Transhuman Space Timeline

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Historical timeline for the Transhuman Space setting.

  • 2001-2024 - Crisis Years
    • Up to 2010: China embarks on a manned space program, putting several yuhangyuan (“space navigators”) into orbit and on the moon. The first human clone is born. The United States commits to a Mars mission.
    • 2011: Sales of new wearable computers (using a visor display and belt computer) exceed those of desktop or notebook systems. The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) space infrared interferometer begin scanning stars within 50 light years.
    • 2012: North and South Korea set date for reunification.
    • 2013: TPF discovers an Earth-like planet orbiting the G5 yellow dwarf star 61 Virginis, 27.8 light years away. It is named “Virginia.” Later, more advanced sensors locate other habitable worlds around farther stars.
    • 2014: U.S. space development firm Columbia Aerospace begins operating a reliable laserlaunch service for commercial microsatellites.
    • 2015: Russia joins manned Mars program. Antibiotic-resistant pneumonia pandemic kills 7 million worldwide. Revised Outer Space Treaty is drafted, making it easier for corporations or states to lay claim to extraterrestrial resources.
    • 2016: South African conglomerate Ithemba Biotechnologies distributes a cheap broad-spectrum AIDS vaccine in Africa. China and Taiwan negotiate date for peaceful reunification. China announces its own Mars program.
    • 2017: The brown dwarf Xiang-63 is discovered. Parallax measurement reveals it is quite close to Sol, less than a light-year away.
    • 2018: The Long March VI rocket lofts China’s first space lab module into orbit. European Union increases fusion power budget. Biotech Euphrates is founded, with a then-radical commitment to human gengineering.
    • 2019: The commercial Aristaeus mission lands several thousand tiny robots on Mars, for both science and teletourism. A separatist party forms in western Canada, believing their destiny lies with Asia-Pacific.
    • 2020: Most cars use hybrid gas-electric or fuel cell engines. The genetic testing of unborn children and use of genetic engineering to “genefix” monogenetic hereditary defects is common in affluent nations. China lands robots on Mars and Phobos. United States and Russia establish a service station facility at the Earth-Luna L4 point.
    • 2021: Columbia Aerospace opens an equatorial launch facility in Quito, Ecuador; by 2100, it will be Earth’s busiest spaceport. Transgenic glow-in-the-dark pets become a fad in Japan.
    • 2022: European and Japanese space agencies use robot “cybershells” to build a distributed-array observatory at Tsiolkovsky crater on Luna’s farside. Provision is made for a small manned base. Mainland China and Taiwan are reunited.
    • 2023: Tissue engineers grow functional human hearts for transplant. Every organ in the body (except the brain) is now replaceable. In reaction to peaceful Chinese and Korean reunifications, the United States begins reducing its military presence in Asia.
    • 2024: The U.S.-Russian Horus I manned Mars mission is launched. Sergey Zarubayev becomes dictator of Kazakstan. Thanks to advanced medical technology, he will retain his death-grip on life and power for the rest of the century.
  • 2025-2049 - Biotech Revolution
    • 2025: China’s Chaosheng manned Mars mission is launched, even as the U.S.-Russian Horus I mission ends in tragedy.
    • 2026: Chaosheng spacecraft arrives, and Wen- Xuan Liang is the first human to set foot on Mars.
    • 2027: Columbia Aerospace and Nanodynamics begin construction of orbital industrial park. Belgium is the first of several European nations to dissociate into smaller self-governing regions within the European Union.
    • 2028: Multiple follow-up expeditions begin arriving on Mars. First baby born in Earth orbit.
    • 2029: Industrial combines Vosper-Babbage and Tenzan Heavy Industries finance a series of manned and unmanned missions to near-Earth asteroids.
    • 2030: Argentine oil drilling near Antarctica sparks new conflict with United Kingdom. Japan and Korea sign mutual-defense treaty.
    • 2031: Referendum in British Columbia and Alberta favors separation from Canada. Euro- Japanese “Lunar consortium” begins construction of an ice-mining base, Shackleton Station, on the Lunar south pole.
    • 2032: Vosper-Babbage and Tenzan Heavy Industries begin installing mass drivers to move near-Earth asteroids into the L4 and L5 points.
    • 2033: The first baby is born on Mars. Biotech Euphrates markets gene-enhanced dogs. First operational fusion reactor goes online. British Columbia and Alberta separate from Canada, and will go on to form the Union of Alberta and British Columbia (“ABC”).
