timeline
2020 – Tensions in Eastern Europe reach a critical point when pro-Russia Ukrainians organize a coup; as they are opposed by anti-Russia factions, a civil war erupts. The European Union sides with the latter, aiding them with supplies and weapons; however, when Russia attack Western European caravans, a larger conflict begins. At the same time, terrorists organize deadly attacks over Western Europe.
2023 – Russian government brought down by dissidents; the new government starts peace talks with Ukraine and the European Union, and the Eastern War is ended. Ukraine and nearby Eastern European countries are devastated, while Western European countries face a new political crisis, as far-right parties grow in popularity and even seize power in France and Greece.
2026 – North-American troops in the Middle East bring down the Islamic State's main leaders, re-occupying the region. Local populations, however, oppose their presence, and many American soldiers are killed over the years.
2029 – By this year, most European countries are ruled by far-right governments; the EU is greatly weakened as powerhouses like the United Kingdom and France leave it. With the economic crisis that sweeps the continent, many local businesses are closed, while many large companies are bought by Middle-Eastern and East Asian investors.
2030 – Nanorobots used in medicine for the first time.
2032 – The Robotics PhD Adrian Ogunleyé becomes Minister of Science and Technology in Brazil. Supported by the new government; and working along with the Minister of Education and large international companies, he starts a major technological and cultural revolution, with many research centres established and many foreign scientists hired.
Until the end of the decade, many non-native workers and even some companies leave Europe due to the rising levels of xenophobia.
2034 – The first genetically-manipulated child is born in Oslo; the “Pandoron Manifest” is published in defence of that procedure, and in spite of many controversies, it becomes commercially available for parents seeking children without genetic disorders. People born from this treatment become known as Pandorons and Pandoras.
2035 – The first ohkan (portable computers with brain-machine interface) is developed, marking the beginning of a new age in cybernetics and internet navigation known as the Immersion Stage.
2040 – Political, social and economic crisis in the USA – caused by the successive Middle-Eastern campaigns, increasing inequality and, to a lesser extent, racial tensions – reach its peak; a referendum is proposed to decide whether the country should remain as one. The result is the separation between the USA and some of the southern states, which become the Confederate States of America (CSA)
The North-American split would motivate many other similar movements over Europe, such as Catalonia splitting from Spain and Northern Italy becoming a new country called Padania.
2042 – The first S-Class android – capable of both advanced cognition and complex emotions –, projected by Sakura Miyamoto, is activated in Japan, making way for a whole series of similar androids to be built; though meant for menial jobs, they receive the same rights as human workers.
2049 – The multi-sensorial internet navigation allowed by the ohkans leads to the programming of complex virtual environments where people can dwell as if on the material world. In this year, the term “Cyberplane” is coined for the first time.
2050 – By this decade, China, South Korea, Japan and India have established themselves as leading economic, political and technological powers in the world, along with the Nordic Union (Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland), the CSA, Brazil and South Africa.
Degradation of the ecosystems has reached a critical stage, with oceans growing more acid, hundreds of species gone extinct, and the world's average temperature increasing 5 degrees. World population reaches the nine-billion mark.
2053 – The second generation of androids – with more complex feelings and more precise movements – is launched.
2056 – Chinese, North-American and Indian astronauts set foot on Mars for the first time.
2061 – In Tokyo, androids gather for the first time to discuss the possibility of emancipating and building a country for themselves.
2062 – A biennial cycle of failed crops, in conjunction with the extremely high human population, results in a worldwide food shortage that becomes known as the Third Seal (after the Biblical event that unleashed Famine upon the Earth).
2064 – In this year, the first case of thanatia, a deadly disease caused by superbacteria, is recorded in the Middle East.
2065 – The decrease in the global health levels caused by the famine paves the way for the spreading of the thanatia. In the following months, this disease would sweep throughout Asia and Africa before going into Europe, with smaller pockets of infection appearing in the Americas and Oceania. This pandemic, dubbed the Fourth Seal (or the unleashing of Death upon the world), would kill around half a billion people worldwide in that period alone.
2067 – The thanatia pandemic is finally controlled when Brazilian and North-American scientists develop an efficient and cheap cure for it. Social and political chaos persist on many countries, though; an imminent conflict in Europe is defused, but the hostility between its countries – made worse by the lack of cooperation during the Two Seals – makes it even harder for the European Union to rise again.
2070 – In a UN summit, Adrian Ogunleyé, speaking on the behalf of the scientific community, claims that humankind needed to expand into outer space if it hoped to survive the natural degradation and the effects of overpopulation on Earth.
2075 – The Selene Project, aimed at the colonization of the Moon, is officially started by the UN, counting with workers and resources from all over the world.
