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Timeline of all notable interstellar events. For more a detailed history of Earth, see Timeline of Earth.

Pre-Singularity Age (pre-2112)[edit | edit source]

Pre-Singularity Age
Date Description Loc
2000 First working 5-qubit quantum computer demonstrated at the Technical University of Munich. IconEarth.png
2014 First electronic quantum processor created IconEarth.png
2024 Artemis 2 becomes the first manned spacecraft to leave earth orbit in fifty years, completing a lunar flyby before returning to earth. IconEarth.png
2025 Lunar Orbital Platform - Gateway is successfully put into lunar orbit. IconTheMoon.png
2026 Artemis 3 brings the first crew to the LOP-G. During the mission the crew make a successful lunar landing, the first since 1972. IconTheMoon.png
2027 NASA's Deep Space Transport is launched and docked with the LOP-G in preparation for a Mars mission. IconTheMoon.png
2029 The crew of the Ares 6 mission arrive on board the DST and begin the four year journey to Mars. IconTheMoon.png
2031 The LOP-G is completed. IconTheMoon.png
2032 Following the success of the Artemis missions, the United States Government vows to maintain a permanent manned presence in lunar orbit. IconEarth.png
2033 The DST arrives in Mars orbit, a lander is deployed and the first human walks on Mars. IconMars.png
2035 The first permanent research base is deployed to the surface of the Moon as part of a joint CNSA-ESA-NASA initiative. IconTheMoon.png
2037 The crew of the Ares 6 return to Earth with plans for further missions already in motion. IconEarth.png
2038 A breakthrough in propulsion technology sees the first successful test of Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rockets (VASIMR), although the energy demand can only be met with the output of a fission reactor. IconEarth.png
2039 Jupiter's Great Red Spot, first observed as early as 1831, fully disappears. IconJupiter.png
2040 Peak Oil reached. IconEarth.png
2061 The Gaia 1 mission brings twelve people to Mars, the first permanent residents of a Martian base built for perpetual habitation. IconMars.png
July 16, 2069 Daedalus, the first interstellar probe is launched on the one hundredth anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 11 mission, beginning its long journey towards Alpha Centauri. It is expected to take forty years to reach the system, travelling at 12% speed of light for the majority of transit. IconEarth.png
2078 First orbital solar panel arrays sent into orbit around Earth. IconEarth.png
2109 Daedalus arrives in the Alpha Centauri system, beginning an eight year survey mission. IconProximaCentauri.png
2110 Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid is completed over Tokyo Bay, the largest man-made structure to be completed in Earth's history, capable of supporting a self-sufficient population of one million inhabitants, it is heralded as the first ever arcology. IconEarth.png

Pre-Singularity Age was one of tragic stories, mass-migrations, economic and ecological disasters.

Post-Singularity Age (2112 - 2201)[edit | edit source]

Post-Singularity Age
Date Description Loc Rel
2112 Significant advancements in machine learning in the decades prior gives birth to a new generation of artificial intelligence technology, with the learning capacity of this new AI accelerating human technological advancement beyond all measure. Many authorities hail this breakthrough as the birth of the Technological Singularity. IconEarth.png
2112 First space elevator built on Earth. IconEarth.png
2113 First pictures of the Alpha Centauri System arrive on Earth, forty-four years after the Daedalus was launched. The success of the mission sparks a renewed interest extrasolar exploration and plans are made for future missions to send probes to all stars within fifteen light years of the Solar System. IconEarth.png IconProximaCentauri.png
2116 Aided by modern learning AI, the theories of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are successfully unified, becoming known as the Theory of Everything. IconEarth.png
December 27, 2117 John II Samuel Smith, the first healthy human of ectogenesis reproduction method. He lives for 92 years contributing greatly for studies related to ectogenesis. IconEarth.png
2121 Final signals from the Daedalus probe are received. IconEarth.png IconProximaCentauri.png
2133 The CNSA launch the Zheng He probe towards the Luyten's star system, the closest star system with a potentially Earth like planet to have been found within fifty light years of Earth. The journey is projected to take one hundred years and critics of the venture claim that the data received will not reach Earth within a human lifetime. IconEarth.png IconZhuQue.png
2137 By this point, global warming has reached a critical level, with sea levels having risen by two meters. Though sea walls were constructed across the world to protect some vital developed coastal areas, many other cities had already been partially or fully submerged. Sometime at this point, several nations begin commissioning the construction of climate-controlled cities similar to the Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid, sparking the development of the first arcologies. IconEarth.png
2145 L'Avenir, the first ever domed city, was built in central-France. IconEarth.png ArcoLogoEuropaNovum.png

