Starship Horizons: Updated Historical Timeline

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space colonisation goes too fast for governments to catch up.

2045 governments catch up to growth of space colonisation and tensions rise

2029 Mars One crew settles due to Private Organization. Heavy United States Influence.
(present day going on project to colonize mars, north american centric)

2034 Space Elevator construction complete. Constructed in the pacific ocean on a manmade island. Near the equator. Getting supplies to the elevator is done by ship. Elevator is built by SpaceX.

2035 Start of construction of first solar sail ship for commercial travel to and from the moon. SpaceX calls it the Enterprise.

2036 Europe (at this point joined with Russia) announces the construction of rival space elevator.

2037E India joins Europe in construction of elevator as joint venture.

2037L Terror attempt at elevator, stopped by MI6

2038 Europe and India finish rival space elevator. Very German and efficient. Built for carrying large amounts of cargo into and from space.

2039 Planetary Resources the first to drag asteroid into GS Orbit and explore prospecting options for further missions.

2045 Start of new space race when china announces their space elevator.

2050 American Laser Array constructed by SpaceX on the elevator for more efficient solar sail ships. At this point solar sails have won over the argon relativistic speed bla bla drive.

2056 Europe and India start construction of L4 station.

2061 US passes legislation for land grant for anyone moving to mars. Outrage by Chinese federation and EU/India about US posturing to claim Mars as their territory. Chinese Federation embargo the US.

2062 Outpost 116 Asteroid Mining begins. (116 million miles from the sun)

2064 Europe and India start building interplanetary ship to colonise Jovian moons. This is the largest SS Ship ever to be constructed. Crew of 2000. Ship is called Aurora.

2066 American Space Pirates steal asteroid materials to circumvent embargo set by Chinese Federation.

2072 Aurora sets off on 12 month voyage to colonise Jovian moons.

2073 Aurora lands on Europa and starts the first colony.

2082 L4 Station completed with science and tourist facilities.

2106 First Higgs Generators developed. They are developed by Dr Ray Jacobs (UK) and Dr Niharia Ptel (India) on the L4 station. The technologies is such that Sail type panels are the optimum arrangement. (The first VHG “Virtual Higgs Generator” can only create virtual Higgs less than a meter away from the device and not strong enough to overcome any significant amount of gravity)

2136 Ring Higgs Generator developed. VHG can create stronger fields and the generators can now be layered into arrays of generators stacked on top of each other).

2137 It’s discovered that the VHG can manipulate micro worm holes. This allows a ship to grab a micro wormhole, stabilize it, expand it’s event horizon. Thus allowing the ship to pass through. The process is called a Higgs Cascade. Early Higgs Cascade Drives could not control where the far end went too. So a lot of time was spent hunting around for a good wormhole. A fair number of ships were lost due to hasty jumps that took ships hundreds of light-years away where the micro wormhole evaporated and the ship couldn’t find another wormhole(s) to make the trip back.

2138 Start of the First Age of Expansion

2240 Further development of Higgs Generator Arrays brings on the Plate Design. Further advancements in field strength and a large boost in energy efficiency allow ships to generate deflector shields. Virtual Higgs are used to turn away high velocity masses and bend electromagnetic energy. There is feedback in this process that can cause the shield to overload (Heat Management Problem).

2245 End of the First Age of Expansion as tension increases between Mars, Europa, and Earth.

2247 Declaration of Martian Federation
            June 13 Declaration Day
            July 6 Destruction of the Mercury Laser Array
            July 6 Alliance Declares War

2265 Earth’s Space Elevators destroyed in several punitive raids by Mars’ forces.

2290 December – The Shipyards of Earth, Mars, and Europa are wrecked. Bring an end to major hostilities.

2291 Ceasefire Declared because of the destruction of major shipyards. The war ended because nobody could build enough ships.

2293 Unification Treaty is ratified and a joint governmental body called the Colonial Alliance is formed.

2295 First Exploration vessels to return after an alien contact is kept secret by the Colonial Alliance Governing Body.

2301 The latest in VHG allow for the Higgs Plates to be concentrated into Nacelles. Which is a vast improvement for Engineering Maintenance and Power Distribution and Management.

2313 Horizons Launches on its first mission.