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MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM
WHITE DEVIL'S LEGACY
THE TALE OF YOSHIYUKI TOMINO'S UNIVERSAL CENTURY
Part 1
Years 0000 - 0009
Dawn of the Universal Century
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1771 A.D.
- 1771.11.27
Joseph-Louis Lagrange theorizes the five libration points (alternatively known as Lagrange Points) in the Earth-Luna orbital system, designated L1 to L5.
1801 A.D.
- 1801.01.01
Father Giuseppe Piazzi discovers asteroid 1 Ceres.
1802 A.D.
- 1802.03.28
H. Wilhelm Olbers discovers asteroid 2 Pallas.
1804 A.D.
- 1804.09.01
Karl Harding discovers asteroid 3 Juno.
1807 A.D.
- 1807.03.29
H. Wilhelm Olbers discovers asteroid 4 Vesta.
1845 A.D.
- 1845.12.08
Karl L. Hencke discovers asteroid 5 Astraea.
1847 A.D.
Asteroids 6 Hebe, 7 Iris, and 8 Flora discovered.
1848 A.D.
Andrew Graham discovers asteroid 9 Metis.
1849 A.D.
Annibale De Gasparis discovers asteroids 10 Hygeia and 11 Parthenope.
1850 A.D.
Asteroid 12 Victoria and 13 Egeria discovered.
1851 A.D.
Asteroid 14 Irene and 15 Eunomia discovered.
1852 A.D.
Asteroids 16 Psyche through 23 Thalia discovered.
1853 A.D.
Asteroids 24 Themia, 25 Phocaea, 26 Proserpina, and 27 Euterpe discovered.
1854 A.D.
Asteroids 28 Bellona through 33 Polyhymnia discovered.
1855 A.D.
Asteroids 34 Circe, 35 Leukothea, 36 Atalante, and 37 Fides discovered.
1856 A.D.
Asteroids 38 Leda, 39 Laetitia, 40 Harmonia, 41 Daphne, and 42 Isis discovered.
1857 A.D.
Asteroids 43 Ariadne through 50 Virginia and 56 Melete discovered.
1858 A.D.
Asteroids 51 Nemausa through 55 Pandora discovered.
1859 A.D.
- 1859.09.22
Robert Luther discovered asteroid 57 Mnemosyne.
1860 A.D.
Asteroids 58 Concordia, 59 Elpis, 60 Echo, 61 Danae, and 62 Erato discovered.
1869 A.D.
Edward Everett Hale proposes a habitable artificial satellite ("The Brick Moon").
1874 A.D.
- 1874.05
The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins making detailed observations of sunspot activity. Monthly averages show that sunspot activity waxes and wanes in an approximate 11-year cycle.
1878 A.D.
Jules Verne and Kurt Lasswitz popularize space travel and orbital habitats.
1879 A.D.
Solar Cycle 12 at solar maximum.
1890 A.D.
Solar Cycle 13 at solar maximum.
1895 A.D.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky presents scientifically valid designs for orbital habitats.
1901 A.D.
Solar Cycle 14 at solar maximum.
1906 A.D.
Lagrange's theory is confirmed by the discovery of the "Trojan" asteroids 588 Achilles and 617 Patrocolus at Jupiter's L4 and L5 points, respectively.
1912 A.D.
Solar Cycle 15 at solar maximum.
1923 A.D.
Rocketry pioneer Hermann Oberth elaborates on potential uses for space stations.
Solar Cycle 16 at solar maximum.
1929 A.D.
J. Desmond Bernal proposes a 500-meter (1,640-foot) spherical space habitat containing a complete closed ecosystem.
Hermann (Potočnik) Noordung proposes the construction of 30-meter (100-foot) wheel-shaped space stations ("Wohnrad") in geosynchronous Earth orbit.
1934 A.D.
Solar Cycle 17 at solar maximum.
1942 A.D.
- 1942.10.03
Wernher Von Braun launches V-2 rocket bomb, first ballistic space flight.
1945 A.D.
Solar Cycle 18 at solar maximum.
- 1945.04.24
United Nations Conference opens in San Francisco, California.
- 1945.06.26
The United Nations Charter is signed by delegates of the 50 attending nations.
- 1945.07.16
First nuclear weapon test at Trinity, New Mexico.
