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Milestones in the history of interstellar civilization:

year spacecraft or colony name: commander, event or milestone

1957 Sputnik 1: first unmanned satellite launched 1959 Mechta: first lunar unmanned probe 1961 Vostok 1: Yuri Gagarin, first man in space

   Vostok 2: Gherman Titov, first man to orbit Earth
   Venera 1: first unmanned interplanetary probe

1963 Vostok 6: Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space 1964 Voskhod 1: first multiple person crew spacecraft launched 1965 Voskhod 2: Alexei Leonov, first EVA 1967 Soyuz 1: Vladimir Komarov, first astronaut killed (on landing) 1969 Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5: Boris Volynov, first spacecraft docking

   Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong, first man on the Moon

1973 Skylab 2: Charles Conrad, Jr., first manned space station 1981 Columbia: John Young, first reusable manned space vehicle launched 1983 Pioneer 10: first unmanned probe leaves solar system 1986 Mir: Vladimir Solovyov, first continuously manned space station 1997 Freedom: Henry Hartsfield, second manned space station, becomes first real

      community in space

2001 Eagle: Ronald Grabe, first spaceplane launched 2002 Hubble Space Telescope: discovers gas giant orbiting Epsilon Eridani 2009 Heimdalburg: Karl Stenner, first permanent lunar colony 2011 Bering: Svetlana Marishkova, first manned spacecraft to Mars 2018 Clarke: Sukhbir Singh, first manned space station in geosynchronous orbit 2025 Lindberg: Guion Young, first commercial passenger flight to the moon 2032 Slingshot: lunar magnetic launcher constructed 2034 Heimdal GmbH: lunar colony corporation reports a profit 2036 Amaterasu: Takeza Samujuchu, first manned mission to the moons of Jupiter 2039 Butterfly: Wendy Somoza, first low-gravity spacecraft built in Earth orbit 2041 Joseph Roberts: John Doe, first space piracy 2044 Leon Trotsky: Aleksandr Kukerov, first armed manned spacecraft launched 2049 Showa: Ching Wei-Lin, first manned mission to moons of Saturn 2050 Meriwether Lewis Depot: Lee Nardelli, first colony in the asteroid belt 2056 Independence: Andrew O'Brien, first spacecraft built entirely of lunar

      materials launched from Apollo City, Luna

2057 Bradbury City: Ramon Houston, first permanent Martian colony 2061 Einstein: robot probe sent towards Alpha Centauri 2063 Sagan: robot probe sent towards Epsilon Eridani 2066 Ceres Assembly declares the asteroid colonies an independent sovereign

      entity, equivalent to a terrestrial nation-state in international law

2068 Asteroid Association admitted as a member of the United Nations 2073 Beagle: Jean-Louis Leclerc, extraterrestrial life discovered on Titan–

      primitive microorganisms living near volcanic vents

2075 Lunar Authority of Tranquilitas: Martin Lyman, Tranquilitas declared

      sovereign, does *not* claim to represent all of Luna

2077 Mondland Gemeindeverwaltung: Wilhelm von Vulte, Mondland declares

      sovereignty

2081 Five sovereign lunar regions decline invitation to join United Nations,

      deciding instead to form the Lunar Council, asserting it equivalent in
      status to the United Nations of Earth

2084 Interplanetary Law Discussion Group meets at Clarke Station 2089 Data coming back from Einstein probe indicates only small distant

      planetoids and gas clouds orbit Alpha Centauri

2091 FTL experiments successful at Lawrence Livermore Labs 2093 short-range robot FTL probes using "California drive" tested successfully 2095 Ganymede: Mohammed Ali Fetashemi, radical colonists declare war on Earth

      over ideological and religious disputes

2096 Ganymedans drop kinetic energy bomb (big rock) near Bermuda;

      millions killed in devastation of coastal communities in North Atlantic

2098 Kinetic energy bombs annihilate Ganymede colony 2099 Santa Maria: Guillermo "Bill" Gonzales, first California-drive manned

      starship goes to Epsilon Eridani, picks up Sagan probe, finds six
      planets orbiting the star, returns to Earth

2101 Solar Conference becomes arbiter of interplanetary disputes and law;

      founding members are United Nations of Earth, Lunar Council, Asteroid
      Association, and Jovian Alliance

2106 ITTA, Interplanetary Trade and Traffic Agreement signed, defines

      interplanetary law

2112 Interstellar Survey Organization formed to explore the stars 2113 Einstein probe returns from Alpha Centauri 2115 Nuevo Cadiz: Chretien Hobeika, first permanent community outside the solar

      system, on Espera (Epsilon Eridani II)

2110-2150 Age of Exploration–Survey and private starships explore nearby stars 2136 Anatoly Filipchenko: Eliahu Baumstein, Survey and private group dispute

      over ownership of world of Sakang, both claiming discovery first
      (Survey wants world open to research and colonization, while private
      group wants exclusive rights); Interplanetary Court in Apollo City
      decides for Survey (this time)

2147 Hannibal: Nazir Kanji, Intelligent life discovered at Il-Bihari, planet is

      declared quarantined by Survey; no contact is made, only observation
      from orbit

2163 Natusame-maru: Arnold Ohara, makes contact with Strobins on Torilbbiban,

      signs exclusive trade treaty with planetary council.

