
First relativistic starship constructed and launched from Mars orbit.Ģ205 – 2250 period of great expansion numerous interstellar colonies established recontact with surviving settlements from Amerikano era.Ģ217 – Conjoiner expedition to Diadem. Birth of Conjoiner faction and immediate onset of Coalition-Conjoiner war.Ģ191 – ceasefire in Conjoiner-Coalition war brokered by Sandra Voi.Ģ191 – 2205 Conjoiner quarantine period.Ģ205 – Galiana’s Conjoiners escape from Mars. Demarchists distance themselves from the more radical factions.Ģ190 – Experimenters on Mars initiate Transenlightenment.

Unease at extreme neural experiments being conducted under Demarchist aegis leads to formation of the Earth-based Coalition for Neural Purity a military pact of conservative states opposed to further technological or social innovation.Ģ182 – first phase of GWOM completed. Great freeze sets in on Earth.Ģ161 – Sandra Voi leads first human expedition into Europa’s oceanĢ178 – Great Wall of Mars project begins. Solar luminosity begins to drop, heralding a new ice age on Earth.Ģ155 – first Demarchist settlements around Jupiter. Emergence of Demarchist states in 2141 signals new era of peace and prosperity. End of so-called Amerikano era.Ģ110-2140: period of turmoil solar system convulsed by more wars. Most such societies fail within two or three generations. At 1/8th of the speed of light, they will not arrive until the twenty-third century.Ģ090 – 2110: establishment of early colonies on a number of extrasolar planets via Von Neumann robots carrying fertilised human cells. Departure of flotilla of colony ships for 61 Cygni-A.

Emergence of “chimeric” factions: heavily bio-engineered and cyborgized human splinter groups.Ģ083: ceasefire. Political fragmentation and social unrest follows massive breakthroughs in bio-sciences.Ģ081: increasingly violent police actions against rogue states lead to retaliatory actions onset of war. Smaller settlements dotted around whole system, out to fringes of Kuiper Belt. By 2069 twelve million people live off Earth mainly around Earth and the Moon. 2050 – 2080: period of great expansion into the solar system.
