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During this era of humanity's evolution, a great surge is seen in bio-technology all over the planet Earth. By the middle of this era, many humans have subdermal implants to augment their natural abilities. The most popular of these implants is the Turina Jack, a device that consists of installing a small computer inside the recipient's brain to allow the person to jack directly into the Internet, brain first. It's not all fun and games though - the vast majority of implants exist to combat cancer and other diseases, and to reverse the effects of the natural aging process. By the end of the era, more than 6 billion people have some form of augmentation installed in their bodies.
2012 -- EVENT -- First permanent undersea colony, Atlantica, established off the coast of Florida.
2015, August 28 -- EVENT -- An unknown organization detonates nuclear weapons in Los Angeles, New York City, Tampa, Chicago, and Dallas simultaneously. The resulting blasts shake the resolve of the United States as a whole while also accelerating the effects of global warming. 30 million Americans die instantly, and another 50 million die over the next few years from the fallout.
2018 -- EVENT -- Civil war erupts in Australia. The country is split into two new countries, North and South Australia.
2019, January 2nd -- EVENT -- The United States stock market crashes after a small brokerage firm in Massachusetts sells millions of dollars worth of various stocks. The investigation reveals no signs of insider trading or foul intent, and the economy recovers in a few months.
2019 -- TECH -- Grant Friarton develops a brain implant he calls a "Turing Jack" as a way for paralyzed patients to interface with computers. After his peers protest, he renames the device "Turina Jack."
2021 -- TECH -- Grant Friarton disappears. Anderton Enterprises acquires the Turina Jack and begins experimentation. Design of the device leaks to the Internet, where hackers revise and polish the device as a way to increase their connection speeds online.
2021 -- POLITICS -- The United States annexes Cuba as a territory after the Cuban citizens revolt and request assistance
2021 -- TECH -- Anderton Enterprises subsidiary develops an artificial intelligence code-named LISA, the world's first true thinking machine
2026 -- POLITICS -- United Nations manages to get leaders of North and South Australia to come together for peace talks.
2026 -- EVENT -- Gasoline powered vehicles are declared illegal in The United States and most of Asia as a last-ditch effort to curb global warming.
2027 -- POLITICS -- United Nations peace talks conclude, and North and South Australia re-unite as a single country.
2030, January -- TECH -- The newest wave of holographic video game units hits the market in January. Ultimate Beatdown XII is a smash hit, raising a world-wide cry against the use of extreme, realistic violence in video games.
2030, July -- POLITICS -- UN Secretary General Abu Kanafari mysteriously murdered a week before the novel Pariah starts, July 2030
2030, July -- MEDIA -- Pariah by Jamie Alan Belanger
2032 -- POLITICS -- NATO dissolves, mostly due to accusations of impotence with regards to brewing situations in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Lisa expands the size and strength of the United Nations Peacekeeper force to compensate.
2033 -- POP CULTURE -- Leslie Darling is the first completely synthetic music superstar. After her first album Lazy Saturday Moon is released to critical acclaim, media companies begin to abandon human artists in droves.
2034 -- POLITICS -- Russian Federation conquers Kazakhstan and begins fighting Chinese forces on their new border.
2035 -- POLITICS -- Turkey starts moving toward uniting Muslims in the Middle East into a unified Islamic empire. The United States officially disapproves, but knows that the Russian threat is the reason and continues to provide military assistance.
2037 -- POLITICS -- Joulecorp, a military contractor for the United States Army, begins the BEAGLE project, constructing a small group of cybernetic dogs that can blend into any culture and carry out infiltration and assassination missions.
2038 -- POLITICS -- The United Nations forms a secret group of pilots and F-15s for special missions, called The United Earth Strike Force. The pilots refer to their base of operations as the "Strike Nest." Lisa starts the project and handles the funding as a way to keep Turkey from gaining too much power.
2038 -- TECH -- Lisa designs The Soul Bank, intended to be a repository of the essences of persons who have died.
2039 -- MEDIA -- Strike Nest by Paul J Belanger is available in the anthology Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 2: The Bio-Tech Era
2042 -- MEDIA -- End of the Line by Timothy Lynch is available in the anthology Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 2: The Bio-Tech Era
2044 -- MEDIA -- Freezer Burn by Alan Belanger is available in the anthology Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 2: The Bio-Tech Era
2045 -- MEDIA -- My Toaster Hates Me by Jamie Alan Belanger will be available in the anthology Scribings, Vol 4: Miscreations
2060s -- MEDIA -- The Berkutchi Trial by Alan Belanger is available in the anthology Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 1
2060s -- MEDIA -- Upumbavu by Paul J Belanger is available in the anthology Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 2: The Bio-Tech Era
2061 -- MEDIA -- Netmare by Jamie Alan Belanger is available in the anthology Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 2: The Bio-Tech Era
2064 -- MEDIA -- The Soul Bank by Jamie Alan Belanger is available in the anthology Scribings, Vol 1
2065 -- POLITICS -- Citizens of the isolated state of California declare themselves free. America slips into a second Civil War.
2070 -- MEDIA -- Third-Person Hero by Jamie Alan Belanger is available in the anthology Scribings, Vol 3: Metamorphosis
2070s -- MEDIA -- Things Taken by Cynthia Ravinski is available in the anthology Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 1
2083 -- TECH -- Hackers release a worm on the Net called the Burgundy Worm. This computer program reprograms people into avoiding technology and Hot Spots, based largely on parsing word-of-mouth transactions. Network load drops dramatically after this program is first released.
