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HISTORY OF SIRIUS
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1 A.S – Sleeper Ship Liberty lands on Planet Manhattan.
3 A.S - Sleeper Ship Rheinland lands on Planet New Berlin.
5 A.S - Sleeper Ship Kusari lands on Planet New Tokyo.
19 A.S - Sleeper Ship Bretonia lands on Planet New London.
35 A.S - Escape pods from the Sleeper Ship Hispania land on Crete.
41 A.S - The wreck of the Hispania enters orbit around Malta.
84 A.S - Sleeper Ship Gallia lands on Planet New Paris.
96 A.S - The Liberty exploration ship Einstein arrives in Rheinland. They exchange Liberty's improved engine design for Rheinland's advances in construction.
106 A.S -The Liberty exploration ship Edison arrives in Bretonia. They exchange Liberty's improved engine for Bretonian advances in materials technology.
118 A.S -The Einstein arrives in Kusari, and exchanges Kusari technological advances for the Liberty engine.
130 A.S - The first prototype jump gate is successfully tested in Texas.
280 A.S - Trade lanes are invented in Liberty and revolutionize commerce.
589-672 A.S – War between Rheinland and the GMG over H-fuel mining in Sigma-13.
738 A.S - An abandoned DSE depot is turned into Freeport 1. More Freeports start to flourish in various places and attract vagrants, wanderers, and social outcasts.
800 A.S – An alien species called Nomads attempts to take over Sirius by infecting human minds. They're stopped by a secret network called the Order, which has agents in multiple houses and factions.
802 A.S – Nomad-infested humans from Rheinland called "The Wild" begin to populate uncharted Omega systems.
814 A.S – War between Bretonia and Kusari erupts over claims to the Tau systems.
816 A.S - Nomad gates built by The Wild are discovered. Rheinland gains proof that Liberty conducts secret experiments with Nomads, leading to war between the two Houses.
817 A.S - Gallia breaks its isolation, invades the Taus, and forces Kusari to end the war with Bretonia. Kusari’s government is overthrown and the Emperor exiled.
820 A.S - Gallia breaks through Bretonian lines and claims Leeds.
823 A.S - Liberty and Rheinland sign a peace treaty and re-open communications.
See
http://discoverygc.com/wiki/ for more.
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Liberty
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1 A.S – The Sleeper Ship Liberty lands on Manhattan.
51 A.S - Construction on Baltimore Shipyard begins. Revolutionary new ship drives are soon built there.
96 A.S - The Liberty exploration ship Einstein arrives in Rheinland. They exchange Liberty's improved engine design for Rheinland's advances in construction.
106 A.S -The Liberty exploration ship Edison arrives in Bretonia. They exchange Liberty's improved engine design for Bretonian advances in materials technology.
118 A.S -The Einstein arrives in Kusari and exchanges Kusari technological advances for the "Liberty Engine".
120 A.S - Ageira Technologies releases designs for planetary docking rings, devices that lift ships in and out of orbit with minimal energy use, revolutionizing space travel.
130 A.S - The first prototype jump gate is tested in Texas.
173 A.S - A silver rush sends thousands of prospectors in retrofitted ships to find their fortune in Colorado, providing an impetus for the development of cheap civilian spaceships.
185 A.S - Liberty starts commercially producing jump gates.
240 A.S - Zone 21, a secret research area, is created.
280 A.S - Trade lanes are invented in Liberty and revolutionize commerce.
312 A.S - Construction of a New London - Manhattan trade lane route begins.
500 A.S - The Texas incident. Tests of a long range jump gate send huge amounts of dark matter and radioactivity into Texas, decimating everything nearby.
543 A.S – The Great California Drought is combated by bombarding the planet with ice asteroids.
593 A.S - Junkers, who scavenge for abandoned equipment and materials to sell, begin to appear in Liberty.
600 A.S - Piracy in Liberty rises steadily. The Liberty Rogues become the most influential pirate faction. The Lane Hackers are founded by disgruntled Ageira employees.
660 A.S - Xeno vigilantes are formed by unemployed workers to combat crime, outside influence, and perceived government corruption.
