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2020 AD
COVID-19 kicks off as a mass-quarantine issues, starting in the city of Wuhan with the consumption of a bat. With the joy of children, schools begin to close, eventually leading to its international spread. Due to the average stupidity of people who disagree with the issued policies, the United States ranks first in terms of COVID-19 cases.
2022 AD
The Russo-Ukraine war starts, and treatments for COVID variants start to come up as countries ease their COVID policies and international airlines start to revive. Elon Musk is exposed as his deeds lower public opinion. Along with this, Artemis 1 is launched, and the Orion capsule successfully returns with its inanimate crew. And finally, the destabilization of China in its major cities like Beijing, Shanghai, etc. Starting the first phase of the collapse of the communist party
2023 AD
Artemis 2 launches, albeit with delays, as it carries the 4 crew members it sent around the moon. Commander Joseph M. Acaba, Astronaut Barry E. Wilmore, Astronaut G. Reid Wiseman, and finally, Astronaut Josh A. Cassada They flew to the moon in a very messy pattern before returning to earth and being hailed as the successors of the Apollo program.
2024 AD
Stacy Abrams of the Democratic Party wins the 2024 election as she is named the new president of the United States. The Russo-Ukraine war suffers from war exhaustion as plans for a coup d’etat against the Putin administration are rumored.
2025 AD
The Dear-moon mission launch's live chat is filled with everyday astronaut fans. Putin is being forced out or killed as Russia enters its most unstable period in 30 years. With the new regime being right-wing democratic and opening trade with the EU and eventually joining NATO, further increasing the capitalist bloc as China continues to militarize while its people constantly protest. The Russo-Ukraine war concludes with Ukraine regaining all territory lost following Russia's coup.
2026 AD
The first humans land in a SpaceX starship on Artemis 3, and Astronaut Barry E. Wilmore becomes the first human to walk on the moon in 58 years. and is the 13th person to walk on the moon. Axiom's space segment docks with the ISS as one of the newer modules of the station itself. The Starlab space station was launched earlier than planned as it is the first commercial space station.
2029 AD
The Voyager station has been completed and is the first commercial space hotel that has been built. It runs on lunar gravity for its crew and passengers. People visiting the station included businessmen such as Elon Musk, who has since tried to improve his public image by investing in his neural network and rocket companies, as well as Jeff Bezos, among others. Blue Origin launches its New Glenn rocket as it successfully sends a payload to LEO. The New Armstrong is under development as SpaceX also starts developing the successor to the Starship. The Nebula.
2031 AD
The Lunar Gateway Station is assembled in lunar orbit, as it is the base of the United States and its allies on the moon. Further strengthening the NATO bond is important as Russia's rocket technology is doing great. While China is actively declining and the USA is still the premier economic and military power, Russian equipment is also listed with all its classified features as it will be useful in a future war with China.
2035 AD
Several starships land on the moon in the shadow of Shackleton as they start deploying men and automated robots alike. Alongside starships sending satellites around the moon to operate the robots, the robots start to mine the lunar regolith for material and helium 3. Inflatable bases as light as possible are put around the edges of shackleton, while layers of genetically modified radiotrophic fungi are placed around these inflated bases. along with all current space stations and rockets.
2040 AD
The lunar-base Armstrong has been constructed around the rims of Shackleton crater located in the south pole of the moon. Around a football field of size at around 57.800 Square feet, resembling a whole village of Spherical and cylindrical constructs covered in lunar regolith and a layer of radiation absorbing fungi. It is home to 20 temporary crew members relieved every 2 years, is included with an inflatable hydroponic construct to feed the people living and researching and houses 30 landing pads for Starships.
This was joined with massive mining operations in tranquility base manned by 100 crewmembers for mining operations on the moon. And the size of 2 Football fields wide. Filled with unmanned robots everywhere mining and refining lunar regolith to process the sacred isotope of helium. Helium-3.
2045 AD
Tokamaks are in full use in the US of A as they are placed everywhere. Producing a whopping 40 gigawatts an hour through its 150 million degree fusion with Helium 3 and deuterium. With a tokamak also present in the UK powering it alone indefinitely. Helion goes out of business as it didn't even break a gigawatt of power in the 2030s. Though, it is early technology and as such, may have useful application due to its small size..