- 1945.07.28
The US Senate ratifies the United Nations Charter by a vote of 89 to 2.
1946 A.D.
- 1946.12.14
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. donates $8,500,000 to purchase property along New York's East River for a permanent United Nations HQ.
1948 A.D.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (based on the American Bill of Rights, the British Magna Carta, and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man) is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris.
1949 A.D.
- 1949.10.24
United Nations Day, marking the dedication of the UN permanent HQ in New York City.
1952 A.D.
- 1952.03.22
Wernher Von Braun publishes the first article popularizing manned orbital space stations.
1954 A.D.
- 1954.01.21
The US launches the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine.
1956 A.D.
Solar Cycle 19 at solar maximum.
1957 A.D.
- 1957.10.04
The USSR launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite.
1958 A.D.
- 1958.01.31
In response to Sputnik, the US launches Explorer 1, which encounters zones of radiation later defined as the Van Allen radiation belt.
- 1958.10.01
The US establishes the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA).
1960 A.D.
Yuri Artsutanov proposes the "Skyhook" surface-to-GEO "beanstalk" space elevator.
- 1960.09.24
The US launches the USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
1961 A.D.
Arthur C. Clarke proposes space habitats in the Lagrange points.
- 1961.04.17
The USSR launches Yuri A. Gagarin in Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft.
1963 A.D.
Dandridge M. Cole and Donald W. Cox proposes 30-km (10-mi.) orbital habitats made from asteroids.
- 1963.06.14
The USSR launches Valentina V. Tereshkova in Vostok 6, the first woman in space.
1966 A.D.
- 1966.04
Paolo Solieri proposes Asteromo 70,000-person solar-powered orbital habitat.
1967 A.D.
Solar Cycle 20 at solar maximum.
1969 A.D.
- 1969.07.20
The Apollo program of NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States, finally succeeded in sending mankind to the Moon with US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11 as the first men on Luna's surface. This is the first footprint of mankind on the surface of the Moon.
1970 A.D.
James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis propose their "Gaia Hypothesis" of Terrestrial symbiosis.
1973 A.D.
Henry Gray patents the "Vivarium" closed-type cylindrical space colony design (U.S. Patent 3,749,332).
1974 A.D.
Professor Gerard K. O'Neill publishes his "High Frontier" space colony concept.
1975 A.D.
- 1975.07.17
The US Apollo 18 docks with the USSR Soyuz 19, the first cooperative venture in space.
1976 A.D.
- 1976.07
The US Viking 1 photographs the Martian surface.
Olympiad XIX.
1977 A.D.
- 1977.03.12
The US rolls out of the space shuttle prototype Enterprise at Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first commercial spacecraft.
- 1977.08.12
First free flight of the space shuttle prototype Enterprise at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
1978 A.D.
The L5 Society is founded.
Solar Cycle 21 at solar maximum.
1979 A.D.
Paolo Solieri builds the first "arcology" (architectural ecology) Arcosanti near Phoenix, Arizona.
1980 A.D.
The American civilian manufacturing company/business conglomerate Anaheim Electronics is founded.
- 1980.11
The US Voyager 1 surveys Saturn.
1982 A.D.
- 1982.04
Outbreak of the Falklands conflict between England and Argentina.
- 1982.04.12
The US launches STS-1 Columbia, the first containerized cargo vessel in space.
1985 A.D.
- 1985.04.01
Hailey's Comet at perigee, 1st Comet Hailey Intercept Probe (CHIP) mission.
1986 A.D.
- 1986.01.28
The 25th space shuttle mission, STS-51L Challenger, explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, at an altitude of 14 km (8.7 mi.) and a speed of 2,291 kph (1,424 mph) [Mach 1.92].
- 1986.04.26
The Chernobyl reactor melts down, the worst nuclear disaster to date.
1989 A.D.
Solar Cycle 22 at solar maximum.
- 1989.10.18
NASA launches the Galileo orbiter from STS-34 Atlantis on a Venus-Earth-Earth Gravity Assist (VEEGA) trajectory toward Jupiter.
1991 A.D.
- 1991.10.29
The Galileo orbiter flies within 1,595 km (991 mi.) of the S-type asteroid 951 Gaspra.
- 1991.12.21
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is dissolved.
1992 A.D.
The Biosphere experiment begins.
Summer Olympiad XXV / Winter Olympiad XVI.
