2008
The Second Corporate War.
- Second Corporate War (2008 to 2010). SovOil and Petrochem fail to negotiate with each other over newly discovered oil fields in the South China Sea and begin blowing each other up instead. Even cynical observers are shocked at the level of violence.
- U.S. assault on Russian weapons platform MIR XIII. EuroSpace Agency intervenes, and the Orbital War breaks out between the "euros" and the "yanks" until Tycho Colony mass driver drops a two-ton rock on Colorado Springs. An uneasy peace is reached.