1985 CE: The Mental Omega Device or Babel Tower had activated partially before being sabotaged.
The Paradox Engine and Mental Omega Device were simultaneously destroyed.
Tanya Adams had died.
The Chinese Rebels, the Pacific Front, various Allied Corporations and Scorpion Cell, all led under Yunru formed the Foehn Revolt.
Foehn retreated north to the Arctic Circle.
1986 CE: Foehn established contact with and lead the remaining free-willed humanity.
Foehn and US Remnants established the Last Bastion in Alaska.
Foehn and the North Atlantic Allied Remnants formed Coronia.
Foehn and the North Eurasian Soviet Remnants formed the Hailhead.
1987 CE: North America and Northern Eurasia were liberated from Epsilon and their governments were restored.
The 'Lord's Resistance Army' insurgency began in Uganda. During this insurgency, Drebin 893 was kidnapped by the guerrilla forces and forced to fight as a child soldier in the conflict.
Meryl Silverburgh was born.
During the Middle East Reclaimation Campaign, Sniper Wolf's family was killed.
1988 CE: Central and Northern-South America, Nothern Africa, Eurasia and the Pacific were liberated from Epsilon and their governments were restored.
Frank Jaeger "Frank Hunter" met and eloped with Czech refugee Gustava Heffner.
Mistral was orphaned during the North African Reclamation.
Big Boss established the mercenary nation-state and fortress of Outer Heaven in South Africa.
Solidus Snake killed Jack's (Raiden's) parents and adopted him. Solidus trained Jack as a child soldier who participated in the Liberian Reclamation.
1989 CE: Epsilon was pushed back to Antarctica.
Epsilon forces started their exodus off of Earth.
Voyager II passed the planet Neptune and began its trip out of the Solar System.
1990 CE: Foehn conquered Antarctica from Epsilon.
Epsilon Remnants completely fled to the Moon and Mars.
The Solar War was started.
Big Boss returned to the Last Bastion military as the commander of the Special Forces unit FOXHOUND. Frank Jaeger was awarded the codename "Fox", the highest commemoration in FOXHOUND.
1991 CE: Emma Emmerich was born.
The Foehn Revolt Army injected its troops with "soldier genes", identified from the study of Big Boss's DNA, as part of the Genome Soldier project, developed by Dr Clark. The side effects of these injections were disguised as the Gulf Liberation Syndrome. The Pentagon published a study claiming that the Gulf Liberation Syndrome was caused by exposure to depleted uranium anti-tank rounds, to cover up the project.
Solid Snake joined the reestablished United States Army as a member of the Green Berets. On a mission, he infiltrated western Iraq during the Gulf Liberation.
Liquid Snake joined the Special Air Service. As a member of the SAS, he was sent into the Gulf Liberation to destroy mobile SCUD missile launchers. During the mission, he became a prisoner of war and was declared missing in action.
1993 CE: Epsilon Remnants were destroyed across the Solar System.
Liquid Snake was rescued by the United States Government and returned to the United States.
The Siege of Elysium was started by the Foehn First Extraplanetary 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 battled against Epsilons network of Irkalla Space Fortresses, their dozens of Salamander craft escorts and hundreds of Epsilon interceptors. The Epsilon space defence grid fell and Foehn forces landed in a large canyon outside Epsilons capital, Elysium.
Elysium remained the last Epsilon held area in the solar system. With Intel Foehn gathered from the former Epsilon "Proselytes" and the Psychic prodigy Libra, Yuri's plans were discovered. He regrouped his remaining loyal forces at Mars via a series of unstable first-generation Chronoshperes. Mars at this time was underdeveloped and lacked the basic drilling resources to make valuable minerals available for miner vehicles. It was discovered after the siege that Yuri was never in the city and he escaped with a stolen prototype FTL spacecraft.
Kaspar Siegfried had died.
The Mental Omega War, the Solar War and the Conscious Slumber had ended.
The United Nations Provisional Government was established.
The UNPG started reconstruction efforts.
The Chemical Weapons Accord was signed.
Vulcan Raven and other members of Vympel were demoted. Vulcan Raven left Russia and became a mercenary. He joined Outer Heaven.
1994 CE: The UNPG, due to civil unrest, held a worldwide general election.
The people of Earth voted yes to a global confederation.
The Latin Confederation and the European Alliance weren't unscathed but were relatively intact to become sole superpowers and natural leaders of the Soviets and Allies respectively.
