October 4th, 1957: Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, launches. This marks the beginning of the Space Race.
April 12th, 1961: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space.
January 14th, 1966: Sergie Korlaev goes into surgery and comes out unscathed (in a dystopian timeline, he dies, and humanities advancement was slowed)
June 26th, 1969: Alexi Lenov becomes the first man on the Moon
October 12th, 1973: First Moonbase, Jamestown, is created
February 8th, 1995: Lee Jung-Gil is the first man on Mars
December 9th, 2009: Lowell City is founded as the second base on Mars. It serves as a primary resource extraction and manufacturing facility, creating a large amount of the needed equipment for Mars instead of needing it to be sent from Earth.
October 2nd, 2010: Acheron I launches as a unmanned mission to begin setting up a M7 base on Pluto for exploration of the farthest reaches of the solar system. The plan is for hald a dozen unmanned ships to follow before a manned expedition would launch in 2025.
August 9th, 2013: First mass produced human-machine neural interface is unveiled to the public.
March 11th, 2015: Mars Ruins are discovered near Lowell City by Helios employees. They inform authorities in Happy Vally, Kuznetsov Sation, and Lowell City.
March 15th, 2015: A French Marine unit moves in and sets up within the ruins, guarding a science team from Lowell City.
March 17th, 2015: First example of eezo is conlected from equipment within the ruins.
March 19th, 2015: First eezo exposer case occores when eezo is accidentally released in one of the prefabricated habitation facilities, contamanating 4 scientists and a Marine.
March 22nd, 2015: A joint task force replaces the French Marines and Lowell science team at the ruins.
March 24th, 2015: First symptoms of eezo poisaning begin to show in the exposed personnel. All five are moved to Lowell to receive medical care, though two still do not survive the poisoning.
March 30th, 2015: Existance of the facility leaks to the public on Earth. A mixture of celebrations, protests, riots, and mass panic sweaps across the planet, with all nations struggling to contain the chaos.
April 1st, 2015: A joint press conference is held by the M7 confirming the ruin's existence.
April 3rd, 2015: Supplies meant for the expansion of Lowell City are redirected to the Ruins, not being called Promithean Station due to the location of the ruins, for expansion.
April 10th, 2015: While clearing an area for a landing location, a alien spacecraft is discovered under the sands of Mars. Efforts are immediately turned to excavation of the craft.
April 12th, 2015: The existence and properties of eezo are confirmed. It took so long due to a mix of limited equipment and disbelief. The element causes almost as much of an uproar in the scientific community as the discovery of aliens.
Outline:
2015: Prothean Ruins discovered
2018: SEU formed
2024: Relay reached
2026: Garden Worlds found
2030: colonization starts
2032: First warships built
2035: Relay Wars begin
2040: Future Raiders attempt to travel to Alpha Centauri. Cuts contact with the rest of humanity.
2050: Future Raiders find alien ruins on a rogue world on their path. Indoctrinated by Leviathans and begin to prepare for war
2092: Eden War begins
2098: Eden War ends, SA founded
2107: Mars Core discovered deep in the Mars Ruins, FTL and several other technologies discovered within
2110: Great Diaspora begins
2112: wanderer probe introduced, greatly increasing exploration speed
2116: Shanxi discovered
2118: First colonists arrive on Shenxi, founding the city of New Taiyuan.
2122: Another group of colonists settles on Shanxi, founding the city of Kilkenny. Conflic begins allmost immediately.
Late 2132: Great War begins, Great Diaspora ends
2133: Terrorist attacks within human space drastically increase in frequency and severity, with no known motive to the perpetrators. the suggestion of mine manipulation is given, and attempts to find evidence and a counter begin
March-April, 2133: Fall of Arcadia, millions die, First sighting of the Leviathan of Arcadia
December 2133: SA captures an intact Raider warship; reverse engineering begins immediately
2134: The first next-generation warships are created, leveling the playing field against the raiders. The first Everest class Dreadnought begins construction; construction is rushed to counter the Leviathan of Arcadia.
