MarsCo Adopts the Ledger

“Ledger” system developed by a young ferret on a bet. It spreads through the web before MarsCo discovers and adopts it. The massive edge this gives to MarsCo and its subsidiary companies, who now effectively control the stable currency of Sol, cannot be...

Phobos Base

Mars’s moon Phobos is reserved as a biological bank and technological archive, likely by Genotype. Evidence of this will be buried under kilometers of spaceport construction over the next seven centuries. Date: Estimated, some time after 70 AE

ASR Creates Cogs, Cogs define ASR

MarsCo branch creates first artificial intelligence: Cogs. 10 years of minor changes and edits follow. Following this triumph, Applied Science and Robotics stands as an independent Megacorp.

The First Subsidiaries

MarsCo spins off ASR as a tech company, and Pulse, Genotype are founded as subdivisions of MarsCo.

MarsCo Goes Silent

Marsco’s videos to Terra of happy Vector cubs seem to do more PR hrm than good: Marsco goes silent. In the absense of communication, and with all Corps’ government-free status under question, Terran stress begins to turn to war.

The “Save Them” Memo

Marsco receives all information needed to create bipedal protovectors from an anonymous terran source.

Birth of MarsCo

The Mars colony corporations join together to create the first extraterrestrial corporation: MarsCo.

Seeds of Megacorp

Corptown and corporate education costs bring a period of corporate consolidation, creating larger multi-industry corps. Date: Estimate, 15 years after Geomat

Corporate Education System Initiated

Workers guilds and unions plead with governments to slow geomat use and preserve their jobs. Corporate education system developed, presaging modern primary and secondary corp educational system

The First Corptowns

Corptowns begin to form as dissatisfied citizens abandon the concept of “government” as societal ordering structure. Soon corptown voting blocks become a threat to the global government. Date: Best guess, 10 years after Geomat

Creation of the Geomat

The invention of the Geomat, a mobile “3D Printer for Civilizations,” redefines economy and labor, underlining the new power of the corporations. Likely the product of one of the companies that would go on to found MarsCo. The official beginning of the Sol...