Timeline


				

				

A time line of events within the history of the Unified Republic of Stars.

Contents

Age of Colonization

2035


2051

  • The book Testimonies is written by Joel Goldman, a physics graduate student, and Peter James, a philosophy doctoral candidate. Initially regarded as a joke, it would later become the foundational document of the Church of the Cosmic Angel religion.


2082

  • Rayo Space Adventure Company outside of Phoenix, Arizona


2088


2089


2092


2093


2094


2095

  • The Rayo Space Adventure Company announces it's plan to have a functional orbital hotel around Earth in six months.
  • Nakimora debuts the DFV1000, a twenty cabin vessel capable of holding over forty passengers, complete with a café promising travel to the moon and back in three days
  • The Church of the Cosmic Angel begins its "franchise" expansion program, encouraging the most devoted members to leave and found other churches up and down the California coast.


2096

  • The Nakimora DFV1000 makes its first flight to the moon, credited with re-igniting the public's interest in space travel.
  • Sanctuary Space Vehicles debuts the Model VII, a ship capable of carrying up to forty passengers from Earth to Mars in seven days.
  • The United Nations holds a conference on what regulations should be created for the new traffic between Earth and space. Few issues are decided.

2097

  • The Rayo Space Adventure Company completes Earth View Station, the first orbital hotel around earth after eighteen months of delays.
  • Boeing, General Dynamics, and Airbus all decide the space market is worth competing in and announce plans to enter.


2098

  • The United Nations unveils its United Nation Station orbital platform around Earth.
  • The Security Council approves the UN's sole regulatory authority for construction projects in Earth orbit and throughout the Sol System.


2099

  • Boing introduced the 959, its first vehicle capable of space flight after being forced to reconstruct the work of Lynn Monjo to make their own Ion-Plasma power plant. It explodes minutes into flight.
  • Marriott Hotels announces its intention to build a resort complex on Earth's moon.
  • Spaceports are announced for the cities of New York, Los Angeles, Phoenix, London, and Edinburgh.


2100

  • Spaceports are announced for the cities of Moscow and Beijing.
  • Nakimora Holding Company debuts the DFV1100, a ship capable of traveling from Earth to Pluto in about a week and one of the first ships with a possible capability of traveling between the stars.
  • Sanctuary Space Vehicles debuts the Model X, a craft laid out like a commercial airliner intended for ferrying up to eighty passengers between Earth and the moon.
  • The United Nations holds a conference to determine governments role in possibly legislating and controlling any possible future human colonization. No decision is reached and the UN is left without the power to do so.


2101

  • Rayo releases the Lynx, an upgraded version of the Tiger.
  • Manchester Partners announces a partnership with General Dynamics to build the United States the first military spacecraft contract.
  • Marriott promises a Saturn Orbital Resort, a hotel complex like Earth View Station around Saturn.
  • Columbia University officially denies Church of the Cosmic Angel claims that Aldus Finklemeyer was ever a professor at the school.


2102

  • Marriott Hotels completes its resort complex on Earth's moon.
  • Nakimora debuts the SCV1000, a ship originally intended for exploration but soon used as one of the first colony vessels.


2103


2104

  • The planet Galileo is discovered by the exploration team from the New Earth Project.
  • Colonization of the Colonial Star Cluster officially begins.
  • The city of Rainer is founded on Troy.
  • James Pickings, the founder of the Church of the Cosmic Angel dies of congestive heart failure. His widow, Siobhan Pickings, gifts the copyright of Testimonies to the church and a period of reformation begins.
  • Marriott completes the Saturn Orbital Resort around the planet of Saturn.


2105

  • The planet of Columbus is discovered by members of the University of Barcelona's "Columbus Project".
  • Boeing finally enters the extra-atmospheric passenger market with the 959, a ship with a similar configuration to the Airbus AX-2250


2106

  • The Earth nation of North Korea discovers the world of Yong Nam and claims exclusive right to settle it. The world is unnerved at North Korea's ability to launch interstellar vessels.
  • Rayo releases the Tomcat, the most popular ship among colonists and smugglers alike.

2107

  • Rayo debuts the Kodiak, the first of its class deep space salvage vessel, intended for the recovery and repair of ships in space.


2108


2110


2111

2112


2113

  • The country of North Korea begins colonizing the world of Yong Nam with political prisoners and dissidents.
  • Rancher's Trust Bank defaults on its deposits after a run losing depositors a total of US$6.7 billion.

2114

  • Nakimora debuts the SCV2000, the first ever ship built with the sole intention of being a colonization vessel.

2115


2116


2116

  • The United States begins a colonization program, subsidizing American citizens who wish to colonize the new worlds. This is partly as a response to North Korea's colonization of Yong Nam.
  • Crescent City is founded on Troy.


2117


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2124

  • The city of White Sand issues bonds to begin paving its, up to now, unpaved streets.
  • A consortium of investors called the Island Group raise money to start the planned community of Oceania.
  • Rayo debuts the Rayo Silvertip, the successor to the Kodiak deep space salvage ship.

2125

  • The first baseball league is established in the colonies in Athena City.
  • The city of New Budva is founded on New Normandy uniting a series of villages under one common government.
  • Rayo completes its move to Galileo, establishing the town of Rayoville (later College Park) and ceases Earth operations, making it the first company to move entirely from Earth to the colonies.
  • Rayo releases the last of the updates to the Rayo Tomcat, the MKIII, marking the first time any space vehicle is constructed entirely within the colonies.
  • Rayo debuts the Wolfhound, an interplanetary passenger vessel intended for travel between the worlds of the Colonial Star Cluster.

2126

  • Manchester Partners, in conjunction with General Dynamic, debuts the XOS-2, the first ship designed to collect raw carbon materials and refine them during transit.

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2207


2208


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Age of War

2210


2211


2212


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2214


2215

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2218

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2224


2226


2227


2228

  • Rayo reinvents the the cargo market with the release of the Stallion, capable of carrying the same cargo as four Jaguar ships.


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2231


2232


2233


2234


2235

  • Nakimora enters the super cargo carrier market with the MMLXXXIV and introduces the RUV100AA to compete within the intra-system passenger market.


2236

  • Rayo introduces the Starling, its entry into the intra-system passenger market.


2239


2242

  • Protesting police abuses throughout the Unified Republic of Stars, a new wave of riots begins across multiple Republican worlds.


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2244


2245

2246

2249


2254


2259


2264


2269


2274


2278


2279


2283


2284


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2287


2289


2293

2294


2298


2299


2304


2309


2314


2319


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2329


2330


2332

  • The federal Constitutional Court rules in favor of Guillermo Nicoletto in the second Nicoletto v. Columbus case, finding that a judge may not declare a mistrial when a jury chooses to find a defendant "not guilty" despite the clear establishment of facts proving otherwise. It reaffirmed the legal right and concept of "jury nullification".

2334


2337

  • The seventh Constitutional amendment is ratified, ordering the courts to use the most narrow interpretation of government power when determining the Congressional intent and the constitutionality of a law.

2338


2339


2340


2341


2342

  • Agitation begins among the populace of the UUHA worlds, protesting their harsh treatment in light of the continued losses to the Unified Republic of Stars.


2343


2344


2345


2346


2347


2348


2350


2351


2355


2356

Age of Betrayal

2361

2363


2366


2371


2376