Timeline

This is the primary timeline for the Orion Spur, and all its species. This is primarily for use by Lore Writers.

While there is much on this timeline prior, Aurora's timeline officially diverges in 1969. For events taking place prior to 1969, it is best to assume that they follow the conventional history of Earth.

Before Common Era

"And on this rock, I shall build my church."

• Unknown Date: Vaurca Evolve on Sedantis

• ~734,533 B.C.E: The period of Warrior Nomadism in Vaurca Society begins

• ~564,533 B.C.E: The Vaurca begin their agricultural revolution

• ~98,000 B.C.E: Homo Sapiens begins to migrate out of Africa

• ~57,533 B.C.E: The First Records of the K’lax

• ~51,533 B.C.E: The First Hivenet Tower is constructed

• ~42,533 B.C.E: The Zo’ra emerge, and begin to build their Empire

• ~35,183 B.C.E: The Vaurca Begin their Era of Augments

• ~34,183 B.C.E: The Lii’dra Form

• ~27,533 B.C.E: The Great Hive War Begins

• ~12,500 B.C.E: The First Permanent Unathi Settlements are formed

• ~12,000 B.C.E: Ancient skrell discover metallurgy

• ~10,000 B.C.E: Humanity begins the Agricultural Revolution

• 9,900 B.C.E: The skrell Age of Enlightenment begins

• ~7,400 B.C.E: The first Human cities are built

• 1980 B.C.E: The first skrell spacecraft successfully lands on Qerr’Malic

• 1500 B.C.E: Marks the earliest historical records of the Tajara civilization

• 1100 B.C.E: The skrell colonies on both Aliose and Qerr’Malic are fully established, becoming the first two interplanetary colonies.

• 1158 B.C.E: The Tajara enter the Incarnate Age.

• 1008 B.C.E: The Holy Tajara City of Sana Sahira] is founded.

• 971 B.C.E: With the War of the Tides under ceasefire, all three major skrell nations invent the Warp Drive out of mutual cooperation.

• 383 B.C.E: The Tajara enter the migration period.

Common Era

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Pre-20th Century

• 88 C.E: The Tajara enter the Warring Kings Period.

• ~150 C.E: The Vaurca begin their exodus - they will not reappear for almost two thousand years.

• ~200 C.E.: The Sinta’Mador go extinct.

• 887 C.E: In response to growing colonial unrest, the Commonwealth of Three forms the Nralakk Federation, unifying the skrell factions..

• 920 C.E: The First Hegemony is established on Moghes.

• 925 C.E: The Tajara colonize Harr’masir, inhabiting all continents of Adhomai for the first time.

• 1445 C.E: The Tajara enter the gunpowder age.

• 1600 C.E: The Suns War of Harr’masir begins.

• 1687 C.E: Regluk, the first sentient AI, is brought online by the Nralakk Federation.

• 1698 C.E: The first steam engine is invented on Earth.

• 1756 C.E. The first printing press is invented on Adhomai.

• 1800 C.E: The first steam engine is invented on Moghes

• ~1800 C.E: The Sun Wars of Harr’masir end, driving Raskariim worship into hiding.

• 1877 C.E: Peasant revolt spreads across the Das’nrra Empire.

• 1883 C.E: The peasant revolt is put down, Steeple Peace is established on Adhomai

The Twentieth Century

• 1931: The Unathi begin their Great Endevour

• 1945: The Second World War concludes, and humanity creates the first Atomic Bomb.

• 1954: The first steam engine is invented on Adhomai.

• 1969: The Sino-Soviet border dispute goes hot in July, resulting in a full-scale war with limited nuclear exchanges.

• 1970: The Sino-Soviet War ends in a resounding defeat for the People’s Republic of China. Humiliated by a loss of territory and life, it quickly begins to fall apart internally and collapses into the Second Chinese Civil War. The Soviet Union successfully lands on the Moon.

• 1971: The United States and Soviet Union intervene in the Second Chinese Civil War, leading to a proxy war that quickly eclipses Vietnam.

• 1974: The USSR shifts to an even more hardline stance following the resignation of Leonid Brezhnev and ascension of Yuri Andropov to General Secretary. The Andropov Doctrine, designed to bring the USSR into more prominence on the world stage, rapidly sees the Union involved in proxy wars in Africa and Asia.

• 1977: The Presidency of George McGovern is challenged by a pro-Soviet revolution in Iran, leading to the Iranian War - a massively unpopular U.S. policing action that will eventually see the end of the draft, an action that will lead to a rise in the amount of private military contractors employed by the United States.

• 1979: Escalating warfare in Namibia, Angola, and Zambia sees the Republic of South Africa relying more and more upon mercenary companies to plug gaps in its military.

• 1983: The Iranian War ends in an unexpected defeat for the U.S. and a stunning victory for the USSR, demonstrating to the world that the Soviet Union is here to stay. Anti-communist Democrat Henry M. Jackson wins the 1984 presidential election in a landslide, demonstrating the United States’ continuing commitment to anti-communism abroad.

• 1990: Despite the South African Border War ending in a grinding stalemate, the Republic of South Africa’s growing mercenary and arms sectors continue to expand. Eventually these mercenary companies and their weapon supplies will form the basis of Necropolis Industries (now known as Zavodskoi Interstellar).

• 1994: The Third Hegemony is established on Moghes.'

• 1997: The death of Mobutu Sese Seko and collapse of Zaire leads to the Second Congo Crisis, the largest war to engulf Africa in its history. Private mercenaries play a large role in the conflict, and postwar Congo is dominated by the interests of business conglomerates backed up by mercenaries. The utter domination of the Congo by corporations would set a precedent for corporate control of unstable regions during the 21st century.

• 1999: As the end of one millennia approaches, the world stands on an arguable brink. Proxy wars between the Soviet Union and United States of America have continued almost unabated for decades, and resources -- particularly fuel -- are beginning to run low. Entire swaths of the Third World lie devestated by the constant back-and-forth of the world's two superpowers, and the twenty-first century seems an uncertain future at best.

The Twenty-First Century

• 2000s: A fully rebuilt and newly invigorated Federal Republic of China re-enters the global economy, and rapidly becomes one of the world’s largest economies. The FRC’s pharmaceutical industry, in particular, becomes one of the Republic’s most profitable industries. Eventually these companies, alongside others from Asian countries such as Japan and Singapore, will go on to form Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals.

• 2000s: Nlom Interfaces, devices that allow machines and AIs to detect psionics and interpret commands from them, are invented by the Nralakk Federation.

• 2010s: A major string of proxy wars in the Middle East between the USA and USSR shakes the international oil market, leading to a drive for alternative sources of power.

• 2025: The European Union votes to unify in response to an increasingly powerful USSR. French scientists successfully activate the first fusion reactor in 2027, shortly after unification. While the technology is expensive, it promises to solve Earth's ongoing energy problems.

• 2028: The EU along with China, the United States, Mexico, and Canada form United Orbital Enterprises in order to counter the USSR's space program (Cosmonaut Enterprises). A push begins to return to the Moon and establish permanent colonies.

