# The First Space Age (0-149SA) \[[[1957]]-[[2106]]\]) - 1957 - Sputnik 1 is launched into space - 1969 - Apollo 11 Visits the Moon for the First Time - 2029 - Damion Sarif founds Sarif Industries, focused on bio-augmentaiton and prostetics - [[2031]] - China Establishes A colony on the Moon - [[2032]] - The United States Establishes A Colony on the Moon, followed by Russia, the European Union, and Japan. - 2033 - Adrian Johnson, a lightly augmented hacker, is severly wounded carrying out a job raiding Sarif Industries. Damion finds Adrian, kidsnaps Adrian, and offers the latter a deal: Allow Damion to augment his dying body, savind Adrians life, in exchange for Adrian working with Damion. Adrian agrees. - 2034 - Iran begins to back anti-Pakistan, pro-middle-east-unification terrorists groups in Pakistan - [[2035]] - Adrian Johnson is shown off by Sarif Industries as "the Augmented Man", a vision of the future. Featuring entirely bioaugemnted organs, enhanced limbs, sensors, weaposn to act as a personal body guard, and numerous other specialities, Adrian quickly became a celebrity. - 2036 - Bytebod, a Russio-Chinese bioaugmentation corporation announces their military augmented person, which the pro-futurist wing of both states aquire. - [[2037]] - Vladimir Putin dies, power vacuum leads to Russian Civil War, Chinese Civil War - In short, Validimir Putin was by this time holding together two major wings of the Russian government, a militian-futurist, semi-feudal, semi-soviet leaning wing, and an agrarian pro-communist, pro western wing. A similar divergence had emerged in China. The civil war sees these two sides via for control of the government of their respective states. - The war begins with Russia breaking down, and its pro-futurist government which had been on the way out gaining support from China, while the anti-futurist faction gained support from India. The greater unity of hte Indian state prevetned it from melting down while China and Russia both didso. - The futurists are primarily on the north east of CHina, and the Western part of Russia. The Privitistvsts are the east of Russia, and the interior of China. The corporations of China own its South, and are trying to take the coasts. - 2037 - The United States Government, seeing the effective employment of agumented soliders in the sino-russio-civil-war, places an order from Sarif-industries for 3000 Augmented troops. - 2038 - India attacks China, targetting the south to damage the corporations. Sensing weakness, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam backed by Thailand and Japan but ultimately really America move through the south to help the companies and stop the privitivsts. This forms the pro-corporation faction. - [[2039]] - Sarif Industries launches the first publically available Neural Net - 2039 - Mongolia and Khazikstan join the privitivist cause, pushing the Furtists out of central and eastern russia. - 2039 - The ESA Establishes its first mining colonies in the Asteroid Belt. - 2040 - Sarif Industies bio-augmentations are found among the bodies of Pro-Corporate troops from Myranmar, Laos, and Vietnam - [[2040]] - A pro-space faction of the furists of the Sino-Russio-Civil War establiehs first long term outposts on Mars - 2040 - Pakistan backed by the Furtists in Russia attacks India. - Terrorists attack Pakistan, slautering thousands, they then retreat to and are hidden by Afghanistan, leading to Pakistan both invading India and Afghanistan. - 2041 - Iran Announces a deal with Bytebod to buy military augments, informally placing them on the Futurist side. - 2041 - Iranian involvement in the Terorrist attack on Pakistan is revealed, dragging them into the war against pakistan. However, Iran refuses to back the privitivistss - At this time the factions are - Futurists: Western Russia, Eastern/Coastal China, Eastern Europe, Pakistan - privitists: India, Central & Southern China, Eastern Russia, Afghanistan, - corporastist: coastal southern china, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, The United States/Western Allies. - 2042 - Sarif Industries war gear is found among Iranian bodies, Iran declares itself in alliance with the Coporitast faction - [[2045]] - Nuclear Detonations in the Middle East, Russia, China, and India spark widespread migration and integration between remaining personnel in its aftermath, from the ruins comes what would become Vers. - [[2045]] As a result of the Chinese civil war, Russian civil war, and nuclear wars in the middle east, mass migration to Europe, America (North and South), and Africa see widespread demand for housing and new services, leading to an economic boom in these regions, however heightened tensions from poorly run programs lead to instability among various populations - [[2048]] To cooridinate global refuguee efforts, several UN bodies are created