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This is where it all started...
First it was Land of the Free followed by Eurotour as the characters
needed to make themselves scarce in the US of A...
JohnOminor, DanWhite,[/Vita],SamuelAlston among others first appeared
here.

During Eurotour [Weasel] shows up as well.
MilosWogabi joins the merry crew as they are incarerated in Sub
Attica during the adventure with that name.

Summary:

2020: early: where it all starts. Land of the Free.

2020: mid year-late: Eurotour. First Africa archs take place here as
well.

2021-2022: Sub Attica. Continuos african activities

2023-2024: Later African archs. Chrome Berets. Playground. Bonin
Horse. Northwest Passage. NYC-archs with [/Vita],[/Weasel] and
SeptemberChung, this includes Chasing the Dragon.

2025: Greenwar. Martian Adventures. The Spook-arch.

2026: Fall of Gods Country, The Burton-Object.

2027: Firestorm: Stormfront, Firestorm:Shockwave


!The Future

Here's a brief summation of things that come to pass in the 21st
century.

_*2030s*_

The world sees an economic boom during this decade, however the new
riches fail to raise the poor of most countries to a higher standard
of living.

Industrial IP and standardization corporation Basic Concept emerges,
beginning even to replace the time-honored ISO.

The 30s also see the first small steps toward colonization of the
solar system.

2032: The Inca republic finish work on their massdriver.

2034: The Soviet Union begin their behemoth project of bombing holes
big enough in the atmosphere of Venus for it to cool down, in
preparation for colonization.

_*2040s*_

The boom of the 30s finally starts to slowly push the standard of
living up in several developing countries, supported not least, by an
emerging new sense of global cooperation.

Massive investments into space projects are being made, while the
colonization started in the 30s continues. Several corporations set
up bases on different locations throughout the solar system. Notably,
corporations such as Orbital Air, Basic Concept, ConAir (?), Pryce
IPH, set up shop on Saturn's moon Titan.

2047: The Beanstalk funded and owned by Basic Concept is finished,
giving the space investment trend a further push.

2048: The Great South AMerican Drug Wars begin. While it remains low
in intensity in the beginning, it will soon escalate, causing great
damage and suffering in the process.

_*2050s*_

The economic build-up of the last two decades begins to lose
momentum. The impact is first felt by those most recently having been
uplifted from poverty. Global instability follows, and towards the end
of the 50s, the global economy stalls and crashes.

2052: The Great South AMerican Drug Wars end after four years of
devastation.

2058: The first signs of an impending global economic crash are
showing, but the warning signs are not taken seriously.

2059: A small nuclear device is detonated at the headquarters of the
European Union in Brussels. What becomes known as the City Wars
breaks out between Euopean nations and corporations, as well as the
EU itself. Curiously, the hostilities confine themselves to urbanized
areas, hence the name.

_*2060s*_

During this decade, catholicism finally fades away until it is all
but gone, having been replaced by cyber catholicism.

Estonia, having been the playground for the more shady experiments of
several international corporations, becomes a source of a few
epidemics, hitting mostly the northern parts of Europe.

2063: The general distrust towards the Inca Republic, brought about
by its profuse distribution of weapons to South American governments,
guerillas and drug cartels alike, triggers a wave of destabilization
throughout the entire continent. Wars break out also in this part of
the world, seeing most notably the generous use of biological
weapons, many of which experimental. Consequently, the growth of the
South American rain forests runs amok, driving, in addition to
several epidemics, old and new, millions from their homes.

2065: The City Wars in Europe come to an end.

_*2070s*_

The wars end and the general global downslope levels out. There are
few, if any, countries that have not had their share of turmoil and
destruction.

During the course of the decade, while the EU died in the City Wars,
Europe divides itself up into three blocks. The Cyber Catholic ,
Alpine and Nordic blocks, where Germany joins the latter.

Meanwhile in North America, governments collaps or are at least
weakened to the point of cracking up into a patchwork of corporate
nations, warlord controlled territories, etc. All of Latin America
has reformed as a single state, or region, under Mexican control.
Cuba, however, remains under communist rule.

Since governments and corporations worldwide have lost their grip on
the world, the spook community, from around the mid 70s, prove to be
the unseen but nonetheless uniting force.

_*2080s*_

This decade is spent rebuilding the world. Not just physically but
politically and diplomatically. Again, it is the spook community that
brings about most of the progress in this time of
every-man-for-himself, when there is little trust among people.

Starting in 2085, the world starts seeing a new pioneering spirit and
entrepeneurship with regards to space. Despite the hardships and
efforts to rebuild communities on earth, resources for the further
exploration of space seems to be in ample supply. The whole space
pioneering thing is brought about by the spook community as yet
another step towards normalization and  reinvigorated progress.

_*2090s*_

Earth reaches back out to its colonies in space.

Immense efforts are made to colonize the solar system in a more
methodical and organized manner.å Asteroids are moved into new, more
useful orbits, etc.

2099: A manned expedition to investigate what seems to be a
hyperspace gate at the edge of the solar system disappears. Here is
where the aliens are discovered, with all of their uncanny
similaities to humanity, physically, culturally and technologically.
War ensues.
_*2100s*_

War is officially declared against the aliens. All of earth unites to
meet the alien "threat", and colony upon colony is conquered from the
aliens in an unexpectedly effortless fashion.