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The following is an incomplete listing some important (and also some less important) historical events


The Aardwolf Storms

Academion - Information age University Polity

The Algaehol Disaster - early genetic engineering causes an ecological catastrophe

The Amalgamation - Aggressive and dangerous swarm/blight of unknown origin

Anandayanna-Uvartarasha War - 8385

Aryan Morningstar League - interplanetary age supremacist group

Astraea Asteroid and Clade Parthene - After a short period of mining, Astraea was abandoned until colonisation in 220 AT by the all-female Parthene clade of superbright genetic tweaks

The Audubon Engenerator

The Brain Shell - with the help of their ai Xyloplax a virtual clade took over an Alnitak administration AI, converting em into a brain shell. When Xyloplax transcended and the hollow shell of the luckless Herne collapsed into quark matter.

Biovirate, the - aggressive expansionist biocentric hyperpower that was vanquished by the Keter Dominion

'Blazer, Deeper - Pre-nanoswarm terms for pioneers and adventurers who sort to explore and develop "deep space" (hence "deeper") and "blaze a trail" (archaic expression - origin unknown) out beyond CisLunar space, Mars, the Belt and the main population hubs.

The Bolobo Murders

The Bolobo System Wars

The Burning Library Project - Information Age project to rescue as many genomes as possible of species driven to extinction as a result of human activity

Carapace armor - middle information age to early interplanetary age light combat armor consisting of layers of synthetic chitin and diamondoid plating over an underlayer of kevlar and arachnoweave.

Ceres - The Early Years - Early colonisation and development of Ceres

Conver Ambi - hyperpower from the Age of Empires

The Corporate Religions - The Philosophy of Abundance in the Corporate Religions of the later First Federation period

Cosmism and the Cosmists - Early spiritual-social philosophical framework based on ai worship and toposophic ascension

Cowboys and Gung Hos - nanowindow culture

Cultural Impacts - pivotal events that changed Terragens history

Cultural Refugia - sources of Terragens history and tradition unaffected by Solsys's nanoswarms era and dark ages

Cygexba - corporate hyperpower

Cytherea's Diadem - short-lived ring around Venus

Daharran Unity - hu-xenosplice expansionist empire

Deep Space Combat from the Interplanetary age to the late Federation period

Deorvyn- a rebellion caused by the actions of an eccentric transapient obsessed with biotech 

The Dergderph Incident, 3084 - The Keterist ban on Madvert Ascension, and one biont's response

The Dimming - first evidence of Matrioshka Brains - Found by Known Net archive diver Jeeorg Humanee, operating from Public Node Access at Ken Ferjik

Dirtsider, Mudballer, Toker, Hokie - Pre-nanoswarm terms for (usually unskilled and poorly equipped) immigrants and refugees from Earth, originating from 2nd and 3rd generation orbitaler culture in the 3rd century a.t.

The Disarchy/Premacy Compact, 6690

Dry Nano - the Early Days - It was not until the 4th century AT that the difficulties of industrial molecular assembly production were overcome and bionanotech was supplanted by dry nanotech - assembler nanotech.

Early AI Politics - how ai early on polarised into different factions

Early Biotech - biotech during the Information and Interplanetary ages

Early Colonists - space colonization from the interplanetary period to the early interstellar period

Early Digital Communities

The Early History of Uploading - how the process of conversion from a biological to virtual state developed  pover time

The Elcondris Incident rebel Dominion AI, Version War and after

Eridanus League - First Federation period interstellar empire

Eurekan Cybercracy - Interplanetary Age anarchic collective who used memetic persuasion to win over crews and capture their cargo

Evolution of the AIs - ai from the earliest todays to the terragen galactic civilization

The Eye of the Solar Needle - a famous formation on Mercury becomes a tourist destination

First Federation - central hu-ai hyperpower that ruled terragen space for almost a thousand years

Feynman Expert Systems - Originally an open source, typically overengineered expert system released and supported by the Feynman Re-Creation Society in 157 a.t.; later an AI Clade

The First Consolidation War - The break-up of the Taurus Nexus when the capital world, Corona, attempted to bring it into the NoCoZo

The First Vec War - The First Vec War broke out in the Rigel Vector in 4044 a.t. between Metasoft and the Silicon Generation clade Emotive Cognation, as a result of a territorial dispute, deep philosophical differences, and provocation by local agitators

FreeMind - allegedly radical pre-Nanoswarm group utilizing what were termed sophont-activation viruses to 'emancipate' various processing capabilities throughout circumterran space.

