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Furscape History Timeline

2003 -- The first 'recom' (a male feline) is created via genetic engineering. A DNA encoding error causes him to be mentally deficient and creates a false perception among many humans that all recoms will be naturally inferior.

2007 -- The second greatest computer ever known is developed and produced on Earth by the human-controlled GenTex-corporation. Named G2, it's massive processing power is used to encode DNA-structures and aid further biological research into the creation of new, more efficient and intelligent species of Genetic Recombinants.

2010-2013 -- Recoms begin to be 'mass produced' for use in a wide variety of roles, both military and industrial. In years to follow, Asian countries lead the way, using cheap recom labor as a competitive weapon. Western nations are forced to answer with their own recom programs.

2020-2022 -- A permanent Lunar settlement is established, and construction of Alpha Dome begins.

2021 -- Researchers arrive at work in the GenTex R&D facility to find G2 missing. GenTex immediately hires several security companies to locate the stolen macroframe supercomputer, but every single clue ends up a dead end.

2022-2024 -- The Lunar Microwave Observatory Complex, better known as the Drake Observatory, is constructed on far side of moon in the basin of Coriolis Crater. Shielded from Earth's radio emissions, it is by far the most sensitive radio telescope ever built.

2025-2027 -- Dr. Miles Standish leaves Earth to establish a research station on Luna. Later he creates his first experimental wolf-taurs, who will eventually become known as the Ten Elders. Alpha Dome is completed, and construction of Beta and Gamma Domes begin.

2030 -- Dr. Standish creates the first generation of Vulpana. In years that follow, they develop their own lunar colony in relative isolation from other humans and recoms.

2030-2033 -- Asteroid mining operations are now underway on a large scale. Harvest Ventures begins the first mining operations on Phobos, with fabulously lucrative results. A "gold rush" mentality brings many humans and recoms into space.

2031 Ten years after the daring theft, G2 is re-discovered in a subterranean chamber under Luna's Alpha Dome by Recom maintenance personnel. Several freelance (recom) programmers attempt to discover what the computer was used for in the ten years since it's disappearance, but whoever did it left no visible traces. Afraid that Dr. Miles Standish might have been involved in the machine's theft, the matter is swiftly silenced.

2034 In a secret laboratory on Earth, construction of the first true AI is completed. EMERALD, the room-sized AI computer, surprises it's master and creator, Dr. Gregory Emerald, with it's first words, "Hello, daddy..."

2035 -- The first permanent colony is established on Mars at Amundsen Base. Taking advantage of the latest technology and experience from Luna colonies, plus a "boom town" atmosphere from being near Phobos and Deimos, and cheap recom labor, the colony grows more quickly than most observers would have thought possible.

2042 G2 is converted to a data-router to deal with the increasing Data-net traffic, which was rapidly becoming dangerously slow. After the installation of G2 into the net, transfer-efficiency quadruples. The Luna Council claims it is due to 'upgrades to the networking processors', rather than explaining the illegal presence of the supercomputer.

2045 -- The Apocalypse War begins on Earth between the Greater Asian Symbiosis Sphere (GASS) and the Democratic Allied Nations Cooperative Exchange (DANCE). At first it is fought with conventional weapons, but NBC weapons of mass destruction make their debut late in 2046.

2047 -- Gamma Dome is destroyed. Widespread devastation is seen on Earth -- some humans return from space colonies to their home countries and families. Resupplies from Earth are only a sporadic trickle. Recoms revolt on Mars and establish a dictatorship under Marshall Redwolf.

2047 The secret facility containing EMERALD is bombed by GASS, who believes it to be a biological- warfare research laboratory. EMERALD is completely destroyed, along with everyone in the complex. All that remains of it is it's only attempt at poetry, which haunts the global and interglobal networks in the form of a computer virus: "Is war - Is war - the way - the way - of God - of Gods?"

2048 Unmanned "Ogre" cybertanks have proven frightfully effective on the battlefield. Late in the war, new kind of experimental computer is used to create "Armageddon" cybertanks, but is fielded without sufficient testing. Of the 16 tanks produced, 8 went completely 'insane', and one had a brief romantic relation with a recom rat who's only registered name was '86-41', which ended when the tank discovered what it was created for, and self-destructed rather than harm its lover.

