by Corbeau | Mar 16, 2019 | |
The IRPF establishes a permanent quarantine zone around Terra, which completely discourages any sort of freelance exploration of the area. Totally.
by Corbeau | Jul 11, 2018 | |
The Transcendent Age was a period that was, in a sense, controllable. The strange powers that Transcendent Technology gave its users were still the tools of Vectors, even if they weren’t perfectly understood tools. As the new century dawned, Sol seemed to be...
by Corbeau | Jul 9, 2018 | |
When TTI released the Transcendent Implant, that single technology shook the corporate space, but not since the GeoMat had a single technological innovation changed society so thoroughly… and perhaps never so quickly. Transcendent Technology revised Vector...
by Corbeau | Jul 9, 2018 | |
Up until perhaps 350 AE, Vectors hadn’t really expanded beyond the orbit of Mars. There was lonely Luna Colony, but it was still an airless moon. A few robots were decaying on Mercury as a part of the Dawn March project sometime in the 200s. Venus was just a...
by Corbeau | Jul 8, 2018 | |
Early Sol’s corporate terrain was built exclusively by MarsCo. There’s no way around this. All Terran corporations that managed to survive in some form on the red planet did so as subsidiaries of MarsCo. The earliest of the Post-Terran megacorps–ASR,...
by Corbeau | Jul 8, 2018 | |
History is written by the winners, and we are dealing with the history of the vectors, the undisputed victors of the greatest, and last, culture war in humanity’s long history of same. When the curtain parts on Mars, the spotlight of history remains on the red...
by Corbeau | Jul 4, 2018 | |
The distant past is largely lost to Vectors. The elements of the world’s history that were recorded describe the growth of a decentralized, global community on Terra linked by mobile communication and an independent spirit that would not be bound by government...
by Corbeau | Jun 29, 2018 | |
Tasked with protecting MarsCo’s preeminent status as the transportation solution for Sol, Pulse develops the controversial Digital Transmission process. “Digitrans” involves a combination of neural recording, high speed data transmission, molecular...
by Corbeau | Jun 29, 2018 | |
A corporation on the edge of breaking into the ranks of the Megacorps puts a huge sum of money toward commissioning their own Bluesky station near Jupiter orbit. Decades later when they attempt to destroy their own station, they learn a valuable, final, lesson: MarsCo...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
HSD present day (as of book one.) Since 700 the timeline has evolved with the introduction of Lumen and the multi-corp strike on Terra, which are likely to be a part of the metaplot of HSD2.0.
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Construction of a massive fleet by Pulse, Progenitus, and some IRPF begins, with the intent of attacking the Ruby Spire. TTI, which has faded into the background recently, strongly discourages this “plan.” Some people see this as MarsCo finally waking up....
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Disruptive technology company “Lumen” breaks into Terra at the speed of light. Maybe a little faster than. Breakdowns in the Status Quo follow as MarsCo faces its first legitimate threat in 700 years: life-changing technology that they have no control...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Attacks on BlueSky station “Longbow” by its owners, a long-forgotten budding megacorp, leave the station abandoned—inhabitable, but unmarketable. Laterals who wish to live a feral lifestyle colonize it later, creating a grotto that sensationalist media...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
A massive spire is constructed of the strange organic crystal “Whisperwerk,” bridging and locking together Terra and Luna. About 1/3 of Terra is stained red. Somehow the spire has its own atmosphere, physics in the Luna-Terra zone are...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
After some slow time, the lanes between Mars and Venus are open for business. IRPF has planted “crabtrap” satellites in Terra’s orbital zone. New trade routes opening. Date: 546 AE, estimated from the general description of events in the mid-500s in...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Felidae rallies its members against a common enemy (the rabbits). Five years of cold war and six months of hot. Cats feel vaguely guilty for the next 50 years or so. Date: 510, heavily estimated. The original mention of this was in Core Extended in the write-up of the...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Study of the Whisper phenomenon shows that it isn’t a viral infection. Travel bans are lifted, and life in Sol returns to what would be the new, post-Whisper normal. The beginning of the end of the whisper recession, though echoes linger even as long as 600...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Earth and Luna quarantine zone established after Whisper attacks on Earth and Mars.
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
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...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Mission launched to Earth. Data and records captured from strangely lifeless world. “Pale Man” attack destroys many. Months later, crew returning to Luna unleash a plague of monsters somehow hidden in their blood. Luna Colony is quarantined and destroyed...
