A General Timeline of the Uprising Universe
Jan 31, 2014 1:27:28 GMT
Post by Screwface Romeo on Jan 31, 2014 1:27:28 GMT
The following is a rough timeline of events currently established. It is by no means fixed, and subject to change based on the introduction of companies, characters, and events.
2053 - Alcubierre Drive is perfected in the United States, First Interplanetary Mission is launched to Mars
2057 - Antimatter Reactor Technology is developed, making interstellar Alcubierre travel practical
2061 - China launches a Mars Mission, Second Space Race Begins
2063 - Russia and the European Union enter the Race
2078 - China establishes the first extrasolar colony
2082 - The United States and Russia establish colonies
2084 - The European Union establishes a colony
2090 - A landmark Supreme Court decision allows private corporations to build or purchase Alcubierre ships in the United States and colonize planets
2099 - A mining consortium makes First Contact with an alien race
2100 - The consortium reports hostile alien contact, and requests military protection - the Follower War begins
2108 - Nuclear weapons are detonated over Follower cities, ending the war and dissolving the Follower Governments
2112 - A series of court decisions rule that aliens lack rights or protection under human law in most countries - corporations begin using alien labor to expand Human territory rapidly
2148 - Overexpansion results in economic collapse, Earth and the Inner Colonies enter a Depression
2180 - Ten Corporations in the Outer Colonies sign a mutual defense agreement to protect against criminal activity. This becomes known as the Outer Systems Protectorate.
2181 - Russia establishes the colony of Kovat
2182 - The Protectorate charters two Private Military Corporations to enforce order: Special External Protocol Enforcement, and Special Internal Protocol Enforcement
2190 - The United Nations rules that SEPE, SIPE and other corporate militias violate international laws against mercenaries
2191 - The Protectorate declares that the Outer Colonies are exempt from Earth National law
2191 - The United States considers this an act of rebellion, and issues indictments against Protectorate leaders in US colonies
2192 - The First Galactic War begins, a Coalition of Government Forces invades the Outer Colonies
2213 - After 20 years of fighting, the Coalition surrenders, and all government forces are withdrawn from the Outer Colonies
2252 - The Protectorate renames itself The Amalgamated Systems Protectorate, and declares all governmental authority invalid
2253 - The Protectorate invades the Inner Colonies. The Second Galactic War begins
2294 - Earth’s nations surrender, and all governments are dissolved
2310 - The Protectorate amends its Protocol to make any and all future governments against Protocol
2328 - Protectorate Forces make contact with the Workers - Worker Conquest begins
2362 - Workers surrender, and are absorbed into the Protectorate
2430 - Several Outer Rim systems establish the Confederation of Free Systems in defiance of the Protectorate
2431 - The Protectorate invades the Free Systems
2440 - Protectorate forces are defeated and withdraw from Free Systems territory.
2514 - Marshall Varren is born on Kovat
2520 - Sophia Sorrens is born on Swartkraans
2526 - Kegan Varren is killed in a shootout with SIPE forces, Marshall is adopted by the St. Korolis Working Orphanage
2532 - Marshall Varren is accepted into Kovat Planetary Business Academy
2532 - Sophia Sorrens begins working for Chan-Kruger Kinetic Systems
2534 - Sophia Sorrens is transferred to CKKS’s R&D division on Kovat
2538 - Marshall Varren graduates at the top of his class, and begins working for CKKS
2539 - Sophia Sorrens changes her name to Levvy Kes’raht, and commits acts of digital sabotage that result in the loss of three Protectorate Starships and several hundred deaths. She is banished to the slums of Kovat City
2542 - Marshall Varren is caught helping Follower workers embezzle funds from CKKS and banished to the slums
2053 - Alcubierre Drive is perfected in the United States, First Interplanetary Mission is launched to Mars
2057 - Antimatter Reactor Technology is developed, making interstellar Alcubierre travel practical
2061 - China launches a Mars Mission, Second Space Race Begins
2063 - Russia and the European Union enter the Race
2078 - China establishes the first extrasolar colony
2082 - The United States and Russia establish colonies
2084 - The European Union establishes a colony
2090 - A landmark Supreme Court decision allows private corporations to build or purchase Alcubierre ships in the United States and colonize planets
2099 - A mining consortium makes First Contact with an alien race
2100 - The consortium reports hostile alien contact, and requests military protection - the Follower War begins
2108 - Nuclear weapons are detonated over Follower cities, ending the war and dissolving the Follower Governments
2112 - A series of court decisions rule that aliens lack rights or protection under human law in most countries - corporations begin using alien labor to expand Human territory rapidly
2148 - Overexpansion results in economic collapse, Earth and the Inner Colonies enter a Depression
2180 - Ten Corporations in the Outer Colonies sign a mutual defense agreement to protect against criminal activity. This becomes known as the Outer Systems Protectorate.
2181 - Russia establishes the colony of Kovat
2182 - The Protectorate charters two Private Military Corporations to enforce order: Special External Protocol Enforcement, and Special Internal Protocol Enforcement
2190 - The United Nations rules that SEPE, SIPE and other corporate militias violate international laws against mercenaries
2191 - The Protectorate declares that the Outer Colonies are exempt from Earth National law
2191 - The United States considers this an act of rebellion, and issues indictments against Protectorate leaders in US colonies
2192 - The First Galactic War begins, a Coalition of Government Forces invades the Outer Colonies
2213 - After 20 years of fighting, the Coalition surrenders, and all government forces are withdrawn from the Outer Colonies
2252 - The Protectorate renames itself The Amalgamated Systems Protectorate, and declares all governmental authority invalid
2253 - The Protectorate invades the Inner Colonies. The Second Galactic War begins
2294 - Earth’s nations surrender, and all governments are dissolved
2310 - The Protectorate amends its Protocol to make any and all future governments against Protocol
2328 - Protectorate Forces make contact with the Workers - Worker Conquest begins
2362 - Workers surrender, and are absorbed into the Protectorate
2430 - Several Outer Rim systems establish the Confederation of Free Systems in defiance of the Protectorate
2431 - The Protectorate invades the Free Systems
2440 - Protectorate forces are defeated and withdraw from Free Systems territory.
2514 - Marshall Varren is born on Kovat
2520 - Sophia Sorrens is born on Swartkraans
2526 - Kegan Varren is killed in a shootout with SIPE forces, Marshall is adopted by the St. Korolis Working Orphanage
2532 - Marshall Varren is accepted into Kovat Planetary Business Academy
2532 - Sophia Sorrens begins working for Chan-Kruger Kinetic Systems
2534 - Sophia Sorrens is transferred to CKKS’s R&D division on Kovat
2538 - Marshall Varren graduates at the top of his class, and begins working for CKKS
2539 - Sophia Sorrens changes her name to Levvy Kes’raht, and commits acts of digital sabotage that result in the loss of three Protectorate Starships and several hundred deaths. She is banished to the slums of Kovat City
2542 - Marshall Varren is caught helping Follower workers embezzle funds from CKKS and banished to the slums