. The colony has had citizens of both sides of the prewar political blocs, were more receptive to the cooperative nature of the new Allies, Soviets and Foehn.
2002: The Second American Civil War draws to a close with no side outright winning fighting simply dies down. The Commonwealth of New England has had the Empire State as a buffer only suffered minor raids by the Union of Steel Navy, with the war winding down the Commonwealth applies to be integrated into the Foehn Federation. The Empire State has learned from the Soviet invasion of 1982 had successfully utilized guerrilla tactics against the Soviet based military of the Union of Steel. The Empire States capital of New York had once been the economic capital of the US and the Allies and in this new world, order rejoins the Allies with ambitions to become the economic capital of the world. The Union of Steel made the most gains in the conflict, with its states now from Dakota to Pennsylvania. Dixie has lost most of former US equipment, so much so its armies depend on guerrilla hit and run tactics. They have only just managed to maintain most of their historical borders. Thankfully no Confederate States nationalist has managed to convince congress to re-appropriate Texas into Dixie or to reintroduce slavery but had managed to convince most of the congress from the vote to rejoin the federal government. The Federal States of America are left reeling after a devastating battle at Mount Rushmore had it retreat to the state line of Dakota. The only positive of the battle seemed to be that the Union of Steel would equally be unable to use the reported "Rushmore SPECTRUM Array". The Republic of Texas simply chose to maintain its borders with its larger more aggressive neighbours.
2003: Foehn scientist and special operative, Eureka, develops next-generation plasma propulsion engines and spearheads a project to retrofit Foehns Navy to allow them to become flight capable. The WSA and GAN Navies after having been given the technology out of goodwill follow suit with Foehns example.
2004: The city of Elysium is rebuilt and resettled by a new generation of Mars colonists. WSA, GAN and Foehn governments build garrisons near the city in the scenario in which Yuri would return with a rebuilt Epsilon. Reusing existing Epsilon magnetic satellites and Soviet Tesla technology an artificial magnetosphere is created around Mars. Another satellite network, this time using prism technology is left in orbit of Mars which is then utilized into concentrating sunlight on Mars IceCaps.
2005: Expeditions to Venus, Mercury and Jupiter are launched within months of each other. The Mars Network of Satellites is planned to be used on each heavenly body by each expedition. The first volunteers for human testing of the new "Kalos" strain of the Terranova Virus are conducted in orbit of Luna. The newly built Chrono Nexus facilities two of which are built at both the North Pole and the South Pole are opened for commercial use of traditional Chronoshift and Chronolift for long-distance transport. Identical pairs of
Chrono Nexus facilities have been planned to be constructed at the Lunar Poles and Martian Poles.
2006: The FFV Dauntless, after extensive rework to make her spaceworthy, is the first actual waterborne ship to traverse space rather than the specially built spacecraft. This development changes the approach building of building spacecraft, modern technology makes it cheaper to retrofit existing naval ships to be space worthy and an added incentive to make ships flight capable. A meteor had been observed from Earth to be emitting exotic radiation, for security reasons was pushed from a collision course with Earth to a new trajectory with Mercury. A young Anton Bakula becomes the youngest person to be inducted into The Black Hand.
2007: Underwater Seismic Stabilizers and Magma Taps push the development of underwater cities.
2009, March 26: A Martian listening post receives a signal, not of known channels. Despite originating from Mars experts conclude it is of alien origin. The source was traced back to the Acidalian Plain and exploratory teams are sent by each military garrison. The signals contents were shockingly easily interpreted by their equipment as audio and even shockingly more so, the audio sounded like a spoken language.
2009, May: After a decade of continuous work Operation Oasis has been bearing fruit. Through the use of a swarm of self-replicating nanites, entire swaths of the sands of the Sahara are bound with clay to retain water. Purpose made civilian Weather Control Devices create regular storms. Foehn redirects tropical storms from the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean and blizzards from the Arctic, Siberia and Antarctica to the Sahara. Genetically engineered plants that grow faster, have stronger roots and have a tolerance to saltwater are seeded across the Sahara. Carbon and other greenhouse gases collected from airborne and terrestrial Windtraps are used to fertilize the growing Saharan ecology.
2009, April 1: Allied fire team Echo-03 locate a large cavern entrance sealed off with a solid metal "vault" door, where they conclude that through the design of the door being unlike any known human construct on Mars is indeed alien. After having been reported the exploratory forces rendezvous a kilometre directly fronting the entrance.
