AN: I do not own any part of the Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri universe except the crazy ideas I may write about for your viewing pleasure.
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2060: The U.N. Unity is launched from Earth's orbit in a collective effort to abort the self-cannibalization that mankind has established on their home world. The goal of the Unity is to establish an independent colony founded on the principles of the U.N. Charter.
2100: Planetfall.
2134: Believer-Spartan Vendetta caused by sudden border tensions. Neither side believed that the other had truly made the terrible journey during Planetfall and denounced the other as a trick of the mind worms.
2135:A ceasefire is called for the Believer-Spartan Vendetta when contact is established with Lal who affirms that more than one faction survived Planetfall. Corazon refuses to let go of the territory taken from the Believers during the brief vendetta. (2134-2135).
2219: The Peacekeepers make a move to spread across the Hercules Channel to the tail of the Western continent where the Hive already dwells within their mines. This initiates the beginning of the Hive-Peacekeeper Vendetta.
2289:The Spartans intervene with a heavy military presence to end the Hive-Peacekeeper Vendetta which Corazon claims to have interfered with Spartan trade. (2219-2289).
2349:The Morganites take the opportunity to invade the northern part of the Central continent to take hold of its' rich resources. The Peacekeepers fight hard but cannot maintain control with the limits placed upon them by their previous vendetta. (2349-2350).
2382:The University launches a surprise attack on the Morganites after a mysterious sinking of the U.M.S. (University Military Ship) Nautilus. 150,000 lives are lost in the war, both sides sinking to desperate measures to win by the end. (2382-2383).
April2474: 10,000 citizens from each of the factions (Spartan, Hive, Believer, Peacekeeper, Gaian, University, and Morganite) declare independence and move to the Isle of Dexamenus. The World Council officially recognizes this independence after a vote despite Lal's and Zakrarhov's lobbying to crush the independence movement.
August2474:The Peacekeepers send a patrol fleet to invade the Isle of Dexamenus a few months after the declaration of independence in a very short Dragonite-Peacekeeper Vendetta. The Peacekeepers are thwarted and made a mockery of after the battle. Lal is forced to back off and sign over terms which claims responsibility for the war and agrees to reparation costs of 500 energy credits.
2475: The major construction is complete on Dragon's Keep, the northern base, and Dragon's Den, the southern and capital base, of Eye of the Dragon.
2485:The Second Dragonite-Peacekeeper Vendetta is wrought after a failed attempt to blame the Dragonites for a sinking cruiser. The ensuing battles cause devastating losses for the Peacekeepers and they are no longer considered a real rival to the University dominion in the far North. The Peacekeepers are on the verge of civil war.
2500:The Great Vendetta of 2500 erupts as shifts between Loyalist Peacekeepers try to reassert Lal as the head of a united Peacekeeper faction and the Confederate Peacekeepers who refused Lal as their 'chosen leader'. The lines were evenly split between the Spartans, Confederates, Gaians, Believers and the University, Loyalists, Morganites, Hive. The only undeclared faction is that of the Dragonites who even refused to participate in the World Council debate and vote on the matter. The war begins with a world population of 728,000.
2502:The Spartans launch a massive invasion on the Isle of Dexamenus to, hopefully, begin hopping northward against each newly surrounded Loyalist territory. The Battle of Siroquis places the Spartans at a weak disadvantage in the world politics while the Loyalists are initially invigorated to launching their own doomed invasion of the Morganite lands. The fleeing Spartan forces poison the surrounding waters with spent fuel cells. The day's ending population is 697,000 where it had begun at 718,000. This is the single most bloody day in all of Chiron's history.
2507: The Great Vendetta comes to a silent halt as a peace treaty is formed which decrees that the 'Confederate Peacekeepers' are to be a free faction and be known as the Pherals. Small, post-vendetta skirmishes cause major world shift changes as the Morganites reclaim the their lost territory from the University, the Peacekeepers and Pherals push the University to the far northern shore of the central continent, and the Believers and the Hive push the inward on the Spartan monstrosity. Major trends pop up during this time indicating further changes down the road; the Believers and the Dragonites take in over 20,000 new citizens each who are fleeing their war-torn homelands. The World Council cannot undo the building of the Great Wall around the Isle of Dexamenus. The world population is reduced to 450,000 over the course of seven years.
2585:100 meter long mind worms are discovered in the Great Ruins at the head of the western continent. Work begins just a month later on a means to contain the giant mind worms. There is little real hope of containing the monstrous mind worms.
2587: The primary dam is complete and the canal has been completely dug out. A protective barrier is in the process of being laid to keep the waters from soaking into the soil.
