The Middle Federation Period - Megacorporations becoming Empires
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The Middle Federation Period - Megacorporations becoming Empires1200 - 1500 |
13th Century - Rise of Empath influence and presence as diplomats, managers, marketers and infiltrators.
13th Century - Omicron Infosecurity uses Daedalus as a huge research laboratory. They both test new information defences from the solar system against the might of the local environment, and export the tricks developed by the local tribes and AIs to circumvent them. [Pi 3 Orionis]
1200 - As a result of terraforming of Beta Virginis IV, the temperature rises and ice begins melting into a vast planet-girdling ocean
1200s - With the closing of Kleopatra Base the whole asteroid is opened to developers, and several consortia of theme park developers each tried to outdo themselves, giving the asteroid the nick-name "Little Disneyplanet"
1201 - MyuvYin overrun by psychophager ahuman replicator swarm of unknown origin
1205 - First Great Divide for the IPP changes its name from the Institute for Primate Preservation to the Institute for Primate Provolution; more preservationist minority moves with a copy of the cache to Old Earth
1215 - The now elderly and increasingly reclusive Daeved Chandlers, affectionately known as the Visionary Cyborg Philosopher, uploaded into the AI Core of the University of Ganymede
1225 - Transcendence of Lucidia Mirnas Miranda, founder of Sophism
1226 - The Jupiter Transsystems colony ship "Phillip Henry Gosse" sets out for HR 8501 near Gamma Pavonis, twenty years after the autonomous explorer "Karel tchapek".
1248 - The IFPC (Interactive Food Programming Catalogue) of is regarded as the defining document of classical interactive food across civilized space.
1250 - Settlement of New America well under way [Beta Virginis]
1260 - Mahara Benisol posts the first section of her classic virch The Bridged Abyss, dealing with the Omega Point and the manifest destiny of intelligence in growing into omniscience, omnipotence and closure. It has a wide influence on Federation philosophy and spiritual thought.
1263 - The entire Human population of Eostremonath dies off. Eostre herself, unwilling to revive Humans from stored genetic material, secludes herself into mourning. [61 Virginis]
1267 - Technorats Elias E. Jordan and Irene Abott develop space-time structure theoretics that mimic the Abdela theory developed by the Federation AI research team on Galileo Orbital, New America [Beta Virginis]
1273 - The relativistic superturing science probe Carl Sagan arrives at Xi Geminorum and discovers a elaborate megastructure bands and swarms around the neutron star, as well as what seem to be functional picotech devices centuries in advance of anything the Federation has. The Carl Sagan's sensors detect a functional exotic matter wormhole of approximately 2.53 nanometer diameter, with the mouths in stable orbit approximately 27 AU apart. Another set of wormholes appear to be under construction. This is the first evidence that semi-stable wormholes can be constructed, and the first evidence of exotic matter outside the lab. Unfortunately, one of the Carl Sagan's nanoremotes, sent closer to gain further data, are detected, and the science probe is destroyed (apparently by a high power particle beam) shortly after.
1290 - Yas Om clade of Humanoid cyborgs settle on Eden
1299 - First Motherwood
Tree grown at Iota Horologi
Late 1200s - The Silicon Generation emerges as a vec response to Organic repression and exploitation.
14th century a.t. - Colonisation of further star systems begins in earnest.
1300 - Nova mediacorps powerful and influential in New America [Beta Virginis]
1309 - First complete Human Upgrade Package released from Kasekala by the Institute for Primate Provolution
1312 - An exploration group from Jupiter Transsystems re-discovers Zarathustra colony
1316 - Bew clades - floaters and mariners, begin to emerge on New America [Beta Virginis]
1322 - The first extra-sol system war breaks out, between the colonists of Jupiter Transsystems and Omicron Developments Inc on Tau Ceti III. This was to be the first of a number of internecine megacorp confrontations in the colonised star systems. Owing to the vast distance and slowness of interstellar travel, the Federation is powerless to intervene.
