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Message: <blockquote data-quote="johndaw16" data-source="post: 2767425" data-attributes="member: 12033">Ok here's the second installment of the timeline, forgive the errors I haven't edited it much yet.  PMC-2025 marks a new high point in American car manufacturing as the ailing GM Corporation finally splits up. One of its progeny the Patriot Motor Company comes out swinging with the first completely fuel-cell powered vehicle for public consumption. Parterned with Shell Corporation and their gas stations as refueling stations, Patriot Motors rockets to a bright future in the world economy. Summer of 2027 The Big Three-Mother Nature once more decides to bring disaster to the world in 2027 with the three biggest hurricanes to strike the N. American continent in history. Hurricanes Brea, Kristen, and Lee strike within a two month period between mid-July and early-September. All three were category 5 hurricanes as they made land-fall with devastating results. Hurricane Brea struck first sweeping up the Florida Peninsula and not stopping until it had reached the outskirts of Savannah. Hurricane Kristen came next in August, battering its way across S. Florida before turn north and sweeping across the "Hurricane-Proof Gulf Coast" of the Bush adminstration. Last, came Lee straight up the Chesapeake Bay devasting the Hampton Roads region of VA and reaching the headwaters of the Potomac as a cheeky category 3 raining disaster on the President's head. -Winter 2027 the US is struggling to get to its feet following the 'canes. While the loss of life is not record breaking, the extent of economic damage IS. Hundreds of billions of dollars worth of damage are dumped upon the weak economies of the S. states. Federal aid falls vastly short, and the US government finds itself facing tough fiscal decisions as it tries to juggle stewardship of US oil interests in the Middle East and domestic needs at home. Oil Crisis of '29 and the Decay of the US -2029 sees the US settling into a decline that the rest of the world does not experiance. The global market is large enough to handle a depression in the US economy, a first in modern history. The US's problems stem largely from a decaying economy, careless and bumbling govt. and unscrupulous deregulated private corporations. US oil interests in the ME are slowly gobbled up by other world powers as the US finds itself unable to pay and support the massive military investment needed to maintain a hold in the destabilized region. Asian interests soak up the oil that used to go to the US further fueling their growing economy. The US feels the pinch and is hit hard by a nationwide fuel crisis that paralyzes the economy for nearly a decade. The AEU -following the fall of the Dragon of China Hui Huang, and the rise of the Manchurian state, the Asian region begins to take leaps towards becoming the next BIG world player. Reminiscent of early booms in the 1990s Japan, Taiwan, S. Korea, and Hong Kong all enjoy economic growth at an exponential rate. But this time is different, the biggest players in Asian unite under an economic front...the Asian Economic Union (AEU). This union is amazingly effective in large part because of its hands off policy towards politics. The AEU is largely about making money for Asian, and it does its job well. The member nations of the AEU all come out very well in the late 2020's and early '30s, with the second largest world economy, close behind the ailing US economy. Space For Real this Time-2031 the AEU launches an ambitious series of missions into space. These missions have the unique goal of being purely commercial endevours designed to make money, exploration has been left by the wayside in favor of wealth. The two grandest schemes are the construction of two human inhabited space stations, on the Moon the second in deep orbit. The moon station is designed to extract any raw materials and ores that can be discovered. While the deep orbit station will handle the "destruction" of nuclear waste, firing it of into the vastness of deep space...somewhere in the vicinity of Jupiter. Mork and Mindy ? -2033 a boutique clinic in a chic neighborhood of Buenos Aires announces that it has perfected the "art" of cloning. The cloning business comes out in full force and is the years biggest controversy. Mork and Mindy are the first two public displayed healthy clones. The twins were clones created from the DNA of a wealthy Argentinians toddlers lost in a car accident.</blockquote>

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