Historical Information"Here's how it is: The Earth got used up..." Malcolm ReynoldsNEW DATED EVENTS ARE OPEN FOR INPUT!!!. FOLLOW THE FORMAT BELOW AND BE SURE ANY EVENTS YOU CREATE FIT THE BROAD BRUSHSTROKES AND FALL BETWEEN 2020 AND 2300. SUBMIT ALL SUGGESTIONS TO ME VIA PM HERE.TIMELINEWhat follows is a chronicling of the significant events that shaped the Earth between the years 2020 and 2400.
Spring 2020: The past two decades since the turn of the millennium have been unstable times. Economic down turns, market crashes, terror attacks, perpetual regional conflicts, and threats of pandemic outbreaks put the world on a precarious edge.
April 2021: The U.S. deploys the 2nd (Marine Expeditionary Unit) MEU and elements of several Special MAGTFs (Marine Air Ground Task Forces) to central Africa to try and stabilize ethnic, religious, national, and tribal conflicts in the region. Since 2013 Chinese interests have been present in Africa investing in mineral and fossil fuel development. Chinese and American relations grow more strained.
Fall 2021 thru Winter 2025: Russia cements a long anticipated alliance with Iran, several northern African countries, and completes the “repatriation” of many former Soviet republics. Russia builds up several Mediterranean bases to secure its interests in the region. European nations observing the Russian, American, and Chinese buildup in Africa begin to rebuild contacts with the southern region of Africa.
April 22nd 2024: In a blitz-like attack North Korea overruns the armistice line and conquers all of South Korea. U.S. and South Korean forces mount a controlled retreat and evacuation of as many South Korean Nationals as possible. China threatens war if the U.S. retaliates.
April 22nd 2026: Dr. Kenashi of the Indian National Medical Center in Mumbai and Dr. Yamatetsu of the Yamatetsu Corporation develop the first cybernetic limb to replace a test subjects arm. Cybernetics or "Cyberware" comes onto the world stage. Simultaneously Stabler Biomedical Industries in Dallas Texas creates a competing product called “Bioware” which uses a subjects existing DNA and biomechanical systems and enhances them through targeted modification.
Spring 2030: An explosion rips through a Chinese base in central Africa, speculation flies as to the cause. Everything from terrorism, African nationalists, U.S. drone strike, EU black op, and Russian assassination attempts are listed as the cause. Military forces mobilize in the region.
August 3rd 2030: A firefight breaks out between U.S. Army troops surrounding an African gold mine and African nationalists. A Chinese Quick Reaction Force (QRF) deploys to suppress the nationalists. The firefight escalates as Chinese and U.S. troops begin firing on each other with the nationalist caught between the two forces. 13 Americans and 22 Chinese military personnel die. China declares war on the U.S. and the U.S. reciprocates. In response Russia unexpectedly falls in with the U.S. bringing northern Africa into the mix, the EU also sides with the U.S. World War III begins.
Summer 2032: Under constant Chinese attack and without U.S. aid, due to heavy U.S. commitment to Africa, Japan and Taiwan are overran and surrender becoming part of the growing Axis of Chinese/Asian Nations. Japanese and Taiwanese refugees begin flooding the Australian northern coast and U.S. west coast.
May 12th 2035: The Third World War is going well for the African Allied Alliance (the U.S., Russian, African Nationalists, and the EU). The Axis of Chinese/Asian Nations (China, India, Japan, the unified Korea, and all of Indochina) holds their initial ground in Africa and Eurasia well but cannot advance against the African Alliance. However, in another unexpected move Central and South America enter the war on the Chinese side. A military force from Central and South America backed by Chinese commandos move north and attack the U.S. Southern border. Canada aids the U.S. and the third World War reaches the American continents.
Winter 2040: 10 years into the Third World War the lines stabilize. ACA (Axis of Chinese/Asian Nations) forces push into North America all the way to the Texas Oklahoma border to the north, the Georgia Appalachians to the east, and just shy of Hoover Dam to the west. Russian forces from Siberia overrun the North Korean forces and take the Peninsula, EU and Russian forces hold the Chinese at the Caucasus Mountain line, while in Africa the AAA (Allied African Alliance) was pushed from the south by ACA forces but a U.S. and African led counterattack stabilizes the lines deep in the Congo jungle. Switzerland, Australia, and Romania remain the only neutral forces.
September 18th 2056: World War III has continued to rage back and forth across the globe, by now most nuclear threats have been eliminated during one campaign or another over the past 26 years. The war is a conventional meat grinder that is laying waste to entire nations and killing hundreds of millions.
0001 Zulu time, September 19th 2056: The Nuclear Night Attacks occur across the globe at precisely 0001 Zulu time. One hundred 100Kt nuclear devices detonate in the world’s 100 largest cities.
Cities hitNo organization, force, or nation claims responsibility. The world is thrown in disarray and casualties will eventually be totaled at over 700 million, with twice as many dying of secondary effects of the blasts. What is left of the national governments agree to meet in Switzerland to negotiate a peace and investigate the attacks.
September 30th 2056: After constant fighting for 26 years and the horrible effects of the Nuclear Night Attacks, a ceasefire agreement is reached by the AAA and the ACA. It is said that the war would have gone on for another 25 years if the Nuclear Night Attacks had not happened.
