The Interplanetary Age
130 - 400 a.t.
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The Interplanetary Age130 - 400 a.t. |
The vanguard of humanity leaves the Earth to colonization of the solar system, tweaked and superior humans, and animal provolves, the rise of Cis-Lunar, Martian, and Jovian superpowers, entrenched inequality of rich and poor, the colonization of the nearest stars
130s - Laser/Hydrogen Triggered Rockets enable a workable fusion drive
131 Formation of People's Corporate Republic of Indonesia.
131 - Ken Ferjik's Manifest Destiny, the first of his mature series extending his earlier simulations into true tools for education and research
132 - completion of Clarke Station, a 400-meter space station built with largely diamondoid materials, and intended as waystation to the exploration of the solar system.
132 - Ceres permanent manned base was set up at Hamada Landing
134 - Ken Ferjik's Dustbowl, another of his mature series of works
134 The first documented appearance of the unidentified AI entity Hal in a virtual chat on AI rights.
135 - Retro fad for Static thanks to an interview with the AI Kilburn in 2105 in which e listed it as among eir favorite music forms
135 - Ken Ferjik's Eagle of the East is the last (and some say the greatest) of his major works
136 - Talk of shutting down Artemis, but a consortium of private investors step in with government aid and the station survives.
138 - Completion of Biosphere III, a 100-meter self-supporting space colony, funded by international governments and a consortium of large corporations, and employing some nano-manufactured building materials.
140 - Terahertz photonic processing, First photonic AI
142 - Last confirmed instance of a Jihadi detonating emself occurs aboard an orbital habitat near Earth. No one, other than the Jihadi emself, was killed or injured
140s-160s - Advances in DIY gengineering technology begins to enable a vast diversity of morphological experimentation and freedom, and heteromorphic phenotyping becomes popular with transhumanists and biopunk groups and individuals. However social and cultural resistance remains strong, especially among the less educated and more conservative and traditionalist classes
143 - The first space elevator, the 'Tangga Bintang' ("Ladder to the Stars"), is extended down from orbit to the autonomous region of Sulawesi in the People's Corporate Republic of Indonesia
mid-second century - First genetic engineering of elephants
150 - Advances in nano-manufacturing finally enable cheap and reliable diamondoid. The megacorporations and their stockholders make a bundle. The more impoverished masses get no more than a trifling benefit).
150s - The various megacorps and governments get into AI research in a big way, most are produced by seed code being run on neural architectures other than human
152 - A second space elevator, the 'Espaço', is extended down to an artificial island in the mouth of the Amazon, by Greater Brazil, Argentina and Gran Colombia, is completed and enters service
154 - Permanent Martian colony established at Port Robinson, Isidis Planitia.
159 - Substantial devolution of EF powers to Regional Congresses.
160 - Creation of artificial lifeforms by the big biotech megacorporations, human cloning for the wealthy widely in place, bio-chips allow direct (although still primitive) neural interface with the Net (VR w/o a headset and hotsuit)
160 - Petahertz photonic processing commonplace
160 - (2230 c.e.) Vacuum Capable Modified Humans created in by a small startup corporation called Lifetech operating out of earth's L4 point
162 - The first permanent colony on Vesta is established
163 - Kazan-Glass builds on Howani's work of half a century earlier to develop a unified theory of quantum thermodynamics
163 - The first design by the Cult of the Exsanguinated Giraffe posted its first design on the NanoDot datasphere site
164 - The major Central African economy Republique du Tchad, with the backing of the United States, Russia and the EU finished the Freedom' international tower, `Freedom', in Gabon. This is the largest space elevator, and indeed the largest single structure built by man, more than a kilometre wide at the orbital end.
165 - California secedes from the Union (the Warseed is employed during the successful California Revolt) - another example of the continuing decline of nation-states. The power of the larger multinational corporations begins to rival that of significant nations. These corporations, the transnationals, soon begin to dominate many nation-states. The old states fragment, and supranational blocs grow above them.
165 - Discovery of the "Weeping Wall" of Satori Crater, Planitia, Mars.
166 - Historian, artist and game designer, and the father of the true virtual university Ken Ferjik merges with ai-virtual university core
168 - Discovery that, as theorised, Mars possessed a crustal environment suitable for BGC, but empty of life. The Mars Development Corporation (MDC) begins experiments towards the creation of a Martian BioGeoComputing (BGC) system. ecosystem of chemosynthetic bacteria.
170 - Gaianist Philosophies, publication of the public domain cryptopagan webbook Earth Rightes. Traditional religion continued its decline; at the same time a number of Gaianist philosophies became popular. These emphasized respect for the environment and humanism.
