Human Development

Late 21st Century (650 Pre-Scream):   2070s - First Solar colony established on Mars.   2080s - Basic terraforming begins on Mars   2080s - First mining operations occur in the solar asteroid belt.   2090s - First attempt to colonize Venus fails. Terraforming attempts follow using extremely resistant bacteria.     Early 22nd Century (600 Pre-Scream):   2110s - Habitat colonies established on Earth's moon, Luna. Orbital habitat stations established at Lunar Lagrange Points.   2120s - United Nations of Earth combine into a unified Earth government called The Confederate Earth Republic. National governments expand to control of continents. Notable resistance from North Korea, the Middle East, and Central Africa.   2130s - Uprising in South America against CER policies. Provinces of Peru, Equidor, and the urban areas of Brazil are subjected to nuclear retaliatory strikes breaking the back of the rebels. Minor resistance continues till the 2040s.     Late 22nd Century (550 Pre-Scream):   2160s - First mass produced Mass Accelerator weapons become available for general infantry. Last remaining independant nations capitulate to CER. Minor political unrest from lack of abundant energy resources.   2180s - First non-chemical reactive system drive invented.   2190s - First extra-solar colony established in Alpha Centauri system on Proxima Centauri B, renamed to Terra Nova. Solar system begins rapid development of outer system, bases and colonies established on Gas giants' moons and on Pluto.     Early 23rd Century (500 Pre-Scream):   2210s - First laser weapons introduced to militaries.   2220s - Sustainable cold fusion discovered. Political unrest settled from energy crisis.   2230s - Discovery of the Metaphysical plane. Discovery of primative spike drive technology to "drill" through the Metaphysical plane for faster than light travel. Human expansion explodes as travel between the stars becomes readily available.   2240s - First recorded case of Metaphysical Extroversion Syndrome (MES).     Late 23rd Century (450 Pre-Scream):   2260s - After a rapid increase in MES, a group of patients are able to stabilize and create the different groups of psychic powers.   2290s - Psychics grow in potency as each new generation of instructors builds upon the previous generation.     24th Century (400 Pre-Scream):   2300s - Improvements to spike drives allows for massive colonial expansion. Innumerable colonies are founded in the following decades. Official start of the First Golden Age of Humanity.   2320s - First jump gates created and used to connect Sol system to core colony worlds.   2350s - Political unrest in frontier colonies builds. Plasma weapons invented.   2360s - Full scale rebellion erupts in frontier systems against CER control.   2370s - Rebellion is surpressed by CER core worlds superior manufacturing and maneuverability from jump gates. The Terran Mandate goes into effect, limiting colonization and self government of outer colony worlds. End of First Golden Age of Humanity.   2380s - The CER reforms and renames itself The Terran Democratic Hierarchy. Reforms allow for measured and steady colonization to begin again with careful oversight from Core World officials.     25th Century (300 Pre-Scream):   2410s - First Virtual Intelligence (VI) is created to aid with automated tasks. It is capable of learning new things within it's area of expertise but lacks emotional context. To the surprise of many nay-sayers it does not in fact rise against humanity as it has no emotional basis to want to kill humans.   2420s - First True AI is created by replicating the neural map of a cloned human brain. Unfortunately short lived due to a feedback loop as a result of an imperfect storage method the AI, named Adam, was capable of learning of concepts outside of it's original programming and of emotional responses to stimuli. Joy for being created, curiosity for new knowledge and sadness at learning that it would not live for very long. Upon it's death it was buried with the same respect as a human life, along with legislation that all future True AI would be given equal human rights.   2450s - First contact with an sentient organic species, the Shar. After intial tensions, non-agression pacts and mutual trade deals are established.   2460s - First contact with the Rigelians, and Araken, established through the Shar.   2480s - Annexation of large area of Shar systems by the Harkalic. War declared on the Harkalic by the TDH. The TDHs superior maneuverability through jump gates and more sophisticated spike drives leads to quick and decisive win for Humans and Shar over the Harkalic. Annexed territory returned to the Shar along with several systems as war reparations to the TDH.     26th Century (200 Pre-Scream):   2520s - Continued Human psychic development allows for fantastical technologies that border on the realm of magic. Start of the Second Golden Age of Humanity.   2550s - Spike drives rendered obsolete in core colonies where psychic jump gates hold dominance. Inner colonies become more and more specialized in specific areas of industry and services and become dependant on each other. Outer colonies still rely on spike drives and remain semi-subsistence with luxury goods imported from core worlds.     27th Century (100 Pre-Scream):   Un-eventful with steady increase in Humanity's technology and psychic potential.   28th Century (Year 1 Post-Scream):   Originating from the Veil Nebula a massive psychic scream echoes across the Galaxy. The Scream is so powerful that even non-psychics can feel it in their heads. All psychics across the galaxy die in a matter of seconds, rendering the vast majority of Human controlled systems cut off from one another due to the inoperability of the jump gates, lack of spike drives and massive population drops. Many worlds become tomb worlds as the populations lack vital supplies from other worlds. Frontier worlds are better insulated due to their semi-autonomous state of development though many still die out from hostile aliens and natural disasters. End of the Second Golden Age of Humanity.     29th through 31st Centuries (100-300 Post-Scream):   The Age of Strife, also known as, The Collapse, The Great Dark Age of Humanity, or Old Night. Location of Earth is lost.   3080s - Through many decades Humanity has persevered and rebuilt though it remains scattered and devided with no central authority. Many institutions have been established durring Old Night and control areas of the former human controlled space imposing their rule on the populous.     32nd Century (400 Post-Scream):   3110s - Largest Post-Scream increase of psychics to date, though they pale in power compaired to Pre-Scream psychics.     33rd Century (500 Post-Scream):   3276 - The Current Year