The Dawn March III

With Venus terraforming complete, Mercury has a new neighbor, and the Dawn March rolls forward again as an industrial research base, its slagged fleet supplemented with the construction ships from Venus. A home of last resort for the truly desperate, voted third-best...

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...

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.

Bombs over Io

Jupiter’s moon Io becomes a destination for covert military mayhem and large-scale off-the-record corporate warfare.

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...

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...

The Dawn March II

ASR’s Thrust Drive bring cheaper travel across the system, reawakening some playful interest in the Dawn March project as a way to show off new technology.

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...

The Master’s Voice

An antiquarian discovers the “masters’ voice” effect, apparently deliberately programmed into vectors: analog recordings of humans singing are strangely hypnotic. Later, the effect is used in the “Neuroplex” learning device.