2081 – Androids hijack digital networks in Japan, South Korea and China for the first time, with the goal of spreading their emancipation manifest worldwide.
2083 – Alleging that the growing android insistence on self-rule might turn them against humankind, the Chinese, South-Korean, Japanese and Indonesian governments hunt down every android in their territories, destroying their brains and reducing them to mere robots. The Android Reformation quickly spreads to every country with android citizens; by the end of the following year, no more android was left in the entire planet.
After the Reformation, both robots and artificial intelligences are made to be as less human-like as possible.
2091 – Chinese and Japanese scientists manage to generate and stabilize antimatter in relatively great, though expensive, quantities; the UN establishes a law forbidding the use of antimatter for military ends. In the followings years, its use as an energy source grows in importance.
2099 – Adrian Ogunleyé dies at age 109; in the same year, the Selene Project is put in practice, and the building of the first lunar city is started.
2023 – Russian government brought down by dissidents; the new government starts peace talks with Ukraine and the European Union, and the Eastern War is ended. Ukraine and nearby Eastern European countries are devastated, while Western European countries face a new political crisis, as far-right parties grow in popularity and even seize power in France and Greece.
2026 – North-American troops in the Middle East bring down the Islamic State's main leaders, re-occupying the region. Local populations, however, oppose their presence, and many American soldiers are killed over the years.
2029 – By this year, most European countries are ruled by far-right governments; the EU is greatly weakened as powerhouses like the United Kingdom and France leave it. With the economic crisis that sweeps the continent, many local businesses are closed, while many large companies are bought by Middle-Eastern and East Asian investors.
2030 – Nanorobots used in medicine for the first time.
2032 – The Robotics PhD Adrian Ogunleyé becomes Minister of Science and Technology in Brazil. Supported by the new government; and working along with the Minister of Education and large international companies, he starts a major technological and cultural revolution, with many research centres established and many foreign scientists hired.
Until the end of the decade, many non-native workers and even some companies leave Europe due to the rising levels of xenophobia.
2034 – The first genetically-manipulated child is born in Oslo; the “Pandoron Manifest” is published in defence of that procedure, and in spite of many controversies, it becomes commercially available for parents seeking children without genetic disorders. People born from this treatment become known as Pandorons and Pandoras.
2035 – The first ohkan (portable computers with brain-machine interface) is developed, marking the beginning of a new age in cybernetics and internet navigation known as the Immersion Stage.
2040 – Political, social and economic crisis in the USA – caused by the successive Middle-Eastern campaigns, increasing inequality and, to a lesser extent, racial tensions – reach its peak; a referendum is proposed to decide whether the country should remain as one. The result is the separation between the USA and some of the southern states, which become the Confederate States of America (CSA)
The North-American split would motivate many other similar movements over Europe, such as Catalonia splitting from Spain and Northern Italy becoming a new country called Padania.
2042 – The first S-Class android – capable of both advanced cognition and complex emotions –, projected by Sakura Miyamoto, is activated in Japan, making way for a whole series of similar androids to be built; though meant for menial jobs, they receive the same rights as human workers.
2049 – The multi-sensorial internet navigation allowed by the ohkans leads to the programming of complex virtual environments where people can dwell as if on the material world. In this year, the term “Cyberplane” is coined for the first time.
2050 – By this decade, China, South Korea, Japan and India have established themselves as leading economic, political and technological powers in the world, along with the Nordic Union (Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland), the CSA, Brazil and South Africa.
Degradation of the ecosystems has reached a critical stage, with oceans growing more acid, hundreds of species gone extinct, and the world's average temperature increasing 5 degrees. World population reaches the nine-billion mark.
2053 – The second generation of androids – with more complex feelings and more precise movements – is launched.
2056 – Chinese, North-American and Indian astronauts set foot on Mars for the first time.
2061 – In Tokyo, androids gather for the first time to discuss the possibility of emancipating and building a country for themselves.
2062 – A biennial cycle of failed crops, in conjunction with the extremely high human population, results in a worldwide food shortage that becomes known as the Third Seal (after the Biblical event that unleashed Famine upon the Earth).
2064 – In this year, the first case of thanatia, a deadly disease caused by superbacteria, is recorded in the Middle East.
2065 – The decrease in the global health levels caused by the famine paves the way for the spreading of the thanatia. In the following months, this disease would sweep throughout Asia and Africa before going into Europe, with smaller pockets of infection appearing in the Americas and Oceania. This pandemic, dubbed the Fourth Seal (or the unleashing of Death upon the world), would kill around half a billion people worldwide in that period alone.
