The Nanotech Window
c. 2400 - 2500 c.e. / 400 - 540 a.t.
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The Nanotech Windowc. 2400 - 2500 c.e. / 400 - 540 a.t. |
Governments and corporations prove unable to control cheap and widespread nanotech, the "Backyarders" on Earth in cooperation with the Belt launch their ships for the Oort halo and the stars, few make it.
5th century Interactive Food became more common
401 - Yottahertz nanotic processing
407 - Outbreak of retroviral typhoid on the Luna settlement at Flamsteed crater. Following this, GeneTEK develops a modified nematode as an antiviral/antibacterial agent.
410 - Industrial nano-tech widely accessible. Because of the dangers involved both normal and tweaker Governments, Megacorporations, and military institutions all keep the lid on nanotech, use special assemblers that only replicated a number of times before self-destructing, have draconian legislation and radical surveillance, and other such devices. The erosion of civil liberties leads to police states, only compounding the tension between the cyborgs and the shapers.
414-416 - Four colonisation ships were launched by the ethnic Chinese conglomerate Heavenly Palaces with the help of several Genetekker clades and some megacorps with longstanding Genetekker sympathies, towards Sigma Draconis.
415 - Following several deaths related to manga-replica kit-nano exoskeletons, CisLunar Optimal Media Act bans anime virches. Widespread protests result
420s - First creation of the human derived species known as Goliaths (Homo gigantopithecus)
430 - Many small groups seeking escape from these police states in autonomous Freedom Ship biospheres, some remaining in the solar system and others moving out into the Kuiper Belt, the Oort Cloud, and beyond.
430s - Enhanced internal feedback - "ultraconsciousness" - is added by the Zerodyn R&D Collective, resulting in a Hyperautism - a problem with too clear an internal perception.
430s - Interactive food becomes more common
432 - Vollmark, an interstellar era home microtronics corporation, established.
432 Macross habitat opened for colonisation
433 - Poached Egg Replicator outbreak converts the waste outflow of the organic recycling vats at the Pacifica Arcology, California Free State, into crude and quite inedible simulations of poultry egg
435 - Nanoreplicator outbreak at the fermentation tanks of the Upsala Agriplex, Central African Union, infests the Zambezi river catchment area before being countered with specially geneered bacteria.
437 (2405): - The Eostre Complex leaves the Sol System, bound for 61 Virginis. There are several ships involved, including the far ranging Whiskers, which search for obstacles along the way, Flickers, which remove those obstacles (usually through laser immolation, though nuclear weapons might be used in the unlikely case of larger objects), and Whisperers, which maintain a communications net among all of the various craft. Larger vessels include three unnamed cargo vessels, two biological carriers, and two colonial carriers. Eostre herself in maintained within a separate vessel. This vessel, along with the cargo vessels and biological carrier, will precede the colonial vessel by several months. In theory, by the time the colonists arrive, a local thriving ecosystem will have been established in an appropriate area on the target planet, now named Eostremonath.
438 - Heterosemiotics and a grab bag of minor backyarder clans launch the Turing towards Pi 3 Orionis from an Oort base.
447 - Last documented appearance of the unidentified AI entity Hal.
460's The Farm Analogy, infamous forgery widely circulated on the net, purporting to be an authentic post from one AI to another, showing how they undertake "people farming".
465 - Spread of the "Renaissance nanite" in Florence, European Union. The nanoreplicator converts asphalt into replicas of famous artworks.
466 - Colonisation of Macross habitat complete
474 - The Caracas Treaty attempts to regulate the spread of nanotechnology and institute a global "nanowatch". Although many nations and groups sign it, it is only implemented patchwise.
476 - A group of Feynman
Expert Systems win the Nobel Prize for Physics for their
theoretical work in defining a consistent spin-2 supersymmetric
tensor-field M-theory brane which accurately describes supersymmetric
quantum gravity for n-dimensional manifolds, paving the way for
spacetime engineering breakthroughs in monopole production, wormholes,
Displacer Drives, Implosion weapons, and transapient architecture.
486 - "Uruk Assassin" infects SkyPolis Orbital and kills eighty thousand people.
487 - Bases in the Juno Confederation, accused of being behind much nanoterrorism, is attacked by a joint Orbital Alliance and Earth strike force. The supposed terrorist bases are later shown to be innocent mining homesteaders.
487 - the Tsiolkovsky arrives at Tau Ceti
488 - Godfrey-9, "renaissance being", philosopher, artist, and ai-at-leisure, ascends to S1
490 - The trial of the Minsk 7, independent researchers accused of having spread nanodesigns on the Net and supported nanoterrorism. After a show trial they are executed, and the case helps usher in the new "Molecular Law Directorate" in the EU.
498 - "Ground Zero" nanite infects Kleopatra, killing 1373 people. The asteroid is quarantined for nearly 400 years.
499 -The Prudence Foundation colony ship Sure launched towards Epsilon Indi
500s Transfinity products became very widespread especially on Earth, where their matter compilers, microrepair systems and genius cleaning fluids became market leaders.
502 - The Atlanta Incident: a nanoterrorist threat makes the Atlanta police release the John Wayne Public Protection nanite (later dubbed Dirty Harry). In the ensuing mega-surveillance/swift justice environment over 19,000 people are killed, behaviorally modified or 'body imprisoned' using lock-in paralysis.
506 - The first large outbreak of nanoswarms in space occurs on the Moon. Tycho is partially damaged, and 483 people killed. The replicators continue to harass the moon inhabitants for more than 4 years.
507 - Macross habitat departs Solar System for Epsilon Eridani, following conversion to a relativistic AMAT colony ship
510 - A compromise standard nanoimmune system has been devised, the Blue Goo Universal Standard v. 1 (BGUS I).
513 - Paedro Andros Gan, famous cyberian activist, is killed in custody by Javanese authorities. This energizes a wave of nanoterrorism and subversion, as well as speeds up the escape of the Earth intelligentsia into the outer system.
520 - International Nanotech Defense Net developed by an alliance of nanodefense corporations and leased to many regions. The European Union develops a competing nanodefense standard.
521 (2489 c.e.): - The first elements of the Eostre Complex arrive within the 61 Virginis system. Over the next several months and years, Eostre will work to create a garden of life for her coming children, on Eostremonath. The colonial vessel arrives within seven months; however, Eostre keeps the entire population in deep sleep pending the preparation of their environment.
523 - In a landmark case the Earth Trade Association and UN Nanodefence Council ordered the closing of the otherwise successful Transfinity corporation.
526 - First provolved ferrets, the Putorians
526 - The energetic but non-lethal "Bermuda Shoestring Assembler" coats much of the North Atlantic with "gruel" forming a hazard to shipping and mass die-offs of some species of marine life.
528 (2496): At 61 Virginis, Eostre awakens the first wave of colonists. Some 300 people are brought down to the planet's surface, where an idyllic community set in the heart of a mountain range awaits. While the environment is under constant nano-tweaking and maintenance by Eostre and her servant programs, to the Humans it appears as a mountain valley paradise of green pine forests and verdant meadows, surrounded by a world of brown desolation. However, even now the terraforming continues, and the planet is slowly being carpeted by the green veneer of Earth-based life. In the end, the entire planet will become habitable, stable for a life span of hundreds of millions of years, and will possess hundreds of different biomes, all pristine.
528 - The GAIA Conglomerate (Global Artificial Intelligence Amalgamation) is founded by many national governments, local Free Zones, and a number of different megacorporations in order to establish an efficient global nanoimmune system.
529 - New World launched for Beta Virginis
