Chronology

Provided below is a timeline of the setting and some major events. Most events are only given a year, not an exact day. Events will fill out on this as needed.

Post-Contemporary

 * 2045
 * The United States and Europe, following the end of WWIII, create a new governing body - the Amer-Euro Union. This would gradually get more and more powers until it become the de facto, and eventually de jure, governing body of both regions.
 * 2057
 * Several counter organizations are formed in the following 15 or so years. Some of these would eventually conglomerate into the Pacific Union.
 * 2073
 * This is the year that most historians agree that the Amer-Euro Confederation became the true governing body for North America and most of western Europe. This is the year they created a joint military, which had a police force that could enforce laws throughout the AEC.
 * 2094
 * The first permanent moon colony, Selene, is founded as a joint project from the Amer-Euro Confederation and about 14 other nations, but primarily paid for (and ran) by the AEC.

The Second Dark Age

 * 2101
 * The first source of Dark on the moon is discovered. Later that year due to accidental exposure, the first human in modern recollection, one Doctor Kaur, to Initiate.
 * 2104
 * The Pacific Union for the Betterment of Man, usually referred to as simply the Pacific Union or PaU, officially forms. It's member states are Russia, China, the Philippines, Korea, Indonesia, and India. Ironically, despite not being the faction called a Confederation, the member states initially maintained a great deal of their autonomy. The Pacific Union was largely a defensive and economic body, with most legislation initially being left to member states. This comforts the member states, who were initially concerned that this might be a plot for China to expand it's control into their countries.
 * The founding of the Pacific Union started a war for the independence of Taiwan and Hong Kong. This war ended three years later, with HK and Taiwan being made members of the AEC but with a requirement of allowing PaU officers and inspectors into the country. The primary point of contact between the PaU and AEC, even still, is in the city of Tainan, Taiwan.
 * The first major extraction station on Luna comes online. Dark is exported to Earth, pushing magic and magic-enhanced technology into the lives of humanity and fueling an age of progress.
 * 2115
 * Gemini station is originally founded as a cooperative effort between the AEC and PaU.
 * 2130
 * Gene modding became possible in 2083, but Genetoss came out with a commercially available, and reasonably affordable, gene modding system in 2130. These became popular quickly for creating lasting cosmetic changes, but also for radical body modding. Unfortunately, these early models created heritable effects that caused a notable percentage of the population who are descendants to express their ancestors modifications.
 * 2126
 * The first Artificial General Intelligence, Lundvig, is created. Properties of Dark make it conducive to simulating and creating functional neural networks. It is likened by engineers as the second invention of the transistor.
 * The first habitable Mars station, Remus, is brought online by a joint effort from the AEC and PaU.
 * 2143
 * The first Artificial intelligence with the power to natively use Dark. They utilize specialized dedicated processors, called an Arcanocore.


 * 2151
 * A mining accident on Luna causes massive amounts of Dark to be jettisoned into space. Ninety-three percent of the supply, and nearly 100% of the economically extractable supply, was launched into orbit. It forms a sort of ring around the Earth that is commonly called the Veil. The Veil doesn't notably disrupt light coming into the Earth, but the interaction of the lack of the Void the Veil to generate a zone of 'psychic hampering'. The effects on travelers can range from mild irritation to permanent debilitating mental distress.
 * For the next ~50 years, people mostly acquire Dark from orbit. This is partly in an effort to dampen the psychic hampering field, but mostly because this became the only means of accessing Dark during this period. Prices of Dark went up, and the first Dark Cults crop up in this time.
 * As a result of the mining accident on Luna, China uses the disaster as an opportunity to seize majority control of the PaU.
 * 2167
 * Terminus Station 1 is founded. This station includes a gate that allows people to exit and enter Earth safely from outside the veil. However, because they can only send so many ships through at once, there's often queues of up to a week to get to Earth from Terminus Station. Cargo is usually passed through the veil to another ship to carry the goods to Earth, since objects can pass through the Veil unhindered.
 * 2210
 * Global stocks of Dark begin running critically low. Some other operations in the prior few years had been set up to try and find it in other parts of Sol with only marginal success. The AEC (partnered with Brazil and Japan) set up the first Shadowgate. This was cutting-edge tech used to propel people through space. So, at no small expense, the AEC established the first Shadowgate, the materials and production required for a second, and a colony ship called the Hale Mary. The plan was for the Hale Mary to establish their own Shadowgate on the other side, in Proxima Centauri, and to establish a colony there.
 * 2222
 * The Concórdia Equatorial Para Viagens Espaciais, usually just referred to as The Concord is founded It's most often simply referred to as the Concord. Headed by Brazil, this is often considered the third major multi-national union on Earth. It's primarily a fund for getting the otherwise 'poorer' nations into space and securing them an economic future. It's original member states include Ecuador, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Peru, and Argentina. It's run by a council headed by three representatives from each member state.
 * While originally an entirely South and Central American enterprise, many African nations have joined as well since. Notable members include Nigeria, South Africa, Morocco, and Kenya. This is not an exhaustive list.
 * India leaves the PaU and joins the Concord in 2231.
 * 2251
 * Nearly 40 years after their departure, the colonists from Proxima Centauri send back a ship, the Lucent Gleam, to report their success. They have found massive amounts of Dark here, and in the time since have managed to establish a colony and a small scale extraction operation.
 * Colonists are attracted in droves to Proxima Centauri, now called Proxcent by most. Migration incentive programs are created, and millions leave to this new system in hopes of starting fresh.
 * 2264
 * Proxima Centauri b is nearly habitable when people get there, and in 2264 the planet is sufficiently terraformed to establish the first open-air colony, called Libson.
 * Economic pressures drive Martians to the brink, and the declare themselves independent. This leads to a war that ends in 2278 and is considered by most historians now to be the beginning point of 'modern' history.
 * Economic pressures drive Martians to the brink, and the declare themselves independent. This leads to a war that ends in 2278 and is considered by most historians now to be the beginning point of 'modern' history.

Modern History

 * 2280
 * Proxima Centauri b declares formal independence, encouraged by the success of the Martian Independence Movement. Because of it's distance it was already loosely administrated, and so this was largely unsurprising. Due to burnout from the previous war, there were only a few armed skirmishes in the process of this. In order to prevent war, they agreed to the terms of continuing exports of Dark and scientifically relevant materials at a fixed rate of taxation among other regulations regarding enforcement. The Darkwatch is formed to act as a sort of cross-system law enforcement. Originally they were only to act as oversight for potential abuses related to the Dark trade, but it was quickly made apparent that there was an overall need for broader enforcement. There's been some tensions in Proxcent, where many feel that the Darkwatch are the chains of their old masters come back to haunt them.
 * 2310
 * Current date