1993 A.D.
Concerns over sporadically localized conflicts erupting around the globe run risk of spiraling out of control and escalating into World War III. The various crises also fueled concerns over severe pollution, overpopulation, resource shortages, famine, and increasing levels in crime and violence.
- 1993.08.28
The Galileo orbiter flies within 2,397 km (1,490 mi.) of the S-type asteroid 243 Ida. Images show the first asteroidal moon, Dactyl, orbiting Ida at a distance of 100 km (62 mi.).
1994 A.D.
- 1994.01.24
NASA and the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) launch the Clementine mission to make scientific observations of the Moon and the S-type near Earth asteroid 1620 Geographos.
- 1994.02.21
The Clementine spacecraft begins a two-month mapping scan of the Moon.
- 1994.05.07
A computer malfunction aboard the Clementine spacecraft exhausts all of its propellant, setting it spinning at about 80 RPM with no spin control. The follow-on mission to 1620 Geographos is no longer possible.
- 1994.07.16
Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. The impact is observed by the Galileo orbiter from a distance of 240 million km (150 million mi.) [1.6 AU]. 21 discernable fragments with diameters estimated at up to 2 km (1 1/4 mi.) impact the planet at 60 km/s (37 mps) [Mach 181].
1995 A.D.
- 1995.07.13
The NASA Galileo orbiter launches its Jupiter probe.
- 1995.12.07
The NASA Galileo probe enters the atmosphere of Jupiter.
1996 A.D.
- 1996.02.17
NASA launches the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft on a mission to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the S-type asteroid 433 Eros.
- 1996.06.27
The Galileo orbiter flies within 832 km (517 km.) of Ganymede (1st pass).
- 1996.09.06
The Galileo orbiter flies within 225 km (140 mi.) of Ganymede (2nd pass).
- 1996.11.04
The Galileo orbiter flies within 1,098 km (682 mi.) of Callisto (1st pass).
- 1996.11.29
Imagery from the Clementine spacecraft shows permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's south pole that may contain frozen volatiles, including water ice.
- 1996.12.19
The Galileo orbiter flies within 698 km (434 mi.) of Europa (1st pass).
1997 A.D.
- 1997.02.20
The Galileo orbiter flies within 587 km (365 mi.) of Europa (2nd pass).
- 1997.04.05
The Galileo orbiter flies within 3,095 km (1,923 mi.) of Ganymede (3rd pass).
- 1997.05.07
The Galileo orbiter flies within 1,485 km (923 mi.) of Ganymede (4th pass).
- 1997.06.25
The Galileo orbiter flies within 416 km (259 mi.) of Callisto (2nd pass).
- 1997.06.27
The NEAR spacecraft flies within 1,200 km (745 mi.) of the C-type asteroid 253 Mathilde.
- 1997.09.16
The Galileo orbiter flies within 538 km (334 mi.) of Callisto (3rd pass).
- 1997.11.06
The Galileo orbiter flies within 2,042 km (1,269 mi.) of Europa (3rd pass).
1998 A.D.
- 1998.01.07
NASA launches the Lunar Prospector low polar orbit investigation of the Moon.
- 1998.01.23
The NEAR spacecraft flies by the Earth to gather the Δ-V required to reach 433 Eros.
- 1998.04.05
The Lunar Prospector spacecraft returns data indicating that water ice is present at both the north and south lunar poles.
- 1998.10.24
NASA launches the first of the New Millennium Program missions, the solar electric ion-driven Deep Space 1 (DS1).
1999 A.D.
- 1999.02.08
The NEAR spacecraft flies within 3,830 km (2,375 mi.) of asteroid 433 Eros.
- 1999.07.29
The United Nations is reorganized into the Earth Federation, an organization with far greater powers and enforcement within its member nations than its predecessor in order to deal with the global crisis. Earth's surface is divided into eleven administrative areas: North America, South America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Eurasia, South Asia, East Asia, Middle East, North Africa, Sub-Suburan Africa, and Oceania.
- 1999.07.31
The Lunar Prospector spacecraft impacts the Moon near the south pole in a controlled crash to look for evidence of water ice, but none is observed.
2000 A.D.
Solar Cycle 23 at solar maximum.
Summer Olympiad XXVII.