    • 2034: United Nations collapses due to lack of funds and support from major powers. Australian academic Kyle Porters sets out the tenets of “information socialism.” He argues for a society in which patents and intellectual properties are free, but inventors and creators are subsidized by the state.
    • 2035: India builds orbital factory. The first low-sapient AI is created, with near-human intelligence. The South African Coalition (a loose economic alliance for sub-Saharan development) is formed. It gradually evolves into a strong regional power over the next six decades.
    • 2036: Australia joins Korea-Japan mutual defense treaty, creating the Pacific Rim Alliance. The Chinese space development corporation Xiao Chu is founded. In Canada, socio-economic stresses from the “loss of the west” led Québec and the Atlantic Provinces to gradually dissociate themselves from central Canada and negotiate membership in the European Union.
    • 2037: The first asteroids arrive at the L4 point. They provide raw materials for habitat construction and space factories. First baby born on Luna. Russia establishes a colony on Mars.
    • 2038: Tenzan Heavy Industry’s manned plasma sail spacecraft Phoenix makes its maiden flight to the asteroid Ceres, inaugurating the “second age of sail.” Its crew establish an outpost on Ceres, but the company abandon it a year later as uneconomical. Zarubayev regime begins a program aimed at eradicating the majority Kazak culture, language, and religion.
    • 2039: A commercial D-He-3 reactor goes online in Japan. The Ares Conspiracy begins illicit terraforming of Mars. First quantum supercomputers are developed. A major application is the rapid solution of highly complex protein folding problems, a key to advanced biotechnology.
    • 2040: Commercial fusion reactors go online in France, Germany, Korea, and Poland. Ares Conspiracy terraforming program in full swing on Mars. Biotech Euphrates and other firms begin offering human genetic upgrades on a custom basis; these are expensive, and often not fully successful.
    • 2041: The Ares Conspiracy is discovered. Faced with arrest or worse, its members and sympathizers steal a NASA deep space vessel docked at Phobos, and flee to the asteroid belt. The city of Montréal secedes from Québec and becomes a free city.
    • 2042: Ares Conspiracy exiles settle on the asteroid Ceres, occupying the abandoned Tenzan Heavy Industries mining base, which they rename Silas Duncan Station. Nanodynamics manufactures military microbot swarms for the U.S. Army. VeldtKorp, a division of Ithemba Biotechnologies, pioneers tissue-engineered “biomod organs” to provide transplantees with enhanced performance.
    • 2043: Anglo-American expedition reaches Mercury; Elizabeth Daintith is the first human to set foot on it. Ares Conspiracy exiles on Ceres are joined by additional Martian sympathizers, swelling their population.
    • 2044: Corporations Biotech Euphrates, Xiao Chu, and newcomer Colonial Genetics begin bioengineering plants and animals for a “new Mars.” System Technologies AG takes the lead mining He-3 from the Lunar regolith to support the growing number of D-He-3 fusion plants on Earth.
    • 2045: Regular shipments of Lunar He-3 begin reaching Earth. European Union places outpost on Mercury, to explore mining and solar power generation. First “universal” 3D printer appears.
    • 2046: Religious leader Ali al-Rashid enters into an alliance with the Saudi monarchy, laying the ground for the Islamic Caliphate. First baby born in the asteroid belt (on Ceres). Reliable medical nanomachines are introduced.
    • 2047: Nanodynamics markets the first virtual interface computer brain implants. Genemod insect farmers and bioweapons are developed by Ithemba Biotechnologies and VeldtKorp as low-cost alternatives to microbot swarms.
    • 2048: Violence erupts on Mars between pro- and anti-terraforming partisans after China and the United States decide to halt efforts to reverse the Ares Plague. Anglo-German expedition reaches Venus. The Duncanite exiles begin a program to alter their descendants for long-term survival in microgravity.
    • 2049: The centennial of the People’s Republic of China is celebrated on Earth and Mars. Moderate Arab states led by Saudi Arabia establish the Islamic Caliphate. A multinational science mission lands on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Ice-penetrating “cryobots” explore the subsurface ocean and discover primitive life.
  • 2050-2069 - Transhuman Awakening
    • 2050: Biotech Euphrates markets standardized genetic upgrade gene sequences that enable parents to create children with guaranteed improvements in longevity, appearance, health, and mental stability.
