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.

20th Century

1900s

• 1903: Inspired by the writings of Jules Verne, first serious work published that showed physical space exploration was 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

2020s

• 2021: International Society of Civil Engineers is established. (Halo)

2050s

• 2054: The first modern drone intelligences are created. (Polaris)

2060s

• 2063: The colonization of Luna begins under the aegis of the United Nations opens the door to further extraterrestrial colonization. (Polaris)

2070s

• 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. (Halo)
• 2078: The colonization of Mars by a collection of national interests brings industry off-world. (Polaris)
• 2079: Bluespace is discovered by Tobias Shaw and Wallace Fujikawa. The Journal of Higher Dimensional Physics publishes an article about the discovery. (Halo)

2080s

• 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)

26th Century

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).