April 2148: Mars Ruins discovered on Mars. Discovery shocks humanity
May 2148: Negotiations for the formation of the Systems Alliance begin. UN peacekeepers are deployed as temporary caretakers for the Ruins
July 2148: First vessel with technology from the Ruins and eezo are finished
September 2148: First FTL capable vessel, the Stargazer, is completed
October 2148: First warships based on technology from the Ruins are built
December 2148: Far Point Expadition launches, reaching Alpha Centauri a few days before new years.
March 2149: Systems Alliance is formed by the 18 largest nation of Earth. The assets of the national space forces are not immediately given to the Alliance, with the handoff stagered over the next year to ensure no problems occur. Information on the Charon Relay is discovered in the Mars Ruins. Late in the month, the SSV Walker, Captained by John Grissom, travels through the Charon Relay.
April 2149: First Alliance warships (Heartbreak Ridge-class Frigates) begin construction
May 2149: Von Braun Station, the first human outpost outside the Sol System, is completed. The Station is a staging point for further exploration beyond the Charon Relay. Demeter is discovered, being the first Garden World discovered by humanity.
June 2149: First Alliance Annapolis-class Cruisers begin construction. The design is the same as the UNASs Cruisers, being used as a stopgap measure while the Alliance designs its own Cruisers.
August 2149: First Alliance Frigates are completed. Construction begins on the Cerberus military base on Pluto.
January 2150: Expeditions beyond Arcturus commence using the information found within the Mars Ruins, with Primary Relays going to the Exodus Cluster, Mkali Pools, and Apollo Alpha being activated. Terra Nova and Eden Prime discovered. Construction of the Everest begins.
February 2150: Amaterasu is discovered.
March 2150: First civilian traffic outside the Sol System occurs when a independent science ship travels through the Charon Relay with Alliance approval. Handoff of the national space assets is completed for the original 18 nations, though 5 of the handoffs for the 12 additional signatories to join in the last year have not been completed.
April 2150: The MSV Herbert Green, a science ship preparing for an expedition to the Sirius System, is taken over while in dock. The vessel escapes the Sol system.
September 2150: The Acheron gateway station begins construction to deal with civilian traffic through the Charon Relay, with similar, though smaller, Stations beginning construction in Arcturus over the remainder of the year.
February 2150: Benning discovered. MSV Herbert Green is discovered by the SSV Bunker Hill in the 82 Eridani System. The vessel attempts to flee, but the Bunker Hill captures it. The vessel started a small colony on the second planet of the system, only a few dozen people. Interrogations reveal that the pirates were part of a cult that wished to separate from humanity.
March 2150: The MSV Discovery leaves the Sol System to parts unknown, intending to start a independent colony far from humanity. Vessel will not be seen again until 2166, when an Alliance Exploration ship discovers its colony. While the Discovery is the first, it is not the last, as many groups leave to start their own colonies far away from Sol, though the high cost of travel limit it to more wealthy groups.
May 2150: A (relativly) efficient method for the production of antimatter is discovered within the Mars Ruins. While it does not make antimatter a viable fuel source for civilian vessels, it make antiproton drives viable for military use. The drives are far more powerfull than fusion torches, even at smaller sizes. While the drives are good for when high speed is needed, antimatter is still too expensive for common use, meaning that vessels usually also carry fusion torches for use in normal situations, while the antiproton drives are used somewhat like afterburners.
September 2150: Alliance announces a moratorium on Primary Relay activation to give time for the expansion of the Alliance Fleet and to survey what has already been uncovered.
January 2151: Sirona is discovered. The Cerberus military base is completed.
February 2151: SSV Armstrong (former UNSA vessel) is boarded by pirate force, which captures the Frigate and leaves the system with their prize. The Battle of Persephone is the first post-eezo space battle between two warships as the Armstrong attacks the discharging MSV Demos, intending to steal its fuel and cargo, before being attacked by the SSV FAC-009 (a Fast Attack Corvette sent by the Alliance to patrol the planet) and SSV EC-021 (a minimally armed Exploration Corvette that was discharging its drive corp). The battle ends with Armstrong surrendering when the SSV Savo reaches the battle, though the EC-021 is damaged beyond repair.
March 2151: Construction of Arcturus Station begins.
April 2151: The drive core of the MSV Pacific ruptures after leaving the Singapore Internatinal Spaceport, leading to eezo contamanation reaching across the city.
