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 ===== Union History =====
-  * AMT 1 - Project Babylon is announced. The sweeping proposals plan include an orbital elevator, dozens of orbital colonies, asteroid mining, and preliminary plans for terraforming over the course of the next century.
+  * AMT 1 - [[Project Babylon]] is announced. The sweeping proposals plan include an orbital elevator, dozens of orbital colonies, asteroid mining, and preliminary plans for terraforming over the course of the next century.
   * AMT 10 - After years of delays the OWPU declares a raft of economic regulations to 'speed progress of Project Babylon.'
   * AMT 12 - The first of re-occurring 'Babylon Riots' begin over economic shocks to pay for the new 'Space Economy.'
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   * AMT 365 - Golden Mars meets its penultimate milestone - EV advisories are lifted on most equator population centers. Mars is green across its waist and many farming colonies are turning a profit exporting foodstuffs to the space economy. The final step is the re-purposing of infrastructure and expansion of farms to maximize production. The Earth sphere celebrates as 100 billion people are feeling anxiety about how they will be fed, and Golden Mars seems providentially timed to meet the population boom.
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-  * AMT 379 - **The Great Disaster** - The dream of Golden Mars is forever ruined, right on the cusp of its realization. While the direct cause is unknown, the orbital ring collapses and its towed asteroids crash, causing sudden and permanent shifts in climate. Sovereign Marcus Este is murdered in a palace coup. The usurper Harold Wei is unable to attain universal acclaim and commits suicide shortly after his arrest. While Marcus's relatively obscure brother Peter is crowned as a consensus candidate to prevent another civil war, many regions and colonies use the opportunity to demand autonomy.
+  * AMT 379 - **[[Great Disaster|The Great Disaster]]** - The dream of Golden Mars is forever ruined, right on the cusp of its realization. While the direct cause is unknown, the orbital ring collapses and its towed asteroids crash, causing sudden and permanent shifts in climate. Sovereign Marcus Este IV is murdered in a palace coup. The usurper Harold Wei is unable to attain universal acclaim and commits suicide shortly after his arrest. While Marcus's relatively obscure brother Peter is crowned as a consensus candidate to prevent another civil war, many regions and colonies use the opportunity to demand autonomy.
   * AMT 380 - Without the unifying dream of Golden Mars, the Earth Sphere loses faith in the Union project as a whole. Faced with the prospect of the complete dissolution of the Union, Peter is pressured to sign a series of reforms granting self-rule to most areas. The Sovereign mostly becomes a functionary and real power is transferred to a Federal Council and the GuildCorps.
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-  * AMT 382 - **The Martian Revolution** - The surviving Martian colonies are whipped into a fury by radicals claiming that the Great Disaster was a deliberate attack by the Union to prevent Golden Mars from threatening the fortunes of Earth's elites. Revolutionary fervor grips Mars which unite forcefully under the Directory, led by Chairman Sadat. Unionists are purged violently across the planet.
+  * AMT 382 - **[[Martian Revolution|The Martian Revolution]]** - The surviving Martian colonies are whipped into a fury by radicals claiming that the Great Disaster was a deliberate attack by the Union to prevent Golden Mars from threatening the fortunes of Earth's elites. Revolutionary fervor grips Mars which unite forcefully under the Directory, led by Chairman Sadat. Unionists are purged violently across the planet.
-  * AMT 384 - **The War in Heaven** - The Martian Directory declares a 'war of revenge' against the Earth Union. Earth scrambles to gather a unified defense fleet but the slow-motion breaking apart of the Union means Mars enters into a complicated web of factionalism. A few groups side with the Martians, but many simply delay to see if a more competent leader than Peter Este rises to the occasion. They will be kept waiting.
+  * AMT 384 - **[[War in Heaven|The War in Heaven]]** - The Martian Directory declares a 'war of revenge' against the Earth Union. Earth scrambles to gather a unified defense fleet but the slow-motion breaking apart of the Union means Mars enters into a complicated web of factionalism. A few groups side with the Martians, but many simply delay to see if a more competent leader than Peter Este rises to the occasion. They will be kept waiting.
   * AMT 385 - The revolutionary Martian fleet assaults the lunar sphere. The fighting is bloody and indiscriminate, and ends mostly in a stalemate, but not before Directory forces are able to seize a foothold to launch future attacks from.
   * AMT 388 - The Earth Sphere suffers a wave of Relativistic Kill Missile (RKM) attacks. Large cities such as Rome, Chinese Tokyo, and Rio De Janeiro are disintegrated. The colonies of the L1 cluster are obliterated. Factions backing Mars, appalled at the billions killed, attempt to flip sides but most are occupied by Directory troops in lightning attacks timed with the RKM assault. However, Mars is unable to muster the manpower to complete their victory and get bogged down in their occupations. In grief Peter Este abdicates and the Earth Union is thrown into chaos. A rump of the Union's Federal Council attempts to capitalize on the attacks to unify the factions with the formation of an Earth Federation, but many distrust Federation leadership due to their previous roles in the failed Union.
   * AMT 411 - Mars is spoiled and disunited; Earth is broken and divided. The colonies turn inward to the safety of isolation. The sweet vision of Mundus Turrim has curdled and mankind increasingly realizes that for all his power, his heart has not changed since ancient days. With the light of Babylon discredited, a new light is needed. Into this fraught time people grope in the darkness of war and danger. While answers are few, one thing is clear - the past is dead; and the living must live.