Countdown to The Fall
¶ Real World History
All Human history is considered to be canonical in the RFI universe. This should be treated as an 'evergreen' statement; if any of the details in this timeline conflict with actual events, then those events should be considered to have happened, and the timeline either adjusted, or the conflict be accepted as propaganda or misinformation by the relevant faction.
When all else fails, fall back on, "a Sooni did it." 
¶ The Timeline
¶ BCE
- ~2000 BCE - The Overseers "sample" humanity and create the Sooni.
¶ 1950s - Now
Considered by many to be the Golden Age of Spaceflight, this time period is looked back on with much nostalgia. Humanity had such promise and a lot going for it, many consider this the point when, with a little guidance, the mistakes of the future could have been avoided.
- 1957 - Space Age begins
- 1969 - Apollo 11 Moon Landing
- 1986 - Mir Space Station launched
- 1989 - World Wide Web created
- 1991 - Space Shuttle first flight
- 1998 - International Space Station launched
- 2000 - Information Age begins
- 2001 - Mir Space Station deorbited
- 2010 - Falcon 9 first flight
- 2011 - Space Shuttle last flight
- 2018 - Falcon Heavy first flight
- 2022 - Russia invades Ukraine
¶ Now - 2100
The tail end of the 21st century was considered a time of great turmoil. The Western Collapse in and of itself would have been considered enough, but it also saw the creation of the first world government, on top of the ashes of the greatest democracy Earth had ever seen.
- 2023 - Finland joins NATO
- 2025 - Lunar Gateway station launched
- 2026 - Humans returned to the Moon
- 2028 - First Manned Mars mission
- 2030 - First commercial space station
- 2032 - International Space Station deorbitted
- 2040 - First reusable commercial spacecraft
- 2061 - US established Mars "Freedom Base"
- 2068 - First martian colony established
- 2089 - US Economy Collapses
- 2090 - World War III declared, second Martian City, 'New Washington' established
- 2092 - US invaded by Chinese / Russian coalition, US government evacuates to Freedom Colony
- 2094 - Chinese victory declared, United Nations & NATO dissolved
- 2095 - The People's Republic of Terra formed, first world government established
- 2098 - Mars declares independence, tighter immigration controls
¶ 2100s
This time period was considered a technological renaissance, as humanity's two worlds desperately tried to find ways to solve the problems of space travel. It was also considered one of the darkest periods in human history, as the entire thrust of our technological achievements were with the goal of waging interplanetary war.
- 2101 - The 'Interstellar Cold War' begins between Mars and earth
- 2103 - Third Martian City, 'New New York' established
- 2107 - First commercial Fusion Reactor comes online
- 2110 - First intrastellar military space craft launched
- 2112 - Terran government demands the surrender of Mars
- First intrastellar fleet launched
- First interstellar colony ships launched in secret
- "Perseverance Fleet" consisting of three ships: Niña, Pinta, Santa Maria.
- 2113 - Terran fleet arrived on Mars
- Mars Colony found abandoned
- Terran fleet destroyed by nuclear weapons left behind by Martians
- 2114 - Second Martian colony established, Terran government declares Mars a colony world.
- 2162 - First Contact between Humans and NorAellians
- Humans gained subspace technology
- Perseverance Fleet establishes new homeworld on Calysto with NorAellian help
- Creation of The League of Allied Worlds
¶ 2200s
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2262 - Second Contact between Terrans and NorAellians.
- Humanity gains subspace radio technology
- The First Interstellar War declared
- (See The Last, Great War.)
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2289 - The First Interstellar War ends in a cease-fire after the Republic detonated a nuclear bomb in the League shipyards in Calysto
¶ 2300s - 2600
There's much missing information that needs to be filled in here. And thus, to quote an excellent podcaster (Mike Duncan, History of Rome), "What with one thing or another, three hundred years pass."
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2350 - The Second Interstellar War Began
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2380 - The Second Interstellar War Concluded
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2403 - The Third Interstellar War Began
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2429 - The Third Interstellar War Concluded
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2448
- The Confederacy of Freelance States was founded and recognized by unanimous League vote.
- People's Republic of Terra released their counter claim: the Renlei Zhimindi Xuanyan.
- The Confederacy War (Fourth Interstellar War) begins.
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2493 - The Confederacy War ends with the NorAellians backing the Confederacy of Freelance States as a legitimate and independent government.
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2537 - The Fifth Interstellar War Begins
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2561 - The Entranza Agios is lost with all hands
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2569 - The Fifth Interstellar War Concludes
¶ 2600s
- 2612 - The Sixth Interstellar War Begins
- 2638 - The Farscape Project begins.
- 2651
- The Farscape Project show their first success, proving the existence of hyperspace.
- August 8th - The Battle of Charlemagne happens. The Carolingian system is cut off from the rest of the galaxy by the Charlemagne Disaster.
- 2652 - The current cease-fire agreement is signed, along with the Charlemagne Accords, agreeing to no usage of Subspace weapons and ending the Sixth Interstellar War.
- 2664 - The Archigos Experiments introduced Humanity to the Sooni.
- 2665 - The LXS Archigos returns with survivors.
- 2666 - The Archigos Class officially enters service, with the LXS Archigos as the only ship in the class.
- 2667 - Five additional Archigos class ships are built.
- Task Force Daedalus is formed and lost in a single day.
- The LSS Lachesis is lost with all hands.
- Task Force Daedalus is formed and lost in a single day.
- 2672 - The Revelation-class is launched.
- 2675 - The Moskva Academy has it's first class.
- 2682 - The LSS Lachesis is salvaged and rename the FMS Spring's Endeavour.
- 2690 - The Dante Project is started.
- 2692 - The Revelation-class begins its class-wide refit. The refit takes seven months per ship to complete and from April to July of this year, all four ships of the class are in adjoining dry docks.
- 2695 - The Fall sees the Sooni assasinate every high ranking government official across human space.