piku timeline

• 2003 - Arctic avg temp up 4.8 degrees (enough to melt much permafrost)
• 2009 - The moon colony founded on moon
• 2010 - Population of world exceeds 7 billion
• 2012 - Tetratech establishes themselves as a corp with the Webnet
• 2018 - Luna 1 (a space station) constructed (potential pop 1,000)
• 2018 - Global avg temp up 5.2 degrees
• 2018 - Population of world exceeds 8 billion
• 2020 - Over the next few decades, global avg temp cycles up and down
• 2020 - Power and prestige of USA peaks over the next decade and then begins a slow decline as the technological advantage is lost. America never truly falls or falters, but is rather eclipsed by the international market and its own corporations.
• 2026 - Mars intrasolar missile base constructed
• 2026 - Population of world exceeds 9 billion
• 2028 - Luna 1 filled to capacity, expanded, filled again
• 2029 - Tetratech constructs the "Solar Webnet" (also called WII)
• 2030 - Mars base is manned; US effectively defends Mars from other nations
• 2030 - As the economic damages of the past finish healing, and the new technologies emerge, Japan and China begin to become world powers on the economic and technological front. Japan will falter as China's aggressive tendencies bully and push Japan out of competition time and again.
• 2031 - The first robotic prospectors begin sending raw materials to Earth from the asteroid belt; have repeated problems over the next 5 years
• 2032 - Population of world exceeds 10 billion
• 2033 - Psi phenomena creeps into the latter half of this year as a growing movement of parapsychologists come across more and more demonstrable and repeatable abilities
• 2035 - "Lunar City" rebels against its corporate owners for national autonomy
• 2036 - NAN founded on moon
• 2036 - Hope City founded on moon
• 2037 - Asteroid mining collapses - the robots sent to mine cost more than the materials they manage to send home before failing
• 2037 - Population of world exceeds 11 billion
• 2038 - Luna 2 (space station) constructed; Luna 1 is attached; L2 has a potential pop 28,000; Tetratech is vital in the construction and owns a sizable tax
• 2038 - Belt Colonization Movement (BCM) begins to swing into favor
• 2039 - Hope City fails, its economy non-viable... a mass exodus to Lunar City and NAN occurs (a non-viable economy on the moon is equivalent to "running out of air to breathe")
• 2042 - Population of world exceeds 12 billion
• 2043 - Parapsychology quietly becomes accepted as a serious (and complete) field of science
• 2045 - The first manned craft arrives in the asteroid belt and begins mining
• 2045 - China's technological edge is gradually eroded by the corps and Lunar City; however, they retain their industrial power and military might, particularly in light of their continuing acquisitions of mainland eurasia - China is now the primary spaceport (this will become more important in the following decades, as Belt trade increases)
• 2046 - Corp testing of psi phenomena develops, corper telepaths begin to see use in secret
• 2046 - Population of world exceeds 13 billion
• 2050 - Population of world exceeds 14 billion
• 2051 - In an experiment with psi energy batteries and the use of psi in conjunction with primitive cybernetic power dapters, the first Jumpspace psi is discovered (and found again several miles away)
• 2053 - Population of world exceeds 15 billion
• 2054 - Tetratech becomes a serious world power with its installation of Webnet III, which includes "Satellite Arc Warfare" (SAW) capabilities and advanced AI interfaces
• 2055 - ROUGH LINE ----- TECH LEVEL 9 ----- ROUGH LINE
• 2056 - Population of world exceeds 16 billion; at this point, population pressures begin to insure that growth rate reduces drastically
• 2060 - Belt colonies begin springing up; population in the Asteroid Belt is not known precisely, but is estimated at close to ten thousand
• 2061 - Aztech Tzectuitli founded on moon (now pronounced zek-tweet-lee)
• 2061 - Belt Deregulation Act reduces taxes on Belt products and allows non-mining immigration
• 2061 - The first Jumpspace ships are constructed and tested; at this point, Jumpspace psis are rare enough that every disaster puts a few more years into research
• 2062 - Lunar and Belt technologies used to develop a new model for scientific colonies and outposts; this is the Year of Announcing Exciting New Outposts on Planet X
• 2062 - The Belt declares independance; taxes are tightened and Belt exports stopped; a brief cold war ensues, and the Belt loses
• 2064 - Africa officially unites its varied nations into the UA (United Africa); the UA becomes the true home of social innovation as social experiments rise and fall over the next several decades
• 2065 - Aztechnology rises to prominence with "Tzectuitli Technologies" backing them
• 2072 - Global avg temp stabilizes at +8.2F; sea levels stabilize at ~45 feet higher
• 2072 - Population of world exceeds 17 billion; the Great Exodus begins, as people begin working on the means to colonize other planets en masse
• 2078 - Mars missile base becomes the home of some twenty million people over the next five years
• 2079 - A mutated strain of the Black Plague sweeps through numerous nations and corps, killing nearly 2% of the pop
• 2082 - The Belt declares independance; the second Belt Cold War begins, but this time the Belt has stockpiled food and prepared more thoroughly; threatened by economic collapse, Earth cedes independance to the Belt; things go back to normal - little more than a title change
• 2083 - Sidereal (solar orbit space station) constructed; max pop estimated at 10,000; plans for more are made
• 2084 - Aztechnology semi-officially becomes a superpower
• 2085 - Psis are now "common" (1 in 60,000 people) and Jumpspace psis are being born in usable numbers (1 in 400,000 people)
• 2092 - Dark City founded on moon
• 2092 - United Africa officially opens the doors wide open on human genetics, in stark contrast to the conservative laws of other nations; geneticists naturally flock to the slowly rising world power
• 2093 - Sidereal (solar orbit space station) expanded to accommodate nearly 200,000 people
• 2093 - First Jumpspace-propelled scientific outpost put on Alpha Centauri (still no aliens)
• 2099 - As Jumpspace psis begin spending more and more time in Jumpspace, more of them begin deteriorating mentally, hearing voices or claiming to see ghosts in Jumpspace, a full 48 years after the first Jpsi; rough measures estimate that around 15,000 hours is the breaking point
• 2100 - United Africa's social experiment continues to succeed, as the UA becomes a serious world power, primarily on an economic and technological basis
• 2102 - Jupiter Europa colony founded with aid of Jumpspace
• 2115 - ROUGH LINE ----- TECH LEVEL 10 ----- ROUGH LINE
• 2116 - Current Day