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The following is the official timeline of the Elite universe. | The following is the official fictional timeline of the Elite universe. | ||
==20th century== | ==20th century== | ||
===1950s=== | ===1950s=== | ||
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===1960s=== | ===1960s=== | ||
*First man sets foot on Luna; | *First man sets foot on Earth's moon (Luna); | ||
*Commercial fission power is achieved; | *Commercial fission power is achieved; | ||
*First integrated circuits; | *First integrated circuits; | ||
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*First man on Mars; | *First man on Mars; | ||
* | *First permanent Moon base; | ||
===2080s=== | ===2080s=== | ||
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*First permanent Mars base; | *First permanent Mars base; | ||
*Luna is heavily industrialized; | *Earth's Moon (Luna) is heavily industrialized; | ||
==22nd century== | ==22nd century== | ||
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*Presence of life on Tau Ceti 3 is detected; | *Presence of life on Tau Ceti 3 is detected; | ||
* | *First armed conflict in space over rights in the asteroid belt; | ||
===2130s=== | ===2130s=== | ||
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===2340s=== | ===2340s=== | ||
*The Federation and the Empire continue | *The Federation and the Empire continue hostilities towards each other; | ||
===2350s=== | ===2350s=== | ||
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===2850=== | ===2850=== | ||
*Space Dredger TerraCorp One | *Space Dredger TerraCorp One suffers a drive coil failure during a hyperspace transit, vanishing from known space; | ||
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*Mamba class fighter designed as a racing craft by the illicit Reorte Ship Federation. The design is standardized and mass produced by Radlett and Rayburn Shipyards of Reorte and is later outlawed by the GalCop due to its lack of | *Mamba class fighter designed as a racing craft by the illicit Reorte Ship Federation. The design is standardized and mass produced by Radlett and Rayburn Shipyards of Reorte and is later outlawed by the GalCop due to its lack of sufficient safety features; | ||
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*The | *The Griffin Carrier is produced by the AAAI of Alioth; | ||
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*The "Incident at Delta Pavonis" in which Mark Pritchard is involved. An attempt at a show of force by the Federation though the performance of large-scale manoeuvres close to Imperial space turns into one of the greatest military disasters to date. Thousands of lives are lost both by the Imperial and Federal armed forces and nobody is ever completely certain of which side fired the first shot; | *The "Incident at Delta Pavonis" in which Mark Pritchard is involved. An attempt at a show of force by the Federation though the performance of large-scale manoeuvres close to Imperial space turns into one of the greatest military disasters to date. Thousands of lives are lost both by the Imperial and Federal armed forces and nobody is ever completely certain of which side fired the first shot; | ||
* | *Mark Pritchard officially resigns his commission from the Federal Navy and becomes a lone-wolf trader; | ||
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*Mic Turner of AAAI fame completes his design of a brand new type of starship called the Quest class. New Rossyth Shipyards begin laying the groundwork for this new vessel; | *Mic Turner of AAAI fame completes his design of a brand new type of starship called the Quest class. New Rossyth Shipyards begin laying the groundwork for this new vessel; | ||
*V.I.P. | *V.I.P. Maximillian Weaver is declared officially missing; | ||
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*Max Weaver returns to Alioth in time to celebrate his 80th Birthday; | *Max Weaver returns to Alioth in time to celebrate his 80th Birthday; | ||
*New Rossyth rebuilds prototype Class 4 Military Drive and mounts it on the prototype Quest class ship, the Turner's Quest. The Quest class starship is | *New Rossyth rebuilds prototype Class 4 Military Drive and mounts it on the prototype Quest class ship, the Turner's Quest. The Quest class starship is officially announced and becomes the largest privately owned vessel ever produced; | ||
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*Relations between Thargoids and Humanity become more amicable as both species begin exchanges of technological and cultural ideas; | *Relations between Thargoids and Humanity become more amicable as both species begin exchanges of technological and cultural ideas; | ||
* | *Winston pulls off a foolhardy assassination of one of Phekda's mafia at Boston Base, Barnard's Star, starting his infamous bounty hunting career; | ||
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*Deep space probes return with news that the star, Betelgeuse, went supernova. The Alliance Science Council dispatches hundreds of deep space probes to study the nova. Meanwhile, a second LRA-object is discovered. Considerably more caution is taken examining this object. It still yields few secrets, and eventually disappears with a number of deep space probes attached to it. | *Deep space probes return with news that the star, Betelgeuse, went supernova. The Alliance Science Council dispatches hundreds of deep space probes to study the nova. Meanwhile, a second LRA-object is discovered. Considerably more caution is taken examining this object. It still yields few secrets, and eventually disappears with a number of deep space probes attached to it. | ||
== Notes == | |||
As this timeline covers events from all four Elite games as well as novels there may be discrepancies between events listed and their representation in the forth and current game, Elite: Dangerous. | |||
Also note that this is a fictional timeline and as such some listed events do not correspond to actual historical events such as if, when, and where they occurred in actual history. | |||