    • 2051: Red Sword anti-government insurgency begins in Peru. Vosper-Babbage builds Solaris, the first fusion drive spacecraft. The first of many giant arcologies is constructed in South China.
    • 2052: Concerned by the threat that Peruvian instability poses to the space launch facilities at Quito, the United States joins Chile and Brazil in providing military aid to the Peruvian government. European Mercury base begins export of heavy metals. Nanodynamics develops sensory-link brain implants and software that allow one person to share another’s senses, surface thoughts, and even dreams. “Slinky” experiences become a new mass media.
    • 2053: U.S. ground troops are committed to the escalating Andes War in Peru. Civil war in Iran sees return of a secular state. Duncanites begin rapidly expanding their population using exowombs.
    • 2054: Treaty of Jerusalem settles most outstanding disputes between Israel and its neighbors. In the Andes War, the U.S. use of orbital weapons and teletroopers to fight “by remote control” (while Peruvians on both sides die) shakes the morale of guerrillas and government forces.
    • 2055: Peruvian government forces collapse. Red Sword insurgents take Lima as U.S. withdraws. The European Union builds Research Station Aphrodite on Venus; it is soon nicknamed “the Hell Hole.”
    • 2056: The Genetic Regulatory Agency is established in the European Union to police abuses of human HuGE technology. An infosocialist party is formed in Thailand, inspired by the theories of Kyle Porters. Russia faces a separatist movement in Siberia, the start of a string of nasty, low-intensity insurgencies around its periphery that consume its attention over the next decade.
    • 2057: First fusion-drive spacecraft begin carrying colonists to Mars. The “second age of sail” comes to an end. Xiao Chu and Biotech Euphrates design the first Mars-adapted parahumans. 2057 is the “International Astrophysical Year.” Centre de Recherche AstroBiologique d’Europa (CRABE) research base is established on Europa. United States Astrographical Survey (USAGS) is formed and takes over NASA’s responsibility for planetary exploration. First baby born on Mercury.
    • 2058: Zarubayev regime intervenes in ongoing Russian conflict, providing support for Russia. The first successful microgravity-adapted Duncanite parahumans are born, nicknamed Tennin (heavenly people).
    • 2059: Dr. Arifa Ali develops a Grand Unified Theory that successfully reconciles gravity and quantum mechanics. China builds the Taiko Station spaceport in Earth orbit.
    • 2060: Fusion power fuelled by Lunar He-3 now provides 5% of all Earth’s energy needs and half of offworld energy requirements. As part of the renewed terraforming program, teams of Martian and (later) Duncanite space workers go to the distant Kuiper Belt. These “comet herders” begin installing fusion engines on icy Kuiper Belt objects and directing them toward Mars.
    • 2061: “Fauxflesh,” vat-grown meat, goes on sale, after a decade-long battle with safety regulators and the ranching industry. Similar products are artificial hides, horn, and fur and vat-grown wood and pulp. Dr. Raymond Garcia founds the Christian hyperevolutionist movement.
    • 2062: Infosocialists win election in Thailand, the first of several info- or nanosocialist parties to achieve power in the 2060s and 2070s. Transhumanist movement pioneers “accelerated learning” techniques based on virtual reality immersion, memory-enhancing drugs, and brain implants.
    • 2063: Vosper-Babbage establishes Aletheia Station asteroid base in the Main Belt. Nanodynamics begins development of cellular regeneration technology. Microbot toothpaste introduced
    • 2064: Neglected by the Moscow government, Russia’s small Mars colony declares unilateral independence, the first Earth colony to do so. The first baby is born on Venus. USAGS sends a manned mission to Saturn’s moon Titan. Wealthy Christian hyperevolutionists purchase a second-hand space station in Lagrange 5 and found Seventh Heaven, one of the first “junk jungle” L5 habitats.
    • 2065: Duncanites fracture into two factions: Green Duncanites, who remain centered in the main belt, and create Avatar Klusterkorp to market Tennin biotechnology to finance future pantropy projects, and so-called Red Duncanites, who leave Silas Duncan Station and settle in the Greek Trojans near Jupiter, with their main homes at Diomedes (Liang Mountain) and Agamemnon (Freehaven).
    • 2066: LOGOS, the first sapient AI, is created. Valles Marineris on Mars is flooded. Chinese cybershells explore Pluto.
