Machina Areios Events

A.D. 2027 - Anarchy in the Russian Federation is ended through a NATO peacekeeper mission. Siberia and ethnic areas form break-away republics. The Russian Federation dissolves.

A.D. 2035 - The EU-sponsored Russian Republic is overthrown by a mass movement backing a military coup. Dmitry Utkin, former leader of the Wagner group, is proclaimed President and quickly brings break-away regions into Moscow's orbit once again.

A.D. 2037 - A new space race begins due to tensions between the globalist-aligned USA/EU and nationalist-aligned China/Russia. Semi-permanent high orbit space stations are launched.

A.D. 2039 - Several moon colonies are established. An international crew sets foot on Mars and returns 18 months later.

A.D. 2040 - Several O'Neill colony projects are started.

A.D. 2041 - Many break-away states are annexed by Utkin's Russia. A new 'Greater Russia' is declared, though years of population decline make the nation a shell of its former self, and little better than an economic puppet of China. The first resource asteroid is towed into earth orbit.

A.D. 2042 - The petro-dollar is supplanted by the petro-yuan over the course of a week. Within a month the United States is in default and GDP falls 40%.

A.D. 2043 - The Second American Civil War begins. The federal government mandates the use of a controversial Digital Dollar to stabilize the economy, with mass civil unrest leading to several states signing the Free State Compact in Nashville to oppose the new currency. The measure falls short of succession but state delegates are arrested by federal agents under charges of sedition regardless. Overseas American military bases are abandoned and looted as units are recalled home. Nuclear weapons are seized by rebel governors.

A.D. 2045 - San Francisco bay is hit with a dirty bomb. A hydrogen bomb is dropped on Atlanta in retaliation. The Second American Civil War concludes in an ostensible Federal victory, but the Free States do not formally re-join the union and are nominally granted economic autonomy.

A.D. 2060 - The first O'Neill colony, the Chinese Zhongtian, is completed. A smaller Free State Compact colony New Tallahassee is also completed later in the year.

A.D. 2066 - World War 3 breaks out between the EU-led globalist U.N. and the Chinese-led authoritarian Independent National Alliance.

A.D. 2074 - After a nuclear detonation in the South China Sea as a show-of-force, China capitulates to the U.N. and is split into several occupation zones.

A.D. 2100 - The U.N. is re-organized by a unanimous Security Council vote into the One World Progress Union. The OWPU quickly establishes a unified corporate regulatory regime and places byzantine legal requirements on member nations. With a single global currency and the private sector integrated as organs of the state, national governments become mere enforcement bodies for bureaucratic decrees. Several regions resist the new regime with varying success. Most are swayed into compliance by the threat of economic sanctions but a few are put under the boot of the new World Peacekeeper Corps.

A.D. 2101 - The OWPU hands down a flurry of social regulations, one of which bans the use of the Gregorian calendar and proclaims year 1 of the Anno Mundus Turrim (AMT) timeline.

AMT 1 - Project Babylon is announced. The sweeping proposals of the project include an orbital elevator, dozens of orbital colonies, asteroid mining, and preliminary plans for terraforming.

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.'

AMT 16 - Labor strikes are effectively criminalized under space economy regulations.

AMT 18 - The first cluster of second-generation space colonies at the L1 Lagrange Point.

AMT 45 - The 'Free Movement of People and Goods Act' is promulgated that ostensibly eliminates all remaining national laws restricting economic migration. Hidden in the tens of thousands of pages of regulations however are little advertised rules allowing for 'guaranteed' employment contracts. In effect the law de-facto establishes a new form of serfdom. 'Contractors' with 'guaranteed employment', instead of being bound to the land, are instead locked into perpetual employment contracts with state-regulated corporations and moved around as demands for labor require. Those in the managerial or bureaucratic classes, without 'guaranteed' employment, are still able to practice self-determination and access a new modern aristocracy, though the noble titles are of more corporate than ancient.

AMT 48 - Beginning of the 'Exodus of the nations.' With perpetual contracts growing in popularity, communities that wish to preserve their identity increasingly turn to subsidy programs to emigrate to space and avoid bondage. The exodus of these 'particularists' are encouraged by the state as it removes a frequent source of dissension from the important centers on Earth and boosts population numbers to claim success in the next milestone of Project Babylon.

AMT 50 - Another wave of Babylon riots lead to increasing factionalism within the Union, culminating with the First Corporate War.

AMT 51 - The First Corporate War ends with a re-entrenchment of the 'old guard' faction. Project Babylon timelines are accelerated and dissident exile programs are started.

AMT 86 - The Second Corporate War begins and ends in five months, concluding with the ascension of Major General Charles Este to Supreme President. The reformed-minded populist rolls back many of the excesses of Project Babylon but also works to re-approach the colonies to achieve his vision of 'One Humanity, United.'