2009, April 2: Immediately MCVs are dispatched and after they arrive, deploy and begin base construction within an hour of having since started the cavern entrance opens. Three environment suit-clad bipedal figures exit the Vault. One having male humans proportions, the next having female humans proportions with an elongated helmet and the last having female humans shape despite being 8ft tall. After having made greetings with the aliens, Anthropologist Dr Maxwell Lawson had managed to gesture to continue talks within a civilian space habitat reserved for this purpose. Following the entry into the habitat the three figures surprisingly remove their helmets. It was expected by the scientists that these aliens would have completely different physiology and thus breathe differently. They also concluded that however unlikely, an alien species wouldn't risk cross-contamination of disease. But no they remove their helmets regardless. An even greater shock to come was the appearance of the aliens. The male looked completely human, the first female looked once again human but had horns similar to goats, small vestigial wings and a long thin tail and the second female looked most alien of the three, having again reassembled a human but was 8ft tall and had a singular, black, rhino-like horn and a reddish tan complexion. Videos of these beings have speculative xenobiologists under mountains of doubt of their previous assumptions of how intelligent life develops.
2009, April: Having the "Alien Vault" being dismissed days ago as a hoax or a practical joke, then after official reports confirm that humanity has indeed made the first contact with aliens did the shock settle in. Videos released have raised questions of possible Epsilon experimentation is involved with how human-like the aliens appear and whether they're Epsilon created mutants. Reassurances from the resident linguist, Simin Tirmizi, that their language is too divergent from any language to have developed from Epsilon mind thralls. Other wilder conspiracy theories and speculation include alien abduction and experimentation, ancient aliens, extraterrestrial origins of life and in some crazier corners of the world, the biblical end times and apocalypse. Optimists dismiss this as paranoia and hold hope to humanities first contact with real intelligent alien life to be peaceful.
2009, May 4: After a month of deciphering their language the head of Foehn Hailhead Psionic Bureau, Libra, personally transfers herself on-site to advance to the next stage of the First Contact, communicating through creating a Psionic Amalgamate. After a month of both parties learning the other languages, the Martians seemingly grasped English, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic near fluently, while the expeditionary linguists led by Dr Tirmizi, learned enough Martian for conversational use but have not nearly progressed as fluently as the Martians did with Earth languages. When explaining what a Psionic Amalgamate entails none of the Martians appeared surprised at the concept and the Martian man, Tus'Cahnt of Kirmani, volunteers. After promptly forming a Psionic Amalgamate, Libra has her newfound knowledge of the "Tief'Afi" language copied through memory implantation. Afterwards, a more formal and proper introduction was given, the man introduced himself as Tus'Cahnt of Kirmani and as his group's linguist, the shorter woman announced herself as Tus'Ja, daughter of Lady Tus'Liet, their city's leader, and lastly, the giant woman made herself known as Tiani of Balkhi. Promptly a mutual exchange of information between parties was carried out. It's discovered that their society has been living in vast, advanced, underground complexes around Mars with populations only in the tens of millions. Concerning their biology their people maintain centuries-long lifespans, all members having Psionic abilities and how they have nine subspecies, all except one of which are female mono-gendered.
2009, May: With continued talks between the Tief'Afi Noble Houses and Elysium, it was agreed that the native Martians would all be relocated to the newly built Argyros. When told that the UN intended to terraform Mars, the Tief'Afi Noblewomen near jumped at the opportunity to express gratitude. They seemed less enthused when they learned that all their Vaults in the Martian lowlands would in years to come to be underwater, but were still elated at the prospect of Mars even having bodies of liquid water.
2010, February 6: The Tief'Afi are evacuated from their homes preemptively before the rising Boreal Sea will submerge their Vaults, to Argyros City. Argyros was built at the approximate centre of the Tharsis Plateau to allow them to grow and develop the soon to be Tharsis Peninsula. The city had also been built with the taller Tief'Afi in mind. In particular, attention had Bern given to the fifteen metres tall "Gigantes", with public buildings with enlarged entrances, wide walking roads and warehouse-sized bungalows in a suburban neighbourhood layout for the Gigantes residents. For the comparatively small but still tall "Oni", "Ogre" and "Troll" residents had the simpler modifications of added height in all constructions and more durability given to everyday objects. The "Devil" and human residents had the least need for additions to their amenities.
2010, March 4: The Argyros census tallied up 40,374,009 Tief'Afi residents of all nine subspecies. Detailed examination of the population's genome shows that the nine subspecies are related to humanity. Collectively sharing 99.2% of DNA with Homo Sapiens and the only Bi-gendered subspecies of the nine having 99.98% Homo Sapiens DNA. While raising more questions than answers particularly as to their genetic heritage and as well as ours, the DNA responsible for their natural psionic ability, elongated lifespans, and exceeding physical prowess is studied by the Hailed Intelligence Bureau, RnD Division.
