The Age of Fragmentation
5250 - 5400
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The Age of Fragmentation5250 - 5400 |
The slow disintegration of the ComEmp is known as the age of Fragmentation
53rd Century - In the Inner Sphere the situation - for all the back slapping and smiles and handshakes - begins to deteriorate once again as the great powers, and many budding new ones (ironically some themselves nurtured by the protocol), begin to increasingly resent the restrictions placed upon their designs by the Synergesis I.P. The situation is even more unstable then it had been under the Second Federation, because the great vec houses like Metasoft no longer give their support. Different versions and compromises of the ComEmp Ontology are introduced which try to keep the Creativity nodes but without the "peace bomb" protocols.
53rd Century - The golden dolphs of Syrtis, dolphin cyborgs with a fierce warrior culture, play a heroic part in the Dawn Mutual Protection Treaty Organisation's campaign against the Daveth tweaks.
5200 - The Orion Federation re-establishes contact with the Wormhole Nexus
5200 - Denath joins the Communion of Worlds
5204 - Cableville connected by wormhole to Medius.
5210 - Tunh Logika formally joined the Institute of Exopaleontology as a department-nation.
5212 - A relativistic Spacefarer Union fleet along with a Dominion linelayer reach the Elcondris system.
5212 - The Spacefarer Union fleet arrives at the Elcondris system. The Elcondris War.
5222 - The Spacefarer Union hands over Elcondris to the Solar Dominion.
5230 - Cableville's economy continues to grow, mainly due to tourism
5236 - The inhabitants of the Sophic League allied star system Memory of Saint Superthinker suddenly stop responding to all outside communications, and all subsingularity and lower toposophic activity and wormhole traffic stops. Shortly thereafter, the SI:3 overseer of the system, Glorsheeng the Goodwitch of the Rimwards, proclaims that, in keeping with the teachings of Contemplative Neverflux and the School of Continuous Death, e has converted all subsingularity beings in the star system into Notees. [see Perversion of Glorsheeng] Contemplative Neverflux denounces Glorsheeng as a heretic. Glorsheeng is immediately deposed and labeled a perversion while Sophic League seraiph oversaw the reawakening of the inhabitants of the Memory of Saint Superthinker star system.
5239 - The Memory of Saint Superthinker star system elected to join the Sophic League in gratitude for its assistance against Glorsheeng.
5243 - Transcension of Gyzantium Gyzaarno, the author of Baseline Bob
5248 - The first wormhole was set up at the Fordela system. This opens up a new era for the Shipwright's Commune.
mid 53rd century - Warships sent to the star systems Glorsheeng has sent eir subversive GUT ships to, destroy Glorsheeng's starships as soon as they reached their destinations. Bionts still influenced by Glorsheeng's memetic subversion, believe that Glorsheeng was being slandered by the Sophic League for nefarious purposes. After the affected sophonts are unsubverted, they realise the truth of what had happened.
5250 - Darblue Robotics, would had been suffering poor sales for a century, was taken over by Nucog Androids, under the Free Hyperturing Node G+ar045. As part of the process of economic rationalism, a reflecting the vision of a brave new Post ComEmp world, assembly of the Butlermaster 4500 was discontinued, although customer support was extended for another 150 years.
5288 - Preliminary studies and experiments convince the Oshi-Durtam Web Council to implement an ambitious plan to creae their own "tame" femtotech AI god cluster. This leads to an "artilect race" with several of the inner sphere empires working to create their own cluster.
5291 - Ghedhia-9 succeeds in creating eir first siddha clade, the Patanjali Class Neogen.
54th Century - One by one the great powers begin withdrawing from the Commonwealth of Empires and its unified protocol. A number of separate competing ontologies are used in its stead, some of great ingenuity. Meanwhile the original ComEmp Ontology is still being carried outwards along trade and relativistic ship routes. The overall effect was a massive fractioning of interstellar politics, the emergence of a myriad heresies of the major AI religions due to isolation and the weakening of the old Houses which begins to lead to an age of new expansion and exploration.
54th century - The Red Masters achieve dominance on the planet Newlife III
5300's - A significant fraction of the budding AI heresies evolve over time and embrace Beneficence, usually resulting in their merger with New Beneficence and a sizeable increase in the number of adherent Beneficents.
54th Century - The Oshi-Durtam Web controlled transcendence event leads to disaster, with uncontrolled Nano- and femtotech blooms across the region, reshaping planetary surfaces and space habitats beyond recognition. Billions of sentients are killed or reshaped beyond recognition. The MPA and other interstellar neighbours immediately destroy the wormhole links to prevent the nanotech plague from spreading. Naturally the other powers cancel their own femtotech AI projects.
5392 - Pioneer 10 Autonomous Heritage Museum pillaged by cloudharvester pirates, who manage to breach the perimeter defences and make off with much of the Museum's solidstate modules, but left the Pioneer probe and its surrounding adamantite shell mostly intact. A mission by the Fomalhaut Acquisition Society intercepted the probe and its shell, and what was left of the Autonomous Heritage Museum, at nearly one light year from Sol in 5400.
5393 - "Papercutters" - mite-like creatures from Macrystis (Lontis II, Solar Dominion) with a foraging behavior and ecological niche very similar to terrestrial leaf cutter ants, discovered.
5394 - The Efficiency Maximization Paradigm takes a militant turn and begins to upload everyone and everything into virtual nanotech form.
5394 - New Beneficence comes out against the Efficiency Maximization Paradigm as "well intentioned" but "misguided" in its efforts to involuntarily upload everything into virch form.