Fall of 2056 through the summer 2100: A period of world history known as the Reconstruction. It is during this time that the first roots of the PCC begin to take hold. A weakened but still solvent United Nations creates the Planetary Conservation Commission. The PCC begins as a panel of world leaders charged with enabling the adequate and “fair” distribution of resources in an effort to aid reconstruction. Also during this time a wave of ultra-nationalism and religious zealotry sweeps the world. Governments are taken over by radical conservative groups that advocate isolationism, assimilation, fanatical faith, State power, and unquestioning loyalty.
June 2071: During reconstruction the surviving corporations of the world unite, merge, and become one and the same with government. Coupled with the waves of ultra-religious nationalism, the Parliaments and Congresses of the world become interchangeable with church and military backed corporate boards and councils. The PCC is the first thing all these disparate rebuilding nations and councils agree on. A council made up of corporate board members, military logisticians, political figures, and church leaders is put in place at the head of the PCC to allocate the remaining world resources.
2098: The PCC gains more power and authority, under the strictest of State power and control reconstruction continues at a phenomenal pace. Crimes against liberty are overlooked as the fruits of the modern world are slowly returned by the PCC in a controlled effort in order to maintain their popularity.
Spring 2100: Anti-PCC forces are blamed for an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in South America. The PCC quarantines the entire continent, mining and patrolling the waters around South America and sealing off the borders with walls and no-fly zones. Anti-PCC spokespeople claim that the PCC attacked the entire continent with biological weapons in order to destroy an Anti-PCC headquarters in the Amazon. This is discounted by the State media and the PCC version of events is accepted by most of the world.
Summer 2100: The Global War on Anarchy begins, fueled by the South America quarantine. The PCC, distorting the definition of anarchy and stoking peoples fear into support, engage in a worldwide war against opposition forces. Dissent and opposition is crushed without remorse.
2100-2150: PCC elements throughout the world's governments unify against Anti-State forces. Despite all their efforts anti-PCC forces are ground into dust, painted as terrorists and insurgents, and history is re-written to vilify their efforts. The world falls more and more under the PCC’s control.
2160-2170: With anti-PCC elements all but eliminated the Commission approves the release of a tidal wave of technology. Advanced cybernetics and bioware, holographic projection technology, nano-tech, advanced manufacturing processes, personal area network advances, and hundreds of other long held secret technologies are released onto the PCC controlled markets. This new decade of advancement is called the “roaring sixties”.
Summer 2185: A five year heat wave, unprecedented in all of history strikes the globe. Coupled with the devastation of World War III, The Nuclear Night Attacks, The Global War on Anarchy, and all the smaller conflicts that occurred in the intervening years this heat wave destroys national food and water reserves. Panic, riots, and unrest explode but are ruthlessly put down by PCC Peace Keepers and ultra- nationalistic security forces.
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NATIONS AND STATES AS OF 2400I have written out and named a good many of the New Nations of the 2400’s. However, any entry labeled with
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The Canadian American Alliance (The CAA): Includes all of Canada east of the Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan, every State in the U.S. that touches a Great Lake and all of New England.
OPEN FOR INPUT!!!Alaska Free State (The Great Northwest): All of Alaska, the Yukon, and the Northwest territory.
OPEN FOR INPUT!!!Confederation of American States (The CAS): Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.
OPEN FOR INPUT!!! North Central Alliance: Saskatchewan, Alberta, North & South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah.
OPEN FOR INPUT!!! The Pacific Refugee Territories: Washington, Oregon, California north of the southern city limits of San Francisco.
OPEN FOR INPUT!!! The American Desert Protectorate: All of California South of San Francisco, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico.
OPEN FOR INPUT!!! Yuctania: All of Mexico and Central America North of Guatemala.
OPEN FOR INPUT!!! Asatruar League:The Quarantine Zone: All of Central and South America south of Guatemala.
Northern China Free State: OPEN FOR INPUT!!! Mongolian Protectorate: OPEN FOR INPUT!!! Russo-Siberian Nation: OPEN FOR INPUT!!! The Northern League: "CREATED BY Wernher": The Northern league came into being during the year 2061, five years after the Third World War ended. It began and was named after the Italian Party for Independence of North Italy, Lombardy or 'Padania'. The general platform of this Italian separatist party was that the north was simply better than the south; the party claimed that the south was a drain on the resources produced by the north. After the victories of nationalists’ movements throughout Europe, especially in France, a new 'clique' within the EU, composed of Northern Italy, France, Germany, Austria and the Benelux began to form. Driven by the rising economic woes and infrastructure devastation of World War III this new League began insisting that they had a 'Special Status' as the economic motor of Europe, the very driving force that saw the European nations through WW III. When southern Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece all defaulted on their debts incurred during the war, the new Northern League decided that rather than throwing these bankrupt countries out of the EU, that the Northern League would withdraw its support from and leave the EU. This action left the other EU countries with the burden of sorting out economic and post WW III issues on their own and some historians claim it was one of the events leading to WW IV. Within a short number of years after the split the northern countries confederated and eventually federated under the Northern League, a rich but extremely closed society placing extreme value on assimilation, nationalism and loyalty. This new Northern League solidified gains made by the AAA and EU forces in Africa during the third World War and became a big force in the reconstruction and development of Africa. With the rise of the PCC in the twenty-three hundreds, the Northern League (NL) was forced to be more open in its politics and policies but while League, in theory, went back to a more open society, no one named Mohammed or even born outside the League would ever be able to gain citizenship within the NL.