Alongside this was the rising tensions between the UN and China. After the removal of communist China and being replaced by the ROC in 2042. Xi jinping dies due to a stroke and the one who succeeds him is his Vice-president and Grandson of Former chairman Hu jintao. Hun Jintao.
China resumes its Space program as it lands its first Lunar base module on the north pole of the moon. But is in a severe disadvantage as the UN has already occupied most of the hotspots for resource and scientific research and wont humbly share it as all present UN moon bases are equipped with a arms-module filled with M5A4s equipped with bayonets and NTW-50 Anti-Material rifles.
SpaceXs Starship nebula, an improved and bigger starship with better Raptor engines at 153 meters in height and 18 meters in diameter. Able to fit 200 people comfortably while increasing its payload capacity to 730 tons. Has completed its test phase as it does its first orbital mission while New Armstrong is still in its design phase.
2050 AD
The World Fusion Organization has conducted extensive research on Helion fusion, which handles all current Tokamak reactors present in Europe and the USA. and primarily in the United States, where it originated.
Results are coming in as the Helion fusion reactor design can be feasible and create a whopping 10 gigawatts per hour. and is small enough to be held in a starship and maybe be able to send a compact fusion reactor to an interplanetary outpost. or be installed on large spaceplanes.
One is sent to the moon and is shown great results; the nuclear reactors in Tranquility Base and Armstrong Base, alongside other small mining outposts, are decommissioned as they are replaced by Helion Fusion reactors.
More space stations are assembled in orbit, as they are mostly hotels now. The Jericho station is reminiscent of the first city in human history. is built as a bigger version of the Voyager station in a centrifuge design. People begin to live in it after it pulls its passengers at 1G of gravity and includes many plants in the station to create oxygen and hydroponic pods. and is able to hold 1100 people.
More Jericho-like stations are planned to be constructed while ShuttleX and Lockheed-Martin start to design a cheap black and white reusable shuttlecraft able to ferry passengers to these hotels or permanent stations launching from a Buran-like rocket with the shuttle placed on it.
Named the Valkyrie, it is 123 meters long and 89 meters wide. It is equipped with a scramjet-fused magnetoplasmadynamic thruster. and is able to carry 600 passengers and 320 tons of cargo into the highest orbit on Earth. and is VTOL capable.
But unknown to anyone but the scientists at ShuttleX, the Valkyrie would be in use for more than a century due to its revolutionary design and its incorporation of a Fusion drive in the future.
2060 AD
Chinese sensors detect a range of unknown satellites getting into a geostationary orbit above China. Numbering at 3 dozen in total, Covering China in just 5 weeks.
Unknown to the Chinese, this is the UNs SLAM ICBM defense system. With countries strengthening relations with each other in the UN to the point it looked like a global version of NATO. The SLAM project was an international focus on literally Planet-locking China but found to be too inhumane. And as such, is now used to counter the Chinese ICBMs once they launch. With a 85% chance of success.
Using several 2 module sized unmanned satellites at 30 meters long. Equipped with a Helion reactor to power its advanced sensors. And to power its precision focused gigawatt LASER.
2065 AD
The race to Mars begins as the first starship nebula lands near the north pole, where ice is, and people come out and survey the land. All of this while being bombarded with radiation from their EVA suits, which are covered in layers of genetically modified radiotrophic fungi to only have little radiation affect them.
The first settlement was constructed by unmanned robots of UN design using Martian regolith. It is not covered in Martian sand due to, of course, the fungi.
Several landing pads are paved by the robots as astronauts go to the poles and study the ice. Scientists will soon discover frozen microbial life being revived in a petri dish. The existence of alien life has shocked the world. The United Nations Space Administration, or UNSA, has further funded a mission to the Jovian moons, Ganymede and Europa, to find more life and even Enceladus of saturn.
Back on Earth, the Fusion drive was engineered with a high specific impulse and a high thrust-to-weight ratio. As it uses plasma from inertial confinement fusion and Helion, it is possibly the best invention of the twenty-first century. creating high thrust. And with huge efficiency, it is able to sustain 1 g of acceleration from Earth to Mars. Which has improved and changed the design of spaceships to the style of office buildings. In which the starship nebula had already been incorporated and modified. The UNSA and SpaceX are also considering using SpaceBorn ships to transport cargo.
2069 AD
Back on earth……Politics has been taking place...Global warming is now a thing of the past as powerful, strict policies on plastic waste are issued. EVs are the norm as graphene batteries have a wide range of uses. and The USA has built a cost-effective high-speed rail system to supplement the Eisenhower Road, which has been obsolete for a long time as cars are not used for long distances unlike trains or planes.