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2151 Fourth generation nuclear weapons see rapid development, which are tactually useful due to them producing no radioactive fallout. 4th generation nuclear weapons are fusion-based hydrogen bombs with a non-fission laser trigger, with the fission being the source of fallout in previous nuclear warheads. Though effective, the weight of the laser emitters is too great for these new nuclear weapons to be used as Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM). IconEarth.png
2151 Advances in laser efficiency lead to the development of the first Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) reactors capable of generating net positive energy. IconEarth.png
2158 Dome city of Dongyeon-hang was built. IconEarth.png ArcoLogo Taegeuk.png
2180 Department of Luna declared by the United Nations, with the lunar surface initially zoned for scientific and strictly limited industrial projects, with the first colonies seeking to mine helium-3 for use in fusion reactors. IconTheMoon.png
2193 Ceres is colonised. IconCeres.png
2195 After centuries of speculation, research and controlled tests on Earth and Luna, Mars is seeded with the first primitive terraforming drones, tasked initially to detoxify its soil, and to release compounds into its atmosphere to induce a warming greenhouse effect. IconMars.png

Post-Singularity Age was one of innovations, stargazing and scientific breakthroughs even if the era was shadowed by the now seemingly inevitable destruction of Earth's biosphere.

Solar Age (2201 - 2800)[edit | edit source]

Solar Age
Date Description Loc Rel
2201 By now, VASIMR systems have become cheap enough to be fitted on most space-worthy ships, opening the floodgates for feasible colonisation of the Solar System. IconEarth.png
2203 Construction of the first domed city on Mars, Arcadia, begins. Modeled off of the dome city of Dongyeon-hang, the project sparks further development of the Martian colony beyond the isolated outposts spread across the planet. IconMars.png
2225 Arcadia is completed, becoming the de-facto capital of Mars. Its completion sparks rapid growth of the Martian colony, prompting an influx of colonists from Earth. A cultural divide between the Arcadia and the Martian Frontier develops. IconMars.png
2233 The Zheng He arrives in Luyten's star system, on a planned twelve year mission of cataloging the planets within the system. IconZhuQue.png
2245 One hundred and twelve years since it departed the Solar System, The first images from the Zheng He of Luyten's Star system are received on Earth. IconEarth.png IconZhuQue.png
2246 After a flyby of Luyten's Star, Zheng He enters into a dormant state in orbit around it, sending back a steady signal indefinitely as it draws power from solar cells. IconZhuQue.png
2248 The moons of Jupiter, Callisto and Ganymede, are settled as part of preparations to colonize Europa. Construction of domed cities begin in Europa's orbit, with the intention of lowering them to the surface once they are completed. IconJupiter.png
2255 Detailed images of Luyten b are received for the first time, confirming its suitability as a terraforming candidate. The first concrete plans for an extrasolar colony are drawn up by the CNSA. IconEarth.png IconZhuQue.png
2257 Data from the Zheng He flyby of Luyten's Star is received from the probe. IconEarth.png IconZhuQue.png
2269 Axil Energy, direct predecessor to the modern Axil Industries, is founded by asteroid mining magnate Thomas Brady Axil. AxilEnergyLogo.png
2270 The moon of Saturn, Enceladus, is settled by Saturn Next in preparation for the colonization of Titan. Autonomous drones are deployed to the surface of Titan to fabricate domed structures that can support human habitation. IconSaturn.png
2277 The United Nations, to reflect its modern status as arbiter for international and interplanetary cooperation, is renamed as the United Governed Space Authority. IconEarth.png IconIGSA.png
2279 A space station is assembled in orbit around Triton to facilitate the colonisation of Neptune IconNeptune.png
2280 A space station is transported into Pluto's orbit, with the intention of providing a staging point for the deployment of terraforming drones to the Luyten System and interstellar probes intended for the Gliese 832 and Wolf 1061 systems. IconPluto.png IconTranquility.png