January 2152: The SSV Einstien is completed and begins preparations for a colonization mission to the Exodus Cluster. Demeter is colonized by the Delta Pavonis Foundation, 2500 colonists travel on the MSV Spring Dawn and set up Thesmophoros City, a permanent settlement instead of the small outposts set up before, non intended to hold a permanent population with families. First second generation Cruisers, the SSV Geneva and her sisters, begin construction. The Genevas, alongside all other second generation designs, benefit from a more thorough understanding of the mass effect and new technologies, both created by humans and found in alien ruins, including antiproton drives, combat grade Kinetic Barriers (to be added onto gen one vessels ), and artificial gravity (to be added to select gen one vessels).
March 2152: The Einstien sets off to the Exodus Cluster. Terra Nova is colonized by the Einstien.
April 2152: Eden Prime is colonized by the Einstein.
July 2152: Sirona and Benning are colonized.
Augest 2152: Additional gateway station is created to deal with the increased traffic at the Charon Relay.
November 2152: First appearance of a type of pirate ship called a Skiff, an extreamly fast vessel built to board civilian ships by raming them. The MSV Orion attack by one such craft, leading to the deaths of three crewmembers and the taching of millions of credits worth of cargo.
December 2152: The crew of the MSV Starry Night is caught selling the cargo stolen from the Orion on Earth. Interrogation reveles that the ship rendezvoused with the pirate ship, named the Dagger, and picked up the cargo in deep space on its way to Earth from Demeter.
January 2153: Several vessels of similar design as the Dagger begin to appear around the Local Cluster and Arcturus Stream. Demeter celebrates one year of colonization.
February 2153: Task Force Broadsword is created by the Alliance to find the producer of the small Skiffs.
March 2153: The main crew supplier for the Skiffs is discovered. Similar to several colonization programs, the pirate groups are offering people from impoverished areas opportunity in exchange for working as pirates, gaining them a sted supply of crewmembers and troops. A major pirate base is attacked in the first major action of the Alliance Marine Corp, taking out 3 Skiffs and over two hundred pirates.
April 2153: The Indonesian Corvettes Patir and Guruh are attacked by several Skiffs. They are boarded and the pirates escape with the two Corvettes.
June 2153: One of the main production facilities of the Skiffs is discovered within the deep Oort Cloud of the Sol System. The Battle of Rubble Shipyard is less of a battle and more of a massacre. A half dozen incomplet Skiffs are destroyed and many of the pirates are captured, with the only real fight coming from the half deconstructed Patir. It is learned through the shipyard's data banks and interrogations that there is at least one more shipyard, but none of the pirates know where it is. The Patir and Guruh are found mostly deconstructed, their milatary grade components being used for the construction of Skiffs and as templates for new equipment for the yard to build. Antimatter containment on the SSV Nairobi fails, leading to its complete destruction, causing the deaths of not only its 300 strong crew, but the 4,500 souls on board the Acheron Gatway Station, which the Nairobi was docked at. All antimatter equipped warships are forced to return home for a safety inspection and, in the case of most of the Geneva-class, a refit with improved antimatter containers.
August 2153: The Battle of the Charon Relay sees a force of over a dozen Skiffs attack the Alliance Cruiser Bagdad, an older Anapolis-class vessel, through the Charon Relay, arriving from the poorly guarded Lenus Omicron Relay in the 61 Ursae Majoris System. Several of the Skiffs manage to board the Cruiser, but the operation fails as the boarders are repelled. The Local Cluster sees a notable decrease in pirate attack as the force destroyed in the battle repersents a large amount of the Skiffs produced.
October 2153: An expedition is proposed, sending a large force past the Zion Gamma Relay, a Primary Relay that goes far beyond known space. The expedition is approved and the Einstien is approved for the expedition. The Relay is chosen do to being farther away from Arcturus, being in a system lacking a direct conection to the local hub, yet only being two or three Relays away from a response in case of an emergency.
January 2154: SSV Everest is completed
February: The Joint Naval Exercise commences, a fleet exercis consisting of forces from the Alliance and over two dozen national navies (those of the nations that have not joined the Alliance). The exercise has the Alliance acting as a invading alien force moving attacking from beyond the Zion Gamma Relay, with the goal of reaching Earth.
