Elite Timeline: Difference between revisions

===1960s===

*First man sets foot on Luna;

*Commercial fission power is achieved;

*First integrated circuits;

*First computers are built;

===1970s===

===1980s===

===1990s===

*First serious environmental problems on Earth appear;

==21st century==

===2000s===

*First (minor) armed conflict between a nation and a "multi-national" corporation takes place;

===2010s===

===2020s===

===2030s===

*First baby is born off Earth;

===2040s===

*Huge loss of life, dreadful environmental damage;

===2050s===

===2060s===

===2070s===

===2080s===

*Manned exploration of the Sol system;

*Orbital cities are built around Earth;

===2090s===

*First permanent Mars base;

==22nd century==

===2100s===

*Discovery of fossils on Mars base;

*Higher-dimensional space, mostly referred to as hyperspace, is confirmed;

===2110s===

*Arrival of message from first interstellar probe to Alpha Centauri system. First pictures taken of an extra-solar planet in the Lagrange point on the two main stars;

===2120s===

*Presence of life on Tau Ceti 3 is detected;

===2130s===

===2140s===

===2150s===

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

===2260s===

 

 

 

 

 

*Discovery of first non-human relic in space. Origin still unknown in 3200;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Python class star cruiser is produced by Whatt and Pritney Ship Construct of Inera;

*First Coriolis Station around Lave;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Fer de Lance Lightspeeder is produced by Zorgon Patterson Group. It becomes a favorite with bounty hunters, but becomes outlawed in the late 3100s due to its overuse by pirates;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*The Eagle Long Range Fighter is produced by Faulcon deLacy Shipyards, Reorte;

*Weaver re-designs the Sirius Corporation's MB3 Mining machine, making it even smaller and more efficient. He calls it the MB4 and earns an enormous amount of money by selling the design to the Dreyfuss Mining Company of Barnard's Star;

===3199===

*The Eagle MkII is produced by the Federal Military Shipyards at Eta Cassiopeia;

*The Eagle Mk. III is produced by the Gutamaya Corporation of Achenar a few months after the MkII is released, ultimately fixing problems caused by the MkII;

*Ronald Dreyfuss inherits the Dreyfuss Mining Company due to his father's death. The company becomes Weaver-Dreyfuss Mining with Max Weaver and Ron Dreyfuss becoming co-owners. The company specializes in Frontier system mining and production of the MB4 mining machine, though they have licensed other corporations to produce the MB4 as well;

===3200===

==33rd century==

===3219===

*The Tiercel class light freighter is produced by the Core Industrial Corporation of Sol;

*Mark Jameson Pritchard is born in New York, Earth, Sol;

===3228===

*The Skeet class star cruiser is produced by Whatt and Pritney Ship Construct of Inera;

===3229===

*Weaver, Baker, Dreyfuss, and Stone Mining Corporation formed as the result of a merger between Weaver-Dreyfuss Mining, Baker Technologies, and Stone Limited;

===3230===

*Alioth uprising. The system, which had been subjected to many battles between the Empire and Federation, was freed in a massed insurrection against both sets of invaders. The Alliance of Independent Systems is formed. Oltiqu is renamed Gateway as it joins the new Alliance;

*Argent Amalgamated Aerodynamics (Inc.) is formed by Meredith Argent and Mic Turner and based on the newly-renamed world of Argent's Claim. The company immediately announces its position as "The Official Alliance Shipbuilder." Construction begins on the soon-to-be-famous New Rossyth shipyards;

===3231===

*The AAAI's New Rossyth shipyards are completed. The new facility utilizes state-of-the-art technology and immediately begins producing its own ships;

*The Harrier class medium fighter is produced by the Perez Corporation of UV Ceti;

===3234===

*The Gyr class medium fighter is produced by the Core Industrial Corporation of Sol;

===3236===

*Alioth system economy stabilizes due to business interests taking up residence on the system's three terraformed worlds. The New Rossyth Shipyards reach an incredible production record, which is unsurpassed by any other shipyard in the known galaxy;

*James K. Winston is born in Newtown, Nirvana, Phekda;

===3237===

*The Mantis class transport is produced by the AAAI of Alioth;

*The Harris class heavy fighter is produced by the Perez Corporation of UV Ceti;

===3240===

*The Lanner class heavy trader is produced by the Core Industrial Corporation of Sol;

===3244===

*Pritchard, after serving through the mandatory waiting period, is transferred from the Federal Army to the Navy with an Ensign's commission;

===3245===

*The Griffin Carrier is produced by the AAAI of Alioth;

===3247===

*The Lanner MkII heavy trader is produced by the Core Industrial Corporation of Sol;

*The Merlin class medium fighter is produced by the Perez Corporation of UV Ceti;

*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;

===3248===

*The Imperial Explorer is produced by Gutamaya Corporation of Achenar;