    • 2067: Chinese cybershell mission continues to explore Pluto. Biotech Euphrates’ offworld division create the first bioroids. They are living beings functionally similar to humans, but assembled using tissue engineering and “biogenesis” nanotechnology, and educated using accelerated learning techniques. Some are “bioshells” with decereberate brains housing puppet implants, while others are designed with intelligence up to or exceeding that of a human.
    • 2068: On Luna, Shackleton Station becomes a free city. Nanostasis, a form of suspended animation, is developed by Xiao Chu researchers. Posthuman Consumer Review begins publication. Zarubayev earns nickname “Stalinaskha” due to his bionic implants and ruthless suppression of dissent.
    • 2069: Lunar business interests complete Islandia, the first true O’Neill colony, located at L4. Australia and Indonesia rattle sabers over the autonomy of ex-Indonesian microstates. SpaTek builds a resort on Luna. Biotech Euphrates markets biogenesis nanotechnology and customized bioroid designs to orbital corporations who want to create a “made to order” workforce on site.
  • 2070-2083 - Overturn
    • 2070: U.S. President Crystal Lee Robinson announces the NAGHI project to settle Titan and mine helium-3 from the atmosphere of Saturn. Nanodynamics begins marketing cheap cellular repair nanosymbionts to spacers as an anti-radiation treatment. Xiao Chu creates bioroids optimized for Mars colonization. The nomadic, nanarchist Gypsy Angels Collective begins to coalesce from a loose coalition of Duncanite freehauler and cometherder families.
    • 2071: System Technologies AG establishes Exogenesis research station on the asteroid Vesta in the Main Belt. U.S. Astrographical Survey sends probe to Neptune’s moon Triton in consort with commercial teletourism company.
    • 2072: GenTech Pacifica, an Australian-based transnational, begins the construction of the first large aquatic habitat, Elandra. GenTech makes extensive use of uplifted sea life and parahumans. Humans arrive at Huygens Station, establishing first permanent settlement on Titan.
    • 2073: Xiao Chu and other Chinese biotech firms complain that unlicensed clones of their pharm animals are being pirated by Indonesian and Thai companies, and demand action. China threatens sanctions. U.S. Army inducts its first bioroid soldiers. First “cyberdemocracy” system enacted, in Switzerland.
    • 2074: Indonesia, Peru, Thailand, and Vietnam establish the Transpacific Socialist Alliance (TSA) and release statement of principles. Reference to open access to nanotechnology leads to them being dubbed “nanosocialist” by the media. The Blue Shadow preservationist group founded, dedicated to fighting the “biocybernetic enslavement” of sea life. India’s Mawari Digital media conglomerate is created. Russia establishes mining colony on Mercury.
    • 2075: Ziusudra-series “ideal parahuman” genetic sequence becomes the first transgenic design to achieve widespread popularity on Earth. Chinese police begin investigation of Triad crime syndicate operations on Mars. Consumption of vat-grown fauxflesh exceeds that of “natural” meat in Europe, and approaches it in many other developed nations.
    • 2076: Titan Consortium begins building Cassini Station and Huygens Base. Exogenesis researcher Gilbert Stokes is the first human to have his mind emulated, or “uploaded,” in software. Founding of the TSA’s secret Bioweapons Directorate, which investigates nanovirus weaponry. Term “infomorph” becomes popular, referring to any digital mind, AI, or emulation.
    • 2077: China, the European Union, the Pacific Rim Alliance, and the United States all impose limited trade sanctions against the TSA. Most other nations follow suit within two years. In Europe, the transgenic calf Ermintrude is a spokesperson for the growing movement demanding an end to the raising of animals for food. Construction of the space elevator begins on Mars.
    • 2078: The sapient artificial intelligence LOGOS publishes its revolutionary study of memetic theory, The Propagation of Human Ideas. Conclusive evidence of long-extinct microorganisms is found near Hellas on Mars. This leads to renewed recriminations against the Chinese-led terraforming process, which many Preservationists claim may have destroyed the last remnants of any actual life.
    • 2079: Space carrier Mars Interplanetary starts replacing human crews with bioroids, igniting a lengthy labor dispute. Pan-Sapients Rights activists arrested in Los Angeles for attempting to “liberate” a sapient AI.
    • 2080: Transhumanist Kazuhiro Nishimori is the first healthy human to undergo destructive uploading. Antimatter production begins on Mercury. The Aegis Project begins: an attempt to repair Earth’s ozone layer. Avatar Klusterkorp sells Tennin genetic sequences to Xiao Chu and Tenzan Heavy Industries. European Union investigation into troubled Das Luftschloss L4 factory complex uncovers mistreatment of bioroid spaceworkers. Genefixed people now represent a majority of Earth’s 11 billion people.
