1961 | First Terran space explorations. |
1969 | First Terran landings on Luna, Terra's moon. |
2006 | Completion of first United Nations International Space Station
in geosynchronous orbit about Terra. |
2011 | Archimedes settlement on Luna, Terra's moon established as a
small mining base. |
2013 | United Nations Space Coordinating Agency (UNSCA) established
on Terra. |
2020 | Copernicus settlement on Luna, Terra's moon, established by
America, Britain and Japan. |
2050 | ESA Long-Range Colony Mission leaves Terra in generation
ships. |
2061 | UNSCA bases throughout the Terran solar system. |
2068 | Terran System War begins. |
2078 | Terran System War ends. |
2080 | Prometheus, Terra's first interstellar colony, established in
Alpha Centauri system. |
2088 | Luna, Terra's moon, unifies as a nation in the United Nations. |
2090 | UNSCA researchers develop Jump-1 drives in Sol's asteroid belt. |
2118 | Offworld Skirmishes begin as Core World colonies begin to
resist the yoke of Terra's rule. |
2120 | Treaty of New York brings an end to the Offworld Skirmishes,
and various UNSCA colonies of the Core Worlds successfully reform
United Nations as United Worlds, creating a true interstellar polity. |
2185 | United Worlds establishes first colony of the Sirian Cluster
in the asteroid belt of Sirius. |
2201 | Terra achieves TL 10. |
2287 | Canis, a moon orbiting an outer system planet of the Sirius
system, is interdicted by the United Worlds as a Red Zone. Later that
year, news is leaked to the media that ruins of an previous
civilization were found on surface of the cold moon. The United
Worlds Stellar Navy (UWSN) denies the rumors. |
2306 | Tau Ceti settled by a large faction of the Anachronist
Movement, who seek a place where they may reject modern industrialized
technology and return to a less technological way of life. |
2335 | A military coup attempts to force the United Worlds into a
stricter regime, starting the Great Civil War between the Federalists
and the Unionists. |
2341 | Terra achieves TL 11 as Federalist researchers develop Jump-2
drives. |
2343 | The Great Civil War ends with the formation of the
Confederation of Planets, an interstellar government primarily under
Federalist control. Unionist dissenters flee to the outworlds,
particularly the Sirian Cluster. |
2347 | The Confed Exploration Forces, a branch of the Confed Stellar
Navy, announces that a CEF Scout base will be established on Tau Ceti
as a point from which expeditions to survey the Sirius subsector will
be launched. The CEF has also commissioned a new Discovery-class
exploratory survey vessel to perform the survey. |
2350 | The first Discovery-class exploratory survey vessel, the CSS
Magellan, is launched from Wolf 359 on its mission to begin surveys
and explorations of the Sirius subsector. |
2350 | The Present... |