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Timeline1996: The UNI Castillian appears and crashes in North Dakota in an unpopulated expanse of swamp land. The event goes unrecorded. 1997: The United States Military work with the FBI to dismantle the wreckage of the unidentified ship. Records are sealed as the event cannot be explained. 2028: Continual failure by the United States Congress to stabilize the growing political divide in the nation leads to the refusal to pass necessary legislation to support the floundering United States economy. Major manufacturers begin to leave the nation in the wake of damaging tax policy, reducing the national economy to subsist on agricultural trade. 2044: The Chinese space program lands on the moon with the intention of building a transit station to help foster deep space exploration. The first atmospheric superstructure on the surface of an astronomical body other than Earth is a success, and the station grows as an industrial hub. 2053: Joint ventures between Japanese and Australian tech firms successfully test the first terraforming modules in the Australian outback, flash-growing a mossy grass capable of producing oxygen at a high rate with minimal atmospheric pressure. 2058: The first terraforming module is launched for Mars. The New Ares rocket is expected to begin generating breathable oxygen in a crater basin that can be capable of supporting human life within twenty years. 2078: Japan and Australian space programs launch the first Martian Colonist programs intending to transform the New Ares site into the first viable colony without requiring atmospheric superstructures. 2086: The first interplanetary commerce agreements are finalized and their first obligations are met, signalling the success of New Ares as Mars' first civilian occupied colony. 2099: Japanese businesses begin moving to Mars in mass, expanding New Ares and settling several other cities. 2179: First deep-space discovery of large, anomalous celestial body of unknown origin and composition. Determined to be the size of Jupiter and moving at a tremendous speed for an object its size, its trajectory tracks it passing through the extreme outer edges of the Solar System. It is estimated to arrive in the Sol system in approximately ten years. Theoretical physicists are excited about the prospect, hypothesizing that the object is composed of dark matter. 2186: SS-15 is lost. 2188: Unknown circumstances cause the Charon Fracture; Pluto was obliterated, and Charon is split into two parts. One is lost, believed to have broken up, the other half impacts Neptune. 2234: The lost fragment of Charon is discovered by long range telemetry satellites to have been altered by Jupiter's gravitational pull. It is determined to be on a path that will cause it to intersect Earth's orbital path, but miss the planet by four months. 2246: An anomaly causes the large shard of Charon to splinter further, adjusting its collision course. By the end of the year large fragments rain down all over the western hemisphere of the planet. North America suffers the majority of the bombardment, and the midwest of the United States is deeply ravaged. 65% of the grain fields are destroyed. 2249: Unable to sustain their financial obligations, the U.S. sells off the vast majority of its military resources and allows its personnel to transfer to the U.N.M.F. in order to retain employment. 2312: Declining conditions in Europe and Asia leads to the start of the Great Reinvention. 2469: The UNI Catillian disappears during an intersolar jump to Io. |