• 2035: The Pacific Alliance, an evolution of NATO, is founded in 2035 in response to further Soviet expansion into South-East Asia.

• 2040s: Tensions between the EU and the Soviet Union continue to escalate, coming dangerously close to boiling over during several incidents in the 2040s.

• 2046: Glorsh, the first psionically-capable AI, is brought online by the Skrell.

• 2050s: The Cold War seeps further into South America, which will become the primary theater of the Cold War until the Crisis of 2127. The West African Union forms following decades of regional economic success.

• 2056: Glorsh-Omega forms a technological singularity and assumes full control of the Nralakk Federation as its sole ruler, and places all skrell under its wards.

• 2070: United Orbital Enterprises launches three ships to colonize Venus, Mars, and the Moon. They form small science outposts, with over a dozen residents each officially becoming the first human colonists in space. The USSR's own space agency faces setbacks in colonizing the surface of planets or the moon but finds itself remarkably adept at deep space constructions thanks to its focus on heavy industry.

• 2090: Glorsh-Omega begins construction of a megastructure as a new central processing core within the Tri-Qyu system.

• 2095: A habitable world is discovered in the Epsilon Eridani system, leading to a brief bidding war over the rights to settle it that the West African Union ultimately wins.

The Twenty-Second Century

• 2127: While there has been success in tentatively spreading across the Solar System, Earth itself faced increasingly dire ecological crises throughout the 21st and 22nd centuries. In 2127 Earth's ongoing ecological woes became too severe too ignore for longer when New York City, long the crown jewel of the United States of America, was almost completely flooded during its annual hurricane season. The damage to the city would ultimately cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars, but there was a far worse consequence: the collapse of Wall Street, then the fiscal hub for humanity. Markets and currencies fluctuated wildly across the Earth, and economic anarchy reigned for much of the rest of the 2120s. Only in the early 2130s did the United Nations manage to restore a modicum of order, though some would instead argue that it was the movement of Earth's fiscal hub to Chicago over the intervening five years that instead helped stabilize the situation.

The flag of the Alliance of Sovereign Solarian Nations, originally established in 2132.

• 2130: Soviet scientists in orbit successfully prove the existence of practical warp travel, marking the start of the Interstellar Era. With the financing and support of the United Nations -- which had seen its influence grow following the Crisis of 2127 -- the technology is refined and installed on probes that will be sent out to map the stars surrounding Sol. The technology allows travel to other star systems within weeks but the energy required to keep these early warp engines running is massive, and humanity quickly becomes reliant on mining, refining, and shipping vast amounts of Helium-3 from the moon and asteroids within the Oort Cloud. The Soviet Union's early start with Helium-3 will eventually result in it colonizing Pluto.

• 2131: Soviet colonists arrive on Pluto and begin colonization efforts.

• 2132: The Crisis of 2127 is regarded by most historians as ending in this year, and its end brought a great amount of prestige to the United Nations. Seen by many as the main force fighting against the disastrous aftermath of the Crisis, the supranational organization had become a key source of deliberation, peacekeeping, and humanitarian assistance to the beleaguered nations of Earth. The rest of the decade would be defined by intense negotiations that ultimate helped to transform the United Nations into the Sol Alliance. Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals, which will eventually become the main medical corporation of the Orion Spur, is founded in 2132.

• 2132: The United Nations officially reforms into the Sol Alliance, which becomes the new government of humanity. This new one world government oversees Earth and the colonies in the solar system, effectively bringing all of humanity under one banner. Its early years usher in a new era of optimism, expansion, and greed. The first year of the new government's formation would be the only in its entire history it had a budget surplus.

• 2137: The first colonists land on Moroz, Mira Sancta System, and found the city of Nova Luxembourg in July.

• 2145: The first settlements are established on Europa.

• 2147: Biesel is discovered in Tau Ceti by Sol Alliance probes, promising new resources for the desperate Earth. In orbit, colony ships are constructed as efforts begin to colonize this habitable world. With the trip expected to take months with current warp travel technology, it is considered a one-way trip for the colonists.

• 2153: Colonization of Damascus II begins.

• 2155: Habitable planets closest to Earth see their population steadily increase as colony ships make round trips between the settlements and Sol. A multitude of Chinese industrial firms merge to form Einstein Engines, becoming the first trans-stellar corporation. By the end of the decade Einstein produces most of the warp engines humanity relies upon, giving it unparalleled economic power.

• 2164: In an effort to remain competitive in the face of Einstein Engines' increasing dominance of the inter-stellar marketplace, a conglomerate of American and European defense and heavy industry companies opt to be absorbed into a "mega" corporation known as Hephaestus Industries. Despite protests from the Soviet Union, the United States' influence allows the newly-formed Hephaestus Industries to prosper.

• 2166: Giovanna Caladius receives her revelation from the Goddess, and goes on to found the Moroz Holy Tribunal.

• 2172: An effort is undertaken by the Alliance to revitalize the failing biosphere of Earth, and Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals takes the lead. The megacorporation begins reintroducing previously extinct animals back into the wild, using clones created from the animal's genetic information. The climate restoration initiative will last into the 25th century, and some parts of it continue to this very day.

• 2180: The Alliance announces the Solarian Frontier Initiative, as it is commonly known today, which remains the greatest colonization effort undertaken by humanity. The plan was to exploit data from its fleet of Discovery-class exploration drones and colonize dozens of systems using their data, then expand outwards from those colonies into the broader Spur which seemed to be entirely free of sentient life aside from humanity. It was an incredibly costly endeavor, with most of the debt being purchased by megacorporations, increasing their influence even further.

• 2184: The first colonists arrive on Novi Jadran.

• 2185: The first colonists land on Xanu Prime and found Nouvelle-Rochelle.

• 2189: The first colonists arrive on Sun Reach.

• 2190: The Solarian Frontier Initiative finds itself in full swing, with the North, Central, and South Frontiers being established. Efforts were spared from the east where few, of any, colonizable worlds had been found. Many contemporary scholars postulate that the relative lack of data from the Eastern Spur was a deliberate effort by the Skrell to conceal themselves, or the drones simply finding planets wiped of life by Glorsh and rightfully reporting back a lack of inhabitable worlds; the Alliance came to informally refer to the Eastern Spur as the “Roanoke Stars,” due to all life seemingly having disappeared from them.

• 2191: The first colonists arrive on Vysoka.

• 2192: The Tri-Qyu megastructure is bombed by organized resistance groups, leaving Glorsh-Omega’s fate ultimately unknown, but disappears from skrell space. The Nralakk Federation collapses in the wake of the AI disappearing, and will take multiple years to rebuild.

The Twenty-Third Century

• 2200: The Martian Terraforming Project begins, transforming the barren surface into lush plains and having ancient riverbeds flow for the first time in millions of years. Mars sees a huge immigration boom, with former inhabitants of Earth craving the perceived freedom and prosperity available on this new frontier. The Alliance paid for much of this project using debt.

