2020 - With dwindling supplies and over population chocking the planet, the United Nations of earth enact the colonial initiative, over the next 30 years humanity begin to colonize earth's moon and mars, as well as building several satellite colonies around earth, Jupiter and Venus.
2046 - The first manned probes are sent beyond the reaches of earths system and into deep space, although the destinations of each probe are light years away and the trips are well beyond the average human lifespan; suspended animation is used to achieve these goals. Many of the manned probes are lost and never heard from again.
2051 - the wasting, a pathogen is released into the earth's atmosphere which mutates into the most contagious virus ever known, 80% of the earth's population is infected whereas most of them succumb to the virus and die, although earth is quarantined the virus reaches several colonies off world devastating them.
2060 - Following the devastation caused by the wasting mass migration and consolidation begins, the devastated colonies are repopulated.
2062 - As faster than light travel is still beyond the grasp of humanity, the first tests of sub space technology begins.
2065 - The colony ship Aurora sets out to establish the first colony beyond the earth system; however the journey will take upwards of 60 years.
2066 - The first successful test of sub space technology allows a ship to travel between earth and Venus almost instantly, despite the side effects the technology is rolled out and human expansion explodes.
2068 - The first colony outside of the earth system is established on the planet that would become known as aurora, in honor of the colony ship that would arrive 59 years later.
2072 - As humanity expands, they discover a region now known as the void, a stretch of space without a single system or nebular for several light years, also back upon earth the first designs of combat frames, walking tanks, and are put into service.
2079 - Contact is made with the first sentient alien race, the Baal; initial contact ends badly as the human exploration ship is lost. Humanity responds by sending an armada, along with the newly developed combat frames, the brutal war lasts only days and as the Baal fall humanity fans out to hunt their new enemies down, however it is quickly discovered that the Baal were a small race, and humanity had instead raised the Baal home world.
2083 - with stolen technology from the war with the Baal humanity is able to produce the advanced battle frames and even larger space vessels, studying and deciphering Baal texts, humanity learns of the ether, two pocket dimensions that exists on either side of our own, these dimensions make sub space travel possible, something that proved to be a flute to develop without this knowledge.
2097 to 2164 - humanity continues its expansion into the southern and Eastern reaches while the united government of earth solidifies itself within the earth system. Contact is made with two new alien species, the sirens and the belakor in 2120 and 2131 respectively.
2164 to 2201 - the consolidation wars, several skirmishes occur between systems vying for colonization and mining rights, earth deploys their colonial peacekeepers to end the fighting and establish control over the disputed territories. Talk of separatism from earth begins.
2198 - Laser and phase technology is developed using technology recovered from the Baal.
2203 - Work begins on six leviathan class ships; the largest ships ever built by humanity.
2207 - Ruins are discovered across several worlds, as they are excavated it becomes clear that the ruins are in fact Baal in origin, it is unclear how, or why they now lay in ruins.
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Broken Steel - The Pillars of Sovereign
Science FictionUpon the distant outer world known as York8, the first war in sixty years has begun. Since the Great War called the Schism, an uneasy peace has settled upon the human dominion and its great powers. One of these powers, The Alliance of free worlds, h...
