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EVENT
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REF
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| 2000
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The Korean Peninsula Crisis: Famine and then a military coup results in great strife for North Korea. The United Nation responds, though with considerable resistance from China and Russia.
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SFC
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| 2001
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Over tremendous turmoil over the role of the United Nations in North Korea and being over-extended in humanitarian crises precipitated by the fall of the Great Khanate, the United Nations is suddenly disbanded.
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[3], SFC
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| 2001
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The Afrodite series mission spacecraft enters service with NASA.
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[4]
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| 2002
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South Korea alone assists the people of North Korea in recovery.
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SFC
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| 2002
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The United States of America and the European Union formalize an economic and defense relationship with what will be called the Western Alliance by media and opponents.
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SFC
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| 2003
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The Korean peninsula is formally reunified under a constitutional monarchy established with North Korean expatriate and Kim Jung Il daughter, Kim Jung Noe.
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SFC
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| 2008
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The Western Alliance space agencies jointly conduct the Aventeur space missions.
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SFC
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| 2009
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The democratic nations of Arabia, Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Iran form the Muslim Bloc.
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SFC
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| 2009
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The Aventeur I mission (also known as the first of the Grand Tours) launches from Earth with the Lewis and Clark, with Christopher, Fontana and O'Herlihy in deep cryosleep.
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[1]
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| 2009
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By this time, 6 manned orbital platforms have been assembled over Earth.
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[5]
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| 2010
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The Pan-African Alliance forms.
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SFC
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| 2011
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The New United Nations convenes for the first time.
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SFC
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| 2014
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The Lewis and Clark arrives at and studies Jupiter, with the first manned visit to the planet.
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[1]
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| 2018
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The NUN creates the International Space Agency (ISA), an intended effort to coordinate combined national space exploration.
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SFC
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| 2018
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The US Strategic Command turns over its exploration and commercial administration space mission roles to the International Space Agency (ISA). NASA remains independent of ISA.
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SFC
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| 2018
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The Western Alliance turns over the Aventeur space missions to the ISA. The European Union turns over all European Space Agency (ESA) operations to ISA.
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SFC
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| 2020
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The Lewis and Clark arrives at and studies Saturn, the first manned spacecraft to visit the planet.
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[1]
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| 2020
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The Western Alliance provides the military command structure for the NUN, giving it extraordinary political power.
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SFC
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| 2020
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The crew of the Lewis and Clark discovers evidence of extraterrestrial mining on the moons of Enceladus and Dione.
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[1]
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| 2024
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Several European nations, including France, become politically destabilized.
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[6]
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| 2026
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The opening conflicts of World War III break out, with factions of eco-terrorists launching attacks responsible for as many as 37 million deaths.
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[6]
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| 2030
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The Ares I is Earth's first manned mission back to Mars, since the fall of the Great Khanate.
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[7]
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| 2031
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The Western Alliance, Pan-African Alliance, Muslim Bloc and a mix of nations from the Far East and Middle East work together to divert a series of asteroids from striking Earth, capturing and diverting six to L-5 points.
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[8], SFC
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| 2031
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Lee Kuan of China suggests an alliance between the (perceived) disadvantaged nations of China, India, Kazakhstan, (united) Korea, Pakistan, Singapore and Vietnam; the Eastern Coalition (ECON) is formed.
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[9], SFC
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| 2032
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09 February: Zefram Cochrane was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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[10]
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| 2032
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October 19th: The Ares IV mission to Mars fails when the command capsule disappears, stranding two astronauts on the surface. The Ares V launches early to perform the rescue of the stranded Ares IV astronauts.
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[7]
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| 2035
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The multi-national manned prototype AFP-1 experimented on an e-beam pulsed fusion detonation drive but met with a disaster, with 14 lives lost.
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[11]
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| 2036
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February: Tau One, the Daedalus, becomes the first manned vessel to attempt to leave the Sol system, when it launches for the heliopause.
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[5]
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| 2039
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The evidence of extraterrestrial mining on Saturn's moons is released to select space-exploration nations.
