2200-2299
2200
The Human population on Earth officially reaches 17bill.
2202
The Xianese rejoice as they celebrate their week long public holiday in honour of Emporer Xian's 100th birthday (the equivilent aging of 29-30 years old in the old scale).
2205
The Xian Empire begin constructing a colony ship of their own without an engine assembly. The engine design is still in research.
2110
The first T-COM computers are constructed. Using tachyon particles to relay information, these new computers have processing power, which is near-instantaneous.
2211
The Britannia Federation launch their colony ship to the planet Britannia in Eta Cassiopeiae with an upgraded compliment to 50 million colonists. The Xian Empire begin construction of their secrecy-shrouded colony ship engine assembly.
2212
The existing Britannia Federation that is left behind goes into a major economic crisis and collapses.
2213
After using the a T-COM computer, the Xian Empire release a report identifying a large miscalculation regarding their Mars Terraforming Project. It is concluded that the CO^2 caps will take five times as long to melt as first calculated. The project and its funding is frozen and redirected towards a new project, which is officially not being announced at this date.
2214
The Xian Empire announce the development of an engine capable of reaching speeds of up to 40% of the speed of light and release the information of an engine capable of 35% to the EU in a massive contract and rights to fuel supplies for their colony ship.
The Xian Empire conducts a draft for 100 million colonists to by transported by the colony ship. The draft randomly selects people throughout the Xian Empire, with no royalties including Emporer Xian himself. However, to his surprise, Emporer Xian is selected and is nominated to continue his 92 year long ruling of the Xian Empire onto the new world.
The Xian Empire completes its vessel and launches 100 million colonists to Zeta Reticuli.
2215
The EU begin constructing their own colony ship. In negociated talks, the EU and Xian Empire withhold their plans for the new interstellar engine from the UN and Ilum. Ilum at age 125 declares holy war upon the EU and personally goes on a suicide mission and destroys the EU colony ship construction yard. Hostilities break out between the EU and the Ilum Believers. The Xian Empire steps in and the Ilum Believers call a cease fire after four months of fighting.
2216
The UN somehow manages to gather details regarding the new interstellar engine and the EU and Xian Empire accuse the UN of espionage. Sanctions are put in place until the UN has an opportunity to provide evidence otherwise. The Britannia Federation collapses into its original states and recreate their individual nations, while still in economic crisis.
2218
The UN begin to construct their own colony ship. Hostilities break out again between the Ilum Believers and the EU. The EU requests the aid of the UN and in reply will remove all sanctions. The UN accepts and helps defend the EU from Ilum.
2219
The environment degrades to its worst levels ever. Earth cloud coverage now stands at 98% and as a result much plant life, animal life and humans die. The Xianese suffer the most severely. The Ilum begin constructing massive underground facilities as they call a cease fire once more.
2220
The EU complete their colony ships with a capacity of 50 million people. However, due to beurocratic regulations and interference, the launch is delayed several times.
The UN launch a mobile fortress called the Renown, which is propelled by anti-gravity and travels 100m off the ground.
2221
The EU finally launch their colony ships to Beta Comae Berenices. The UN sends the first wave of small pods to Chara in preparation for their colonists. The Xian Empire falls into economic collapse due to the struggling environment.
2222
The UN signs a treaty of non-aggression with the Ilum Believers. While the EU reinvokes sanctions upon the UN. The UN pools all of its resources into the Chara project.
2223
The Ilum stage a massive attack upon Africa and begin an occupation. The EU continues to attack the Ilum, but sustains heavy casualties. The UN refrains from entering into the crisis due to their economic condition. The UN continue to send pods to Chara.
2225
The UN launch their colony ship to Chara with 250 million passengers.
Intelligence avenues report that the Ilum has begun a nuclear program.
After-Sol Age
2226
Taking advantage of the Xian situation, the Ilum quickly neutralise their defenses and demand submission into their dominion as Ilum's new minions. The Xian have no choice but to agree to their demands so long as they make no military contributions.