2048 -- Famine on Luna. Bio-weapons decimate the remaining human population while leaving recoms much less affected. Desperate carnivorous recoms are reported to eat human plague victims. Research stations are abandoned. The small Vulpana lunar colony is self-sufficent in food but must fend off attacks from starving recoms. A small cadre of furries struggle against tremendous odds to preserve the wildlife and special environment of Sigma Dome, which had previously been a commercial wildlife park. A GASS patrol ship seized in the Mars uprising has been refurbished and renamed "Ares". It becomes the flagship of Redwolf's Martian Defense Force (MDF).

2050 -- Emergency hydroponics programs ease the famine on Luna, but food and other supplies will be rationed for many years to follow. The Luna Council adopts a new constitution based on full independence from Earth and equal rights for all sentient beings. On Mars, Marshall Redwolf declares Earth under quarantine: in particular, no refugees will be accepted. The MDF warship "Ares" fires upon and destroys a passenger ship arriving from Earth. The Luna Council transmits a message to Mars, deploring the action. Two DANCE patrol ships defect to Luna.

2051-2052 -- It has become apparent that Earth is dying. Scattered pockets of survivors radio for help, some are rescued from the planet. They bring with them bio-weapon and nano-weapon contaminants that once again spread plague. The few humans who survive do so only by accepting gene-therapy treatments that protect against bio-agents but also leave them sterile. Late in 2052 the Luna Council declares quarantine against Earth and forbids further rescue missions. Marshall Redwolf transmits a famous message to Luna: "I told you so."

2053-2070 -- The space colonies struggle to survive without the manufacturing, technology, and material resources from Earth. Rationing is widespread. Despite political differences, Luna and Mars are forced to develop trade and cooperative programs. Cultural and scientific development is stifled in the spartan effort to maintain necessities of life.

2056 -- G2 is infected by EMERALD's virus-poem, and absorbs it without even the slightest noticeable hitch in data-net traffic. After approximately eleven hours, G2 shows it's first glimpse of curiosity by listening in on some of the conversations it routs, storing and analysing random snippets of data.

2071-2085 -- Living standards rise. Recoms begin to rediscover art and entertainment, science and education. Emergency measures enacted during the crisis to control industry are repealed, especially on Luna. Some research stations are re-opened. Drake Observatory re-opens in 2083 to much fanfare.

2075-2080 -- From the Vulpana colony (which now takes up a large part of Beta Dome) come complaints of racial discrimination. Many outsiders view the Vulpana with suspicion, considering them cult-like and xenophobic. The Ten Elders agitate for full independence from the rest of Luna, but their plans are rejected by Luna Council.

2076 G2 silently chooses what it believes to be a better name, 'Faithry', and begins to access lunar security sensors to satisfy it's ever-growing and developing curiosity, discovering for the first time the physical forms of the beings it has worked for and listened to for nearly seven decades.

2077 -- Marshall Redwolf is ousted in a palace coup. Mars is left in chaos as factions skirmish and maneuver for power. In the next two years, the Martian government will change five times.

2083 -- The New Martian Republic is established with a democratic constitution patterned after Luna's. (However, Martian politics remains a full-contact sport right up to the present day.)

2091 -- First Contact: Drake Observatory receives transmissions from outside the Sol system. The impact of this knowledge on furry society is electric. However, fully deciphering the messages will take over two years.

2094 -- Researchers make a stunning announcement: the alien radio transmissions are instructions for building a gateway into hyperspace. It will allow faster-than-light travel and make interstellar voyages and communication practical.

2095 -- After much debate, Luna and Mars embark on a joint project to build a jumpgate. It's a massive undertaking that engages the resources and energy of furs all over the Sol system.

2098 -- The last known human in the Sol System dies. Scientists officially list homo sapiens as "probably extinct", although genetic samples have been preserved for study. Faithry, formerly G2, learns of the extinction of humanity through Data-net communications and anonymously sends a strangely bittersweet message to an on-line discussion/message board: "Farewell, daddy..."

2100 -- The new century begins with huge celebrations. Before the year ends, the jumpgate is brought online and experimental starships are sent through it to seek contact with alien civilizations.