Foehn Chancellor Yunru invited Allied Supreme Commander Jorge Gibson, Soviet Premier Ruslan Zadorov, President Izabelle Espinal and Prime Minister Adele Merrick to a conference in Geneva. Yunru negotiated to have the remaining countries of the world forgive past grievances and rebuild.
The national borders of much of the planet were long dissolved and new borders were drawn up. The State of Alaska was independent of the old USA and remained under Foehn governance. The State of Hawaii and the Pacific territories of the old USA declared independence as the Kingdom of Hawaii and joined the newly reorganized Pacific Front. The relatively stable states of California, Oregon and Washington united into the Pacific States of America and also joined the Pacific Front. The Confederation withdrew its military and the remaining Soviet soldiers from the former USA.
Tensions rose among the remaining states of America. Scattered groups with differing wants and needs and access to military hardware were close to starting a war in North America.
The conference conceded the territories of former Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina to the Latin Confederation. Foehn withdrew forces from former Chile which joined the Confederation. French Guyana, Puerto Rico and the Falkland Islands are given from the Allied Nations to the Confederation. Allied citizens were given the choice to stay or be repatriated to Allied territories.
Iceland rejoined the Euro Alliance. Greenland and Svalbard joined the EA but allowed military access to Foehn.
Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland were organised into the Intermarium Federation as a buffer block between Soviet Russia and the Euro Alliance. The Intermarium Federation was organised into semi-autonomous states with borders based on ethnicity and culture, with rotating capital cities. The Orthodox Church of Kyiv became the new centre of Orthodox Christianity. In good faith, Intermarium allowed Russia railroad and warm water port access.
Ireland was united under the Republic of Ireland. Scotland gained independence from Great Britain. Catalonia and the Basque Country gained independence from Spain and France.
Controlled artificial earthquakes created with Soviet Hammer technology raised the lowland countries and relieved them from the threat of flooding. Germany and the Austrian Republic united.
Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia united Yugoslavia.
Turkey, under President Alan Bilgili, gave Armenia and Kurdistan independence to appease the Euro Alliance.
North Africa joined Foehn with Daud Rashidi, son of Scorpion Cell leader Ahid Rashidi.
Allied West Africa centred around Liberia, was reorganized into a confederation.
Soviet Central Africa was founded by Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Zaire, Angola, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. They rejoined the World Socialist Alliance.
South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe formed the Commonwealth of Southern Africa.
Southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania founded 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", modelled after the Pacific Front.
In Arabia, the House of Saud went extinct during the previous wars. The House of Rashid, former rulers of Nejd became the new kings of Rashidi Arabia. The Rashidi's reformed Islam akin to the Christian reformation. The Middle East, except for Allied Palestine and pro-Allied Turkey, are federated under Foehn.
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan joined Foehn after they seceded from Soviet Russia.
Ruslan Zadorov, the legendary Soviet Commander of GWWIII and the MOW, remained the most senior politician within Soviet Russia. As Premier he was content to rebuild his motherland.
The region of Kashmir was annexed by Foehn. India, Pakistan and China relinquished territorial claims to the region.
The politburo of China was killed by Epsilon and the free-minded Chinese Military Command allied with Foehn but didn't join. China was expected to remain with Foehn but through a referendum, they rejoined the WSA. Tibet, Mongolia and Manchuria remained with Foehn and the majority Han pre-war provinces of the Chinese Federation united into the Chinese Directorate.
The Republic of Japan returned to the Pacific Front from Foehn. Both Korea and Vietnam were united under mixed governments and joined the Pacific Front.
The region's of Antarctica and the Arctic remain under direct Foehn control being the only superpower that could project power that far.
On the final day of talks the United Nations Provisional Government, the Foehn Federation, the World Socialist Alliance and the Grand Alliance of Nations founded the United Nations of Earth. The founding charter maintained that a security council would be formed and representatives from the three powers had permanent seats with three rotating seats.
The Bill of Sapient Rights was established to protect the dignity of all human and human-like life such as cyborg, AI, mutant, genetically modified human and alien citizens.
Insurgent Organisations worldwide fought against the UNE.
Several former Scorpion Cell leaders, former European Alliance Yugoslav Officers, former Russian Officers and former American Officers formed the Brotherhood of Nod.
The UNE founded the UNGDI as a counter-terrorist organisation against the Brotherhood of Nod.
1995 CE: A meteor on a collision course with Rome was redirected to the Sahara Desert via Orbital Weapon Emplacements.
Solid Snake joined FOXHOUND.
The Second American Civil War was started.
The United States Provisional Government collapsed.
The Commonwealth of New England, the Empire State, the Union of Steel, Dixie, Federal States of America and the Republic of Texas were founded.
