Hegemony: Story Details
Before Episode One
Timeline:
- 2244: First successful slipstream drive enables travel to Venus and Mars.
- 2278: Second generation slipships travel to the gas giants.
- 2279: All slipships within exploratory range of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune inexplicably fall into those planets never to be heard from again.
- 2282: The Ma'at initiate first contact, declaring the giants to be sovereign and inviolate space.
- 2285: The First Hegemony of Earth is established.
- 2302: Third generation slipships are able to compensate for planetary gravitational differentiation and target moon orbits directly.
- 2304: Ma'at ratify treaty giving mankind access to solid moons of the giants.
- 2325: The First Hegemony collapses, reintroducing a dark ages of renewed nationalism. Corporations maintain neutrality where possible. Fourth generation slipships capable of tagging significant asteroids and Kupier objects are developed.
- 2381: Fifth Generation slipships are developed. The Oort cloud remains beyond reach.
- 2397: The New Hegemony of Earth is established under Ioseph Vladimirovak
- 2408: Present
Trigger Event: Advanced Lifeforms are discovered in the ice of the Krupier object Pluto. The Ma'at cut off all communication with mankind. Across the solar systems slipship disasters climb, particularly presenting in fifth generation ships. R&R jobs skyrocket.
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