Timeline

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What follows is a complete timeline of significant events in the known history of space travel in the Milky Way.

Or it would be. Right now it's still a shitty placeholder.

Note that the history of the Space Station 13 universe is not entirely our own, but rather one that has diverged from ours during the early 20th century. So while it takes place in the future, it is not our future, but a future as imagined by this community.

Behind the scenes

What would I even put here? Really.

http://ss13polaris.com/wiki/doku.php?id=lore:history Probably gonna steal lots from here.

Editor's Note (TEMPORARY)

If you are taking lore from other communities, please mark it for now until we make it official.

Example:

• 2467: Clowns invade the Mime Republic of "..." in the Faire Taire system. (Goonstation)

Okay that's not actually Goon lore, but it's an example of how I want it written.

Real world events of scientific significance should also be included.

For the moment, go absolutely nuts adding things. I'm going to personally review everything at a later date.

20th Century

1900s

• 1903: Inspired by the writings of Jules Verne, the first serious scientific papers are published that show physical space exploration is theoretically possible.
• 1905: Albert Einstein publishes his Special Theory of Relativity.

1910s

• 1912: Victor Hess discovers the existence of cosmic radiation.
• 1918: Chase Monroe is born in Montana.

1920s

• 1920: The Nazi Party is formed.
• 1926: Robert H. Goddard launches humanity's first liquid-fueled rocket.
• 1927: Verein für Raumschiffahrt (Society for Space Travel) is formed; it includes many top European rocket scientists.
• 1929: Hermann Oberth, with students including Wernher von Braun, launches his first liquid-fueled rocket. Among them is Dietrich Troy, who has been studying Special Relativity among other quantum mechanical theories.

1930s

• 1930: Paul Dirac Dirac's textbook Principles of Quantum Mechanics is published.
• 1931: First German military liquid-fueled rocket engines developed.
• 1932: Adolf Hitler is appointed as Chancellor of Germany.
• 1933: Work begins on the Aggregate series of rockets which leads to the V-2 rocket.
• 1934: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
• 1935: Dietrich Troy joins the Nazi Party.
• 1937: Chase Monroe joins the United States Army.

1940s

• 1941: The United States enters World War 2.
• 1942: The Battle of Stalingrad takes place.
• 1944: Dietrich Troy becomes a Wonder Weapons researcher working on the V-2 rocket under the supervision of Ludwig Brandt. However, Brandt becomes interested in research notes by Troy regarding the possibility of time travel, and has Troy reassigned.
  • September: The V-2 Rocket is the first man-made object to cross what would later be defined as the Kármán line, becoming the first spaceflight in human history.
  • June: Chase Monroe participates in the Battle of Normandy. The allied invasion of Europe begins.
• 1945: Under Ludwig Brandt's supervision, using Dietrich Troy's designs and calculations, the first Bluespace Gateway in history is built within a secret underground facility beneath the city of Lübeck. It is referred to as the Saphirdimensionale Zeitbrücke (SDZ).
  • The Battle of Berlin takes place. Adolf Hitler, realizing the war is lost, escapes in secret with the German 21st Army to Lübeck. An unknown individual, possibly one of Hitler's body doubles, is executed and their body burned to fool the Soviets and even Hitler's personal guard into believing that Hitler committed suicide. Hitler instead goes into hiding at the underground base in Lübeck as the SDZ is rushed to completion.
  • July: The Manhattan Project produces the first nuclear fission explosion during the Trinity test in New Mexico.
  • August: The nuclear bombs Fat Man and Little Boy are dropped on Japan, formally ending World War 2.
  • October: The United Nations are established.
• 1946: Chase Monroe is promoted to Sergeant and reassigned to Operation Paperclip to locate and retrieve Nazi technology before the Soviet Union can do the same.
• November: Monroe and his unit are sent to investigate rumors of a hidden Nazi base in Lübeck. A secret passage is discovered beneath Holstein Tor, leading to an underground complex still inhabited by active Nazi troops. A firefight breaks out between American and Nazi-remnant forces. As American forces call for backup, Chase Monroe breaks from his group to pursue several high ranking Nazi officers including Dietrich Troy, Ludwig Brandt, and even Adolf Hitler himself. The officers evacuate through the SDZ, but Monroe is able to follow them just moments before the portal is deliberately sabotaged by the Nazi-remnants using dynamite. The Incident at Lübeck is covered up by the Office of Strategic Services, and any documents that were not destroyed by the Nazi-remnants are brought back to the United States. However, American scientist are unable to put together the missing pieces, and eventually give up on the project, assuming it to be another impossible Wonder Weapon that never would have worked in practice.
• December: Chase Monroe is declared Missing In Action.

1950s

• 1957: Hugh Everett formulates the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which states that every possible quantum outcome is realized in divergent, non-communicating parallel universes in quantum superposition.
  • October: Humanity's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, is launched into orbit.