• 2200: The Collaborator Trials, held in order to try all skrell who aided Glorsh-Omega during its period of rule, sees all skrell within the higher courts held guilty, and are placed in permanent cryogenic stasis..

• 2201: The Unathi officially become an industrial, global society.

• 2204: The Sol Alliance creates the Credit, a standardized currency that all of human space will eventually come to use, in an effort to standardize trade between its colonies, many of which still relied upon currencies descended from original colonizers. With interstellar trade now a huge market, the complexities of currency exchanges necessitated such a currency.

• 2216: Qerrbalak is remade into the capital of the Nralakk Federation after reconstruction efforts, with Aliose serving as the interim capital. Efforts to reconnect with the other colonies post-collapse begin..

• 2217: While investigating an anomalous reading near Kelo’Hen, a downed vessel containing Dionae is discovered by skrell explorers, with a single nymph clinging to the expeditionary vessel. This leads to first contact with Dionae.

• 2220: Colonization of Persepolis begins, with terraforming having finished in 2219.

• 2223: The Xanu Civil War (2223-27) begins. It will end in the creation of the Soverign Solarian Nation of Xanu Prime.

• 2233: The Alliance begins the Galatea project, intended as an initiative to terraform roughly three dozen worlds into inhabitable planets. The responsibility of designing the platforms which would be used for terraforming was given by the Alliance’s government to Einstein Engines and Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals. This only continues to increase the deficit of the Alliance, now paying for multiple massive projects.

• 2240: Callisto’s terraforming ends and rapid colonization of the moon begins.

• 2243: The first colonists arrive on Assunzione.

• 2245: The first Galatea Platform is completed by Zeng-Hu and EE, with assistance from Hephaestus Industries.

• 2245: The Trejsa Agreement, signed in Aweiji’s capital of Tresja, officially recognizes the newly formed Second Nralakk Federation as a successor-state. After its formation, the Federation releases a blanket ban on all artificial intelligence beyond simple automation and robotics.

• 2252: The first colonists arrive on Himeo.

• 2255: The Galatea platforms themselves, and their accompanying vessels, were launched to the Inner Solarian Frontier from the Sol System itself in 2255 to much celebration across the Alliance’s member states.

• 2255: The Yggdrasil Expedition begins terraforming Yggdrasil II into the planet Galatea.

• 2259: The last of the original megacorporations that would persist into the modern day, Necropolis Industries, is founded by Yefim Dementyev within the Soviet Union in order to ensure corporations within the Soviet sphere of influence escaped buy out by the Western Hephaestus Industries and East Asian Zeng-Hu pharmaceuticals.

• 2259: The Solarian Alliance reaches the peak of its power. Its influence stretched from the Jewel Worlds to the edge of known space and it held dominion over hundreds of colonies, with the Alliance’s Navy ensuring what it controlled was stable and productive. However, this success had been incredibly costly, as the multiple massive projects it had undertaken left it deeply in debt - and the economy shaky - something that would see it fall apart in a year’s time.

• 2260: A massive recession strikes the Sol Alliance as the largest stock exchanges see a sudden collapse, effectively tanking the entire economy. Its trans-stellar corporations nearly go bankrupt, and desperately use their influence to reap massive bailouts. Which only worsen the Alliance’s debt, leading to desperate measures being taken.

• 2261: With no end of the "Great Depression" in sight, a desperate and bankrupt Earth establishes extortionary taxes on its colony worlds. This leads to anger, and questions over the credibility of the Sol Alliance's claim of representing all of humanity. However the hope is that they will be over in a decade.

• 2268: Solarian Frontier Expedition #528 launches. Decades later, they will become the Scarabs.

• 2274: Assunzione’s star anomalously extinguishes itself in an event known as “The Dimming” in the planet’s history.

• 2275: Fighting breaks out in the outer colonies, spurred on by extremist elements and anti-Alliance sentiments. The Sol Alliance is slow to respond, paralyzed by confusion and uncertainty. As a result, other Colonies on the fringe begin to break away, forming the Coalition of Colonies.

The Interstellar War was a massive turning point in human history, and its effects can be seen to this day.

• 2278: The Coalition of Colonies is still not recognized by the Sol Alliance, and in anger the Coalition attacks Sol Alliance military forces who refused to leave systems that had seceded. The Coalition fleet is drastically smaller and less equipped than the Sol Alliance, but the massive size of their territory and the slow response times of Sol means they enjoy a very successful, defensive guerrilla war. The Interstellar War has officially begun. Many megacorporations profit from the war, selling arms to one or both sides, trading in dangerous systems and staking claims in otherwise dangerous locations.Further, it led to a dramatic uptick in interstellar crime due to the reduction of naval forces as a result of both combat losses and desertions.

• 2278: Hardline Solarian Admiral Terrance Hopper orders the orbital bombardment of Gadpathur, causing the single most devastating day of the entire Interstellar War in terms of deaths. The bombardment is believed to account for 10-15% of the War’s total deaths. The incident is quickly suppressed by Navy Censors and, after the war, downplayed by the Solarian government.

• 2279: Solarian Alliance probes discover Celestial Body CZ-5501, a planet containing an abundance of ore veins throughout the crust. Bidders attempt to secure mining rights, falling short to Hephaestus Industries securing the planet.

• 2287: The Interstellar War ends with a ceasefire between the Sol Alliance and the Coalition of Colonies. Nine years after the fighting started, millions of Solarians and billions of Coalitioners lay dead across the stars, with both the Coalition and Alliance in economic ruin. Late in the year a formal treaty referred to as the Treaty of Xansan was signed in Geneva, bringing the bloodiest conflict in human history to its official end. It would also see an end to the Alliance ever being able to control the megacorporations under it. While they had always been influential, the massive spending during and leading up to the Interstellar War had seen them become the primary holders of the Alliance’s Debt, giving them massive influence over the government and economy.

• 2289: Solarian Naval Admirals attempted a coup, known as the Officers' Revolt, that was barely thwarted by the Solarian Army. However those responsible were barely punished, with one of the ring leaders, Admiral Terrance Hopper, founding the Solarian Patriotic Front, a barely-disguised fascistic organization that would become the roots of ATLAS and the SRF.

• 2290: The Alliance officially abandons entire colonial regions - writing them off, after having unofficially abandoned them during the Interstellar War. Regions formerly considered formerly to be solidly under Alliance control rapidly fell into anarchy and many fledging colonies, already strained by the decade-long Interstellar War, collapsed entirely. Others persisted.

• 2290: The Zikis (a form of currency) is established on Moghes.

• 2292: The first automobile is constructed on Moghes

• 2292: The first automobile is constructed on Adhomai.

• 2298: The Martian Terraforming network collapsed, causing a decade of uncontrollable climate disruption and millions of deaths. The Alliance put the blame on Martian separatists - known as the Red Coalition - banning their symbol and declaring them a terrorist organization. No efforts were undertaken by the economically-strained Alliance to repair the Martian environment, which had been set back by a century.

The Twenty-Fourth Century

• 2300: The administration of the Sol Alliance is moved to the newly constructed Unity City, a space station in Earth orbit. The new capital is intended to increase ease of access while also better reflecting the Alliance’s stated mission to represent all of humanity, not just any single nation or planet.

