After five years of nuclear bombardment, all known life on earth is assumed to be exterminated.
Game notes: This is kind of a soft date, although “0 AE” is fun to write in a calendar, it’s hazy, possibly based on the final radio signals from Terra, and the end of a multi-year extermination campaign.
Reference: HSD 1.0 p. 19
Date Notes: AE 0 is one of the main lynchpins of the Sol history.