The Second Era begins when ??? conquers all of Aerion, thus founding the very first empire. (Age 42)
2080s - Microsoft goes into military software and unmanned fighter planes industry. 2108 - The Space-Elevator is christened. Big construction projects are planned, including new space stations, and huge Orion nuke-propelled spacecraft that are to be used for the colonization of the solar system. 2200s - Vast solar-system colonization. Bases and closed-environment cities built on most suitable bodies in the solar system. Migration and tourism to extraterrestrial settlements gains in popularity.
The Second Era begins when ??? conquers all of Aerion, thus founding the very first empire. (Age 42)
2080s - Microsoft goes into military software and unmanned fighter planes industry. 2108 - The Space-Elevator is christened. Big construction projects are planned, including new space stations, and huge Orion nuke-propelled spacecraft that are to be used for the colonization of the solar system. 2200s - Vast solar-system colonization. Bases and closed-environment cities built on most suitable bodies in the solar system. Migration and tourism to extraterrestrial settlements gains in popularity. 2323 - The Nomad 3 interstellar probe is the first artificial object to ever reach Proxima Centauri and transmit a compressed laser message to Earth. 2326 - The signal from Nomad 3 is recieved. At that time more probes are already on the way to other neighbouring systems. 2400s - The plans that were meticulously prepared throughout the entire previous century are finally carried out - huge spaceships, carrying thousands of passengers frozen in cryogenic holding cells, are accelerated to a speed very close to the speed of light (around 90%), heading toward stars that were probed beforehand and found suitable for colonization.