2589: The 500 meter long canal is complete and the secondary dam is also completed. Five of the six towering legs for the observation base are complete and the permi-cement in the moat is being inspected when communication is lost with the reconnaissance team inside the Great Ruins. An emergency decision is made and 2,000 lives are lost in the moat as they were uninformed of the opening like the other 3,000 were. The early matured mind worm is eliminated within an hour of its' awakening.
2500: The entire project is complete and only the smaller platforms on the dams need to be built along with the proper facilities on top of the observation base 500 meters above the ground. The world celebrates for weeks after averting from that disaster.
2593: Huban Ethan makes the first observations of the new mind worms and observes that their increased mass has weakened their psychotic abilities. They could not even communicate with one another it seemed. The observed mind worm was not, surprisingly, killed off after much paranoid talk and debate in an emergency meeting of the World Council.
2601: All but the University and the Dragonites have pulled their participation in the securing and observation of the new mind worms.
2606: The Dragonites secretly complete an underwater tunnel connecting the primary and secondary dam. The University remains suspicious of their activities, but the Dragonites continue to be very cordial and polite.
2609: A shaft and tunnel are completed connecting the observation base, New Hope, to the the previously built tunnel system connecting the two dams. The world population is now 590,000.
2619: A base is partially complete beneath the Great Ruins which will moved upwards and lock in place around the defenses the Dragonites have been installing and keeping them maintenanced. Zakrarhov cannot convince any of his fellow faction leaders that the Dragonites are planning something terrible. The University has secretly rebuilt its' weapon stores to a pre-Great Vendetta state in order to better combat the sudden surprise attack of the Dragonites.
2621: Large Tachyon cannons are placed on the dams after financial approval by the World Council. Two are placed outward on the primary dam to defend it from anyone crazy enough to wreck into the dam, and two are placed inward on the secondary dam to defend the dam workers from the mind worms.
2631: The Dragonites openly take control of the Great Ruins and raise the base facilities and new Great Wall around the site. Mogul Brianbacks, leader of the Dragonites, makes his first public appearance to denounce the world faction leaders saying that his actions were for the 2,000 Dragonite lives murdered without a second glance. The University fails utterly in its' first attempt to penetrate the Great Wall around the Great Ruins.
2632: The Morganites are bribed into joining the effort against the Dragonites which leaves only the Peacekeepers and the Pherals who refuse to take part in the vendetta.
2639: Major military actions begin marking the true beginning of the Second Great Vendetta. The Peacekeepers and Pherals are even huddled into the war effort against the Dragonites. Meanwhile, the Dragonites are working fervently to build their society up before the enemy takes to their gates. Early skirmishes do not bode well for UPAMB (United Peoples Against Mogul Brianbacks) which consists of the University, Spartans, Peacekeepers, Pherals, Believers, Hive, Gaians, and Morganites. The self-sufficient Dragonites in space begin to assimilate the smaller UPAMB satellites and stations.
2640:The Dragonites commence major space operations to cripple UPAMB. UPAMB deducts, months after Mogul's initial statement to the World Council, that the 2,000 Dragonite lives lost during the construction with the large mind worms is the cause of this new, hostile Eye of the Dragon. Mogul offers his terms at one Deidre Skye to be held responsible for the death of 2,000 Dragonites.
2642: Deidre returns from her imprisonment on the Isle of Dexamenus and is discovered to now be married. The husband to the once chaste Deidre Skye is heavily implied to be Mogul Brianbacks himself. Such a union means that UPAMB would lose an entire faction, very close to the Isle of Dexamenus, which would now prove to hinder them further should the Second Great Vendetta come to fruitation.
2643:Gunshots ring out as the Second Great War officially commences with the death of General Isaacs. The Civil Union of the Gaian and Dragonite factions is causing difficulties on the DG homefront.
2644: The siege of the Second Great Wall surrounding what had once been New Hope, the scientific recon station to observe the large mind worms at the Great Ruins, degrades to constant barrage between the two sides. UPAMB is too disorganized to fully adjudicate its' territories and armed forces.
2645:The Tachyon belt falls around the Second Great Wall and fighting inside of Dragon's Teeth begins. The numbers lost are a staggering blow to humanity.
2650:A formal blood truce is proclaimed with all nine dignitaries of the human race. The Second Great War is called to official close. (2631-2650).
2653:Tensions from the previous era continue. The Hive are a piteous ruin of their former self and Chairman Yang has sought help in the University contributing to Zakharov's renaissance. Deidre falls asleep into a coma due to a large disturbance from Planet.
2685: Deidre awakens from her coma. She sees the results of the previous 32 years and the changes shake her enough that Planet's installation of its' psyche into her persona awakens and she begins to plot the destruction of mankind's last haven in the Universe, the super-island state of Eye of the Dragon around the isle of Dexamenus. The End is nigh.
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AN: November 6th, 2011: Alrighty then! I have now even completed the time line for this story. I expect good reviews! I know I won't get any, but I expect them damn it all!