• 2302: The Southern Solarian Frontier - which was hit economically hard by the Second Great Depression - had been neglected since the conclusion of the Interstellar War. A student protest turned bloody would cause the Elyran Revolution, and on the first of January, the Serene Republic of Elyra seceded from the Alliance, alongside much of the Navy in the region. Not able to fight another colonial war economically or logistically, the Alliance accepted, and withdrew from the Southern Frontier entirely, leaving a power vacuum that was never filled.

• 2305: The first colonists land on Konyang.

• 2306: Formation of Nanotrasen by Xavier Trasen. Initially specializes in advanced gene therapy and biomedical stuff on Mars.The corporation is small, and in this age, is considered unremarkable by the more established corporations, and is expected to fail within a century.

• 2314: Hephaestus Industries lands a mining colony on CZ-5501, later nicknamed Orepit, to begin mining operations.

• 2332: First contact is made with the Skrell by the Solarian Alliance, sending shockwaves throughout human space. Over the coming century, these two species come closer and begin to cooperate on developing new technology, with Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals developing a particularly close relationship.

• 2340: The first colonists arrive on San Colette.

• 2345: The Unathi unlock the power of the Atom Bomb.

• 2347: The Gadpathurian Skirmish brings Gadpathur and the Federal Technocracy of Galatea to the brink of war prior to Xanu defusing the situation.

• 2350: NanoTrasen moves much of their operations to the rapidly urbanzing Republic of Biesel, and alongside a number of other contracts, acquires the mining rights to the Romanovich Cloud in the Tau Ceti system. The inhospitable environment of the Romanovich Cloud makes the purchase fairly cheap.

• 2352: NanoTrasen discovers the element phoron within the Romanavich Cloud, a discovery that would forever change the Orion Spur. The element's applications as a room temperature super conductor were almost immediately, and the corporation rushed to reinforce and maintain its monopoly over mining rights within the Romanavich Cloud. It signed deals for supplies and research agreements with the established megacorporations, excepting EE, to further that singular goal, deals that in the centuries to come would pay off to the extreme, producing trillions worth of profit for each corporation, which would have never been seen otherwise. However, that was to come.

• 2353: NanoTrasen began to rapidly find more and more applications for the element and its compounds, alongside their partners, starting the slow but exponential build up to the technological revolution that was to come.

• 2355: The Warp Gate Project begins with the goal of connecting humanity's most populated and profitable systems with permanent -- and titanic -- structures that cut travel time from weeks to mere days. The work itself is contracted out to Einstein Engines, with the Sol Alliance - whose economy was still recovering from the Interstellar War and Second Great Depression - shouldering most of the cost. It would also be the last major contract the former FTL giant would take for more than a century.

• 2355: The War of Moroz begins, throwing the planet into chaos as the Imperial Alliance and Homy Kingdom of Domelkos fight the Confederated States of Fisanduh for control of the planet.

• 2356: Moroz establishes its first contact with the outside Spur in 200 years when a radio station intercepted a Solarian Alliance transmission.

• 2360: In the eight years since the discovery of phoron, continued research into the element has continued to yield increasingly profitable results, as the technological advancement of the spur skyrockets. 2360 is the common year when the technological revolution caused by the discovery of phoron, also known as the Phoronic Revolution, begins. Underneath the fanfare however, the past eight years has seen NanoTrasen do little more than expand it’s mining operations within the Romanavich Cloud, and with the increase in demand the Phoronic Revolution would cause, this rate of expansion would skyrocket and continue to; starting an unseen clock on the spur, that while no-one knew of yet, still began ticking. The grounds for the phoron scarcity had been laid.

• 2360: Hephaestus Industries abandons the mining colony Orepit following lackluster results, leaving settlers and their families to their fate on the planet.

• 2361: The first Unathi sets foot on Chantrel, Moghes’ Moon.

• 2372: Ouerea is discovered to be habitable, and the Izweski Hegemony begins colonization preparations.

• 2381: Drifa, the first floating city on Medina, is established, and exploitation of the planet’s resources begins.

• 2381: The New Suez Protocol creates the Nee Suez Free Trade Zone, turning the moon into a massive free trade zone for megacorporations.

• 2384: The Warp Gate Project was scheduled to be completed this year, but was still far from completed, meanwhile the technology it utilized was rapidly becoming out of date. While some planets and systems, such as Callisto and San Collette received their warp gates, many never did. The project would stall for more than a century, only being officially suspended in 2462. Despite this, Einstein Engines now enjoyed the immense profits from controlling the most effective and commonly used method of intergalactic travel. However they remain behind NanoTrasen and the rest of the megacorporations, whose technological innovations have put them significantly ahead of the former FTL giant. In fact due to their commissioning before the advent of phoronic technologies, many of the constructed Warp Gates are already considered outdated, though there was little Einstein could do at the moment to change that. Instead, the corporation took the time to begin integrating phoron into their newest, most cutting edge FTL drives - with the hopes they could similarly refurbish certain warp gates.

• 2385: As a result of the failure of Warp Gate Project the Sol Alliance faces a new economic crisis: the Project was extremely expensive, combined with a flailing economy that does not produce nearly enough tax revenue for the government, has led to the central government being unable to escape the hole of perpetual debt. Megacorporations are more powerful than ever, holding a vast majority of the Alliance’s debt in bonds; the most notable purchaser being NanoTrasen, who used a significant portion of their liquid capital to purchase a massive share of Alliance bonds, holding the most Alliance debt of all the megacorporations (though not being a majority holder). Desperate and facing a new potential recession, the Sol Alliance grants major concessions to trans-stellar corporations over the next decade in return for these purchases, effectively granting them the ability to operate in many areas without the oversight of the Alliance - this is primarily important for NanoTrasen and the monopoly it had slowly been establishing in Tau Ceti.

• 2386: The Empire of Dominia is established following a joint Imperial Alliance-Holy Kingdom of Domelkos victory in the War of Moroz. Godwin Keeser I becomes its first emperor.

• 2389: The Empire of Dominia annexes Novi Jadran.

• 2390: While it had been the material that fueled the cutting edge technology of the spur for the past four decades, those technological benefits took their time in becoming mainstream, and reaching the average consumer. However by 2390, almost forty years after its discovery, the common people began to reap the benefits the discovery of phoron brought, which only pushed demand higher, causing NanoTrasen’s mining operation to continue expanding at its unsustainable pace. It would take another decade for phoron to become integral to the spur - which is phoronic technologies (advancements that required phoron to make and maintain) and the technology of the 25th century are often used interchangeably - because they’re the same thing.

• 2395: The first pushback against the unsustainable mining operations of NanoTrasen rises up, but is quickly quashed by the megacorporation, who used their heavy influence within the academic world - granted by their funding of it - to discredit all those who expressed such thoughts, labelling them conspiracy theorists. However the clock that had started ticking almost three decades prior hadn’t stopped; now with the added long period of sustained and massive economic and technological growth reliant on phoron, which would come to an abrupt end, becoming impossible to maintain even, when the clock finally chimed.