1960s

• 1964: John Stewart Bell puts forth Bell's theorem, which inaugurated the study of quantum entanglement; the phenomenon in which separate particles share the same quantum state despite being at a distance from each other.
• 1966: Humanity's first soft landing on another world (the Moon).

1970s

• 1971: Humanity's first soft landing on another planet (Mars).
• 1977: Voyager 1 and 2 are launched from Earth.

1980s

• 1981: Humanity's first reusable manned spacecraft, STS-1, is launched.
• 1986: Humanity's first consistently inhabited long-term research space station, Mir, begins operation.

1990s

• 1998: The International Space Station begins operation.

21st Century

2000s

• 2001: The Global War on Terror begins, which is considered to be the first truly global effort of the world's nations against a common enemy.
• 2009: Scientists warn that the effects of global warming are now so severe that they cannot be reversed.

2010s

• 2011: The corporate endeavor Mars One is founded, planning for a one-way trip to make the first human Mars, which will be funded by making it a reality TV show.

2020s

• 2023: The Global War on Terror is declared over through a mix of negotiation and (in some cases) complete annihilation of various terror groups.

2030s

• 2032: Mars One departs from Earth after several delays.
• 2033: Mars One arrives on Mars.
• 2034: Mars One colonists all perish due to dwindling supplies and mental breakdowns, making international news, as the entire tragedy is caught on live video. An incompetent selection process is blamed.
• 2035: Mars One goes bankrupt.
• 2038: Chronic flooding of the world's coastal cities, combined with droughts further inland, begins to severely devastate the economies of many nations. The Water Wars begin in the Middle East.

2040s

• 2040: The Water Wars result in skyrocketing prices for crude oil, culminating in a standoff between China, Europe, Russia, India, and the United States.

2050s

• 2054: The first modern drone intelligences are created.

2060s

• 2063: The colonization of Luna begins under the aegis of the United Nations opens the door to further extraterrestrial colonization.
• 2068: Despite desperate international efforts to avert a crisis, the Water Wars end with a localized nuclear war between Middle Eastern nations, plus India and Pakistan. Billions are killed. It is the largest loss of human life to a single war in the course of human history. Numerous nations are destroyed or collapse completely, such as Armenia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Qatar, Syria, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates.
• 2069: Earth's nations vow to lay down their nuclear arms in order to avoid an incident like the Water Wars, for fear of a war on such a scale that it could be the end of humanity.

2070s

• 2070: In the aftermath of the Water Wars, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey sign the Treat of Niqaba, also known as The Brotherhood Treaty. Centuries of hostilities between the four nations finally ends with the founding of the United Republic of Mesopotamia. Other surviving Middle Eastern nations including Afghanistan, Bahrain, and Oman join the newly formed Republic. Reconstruction and reform efforts begin across the Middle East.
• 2071: Rising sea levels due to climate change result in the destruction of New York City during a major storm, killing thousands, and stranding millions. The United Nations headquarters is moved to Paris during the emergency. This change becomes permanent.
• 2075: The Unified Earth Government is formed as an assembly of political leaders and brilliant minds, commissioned by the United Nations, and tasked with attempting to avert the crises of the next century by solving governmental unification issues of colonizing non-Earth territories.
• 2078: Permanent colonization of Mars is initiated by a collection of international corporate interests, which brings industry off-world. It also provides some alleviation to the strain on Earth's resources and environment.
• 2079: Bluespace is discovered. The Journal of Higher Dimensional Physics publishes an article about the discovery.

2080s

• 2080: Earth's nations put together joint efforts to colonize Luna, Mars, and a handful of other sites in the Sol system, including the Jovian Moons, and a number of asteroids.
• 2080: The birth of the first generation of vat-grown clones, intended to act as a labor force on Mars and the Main Belt. (Polaris)
• 2082: A wing of self-directed military drones malfunction and bomb Cairo, killing dozens of civilians before being shot down by citizen militias. Outrage and mass hysteria ensue. This is regarded as the beginning of the Icarus movement. (Polaris)
• 2084: Earth-bound tensions increase. Singularitarianism becomes a mainstream political issue. (Polaris)
• 2085: The first bluespace engine is invented. Slow, bulky, and prohibitively expensive, it nonetheless revolutionizes physics and promotes space colonization. (Polaris)
• 2087: Whistleblowers expose systemic child abuse in the early vat nurseries. Proto-Icarus protesters storm the UN, forcing a resolution declaring vat-grown person-hood to be passed. (Polaris)
• 2088: The Icarus Front is formally organized and begins taking seats in national legislatures. (Polaris)
• 2089: In response to the Icarus Front, the Shoulders of Giants are formed to public acclaim by various futurists, scientists, and corporate interests. (Polaris)