2228
After much sacrifice, the EU dissipate and form and strong alliance with other western nations. Uniting the old Britannia Federation states and the remainder of the UN, the EU forms the Western Coalition in a final attempt to stop the Ilum.
The Ilum launch a nuclear ballistic missile toward the western seaboard of North America. The Western Coalition's UN sect's anti-ballistic missile program fires a space-based particle weapon to destroy the missile as it is flying low over Sacramento. The warhead is detonated 20m above the city of Sacramento producing a nuclear explosion equivilent of 20 megatons of TNT. Most of the city is destroyed. The Western Coalition did not know that it was a nuclear device prior to interception. The fatality list for Sacramento city reaches 4.2 million by the end of the year.
The first combat deployment of the Renown Mobile Fortress is made by the UN sect of the Western Coalition. It's revolutionary design constributes to many successful victories over the Ilum.
2230
A massive offensive by the Ilum sees that the mobile fortress Renown is destroyed with all hands. 840 UN personell die onboard the Renown.
2231
The Western Coalition begin constructing their final colony ship, dubbed the Copernicus. Due to financial constraints, this ship will be less advanced, only capable of launching 250,000 people to Alpha Mensae.
2235
A new terrorist faction, which label themselves the Terran Heretics, begin an uprising trying to prevent the launch of the Copernicus. This causes delays in its construction and sets the launch date back further and further.
2245
Amid a full scale conflict with the final remnants of the terrorist cult, the Copernicus is finally launched.
[Little does the governments know, the Copernicus is knocked off course by the cult, effectively preventing them from ever reaching Alpha Mensae.]
2251
The Ilum are victorious over the weakened EU sect of the Western Alliance and begin an occupation. They commit mass genocide upon the majority of the soldiers of the EU army by grouping and nuking them. 9million Europeans die within one week as a result. The UN sect stages a massive offensive in response. However, they are overwhelmed by the Ilum military and are forced to make a submission treaty to the Ilum. The Ilum succeed in supreme authority over Earth. (Ilum Conflict Between 2215-2251 - 36 years)
2252
The climate on Earth has reached a critical point with massive global storms and devastating electrical storms. Due to the concurrent cloud coverage for the past 50 years, much of the plant life on Earth has become extinct. As a result, oxygen levels are dropping enormously, where in some parts of the world people must use life support systems in their house and vehicles and wear oxygen masks while standing outside.
2255
The Ilum seize control of all space projects and begins a new initiative in space.
2260
The Ilum begin construction of a large space colony, designed to accommodate over one million people.
2266
Using the assimilated data and information gathered from global conquest, the Ilum develop the first oxygen generator. Based upon the process plants use when stripping Carbon from CO^2, the massive generator, situated in India, is able to convert CO^2 into oxygen. More generators are proposed in an effort to curb the Earth's continually declining climate.
2272
First reports of a rebellion are heard on Earth.
2278
After an extensive study of a strange gravimetric phenomenon, the Ilum discover the first subspace fracture.
2280
In a secret project, the Ilum launch the first armed vessel into the subspace fracture, but it is never heard from again. Five more attempts end in failure, with 120 people lost.
2281
A modified vessel is launched into the subspace fracture once more, but like its predecessors, it is lost.
2284
After the 12th Oxygen Generator is activated, the Earth's atmosphere begins to return to its habitable state. However, Ilum scientists predict it will still take a further century for it to return to its natural state. However, much of Earth's landscape has been completely changed.
2285
After 94 attempts and over 800 people lost, a vessel finally manages to return from the subspace fracture with valuable information on subspace conduits.
2286
The data is released, and Ilum subspace travel begins.
2287
The Earth rebellion manages to steal the data for subspace travel and transmits it to each of the colony ships. The Ilum detect the signal and determine its origin. They effectively kill over 2,000 rebel agents in a skirmish.
2288
After realising the Xian Empire's error in the Mars Terraforming Project and the success of the Oxygen Generators, the Ilum restart the Mars Terraforming Project.
2289
Britannia Federation make planetfall on their new world in the Eta Cassiopeiae system.