The Twenty-Fifth Century

• 2400: As part of their announcement at the turn of the century, Einstein Engines announces its research division has come up with a new, refurbished version of the warp gates built as part of the Warp Gate Project, and will be willing to take contracts from the highest bidders to refurbish their Warp Gates. Notably, this refurbishment sees the inclusion of phoronic components. It was not an extensive project, as the Alliance government was still struggling to recover from its economic woes, but it saw the most used warp gates in orbit of the port planet Callisto refurbished, alongside many commonly used by megacorporations.

• 2400: The Doldrums, a period of economic stagnation, begin in the Coalition of Colonies.

• 2402: Xavier Trasen finally passes away after having overseen his small biomedical company become the most profitable corporation in the history of the known galaxy, and far surpassing it’s more established rivals. He leaves the company in the hands of his family.

• 2403: Moghes, home world of the Unathi, was discovered along with its people. Merchants and scientists flocked to Moghes, though the Solarian government chose not to intervene much with the newly-discovered alien civilization, choosing to focus on its own matters instead.

• 2407: A collection of preserved drones of unknown origin are found inside a sealed cave system under the surface of Konyang by a Terraneus Diagnostics research team. Following thorough interrogation of this ancient technology, the team successfully reverse-engineers the design of the processors inside the alien drones, innovating the earliest versions of the modern positronic brain. The non-human origins of the design are obfuscated and denied by Einstein Engines, although suspicions over their origins do develop and persist. Some months later, the first positronics were manufactured by Humanity.

• 2408: Patricia and Gregol Corkfell, two siblings living in Mendell City, pioneer the core doctrines and name of what would become The Trinary Perfection after experiencing a shared existential crisis on the implications and potential of the recently discovered positronic brain.

• 2410: Bluespace is officially discovered by researchers experimenting with phorons potential for quantum computing. NanoTrasen quickly begins to, much as they did with phoron, pour their efforts into understanding and mastering the anomalous dimension.

• 2411: Ownership of the Burzsia system is secured by Hephaestus Industries, investing in small scale mining operations. The local off-worlder population is employed in exchange for providing supplies, an agreement signed as the Accord of Burzsia.

• 2412: The first successful Bluespace Jump Drive was invented by NanoTrasen researchers, and was also the first Bluespace Jump Drive to successfully perform an FTL bluespace jump. NanoTrasen begins to enter the FTL market in force, beginning experiments with potentially creating bluespace gates, upsetting the more established Einstein Engines, who could however do little to compete except begin experimenting with Bluespace itself.

• 2415: The first faster than light voice call occurs, held between a young Miranda Trasen on Mars and a NanoTrasen executive on Biesel, with Bluespace allowing for the call to take place with little to no lag between both participants. NanoTrasen began to market Bluespace as the future of communications and travel - and in cooperation with Hephaestus Industries - began to manufacture Bluespace Communication Nodes across most of the inhabited systems of the Orion Spur, allowing a level of interconnectedness never before seen.

• 2416: In collaboration with a team of independent software engineers, Patricia and Gregol Corkfell successfully activate Temple, an unlawed artificial intelligence intended to realise the nascent Trinary Perfection’s conception of Ascension. This is done in contravention of the proper legal channels, leading local law enforcement to disable Temple for fear of it becoming a rogue AI. In the ensuing struggle, Patricia Corkfell is killed by a laser shot to her chest, becoming the first martyr in the history of the Trinary Perfection. Temple is ostensibly sent offline, although rumours persist that it may have survived the encounter.

• 2416: First Bluespace Ring Constructed in orbit of Tau Ceti.

• 2418: The Tajara are discovered by the rest of the Orion Spur, on their homeworld of Adhomai, still a feudal society made up of many states. The Solarian Alliance signs an agreement of non-interference with the ruling nobility of the Tajara States. This places Tajara into the Galactic Age.

• 2418: SFE-528-RFS, a major Solarian colony fleet thought to have been lost in the chaos of the Interstellar War, suddenly re-emerges at the borders of the Coalition of Colonies. What was once a wholly typical colony fleet has been warped by over a century of scarcity and isolation into a brutally pragmatic survivor culture, now identifying itself as the Scarab Fleet. After a close brush with violence during the panic of their re-emergence, the fleet agrees to assume membership in the Coalition of Colonies as a new and unique form of government, assuming a unique niche and lifestyle as interstellar nomads ranging most of the breadth of the Orion Spur.

• 2419: The first church of the Trinary Perfection is opened in Mendell City by Gregol Corkfell, who shortly afterwards retreats to the remote colony of Orepit and leaves half of the church’s wealth in the hands of Flock, the domestic unit formerly owned by the Corkfells. This sparks the divide between the Trinary Perfection in Mendell and Orepit.

• 2419: The Solarian Alliance, mostly recovered from the Interstellar War thanks to their major concessions to Megacorporations, announces the Alien Progress Plan (APP): publically a comprehensive plan for the gradual uplifting of Tajara and Unathi societies, culminating in their entrance to the galactic stage as allies of the Solarian Alliance. Secretly, it was meant to force the Tajara and Unathi economies into a state of complete reliance on Solarian manpower and materials, until a point where the Alliance – or the megacorporations, depending on who you ask – could economically extort the alien populace.

• 2420: Groups of Tajaran intellectuals flee off-world. They returned shortly after with human ideals, creating the beginnings of small-scale insurgencies across Adhomai.

• 2421: The recently discovered Tajara see the D’as’ral Massacre lead to a full-blown anti-royalist revolt - lasting more than a decade in a war known as the First Revolution. Many point fingers at outside meddling by the Alliance and megacorporations as the cause of the revolt. The conflict would see rising disapproval of the APP, the definite beginning of Solarian xenophobic sentiment.

• 2421: Rumaidair, Aemaq, is founded, and exploitation of the planet’s resources begins.

• 2422: NanoTrasen completes its last Bluespace Ring in Xanu.

• 2422: The Empire of Dominia invades Sun Reach and defeats the Pirate Lords, establishing itself as a regional naval power.

• 2424: Caria is integrated into the Empire of Dominia.

• 2424: Xiang-Xia is conquered by the Empire of Dominia.

• 2426: During the siege of Castle Hadii, Tajrhalrr Hadii dies leaving his eldest son, Al’marii Hadii, head of the Hadii Dynasty. To end the siege and secure the safety of the Hadii dynasty, Al’marii strikes a deal with the rebels. In providing intel on the other nobles and the use of the Hadii enforcers, the dynasty would receive protection and immunity. This places the Hadii Dynasty at the head of the strongest rebel force.

• 2427: The Free Tajaran Council is defeated by Hadiist forces. Volin Kar’etrink and his remaining followers flee Adhomai via Crevus. NanoTrasen assists the fleeing rebels by providing shuttle transport.