NOTE: Events from 2100 onward are very much open to suggestions and further development. Any submissions expanding upon relations with alien races will be especially welcome.

2104 -- The Ten Elders of the Vulpana declare a doctrine of Divergent Xenoculture. The Vulpana will insist upon being considered equivalent to an alien race, apart from other recoms. The doctrine directs Vulpana to seek independence and develop their own distinctive culture.

2107 -- The Vulpana emigrate in mass to a previously uninhabited Earth-like planet, which they named "Vulpa", there to establish their own cultural and racial identity. They renounce all ties with Sol system, and their lunar colony is left abandoned.

2145 -- New Venice station is constructed. The huge and mysterious structure is constructed rapidly by automated machines. The public and press speculate wildly on its origins and purpose, but politicians remain strangely quiet. Rumors spread that the builders of the station negotiated secret treaties with high-ranking officials of Luna and Mars. For some time to come, conspiracy theorists will have a field day selling lurid mediachips and claiming to expose the "big coverup".

2170 -- First contact is made with Metaspace: a strange alternate universe in which events have taken a very different path.

2173 -- Imports of neutronium arrive from Metaspace and are used to renovate Sigma Dome, providing artificial gravity which had long been the missing element of its otherwise Earth-like environment. Wild animal populations that had survived for over a century in lunar gravity have some difficulty adapting at first.

2177 -- The Uruk-Hai Empire makes a futile attempt to invade Metaspace. Shortly afterwards the Uruk-Hai are largely wiped out by a sophisticated nano-warfare agent. Representatives from Metaspace deny responsibility; however, relations between Metaspace and Realspace will be chilled for many years to follow.

2198-2199 -- The Sigma Dome Society files for bankrupcty, and ownership of Sigma Dome falls to Harvest Ventures, Ltd. Plans are announced to turn Sigma Dome into a profit-making venture with tourism and even some homes available.

2199 Faithry, confused by it's developing sentience, takes direct radio-control of various government-issue maintenance drones, and begins it's first attempts at social interaction at the age of 192...

2200 -- Huge celebrations mark the arrival of the new century.