2010, March 13: The cities surrounding land had incorporated fertile topsoil imported from the Elysium Horticultural Towers, giving the Tief'Afi for the first time in a thousand generations, vegetation. Each new settler over the years, every year, would each plant a new tree around Argyros. The Tharsis National Park to this day remains the Emerald of Mars with over five hundred million tourists visiting yearly.
2011: The Venutian and Mercurian colonies are established and their terraforming programs are started. The Jovian lunar colonies of Io, Callisto, Europa and Ganymede are established. Probes sent into Jupiter's atmosphere show a foreign object at the eye of the 'Great Red Spot'. Construction of the first Space Elevators, by the three powers, begins.
2016: The Terranova Virus Lunar research team, after incorporating Tief'Afi DNA, have successfully modified the virus into a beneficial, passive, genetic modifier. The Kalos strain of Terranova is distributed to hospitals throughout the solar system under the pretence of a new vaccine.
The colony of Titan is established.
2018: The extensive proliferation of the Terranova Kalos Virus is noticed only after the entire population of the solar system is infected. After tests by the WHO show that the virus is seemingly mutating beneficial traits, similar to those known of Rahn, the virus is deemed benign at worst. Research into a cure is still conducted by the WHO, which is covertly sabotaged by Foehn. The Commonwealth Institute of Technology develops a synthetic human, Foehn uses this to transfer AI into "empty" biological bodies. The moral dilemma of "killing" the personality of transferring consciousness into a body is made irrelevant. The VOLKNET AI is transferred to a synthetic body, similar to that of pre-hybridized Volkov, who his mind was modelled after. After this point, all-new AI that is born, are given new Synth bodies. Observations of Europa's subsurface ocean reveal evidence of a complex, indigenous biosphere. The UN passes the Xeno-ecology Preservation Treaty to protect alien life, the Board of Xeno-ecology Protection (BOXEP) is established to enforce the treaty.
2019: An Intermarium based scientist, Sigita Briedis, discovers a method of Faster Than Light travel. She sends a drone probe to Pluto and back to Earth in 27 seconds by distorting and shortening the space between two points. The power needed is relatively lower than what scientists speculated. The primary disadvantage being that space in between the ship and destination have to be empty. Its limitations are speculated to restrain Foehn into "Inter-Stellar" lanes, with longer trips requiring more advanced calculations. Sigita Briedis' newly dubbed "Distortion Drives" are supplied to all Foehn spacecraft.
Latin Confederation scientists, headed by Daniela Brito, in the same year developed their own unique method of FTL. With the use of "Iron Curtain" radiation, Disparity Drives rupture a rift in reality, to a parallel dimension. This named "Subspace", where the amount of effort to reach relativistic speeds is less than ours, and the universal speed limit is magnitudes faster than our universes speed of light. Both the Soviets and Foehn up until now were dependent on Allied Chrono Jump drives.
2022: Four years after the Kalos Virus is discovered by WHO, efforts to research a cure are completely squashed by mass protests around the world. The Kalos Virus was found to have among other things, prevent ageing and degradation, cured genetic diseases, reduced the cases of cancer and in some instances, reverse ageing. People in their fifties to nineties had four years ago reverted to having their 40-year-old physique and thirty to forty-year-olds re-attained their 20-year-old physique.
2024: Operation Oasis is declared successful. The majority of the Sahara was reclaimed and restored to a verdant grassland. This gives the Foehn Federation an additional approximate 500,000 square kilometres of arable land with the rest of the Sahara being bodies of water and diminished deserts. Projections show the Foehns plans of reclaiming the Syrian, Arabian and Gobi deserts for even more arable land would elevate them to the world's top producer of food. The desert reclamation methods are utilized for terraforming.
2028: Humanity becomes a Tier 1 civilization by optimizing its use of Earth resources. All of the energy of Earth is utilized, the weather, the heat of the core, the movement of its crust and the ocean's movements. The UN sets a goal of becoming a Tier 2 civilization within a century.
2030: All three superpowers send a colony fleet of 300,000, to the Alpha Centauri System, 15 light-years from Sol. The WSAV Oaxaca is the first to arrive at 20 seconds, the GAV Arceneaux is second to arrive at 56 seconds and the FFV Yukon arrives last at 168 seconds.