171 - Coral Sea Investments Corporation official announcement of the Merpeople project.
172 - Announcement of the Extra-Terrestrial Human Genetic Modification Project
173 - The Academion Project - Academion is colonised by scholars and humanists as a utopian educational society.
170s-180s - Resistance to heteromorphic phenotyping fades, and more fringe cultures go in for exotic bodymods.
180 - Diamond film processors discontinued.
180s - Governments unable to stop the spread of "Gloriously Bright", a germline cell patch adding the 43102 gene for increased working memory and intelligence patented by Mentor Biosys. The massive spread of pirated genes makes it increasingly hard to enforce gene patents, and the human enhancement industry begins to move towards a business model where new versions and fashions rather than holding on to current patents (much like the software and music industry last century).
184 - First permanent scientific outpost on Europa.
186 - Construction begins on EF-1 - intended as an emergency meeting point (and safe haven) for the EF parliament.
187 - Release of the Feynman Expert System
189 - Academion degenerates into internal quarrels.
190 - Solipsist
AIs begin to lose philosophical credit and influence.
190 - Corporate owned space station and moon bases under construction become tax haven for business. Elsewhere, up to 80% unemployment. Family business Lee Interorbital had a fleet of LEO shuttles.
190s - Dozens of independent mining companies are sending craft to the Belt, each relying on the return fuel mining operations to get back to Earth orbit with their cargo of metals.
191 - Completion of EF-1
195 - The ground-based laser-powered unmanned robot probe, the Giordano Bruno, is launched towards Tau Ceti
196 - Completion of O'Neill One, opening up the possibility of exploration and colonisation of solar system like never before
198 - Budget cuts, nagging technical glitches, and changing policies, cause the EF to sell EF-1 to to an international educational consortium, Socrates Enterprises, who rename it Academion
195 - Neotek's "Universal Micro" becomes the first assembler to be publicly available, although it still remains a long way from the Drexler's vision of a universal assembler.
198 - Jean Beloit Sampson a third generation orbital tweak baby and one of the original Homo sapiens superior "vunderkinder", organises epic corporate coup and gains leadership of major orbital megacorp Solar Systems Development Corporation (SSDC)
198-200 - Due to the constant disputes over territory on Ceres and the other asteroid colonies the United Nations of Earth sends a joint mission to link up with the four small colonies on Ceres and establish an administrative centre for the entire asteroid belt. An underground town is quickly constructed in a deep Dzougatov strip mine. Many smaller habitats soon followed.
200 - Homo Jihadi clade is extinct
201 - On Ceres City is pressurised, ready to attempt regulation of the already chaotic minor planets and their inhabitants.
203 - Start of Extra-Terrestrial Human Genetic Modification Project.
203 - First automated mining stations in the Belt are established.
204 - Colonisation of Mars proceeds with development at Port Robinson, and talk of full-scale colonisation began shortly thereafter. Initial preparations for a terraforming operation are made.
206 - Second-generation ETHGMP children (Homo sapiens cosmoi, dubbed ETs by the sensationalist media), they became known as the "Space People".
207 - Secession of Herman Oberth Orbital and the L4 Complex. Money pours from Earth to the orbital digital tax havens, resulting in a further decline of the nation state
209 - Spaceships manned entirely by Space Adapted Humans (Homo sapiens cosmoi) comes into regular service
209 - Columbus Project is established to launch von neumann probes ti explore the Centauri system.
210 - Corporate orbital microworld Elysium (also known as Marcus World), combination of theme park, business hotel, and tax and data haven, established by Lee Interorbital.
210 - Deep Space Development Corporation uses nuclear charges to nudge an asteroid into a very eccentric orbit that will take it back and forth from near the Earth and out to Mars. Over the next half decade the asteroid is hollowed out, converted it into a habitat and named it Odyssey Transfer Station.
210s - The Vesta-based corporation, Outsystems Launches, is engaged in building interstellar exploration and colonisation ships, using pulsed fusion drive, seeded RAIR ships, and eventually amat catalysed fusion, becoming one of the Solar System's largest antimatter customers.
202-210 - Heteromorphing and extreme body modifications are the latest fad among the educated and fashion-conscious classes
211 - Nearly a dozen infants from the ETHGMP are growing up in a variety of cis-Lunar orbital locations.
212-216 - Extreme heteromorphing becoming passé among the educated and fashion-conscious classes.
214 - Full scale Martian Colonisation begins with first Fast Shuttle runs bringing second group of colonists.