May, 2134: The First Dam War begins on Shenxi
2134: an investigation into items belonging to the terrorists reveal all of them holding a black necklace shaped like a teardrop in their possession. after several individuals who handled the items began participating in Terrorist activities, further investigation began. ethically questionable testing shows the effects of the necklaces on the human mind, and testing to determine the source within the items of the indoctrination begins. this was only possible due to the willing and unwilling sacrifice of over a hundred test subjects, some volunteers, some on death row. A redementery neural test to determan indoctranation is created and administered to high ranking officials every few months, though its complexity makes it infesable to use across the population
January 2135: Battle of Pluto occurs; Leviathan of Arcadia and Raider fleet are defeated at horrendous cost. Leviathan is damaged
April 2135: Battle of Demeter, the world endures, and the Raiders retreat.
July 2135: The Battle of Benning is a pyrrhic Alliance as, while Benning did not see the level of devastation as Arcadia, it still lost several million people.
November of 2135: The Battle of Mars sees the destruction of multiple Raider ships at the cost of major infrastructure damage.
September 2136: The Dreadnought Everest is "completed", though several systems are inactive and the quality of some of the work is questionable, the ship is brought into service anyways as sightings of the Leviathan of Arcadia have begun again, the Everest serving as a moral enhancement as much as a warship
October 2136: The Battle of Titan sees the first Dreadnought-on-Dreadnought combat between the Everest and the Leviathan of Arcadia. The battle ends in an Alliance victory, but the Leviathan escapes.
November 2136: The rogue world is discovered, designated Nemesis. A massive fleet is prepared to take it. The Battle of Nemesis is the largest space battle in human history, seeing almost the entirety of both sides' fleets fighting. A massive invasion force of Alliance Marines and national forces invade the surface of the world. As the ground forces go deeper into the ventral building of the Raider fortress, a nuke detonates within the facility, killing everyone inside. Once the facility is destroyed, all of the Raider ships stop working. Humanity celebrates the end of the Great War.
December 2136: Leviathan of Arcadia is moved to Luna through the effort of several FTL Tugboats. Exploration and study of its systems begins.
2137: Construction of a new Dreadnought built to a modified version of the Everest design, the SSV Fuji begins
SA interveins in the First Dam War and ends it.
2138: Leviathan of Arcadia is commissioned in the SA fleet as the SSv Olympus. A method for the detection of indoctrination fields and devices is found; it is employed aross human space without the war sapping resources
2141: Dreadnought SSV Fuji is commissioned, and construction of the SSV Elbrus begins. SSV Everest is brought into dock for a major refit meant to bring it closer to the level of capability of the other Dreadnoughts in the fleet
2143: SSV Everest's refit is complete. While it is still the least combat effective Dreadnought in the fleet, it is better than it was before.
2144: Construction of the SSV Elbrus is completed. A proposal for a Supercarrier with the mass of a Dreadnought capable of acting as a mobile command and logistical support base, is made. A prototype vessel is approved. The SSV Einstein begins construction; construction of the SSV Saint Helens is delayed to provide funding for the Einstein.
2145: the economy has recovered from the war.
2148: SSV Einstein completed after delays. SSV Saint Helens begins construction
2149: Second Dam War begins and lasts for two months before the SA ends it
2151: SSV Saint Helens completed. SA implements a rotating construction schedule for Carriers and Dreadnoughts to ensure budget stability. SSV Hawking begins construction.
December, 2153: New Taiyuan race riot occurs due to the murder of a New Taiyuan citizen in Killkenny. Riot led to the deaths of 57 Kilkennian visitors. The majority of the Kilkenny citizens still in Shanxi Republic territory are escorted to Leinster Republic territory.
January 2154: SA sends the Alliance Guard 592nd Mechanized Infantry Division to ensure peace on Shanxi.
2154: SSV Hawking completed. SSV Cho Oyu begins construction.
2155: Major General Douglas Williams takes command of the 592nd Mechanized Infantry Division
2157: First contact