

The Plot device becomes the basis of the modern hyperdrive, allowing faster-than-light travel between certain stars.Ģ240: All the star systems adjacent to Earth have been colonized.Ģ250: Powerful governments and corporations begin exploring the galaxy with long-range scout ships and unmanned drones, "prospecting" for prime planets.Ģ260: Invention of the deuterium ramscoop, allowing ships to generate their own hyperspace fuel. He builds a device that allows objects to travel along that slipstream.

This is the history of the galaxy as it is known to the player in the year 3013 over the course of the game the player may discover that certain things they took for historical fact turn out to be untrue, and that the history books have left out key information about the forces at work behind other events.Ģ100: First permanent settlement on Luna.Ģ150: Colonization of Alpha Centauri by a fleet of generation ships using nuclear sub-light-speed propulsion.Ģ200: Humanity is poised on the brink of an era of space exploration and colonization.Ģ210: A physicist named Charles Plot discovers charged particles traveling along a "gravitational slipstream" between the Sun and Alpha Centauri.

This timeline is provided mainly to assist with story writing, to make sure that all the story lines are in harmony with each other.