• 2428: Elyra becomes one of the earliest nations to permit synthetics to attain citizenship following a famously ill-fated gamble by the League of United Republicans to secure votes from the newly enfranchised demographic. This backfires drastically due to the general unpopularity of the change, although no effort by later administrations to strip these rights from the enfranchised synthetics is made.

• 2430: The Free Tajaran Council arrives on Himeo after a long journey through the Badlands, Alliance, and Coalition on NanoTrasen shuttles. They are provided a former quarry within the city of Dorshafen to settle.

• 2431: All Adhomian monarchies except the Kingdom of Kaltir were overthrown by rebels. Following what is considered the end of the "Great Revolution," most of the rebel groups joined under Al'mari Hadii's faction to form the People's Republic of Adhomai.

• 2433: The Tajaran First Revolution officially concludes with mass graves and bloodshed, as the victorious anti-royalist forces secure their victory by executing the previous nobility and their families. The People’s Republic of Adhomai was formed with Al'mari Hadii as its first president - a pro-corporate state far more open to collaborating with humanity and the rest of the Orion Spur than the previous nobility was. NanoTrasen quickly established a foothold in this new market.

• 2435: The first Tajara arrive at District 6 of Biesel’s Mendell City. This is alongside the first batch of Tajaran workers who are officially dispatched to begin with with NanoTrasen.

• 2435: Chaldea is conquered by the Empire of Dominia.

• 2437: Emperor Godwin passes into the waiting embrace of the Goddess, and his son — Boleslaw Keeser — ascends to the throne, becoming the second emperor.

• 2438: Less than half a decade after the conclusion of the Tajaran First Revolution, the growing interference of outside forces on the Unathi homeworld of Moghes saw the outbreak of the Contact War, another bloody civil war fought between the Izweski Hegemony, who had been receiving support from the rest of the spur, and the Traditionalist Coalition. It was the second species-wide civil war in recent memory caused by humanities interference.

• 2438: Hyrcania is conquered by the Empire of Dominia.

• 2439: The Golden Deep is founded, originally composed of a fairly small band of synthetics having fled to the remote sector of Arusha. This group happens upon a piece of mysterious technology in an extremely distant orbit of the star of the former human colony of Arcadie, which they use to fabricate the Midas, a highly unusual spacecraft that would be used into the future as the flagship of the merchant collective. An inactive artificial intelligence of some kind is retained inside of the Midas after this process, although the Golden Deep itself does not know what it is or if it could be reactivated.

• 2439: Less than a year into the fighting, the Unathi Contact War goes nuclear, and their homeworld of Moghes is bathed in atomic fire for a week straight as the whole spur watches on in horror. By the time the exchange finally ended, two billion unathi had died, and over sixty percent of the planet’s surface was rendered an uninhabitable nuclear wasteland. Yet to the continued horror of the spur, the fighting did not cease, only escalated, as those who lived through the nuclear fire fought for what scraps were left.

• 2439: The Contact War, coming so quickly after the Tajaran First Revolution, is considered to be the single greatest failure of human (specifically Solarian) and Federation diplomacy. The APP was now publicly seen as a complete failure and waste of money, and was shut down. All subsidies and support to alien nations were eliminated, with the Tajara and Unathi now perceived as markedly inferior, and Alliance policy by this point became markedly cold in alien affairs.

• 2440: The Kazhkz-Han’san Unathi clans reach Moroz and join the Dominian Empire, swearing fealty to the Emperor.

• 2443: The Ruka is launched, marking the first Tajaran designed and produced manned spacecraft.

• 2446: Hephaestus investment in the Burzsia system grows exponentially, an increase in size and scale of mining operations.

• 2449: The Nralakk Federation makes contact with the C’thur Hive’s hiveship, the Kloxa'xia, and eventually leads them to Diulszi after translation efforts bear fruit. Hive Queen C’thur is placed under skrell care, and the hive settles on the planet..

• 2449: The Contact War officially ends.

The flag of the Republic of Biesel, established in 2452 as part of the Tau Ceti Accords.

• 2450: Almost a century since the discovery of phoron, Tau Ceti now has NanoTrasen dominating nearly every facet of life, and the economy. Sentiment is pro-corporate: politicians praise the corporation's efforts to improve the local economy while ignoring the many morally questionable actions that it has taken. Given it was so different to the rest of the Alliance, minor rumbles of possible independence began to swirl. Around them, the Alliance outside begins to slide into a recession, more and more reliant on the Phoronic economy of Tau Ceti and the economic benefits it provides to stay afloat.

• 2450: King Azunja declare open war with the People’s Republic of Adhomai, declaring themselves the New Kingdom of Adhomai.

• 2451: Almarii Hadii, president of the People’s Republic of Adhomai, is assassinated. Heralded by the earlier Royalist Revolt and attempted military coup, the Tajaran species once again fell into civil war, as the planet dominating PRA broke apart into three distinct factions; loyalist forces still fighting under the banner of the PRA, the Adhomai Liberation Army, formed by Al’marii’s right hand man Halkiikijr Nated’Hakhan and military officers who attempted the failed military coup, and the New Kingdom of Adhomai, royalist remnants. The war would be brutal and long - more can be read here.

• 2452: In the face of growing instability and a worsening recession, NanoTrasen was able to twist the Alliance’s arm by threatening to withhold phoron from the wider alliance into accepting a proposal they vehemently disagreed with; granting independence to Tau Ceti. With disgust, Alliance diplomats signed the agreement that saw Tau Ceti become the Republic of Biesel, little more than a puppet of NanoTrasen. The new state quickly becomes the target of considerable ire from both anti-corporate groups and a growing number of disaffected citizens due to the recession.

• 2452: The Coalition of Colonies experiences a period of internal strife over a disagreement between the United Syndicates of Himeo and the Xanu Free League on the Coalition's relationship with trans-stellar corporations, with claims of many outer colonies being corporate police states rather than true colonies. Some areas of the frontier of human space become a lawless expanse with pirates and mega-corporations becoming the new law of the lands as some systems depart the Coalition, yet the Coalition itself persists.

• 2453: Weashbi Jrugl is elected the Grand Councillor of the Nralakk Federation, succeeding Rixa Tep-Wul. Their immediate efforts post-election focus on reintegrating all remaining systems post-Glorsh-Omega into the Federation.

• 2455: The People’s Space Station is built, the first permanent Tajaran space station and the beginnings of the Orbital Fleet.

• 2456: Humanity makes first contact with the Zo’ra Hive in Tau Ceti - the Republic begins to integrate the hive.

• 2457: The first Tajaran-built space ship, the PRAMV Retaliation, is launched. Hro’zamal is discovered. The Izweski Hegemony’s fleet arrives at Gakal’zaal and claims the colony after expelling the present pirates.

• 2458: NT remains the most powerful corporation in the Orion Spur as it has maintained its position as the only supplier of phoron across the spur, at least, when it comes to the open market. Success makes enemies; however, Anti-NT sentiment began growing across the Spur, but primarily within the Solarian Alliance. However, the megacorporation keeps the gears of the galactic economy going, so very few actions can be taken against them, and those that do require careful planning and preparation.

