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<blockquote data-quote="Tetsubo" data-source="post: 2250170" data-attributes="member: 1250">This part of a timeline that I wrote for a Justifiers RPG campaign. It goes sup to 2442 but I've only included the period relevant to this thread:2007: The first successful fusion of human and animal genetic material.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Debate over the beings legal status begins even before it's birth. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The being is a male chimpanzee/human cross and is dubbed an&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Alpha-Humaniod. His life is brief, as a &quot;Humans Only&quot; radical group&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; firebomb the labs housing him.2008: In an attempt to get back on the political map Pakistan releases a&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; new bio-plague. A version of the Pneumonic Plague (the Black Death),&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; it quickly becomes a pandemic. Within a year forty-seven million are &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; dead world wide, 60% of the deaths being concentrated in Europe and&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; North America. The First Plague enters the history books.2009: Dr. Eugene McGuire, of the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), makes&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; the breakthrough that leads to a cure. Dr. McGuire comes out of&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; the panic looking like a knight in shining armour. All told, world&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; wide, there are sixty-three million dead before a vaccine is delivered. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Pakistan is invaded by the United Nations and ceases to be a nation.2012: Standing on a pro-technology political platform, Dr. Eugene Mcguire&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; wins the `12 US election by a landslide. The doorway for technical &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; research is wide open...genetic engineering becomes THE money&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; making field to be in. A dozen Alpha-Humaniod species are patented&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; in 2013 alone...2014: The first permanent Lunar colony is founded, Clarke Base.2015: Human, cybernetic integration achieved at the University of&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Oklahoma. Opens the door for the first &quot;cyborgs&quot;.2016: President Eugene McGuire wins the re-election. Genetic labs&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; throughout America rejoice...2018: Man lands on Mars, establishes Gorbachev Base.2021: The Second Plague strikes mankind. Later testimony discloses that&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; this disease originated in the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Ga.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; By 2023 two hundred and thirteen million people are dead, another&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; four hundred and fifty seven million suffer permanent nerve damage.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Most Western governments fall, to one degree or another, including&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; the US, Canada, Mexico, all of Central and South America, and all &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; of Europe except for the Netherlands and France.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; -1-2024: A vaccine is found for the Second Plague in France by Dr. Cluade&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Verdonne. No cure is ever found for those surviving the Plague&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; but suffering nerve damage. Total world casualties: three hundred&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and seventy two million dead, and nine hundred and thirty three&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; million with permanent nerve damage.2025: The UN declares itself as the first World Government, headed by&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; France, China and the United African Nations. The first president&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; is Joseph Macumbe, a native African educated in Kenya and Oxford.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The first World Council is convened on November 19th, 2025.2026: Insurrections are put down in the US, Scotland and Germany by the&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; World Council Armed Forces, a military force made up of soldiers&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; from, at least in part, the countries rebelling. The World Council&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; authorizes use of tactical nuclear weapons on a unit of it's own&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; army that joins the rebellion in El Paso, TX. The rebellions die&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; out rather quickly after that...2028: The first base established in the Asteroid Belt on Cirrus.2030: The world discovers, much to many peoples surprise, that the World&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Council is doing a better job than the governments it replaced.2033: A World Council Court declares Alpha-Humaniods &quot;protected&quot; species.2047: First fusion reactor goes on-line in Chiba, Japan. Once the fusion&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; reaction has begun it only requires distilled water as fuel.2054: The first fully bipedal, bimanual Humaniod is developed. Dubbed&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Beta-Humaniods they are extended the Alphas &quot;protected&quot; status.2056: Radical anti-humaniod political parties spring up all over the&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; planet. Tauting a &quot;Humans Only&quot; theme, many are backed by religious&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; leaders, both big and small.2066: There are seven Lunar bases, four Martian and seventeen in the&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; out-system. Twelve million people now live off Earth.2071: The founding principles of psionics are discovered by Dr. Rashien&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Bapuul, student of science and Hindu teachings. The talent for &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; psionics among Humans is low (5%), the percentage among Betas&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and Augmented Humans (see below) is kept strictly Top Secret...