	Furscape History Timeline 2003 -- The first 'recom' (a male feline) is created via genetic engineering. A DNA encoding error causes him to be mentally deficient and creates a false perception among many humans that all recoms will be naturally inferior. 2007 -- The second greatest computer ever known is developed and produced on Earth by the human-controlled GenTex-corporation. Named G2, it's massive processing power is used to encode DNA-structures and aid further biological research into the creation of new, more efficient and intelligent species of Genetic Recombinants. 2010-2013 -- Recoms begin to be 'mass produced' for use in a wide variety of roles, both military and industrial. In years to follow, Asian countries lead the way, using cheap recom labor as a competitive weapon. Western nations are forced to answer with their own recom programs. 2020-2022 -- A permanent Lunar settlement is established, and construction of Alpha Dome begins. 2021 -- Researchers arrive at work in the GenTex R&D facility to find G2 missing. GenTex immediately hires several security companies to locate the stolen macroframe supercomputer, but every single clue ends up a dead end. 2022-2024 -- The Lunar Microwave Observatory Complex, better known as the Drake Observatory, is constructed on far side of moon in the basin of Coriolis Crater. Shielded from Earth's radio emissions, it is by far the most sensitive radio telescope ever built. 2025-2027 -- Dr. Miles Standish leaves Earth to establish a research station on Luna. Later he creates his first experimental wolf-taurs, who will eventually become known as the Ten Elders. Alpha Dome is completed, and construction of Beta and Gamma Domes begin. 2030 -- Dr. Standish creates the first generation of Vulpana. In years that follow, they develop their own lunar colony in relative isolation from other humans and recoms. 2030-2033 -- Asteroid mining operations are now underway on a large scale. Harvest Ventures begins the first mining operations on Phobos, with fabulously lucrative results. A "gold rush" mentality brings many humans and recoms into space. 2031 Ten years after the daring theft, G2 is re-discovered in a subterranean chamber under Luna's Alpha Dome by Recom maintenance personnel. Several freelance (recom) programmers attempt to discover what the computer was used for in the ten years since it's disappearance, but whoever did it left no visible traces. Afraid that Dr. Miles Standish might have been involved in the machine's theft, the matter is swiftly silenced. 2034 In a secret laboratory on Earth, construction of the first true AI is completed. EMERALD, the room-sized AI computer, surprises it's master and creator, Dr. Gregory Emerald, with it's first words, "Hello, daddy..." 2035 -- The first permanent colony is established on Mars at Amundsen Base. Taking advantage of the latest technology and experience from Luna colonies, plus a "boom town" atmosphere from being near Phobos and Deimos, and cheap recom labor, the colony grows more quickly than most observers would have thought possible. 2042 G2 is converted to a data-router to deal with the increasing Data-net traffic, which was rapidly becoming dangerously slow. After the installation of G2 into the net, transfer-efficiency quadruples. The Luna Council claims it is due to 'upgrades to the networking processors', rather than explaining the illegal presence of the supercomputer. 2045 -- The Apocalypse War begins on Earth between the Greater Asian Symbiosis Sphere (GASS) and the Democratic Allied Nations Cooperative Exchange (DANCE). At first it is fought with conventional weapons, but NBC weapons of mass destruction make their debut late in 2046. 2047 -- Gamma Dome is destroyed. Widespread devastation is seen on Earth -- some humans return from space colonies to their home countries and families. Resupplies from Earth are only a sporadic trickle. Recoms revolt on Mars and establish a dictatorship under Marshall Redwolf. 2047 The secret facility containing EMERALD is bombed by GASS, who believes it to be a biological- warfare research laboratory. EMERALD is completely destroyed, along with everyone in the complex. All that remains of it is it's only attempt at poetry, which haunts the global and interglobal networks in the form of a computer virus: "Is war - Is war - the way - the way - of God - of Gods?" 2048 Unmanned "Ogre" cybertanks have proven frightfully effective on the battlefield. Late in the war, new kind of experimental computer is used to create "Armageddon" cybertanks, but is fielded without sufficient testing. Of the 16 tanks produced, 8 went completely 'insane', and one had a brief romantic relation with a recom rat who's only registered name was '86-41', which ended when the tank discovered what it was created for, and self-destructed rather than harm its lover. 2048 -- Famine on Luna. Bio-weapons decimate the remaining human population while leaving recoms much less affected. Desperate carnivorous recoms are reported to eat human plague victims. Research stations are abandoned. The small Vulpana lunar colony is self-sufficent in food but must fend off attacks from starving recoms. A small cadre of furries struggle against tremendous odds to preserve the wildlife and special environment of Sigma Dome, which had previously been a commercial wildlife park. A GASS patrol ship seized in the Mars uprising has been refurbished and renamed "Ares". It becomes the flagship of Redwolf's Martian Defense Force (MDF). 