1324 (3392 c.e.): - The megacorporation Heliopause Transcendancy, specializing in interstellar colonization, has a ship that arrives in the 61 Virginis system. They discover the remains of the plague-ravaged Ewden colony. Eostre, however, remains intact, and allows the colony to remain on the condition that they live as she had intended her first children to live. After some debate, it is agreed, and a new colonial site, located west of Ewden on the coast, is established. Named Tysoe by Eostre, it will become the seat of a new center of Baseline Humanity. In time, they will be called the Eostrii. [61 Virginis]
1349 - Shamash (Xi Bovtis A III) discovered by Hearp Rangers
1350 - Bonobo and Chimp Upgrade Packages released from Goodall Habitat by the Institute for Primate Provolution
1358 - President Gertrud Jess of New America attempts unsuccessfully to bring floaters and mariners into line. [Beta Virginis]
1361 - The true situation on Daedalus becomes known, due to the investigative journalist HeHaRo and insider leaks in Omicron Developments. [Pi 3 Orionis]
late fourteenth century first Neotens
1380 - The world of Dante is colonised by the Company of Venturers from Nova Terra in the relativistic ship Lumiere, one of the first colonisation efforts by the Novans. [HIP 85647]
1392 - The autonomous explorer "Karel tchapek" arrives at HR 8501
1398 - The first biosphere somewhat similar to the Earth was discovered at 59 Virginis (BD+10 2531) I by a Lagrange Defender exploration probe. It was later named Rossetta. The local biosphere was nearly as rich and complex as the Earth's, based on carbon and water chemistry, although the details were so different that both forms of life turned out to be highly allergenic to each other.
During this period, the empath megacorps bought up the rights to the previously settled areas where the primitive empaths lived, allowing them protection.
1400 - Mainstream Nuyork and Liberty administration increasingly irrelevant and powerless in the face of New American "equatorial" new clades [Beta Virginis]
1405 - The Silicon Generation use their AI and Cyberian connections they hacked cargo transports and forged cargo manifests, setting up their colony (named Cog) in an unremarkable asteroid belt around AC+25 7918.
1415 - Monroe Cylinder, a huge mediacorp habitat, completed in polar orbit around the jovian planet Green. Beta Virginis system
1428 - In an effort to counter the equatorials, New America mainstream gives NADs extraordinary powers, New America enters oppressive phase, but this only isolates the mainstream and their orbitals further, while failing to stem the "equatorials" advance [Beta Virginis]
1432 - Hwiii, the first pure dolphin colony world was founded on Zeta Tucanae II. The original settlers had destroyed themselves when the cometary bombardment they used to add water to the planet. The planet was later recolonised
1450 - The "Big Five" - Truth-Santaya Networks, Takicorb , SecureSpace, K4H and the Terranova Foundation - the five major colonialist megacorps, sign a mutual non-aggression treaty where they promise to protect each other's installations.
1460 - The first evidence of alien intelligence, although long extinct, was a fragmentary hull of a robotic satellite found orbiting the star HD190228. This find was confirmed and made public in a joint announcement by several institutes including the University of Epsilon Eridani, and the Lagrange Defenders
1463 - Heliopause Transcendany is incorporated into Jupiter Transystems. All of their records of colonization fall under the auspices of this megacorp, and plans are made to reacquire these distant colonies. As it is, such colonies are already considered to be the property of JT. This includes 61 Virginis.
1465 - Corona (Iota Piscium I) discovered by Jupiter Transystems
1470's-80's - Theodore Roosevelt Sukicorp leads a brief revival in Federation society, becoming the only virch to serve as leader of the First Federation. Most lasting legacy of TRS's administration is the development of the Jang-Jo Class cruisers.
1481 - "Jang-Jo Class" (after the famous suborg Fleet Commander) of warship, and designed in to meet the MyuvYin Pyschophager Threat.
1487 - A joint team from the Clavius Institute and the Jupiter Magnetosphere Combers ("the Grand Fourteen") presented a theory of topological physics that could account for all known vacuum behaviour.
1498 - The "Big Five" treaty is extended to allow other corporations to settle within the space protected by the alliance if they sign a treaty of not initiating force against any other treaty signatory. This becomes the seed of the loose trading confederation known as the Non Coercive Zone.
1498 - With the formation of the Non Coercive Zone, 61 Virginis legally becomes its property. However, little thought is paid to this possibility by the NoCoZo. At least, initially.