&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; -2-2085: Pierre DuBois is elected World Council President on a &quot;Humans&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Only&quot; platform. He quickly &quot;pads&quot; the Council with his own, loyal&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; members. Two outspoken Counselors, who disagree with Pres. DuBois,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; have untimely accidents...2087: With strong military backing, Pres. DuBois leads a bloodless coup&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; of the Council. He declares himself Emperor Pierre the First of the &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Imperium of Humanity (aka Empire of Man). Much to even his surprise, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; no one seems to care...&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2088: Emperor Pierre I declares that all beings with more than a 0.1% &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; genetic variance from humans are hereby non-Citizens. Effectively&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; making them slave races. 2090: The capitol of the Imperium is moved to the L5 station, Crystal&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Palace. There are now forty-nine million people living in the&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &quot;High Colonies&quot;. 2093: The First Beta Uprising takes place. Four hundred thousand Betas&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; are killed, but they take two and a half million humans with them.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; An unknown number of Betas escape to the Asteroid Belt and the Oort&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Cloud.2102: The Imperial Esper Academy opens it doors in the Asimov Dome, on&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Mars. Security is extremely tight, unauthorized personal are shot&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; on sight, no questions asked. Enrollment isn't overwhelming.2106: The Laser Stasis System is developed, allowing living or non-living &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; objects to be placed in a state of suspended animation indefinitely.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Making interstellar travel more than just a dream.2108: Lifeships begin being launched be every political, religious, ethnic&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and national group that can afford one. Trajectories are picked&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; for religious or political reasons as often as scientific ones.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Between 2108 and 2196 some four hundred, chartered, Lifeships are &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; launched. The number of unregistered, uncharted launches is&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; unknown. Betas and Augmented Humans (see below) are forbidden from shipping&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; out on Lifeships.&nbsp; 2109: The Betas secretly launch a Lifeship, with over one hundred and&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; twenty thousand persons onboard, on a deep-space trajectory towards&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; a neighboring star system.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; -3-2112: Emperor Pierre I dies of natural causes, his son Rene takes up the&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Imperial crown, as Emperor Rene I.2145: The first Augmented Humans are designed and put into full production.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Many of the first generation defect to the Rebel Beta stations.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; There are now over two billion Citizens in the High Colonies.2168: Emperor Rene I is assassinated, his son Pierre is suspected but&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; no hard evidence ever comes to light. He is crowned Pierre II under&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; a cloud of suspicion.2189: An experimental &quot;stargate&quot; is tested in a Los Angeles dockside &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; warehouse. The resulting explosion &quot;removes&quot; a 10km sphere of matter&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; to... elsewhere. Luckily the technical notes were stored in more &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; than one computer. 2192: It is discovered that the &quot;jump-drive&quot; requires a powerful magnetic&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; field to work properly. Artificial magnetic fields of large size are hard to &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; produce, a natural source is searched for. 2193: The natural magnetic field is found, at the poles of the sun. A test&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; drive is made and fired, the test vehicle is never seen again...&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The 10km sphere appears to be the maximum size limit, anything larger&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; undergoes a near instantaneous shift to an entropy state, ie they just &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; disappear.2194: Emperor Pierre the Third takes the throne and establishes the&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Survey Team program. 2195: The Imperial Esper Corp. scores its first victory, in putting down&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; a Beta rebellion plot. The Corp. quickly earns a reputation as&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; the Branch of the Imperium that noone escapes.2196: The first successful Jump is made on June 26th, 2196. The Solar&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Gate only opens onto one other star. This star however opens onto&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; two others, and the third system has thirteen Jump Points. This &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; system is named Nexus. As each star has two poles, the &quot;north&quot;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; is dedicated to outgoing traffic and the &quot;south&quot; dedicated to&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; incoming.This timeline was written in the early 90's, it shows... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tetsubo, post: 2250170, member: 1250"] This part of a timeline that I wrote for a Justifiers RPG campaign. It goes sup to 2442 but I've only included the period relevant to this thread: 2007: The first successful fusion of human and animal genetic material. Debate over the beings legal status begins even before it's birth. The being is a male chimpanzee/human cross and is dubbed an Alpha-Humaniod. His life is brief, as a "Humans Only" radical group firebomb the labs housing him. 2008: In an attempt to get back on the political map Pakistan releases a new bio-plague. A version of the Pneumonic Plague (the Black Death), it quickly becomes a pandemic. Within a year forty-seven million are dead world wide, 60% of the deaths being concentrated in Europe and North America. The First Plague enters the history books. 