Timeline

2083- First Martian colony founded.

2132- First Europan colony founded.

2135- UN is reformed to gain more power and to include extra-terrestrial nations (such as the Martian Republic of the United States and the Europan Global Government).

2176- Warp technology is accidentally discovered.

2180- Nuclear disarmament program reduces national maximum to ten nuclear weapons, enforced by the UN.

2190- JAXA begins building the first warp/FTL drive prototype.

2195- The Kepler Ascension XI mission discovers a major cluster of solar systems with a large proportion of possibly habitable planets.

2198- An appeal is made to the Japanese government by the UN (fronted by the US and the France Republic) to share their warp drive blueprints to the other countries of the UN. This request is denied on the basis that Japan has a right to keep its own discoveries to itself.

2200- Tension increases within the UN, and is generally split between those defending Japan's right to its technology and those believing that the technology belongs to Humanity.

2202- The US, France, Finland, Israel, Greece, Italy and Pakistan succeeds from the UN (as those within the European Union succeed from the EU) and create the Human Advancement treaty, which forces these countries to share all astronomical advances.

2203- Japan reveals that they are planning on building their first colony ship, and are defending the construction sites with their military. Also they are constructing a small defence fleet for the colony to protect it from attacks from other nation’s terrestrial-to-extra-terrestrial weapons and small space fleets as it leaves the solar system.

2203- The countries under the HA treaty and many still within the UN accuses Japan of planning to use their technology and 'defence fleet' to conquer the colonies on Mars and Europa, as to gain military might over Earth. They aggressively appeal to Japan to halt the construction of this defence fleet and to share its warp drive plans with the global community.

2204- Japan sells its warp drive plans to the ESA and UKSA under the condition that it is not to be revealed to any other country. The results of this is the signing of the UN Astronomical Advancements treaty, which creates a free exchange of scientific discovery and planning in the field of Astronomy between the countries within the UN.

2204- The Terran Situation study was release later in the year. The statistics revealed that overpopulation would become a serious problem by 2240, also climate change would further impede humanities expansion efforts. The last statistic showed that recent mass mining operations and oil rigging was draining the planets resources to the point that society would be un-sustainable by 2350.

2206- The US appeals to re-join the UN but is refused on the grounds that it is too soon after leaving and is a display of wanting to use the UN temporarily and not contribute to it.

2210- Tensions mount, and those under the HA treaty desperately appeal to the UN to let them back in, and are denied on the same grounds as the US.

2210- The US and those under the HA treaty form together as the Human Advancement Treaty Alliance (HATA) and declare war on Japan.

2211- Russia declares itself neutral and Britain sends aid funds to Japan. In response France produce plans to invade Britain, but were foiled and Britain declared war on France and begun an immediate but rushed invasion.

2213- America declares war on Britain and sends aid to the French. China is pressured by both the US and UN to join them, instead they remain neutral.

2215- Most of the UN countries declare war on America and begins assisting the Japanese. Germany invades France as the British are pushed back to the coast by French forces.

2216- American infiltrators are caught by the Russians attempting to plant plans into the Russian military net which try to turn Russia on Britain with fake invasion plans. Russia joins the war and immediately sends forces to begin an invasion of America.

2216- America convinces Canada to succeed from the commonwealth and help fight the Russian threat, which they claim was a risk to the entire Americas. However no other countries within the Americas revoke their neutral status.

2217- Russian forces reach American soil but are attacked by the Canadian forces mobilized to fend off the invasion. Russia manages to take the whole west coast but the conflict stagnates quickly.

2218- HATA forces are successfully repelled from Japan, and the UN allies begin to plan an invasion on America.

2218- Britain and Germany push French forces further into central France, eventually forcing a surrender by the French government.

2219- Mexico declares war on America after extensive talks with the UN. Japan, Britain, Germany and Mexico then begin an invasion of both America and Canada on all fronts.