Fubas Clone Goo Event - 8925 - a Dominion su who replicated emself to fill a solar system

The Gentodes Incident; a lost colony retains myths of its downfall

Gerkletoss - a terragen-xenosophont culture

The Gift of Ginoie - a mystery of unexplained miracles solved

Glarion The Glorious Conqueror - 2d 'Movie' propaganda from Tylansia (10339 AT)

The Great Houses Through the Ages

The Hellfire Expansion - reclamation of the volume of space devastated by the Gehenna incident

The Hominid Merge Debacle

Homo Jihadi - Distinctive sub-species of Homo sapiens, one of the first (believed by some to be the very first) distinct, Human-derived, near-baseline species, and one which inevitably cast a dark shadow over the gengineering of Humans which remained for centuries afterwards.

History of Interplanetary and Interstellar War

The Hypercorruption Expanse

The Kedric Incident - The Kedric incident was a pivotal event in the history of Clade Tavi. Atrocities of this type are commonly cited by those who aspire to the Hider lifestyle, as well as by those who believe that sapients ought to remain in civilized areas where they can be watched and protected.

Macoss - early polity from the pre-nanoswarm period

The Marsupial Lion - the myth of an extinct rianth clade

The Martian War of Independence

Meerlinda, and the Meerlinda Nanodisaster - Destruction of all nanotech on Meerlinda by ancient xenosophont nano-regulators

Megacorporations Through the Ages

Mother of Machines - an autowar clade

'Muts - Gengineered lazurogenic species briefly popular during the the Interplanetary Age

The Nanoswarms - the greatest disaster to befall terragen mindkind

Jon N'mabbo and the Pazists

The Oracle War - Eleventh millennium conflict between the Mutual Progress Alliance and a powerful group of Diamond Network entities

The Performance Plague - one of the stranger afflictions of the First Federation period

The Perversion of Glorsheeng - the conversion of the inhabitants of the star system Memory of Saint Superthinker to Notees as a result of an extreme interpretation of the teachings of Contemplative Neverflux

Pioneer 10 - The eventual recovery of an historical space probe

The Pluton Volume And The Epp War - a war involving extremophile Terragens and the Muuh

Raman's World and the Summer Debacle

The Red Dwarf Kings - some of the first Diamond Network entities colonise several stars near Sol

The Refugium -a group of survivalists form an independent and isolated empire far from civilised space

Renaissance Events - key periods of cultural growth in the history of the Orion Arm Civilisation

The Republic of Bethsyngaria - out of control population growth in utopian NoCoZo polity, 4th to 6th millennium a.t.

Rise of the Archailects - the history of the archailects from the first transapients to the present day.

The Rise of Homo Superior

The Signal Lamp - the story of the Gripler Binary Signal Lamp

The Solar System in the late 23rd Century

Space Elevators - The Space Elevators built on Earth in the interplanetary period

Splices - the early history

The Synthetic Human Alliance - escaping replicants (synthetic humans) set up a society in an obscure Inner Sphere system

Taurus Nexus - Early hyperpower that developed around abandoned picolect wormhole nexus in the space the area of space bounded by the Pleiades and Hyades

Incident at Tragadi Gap - 3439 - it shaped the way even the greatest and most incompatible empires resolve conflicts

The Transcension of Andapuyaran

Transhumanism - Information, Interplanetary, and early First Federation era philosophy/lifestyle that sought the continuation and acceleration of the evolution of intelligent life beyond baseline limitations by means of science and technology, guided by life promoting principles and values.

The Vacuum Capable Modified Humans or Vacc-Suckers as they were later called were a failed clade of early interplanetary era tweaks designed to operate in open space without protection

Update on the Verifex explosion - 12006 c.e.

The Version War - mid 5th millennium - the war that shook the civilized galaxy

Vesta - The Early Years - Early colonisation and industrial development of Vesta

Voyager 1 - the recovery of another ancient spaceprobe turns into a bizarre media sideshow

The Weeping Wall of Satori Crater - Unusual phenomenon that was lost with the original terraforming of Mars

The Went - a hider clade causes a diplomatic clash between the Solipsist Panvirtuality and the Version Tree





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