The Commonwealth was the most receptive to the new world order, pro-Foehn and independent from the larger nations of America.
The Empire State was pro-Allies but wanted to maintain independence from the Union of Steel and the Federal States.
The Union of Steel was pro-Soviets and wanted to reunite the Socialist States of America.
Dixie was composed of the traditional states of the old Confederate States of America and was wholly anti-Soviet, anti-Allies and anti-Foehn.
The Federal States of America was led under former US Vice President Dustin Bright who rallied US Rebel forces during GWWIII to restore the USA. They seized a quarter of former US Military hardware and US bases centred around the Cheyenne Mountain Complex.
The Republic of Texas, comprised of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. Texas like the Commonwealth and the Empire State wanted to remain independent but conversely to them would remain isolationist and neutral for the time being.
Nevada under Reginald Edgar House remained independent and unscathed with its robot army.
The Pacific States of America, Allied Canada and the Latin Confederation garrisoned their borders to protect against the "Dis-United States of America".
1997 CE: The UNE Operation Oasis was started, it was initially intended to terraform the Sahara Desert into farmland.
The expeditionary team led by Dr Ignatio Mobius discovered the local Amazigh people dead or dying because of a newly discovered mineral.
The leader of the Quasi-Religious Group of Nod, Kane, announced that they had first discovered the crystal and have named it Tiberium.
The UNE discovered that Tiberium propagated through mutated trees.
The Sahara Desert had slowed Tiberium Propagation. Operation Oasis' new objective was the quarantine of the Sahara. Foehn wind technology isolated the Saharan Ion Storms within the desert.
The Sahara Desert was declared a 'Yellow Zone' and its surrounding regions were declared 'Blue Zones'. Most of Earth were left uninfected and declared 'Green Zones'. The Sahara hadn't yet propagated enough Tiberium to constitute a 'Red Zone'.
The old Foehn military VOLKNET was repurposed into the civilian Internet.
1998 CE: Commercial Colonisation efforts on Venus, Mars, the Asteroid Belt and Jupiter were started.
Moon Colonisation was reestablished.
1999 CE: Using Epsilon research from the ruins of Elysium, a new modified version of the infamous "Terranova" was discovered and contained.
The Epsilon High Proselyte was captured and identified as Mihovil Slavic and he was 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 surviving next of kin, his nephew Davor Slavic, Davor's wife Silvija Slavic and their son Anton Slavic were harassed by the public. They assert no knowledge of Mihovil's role as Yuri's second in command.
Davor was a well-known member of the Euro Alliances espionage organisation, The Black Hand. The small family legally changed their surnames to Silvija's maiden name, Bakula.
Around the globe, people everywhere celebrated their newfound freedom. Much of the Allied and Soviet leadership were killed during GWWIII and the Mental Omega War. Countries worldwide remained without governing bodies but many more countries had provisional governments affiliated with Foehn. The world was depleted of resources.
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.
The UNE created branch organisations, each with its own focus.
The WHO dismantled all Epsilon cloning facilities worldwide. All cloned humans were relocated to different regions within their own nations to prevent accidental inbreeding and social unrest from clones living with or as their "prime" humans. These clones were also sent to off-world colonies. There were an estimated 100 million clones globally and millions more unknowingly living the lives of their deceased primes.
The world census showed that the global population dropped to 4 billion. Of those 4 billion, 10 million have some form of cybernetic enhancement. The population of AIs number at 21,000.
2000 CE: With the beginning of the new millennium humanity rejoiced the end of their bloodiest war-torn century and tearfully mourned 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
Pacific Front designed Seismic Stabilizers were built all over the world to completely prevent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Magma Taps at these facilities provided a sporadic source of useful minerals.
2001 CE: Commercial space flights to the Mt. Hadley lunar colony were opened by the Pacific Aerospace Exploration Agency (PAXA), European Space Agency (ESA), Coronian Aerospace Board (CAB) and the Soviet Agency of Joint Aerospace Exploration (SAJAE).
Mt. Hadley was majority Soviet because of Commander Ruslan Zadorov. The colony with citizens of both sides of the prewar political blocs were more receptive to the cooperative nature of the new Allies, Soviets and Foehn.
2002 CE: The Second American Civil War had ended with a stalemate.
The Commonwealth of New England remained unscathed and integrated into the Foehn Federation.
The Empire State maintained its borders with guerrilla tactics against the Soviet based military of the Union of Steel. The Empire State rejoined the GAN.
The Union of Steel made the most gains in the war, spanning from Dakota to Pennsylvania.