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[1]
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| 2040
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The Mediterranean Alliance forms.
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SFC
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| 2040
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The UNSS Columbus, first in a series of interstellar sublight explorers, launches for Saturn on a test run.
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[11]
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| 2046
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The three remaining in-transit vessels of the Columbus series are considered to be inevitable losses as communications with each is lost to ion storms.
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[11]
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| 2052
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The New United Nations sides with the Western Alliance on legal use of oil fields in the South China Sea and Antarctica. The ECON secedes from the NUN in protest.
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SFC
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| 2052
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A series of confrontations between the New United Nations and the ECON begin to occur over oil fields located in Antarctica and China.
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[6]
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| 2053
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USSS Columbus is destroyed by an Econ attack, while in orbit.
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[11]
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| 2053
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01 May: The climax of World War Three breaks out when the ECON strikes the NUN states first with nuclear attacks, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 600 million.
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[6][12]
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| 2053
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Other than military operations taking place under its banner, the New United Nations ceases to operate as a coordinated entity.
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[12]
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| 2053
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Late Year: The war culminated when several of Earth's governments met in San Francisco to declare a cease-fire, effectively ending the war.
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[6]
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| 2054
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Colonel Green slaughters his way across North America, culling the "weak" and "impure" and those afflicted with radiation-sickness from humanity's gene pool, killing millions.
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[6]
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| 2055
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The Eastern Coalition formally becomes a nation, subsuming the member states as political regions, and retreats within the haphazard recovery processes that help define the era known as the Post-Atomic Horror.
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SFC
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| 2058
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During a preliminary experiment to search for subspace layers (conducted by Zefram Cochrane), all six O'Neil asteroid habitats vanish.
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[13]
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| 2058
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The US begins construction of the Liberty class system defense cruiser, their first post-war transorbital warship.
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[14]
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| 2063
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05 April: Zefram Cochrane tests the Phoenix, demonstrating warp drive by achieving Warp 1 for approximately one minute in the Sol system.
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[15][14][12]
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| 2063
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05 April: A passing Vulcan ship, the T'Plana-Hath, detects the warp signature and lands in Bozeman later that evening, officially making first contact with Humans.
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[16][12]
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| 2064
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April: SS Defiant and SS Valiant separately depart Earth orbit, on paths to the upper and lower edges (respectively) of the galactic edge.
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[17]
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| 2065
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A significant number of nations resurrect the New United Nations.
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[12]
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| 2065
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The NUN establishes the Earth Cargo Authority, the commercial oversight equivalent to the ISA.
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SFC
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| 2067
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The NUN forms the United Earth Space Probe Agency (UESPA), to help coordinate and develop human presence in interstellar space.
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SFC
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| 2069
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Current members of the NUN agree to the United Earth Defense Pact, a promise to put Earth's ascendancy and safety ahead of national goals.
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SFC
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| 2069
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As part of the UEDP, the United Earth Stellar Navy (UESN) is formed and takes control of all armed human spacecraft within 5,000 AUs of Sol.
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SFC
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| 2069
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The United States turns over all NASA operations to UESPA. The NUN does the same with the ISA.
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SFC
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| 2069
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The Utopia Planitia Base (predecessor to the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards) was founded.
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[18]
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| 2073
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Earth makes first contact with Tellar, via the SS Leif Eirickson, a Wheeler transport subclass of the DY-500 series. A few days later, a Tellarite ship already in the immediate vicinity, is intercepted near Neptune and reports that meeting.
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[14]
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| 2075
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The Gibraltar Dam is completed.
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SFC
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| 2078
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The New United Nation ceases organized operation as nations individually deal with the Post-Atomic Horror. The UEDP membership strives to remain operational.
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SFC
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| 2091
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The UESN Academy is opened and supported in its training role by the assignment of a majority of the surviving Liberty class ships.
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[14]
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| 2093
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The United Earth Stellar Navy adopts a new shipboard uniform (speculation).
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SFC
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