2009: Dr. Eugene McGuire, of the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), makes the breakthrough that leads to a cure. Dr. McGuire comes out of the panic looking like a knight in shining armour. All told, world wide, there are sixty-three million dead before a vaccine is delivered. Pakistan is invaded by the United Nations and ceases to be a nation. 2012: Standing on a pro-technology political platform, Dr. Eugene Mcguire wins the `12 US election by a landslide. The doorway for technical research is wide open...genetic engineering becomes THE money making field to be in. A dozen Alpha-Humaniod species are patented in 2013 alone... 2014: The first permanent Lunar colony is founded, Clarke Base. 2015: Human, cybernetic integration achieved at the University of Oklahoma. Opens the door for the first "cyborgs". 2016: President Eugene McGuire wins the re-election. Genetic labs throughout America rejoice... 2018: Man lands on Mars, establishes Gorbachev Base. 2021: The Second Plague strikes mankind. Later testimony discloses that this disease originated in the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. By 2023 two hundred and thirteen million people are dead, another four hundred and fifty seven million suffer permanent nerve damage. Most Western governments fall, to one degree or another, including the US, Canada, Mexico, all of Central and South America, and all of Europe except for the Netherlands and France. -1- 2024: A vaccine is found for the Second Plague in France by Dr. Cluade Verdonne. No cure is ever found for those surviving the Plague but suffering nerve damage. Total world casualties: three hundred and seventy two million dead, and nine hundred and thirty three million with permanent nerve damage. 2025: The UN declares itself as the first World Government, headed by France, China and the United African Nations. The first president is Joseph Macumbe, a native African educated in Kenya and Oxford. The first World Council is convened on November 19th, 2025. 2026: Insurrections are put down in the US, Scotland and Germany by the World Council Armed Forces, a military force made up of soldiers from, at least in part, the countries rebelling. The World Council authorizes use of tactical nuclear weapons on a unit of it's own army that joins the rebellion in El Paso, TX. The rebellions die out rather quickly after that... 2028: The first base established in the Asteroid Belt on Cirrus. 2030: The world discovers, much to many peoples surprise, that the World Council is doing a better job than the governments it replaced. 2033: A World Council Court declares Alpha-Humaniods "protected" species. 2047: First fusion reactor goes on-line in Chiba, Japan. Once the fusion reaction has begun it only requires distilled water as fuel. 2054: The first fully bipedal, bimanual Humaniod is developed. Dubbed Beta-Humaniods they are extended the Alphas "protected" status. 2056: Radical anti-humaniod political parties spring up all over the planet. Tauting a "Humans Only" theme, many are backed by religious leaders, both big and small. 2066: There are seven Lunar bases, four Martian and seventeen in the out-system. Twelve million people now live off Earth. 2071: The founding principles of psionics are discovered by Dr. Rashien Bapuul, student of science and Hindu teachings. The talent for psionics among Humans is low (5%), the percentage among Betas and Augmented Humans (see below) is kept strictly Top Secret... -2- 2085: Pierre DuBois is elected World Council President on a "Humans Only" platform. He quickly "pads" the Council with his own, loyal members. Two outspoken Counselors, who disagree with Pres. DuBois, have untimely accidents... 2087: With strong military backing, Pres. DuBois leads a bloodless coup of the Council. He declares himself Emperor Pierre the First of the Imperium of Humanity (aka Empire of Man). Much to even his surprise, no one seems to care... 2088: Emperor Pierre I declares that all beings with more than a 0.1% genetic variance from humans are hereby non-Citizens. Effectively making them slave races. 2090: The capitol of the Imperium is moved to the L5 station, Crystal Palace. There are now forty-nine million people living in the "High Colonies". 2093: The First Beta Uprising takes place. Four hundred thousand Betas are killed, but they take two and a half million humans with them. An unknown number of Betas escape to the Asteroid Belt and the Oort Cloud. 2102: The Imperial Esper Academy opens it doors in the Asimov Dome, on Mars. Security is extremely tight, unauthorized personal are shot on sight, no questions asked. Enrollment isn't overwhelming. 2106: The Laser Stasis System is developed, allowing living or non-living objects to be placed in a state of suspended animation indefinitely. Making interstellar travel more than just a dream. 2108: Lifeships begin being launched be every political, religious, ethnic and national group that can afford one. Trajectories are picked for religious or political reasons as often as scientific ones. Between 2108 and 2196 some four hundred, chartered, Lifeships are launched. The number of unregistered, uncharted launches is unknown. Betas and Augmented Humans (see below) are forbidden from shipping out on Lifeships. 2109: The Betas secretly launch a Lifeship, with over one hundred and twenty thousand persons onboard, on a deep-space trajectory towards a neighboring star system. -3- 2112: Emperor Pierre I dies of natural causes, his son Rene takes up the Imperial crown, as Emperor Rene I. 2145: The first Augmented Humans are designed and put into full production. Many of the first generation defect to the Rebel Beta stations. There are now over two billion Citizens in the High Colonies. 2168: Emperor Rene I is assassinated, his son Pierre is suspected but no hard evidence ever comes to light. He is crowned Pierre II under a cloud of suspicion. 2189: An experimental "stargate" is tested in a Los Angeles dockside warehouse. The resulting explosion "removes" a 10km sphere of matter to... elsewhere. Luckily the technical notes were stored in more than one computer. 2192: It is discovered that the "jump-drive" requires a powerful magnetic field to work properly. Artificial magnetic fields of large size are hard to produce, a natural source is searched for. 2193: The natural magnetic field is found, at the poles of the sun. A test drive is made and fired, the test vehicle is never seen again... The 10km sphere appears to be the maximum size limit, anything larger undergoes a near instantaneous shift to an entropy state, ie they just disappear. 2194: Emperor Pierre the Third takes the throne and establishes the Survey Team program. 2195: The Imperial Esper Corp. scores its first victory, in putting down a Beta rebellion plot. The Corp. quickly earns a reputation as the Branch of the Imperium that noone escapes. 2196: The first successful Jump is made on June 26th, 2196. The Solar Gate only opens onto one other star. This star however opens onto two others, and the third system has thirteen Jump Points. This system is named Nexus. As each star has two poles, the "north" is dedicated to outgoing traffic and the "south" dedicated to incoming. This timeline was written in the early 90's, it shows... :) [/QUOTE]

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