and given special powers to deal with various crisis, working with national governmental counterparts, interconnecting them. - [[2052]] - Russian Oligarchs Launch **Universal Exploration** Program to begin construction of Mars Colonies - [[2055]] Anti-UN protests break out across the Western world in response to a perceived weaken in governemnt instutions in the face of UN agencies believed to be responsible to no one. - [[2064]] - As a result of a virus, the augment population who'd modded thier neural nets go rogue and attack thsoe around them. Farsight stops the augment hack, but popular support for augmented people begins to fade. - [[2065]] - To prevent further augment attacks, Russia Oligarchs work with Remnant Chinese Mega Corporations and state factions, along with various middle east powers to begin founding **The Universal Alliance**. - [[2065]] Manhatten is declared an Augment only zone. - [[2066]] Farsight begins working with a pro-augment terrorist group - [[2067]] to supress farsights terrorist group, forestry-mechs designed for the Canadian sheidl and build in Winnipeg are purchased by the US governemnt and repurposed with military weapons, then deployed ot new york - [[2071]] - Farsight leads argument revolution in New York, Augment War Begins - [[2072]] Farsight recieves first shipment of Mech suits from Japan, designed for the Chinese Civil War. - [[2073]] Due to success in his revolution, Farsight takes the augment war international, launching revolutions in France, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Italy, California, Throughout Africa, India, the Balkans, and where-ever else his message of anti-oppression, pro liberation and augment rights resonated. - [[2074]] The **Universal Alliance** Formally seperats from the United Nations, now composed of formed out of what was once China, Russia, parts of South America, the middle east, South East Asia, and Africa. - [[2075]] In order to win the War, the UN calls on member states to intigrate their militaries inot one UN managed military. - [[2076]] - India Joins the **Universal Alliance** - [[2080]] Possibly launched by the United States to prevent Farsight from Unting his forces, or by pro Augment hackers wanting to destroy US military capabilities, a Depleted Uranian God Rod is dropped from orbit onto a nuclear powerplant in the central United States, effectively splitting the country in two. - [[2081]] - Victor Petrov Becomes President of **Universal Alliance** - [[2083]] Farsight leads the [[United Augmented Republic]] off of Earth, taking over 3 billion of Earths then 10 Billion POpulation, leaving 7 billion behind. They go towards a new, and better dream. Over time, this republic would develop into mythical status throughout humanity. - [[2089]] start of The Third World War, with fronts in South America, Europe, Asia, the middle east, and Africa - [[2085]] - Victor Petrov Declares the language of the **Universal Alliance** to be High Versian, mandates education for children and classes for all Alliance Citizens. Centralizes power, weakens Oligarchs. - [[2086]] - Petrov begins construction on the first round of Lenin Class Colonization ships, convincing private companies to start construction on their own colonization ships. - [[2087]] - Universal Alliance works with Orthadox Union to start creating Void abominations 2089 - Petrov declares war on Western Allies, starting Third World War - [[2090]] - Petrov releases minotaurs on East Germany armed with hammers and sickles. American reveals Grey Knight Program. - [[2091]] The United Nations takes Control of Project Grey Knight, remaning them the Gray Knights - [[2092]] To deal with the rise in otherworldly creatures appearing in random town, magically blessed monster hunters known as Witchers begin to travel around the world, forming into schools. - It begins to spread htat being a witcher is something one is born it; its something in their DNA. - [[2093]] A group of disgruntled sciencitist retreat into the amazon rainforest and found the Jyd-I Order to study the newly discorved Void energy as if it were a science instead of magic. - [[2096]] Universal Alliance backed hackers launch a God Rod with its destination being a Nuclear powerplant near Berlin, the resulting detonation served to effectively split Europe in Half. - [[2098]] The Universal Alliance secures control over its 'half' of Europe. - [[2101]] Mages becomes an instutionalized part of the Federation - [[2106]] August Tzar Petrov Launches the Versian fleet off of Earth. - August 23rd, 2106 - Now self crowned Tzar Petrov, aboard his capital ship the “Uni**vers**alis Victorius”, left Earth along with 36 Lenin Class Colonization ships, and a fleet of other vessels, to head to the partially developed Mars colony, with resources coming from Indian and Chinese ‘Steel Barons’ in the Asteroid Belt.