1994

Historical Events

• The Great Khanate successfully lands a man on Venus for the first time.

• The published research of Miguel Alcubierre proves that faster-than-light travel is possible even given the physical laws of our space-time continuum. His paper, “The Warp Drive: Hyper-fast Travel Within General Relativity,” is published by the University of Wales. It causes a sensation among the leading Terran space scientists of the day. Practical applications of Alcubierre’s theories are decades in the future, however, given Earth’s current technology and the Eugenics War starting to heat up.

• February 07: Khan's and Hunyadi's forces fight an undersea battle in the Mediterranean.

• April 21: Khan acquires the flesh-eating strain of Streptococcus-A.

• May 06: The Army of Eternal Vigilance (AEV) attempts to attack the Eurotunnel with sarin gas, but is stopped.

• June 14: Khan's attempts to unify the Augments backfires, instigating the Eugenics Wars.

• August 29: Hunyadi defiantly addresses the UN in Geneva, when the AEV gasses the council chambers in order to assassinate him.

• October 02: Khan begins testing the Streptococcus-A virus on human subjects.

• The DY-50 vessels Shuguang and Shenzhou are de-orbited into Earth's South Pacific Ocean Uninhabited Area.

• Production of the DY-A2 launch booster ceases.

• Production of the DY-A3 launch booster starts.

• The DY-A2 launch booster is replaced in operations by the DY-A3.

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