2067 – The thanatia pandemic is finally controlled when Brazilian and North-American scientists develop an efficient and cheap cure for it. Social and political chaos persist on many countries, though; an imminent conflict in Europe is defused, but the hostility between its countries – made worse by the lack of cooperation during the Two Seals – makes it even harder for the European Union to rise again.
2070 – In a UN summit, Adrian Ogunleyé, speaking on the behalf of the scientific community, claims that humankind needed to expand into outer space if it hoped to survive the natural degradation and the effects of overpopulation on Earth.
2075 – The Selene Project, aimed at the colonization of the Moon, is officially started by the UN, counting with workers and resources from all over the world.
2081 – Androids hijack digital networks in Japan, South Korea and China for the first time, with the goal of spreading their emancipation manifest worldwide.
2083 – Alleging that the growing android insistence on self-rule might turn them against humankind, the Chinese, South-Korean, Japanese and Indonesian governments hunt down every android in their territories, destroying their brains and reducing them to mere robots. The Android Reformation quickly spreads to every country with android citizens; by the end of the following year, no more android was left in the entire planet.
After the Reformation, both robots and artificial intelligences are made to be as less human-like as possible.
2091 – Chinese and Japanese scientists manage to generate and stabilize antimatter in relatively great, though expensive, quantities; the UN establishes a law forbidding the use of antimatter for military ends. In the followings years, its use as an energy source grows in importance.
2099 – Adrian Ogunleyé dies at age 109; in the same year, the Selene Project is put in practice, and the building of the first lunar city is started.
2104 – Settlement of people on the Moon begins. After their successful adaptation, many more cities are built over the following fifteen years.
2108 – Creation of the chibrain, a microprocessor connected to the brain, capable of greatly increasing its cognitive skills. This device changes not only the human way of thinking in the massively information-laden XXII century world; but, also, it triggers a new revolution in the way the Internet is experienced: because the chibrain can access the Cyberplane and connect to any other digital communication device, humans may thereafter use the Internet without the aid of any other medium – thus defining what becomes known as the Merging Stage of digital technology.
2119 – The 507th settlement (cities, metropolises and towns included) on the Moon is finished.
2124 – First outposts built in the Asteroid Belt, to serve as bases for the humans and the robots that collect resources from the region.
2135 – As the Moon's population reaches the two-billion mark, a new colonization plan is developed by a UN-sponsored team: the Asteria Project, aiming at the building of “star rings” between the orbits of Venus and the Earth. The first of these rings – each capable of sheltering and sustaining around thirty million people – is started in the following year.
2142 – The Ark Ring is built as a haven for the fauna and flora of the Earth, much of which had gone nearly extinct on their home planet by that year.
2145 – An independent group of scientists from various countries hand in to the UN the Ares Project, which aims at the colonization of Mars itself. Though approved, it is archived for many years, as the UN decides to focus on the building of the star rings.
2151 – After many decades of disunion amongst its former members, the European Union is fully reestablished. Social and economic deterioration on much of the continent diminishes in the following years.
2163 – Building of the first cities on Mars is initiated.
2165 – An Interpol investigation discovers that a transnational scientific organization had developed the plant of a massive antimatter generator. As concerns that a single such a generator could cause planetary annihilation at the slightest malfunction, the plant is destroyed and the scientists involved are arrested. However, rumours are later spread that a copy of the project was sneaked away from the Interpol in a triple data storage device dubbed the Trimurti. The investigation on the “Star of Chaos” – as the generator was called – would never be concluded, as the Trimurti would remain unfound.
2170 – The 100th and last star ring is finished and populated.
2175 – The 40th and last Martian city is finished and populated on the 15th of May; a month later, the Earth Law Enforcement Agency – Elenag – is founded to help Terran countries to administer the cities on Mars. Often called the “UN of the stars”, it is a large agency with its own ministries and even its own armed forces, but it is subordinated to the actual UN, which is its main source of income. Its first Paramount – or leader –, Wei Feng, famously establishes the Agency Code with the goal of overcoming the ethnic and cultural differences between its personnel – who hailed from all over the world –, and the Elenag soon becomes the greatest symbol of a successful multicultural society.
2183 – The Elenag's duties are extended to the star rings, the Moon and the space routes.
2184 – Social tensions in the Martian cities result in a major wave of violence and protests known as the Great Riots; the Elenag moves to put an end to them.
2187 – The Great Riots are ended; to make sure order is maintained, the Elenag is given permission to actively help in the governance and surveillance of the Martian cities.
2191 – The Freedom Party is founded in the Martian-American city of Areopolis; disavowing any support for the Elenag's very strict laws, it is seen as an alternative, freer form of governance, and wins elections all over the provinces of Mars.