March: The Joint Naval Exercise ends in a major upset as the Alliance fleet reaches Earth and (simulated) bombs it. The exercise shows several majore weaknesses in human ships, doctrine, and naval tactics in real fleet combat. The Everest praforms above and beyond all expectations and, with both its excellent showing and the horrid showing of the Combined Fleet, approval for the construction of another Everest-class Dreadnought is given. The expedition is delayed by half a year due to the results of the exercise.
June 2154: Second Einstien-class Carrier, the Curie, is completed. Work on the SSV Hawking begins.
July 2154:The reactor of the MSV Kami explodes as the vessel lowers into Earth's atmosphere, causing debrief and eezo to be sctered over siberia.
October 2154: The Farpoint Expadition launches through the Zion Gamma Relay, landing in the Michael System of the Seraph Nebula, several thousand light years away.
November 2154: Babel is discovered in the Gabriel System, the Garden World being covered with ruins, mostly arcologies, giving the world its name. The ruins are so severely damaged that they hold little technological value compared to the Mars Ruins, but they are still of major interest do to being a major center of Prothean civilization.
December 2154: The expedition goes through the Jeraco Zeta Relay to the Ymir System of the Ginnungagap, which incudes the world of Midgard. There they discover another Primary Relay. After surveying the system, the expedition travels through the Relay, reaching the Leto System of Zues Beta. The expedition operates in both Clusters.
January 2155: The Io System is discovered with a Primary Relay. The expedition travals through it only to find itself in the Daphny System of Apollo Alpha, being greeted by a large number of terrified humans and the Alliance First Fleet, due to them thinking it was an alien force opening the Relay. After that, the expedition went back to surveying the Ginnungagap. Late in the month, the Utgard-Loki System is discovered, including its Primary Relay. The system lacks a Secondary Relay, leaving conventional FTL as the only way to reach it from the rest of human space.
February 2155: The expedition travels through the Roskva Omega Relay in the Utgard-Loki System, arriving in the Da Ling San System of the Xingyun Cluster. The Garden World Shanxi is discovered. After four months, the expedition ends, leaving behind the farthest outpost in human space, over 10,000 light years away from Sol. The Einstien and a large amount of the expaditons vessels return to Arcturus, while others continue operating in the newly discovered Clusters, surveying whatever they can find.
March 2155: Alliance begins to occupy completed areas of Arcturus Station
June 2155: Reports begin to surface in Siberia of "Magic Ants" capable of what would later be known as biotics, using mass effect fields to carry several times the amount of matter they should and ripping materials to pieces.
July 2155: Skiff attacks intensify, with four major attacks this month. Most notably of these is the Nebula Hostage Crisis, where the Passenger Cruiser MSV Nebula carrying tens of thousands of colonists to Benning is taken hostage, leading to the Delta Pavonis Foundation having to pay millions of credits for the ship's release.
October 2155: Operation Candlelight sees the Alliance destroy dozens of Skiffs and several major pirate bases.
February 2156: Arcturus Station is completed and inaugurated.
March 2156: Yandoa discovered.
May 2156: First report appear of children with telekinetic abilities appear.
August 2156: General Douglas Williams is appointed as the Governor-General of Shanxi and the Xingyun Cluster.
September 2156: The New Frontiers Development Corporation, a Chinese corporation originally made to facilitate the creation of Lunar infrastructure, begins the creation of New Taiyuan, several towns, and large amount of infrastructure on Shanxi, under Alliance supervision.
January 2157: SSV Hawking is completed. An expedition beyond the Urania Tau Relay in the Mnemosyne System of the Zeus Beta Cluster begins planning.
February 2157: Baikonur is discovered in the Da Ling Er System of the Xingyun Cluster. The planet is of great interest due to the dextro amino acid base of the planet's life, an oddity not found anywhere else in human space.
March 2157: The SRV (Scientific Research Vessel) Galen is sent to Baikanur to study the life on the Garden World. It sets up an outpost on the planets surface. A small unit of Corvettes are sent to patrol the system and protect the Galen. On March 19th, alien ruins are discovered on the planet, all dating back to severak hundred years ago.
April 2157: Task Force 92, a small force consisting of a trio of Frigates from the 9th Scout Flotilla and a pair of civilian vessels, launches from Shanxi to activate the Da Ling Liu Beta Relay, known to the Turians as Relay 314. A Hierarchy patrol is set to arrive at the Relay on April 4th.
[working on the similar 10.1 as of 3/22/24]