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2297 The first magnetic satellite array is placed in 1.5 million km geosynchronous orbit with Mars, providing an artificial magnetosphere for the planet capable of shielding solar radiation. IconMars.png
2298 The Martian War of Independence begins. IconMars.png
2299 The January Massacre occurs on Saturn. Axil Energy Enforcers are sent to Saturn to quell a strike of ice miners led by the Martian Syndicalist Association. Fearing defeat, a renegade group of MSA radicals commands the weapons satellite "Xi Guiying" to fire a volley of fusion missiles on the colonial headquarters, atomising it. In an emergency UGSA meeting, a humanitarian crisis is declared, and Axil is voted to replace Saturn Next as the head of colonisation. IconSaturn.png AxilEnergyLogo.png
2300 UGSA declares the atmosphere of Earth unsafe to breathe without augmentation, spurring a period popularised by media as the Interstellar Hypoxia, where for the next two centuries no human-inhabited planet could naturally sustain a breathable atmosphere. This period is often attributed as the cultural catalyst for the mass usage of interface suits and normalisation of the commercial air industry. IconEarth.png IconIGSA.png
2312 Martian nationalists win the Martian War of Independence, forcing Earth to grant Mars greater autonomy with Mars remaining under de facto Earth control for centuries. Ares Legion rejects the peace deal and continue their fight for independence. IconMars.png IconEarth.png
2314 Ares Legion is driven out of Mars' urban area and becomes an insurgency. IconMars.png
2323 Martian terraforming drones are sabotaged, and Ares Legion is blamed. IconMars.png
2380 The terraforming of Luyten b begins, thousands of automated drones are deployed to guide large asteroids taken from the Luyten's Star Oort Cloud towards the surface of the planet in a process that is estimated to take five centuries. IconZhuQue.png
2410 FRIEND (Forward-thinking Radical Intelligent Evolving Nodal Database) is installed in the Olympus Mons Metro, Mars, in order to automate the planet's immense ruling bureaucracy, with mild improvements occurring in its efficiency over the next decades. IconMars.png
2416 The Heavyside raid occurs, and Ares Legion is devastated by the Union of Mars with the assistance of FRIEND. Ares Legion collapses, and its members slowly surrender over the next few decades. IconMars.png
2547 The Tethys Crisis (Tethys-47) occurs on Saturn. A loose cobalt bomb explodes above the domed city of Scheria, shattering its dome and showering the surrounding Odysseus crater in fallout, throwing the entire moon - and later all of Saturn - into a state of chaos. Numerous syndicates use the crisis to rise to power, earning themselves the name of "Tethys Triads". IconSaturn.png
2550 By now, Mars's atmosphere is sufficiently oxygenated to be breathable without augmentation. IconMars.png
2551 Official start date for the Saturnian Conflict. An outbreak of the Swine-Originated Influenza Virus 2551 (SOIV-51) allows UGSA to quarantine Tethys and place the warring Saturn under an indefinite net of embargoes. With direct intervention failing to end the conflict, UGSA votes to instead mitigate it through foreign aid. A slow state of war would continue to flare across the ringed giant for another 558 years. IconSaturn.png
2701 The March of Terror, a series of anti-Earther communal violence, occur on Mars for months before being suppressed. IconMars.png
2737 Stable artificial gravity field generators invented, although their power demand is so immense that they are largely kept out of the reach of most consumers. IconEarth.png
2796 Advancements in gravity manipulation leads to the creation of the Kimber Drive, which is patented by Kimber Future Technologies. The first of these drives, while only managing speeds of up to 30-40% of the speed of light, still allowed for much faster transit through the Solar System, particularly for large freighters. IconEarth.png KimberLogo.png

Mass colonisation of Solar bodies marks a new triumph for the human race.

Extrasolar Age (2800 - 3222)[edit | edit source]