    • 2081: The first Titan Consortium He-3 tankers reach their Lagrange 4 collection point. European Union passes laws that will phase out the raising of meat animals in favor of fauxflesh. The ghost of Kazuhiro Nishimori is first posthuman to visit Triton, his consciousness transmitted via laser communicator to a cybershell there. Green Duncanites sponsored by Avatar Klusterkorp begin secretly seeding Europa’s oceans with altered life forms.
    • 2082: The National Alliance, an anti-nanosocialist coalition, seizes power in India. Islamic Caliphate extends civil rights to sapient AI. Telepresence Experience Network is founded. First human born on Titan. Unusual Kuiper Belt Object 112434 Shezbeth is discovered. European Parliament’s Report of the Temporary Committee on the Situation of Biological Androids condemns the bioroid industry. Biotech Euphrates and Xiao Chu dispute the findings, but halt production of controversial models and add new regulations.
    • 2083: China demands that the TSA allow inspection of nanoweapons facilities. Incidents occur between TSA submarines and Chinese arsenal ships. PLA troops exercise near the Vietnamese border. The United States embargoes He-3 shipments to China and the TSA. Martian Space Elevator is completed.
  • 2084-2098 - Pacific War
    • 2084: Near Saturn, Gypsy Angels Collective migrant workers occupy U.S. Astrophysical Survey base at Hyperion, then intercept an American He-3 shipment to sell to Rust China. China launches a surprise attack against Thai Bioweapons Directorate facilities and satellites. The other TSA nations honor mutual-defense treaty obligations, and the Pacific War begins, as TSA forces fight back in space and fire cruise missiles against Chinese ports and naval vessels. In deep space, TSA vessels launch multiple autonomous kill vehicles (AKVs) at Chinese targets. China destroys most of the TSA’s orbital and surface space facilities, including their solar power satellites.
    • 2085:A construction accident at Shackleton Station on Luna kills hundreds and forces the city’s evacuation. Fierce fighting rages on the Chinese-Vietnamese border, but a royalist coup topples Thailand’s hard-line nanosocialist government, and the TSA agrees to a European Union-mediated peace. Some Bioweapons Directorate personnel flee Earth. U.S. task force evicts “helium pirates” from Hyperion and establishes bases on Titan and Rhea.
    • 2086: United States ends the He-3 embargo. Exogenesis places a robot factory on Io. Nicaragua becomes a nanosocialist nation. The ghost of Exogenesis engineer Susie Xu is the first posthuman to enter Jupiter, her body the cybershell probe Not in Kansas.
    • 2087: Remaining TSA powers, now led by Indonesia, meet in Lima, Peru, and renew their “peaceful commitment to nanosocialism and the ideals of Kyle Porters.” Solar Express space courier service founded. Martian Triads begin manufacture of pleasure bioroids. First “xox cult” appears, in which followers are monitored and advised by a low-res mind emulation (“shadow”) of its leader.
    • 2088: The first cellular rejuvenation treatments are successful, using radical nanosurgery to restore the aged to vigorous health. The fastliner Empress of Helium is destroyed by rogue AKVs left orphaned by the Pacific War. It is the first of several victims. Red Duncanites at Liang Mountain install old-style deuterium-lithium-tritium fusion reactors to avoid dependency on imported He-3.
    • 2089: A “crime war” between rival Triad factions on Mars secures the independence of the Martian Triads from Earth-based crime lords. Biotech Euphrates is contracted to grow a new Luna City using nanotechnology. Islandia space colony bans the ownership or indenture of bioroids.
    • 2090: Nanodynamics establishes an ice-mining base on Jupiter’s moon Callisto. Coup attempt against Zarubayev regime leads to a ruthless purge (“the Silence”). Many massacres are carried out by bioroid soldiers.
    • 2091: Xoxing (making multiple self-aware mind emulations of a person) is made a felony in China. Similar laws are soon passed elsewhere. Muldoon expedition reaches KBO 112434 Shezbeth and discovers a primordial black hole inside it. European Union courts determine that sapient bioroids and infomorphs are “persons” under the law, resulting in an outright ban on bioroid manufacture and ownership in the European Union.