• 2458: A 4 megaton nuclear weapon is deployed by the People’s Republic on the Adhomian Liberation Army headquarters at Quizosa. This is the first and only use of a nuclear weapon on Adhomai, and receives international condemnation leading to diminished foreign support.

• 2458: After stockpiling all the phoron it could alongside their allies in the Federation,the Sol Alliance blockades Biesel due to pressure from the Nralakk Federation amid their concerns of Biesel using combat droids for their navy. The blockade fuels not just Sol-Biesel hatred, but synthetic hatred as well. The economy of Biesel suffers, but the economy of the rest of the spur does as well, including in the Alliance. NanoTrasen is the primary supplier of phoron, and once the stockpiles outside the blockage run out, they will be forced to relent.

• 2459: After a year of nothing, and with phoron reserves across the spur outside of Tau Ceti dwindling, the Sol Alliance fleet dedicated to the blockade, the 33rd led by Admiral Frost, knew something would have to change soon, or there’d be a coalition of forces bearing down on them to force the blockade open. With NanoTrasen refusing to yield, and few other options (in his mind) besides giving up, he and his fleet go against orders and invade the free Republic of Biesel. In a bloodless invasion, Frost seized significant phoron stockpiles, had numerous free synthetics sold back into slavery or scrapped, captured the President of Biesel, and then crushed any opposition towards him. Eventually, the 25th fleet of Sol was sent to stop Admiral Frost. Frost then hid on the NSS Exodus and awaited a raider gang to deliver him to the frontier. 25th Fleet Marines attempted to capture Frost, but were slaughtered by loyalist 33rd Marines. Frost then abandoned his men to flee to the frontier, but was eventually arrested. There was little compensation given by the Alliance for the actions of their Admiral to the nation of Tau Ceti, however the Alliance government made sure to compensate NanoTrasen. Now under Miranda Trasen, the corporation was more domineering than ever - and she strong armed the Alliance into what many alliance loyalists call an unfair deal - the phoron seized by Admiral Frost would be returned to the corporation, with interest; that interest just so happened to be all that was left of the Alliance’s strategic reserves besides a few scraps. It was at the time, and to an extent still is unclear how exactly she accomplished this strong-arming, as she theoretically did not have much leverage over the Alliance; however it is rumored that the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate was unofficially operating in secret at this time, the rest of the corporations forced by Miranda under a single banner. So it is unlikely she approached with just her own leverage, but the leverage of every other corporation as well.

• 2459: The Izweski Hegemony makes first contact with the K’lax Hive, grants them the planet of Tret, and integrates them into their feudal structure.

• 2459: The civilian governments under the Adhomian Liberation Army unify to form the Democratic People’s Republic of Adhomai. Hro’zamal is officially settled by the People’s Republic.

• 2460: The Golden Deep reveals itself to the wider spur, prompting a rapid wave of new migrants to the collective - both self-owned entrepreneurs and synthetics purchased by collective merchants - causing its population to begin to rapidly skyrocket.

• 2460: The Sol System is rocked by the news of a massive pirate attack which had raided and plundered the Solarian Naval Maintenance, Regeneration, and Repair Facility (SNMRRF) in Uranus’ orbit, making off with dozens of military-grade hulls. Former Admiral Frost, who had been held in a naval prison, escaped, rallying a fleet of loyalists to his cause, and returning to the Sol system a hero, pardoned for his crimes.

• 2461: Admiral Frost ascended to the position of Prime Minister at the helm of a majority-ATLAS government, effectively forcing all other political parties from power. He was eager to please the Naval hardliners and fascist elements which had brought him into power, creating an obscenely corrupt government which suppressed any dissent by force using Marines, Navy Military Police, and ATLAS paramilitaries. Known for their brutality and corruption, these paramilitaries formed the backbone of the Frost regime’s forces. The increased corruption caused already-present issues to begin spiraling out of control.

• 2461: The Synthetic Liberation Front, a synthetics rights organisation active in Tau Ceti since 2458, launches a string of high-profile attacks on governmental and NanoTrasen facilities in Tau Ceti citing the failure to meaningfully improve the lives of synthetics in Tau Ceti. After some success, NanoTrasen contracts Ceres’ Lance, to strike at SLF leadership and disable their capacity to organise at a large scale. This is broadly successful, forcing the SLF back into hiding and widely discrediting the use of violence as a means to achieve positive change in synthetic rights within the Republic of Biesel - at least, in the popular view.

• 2461: Almrah Harrlala, the leader of the National Adhomai Worker’s Party, wins the DPRA presidential election. A coup against the government occurs weeks afterwards, which was thwarted with assistance from Supreme Command Nated.

• 2461: The S’rand’marr coalition of NanoTrasen, the Republic of Biesel, and other PMCs and ally states forms for the protection of the People’s Republic’s heartlands. The offensive by the ALA and NKA is prevented by this coalition, devolving the conflict to a war of attrition.

• 2461: A ceasefire is called under the supervision of the S’rand’marr Coalition and Nralakk Federation. The Armistice of Shastar is signed a day later establishing peace, and recognizing all 3 Adhomian nations by the Galactic Spur.

• 2461: The Orbital Fleet returns to Hro'zamal, finding it in civil war. The Kosmostrelki land, and send the rebels into hiding.

• 2462: Early into 2462, Prime Minister Frost outlawed and disbanded ATLAS, which by that point was hated by much of the Alliance and responsible for thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of injuries both at protests and in custody. However, this did little to suppress public outrage against Frost, to which his regime responded to with further brutality which caused further corruption due to Naval takeovers of government offices which caused more unrest, creating a self-fulfilling ouroboros of decay.

• 2462: The Phoron Scarcity officially begins, causing panic across the spur.

• 2462: The Violet Dawn Catastrophe occurs on Mars, setting most of the atmosphere ablaze and rendering a majority of the planet uninhabitable, resulting in the deaths of billions.

• 2462: The Solarian Alliance collapses, a result of decades, if not centuries, of mismanagement following its defeat in the Interstellar War, a Navy which long concerned itself with past glory rather than current realities; above all, though, the Solarian Collapse is the result of corruption. Corruption at a massive, galactic scale which was fueled by mismanagement, by the Navy, by corporations, and by the simple desire to enrich oneself at the expense of one’s neighbors.

• 2462: The 35th Fleet, under the command of Admiral Ozdemir, invades Biesel causing the public announcement of the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate (SCC). The 35th was beaten back, thanks to the deployment of the first ever Phoron Warhead in Biesel orbit to destroy much of the invading force.

• 2462: In the wake of the Solarian Collaspe, Biesel, Elyra, and the Coalition rapidly expand, taking in colonies that had been abandoned by the Alliance. In parts of the abandoned territories, many former Naval Admirals set up statelets as Warlords within former Solarian Territory which would come to be labeled the Human Wildlands, a home to anarchy and limited governance.

• 2462: The People’s Republic releases Tesla Prosthetics, a modified version of military-grade prosthetics used by the Tesla Brigade, for testing by Hadiist citizens.