2221- America threatens to use nuclear weapons on the forces invading their lands. In response Russia and Britain threaten America with their nuclear weapons. On the cusp of the total destruction of the human race, both the UN and HATA call a ceasefire and begin peace talks with each other.

2221- Peace is agreed and the Earth Unity treaty is signed, which required that all HATA countries involved in the war were to pay war reparations to the countries they invaded. The HATA countries were also invited back into the UN. Also it required that all state funded space programs and organisations within the UN countries were to merge and share research material and resources and form the United Nations Allied Space Agency (UNASA) which would work together to colonise other planets to help with overpopulation and to collect resources to be shared throughout human controlled space.

2225- UNASA (solely Japan) launches its first FTL powered colony ship en-route to a suspected habitable planet; Gliese 581G.

2226- Gliese 581G is found to have liquid oceans on its solar facing side and icy tundra’s on the opposite. However there was a small band around planet which has a permanent sun rise which was the first location to be colonies.

2230- After years of slow progression in power the UN becomes an official form of government for humanity, much like the United States, with each country and colony acting as a colony. Plans begin to be made to reorganise the UN to make it encompass all human territory fairly.

2250- UNASA launces five colonisation missions backed by several different countries and colonises Triari, Regal, LH 766J, Athenia and Korhim.

2252- After finalising their reconfiguration plans, the UN reform into the United Interstellar Confederacy (UIC) and unite the nations interstellar fleets into one military formation; the United Confederate Navy (UCN).

2255- Although the overpopulation crisis is controlled through colonisation, the UN announces that it plans to have as many eggs in as many baskets as possible, and so task the UNASA to use existing sperm and egg samples to increase the populations of distant colonies as to spread humanity quicker and further. This is done and a surge of donors is witnessed. 2260- Europa is the first extra-terrestrial colony to begin its own colonisation under the protection of the UCN, and as a result colonises Icarus 004B.

2260- Advancements in robotics mean that FTL colony ships and fleets can be mass produced, with one colony ship and three frigate class ships being built per eight months.

2270- All countries and colonies begin producing FTL capable ships at a fast pace and begin a rapid colonisation of the catalyst cluster.

2278- Due to local political instability, the Terral government; a planet on the outskirts of the catalyst cluster, send troops in commercial space ships to invade a neighbouring planet in its star system. The UCN was unable to assist as its orbital weapons systems where not accurate enough to assist in the urban conflict, and its marines were only trained to fight in zero gravity environments or on barren moons or asteroids. The local infantry forces failed to defend itself as it was mainly a militia force.

2280- Assistance arrived from neighbouring star systems who sent their militaries in to assist the invaded planet and where successfully brought to peace. However the inability for the UIC's primary military policing force to assist in this conflict (resulting in a local and state decided reaction rather than an official one) forced them to form a united planetary force which where professional and where used military grade equipment rather than just what their individual states could afford.

2290- The United Confederate Armed Forces (UCAF) was officially organised.

2300- The catalyst barrier is discovered, all FTL drones sent through it do not return. The barrier is discovered to be a large electromagnetic field within the catalyst nebula which interferes with FTL computers, causing at minimum light-years of astrological drift and at worse (which is most common) miscalculations in jump times causing the ships to be destroyed by overly long exposure to FTL conditions (over five minutes is enough to destroy a ship). Colonisation efforts are redirected to encircle the barrier.

2348- Planetary states begin reporting to the UIC that corporate militaries, mercenary groups, terrorist groups and pirates have become too powerful to keep under control. Private parties hire corporate militaries and mercenary groups to destroy other corporation's territories, space stations, mining facilities and civilian housing. Pirates have run rampant in the area and the planets defensive fleets are unable to protect every resource and trading convoy from pirate raids. This is due to restrictions imposed by the UIC which restricts each planets military and fleet size so they do not threaten other planet's safety or rise up against the UIC itself. Also it is limited due to the military’s minuscule budget which has been a result of years of political refinement and redirection of funds to non-military scientific research.

