Editing Beyond the Zone (section)

=Timeline=

*1132: Now. FERA sends out first long range expeditions to go beyond the Zone.

*1128: 1 Term ago. 
**FERA formed out of Scouts, Navy, Marines, Federation Merchants, Terran Science Council, recalled retirees and recruits from the Imperium and Zoneworlds friendly to the Federation. Opens first training facility.
** '''Alexandretta Hawthorne''' discovers information of worth to FERA. She is promoted to R1 Team leader.
** '''Carter Wynn''' spends a great deal of time on the fringes of the Zone. Meets a Hiver contact from a small Hiver Federation fleet that is exploring the Zone.
** '''Jay Murlow'''  is in a multi-year survey expedition through the zone. Hivers, who were exploring, confident that their different computers systems were proof against infection. Jay brought back a copy of their general-purpose OS. 
*1126 Imperium lifts total ban on Zone World planets. Limited exploration and assistance supplements already clandestine operations from Federation and Imperium interests.

*1124: Two terms ago. 
**Imperium and Federation hold joint talks on the political process of repealing zone world classification for applying planets. 
**'''Zoolakeem Borraxha''' gets assigned to find Foxtrot, falls in love with her and breaks his contract. FERA picks them both up.
**'''Carter Wynn''' is sent to Fenris to take out one of the Technarchs. Jay Murlow is his local contact.  
**'''Alexendretta Hawthorne''' is betrayed by Zone smugglers and gains an enemy in the Colonial Navy.

*1120: Three terms ago. 
** Time of the Second Virus War - a massive outbreak of Virus fleets and robot ground forces in the Kulcukan subsector leads to conflicts right up to the Terran Federation borders. 
**'''Captain Borraxha''' musters out and acquires a bounty hunting licence, travelling to a ravaged frontier world with Hamish McBain.
**'''Carter Wynn''' joins the Ocano Syndicate.
**'''Alexendretta Hawthorne''' gains a mentor (contact) in the Zone smugglers.

*1116: Four terms ago. 
**'''Lance Corporal Borraxha''' gets commissioned and commands a boarding party on an Imperial cruiser.
**'''Carter Wynn''' is on the wrong side of a gang war. Ally (Nolan Barrett).


*1112: Five terms ago. 
**'''Zoolakeem Borraxha''' joins the Star Marines. 
**'''Carter Wynn''' and the crew of the Basilisk help establish a smuggler's haven where other 'free businessmen' can operate.
**'''Alexendretta Hawthorn'''e joins a zone Traders crew and becomes a smuggler.

*1108: Six terms ago. 
**'''Corporal Murlow''' scores a field commision. The newly made lieutenant is part of an uprising when Federation forces withdraw from the Zone, leaving the hastily formed Technarchs council to govern post viral Fenris. An entire Battalion refuses to leave, refusing the order to bug out as the technarch forces moved in on the free city zones. The Technarchy remains a diplomatic ally of the Federation and the battalion was declared criminally absent, which was shortly upgraded to terrorist charges when they began fighting Technarch troops alongside a citizens militia. A new outbreak of viral infected robots (modified deep mining units) led to a three-way war. 

*1105: The first Virus War - The Outbreak in the the Solomani Sphere destroys the Confederation and ravages borderworlds of the Imperium.
Three years of bloody fighting stops virus in what becomes the Zone. Private Murlow finds himself fighting millions of hunter-killer robots on Fenris.

*1104: Seven terms ago.
**A young '''Jay Murlow''' of Jamaica, Terra, follows the family tradition and joins the Star Marines.