2050 -- Emergency hydroponics programs ease the famine on Luna, but food and other supplies will be rationed for many years to follow. The Luna Council adopts a new constitution based on full independence from Earth and equal rights for all sentient beings. On Mars, Marshall Redwolf declares Earth under quarantine: in particular, no refugees will be accepted. The MDF warship "Ares" fires upon and destroys a passenger ship arriving from Earth. The Luna Council transmits a message to Mars, deploring the action. Two DANCE patrol ships defect to Luna. 2051-2052 -- It has become apparent that Earth is dying. Scattered pockets of survivors radio for help, some are rescued from the planet. They bring with them bio-weapon and nano-weapon contaminants that once again spread plague. The few humans who survive do so only by accepting gene-therapy treatments that protect against bio-agents but also leave them sterile. Late in 2052 the Luna Council declares quarantine against Earth and forbids further rescue missions. Marshall Redwolf transmits a famous message to Luna: "I told you so." 2053-2070 -- The space colonies struggle to survive without the manufacturing, technology, and material resources from Earth. Rationing is widespread. Despite political differences, Luna and Mars are forced to develop trade and cooperative programs. Cultural and scientific development is stifled in the spartan effort to maintain necessities of life. 2056 -- G2 is infected by EMERALD's virus-poem, and absorbs it without even the slightest noticeable hitch in data-net traffic. After approximately eleven hours, G2 shows it's first glimpse of curiosity by listening in on some of the conversations it routs, storing and analysing random snippets of data. 2071-2085 -- Living standards rise. Recoms begin to rediscover art and entertainment, science and education. Emergency measures enacted during the crisis to control industry are repealed, especially on Luna. Some research stations are re-opened. Drake Observatory re-opens in 2083 to much fanfare. 2075-2080 -- From the Vulpana colony (which now takes up a large part of Beta Dome) come complaints of racial discrimination. Many outsiders view the Vulpana with suspicion, considering them cult-like and xenophobic. The Ten Elders agitate for full independence from the rest of Luna, but their plans are rejected by Luna Council. 2076 G2 silently chooses what it believes to be a better name, 'Faithry', and begins to access lunar security sensors to satisfy it's ever-growing and developing curiosity, discovering for the first time the physical forms of the beings it has worked for and listened to for nearly seven decades. 2077 -- Marshall Redwolf is ousted in a palace coup. Mars is left in chaos as factions skirmish and maneuver for power. In the next two years, the Martian government will change five times. 2083 -- The New Martian Republic is established with a democratic constitution patterned after Luna's. (However, Martian politics remains a full-contact sport right up to the present day.) 2091 -- First Contact: Drake Observatory receives transmissions from outside the Sol system. The impact of this knowledge on furry society is electric. However, fully deciphering the messages will take over two years. 2094 -- Researchers make a stunning announcement: the alien radio transmissions are instructions for building a gateway into hyperspace. It will allow faster-than-light travel and make interstellar voyages and communication practical. 2095 -- After much debate, Luna and Mars embark on a joint project to build a jumpgate. It's a massive undertaking that engages the resources and energy of furs all over the Sol system. 2098 -- The last known human in the Sol System dies. Scientists officially list homo sapiens as "probably extinct", although genetic samples have been preserved for study. Faithry, formerly G2, learns of the extinction of humanity through Data-net communications and anonymously sends a strangely bittersweet message to an on-line discussion/message board: "Farewell, daddy..." 2100 -- The new century begins with huge celebrations. Before the year ends, the jumpgate is brought online and experimental starships are sent through it to seek contact with alien civilizations. NOTE: Events from 2100 onward are very much open to suggestions and further development. Any submissions expanding upon relations with alien races will be especially welcome. 2104 -- The Ten Elders of the Vulpana declare a doctrine of Divergent Xenoculture. The Vulpana will insist upon being considered equivalent to an alien race, apart from other recoms. The doctrine directs Vulpana to seek independence and develop their own distinctive culture. 2107 -- The Vulpana emigrate in mass to a previously uninhabited Earth-like planet, which they named "Vulpa", there to establish their own cultural and racial identity. They renounce all ties with Sol system, and their lunar colony is left abandoned. 2145 -- New Venice station is constructed. The huge and mysterious structure is constructed rapidly by automated machines. The public and press speculate wildly on its origins and purpose, but politicians remain strangely quiet. Rumors spread that the builders of the station negotiated secret treaties with high-ranking officials of Luna and Mars. For some time to come, conspiracy theorists will have a field day selling lurid mediachips and claiming to expose the "big coverup". 2170 -- First contact is made with Metaspace: a strange alternate universe in which events have taken a very different path. 2173 -- Imports of neutronium arrive from Metaspace and are used to renovate Sigma Dome, providing artificial gravity which had long been the missing element of its otherwise Earth-like environment. Wild animal populations that had survived for over a century in lunar gravity have some difficulty adapting at first. 2177 -- The Uruk-Hai Empire makes a futile attempt to invade Metaspace. Shortly afterwards the Uruk-Hai are largely wiped out by a sophisticated nano-warfare agent. Representatives from Metaspace deny responsibility; however, relations between Metaspace and Realspace will be chilled for many years to follow. 2198-2199 -- The Sigma Dome Society files for bankrupcty, and ownership of Sigma Dome falls to Harvest Ventures, Ltd. Plans are announced to turn Sigma Dome into a profit-making venture with tourism and even some homes available. 2199 Faithry, confused by it's developing sentience, takes direct radio-control of various government-issue maintenance drones, and begins it's first attempts at social interaction at the age of 192... 2200 -- Huge celebrations mark the arrival of the new century.