2207 – On Christmas Eve, Areopolis' nuclear power plant suffers a severe malfunction and explodes, causing both a power shortage and a massive air leak that result in the death of all but a few thousands of its inhabitants – including many Freedom Party leaders. As the city was administered by Free politicians, the blame for the tragedy falls on the party, which is discredited to the point of being forced to disbanding in the span of a mere two years. The true causes of the power plant's failure are never found.
2215 – Baikal War starts in Central Asia, as Afghan insurgents combat a Sino-Russian alliance that seeks to dismantle a terrorist group/crime syndicate from the region. It is the first large-scale war in more than a century, and even the Elenag becomes involved; its troops are led by the Confederate general Bradley Skye.
2222 – This year sees the beginning of a major upheaval in human society, starting with the sudden and unexpected evidences of a long-lost mystery...
2108 – Creation of the chibrain, a microprocessor connected to the brain, capable of greatly increasing its cognitive skills. This device changes not only the human way of thinking in the massively information-laden XXII century world; but, also, it triggers a new revolution in the way the Internet is experienced: because the chibrain can access the Cyberplane and connect to any other digital communication device, humans may thereafter use the Internet without the aid of any other medium – thus defining what becomes known as the Merging Stage of digital technology.
2119 – The 507th settlement (cities, metropolises and towns included) on the Moon is finished.
2124 – First outposts built in the Asteroid Belt, to serve as bases for the humans and the robots that collect resources from the region.
2135 – As the Moon's population reaches the two-billion mark, a new colonization plan is developed by a UN-sponsored team: the Asteria Project, aiming at the building of “star rings” between the orbits of Venus and the Earth. The first of these rings – each capable of sheltering and sustaining around thirty million people – is started in the following year.
2142 – The Ark Ring is built as a haven for the fauna and flora of the Earth, much of which had gone nearly extinct on their home planet by that year.
2145 – An independent group of scientists from various countries hand in to the UN the Ares Project, which aims at the colonization of Mars itself. Though approved, it is archived for many years, as the UN decides to focus on the building of the star rings.
2151 – After many decades of disunion amongst its former members, the European Union is fully reestablished. Social and economic deterioration on much of the continent diminishes in the following years.
2163 – Building of the first cities on Mars is initiated.
2165 – An Interpol investigation discovers that a transnational scientific organization had developed the plant of a massive antimatter generator. As concerns that a single such a generator could cause planetary annihilation at the slightest malfunction, the plant is destroyed and the scientists involved are arrested. However, rumours are later spread that a copy of the project was sneaked away from the Interpol in a triple data storage device dubbed the Trimurti. The investigation on the “Star of Chaos” – as the generator was called – would never be concluded, as the Trimurti would remain unfound.
2170 – The 100th and last star ring is finished and populated.
2175 – The 40th and last Martian city is finished and populated on the 15th of May; a month later, the Earth Law Enforcement Agency – Elenag – is founded to help Terran countries to administer the cities on Mars. Often called the “UN of the stars”, it is a large agency with its own ministries and even its own armed forces, but it is subordinated to the actual UN, which is its main source of income. Its first Paramount – or leader –, Wei Feng, famously establishes the Agency Code with the goal of overcoming the ethnic and cultural differences between its personnel – who hailed from all over the world –, and the Elenag soon becomes the greatest symbol of a successful multicultural society.
2183 – The Elenag's duties are extended to the star rings, the Moon and the space routes.
2184 – Social tensions in the Martian cities result in a major wave of violence and protests known as the Great Riots; the Elenag moves to put an end to them.
2187 – The Great Riots are ended; to make sure order is maintained, the Elenag is given permission to actively help in the governance and surveillance of the Martian cities.
2191 – The Freedom Party is founded in the Martian-American city of Areopolis; disavowing any support for the Elenag's very strict laws, it is seen as an alternative, freer form of governance, and wins elections all over the provinces of Mars.
2207 – On Christmas Eve, Areopolis' nuclear power plant suffers a severe malfunction and explodes, causing both a power shortage and a massive air leak that result in the death of all but a few thousands of its inhabitants – including many Freedom Party leaders. As the city was administered by Free politicians, the blame for the tragedy falls on the party, which is discredited to the point of being forced to disbanding in the span of a mere two years. The true causes of the power plant's failure are never found.
2215 – Baikal War starts in Central Asia, as Afghan insurgents combat a Sino-Russian alliance that seeks to dismantle a terrorist group/crime syndicate from the region. It is the first large-scale war in more than a century, and even the Elenag becomes involved; its troops are led by the Confederate general Bradley Skye.
2222 – This year sees the beginning of a major upheaval in human society, starting with the sudden and unexpected evidences of a long-lost mystery...