213-215 - The Nanoscale Collective on Asimov Orbital constructs an advance multipurpose assembler, the Genii 2 Matter Compiler, which is followed by even more efficient types. At the same time anxiety is widespread regarding the possibility of a grey goo outbreak.
215 - Ares heavy Lifting and Lee Interorbital commence Spacecraft construction in the Ceres Shipyards, actually two widely separated swarms of manufacturing elements in orbit 2000 km from Ceres
215 - After an abortive attempt to resurrect various species of Pleistocene fauna for a nature park in Alaska, one particular animal becomes a literal overnight hit. Miniature woolly mammoths are brought on to the scene.
216 - Martian Inner council formed (at this time dominated by Terran appointees).
220 - First nanotic computer, (petahertz range), first nanotic AI
220s - Astraea Asteroid colonised by the all-female Parthene clade of superbright genetic tweaks, led by Jenni Denley
220s - The first communities of space people appear on the moon and in the asteroid belt.
221 - Launch of von neumann probes to the Centauri system.
222 - Exoself Osnago, an independent grouping of enhanced microgravity tolerant cybercrats arrive at the L5 Mars-Sun Lagrange point and begin gathering the Trojan point objects together using solar sails.
225 - The first real success with true artificial replicators, when a joint venture between Neotech Labs in Clarke Orbital, the Xerox Nanoscale Collective in Pasadena, Earth, and the Centre for Self-Replicating Technologies, a Eurasian laboratory on Copernicus Base, Luna, managed to get primitive drexlerian nanoassemblers up and running.
225 - Odyssey habitat is renamed Tir Sorcha
226 - Anjou Sharavi-Kidjo develops the Halomin musical instrument.
226 - Martian War of Independence
227 - Work begins on Elysium, the first O'Neill 3 orbital.
228 - Freeport Unilateral Declaration of Autonomy; Ceres
229 - Elysium opens to the public with much fanfare, even though some of the agricultural and habitation zones are not yet completed.
230 - Fred DiProspero, born on Titov Orbital, starts space supremacism, arguing that in the long run it is necessary to free space from Earth: it is a heavy anchor holding humanity back, and the enormous population mostly consists of useless neophobes. Although himself neither in favour of the independent settlements or the corporate orbitals, his views come to be interpreted and used by them in very different ways.
230 - Commercial nanotic computers
231 - In the aftermath Martian Independence, the colonies on the Galilean moons of Jupiter form the Jovian League. At about the same time the colony on Titan became important to the Belt as a source of nitrogen.
230s - Colonisation of Solar System begins in earnest. Interplanetary travel is by now cheap and viable.
234 - Several distinct breeds of 'Mut are in existence, the most common being a long-legged, short-haired variety.
237 - A fourth space elevator the 'Ascension' was extended to the West Coast of Equador to accommodate the ever increasing flow of trade on and population on and off the Earth.
240 - Under Jean Beloit Sampson, SSDC is now a premier Orbital power.
early 240s Hal championship nomic
early 240's - 'Mut fad begins to wear out due to a resurgence in baseline canine breeds.
240s - The Parthenes are active in mining many smaller asteroids in the Astraea band, and many are engaged in deep space astronometry using the long baselines available.
242 - A reliable way of storing macroscopic amounts of antimatter is demonstrated by ASEABB. Much interest in antimatter propulsion, but the demand far outstrips the supply of antimatter.
243 Exa Energy formed by the merger of General Electric and Bernal Space Power Systems
244 - (2210 c.e.) the franchise Exopower (Mars) begins converting a small silicaceous asteroid 2133 PPTK into a flat ring of solar energy collectors at the Mars/Sun L1 Lagrange point (see Lagrange Magshield)
245 - The probe Giordano Bruno's is launched for Tau Ceti.
Republique du Tchad financed extensive solar powered nanotechnology and ecological management programs; by the third century the Republique was involved in developing asteroid resources from Near Earth Orbit to the moons of Uranus.
254 - The academic faction of Tir Sorcha Habitat pushes for starting a mining venture on other asteroids to aid the economy of their tiny nation.
261 - The first detection of an extraterrestrial radio civilisation by Julie Denley and a team of Space Adapted astronomers (Clade Parthene, Astraea Asteroid), using the PanTrojan Baseline between the L4 and L5 points of Jupiter. Part of a larger project in which Julie Denley, working with the superturing AI known as 110001, becomes the first terragen to map the entire visible galaxy
262 - Sampson dies from a sudden allergic reaction following a rejuvenation treatment. Control of SSDC falls to Violeta Han-Sampson.