- 2000.01.01
The Earth Federation formally announces its Space Colonization Plan. Several nations establish permanent space stations in Earth orbit.
2001 A.D.
Lunar bases begin construction in the Cayley, Clavius, Copernicus, and Tycho lunar craters.
- 2001.02.12
The NEAR spacecraft touches down on asteroid 433 Eros.
- 2001.07.29
The DS1 spacecraft flies within 15 km (9 mi.) of the S-type asteroid 9969 Braille (1999 KD).
- 2001.09.22
The DS1 spacecraft flies within 2,200 km (1,367 mi.) of comet Borelly.
- 2001.12.18
NASA retires the DS1 spacecraft.
2002 A.D.
Winter Olympiad XIX.
- 2002.01.17
The Galileo orbiter flies within 100 km (62 mi.) of Io (32nd pass). It transmits its final series of 70 photographs of this, its closest approach to any Jovian moon.
2003 A.D.
- 2003.09
The Galileo orbiter impacts Jupiter to probe the atmosphere, ending its mission.
2005 A.D.
The first solar power satellite is successfully launched.
2006 A.D.
Winter Olympiad XX.
2009 A.D.
The Earth Federation Forces (EFF) is formed to enforce Federation edicts among the nations of Earth and the space colonies. The EFF's general headquarters, the massive underground military complex Jaburo, is constructed within the heart of the Amazon River basin in South America. The EFF Academy is established in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
2011 A.D.
Solar Cycle 24 at solar maximum.
2012 A.D.
Summer Olympiad XXX.
2019 A.D.
Ricardo Marcenas is born in Sacramento, California.
2022 A.D.
Construction of the lunar mass driver is completed in the Censorinus lunar crater near Tranquility Base.
Solar Cycle 25 at solar maximum.
2026 A.D.
The Jupiter Energy Fleet (JEF) is launched from Lunar orbit to collect helium-3, hydrogen, and methane from Jupiter's atmosphere to power the thermonuclear reactors of large constructs such as space colonies and cruisers. Among the many ships of the Jupiter Energy Fleet is the Jupitris-class ultra-large interplanetary helium carrier space transport ships, which establishes several frontier colonies on the Jovian moons and in the gas giant's orbit.
Final Winter Olympiad XXV-Summer and Winter Games recombined.
2028 A.D.
Colonization of Mars overseen by NASA begins with the construction of the first Martian settlement, Arcadia, on the planet's surface. Thereafter, spaceports are established on the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos.
2029 A.D.
Anaheim Electronics arises as a well-known and regarded megacorporation within the Earth Sphere, producing numerous goods for both the Earth Federation and the colonies from cosmetics, vacation traveling plans, and credit cards to consumer electronics, and construction material for battleships and even space colonies.
The Set Mission intercepts the 350-meter asteroid 99942 Apophis before it can reach perigee, projected within GEO, and deflect it well clear of any gravitational keyhole that might result in it impacting near Hawaii on 13 April 2036 with an estimated 510-megaton energy release.
2032 A.D.
Olympiad XXXV.
2033 A.D.
Solar Cycle 26 at solar maximum.
2035 A.D.
The Earth Sphere enters a long period of economic recession, the destruction of infrastructure systems all over the world, various proxy wars between countries and federations, growing political tension between the Federation member-states and unaffiliated countries, and the movement of millions of people into space as the result of global warming and overpopulation results in social and political unrest worldwide. This is a result of a power struggle within the upper echelons of the Earth Federation between the Globalist Movement (who wish to transform the Federation into a multinational and multicultural superstate) and the Nationalist Movement (who sought to preserve their respective countries' culture and traditions).
The Martian city of Arcadia is completed. However, further colonization efforts on Mars is temporarily halted due to the ongoing political tension on Earth. Due to Mars' remoteness, Arcadia and the other Martian settlements are established under a de facto autonomous country and a haven for outlaws.
2036 A.D.
Olympiad XXXVI.
2040 A.D.
Ricardo Marcenas attends the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where he would get train to become a naval aviator also earn a bachelor's degree in military history.
Olympiad XXXVII.
2044 A.D.
Ricardo Marcenas joins the U.S. Navy's Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program, more popularly known as TOPGUN, before finally being assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln as part of the famous Crossbone Squadron, participating in several joint American/EFF pacification missions on dissident nations within Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, providing tactical support for coalition ground units.
