Pale Rumors

Sightings and contact with Palemen occur around Mars. Over the next few decades awareness of a permanent Paleman population begins to form as IRPF connects the dots. There is an expansion of Paleman activity around this point, and the exact timeline is a bit hazy, but...

Isolation of Earth

Earth and Luna quarantine zone established after Whisper attacks on Earth and Mars.

The Whisper Recession

For about a decade, ripples of the loss of Luna spread across Sol. MarsCo pulls its strings. Traffic between worlds is drastically reduced, even banned. The Jovian colonies suffer as their supply lines are broken, and many corporations that are dependent on...

Alien Intelligence: The Monolith

Discovery of the Monolith and other xeno-archeology under Europa’s ocean provides proof of non-terrestrial life, and a strange link to the horrors of Vector past.

Stellarum and Ganymede’s Tech Industry

Space ship and Bluesky construction megacorp Stellarum opens its Ganymede branch, creating a tech and industry hub in the Jovian region. Date: Rough estimate, 50 years after Ganymede’s completion

IRPF Gets Its Badge

MarsCo’s Internal Police Force has been active in fighting the space pirate menace for much of the last 80 years. With new advances in energy transformation, levitation, and hull design, a newer, stronger, faster police force develops, and MarsCo spins off most...

Colonization of Europa begins

TTI begins a cleaner colonization of Europa. Unlike the terraforming of Ganymede and Mars, this will leave any potential life on Europa intact for future scientific exploration and corporate profiteering.

Piracy, Police

Trade between Mars and Venus creates trade routes…and piracy. The “pirate period” lasts 80 years before a new energy source helps Vectors develop ship-based weaponry. The beginning of the Inner Ring Police Force.

TTI Funding Campaign Successful!

During Venus terraforming, reports of primitive life in its atmosphere and seas. Concerns about planetwide biocide fuel the expansion of a new Corp with a cleaner solution for exploring and inhabiting Europa: Transcendent Technologies Incorporated. The fledgling Corp...

TTI first visits Europa

TTI, then a small biotech firm, mounts its first expedition to Europa, finding traces of extraterrestrial life. Date: Estimated, there’s the suggestion of an early visit to Venus in the 2.0 lore that may predate TTI’s official launch as a...

ASR Blasts Off Again

ASR comes back on stage with the Thrust Drive, in partnership with Stellarum: a newer, cheaper propulsion technology that will open up Sol to travel. Date: Hazy. The establishment of the thrust drive opens up Sol to exploration, and is tied to the birth of IRPF,...

Cog2.0: Cogsune Launch Failure

“Cog2.0” announced by Aron So, CEO of ASR. Fired next day. The covert Cogsune project continues to this day. Generally this has been regarded as one of the biggest marketing blunders or best corporate cover-ups in the history of history, as ASR has been...

Progenitus Goes Public

Unable to stomach the corruption in the health industry, the Spyglass spin-off watchdog/medical espionage group Progenitus takes their information public. Soon they are able to provide reasonable health care to all of Sol.

Stellarum’s High Point

Stellarum, originally a Marsco spinoff, establishes itself as the guardian MegaCorp of Luna, focusing on shipbuilding on Luna, Mars, and later on Ganymede.

The Plague Years

After over a century of robust health, disease rears its ugly head again. MarsCo pushes toward a charity-based health care system. Genetic therapy titan Genotype takes the brunt of the blame. It’s nearly 10 years before science rebottles this particular...

Genotype Discorporated

Megacorp “Genotype” destroyed by mice, executing the board on public television. How much of this is the work of brave rodents and how much is a tactical strike against the failing medical megacorp is unknown. Exact date: unknown, likely somewhere between...

Cat vs Rat: Felidae Pushback Against Genotype

Under a banner of assumed noble intent, Felidae waged a economic/social campaign against Genotype, either to destroy it or make a profit. Date: Estimated, some 150 years after Generation 3 and the period leading up to Genotype collapse and the Plague...

Generation Mouse

Rat-owned Megacorp “Genotype” creates the mouse Vectors, which are not, technically, a slave race. They are the first new vectors created in over a hundred years, and the last. Date: estimated, 20 years prior to Genotype’s collapse and the Plague...