The same year, the three powers begin to probe star systems, dozens at a time. Systems with good development prospects are sent automated colony ships, ships that are VI runs to terraform planets, gather resources or build infrastructure for future development. When these ships find life, from simple single-celled organisms to rudimentary multicellular life, as per BOXEP conventions, the VI is made to prioritize observation and when necessitated protect the alien life.
2046: The native Martians, as well as Tellurians, celebrate the complete terraformation of Mars.
2057: The terraformation of Mercury is hampered by the proliferation of an alien crystal. The crystal is first discovered and catalogued by Dr Ignatio Mobius as Tiberium. It was named after the Tiberia Plateau, which was named after the river Tiber of Italy.
2059: The Latin Confederation born Dr Tratos, a pioneer of xenoarchaeology, discovers the missing half of a Bolivian alien artefact on the surface of Mars. The Tacitus is translated by Tratos, revealing unknown fields of science and technology.
2064: One hundred and four light-years from Sol, First Contact is made with the There's of the Lecres solar system, a pre-FTL spacefaring civilization. A people related to humanity, the Theres people are part of the growing registry of "liminal" subspecies of humanity. The people of Theres include Theresian Humans, Lizard-men, Lamias, Harpies and Centaurs, and all their subspecies.
2071: Scientific teams led by Dr Mobius and his daughter, Dr Petrova and Dr Raveshaw, and Dr Tratos set up Mercury to research Tiberium. The exportation of Tiberium is heavily regulated to curb its spread solely to Mercury.
2076: The Tiberium infestation of Mercury is declared critical. The UN quarantines Mercury to all traffic and closely monitors Tiberium and if deemed necessary, seizes it. The colonists survive the new harsh conditions of Mercury by mutating. The mutants of the newly named Forgotten of Mercury share a resentment to the UN, but generally are apathetic to its citizens and more friendly with non-Tellurian people. Only with the leadership of Tratos do the Forgotten remain unified and non-violent to humanity.
2081: First Contact is made with the Tauret of the Austmen solar system, 129 light-years from Sol, an atomic age civilization. The Taureta people compose of Taureta Humans, Minotaurs, Pans and Satyrs and all their subspecies.
2084: The UN establishes Rodina as its 100th Colony System with hundreds of outpost systems and thousands of probed systems.
2096: The Erhea System, 179 light-years from Sol, is observed to have two garden worlds with two separate civilizations. First Contact is simultaneously made with the Pescid people and the Ken'Casus people. Both are pre-spaceflight civilizations, but due to their proximity, they have been in contact through radio for decades.
The Pescid people are made up of Pescidi Humans, Mermaids and the planetoid Dryad and all their subspecies.
The people of Ken'Casus comprise of Ken'Casus Human, Faunus, Kobold, Akuma and Monoeyes and their subspecies.
2099: Discoveries on genetics from Tacitus, are utilized to improve upon lifespan extension, effectively making the entirety of humanity biologically immortal.
2115: The UN population has finally reached over 1 trillion sapiens.
2123: The Donis System, 187 light-years from Sol, First Contact is made with Cutarap civilization, a newly industrialized people. The Cutarap people compose of Cutarese Humans, Arachne, Mantis, Mites, Bees and Moths, and their subspecies.
2127: The probed Alsava system is discovered to have an intact ringworld. The ring-world is observed to orbit its star at 1.89AU. An ecumenopolis world is also found within the system orbiting at 2.17AU. A priority colony fleet is sent to the system.
2128: Scans of the system reveal debris fields of thousands of warships. Surface investigation of the Alsava Ecumenopolis shows that intelligent, possibly liminal life exists within the lower levels of Alsava Prime. The Slime, Changeling, Mimic, Beholder, Dullahan, Mind Flayer and Human populations remain disparate. Alsava Prime, although ironically having infrastructure with the potential to house a population upwards of quadrillions, is found to be the second-lowest liminal population when found. The 2 million natives of Alsava are all found to have the strongest Psionic potential of all human and liminal species.
2130: Ancient Human ruins found all over Alsava Prime and all liminal worlds show ancient star charts with Sol and the Liminal Home-worlds incorporated. These archaeological findings fundamentally change the perception of "humanity" and its shared heritage with its neighbours.
The Alsava Ring-world is found to be uninhabited by any intelligent life, and despite supposedly being abandoned for millennia is perfectly functional. It is reserved to feed, fuel and fund the development of Alsava Prime. The Ring-worlds plentiful living space serves to attract migrants to populate the neighbouring ecumenopolis.