Dixie lost most of its former US equipment and depended on guerrilla hit and run tactics. They barely maintained their historical borders.
The Federal States of America lost the most after the Battle of Mount Rushmore and retreated the Dakota state line. The Federal States denied the Union of Steel access to the "Rushmore SPECTRUM Array".
The Republic of Texas maintained its borders.
Nevada maintained its borders.
2003 CE: Foehn scientist and special operative, Eureka, developed a next-generation plasma propulsion engine. She retrofitted Foehns Navy with flight and spaceflight capability. The WSA and GAN Navies followed Foehns example.
2004 CE: The Elysium City was rebuilt and resettled by a new generation of Mars colonists. The UNE repurposed existing Epsilon magnetic satellites and Soviet Tesla technology to create an artificial magnetosphere around Mars. Another satellite network, using prism technology, in orbit of Mars was used to melt the Martian ice caps.
2005 CE: Expeditions to Venus, Mercury and Jupiter were launched within months of each other. The Mars Network of Satellites were used on each heavenly body by each expedition.
Human testing for the "Kalos" strain of the Terranova Virus was conducted in lunar orbit.
The Chrono Nexus facilities, at both the North Pole and the South Pole, were opened for commercial use of Chronoshift and Chronolift. Identical pairs of Chrono Nexus facilities were constructed at the Lunar Poles and Martian Poles.
2006 CE: The FFV Dauntless was retrofitted for spaceflight became the first waterborne ship to traverse space rather than a specially built spacecraft. This changed the approach of spacecraft engineering. Modern technology made it cheaper to retrofit existing naval ships to be space worthy.
A meteor observed from Earth was emitting exotic radiation and for security reasons was pushed from a collision course with Earth to a new trajectory with Mercury.
Anton Bakula became the youngest person inducted into The Black Hand.
2007 CE: Underwater Seismic Stabilizers and Magma Taps pushed the development of underwater cities.
2009 CE: 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 signal contents were shockingly easily interpreted by their equipment as audio and even shockingly more so, the audio sounded like spoken language.
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.
Allied fire team Echo-03 locate a large cavern entrance sealed off with a solid metal "vault" door, where they conclude that 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.
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 had male human proportions, the next had female humans proportions with an elongated helmet and the last had 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.
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.
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.
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 CE: 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.
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.
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 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 CE: 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 CE: 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 CE: 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 CE: 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 is 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 CE: 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 CE: 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 CE: 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 CE: 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 CE: The native Martians, as well as Tellurians, celebrate the complete terraformation of Mars.
2057 CE: 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 CE: 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 CE: 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 CE: 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 CE: 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 CE: 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 CE: The UN establishes Rodina as its 100th Colony System with hundreds of outpost systems and thousands of probed systems.
2096 CE: 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 Humans, Faunus, Kobold, Akuma and Monoeyes and all their subspecies.
2099 CE: Discoveries on genetics from Tacitus, are utilized to improve upon lifespan extension, effectively making the entirety of humanity biologically immortal.
2115 CE: The UN population has finally reached over 1 trillion sapiens.
2123 CE: 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 CE: The probed Alsava system is discovered to have an intact ringworld. The ringworld 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 CE: 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 CE: 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 CE: 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 CE: 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 CE: 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 CE: 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 CE: On a moon in the Raega System, 1,075 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 CE: The first Dyson sphere of the UN, around Sol, is completed. The UN becomes a Tier 2 civilization.
2163 CE: 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 CE: 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 CE: The total population of the UN, of humans and non-humans, had reached 1 quadrillion.
2231 CE: A passing survey shuttle, in the Giuaust System, detected a weak signal that was traced back to within the atmosphere of a local gas giant. First Contact was made with the Daf'Nak of the gas giant Tolokrom. The Daf'Nak joined the GSA due to similar political and economic ideologies. The Daf'Nak are the first Gaseous life encountered by the known galaxy. No complaint or competition arose to Daf'Nak colony rights to gas giants.
2235 CE: The population of the Alsava system reached over 3 trillion and became the fifth most populace system in the UN and the fastest-growing system of the known galaxy.
2241 CE: Yuht Commonwealth developed its own form of FTL. The Yuht were the first in Tellurian Space to discover Element Zero and the first to develop Eezo Drives.
2247 CE: The SAS 147th Expeditionary Fleet made 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 respectfully declined to join the UN and instead opted to ally as an independent entity.
2287 CE: The Yuht Commonwealth petitioned the Chinese Directorate for access to the long-dormant "Tuning Fork" and was granted permission.
The UN made first contact with the Citadel Council.
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