Extrasolar Age
Date Description Loc Rel
2800 Foundation of the Kimber-Sonoshee Racing League and the start of the inaugural Centauri Circuit. IconTheMoon.png IconProximaCentauri.png
2812 Approximate year that competitors in the Sirius Circuit first arrive in the Alpha Centauri System. IconProximaCentauri.png
2825 Livius Schwartz completes the Sirius Circuit in a 35% Kimber Drive, successfully returning to the Sol System twenty-five years after his departure. IconTheMoon.png IconProximaCentauri.png
2826 Spica Kimber proposes establishing a permanent settlement on Proxima Centauri b and commissions the Rigil Kentaurus, a colony ship, to be constructed by his company. IconEarth.png IconProximaCentauri.png
2856 Construction of the Rigil Kentaurus is completed in the Callisto Shipyards and it is fitted with a 90% Kimber Drive. IconJupiter.png IconProximaCentauri.png
2857 The Rigil Kentaurus reaches Pluto and the colonists board. After completing final checks, the vessel departs the Solar System. IconPluto.png IconProximaCentauri.png
2862 The Rigil Kentaurus arrives in the Alpha Centauri system and begins a slow burn towards Proxima Centauri b. IconProximaCentauri.png
2863 The Rigil Kentaurus enters Proxima Centauri b orbit and the first humans descend to the surface in Interface Suits. IconProximaCentauri.png
2880 Algae seeding on Luyten b begins, vital for scrubbing the remaining carbon dioxide out of the air. Soil purification projects begin in preparation for the introduction of more advanced plant species in the future. IconZhuQue.png
2900 The Zhu Que Initiative successfully launches the Vermilion Bird colony ship bound for Luyten b. IconPluto.png IconZhuQue.png
December 5, 2912 The Vermilion Bird colony ship arrives in Luyten's Star system, bringing the first extrasolar colonists to a planet that has been prepared for their arrival over the last five centuries. IconZhuQue.png
2912 United Governed Space Authority renames itself the Interstellar Governed Space Authority, reflecting its new role as administrators of the new colony. IconIGSA.png
3083 Nova Generation Ship sets sail for Wolf 1061 c. IconPluto.png IconNova.png
3107 Construction work begins on the Tranquility Launch Arco after decades of stalling and setbacks. IconEarth.png ArcoLogo TLA.png

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3109 With aid from Earth, Mars and Jupiter, IGSA partitions the crumbling triad territories on Saturn into four states, ending the Saturnian Conflict and founding the Union of Saturn. IconSaturn.png IconEarlySaturn.png
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3195 After a thousand years of tireless planetary engineering, Mars is now a well and truly a verdant, ocean-filled world. On this millennial anniversary, the Martian government officially declares the planet "fully terraformed". IconMars.png
3206 Tranquility Launch Arco successfully launches from Earth's orbit. Spends under a year orbiting the sun as it approaches 99% of the speed of light before setting sail to Gliese 832 c. IconEarth.png ArcoLogo TLA.png

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3212 With the escalation of the Climate Disaster on Earth, IGSA grants the Union of Mars self-rule, with mandates barring Earth corporations from damaging the Martian ecosystem seen by many as the lynchpin for its continued consent to remain a member-state. IconMars.png

Age of reaching further and further beyond the former boundaries. Soon the human race will be found everywhere in the galaxy, or so some fathom.

Interstellar Age (3222- present)[edit | edit source]

Interstellar Age
Date Description Loc Rel
October 23, 3222 The Zhu Que Directorate declares its independence from IGSA, becoming the first independent extrasolar state, heralding the beginning of the Interstellar Age and a shift away from Sol centric administrations. IconZhuQue.png IconIGSA.png
3222 Gliese 832 c is reached by the Tranquility Launch Arco, with its first settlers christening the planet under the new name Tranquility. Colony's new planetary government dons the name State of Tranquility. IconTranquility.png ArcoLogo TLA.png
3259 Eden is colonised by an expedition of various Christian sects. IconEden.png
3261 Contact with Earth is lost on Eden, and the colony descends into religious wars. IconEden.png IconEarth.png
3307 Wolf 1061 c finally colonised by the Nova Generation Ship, with the settlers naming the world Nova, having developed an alien culture in their centuries of isolation. A second wave of settlers arrives in the following years, with a significant number of the settlers being Martian expats. IconNova.png
3432 Terraforming of Zhu Que is deemed to have been completed. IconZhuQue.png
3349 Kimber Future Technologies dissolves, with its founding father-son clone dynasty, Rigel and Spica Kimber, moving into other industries. The Kimber brand identity retains its prestige well into the present. IconEarth.png KimberLogo.png
3453 Commonwealth of Earth is founded. IconEarth.png
3460 Martian Federation is founded, and the Commonwealth Invasion of Mars begins. IconMars.png IconEarth.png
3465 The Commonwealth Invasion of Mars ends, and an armistice is signed between the two states. Social order on Mars is low for the next two decades. IconMars.png IconEarth.png
3465 Following a quick public debut and meteoric rise to power Kristján Petersson founds the Saturnine Executive with hopes to unify Saturn as an independent economic power. IconSaturn.png
3467 The Europa Treaty is signed between the Commonwealth of Earth and the Union of Mars, formally ending the Commonwealth Invasion of Mars. IconMars.png IconEarth.png
3481 The Commonwealth occupation of Eden begins. IconEden.png IconEarth.png
3501 The First Edenite Rebellion begins and ends. IconEden.png IconEarth.png
3505 Jovian Interstellar Republic is founded. IconJupiter.png
3566 82 G. Eridani System colonised by the Commonwealth-led 82 G. Eridani Exploration Fleet. Icon82gEridani.png
3636 The Interstellar Cooperation Pact is made between Mars, Zhu Que, and Jupiter. IconMars.png IconZhuQue.png