260s - 'Muts all but extinct.
260s - Novelty candy (Rinckler's ZmartGum) the first example of Interactive Food
267 - The last known sighting of a feral 'Mut, in central California
269 - Work begins on the first Museum Ship, the Pliny, in Clarke Orbital Docks
270 - Exohertz nanotic processing
277 - The Solipsist League, a minor AI postmodernist organisation, becomes a thorn in the side of hyperrationalist AI groups.
279 - Nuclear matter stabilized in lab conditions,
population of Space People nearly 3000.
280 - Nuclear matter first formed in lab (lasted 3 attoseconds)
280s-290s - heteromorphic humans make up a fair proportion of the human population in space, although these are mostly milder heteromorphs. Corporations like GeneTEK and Biotopia Interplanetary (a subsidiary of Biotopia Genome Industries) were keen to support this trend, as heteromorphs show that they are talented at creating novel genomes and genemod hacks.
283 - Von neumann probes to the Centauri system.
283 - The Tau Ceti probe the Giordano Bruno's message reaches Earth.
284 - A group of merpeople petition the UN suggesting that the oceans should no longer be regarded as the property of the world community, but rather as the nation of the merpeople. This further adds to prejudice of baselines against tweaks.
285 - Launch of the Museum Ship Pliny, 12 years behind schedule.
288 - A series of three probes, Virgo, Spica, and Porrima, are launched to 61 Virginis. Powered by amat-fusion engines, they will reach the system within fifty years. The probes are encased within a single hull for the trip, and have enough fuel for a one-way trip, including braking thrust that will place them within orbits about the target star at varying distances. The probe is controlled by the low-level non-sapient AI named simply Virgin.
289 (2257 c.e.) Exopower (Mars) in successfully demonstrated their new Lagrange Magshield concept
289 - Golgi Mosaic backyard assemblers outbreak in the Gulf of Carpenteria. Fortunately it (and similar outbreaks of around this time) are contained with little environmental impact and no loss of life, but concerns are heightened regarding the risks were an efficient malicious assembler to get out.
289 - Contact lost with Centauri system.
293 - Collapse of the Eurekan Cybercracy
295 - A group of merman extremists sabotaged a Filipino sea-harvester in the Celebes Sea.
299 - Russian spaceship Potemkin suffered a serious mishap with the loss of a hundred lives, rumours of Space People involvement were rife.
Most of the early nanotech companies have been absorbed by the big boys or assimilated in mergers. By the 4th century only a few players like Neotech IBM-Mitsubishi and Neotek and startups like Adaptive Nanotech remain.
300 - Space people community exonerated when the Russian Space Administration published its report on the Potemkin disaster, but the affair leaves a legacy of bad feeling on both sides.
300 - Venus habitats declared self-sufficient
308 - Military capable Class R probes depart for Alpha Centauri.
311 - The Industriekapitaen series of AI developed in Germany
313 - The Nova Terra Organisation established and the pace of gengineering (which has already been underway for some time) for the Interstellar Human that would fly the mission, picks up.
314 - Birth of Godfrey-9, as a a CisLunary Administrative Node on Zindell Orbital, CisLunar Space
314 - Anti-terrestrial asteroid homesteaders inspired by the writings of Fred DiProspero attempt to bring the asteroid Ptah into an Earth-colliding orbit by placing a mining mass driver on it. The attempt fails when one member loses his nerve and sends a message to Space Guard. The incident makes the Cis-Lunar interests and public opinion even more negative against the spacers and belt settlements. It also makes Space Guard expand its jurisdiction outwards to all potentially hazardous asteroids, causing much friction with the belt and Mars.
325 - The stasist AI "0110110", Shaftoe's Freemarket Hacking Conglomerate and the Al Gea Riyad cluster crashed and rebuilt the Sudanese market
328 - Walli S. Day, a member of the racist hate group Aryan Human Front kills five Space People on Clarke Orbital in 2298 using a smuggled Lyse gun.
330 - Stasist AIs gradually reach a consensus, after marginalizing the ahumans with their incompatible plans.
330s - The composer Mlarr Bigglemun creates a Flugume Suite in the tradition of P.D.Q. Bach that gained widespread popularity among more renowned baseline musicologists.
330s - Weeping Wall a continuous flow of water.
332 - CircumSol established - large amat (anti-matter) farms orbit the sun just outside the orbit of Mercury. Notable consortia are Look Outwards Combine, Jerusalem Macrotech and General Dynamics Corporation.
