The Whisper Crash

A ship launched from Earth explodes while leaving Terran space. A new interest in exploring Terra begins. This may have been an attempt by the Paleman race to flee a new force developing on Terra, and is more or less concurrent with the Whisper threat. However,...

“For Deimos”

Mars’s smaller moon is accidentally destroyed to make way for an interplanetary bypass. A bluesky station, “For Deimos,” is created in its place (metaphorically speaking, the original moonlet was a huge distance away.

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.

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.

Population Rises

Martian population at 3 billion; luna colony 35,000 people. Mars has about 1/5 the surface area of Earth: population becomes a concern

Terraforming of Venus

Terraforming of Venus begins, “the most expensive publicity stunt in recorded history.” Rumors of life in Venus’s clouds and acid pools circulate.

Gas Giant

Construction of the Nephalim Mana Platform near Ganymede completed

Beginning of Ganymede Colony

As Mars begins to feel the edges of population creep, Ganymede seems like a good place to begin the next big colonization of Sol. Europa may or may not have been tentatively explored by an earlier incarnation of TTI at this point, and its exploration occurs close to...

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,...

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.

The Dawn March I

An experimental caravan trundles across Mercury for 20 years, eventually destroyed by fatigue and Mercury’s harsh sun. Date: Estimated, arbitrary early 200s date

Phobos Expands

Along with the rise of Stellarum, Phobos Base expands as a shipyard, port, and destination in its own right. Eventually the small asteroid moon doubles in size.

Last Human Family Killed

The Terran colony maintains itself for 15 years before being wiped from the surface by alien horrors, later called “an attack by local wildlife” on MarsCo’s news briefs.

Luna Colony One and the Last Human Family

MarsCo agents establish Luna Colony, and the last human family returns to Terra to reclaim their home. The fine details of this story vary depending on your sources, a small community of humans watching the sun set on their homeworld, or several shipfuls of humans,...

Is there Life on Earth?

Radio signals (static, old programming, etc) have been received from Terra for some time. Some monstrous life forms seen on surface. It is believed that the hasty “hemi-vector” processes may have had mutative side effects.