    • 2092: FBI-Interpol investigation of the source of “brain bug” 3D printer programs are traced to the Greek Trojans, which are gaining a reputation as a marketplace for black market technology. The term “Trojan Mafia” is coined. Hawking Industries founded to exploit Shezbeth mini black hole.
    • 2093:Work begins on the Olympus Project, an Earth space elevator designed to touch ground in Kenya. Hawking Industries team installs a high-impulse fusion torch drive on 112434 Shezbeth, and begins accelerating it toward their headquarters in the Main Belt.
    • 2094: Rust China police barely prevent Negative Growth terrorists from destroying the Mars space elevator with a nuclear device.
    • 2095: Martian Triads expand their operations into the Main Belt. Xiao Chu launches expedition to Oort cloud in quest of mini black holes. Space crews of Triplanetary Lines and Solar Express unionize, forming the Farhauler’s Guild. Mars Interplanetary successfully resists unionization by employing (or threatening to employ) bioroid crews.
    • 2096: Astrobiologists studying Europa stumble upon pantropic life forms, exposing the Europa Project’s existence. It is denounced by preservationists as a clear and present danger to the Europan ecology. Seventh Heaven founds New Covenant asteroid colony on 511 Davida.
    • 2097: 76 people in Shaoxing, China are forcibly uploaded by a rogue “emergent intelligence.” Exogenesis builds the first bush robot. Chinese agents trace tritium used in Negative Growth nuclear bomb to the Trojan Mafia. PLA Navy Space Force mounts a punitive strike against Liang Mountain using space dominance vehicles. Red Duncanite “privateers” harass Chinese spacecraft. As Shezbeth passes Jupiter, a Red Duncanite privateer attempts to board her, dubbed a “blackjacking” by the media.
    • 2098: European Union begins using military force to suppress “bioroid slavery” in areas without national government. Preservationist radicals calling themselves the Europa Defense Force arrive on Europa, and launch attacks against the Avatar Klusterkorp operations there. The “War Under the Ice” begins. French Foreign Legion commandos raid a bioroid factory in L5.
  • 2099-2100 - Current Events
    • January 2099: Eugenics Liberation Front terrorists threaten to unleash Lucifer Plague nanovirus in Istanbul, causing mass panic. Anti-Zarubayev revolt in Kazakstan is crushed by bioroid and cybershell troops.
    • February: Xiao Chu builds Jiangli base on Titan. European Union authorities determine that many bioroid factories in L5 have moved to the Main Belt. After a month of heavy fighting, Kazakstan rebels retreat to sanctuaries in neighboring Uzbekistan, but continue to launch guerrilla raids.
    • March: Genetic Regulatory Agency investigation links bioroid trafficking to Martian Triad-controlled gas stations in the asteroid belt. Royal Navy Space Service sends a squadron to the belt to suppress the activity.
    • April: Xiao Chu officials accuse the U.S. military of planting microbot spies in Jiangli, and harassing them with low-level reconnaissance flights.
    • May: Zarubayev regime in Kazakstan launches assault on rebel sanctuaries in Uzbekistan, seizing control of a transborder “security zone.” Rumors emerge that some government anti-guerrilla units are “special forces” composed of former rebels now controlled by puppet implants.
    • June: The utility space vehicle Charlevoix is destroyed in the Greek Trojans, apparently by another orphaned AKV from the Pacific War.
    • July: System Technologies AG sells Exogenesis to Nanodynamics for $16.7 billion.
    • August: A property rights dispute between Nanodynamics management and former Exogenesis employees and infomorphs results in a tense standoff at Exogenesis Station on Vesta.
    • September: Slinky superstar Xu Fang Shan is kidnapped and xoxed while vacationing in Spain. Black market mind emulations of her are sold throughout the system.
    • October: Executive Decisions Inc. mercenaries under contract to Nanodynamics seize Exogenesis Station. Several ex-Exogenesis spacecraft scatter into the asteroid belt. Fighting is reported at Exogenesis bases elsewhere in the system.
    • November: Royal Navy raids Martian Triad bioroid factory at Morrigan’s Rock. Journalist Copernicus Jones escapes Europa Defense Force captivity. His testimony and recorded slinky experiences concerning the “War Under the Ice” are broadcast on Telepresence Experience Network.
    • December: Xiao Chu’s Titan base minifactures a garrison of combat cybershells and bioroids, and demands USAF reconnaissance flights cease immediately. Infomorphs at Vostok Station in Antarctica report their humans are showing symptoms of massive nanovirus infection, then go offline.
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