2362- The UIC gather several forces made up of a combined force of the core systems to assist with protection, however there was not enough to protect the majority of systems with military problems, and yet refused to lax military restrictions,

2370- After years of pleading for help, and being refused the right to increase it's military size, the Genesian Government (Genesi's governing body) broke the restrictions set down by the UIC and begun increasing the size of its military to contain the growing threat of corporate military control.

2372- Threats of retaliation by the UIC to the Genesian government were ignored and as a result hundreds of systems around the catalyst cluster (the main hub of the problem) began breaking the restriction to. The UIC then issued a threat of invasion by the United Confederate Military (the commanding body of UCAF and UCN) if they did not immediately begin to reduce their numbers of personnel in the military.

2373- In response to these serious threats the afflicted planets began to lower their personnel count, but simultaneously began mass producing unmanned combat drones, which meant although their personnel count remained low, their force as a whole could increase in strength, as every time an unmanned drone is destroyed, the same pilot can simply take control of a new one.

2375- As a result of the sharp increase in unmanned combat drones the corporate military and mercenary problem began to decline, however the UIC in response to this increase in power re-wrote their regulations to limit the number of ships, vehicles, weapons and unmanned craft as well as personnel. It was mainly speculated that this was because a large amount of the senators were funded and bribed by the main military corporations. However some did not need this bribe as they saw this increase in strength as a threat to UIC security.

2377- Genesi official succeeds from the UIC and increases its military budget by 300% and immediately begins training more personnel and producing less unmanned combat drones (which had become less effective over time at dealing with the organised militaries of the corporations). Seeing this happen caused a chain reaction which saw the succession of three quarters of the catalyst systems.

2380- UCM forces begin moving into independent territories and threaten many systems with its force (which had been collected from throughout UIC territory. Fifteen systems submitted to the UIC and re-joined, however on 21 September local forces on Ganomay prepared for a planetary defence, and refused to surrender to the on-coming UCM force. After months of attempted diplomacy, the UCN bombarded the planets military installations, attacked its defensive fleets and began landing troops on the planet’s surface. The fighting escalated and the UCM began to sweep across the planet rapidly.

2380- After the attacks begun on Ganomay, Genesi Planetary Governor Dacko Yacksly requested a conference to be attended by all planetary governors of the succeeded systems to discuss an alliance. In the wake of UCM forces sweeping through the catalyst cluster, Yacksly claimed that the only way to remain safe from the UIC's damaging policies and from UCM attacks and mistreatment was to unify as a new interstellar body and fight together against the UCM. Few systems disagreed (mainly those furthest from the frontline) but an overwhelming majority agreed and formed a new government. Together they formed the Republic of Genesi (RG) (named after the planet which showed the other systems that they could succeed and that they should unite) and began amassing a united army to fight back on the two fronts which had formed.

2381- Ganomay is retaken by the UCM, however two months later a massive force under the command of the newly formed Republic Defence Fleet (RDF) swept into the Gano system and immediately attacked the UCN, wiping it out within hours and began landing armies on Ganomay itself.

2381- The UIC begin redirecting astronomical research funds into developing a modern professional military. Also they immediately began pumping troops into RG territory and set in motion the largest scale invasion plan ever developed.

2383- The war stagnated and the RG controlled all of its territories, but refusing to invade the UIC territories. However the UIC kept pushing, attempting to break through. Although in these attacks both sides received severe losses, the RDF generally came out the victor, even if only by a tiny degree.

2385- A ceasefire was called and both parties began peace negotiations with the express purposes to end the war no matter the cost.

2386- On 15 May, the Treaty of Planetary Independence was signed, ending the war and allowing the RG to remain independent. It also allowed other systems to become independent if they wish with no threat of invasion unless they posed a threat to any state.

2390- Trade agreements in research and general resources where met by the UIC with the RG, and official political tensions between the two factions began to relax (although along the previous frontlines; the UIC/RG fault line, tensions were still high, even with open trade and immigration being forced through both governments.