738 A.S - Cardamine is declared illegal in Liberty, giving rise to widespread smuggling.
800 A.S – The Nomads attempt to take over Sirius, but are stopped by the heroic acts of LSF agent Jun'ko Zane.
816 A.S - Rheinland gains proof that Liberty conducts secret experiments with Nomads. War erupts between the two houses.
820 A.S - Rheinland disables the northern Hamburg jump gates to prevent Libertonian attacks. Liberty redirects military forces to help Bretonia against the Gallic advance.
823 A.S - Liberty and Rheinland sign peace treaty and re-open communications.
See
http://discoverygc.com/wiki/ for more.
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Rheinland
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3 A.S - The Sleeper Ship Rheinland lands on Planet New Berlin.
4-25 A.S - Cold and dark conditions on the planet encourage quick expansion of colonization into space. Emergency government powers are imposed to facilitate early space station construction.
40 A.S - Planet Berlin's orbital structures merge into "The Ring". Rheinland becomes an industrious, tightly-organized space-faring Empire with a fleet larger than those of the still more planet-bound Houses.
69 A.S - Von Rohe's expedition sets out on it's 50 year journey.
94 A.S - Discovery and colonization of Stuttgart solves Rheinland's food production problem. However the large fleets and long shipping distances cause fuel shortages.
96 A.S - The Liberty exploration ship Einstein arrives in Rheinland. They exchange Liberty's improved engine design for Rheinland's advances in construction.
110 A.S – Von Rohe explores Omega 11.
450 A.S - A Rheinland expedition mapping the Walker Nebula mysteriously disappears and is never heard of again. In the decades afterwards, piracy incidents in which all crew disappear become frequent in the omegas.
589 A.S - Rheinland seizes gas fields in Sigma-13 to shake off its dependence on Kusari H-fuel production. The Gas Miners Guild wages guerrilla-war against Rheinland. The 80-year war begins.
672 A.S - A worker's strike in Dresden sparks the Popular Revolution and the Emperor is forced to step down. The Bundschuh movement turns Rheinland into a federal republic.
702 A.S – With the expulsion of the Bundschuh from the Bundestag, former miners and revolutionaries become disillusioned and form the Red Hessians, which populate the Omegas with the intent to take over Dresden.
740 A.S - The LWB, a farmer's right's organization, starts attacking Synth Food shipments.
780 A.S - A cache of active alien artifacts is discovered by scientists in the Omicron systems and brought back to Rheinland, starting the Nomad infestation.
800 A.S – Nomads attempt to take over Sirius, but are stopped by the heroic acts of Rheinland national Van Claussen.
802 A.S – Nomad-infested humans called the Wild begin to populate uncharted Omega systems.
812 A.S – The Wild begin sporadic raids against Rheinland. Their ships are seen as far as New Berlin.
816 A.S - Nomad gates built by the wild are discovered. Rheinland gains proof that Liberty conducts secret experiments with Nomads, which leads to war with Liberty.
820 A.S - Rheinland disables northern Hamburg jump gates to prevent Libertonian attacks.
823 A.S - Liberty and Rheinland sign a peace treaty and re-open communications.
See
http://discoverygc.com/wiki/Rheinland for more.
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Bretonia
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19 A.S - The Sleeper Ship Bretonia lands on New London.
20 A.S - Prince Harry IX, great-great grandson of Queen Elizabeth III, takes control of Bretonian Government in a coup.
95 A.S - Forced relocation of colonists from New London to Planet Leeds commences by order of Prince Harry XII.
106 A.S -The Liberty exploration ship Edison arrives in Bretonia. They exchange Liberty's improved engine designs for Bretonian advances in materials technology.
129 A.S - Food shortages in Leeds and New London lead to colonization of Cambridge as a primary food producing planet.
312 A.S - Construction of a New London - Manhattan trade lane route begins.
317 A.S - Rioting of unemployed workers on Planet Leeds sparks a rebellion against Prince Harry XXI.
319 A.S - Prince Harry XXI is executed for treason and the Commonwealth of Bretonia is declared.
334 A.S - The Royal family returns to power and the Kingdom of Bretonia is established under Harry XXI's nephew, King George I, with a Parliament that includes popular representation.
400 A.S - Harris terraforming commences.
437 A.S - Disgruntled BMM employees split to join the Independent Miners Guild, winning a landmark legal case that grants them ownership of Cardiff mining Facility.