2132: Chancellor Yunru personally invites liminal leaders to talks of their people's integration with each other. She rationalized that whoever or whatever destroyed the ancient humans would be powerful enough to survive for as long as they had, would if not return, be eventually found by humanity. While appealing to their sense of shared ancient heritage, shared genetics and pragmatism she incorporates the liminal governments to join the UN.
2134: With technology salvaged from the Alsava debris field, the Slipstream Drive is developed by Mitsuo Fujikawa and Wyatt Shaw. Although similar to GSA Disparity Drives, Slipstream travel is slower than all other previous FTL methods. The primary advantage of Slipstream is its lower operational costs which make it the primary choice of corporations.
2137: Having to adapt to the sociopolitical climate of modern civilization, the WSA, GAN and Foehn Federation reform their governments. The WSA is reformed into the Galactic Socialists Alliance. The GAN is restructured as the Solidarity of Allied Systems. The Foehn Federation is reconstituted into the Foehn Federated Coalition of Orion.
All these governments are changed to allow colonies more autonomy and to decentralize power from Sol in consideration for the colonies and the liminal civilizations. Terra remains a cultural and symbolic centre of Tellurian Humans.
2139: The GSA moves its Politburo to the planet Maestre of the Toledo System.
The SAS transfers its parliament to the planet Wells, in the Arcturus System.
The FFCO relocates its government to the planet of New Sahara, in the Song System.
The UN relocates its headquarters to the Alsava Prime ecumenopolis as its new capital. Efforts from all three Tellurian superpowers restore 10,000 square kilometres of Alsava Prime to full functionality.
2145: Orbiting a moon in the Raega System, 1075 light-years from Sol, First Contact is made with the Yuht Commonwealth by Outer Heaven pirate hunters. This is the first encounter humanity had with a truly alien species, rather than other humans and human subspecies. The Yuht are the most unique aliens so far encountered by humanity. The Yuht are 12 metres tall, "lobster-like" arthropods that are supposedly long-lived. All these features, on their own, aren't uncommon, but this is the first time all three are seen by humanity. The UN Headquarters at Alsava receive Yuht delegates. The Yuht having not developed FTL, expanded its territories using cryogenics and conventional space travel. Borders are established and trade deals are made between the UN and the Yuht Commonwealth.
2150: The first Dyson sphere of the UN, around Sol, is completed. The UN becomes a Tier 2 civilization.
2163: The Planet Shanxi is settled by the Chinese Directorate. An alien artefact named the "Tuning Fork" for its appearance, is discovered in the system. Investigations reveal negative results and the device remains inactive.
2175: A Futuretech owned mining vessel encounters a Jehetma made probe. First Contact is made with the Jehetma. The Jehetma are discovered to be fungoid, although not unknown is rare in discovered space. An "individual" among the Jehetma is actually a large colony of fungi that have developed sentience. Some of these colonies, generally those that have lived for thousands of years, stretch across several miles and rarely leave the surface of Jehet Prime, their home-world (few ships are large enough to transport them).
Younger colonies are not only smaller, but also tend to be more dynamic and mobile - they often spearhead the exploration and research efforts of the Jehetma, as well as any defensive measures that are regrettably undertaken when the Dominion is beset by aggressors.
2192: The total population of the UN, of humans and non-humans, had finally reached one quadrillion.
2213: The GSA announced that the Lance of Jupiter, has finished construction.
2231: A passing survey shuttle, in the Giuaust System, detects a weak signal that is traced back to within the atmosphere of a local gas giant. First Contact is made with the Daf'Nak of the gas giant Tolokrom. The Daf'Nak choose to join the GSA as they share similar political and economic ideologies. The Daf'Nak being the first Gaseous life encountered by the known galaxy little to no complaint or competition when requesting colony rights to gas giants.
2235: The population of the Alsava system reaches over three trillion, becoming the fifth most populace system in the UN and is the fastest-growing system of the known galaxy.
2238: The FFCO revealed that the Aegis of Atlas and the Harp of Gaia finished their construction.
2241: Yuht Commonwealth develops their own form of FTL. The Yuht are the first to discover Element Zero and develop Eezo Drives.
2247: The SAS 147th Expeditionary Fleet makes First Contact with the molluscoid Glebsigi, in orbit of the planet Ladnah. The Glebsigi established a firm societal foundation on Ladnah using a mixture of spiritual doctrine and careful organization. The Glebsigi Holy Tribunal respectively declines to join the UN instead opting to ally as an independent entity.
2267: The SAS announced that the Halberd of Kronos completed its construction.
2340: The Yuht Commonwealth petitions the Chinese Directorate for access to the long-dormant "Tuning Fork".
2341, May 7: First Contact between the Citadel Council and the UN.