2396- The UIC gives top secret orders to begin producing new WMD's beyond the previous stated limits. These new WMD's were known as Mass Kinetic Charge Devices (MKCD, or commonly called Mak bombs), they give off a large pulse of kinetic energy using a matter/anti-matter detonation within certain parameters. They are capable of levelling a city without leaving high levels of radiation, meaning that a particularly good military base location can be destroyed with a smaller version of the MKCD and then re-built by the attacking force.

2410- RDF spies within the UCM discover these plans and immediately inform the government, who tasked them with finding the blueprints to these weapons. Also the RG ordered the RDF to begin making invasion and defensive plans in case the UCM began to plot to attack them.

2411- The blueprints are discovered and the RDF begins mass producing MKCDs of their own.

2419- UCM spies within the RDF discover that the MKCDs were being produced, and in response began to develop invasion and defensive plans in case the RDF decided to actually attack them. Both militaries became aware of each other’s knowledge of each other’s plans and an arms race began. While on the surface the public got the impression that the two governments were increasing in co-operation, however this was true as very few within the government actually knew about the issue.

2428- Vincent Calder, an ex RDF officer was sworn in as President of the Republic of Genesi, with the promise that he would increase the financial strength and power of the Republic and to keep diplomatic relations with the UIC despite his history of fighting in what was now known as the Human Civil War. He was also well known for his highly honest attitude, and many have criticised him for his past. Although he hates many parts of his past he leaves them totally open and public, as he sees this as being the best way for a leader to be.

2429- President Calder is given access to the information about the arms race and both militaries plans to attack each other.

2430- President Calder in keeping with his honest nature finally announces the struggles that had been going on despite warnings from his staff. He begins talks with President Tucker, and both agreed to order their militaries to step down production of MKCDs.

2430- The RDF spies discover that the UCM are cutting back on MKCD production but only at half the agreed rate. President Calder is approached by the RDF's primary arms manufacturing companies, who offered him an exorbitant amount of funds to instigate or even start a conflict with the UIC, as it would financially beneficial to him and the Republic, and also would give them an upper hand in what they called an inevitable war.

2431- Facing scrutiny from his supporters and with his presidency in jeopardy Calder became desperate. Gregorey Hatling, the presidential candidate who would almost certainly beat him in the presidential campaign due to his backing by the weapons companies, was known to politicians to be a war mongerer and extremely self-centred. Calder began to realise that the war was inevitable, and saw that he would rather be the one to start it as he would aim to end the war as soon as possible instead of dragging it out for financial gain. Also he wanted the people of the Republic to be the primary focus of policies, and knew if Hatling was president that would all change.

2431- Political funding immediately shifted to heavily favour Calder. On 25 October, President Vincent Calder ordered the RDF to follow through with invasion plans with immediate effect.

2432- On 1 January RDF forces launched a massive attack on the Hsana and Armill sectors of UIC territory. Within three months their detailed sweeping plan had caused the surrender or the occupation of 80% of each sector. The UCM put defensive plans into action, resulting in a slow repelling of RDF forces in the Armill region; however the Hsana region was steadily being dominated by the RDF.

2433- After committing the entirety of Ulleous sector's offensive forces, the Ulleous sectorial government ordered the local UCM to rebuild a new offensive force which would give a massive push into Hsana which with the backup of other new offensive fleets would easilly break through the attacking forces in Hsana.

2434- On 8 October Ulleous forces received the news that the Bastion system within the Iasulu sector was attacked by a large sectorial fleet which seemed to have jumped in through the catalyst barrier. At the time Iasulu forces had been weakened through being diverted to assist in Hsana and all reinforcements sent to the Bastion system managed to seriously delay the RDF's taking of the system but could not survive even a week in a prolonged fight with the attackers.

2434- On 14 November, 39 Sectorial Fleet Ulleous, Offensive Reserve, after travelling for days through the Ulleous and Iasulu sector jumped into the Bastion system and began Operation Iasulu Hail.