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 | Mar 16, 2019 | |
The seeds of Terra’s destruction are found on Europa, centuries before TTI unlocks the ice-moon’s secrets. Radio telescopes trained on Europa discern the shape of the monolith, and use its strange geometry to code a very dangerous artificial intelligence....
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 | Jun 30, 2018 | |
In the years following the destruction of their homeworld, humanity has what, conservatively, one could call a cultural good cry. There is no way to get a full figure of how much of Terra’s information wealth is lost, either to the nuclear destruction of the...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
[slider]Cel phone browsing exceeds desktop internet browsing: welcome to the mobile age. The backstory of HSD before it enters the science-fictional is primarily the growth of internet culture, this is an arbitrary landmark in that growth. Date: 2014, from Wikipedia....
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Terran internet encyclopedia “Reddit” frames cuil theory. This may or may not be the item mentioned in HSD 1.0 to a Terran database referencing Cuil Theory. In Sound and Silence the lore goes into more detail about Transcendent research on Terra, which is...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Beginnings of the World Wide Web, soon the basis of the chaotic online community that moves away from government rule. The pre-science-fictional timeline of HSD is mostly the growth of the internet culture. This is an arbitrary milestone in that history. Date: 1989,...
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 | |
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 | |
Earth and Luna quarantine zone established after Whisper attacks on Earth and Mars.
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...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
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,...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
A second attempt at exploring Terra begins months later, focusing on space ship silos. Team 2 sent two months later. They find strange script on the bunker walls, echoing the weird scrawls left by the monstrous owls centuries ago. They are quickly dispatched by more...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Luna Colony One’s population exceeds 30,000.
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Lured by the promise of a “Goldilocks zone” planet, Terra’s children return home for the first time in 200 years. Two teams are sent to explore the planet, neither returns.
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Stellarum, originally a Marsco spinoff, establishes itself as the guardian MegaCorp of Luna, focusing on shipbuilding on Luna, Mars, and later on Ganymede.
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
Over the next 30 years the cameras planted by the Luna One explorers broadcast images from earth, before being disabled by a strang, thin byped with no eyes, dubbed “Pale Man.” Date: Estimated, 15 years after the death of Last Human Family
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
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.
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
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,...
by Corbeau | Jun 27, 2018 | |
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.
