by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Marsco receives all information needed to create bipedal protovectors from an anonymous terran source.
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Bipedal protovectors created, though still mentally similar to domestic pets. Protests, outrage, scandal, and ridiculously high demand follow.
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
The protovector sphinx created in Martian bio research labs as an off-the-books project, soon followed by griffins, dragons, and other mythical creatures. They become the ultimate status pet.
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
The Mars colony corporations join together to create the first extraterrestrial corporation: MarsCo.
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Second Generation geomats developed, able to operate in vacuum or under great pressure. Plans to expand corporate reach into space begin to circulate: the Mars Race begins.
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Corptown and corporate education costs bring a period of corporate consolidation, creating larger multi-industry corps. Date: Estimate, 15 years after Geomat
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
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
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
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
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
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...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
ARPANET built, a computer communication structure linking universities and government institutions. One of the few pre-Sol events that is explicitly called out, in the lore of HSD1.0 the text mentions a precursor to the modern internet. This is almost certainly...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Responses to protovectors ranging from exploitation to open warfare and murder show a strong need for legislative control of the “species.” All government-run countries unilaterally ban protovectors. When possible, protovectors euthanized. Moral outrage...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Dissatisfaction with traditional government grows over the coming years. Government attempts to regulate and even prevent informal communication between nations. Date: Best guess (5 years before geomat)