2165 World Space Defense Treaty signed, creating the United Nations Space

      Command combining Earth's space military forces; UN Security Council
      expanded and reformed into the Global Senate in San Francisco, given
      responsibility for administration of UNSpaceCom

2167 Solar Confederation founded, administrative capital located at Gagaringrad

      on Luna

2170 Espera: planetary terraforming experiments begin 2206 Epsilon Eridani votes for legal independence; diplomats sent to Solar

      Confederation

2227 Gglakkru steal four starships and launch interstellar war against nearby

      Timpatara with kinetic energy bombs; SpaceCom intervenes to aid
      Timpatara

2234 New Oregon conference–Solar Confederation, Epsilon Eridani, and

      representatives of two other human systems and four non-human species
      agree to impose punitive tariffs on Gglakkru to compensate Timpatara;
      first organized multilateral interstellar diplomacy

2237 Timpatara granted observer status at Interstellar Survey Organization 2241 United Solar Administration founded, replacing Solar Confederation; new

      constitution assigns powers of taxation, interplanetary and criminal
      civil law to new government

2247 Zon shipyard built above Ybotria; first FTL technology license to

      non-humans

2254 "Alpha Draconis" advanced FTL drive invented (TL 10) 2255 first Periodic Interstellar Conference meets at New Lincoln 2269 Uzqzloni Alliance forms, demands change in interstellar trade route

      patterns (wanting more from outworld to outworld and fewer in-and-out
      to Earth routes)

2273 Astral Pacifica: starship hijacked by alien guerrillas sympathetic to

      Uzqzloni and take it out into the void, suspected of becoming the first
      "Free Trader" [stolen starships used for outworld trade]; Uzqzloni
      spokesmen deny responsibility (of course)

2277 SpaceCom declares trade blockade at Novaya Anadyrskaya, hoping to catch

      Free Trader "pirates"; starport seized and incoming ships boarded and
      in some cases dismantled; some ships seized or destroyed trying to turn
      around back into the void

2282 Ulysses Grant: Free Trader guerrillas sneak into SpaceCom starbase at

      Gibraltar Station and steal this light cruiser, rechristening it the
      "Loxley", which later becomes a terror to "legitimate" (i.e. approved
      by Earth) trade

2289 guerrilla leader with the nom de guerre "Obi-Wan Kenobi" writes

      "Sentience, Technology, and Liberty"; becomes Free Trader manifesto

2292 Periodic Intersteller Conference at Barsoom denounces SpaceCom

      "atrocities", over vehement USA objections

2299 Rhinestern declares economic sanctions against Sol, quickly imitated by

      Uzqzloni worlds and others

2301 Glaxxt: Zarquoz (Ybotrian space admiral), destroys Free Trader base at

      Dickson's World with disruptor weapons, causing hundreds of thousands
      of civilian casualties

2304 Richard Nixon: Delia Standing Rock, destroys "Loxley" in battle in

      Khalimar system

2308 Free Trader guerrillas drop kinetic energy bomb on Venus, at Venusian

      latitude and longitude 40.7 N 74 W

2309 Rhinestern Conference: Sol and Free Traders agree to truce 2318 New Oregon Treaty: USA agrees to 42% value compensation for Solar

      starships hijacked by Free Traders

2325 Galactic Constituent Assembly meets at Heimdalburg to discuss

      interstellar political organization and dispute-settling mechanisms

2349 Galactic Federation Treaty negotiated 2353 Sol ratifies Galactic Federation Treaty 2357 Galactic Federatio Treaty comes into effect 2360 first election for Galactic Parliament 2361 Galaxiya established to house Galactic Parliament 2366 Starfleet founded, absorbing main elements of USA SpaceCom and other

      star forces

2373 Federation Survey formed, taking over responsibilities of old Interstellar

      Survey Organization

2380 Jonas Pierre Ziliquorgn (of Ybotria) awarded Nobel Prize for Physics for

      equivalence theory

2384 bKorbinin Va'en (of Torilbbiban) becomes first Federation Minister of

      Uplift and Development

2387 FTL radio transmission successfully tested 2402 FTL radio station built at Epsilon Eridani 2407 Tolles: scientists develop Cverakmak FTL drive (TL 11), using equivalence

      technology

2412 interstellar research project develops Quantum Displacement maneuver

      drive, using equivalence technology

2421 Citicorp introduces interstellar check-clearing and credit services via

      FTL station network

2450 FSS Matthew C. Perry: commissioned and sent on mission

Census of Known Space

Year Population %Earth %Sol %Human %Fed 99%Sphere# 2000 7 billion 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0 LY 2050 13 billion 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0 LY 2100 18 billion 99.8% 100.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0 LY 2150 24 billion 99.1% 100.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0 LY 2200 33 billion 94.8% 99.7% 100.0% 0.0% 0 LY 2250 53 billion 53.7% 59.0% 60.5% 0.0% 28 LY 2300 129 billion 29.9% 35.1% 38.0% 45.5%* 137 LY 2350 411 billion 10.1% 13.7% 19.1% 27.3%* 224 LY 2400 1,175 billion 3.3% 6.4% 12.0% 18.4% 323 LY 2450 2,604 billion 1.8% 4.0% 11.3% 23.1% 423 LY

Population=population of known space %Earth=percentage of population of known space living on Earth %Sol=percentage of population of known space living in Sol system %Human=percentage of population of known space that is human %Fed=percentage of population of known space in the Federation

  • =represented at latest Periodic Interstellar Conference

99%Sphere=99% of population of known space within this many LY of S

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