2031

Historical Events

• January 01: A major shift occurs in Earth's global economy.

• Early: The Ares II marks another return to Mars, to test the viability of equipment and structures for a permanent base.

• The Western Alliance, Pan-African Alliance, Muslim Bloc, and a mix of nations from the Far East and Middle East achieve the first success in the global project to divert the orbits of a number of asteroids due to impact the planet. The effort is able to capture six of the fragments, eventually moving them to Earth's L-5 point, where they are eventually hollowed out and converted to O'Neil-style space habitats: Vanguard colony, Colony Roykirk, the Moss-Offenhouse colony, the NicholCorp facility, the Brynner Asteroid, and the Starling Habitat.

• Most Asian, and many near-Asian, nations formalize their relationship into the Eastern Coalition.

Conjecture

• The John Powell (Aventeur IV) arrives at Pluto as the second part of its Grand Tour.

New Technology

• Autopilot 0/2 Upgrade

References

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