652 A.S - Surveys of Tau-23 reveal substantial mineral deposits. The IMG expands out of Bretonia into the Tau border worlds, shortly followed by BMM.
664 A.S - William the Great orders the construction of fleets to defend Bretonia against increasing Corsair attacks.
690 A.S - An Orbital Spa and Cruise liner arrives in orbit of planet Gaia with tourists from Liberty. The Green Front party is founded and campaigns for Edinburgh to be declared a protected system.
701 A.S - First sightings of Outcasts in Bretonia.
740 A.S - BMM petitions to open Gaia to development. The environmentalist fringe of the Green Front party founds the Gaian extremist movement.
752 A.S - Founders Day Revolt in Dublin - BMM workers rise up and murder Sir Edward Graves and senior BMM executives on Graves Station.
754 A.S - Molly separatists publish their declaration of independence for Dublin.
800 A.S – Nomads attempt to take over Sirius, but are stopped by the heroic acts of Bretonian national Edison Trent.
810 A.S – Tensions between Bretonia and Kusari rise over claims to the Tau systems.
813 A.S - Kusari fleets are deployed into Tau-29. Queen Carina orders the occupation of Tau-31 to enforce her claims.
814 A.S – War between Bretonia and Kusari breaks out over claims to the Tau systems.
815 A.S - Kusari forces occupy Tau-31 while Bretonia is forced to retreat to Leeds.
817 A.S - Gallia invades the Tau system and forces Kusari to end the war with Bretonia.
820 A.S - Gallia breaks through Bretonian lines and claims Leeds. Liberty redirects military forces to help Bretonia against Gallic advance.
See
http://discoverygc.com/wiki/ for more.
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Kusari
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5 A.S - Sleeper Ship Kusari lands on Planet New Tokyo.
6 A.S - A Shogunate is established by the Hideyoshi dynasty. Having little land mass, architecture and technology focuses on miniaturization and high efficiency.
56 A.S - Planet Honshu is settled. Like Tokyo, it's a largely oceanic planet with little land mass, with few Terran fish species being able to take to the oceans.
60 A.S – Vast gas reserves are discovered in Sigma-13.
65 A.S - Planet Kyushu is settled and becomes primary rice producer.
91 A.S - Kishiro perfects mass production of optical chips which greatly influence future technologies.
118 A.S -The Liberty exploration ship Einstein arrives in Kusari, and exchanges Kusari technological advances for the Liberty advanced engine.
250 A.S - Over-fishing on Planet Honshu causes catastrophic decline in the fish stocks. Majority of inhabitants emigrate to Planet Kyushu.
283 A.S - The Gas Miners Guild gains control of the majority of the Crow Nebula.
321 A.S - Upset by connections between Kishiro and the Shogunate, Samura overthrows the Hideyoshi dynasty, assisted by the criminal Hogosha cartel. Fleeing loyalist imperial guards form the Blood Dragons.
589 A.S - Rheinland seizes gas fields in Sigma-13 to shake off its dependence on Kusari H-fuel production. GMG wages guerrilla-war against them and the 80-year war begins.
630 A.S - Collapse of fisheries throughout Kusari. Samura Industries purchases Planet Junyo from the Kusari government.
642 A.S - Yuyu Matsuda publishes the poem "Golden Chrysanthemum in Bloom".
648 A.S - Creation of radical feminist terrorist group "Golden Chrysanthemums"
775 A.S - The Farmer's Alliance is formed by farmers disappointed by the government's opening of markets to Synth Foods.
800 A.S – Nomads attempt to take over Sirius, but are stopped by the heroic acts of the Blood Dragons.
810 A.S – Tensions between Bretonia and Kusari begin to rise over claims to the Tau systems.
814 A.S – War between Bretonia and Kusari erupts.
815 A.S - Kusari forces occupy Tau-31 while Bretonia is forced to retreat to Leeds.
817 A.S - Gallia invades the Tau systems and forces Kusari to end the war with Bretonia. Kusari’s government is overthrown and the Emperor exiled.
820 A.S - Kusari opens trade with Gallia but faces internal turmoil from citizens demanding the return of the Emperor.
See
http://discoverygc.com/wiki/ for more.