Stars' Reach Timeline

In the wake of the Contact War, radical factions of the Solar Union weigh the threat of extraterrestrial life capable of, themselves, creating self-improving machines and unleashing them upon the universe. Motivated by a belief that preparation better suited humanity than extinction, the disgraced fleet admiral Nikolas Fuentes leads elements of the Eighth Fleet in a coup against the Sol system itself. Covertly aided by top-ranking military officials and playing on the sympathies of the masses to "inhuman monsters in the stars beyond," Fuentes deposes the Solar Union's president and establishes himself at the head of the new ruling council. The unsteady peace of the last five years transforms into building tensions.