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3656 The Second Edenite Rebellion begins. IconEden.png IconEarth.png
3660 The Second Edenite Rebellion ends. IconEden.png IconEarth.png
3666 ALIAS (Automatic Life-assist Intelligent Administration System) is installed in Neo Arcadia, Mars, fully automating the now almost completely machine-dependent Arcadian State Government. In the following decade, similar systems also replace most of the state governments of the confederation as ALIAS spreads. IconMars.png
3667 The Equity Faction, working under the auspices of ALIAS, takes control of the Martian government leading to a separate Martian Federation being formed, and the Martian Civil War begins. IconMars.png IconMarsMarinerValley.png
3671 The Mars Federation in Mariner Valley creates an effective countermeasure to ALIAS, ARES. IconMarsMarinerValley.png
3678 ALIAS invades Olympus Mons and Xanthe Terra, and the Martian Civil War really starts turning against anti-ALIAS forces. IconMars.png IconMarsMarinerValley.png
3690 Mariner Valley falls to ALIAS, and the Martian Civil War ends. IconMars.png IconMarsMarinerValley.png
3691 The Earth-Mars War begins when the Commonwealth proposes reintroducing the Artificial Intelligence ban. Many other states join the Commonwealth of Earth against ALIAS and the Martian Federation, signalling the beginning of the Great Interstellar War. IconMars.png

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3711 Third Edenite Rebellion begins. IconEden.png IconEarth.png
3713 The Third Edenite Rebellion ends. IconEden.png IconEarth.png
3750 The Godly Republic of Eden is founded. IconEden.png
3750 The Commonwealth occupation of Eden ends. IconEden.png IconEarth.png
3755 Second Interstellar Peace Conference is held, marking the end of the Great Interstellar War. The peace settlement sees ALIAS recognised as the sovereign ruler of Mars, the guaranteed independence of the Godly Republic of Eden and People's Republic of Cariocecus, and the collapse of the Commonwealth's extrasolar dominion.

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3756 Neptune gains independence from the Commonwealth of Earth, and declares itself the Free State of Neptune IconNeptune.png IconEarth.png
3977 Moses, a space dry dock, is put into the orbit of Eden as part of the Godly Republic of Eden’s Sinai Project to strengthen their navy. IconEden.png
May 11, 3989 The Xin Xiwang government aggressively readjusts the political climate of the Commonwealth of Earth to favour their interests. New Manhattan is usurped as the seat of the Commonwealth Senate, with their headquarters moved to Xin Xiwang. Additionally, the Equatorial Space Elevator security contract is transferred over to Argonaut Inc., replacing Axil Industries overnight. IconEarth.png ArcoLogo NewManhattan.png

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May 12, 3989 The Equatorial Space Elevator Nerve Gas Attacks. The African and Guyanese Space Elevators are flooded with nerve gas by Argonaut Inc automated security in a purge of the Axil Industries forces stationed on them. IconEarth.png ArgonautLogo.png

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May 13, 3989 The Five Hour War. The Earth detachment of the Axil Merchant Marines turn their guns on Argonaut vessels in response to the gas attacks, crippling their rival's trade fleet. They are ordered to stand down by the Axil Industries CEO before the IGSA Peacekeeping Forces and Commonwealth Navy arrive to end the violence. IconEarth.png ArgonautLogo.png

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4000 Hammerhead Base is set up on Hunte by Axil Industries and Xu Tai Inc. as the center of their new mining operation. IconEarth.png Axil Industries logo.png

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January 1, 4005 Present date. No canon exists beyond January 1st 4005.