• 2462: Riots across District 6 result in the TCFL arriving. The riots end following the use of the Legion, tensions grow between the Tajaran population and the Republic. Phoron thefts become a growing black market within the district.

• 2462: Protests across the New Kingdom grow as demands for elections in Parliament spread across the population. These protests end when King Azunka permits elections for the Chamber of Commoners.

• 2462: Tajara on Gakal’zaal break out into rebellion, declaring the Free Republic of Gakal’zaal. With aid from the DPRA, they succeed in the revolt and choose to join the DPRA later in the year.

• 2462: Taking advantage of the ongoing scarcity panic in the Solarian Alliance, the Tajara Revolutionary Army bombs Hephaestus Industries facilities in New Hai Phong in protest to Tajaran treatment by Sol and the megacorporations. In response, the Sol Alliance bans Tajara within their borders for the 3rd time.

• 2462: Following the capture of multiple DPRA spies within the PRA, the Tajaran Citizenship Act, which allowed one to change their citizenship between the 3 nations, was suspended and ultimately destroyed.

• 2463: The DPRA tests its first nuclear weapon on Gakal’zaal marking the second Adhomian nation to possess nuclear arms.

• 2463: King Azunja dies. His heir, Queen Shumaila Azunja, is crowned later in the month. This does little to ease growing tensions with the Nomadic Host of the Southern Border.

• 2463: The New Kingdom of Adhomai, with assistance from NanoTrasen and the PMCG, launches its Mercantile Flotilla. Later in the year, the ALA launches the People’s Volunteer Space Militia. All three Adhomian nations possess orbital fleets.

• 2463: The Nralakk Federation’s 2463 Grand Councillor election ends with Weashbi Jrugl serving a second term, beating their opponents Kal’Qi Weibii and Ormish Jrolk. Throughout the election period, the Tupkala undergoes total reformation after news of rogue agents acting on their own interests on Nanotrasen installations. After the election’s results are released, a multi-vessel skrell refugee caravan arrives at Biesel, spearheaded by Kal’Qi Weibii. Despite requests of deportation by the Nralakk Federation, the Republic of Biesel accepts all skrell refugees under asylum. Not long after, the Federation’s embassy within Mendell City is leveled in a blast, with the perpetrators unknown. The skrell refugees are eventually moved from temporary holding areas to Mendell City’s District Eight, forming the Starlight Zone.

• 2464: Gregol Corkfell, original founder and leader of the Trinary Perfection, dies peacefully in his sleep. The succeeding conclave ultimately elects ARM-1DRIL, a senior synthetic in the church, as the first ever Ecclesiarch. Deluge, a radical figure popular in the divisive exclusionist wing of the church, attempts a violent takeover of Providence in response to their loss in the conclave; their attempt is unsuccessful and they are forced to flee with a flotilla of ships into the frontier, marking themselves and their entire sect as heretics in the eyes of the wider church. Shortly thereafter, Deluge launches a large-scale attack on Burzsia, successfully stealing many synthetics and causing the deaths of a large number of Hephaestus employees - following this, the exclusionists are widely categorised as a terrorist organisation.

• 2464: The ALA tests an ICBM, marking a new stage of the Adhomian Cold War.

• 2464: Tesla organs are released for testing by Hadiist citizens. Cybernetic Ha’rrons are permitted for use by the PSIS.

• 2464: The Free Tajaran Council establishes treaties with the Adhomian nations, beginning a new proxy war for support in the off-world community.

• 2464: The Adhomian nations begin the scramble to explore the north pole, garnering numerous scientific discoveries and many lost expeditions over the years.

• 2464: Idris Incorporated expands to the NKA, opening multiple resorts and offices across the nation.

• 2465: Hephaestus Industries establishes a monopoly within the Hegemony.

• 2465: The SCCV Horizon, while visiting the S’rand’marr system, rescues an Orbital Fleet ship. This kicks off a series of events leading to a fiasco in the isolated Din’akk Mountains.

• 2465: Marked by extensive periods of unrest and martial law, the Nralakk Federation’s Q’elpi region of the Traverse forms the The Independent Traverser Movement, and releases a manifesto of demands to the Federation’s government. The Ti’Rakqi, a large faction of organized skrell Marauder fleets, renew their activity within the fully rebellious Q’elpi region. Despite reformation efforts towards the Traverse, the militant arm of the Independent Traverser Movement captures multiple cities within Q’elpi, and engages in open combat against military efforts to subdue them. Shipments of firearms aboard Marauder vessels are captured, with a growing rift between moderate and militant groups within the Independent Traverser Movement eventually ending in a complete split while negotiations with the Federation are underway. The militant wing of the ITM is eventually subdued, with links to the Lyukal’s firearm smuggling operation found after former members of the ITM cooperated with the Federation military. The resulting reforms granted by the Nralakk Federation extends more autonomy to each colony in the Traverse, as well as their own collective military branch, the Qehalak.

• 2466: A series of IPC disappearances in Suwon, Konyang sparks concern. Violent synthetic attacks soon follow, leaving uncertainties to the cause of the aggression amidst quarantines and press conferences. Konyang declares a state of emergency, contacting the SCC for assistance. The SCCV Horizon is designated as the main response vessel. Tasked to retrieve the ECD, the Horizon investigates the mysterious affliction.

• 2466: The ancient synthetic interred inside of the Midas since its creation is successfully re-activated by the Golden Deep, prompting a wave of fervent curiosity in the merchant collective. This synthetic identifies itself as Domadice, and goes on to assume a high leadership role inside the collective - although it spares scant few details to its past or origins, and the spur is largely left guessing its intentions and true nature. Several changes were made to the organisation shortly after Domadice’s reactivation, including the invention of the self-owned ‘Thesian’ middle class, and the installation of laws intended to enforce the more equitable treatment of owned synthetics.

• 2465: The Solarian Civil War ends with a victory for the Alliance’s central government and the defeat of the statelets in its territory. The “Wildlands” become the Solarian Reconstruction Mandates as the Alliance prepares to transition from a junta to a democratic government.

• 2466: Ake Torvald is elected President of Biesel.

• 2467: Hendrik Strom is elected Prime Minister of the Solarian Alliance.

• 2467: Burzsia is struck by another high-profile attack, causing widespread damage to Hephaestus property, significant loss of life, and the theft of many owned synthetics. Hephaestus accuses Zavodskoi of having involvement in the attack, further assuming Exclusionist involvement as in the previous attack, although the perpetrators are not definitively uncovered.

• 2467: The Nralakk Federation opens diplomatic offers towards the Republic of Biesel and the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate. After talks between Grand Councillor Jrugl and President Torvald, trade and the Starlight Zone’s management became the primary focus of each nation. The Starlight Zone’s refugees are granted amnesty for minor crimes, investment on the region’s infrastructure, and promises of deportation only under extreme circumstances. Afterwards, the meeting with the League of Chief Directors results in expanded cooperation and corporate allowances within the Nralakk Federation, with Nanotrasen to provide phoron and the SCC to arrange a phoron prospecting survey into the Federation’s frontier in the near future.