*The Viper Mk. II is produced by Faulcon deLacy of Inera;

*Frontier: First Encounters begins;

*The Osprey-X attack fighter is produced by the Gutamaya Corporation of Achenar;

*Maximillian Weaver, while living on Boston Base, Barnard's Star, is saved by Mark Pritchard from an INRA assassination attempt;

*Scientists at New Rossyth Shipyards, backed by WBD&S and the Sirius Corporation, design and build the revolutionary Class 4 Military Drive. It is determined that the new engine is so powerful that it can only be installed in ships of Python size or larger;

*New Rossyth Shipyards secretly builds the Crimson Arrow.It is first new Python class star cruiser in over two hundred years and is outfitted with the new Class 4 Military Drive.The addition of this new drive, plus the use of some new, lighter, and more durable hull materials gives the new ship the designation Python MkII. The ship blasts its way out of its hidden orbital hangar to avoid destruction by a surprise attack by the INRA and then engages its experimental hyperdrive and disappears;

*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. Maximillian Weaver is declared officially missing;

*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;

===3252===

*The second Quest class ship, named Argent's Quest is laid down at New Rossyth Shipyards;

*Another INRA attack on a secret asteroid base in the Alioth system results in the theft of a vaccine to the Mycoid Virus with which the Thargoids were infected in order to bring about a victory for Humankind over the Thargoid invasion;

*An official peace between Independent Alliance and Thargoids is established when the captured vaccine to the INRA's mycoid virus is stolen from a secret INRA research base and delivered by the crew of the Argent's Quest to the Thargoid home system of Miacke;

===3255===

*The Crimson Arrow, manned by most of her original crew, as well as a Federation and Thargoid scientist, sets out into deep space on a special reconnaissance mission;

*The Veliaze crisis. The Empire sends out a massive invasion fleet to take Veliaze, just south of the Alliance system, Gateway. This causes widespread panic in the Federation and the Alliance. The Alliance quickly retrofits a number of Long Range Cruisers as capital battleships (the Valiant class), and the Alliance Joint Navy is formed under the command of Adm. Rafe Wilson;

*AJN's training academy, the Turner Space Combat Academy, is opened at Dublin Citadel (Gateway);

*INRA tries to prevent Veliaze from joining the AIS. The AJN Bounty is dispatched to protect the new Alliance member. Although its mission was successful, it received such heavy battle damage that it was scrapped the same year;

*Winston joins the AJN's security division - the AJNIB, after an unorthodox recruitment method is used on him;

*The AJN Eastwood is destroyed after a collision with Phekda 6. The entire crew abandoned ship successfully when it was apparent the collision was unavoidable;

*The new AJN battle cruiser, the Victor class, is unveiled. The first ship of its class, the AJN Hood, is launched;

===3272===

*The AJN flagship, the Valiant-class AJN Fearless is replaced by a Victor class ship of the same name. The ship is commanded by James K. Winston;

===3276===

*A strange object of unknown origin is discovered in the vicinity of Liazeda (-12,3). Named the LRA (Liazeda Radio Anomaly), the Alliance research ship, the Lion, is sent to investigate. The LRA and the ship disappears and its fate is still unknown in 3296. Only a handful of crew, who were deploying probes from two Explorer-class vessels return;

===3280===

*Winston is promoted to Fleet Admiral of the AJN;

===3284===

*Federation Democratic Council ratifies the Interstellar Crisis Management Act which allows for "rapid access to any and all available resources to deal with any crisis which effects an entire system or systems. This can be anything from the threat of supernova, medical emergencies, and similar incidents;"

===3288===

*First fatigue problems found in the AJN's Valiant-class battleships. The AJN Enterprise is scrapped after unusually high fatigue damage is discovered. The ship is replaced by a new Victor class, the AJN Ark Royal;

===3289===

*Battle of Biggs Colony.

*74,000 Imperial Soldiers killed by under-estimated rebel forces on the planet of Biggs Colony in the system of Altair;

===3294===

*Winston steps down as Fleet Admiral, and becomes the commander of the Turner Space Combat Academy;

*The Cause is started by a group of anarchists dedicated to "bringing the concept of justice to populated space" through direct action against mega corporations and governments;

===3296===

*A Phekdan government is formed, and the system joins the AIS. The Federation and Empire try and take Phekda when it is discovered that the system is ripe for military fuel production. Skillful diplomacy and a show of force by the AJN repels the attack with little bloodshed;

*James Winston is captured by Federation forces and held in prison on Boston Base, Barnard's Star. This creates a massive protest by Alliance citizens and the military. Winston's nephew finds himself harassed by the Federals due to his presence on the station at the time of his uncle's capture;

*Membership in The Cause increases exponentially as a result of Winston's alleged kidnapping by the Federation and imprisonment;

*The Cause makes its official base on Davies Earth in the Quator system and aquires the Long Range Cruiser Azure Sunset;