2089 -- POLITICS -- The citizens of California invade the mainland US and bring the American government into a third American Civil War.
2092 -- POLITICS -- Third American Civil War concludes with the liberation of New Seattle from the American government. New Seattle becomes a state closely allied with California and Japan.
2092 -- MEDIA -- Normal by D.L. Harvey is available in the anthology Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 2: The Bio-Tech Era
2094, December -- MEDIA -- The Museum Run by Jamie Alan Belanger is available in the anthology Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 2: The Bio-Tech Era
2096 -- EVENT -- The Bio-Tech Era ends when a coronal mass ejection from the sun hits the Earth in multiple waves, creating an electromagnetic pulse shock wave that kills most of the population, due to their extensive augmentations.
Description:
Following the Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) shockwave that concludes The Bio-Tech Era, humanity spends many years recovering. The vast majority of people shun all things based on modern technology and return to a life of small farming communities. Much of the early part of this era is marked by widespread despair, with many people returning to religion to find comfort.
2096 -- POLITICS -- After the CME waves, the remaining citizens of the Earth agree to turn over government to the United Nations. This body's first movement is to rename itself to United Earth.
2097 -- TECH -- Anderton Enterprises constructs the first of many Pulse Recovery Facilities, to help process waste and casualties from the Pulse.
2098 -- EVENT -- Anderton Enterprises launches a new subsidiary, called Brave New Worlds, Inc. BNW begins work on a device they claim will make terraforming possible.
2106 -- POLITICS -- A faction composed of underwater residents called "The Unders" executes attacks against Pulse Recovery Facilities in Virginia.
2106 -- MEDIA -- The Unders by Timothy Lynch is available in the anthology Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 1
2113 -- EVENT -- Brave New Worlds, Inc. beta tests their terraforming technology in the Gobi Desert.
2114 -- MEDIA -- Handbook For A Better Society by Jamie Alan Belanger is available in the anthology Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 1
2117 -- MEDIA -- Secret Under the Sand by Jamie Alan Belanger is available in the anthology Scribings, Vol 2: Lost Civilizations
2149 -- EVENT -- Mars terraforming completes.
Description:
The Expansion Era is a combination of literal expansion -- to new colonies throughout our solar system and beyond -- and figurative expansion in the sense that people as a whole are finally moving beyond the despair prevalent in the Aftershock Era. Mankind has finally come to grips with the fact that in order to survive, they must venture out beyond our home planet.
2150 -- EVENT -- Mars population swells to 2 million, as people from all walks of life -- farmers, miners, military, and others -- purchase transport to the new frontier.
2153 -- EVENT -- The Internet is brought back online
2156 -- EVENT -- The Solar Net launches, a network of fiber optics, lasers, and radio waves that expand the reach of the Internet to the outer solar system.
2198 -- EVENT -- The Crossworlds Corporation (a subsidiary of Anderton Enterprises) builds a space station for leisure and deploys it in high Mars orbit.
2224 -- POLITICS -- Anti-government riots in Egypt and Syria are quelled by the UEF military in less than a week. Reports of the violence are suppressed by the government-controlled media.
2230 -- NOTE -- Traveling throughout the solar system becomes dangerous, as many people acquire ships and turn to piracy.
2242 -- EVENT -- Mars farming colony MP-2169 revolts over low wages and long hours. United Earth responds by sending in marines. A private miscalculates coordinates and air-drops weapons and ammunition to the farmers instead. The situation escalates until Private First Class Tenneson commandeers a tank and drives it over the farmers, ending the conflict.
2247 -- EVENT -- A group of mercenaries known as Fireteam Zulu takes up arms against the rampant piracy and acts as an independent police force for the solar system.
2249 -- POLITICS -- China, the last independent nation on Earth, falls after an assassination in Beijing.
2253 -- MEDIA -- Moon Sweepers by Alan Belanger is available in the anthology Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 1
2254 -- MEDIA -- Fireteam Zulu by Jamie Alan Belanger
2259 -- POLITICS -- A High Council vote leads to dropping the term "Federation". Humanity from now on refers to their government simply as "United Earth."
2263 -- EVENT -- First contact with Bect, who enter our solar system and are intercepted by representatives from the base on Pluto.
2273 -- EVENT -- Our first colony outside our solar system is established on Orion Prime.
2292 -- EVENT -- Virginia Colony established
2293 -- MEDIA -- Moroned by Paul J Belanger is available in the anthology Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 1
Description:
Humanity is locked into a multi-solar system battle with an alien race known as the Bect.
2347, August -- BATTLE -- Five weeks before The Sol-Bect War Part 1, the Battle of Cori Prime, where humanity takes very heavy losses.
2347, October -- MEDIA -- The Sol-Bect War, Part 1 by Paul J Belanger begins
2348, April 29 -- BATTLE -- The carrier UE Ticonderoga engages a group of Bect forces trailing a group of cargo ships they were supposed to rendezvous with. This is the largest battle of the war so far.
2348, April 30 -- BATTLE -- Battle of Vale-4.
2348, April 30 -- MEDIA -- The Sol-Bect War, Part 1 by Paul J Belanger ends
2348, May -- MEDIA -- The Sol-Bect War, Part 2 by Paul J Belanger begins
2348, November -- MEDIA -- The Sol-Bect Setup by Paul J Belanger is available in the anthology Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 1
2348, December -- MEDIA -- The Sol-Bect War, Part 2 by Paul J Belanger ends
2354, April -- MEDIA -- The Sol-Bect War, Part 3 by Paul J Belanger