334 - The 61 Virginis probes, since named the Virginis Effort, arrives within the target system. Separating from the mother hull, the Virgo probe is placed within an orbit that takes it within 0.32 AU of the star, and out to 0.75 AU. The Spica probe ranges from 0.8 to 3.7 AU, and the Porrima probe ranges from 5 to 12 AU. Each probe is equipped with a flotilla of microprobes, including various forms of landers, atmospheric balloons, and deep surface penetrators. The mother probes themselves are capable of being diverted into planetary orbit if required, but once this is done they would be locked within that orbit.
338 - Many space people migrate to the outer solar system. Ignatius O'Neill preaches that the space people have to free themselves of the oppressive baselines and seek their destiny among the stars
340 - Zettahertz nanotic processing
340 - The superbright astrographer Sam Mwiraria detects artificial infrared emissions from postulated megastructures in a region of the galaxy 50thousand light years distant, in the direction of Cepheus.
341 - Solipsist League enters a computronium comet core and is never heard from again
341 - Ahumanist ai release a modified and virulent form of smallpox
347 - Ignatius O'Neill forms the Space People Self-Defence League.
350s - The utopian political faction gain ground in Tir Sorcha Habitat
352 - Immigration to Tir Sorcha Habitat closed to everyone but specialists.
362 - Data begins to return to Earth from the Virginis Effort. The greatest discovery is the presence of the second planet, confirmed to indeed be Gaian in nature, but at an Archaean level of biological development. While this data is of great interest to the scientific community, it nonetheless makes little impact on Solar System civilization in general. However, in specific, great interest is taken by a neo-pagan group, the Children of the Dawn, and their patron AI Eostre (at this point a First Toposophic intelligence).
365 - Class R probes report Alpha Centauri. under Isolationist AI control
369 - The AI Hyperion takes over the megacorporation SSDC, renames it Hyperion Interplanetary.
374-377 - A consortium of south-east Asian megacorps and interests in the Corporate Republic of Indonesia, together with the giant orbital corporation KMH Bionetics, launch colony ships to Pi 3 Orionis
378 - Only a few light-months away from Sol, one of the Pi 3 Orionis colony ships suffers a micrometeorite collision and is spectacularly destroyed. The explosion is detected from Earth, and in the media the general perception assumes that the expedition is doomed. Some of these speculations are fed by Indonesian federalists and other opponents to the project, some due to the general impression many people have that the technology of the Chinese project was unreliable.
378 - Ignatius O'Neill, claiming that the Space People would only be free once they could leave the oppressive baselines behind and have their own colonies and biospheres among the stars, leads a large exodus to the Kuiper Belt and beyond.
380 - The centralist AIs have a benevolent relationship with the Organics and are not yet perceived as gods, except by a few weird groups of normals and cyborgs. All sorts of groups, factions, colonised worlds, space stations continue to spring up. New clades of tweaks and cyborgs continue to develop in the increasing numbers of artificial biospheres of interplanetary space.
c. 350-450 - First singularity ascensions
380s - The boom in artificial biospheres creates a huge demand for volatiles, which enables the belt polity and outer solsys nations and colonies to acquire great wealth through both manned and automated mining stations on asteroids. and moons.
380s - Like many independent space based polities of the time, Tir Sorcha Habitat has substantial nanodefences, as well as more conventional weaponry.
387 - The Tau Ceti manned mission, the Tsiolkovsky ,the first manned mission to the stars is launched towards Tau Ceti, a breathtaking step (equivalent to the late Industrial Apollo Lunar mission, and the Middle Information Age Mars missions in terms of relative expense)
388 - Following the successful launch of a colony towards Tau Ceti, the Children of Dawn petition for and ultimately win the right to colonize 61 Virginis. Their goal is to create a virgin paradise in which Humans may live in the manner in which this group believes they were meant: low technological level, off of the land, with guidance from their "god", in this case the AI Eostre (and her small cadre of priests). After being granted this right, the Children immediately begin searching for funds, sponsors, and other necessary items.
389 - A Baseline Supremacist hate group known as the Homo Sapiens Front released a gengineered virus especially designed to target merpeople. Thousands died before an antidote was found.
390 - Fogfo, an aerosol interactive food, developed at Regina in by belter cooks at Hamblin Comemptives habitat.
390's - Bourgatow, an asteroid colony, settled in the by a Russian-Taiwanese space mining consortium.
399 - Weeping Wall site declared a protected "national park". But by now, foliage had covered the soil, and the site was not much different from other regions on the planet.
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