2038 – The world’s first stable fusion reactor, capable of positive net power output, is activated.
2042 – The first mining and research colonies are established on Luna by major world powers and corporations.
2053 – A joint NASA/ESA colony is established on Mars.
2074 – The Graviton Equation is cracked, enabling the generation and manipulation of gravitons.
2086 – Terraforming experiments begin on Mars.
2089 – The first Compression Drive is successfully tested, enabling faster-than-light travel.
2090 – World War III, later renamed the Unification War, erupts. This war sees the first instances of orbital combat.
2098 – The Unification War ends, resulting in a single, tenuous world government, the United World.
2101 – Centauri Station is built in orbit above Proxima Centauri.
2115 – More colonies are established across the Solar system and neighboring systems.
2117 – The Ultranet establishes faster-than-light communication between planets via quantum entanglement routers.
2120 – Earth is largely abandoned to decay. The UW’s capitol is moved to Mars, in the city of Redding.
2121 – The Centaur Conference establishes new interstellar laws and metrics.
2123 – The Free Capital party attempts secession from the UW, resulting in the Capitol War (often misidentified as the Capital War).
2140 – The Free Capitalists are defeated. The UW seeks new reforms to stabilize the nation.
2144 – The UW is reorganized into the United Orion Empire, establishing a standing Navy and a unifying constructed language, Imperial Common.
2197 – The first nexacor sightings prompt an increased military presence aboard colony ships, and more ships built for the Imperial Navy.
2288 – A massive nexacor invasion prompts the Nexacor Suppression, an economically draining effort to exterminate the aliens.
2301 – Terrorists seize a shipyard in the Audrey system, signaling other rebellious cells to activate and begin the Frontier Disputes.
2312 – Sector Security, a planetary branch of the Navy, is established to enforce the peace on Frontier worlds.
2326 – The main rebel fleet is destroyed, beginning a decline in rebel activity.
2344 – The colony ship Voyager Dawn encounters the Naldim on Dawn Six.
