Timeline

It is best to know where you've come from.

Old Earth
1800s: The idea of space travel is first made popular by Victorian authors.

1914-1918: The First World War begins the destabilization of ancient Earth: countries are forced to modernize.

1939-1945: The Second World War sees great advances in technology by both sides. A German made V-2 rocket becomes the first man made object to touch the fringe of space.

1945-1991: The Cold War. The aftermath of the Second World War sees massive social and economic upheaval, with equal rights, space flight and even the first manned made mission to the moon.

2040: The decline of resources and the exponential increase in the human population several colonies established.

2060: Advances in space flight sees the first Generation Ships leaving the system.

2094: The Earth is engulfed in nuclear fire, and with it a significant amount of the human population.

The Post Interstellar Age
2100: The Solar Council is established amongst the extra-terran colonies within reasonable communication distance of each other, with the Sol System.

2162: With combined scientific progress, Stargrazer becomes the first ship to perform a successful slingshot using the newly designed slingshot drive. The Stargrazer performs three successful jumps before communications are lost.

2172: The Solar Council, having created a multinude of ships fitted with the slingshot drive, attempt to establish communication with the Generation Ships. Several colonies are found: while unable to establish permenant communication across interstellar distances, many are relieved to see some of the colonies survived, and the colonists seem to return the sentiment. Unfortunatly, many ships either are unable to find the colonies at their predicted locations, or find gutted ships and the remains of colonies, wiped out. Further investigation is not permitted, as the ship must return to the Sol System to report their findings.

2231-2236: The Solar War. With the detonation of a atomic weapon on Carpo, a fragile balance of loyalties and alliances in the Coreworlds leads to a interplanetary war, the scale of which was unseen by humanity at the time. From the war emerges a new power: the United Solar Republic.

The USR
2272: The First Transit Gate: Retro engineering of FEM weaponry create the first Trans Gates connection and Solar is linked to the Alpha Centuri system.

2301: The Network: A FTL network is created amongst hundreds of systems, creating an area which later becomes known as the Developed Zone.