Solar Cycle 27 at solar maximum.
Olympiad XXXVIII.
2045 A.D.
With Earth's population at 9 billion, an ambitious space colonization program begins. An Island 3-type colony is completed at Lagrange Point 5 (L5) using O'Neill "open-type" design. With this success achieved, the space colony project goes on to construct colony clusters entirely made up of Island 3 colonies called "Sides," population centers composed of multiple colonies ranging from 50 to 80 "bunches." Construction of Side 1 (Zahn Province) begins in L5. However, due to the ongoing mass unrest on Earth, construction is greatly delayed and Side 1 wouldn't be completed until 2081.
2048 A.D.
George Marcenas, son of Ricardo Marcenas, is born.
Olympiad XXXIX.
2051 A.D.
In the process of negotiating a lasting peace between the warring nations, the Earth Federation is drastically reformed and formally established as the world's first centralized global government. The Federation relocates its capital from the former UN Headquarters in New York City, New York to the West African city of Dakar, Senegal.
Due to their immense political power, the Globalist Movement retains majority control over the Earth Federation government.
2052 A.D.
Olympiad XL.
2055 A.D.
Solar Cycle 28 at solar maximum.
2056 A.D.
Olympiad XLI.
2060 A.D.
Olympiad XLII.
2062 A.D.
- 2062.10.15
Hailey's Comet at perigee, 2nd CHIP mission.
2064 A.D.
Olympiad XLIII.
2065 A.D.
Syam Vist is born.
2066 A.D.
The EFF gains emergency military powers in order to quell the economic crisis and deal with nations and organizations that oppose the Federation government.
Following the end of his military service, Ricardo Marcenas enters politics as a member of the Liberal Party within the Earth Federation government.
Solar Cycle 29 at solar maximum.
2068 A.D.
Olympiad XLIV.
2072 A.D.
Olympiad XLV.
2076 A.D.
Olympiad XLVI.
2077 A.D.
Solar Cycle 30 at solar maximum.
2080 A.D.
Olympiad XLVII.
2081 A.D. (U.C. 0001)
The migration of humans to the colonies, the moon, and to space begins in earnest. By the time of this transition, the calendar is changed to the Universal Century (U.C.) era.
Construction of the Side 1 (Zahn Province) (L5) colony cluster is completed.
The Colony Management Corporation (CMC) is established.
- 0001.01.01
The Laplace Incident; To celebrate the inauguration of the U.C. calendar, a space station is created to serve as the official residence of Ricardo Marcenas, who has been elected to serve as the first Prime Minister of the Earth Federation in the Universal Century. This space station is called Laplace, a Stanford torus-type habitat that's built in a 200-kilometer polar orbit along the Earth's terminator that keeps it perpetually sunlit. During the calendar change ceremony, anti-Federation terrorists use solar-powered explosives to destroy the Laplace Space Station, killing all of the station's inhabitants including Ricardo Marcenas. Unbeknownst to everyone at the time, the terrorists were secretly hired by a clique of Federation politicians part of the Globalist Movement led by Ricardo's son George Marcenas who sought to eliminate the Nationalist Movement and their supporters within the Federation government. During their escape, the terrorists' ship is heavily damaged due to debris from the station's destruction, killing most of the crew. The sole survivor, Syam Vist, comes across the Universal Century Charter (subsequently known as "Laplace's Box"), which dictates that the inhabitants of space should be given self-governance without interference from the Earth. Realizing that the words contain the power to destroy the Earth Federation, Syam takes the document with him into hiding and uses his connections in the criminal underworld to found the influential Vist Foundation, a company that primarily profits from trading paintings and various forms of art between Earth and the space colonies.
The destruction of Laplace and the sudden death of Prime Minister Ricardo Marcenas allows the Globalist Movement to gain full control of the Earth Federation Parliament, giving them the political power to strip away the last vestiges of national sovereignty that the nations of Earth still had and turn the Federation into a true global superstate. Following this, George Marcenas is elected as the second Prime Minister of the Earth Federation in the Universal Century.
U.C. 0004
Olympiad XLVIII.
U.C. 0007
Monica Humphrey is born.
U.C. 0008
Solar Cycle 31 at solar maximum.
Olympiad XLIX.
U.C. 0009
Zeon Zum Deikun and Anton Flanagan are born.