Time line

 Hi All, 

Brief time-line  to 2115

66 Million years ago: The S’sszorg, a race of intelligent dromaeosauridae  & the dominant civilisation on Earth become entangled in the great universe war, the last battle of which is fought from Earth to Mars. They are on the winning side, but like the Martians are forced to retreat underground after Asteroid bombardment.

1956 : Suez Crisis, Britain and France are forced to pull out of Egypt and the Suez Canal Zone, under American and Russian pressure. Britain withdraws from NATO in protest.

1957-1960 : Russia is the first nation to land on the Moon, begins to colonisation programme. In the following years the great powers of the security council- France, Britain, America and China follow suit.

1960: Dr David Ben Elharar, a gifted  young Physicists, releases his Quantum Portal Theory. Dismissed as a crank and lunatic, he is nonetheless recruited by the IDF to develop his research. In 1961 a quantum portal between the Negev and Tel Aviv is established, but only lasts for a minute, due to the power requirements. In any event this crucial technology enables Israel to defend herself in the last, decisive middle east conflict, which was a greater part of world war three.

1962: During World War Three Russia, China, France, Britain  and the USA launch rocket ships in the hope that should the war turn to nuclear warfare some part of their civilisations survive. A private rocket ship ‘Derek’s Ark’ is also launched at the same time, from Alice Springs in Australia.

1963, February : The end of World War Three; 560 million casualties and the formation of a Federal world government to prevent chaos and anarchy. British Prime Minister Lord Alec Douglas Home becomes the First President of this ‘Earth Allianz’.

1963, March: Elharar and his business partner, Major Jacob Horowitz, form the Elharar-Horowitz Company Ltd. By this time Elharar has successfully developed a MHD generator and an ‘energy scoop mark I’ : Opening up a portal to the sun they send the energy scoop through. It in turn uses the sun’s plasma as fuel to open a return portal to Earth, directly into the MHD generator. This is the beginning of cheap energy on earth and the end to fossil fuels as well as a transportation revolution as people can now go from New York to London in under a minute. It does also make Elharar and Horowitz the world’s richest men. Whilst their company becomes a massive conglomeration which is later broken up, they maintain control via a ‘mishpahhah’ (lit family) system of trusts and interlocking businesses that own stocks in each other (like Japanese keiretsu).

1963, August : Because of the huge amount of energy and radiation The S’sszorg are reawakened. Humans and S’sszorg, after various incidents,  meet at the convention of Birmingham, which results in the Act of Union and the creation of the United Earth Union Allianz, a Federal Democracy based on the American and British models. By 1970, all Earth states with the exception of Switzerland and the Vatican are members (Russia overthrew the Communists and reverted back to an Empire, but this time a constitutional one: in this timeline Princess Margaret converts to Orthodox Christianity and is installed as  Tsarina).

1963-2076: With both Quantum Portal technology and Warp Drive (given by the S’sszorg), Earth goes through a  ‘golden age’ of exploration and colonisation, meeting thousands of species and colonising millions of planets. Venus is terraformed and the Jovian gas giants mined for helium 3, the key ingredient in nuclear fission necessary to power warp drives. First contact occurred in 1966 and on Mars, which was generally a peaceful affair.

2040: In the Tau Ceti system, a ‘gateway’ of wormholes is discovered, each leading to another galaxy. There are potentially hundreds of these wormholes, each opens up new trading and first contact situations. It will take decades to explore each one, there are estimated to be at least 200 of them.

2066: Wormhole 19 leads to the ‘seven heavens’ galaxy, so called because it is made of 7 rings of stars, each as ring as big as the milky way. Here a ‘lost tribe’ of humanity is found, one of those who fled world war 3, now called the Albion Kingdom and whose religion is based upon the teaching of the founder and prophet ‘Derek of Luton’, but surprisingly there are still minority religions within the Kingdom and plant/wildlife that is extinct on Earth. The Albion people are dismissed by Earthers as ‘rustic cousins’, due to their relatively speaking, social conservative and homespun ways.

2076 : Another shock for Earthers is wormhole 20. This leads to Andromeda, whose major polity is the Andromeda Freedom Confederacy, which despite its name is built upon slavery. In this case human slavery and these humans are the descendants of those who fled in the rocket ships in world war 3. Unlike Albion they were enslaved and bred, so there are quadrillions of humans. To make matters worse, these slaves are forcibly injected with an addictive drug, which needs to be given on a daily basis. The dominant species in the Confederacy are the Minotauri or Minotaurs, so called because of their half-man-half bull appearance of human legends.

2076-2079 : repeated skirmishes between Earth forces and the Confederacy. An underground railroad and resistance is formed, resulting in various ‘terrorist’ incidents. The countdown to war gets nearer and nearer.

2079- 2081: Earth blockades the entrance to the Andromeda wormhole in an attempt to keep peace.

2081: A conservative administration comes to power on Earth and in the Confederancy extremists have taken power. This leads to all out war when Confederate forces storm the wormhole and end the blockade. 200 Earth ships are obliterated within minutes, thus demonstrating technological advantage the Confederacy have, their warships not only fan out into the milky way, but all the other galaxies as well.

2081-2083: Earth is isolated and no-one else wants to enter the war : even the Albions say they will stick to ‘splendid isolation’. The war is a ferocious total one and the Confederate high command did not anticipate that the S’sszorg would stand by their human brothers during the conflict, also the Gorf, a rich merchant class species who were brutally expelled from their Andromeda ghettos have been funding the war to enable Earth to stay in the fight,  but nonetheless it is a war which Earth is loosing.

 2082:  two Albion Chemists , Deborah and Jonathan Mocotta, discover a counter medication for the drug used to keep the human slaves in order, but even to produce at cost price will be a fortune. The Emperor of the Byzantines agrees to pay for this and at the signing ceremony on Albion Prime, the Confederacy launch an invasion of the system, during which Earth President Nigella Farage is killed, with Vice -President Antonio Garibaldi  being sworn in as President . This brings Albion and more importantly the oldest, most powerful civilisation -The Byzantine Empire- into the war: within 24 hours Mars, Nachash, Svinge , Koobe, Sh'aboo and the K’hari  declare war upon Andromeda . From then onwards the outcome of the war is inevitable.

2083-2089 : With the war now expanded to almost every species, this is truly an intergalactic war, which finally ends in 2089, after 8 bloody years of conflict.

2090 :Peace Treaty signed and pillars of the new interstellar system created- such as a security council and Galactic Development Banks-  in an effort to never have such a massive war again, with the Andromeda Confederacy broke up into five thousand states.

2090-present : Relocation of over 4 Septillion former slaves amongst Earth, Albion and Byzantine (who create a ‘Raj’ for this purpose).  Under the ‘every sperm is sacred’ act, the allied powers also agree not to destroy the millions of sperm and egg factories used to ‘breed’ humans, but to increase production to maximum, until there are no sperm and eggs left. With the return of millions of soldiers from the war, these three decisions create a massive baby, property, economic and social boom, which everyone in the galaxies enjoy. However after twenty years the boom is quickly turning to a bubble and now a mania: it is a question of when and where, not whether it will happen.

 2092: the GECO (Galactic Economic Community) is formed by former states of the Andromeda Confederacy and middle ranking galactic powers, as a free trading bloc, although in recent years it has attempted to have the trappings of a super state, such as an anthem, flag, parliament and single currency.

2112: First contact with the Methi civilisation from wormhole 22.