2090s

• 2092: A nanotechnology lab in Baghdad accidentally releases the Gray Tide, metal-eating self-replicating nanomachines. They destroy vital infrastructure and render tens of thousands homeless. Researchers take documents and flee to Ceres, creating the first independent colony. An expensive international cleanup effort ensues. Videos of the disaster are widely circulated on social media. (Polaris)
• 2093: Icarus becomes the leader of the reigning Iraqi government coalition and passes comprehensive technological reform. The scientists responsible for the Gray Tide are declared terrorists. (Polaris)
• 2095: Commercial FTL spacecraft is introduced. Scientists flee for Luna. The Shoulders of Giants become a majority party in France and Germany. The Icarus front takes several third-world nations. (Polaris)
• 2096: A shuttle full of noted futurists and Giants political leaders is destroyed en route to Luna. Icarus denies responsibility. (Polaris)
• 2097: The Shoulders of Giants win the US presidential election to popular outrage. Icarus declared a terrorist group in the United States. (Polaris)
• 2099: Proof of corporate and Giants interference in the original US election is leaked anonymously. Major Giants leaders are arrested, the remainder fleeing for Luna or Ceres. A UN-directed recount sees an Icarus-friendly moderate elected. (Polaris)

22nd Century

2100s

• 2100: Icarus-friendly leaders sweep elections in Brazil and South Africa. (Polaris)
• 2101: Political pressure forces the president of the EU to resign. Earth is united under the Icarus banner. (Polaris)
• 2101: Eight major Lunar colonies declare independence from their sponsor nations and form the Selene Federation. Several Martian and Main Belt colonies declare allegiance. Non-food imports from Earth are restricted. (Polaris)
• 2102: The Selene Federation establishes a farming colony on Mars. This is the first act of colonization without Earth influence. (Polaris)
• 2103: A citizen's militia seizes the Martian farming colony. The price of food staples increases in what becomes called the Potato Crisis. (Polaris)
• 2105: Cerian and Selene scientists establish a farming aerostat on Venus, putting an end to the Potato Crisis. (Polaris)
• 2106: A second farming stat is established, but crashes into the surface shortly afterwards due to a malfunctioning central AI. Investors go broke, triggering a run on the banks. (Polaris)
• 2108: A coordinated effort by Icarus-backed UN troops and citizen's militias seize the major Lunar spacepoint. Selene Federation authorities are unable to acquire mercenary forces or conscripts to defend their holdings. The Federation dissolves and their new colonies are administered by the newly-formed Solar Confederate Government. (Polaris)

2120s

• 2129: The United Nations creates the first iterations of the ODSTs. (Halo)

26th Century

2520s

• 2524: The UNSC Pathfinder and other vessels are commissioned by SolGov to search the galaxy for new worlds to be colonized.
• 2526: The Sergal race is discovered by the UNSC Pathfinder, but does not report the finding as all crew are killed.
  • December: The UNSC Hoenir is deployed to locate survivors along the Pathfinder's last known trajectory, which eventually brings them to Vilous.
• 2527: The Vilous Incident takes place.
  • February: The UNSC Hoenir discovers Pathfinder's distress beacon, but finds no survivors. The Hoenir encounter hostile Sergals and report back to SolGov with their findings.
  • April-June: Glenn Pink orders a task force to the Vilous system, but is forced to stand down by President James Harvard. The mission is passed to Admiral Antoine Fontaine, whose task forceis severely neutered due to micro management and cost reductions by President Harvard.
  • October: UNSC Column of Spring, a Colony Ship, to land at Tal in the Vilous system. Over a thousand UNSC personnel are killed in the conflict that ensues.
  • November: James Harvard loses the 2528 presidential election of Sol.

2540s

• 2441: The Virgo-Erigone system is discovered by NanoTrasen. Plans begin immediately to ready an expedition to inhabit the phoron-rich system.

2550s

• 2556: The Virgo-Erigone Government Authority (VEGA) is established by NanoTrasen.
• 2557: An Exodus-class space station is purchased from an orbital shipyard in Tau Ceti, and is shipped to the Virgo-Erigone system.
• 2558: The NSS Adephagia begins operation as the first Virgo Orbital Research Establishment (VORE-1).
  • September: VORE-1 is intentionally destroyed in a nuclear detonation by Captain Jeremiah Acacius during a Code Delta emergency caused by a xenobio slime infestation that got out of control and attained a hivemind sentience.
  • December: Tal is annexed under SolGov's control, granting Sol Central passports to Sergals, and later Nevareans. These two races begin leaving Vilous to work for various Trans-Stellar Corporations.
  • October: VORE-2 is built, and replaces VORE-1. It is also an Exodus-class station, but with some modernization upgrades.
• 2559: The VORE-2 is retired and demolished in favor of VORE-3, which is an asteroid colony based on the blueprints of the Northern Star in the Vir system. Technical issues plague its deployment.

2560s

• 2561: VORE-3 is decommissioned in favor of The Tether on Virgo-3B, which is opened for operation, and is designated as the NSB Adephagia (VORE-4).