African countries join the UN as they receive aid and have managed to industrialize rapidly to the point where they resemble a cleaner version of the early 21st century.
Global Vac trains have been dubbed "dubious" and "dangerous" to operate.Planes are still the norm for international travel.
WHO now uses genetically modified Xenobots to treat unknown viruses, and Ebola has become extinct as a result.Along with the successful campaign to eliminate disease-carrying mosquitoes, genetically modified mosquitoes
China has completed its moon base, Base Sichuan. But it is a laughing stock, as they haven't even built a Mars base, unlike the UN. which I forgot to mention is named Gagarin Base.
The tension between the UN and China increased. as the Chinese forcefully annexed Indochina, further strengthening the international tension as everyone now knew WW3 would start.
More orbital settlements are placed in medium-earth-orbit as they resemble more and more Jericho stations. Due to the mass production of more Valkyrie spaceplanes, space flight is becoming more affordable in the gravity well of Earth.
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The United Nations launches a cleansing program in Earth's orbit, with several starships equipped with megawatt lasers beginning to lock on multiple space debris of varying sizes and destroying the debris in the process.Finally cleaning the orbit of earth.
Private contractors mine craters on the moon due to the abundance of titanium, gold, uranium, and platinum.
The UNSAA creates an asteroid hauler with new Fusion drives and a Helion 15-gigawatt compact reactor. named the UNSS-Alan Shepherd, being almost 450 meters in length and assembled like a space station. will be crammed with helium 3 and deuterium tanks and will mostly operate in the asteroid belt, bringing resource-rich asteroids into lunar orbit for mining and refining before returning back to the asteroid belt.
It is built upon an office-style ship and will provide 1 g of acceleration for its 200-man crew.
Though there are some classified plans describing how the class of asterid haulers will be reconfigured into heavily militarized ships armed to the teeth with missiles and nuclear weapons.And Laser point defense systems.
which was followed up by a classified militarization of the Enterprise-class Dreadnoughts. being literally the asteroid haulers of the Alan Shepherd class but refitted into missile carriers, carrying Casaba howitzer missiles and nuclear warhead missiles. alongside solid warhead missiles, guided by radar and maneuvering with RCS, and with a high-specific impulse and acceleration magnetoplasmadynamic thruster.
2072 AD
WORLD WAR 3
Formal declarations of war are issued after many political issues, with the Chinese assaulting a lunar outpost alongside a failed attempt on a kamikaze probe towards one of the Alan shepherd class Asteroid haulers. Which was actually an Enterprise class dreadnought and intercepted the probe with its retractable Point defense laser.
The war starts as the US pacific fleet that has advanced to the point of singularity battles the chinese fleet. Supported by its NATO allies as the air battle is won by NATO.
An invasion by the UN from Russia and the middle east to China starts as the UN drafts almost 13 million soldiers to the fight.
Enterprise class dreadnoughts target several Chinese satellites as they use their laser PDCs and knock them off their orbit.
This…ignited Chinese prowess as they started to launch their Nuclear Arsenal of 4300 missiles. But were caught off guard as more than 76% of those missiles were destroyed. And the rest were intercepted by the space dreadnoughts. The dreadnoughts set a course to lunar orbit as they arrive in 5 hours, launching several Casaba howitzers as they then set course to MEO. And after arriving back to earth's gravity well. The Casaba howitzers hydrogen bomb charge explodes as the shaped charge directs plasma and electromagnetic radiation to the North pole of the moon where the Chinese moon base Sichuan was located. Destroying everything as the ionized particles punched through everything as they destroy and disable Chinese equipment and kill all the cosmonauts present there.
After destroying the Chinese navy with the US pacific fleet and its Asian allies. D-DAY 2 is announced as an invasion through Shanghai and UN troops start to cross the parallel line in the Korean peninsula after continuous bombing from B-21s and Russian PAK-DAs. And taking out the North Korean air force and gaining Air superiority by American and European 6th generation aircraft.
The Invasion of China included almost 17 million UN troops, equipped with Composite Exo-armor and Augmented reality helmets. Equipped with M7A2 Scars.
2076 AD
The UN reigns supreme over the Chinese, with the "Mandate of Heaven" given to Taiwan. The regime change in China had a global impact as free trade with them began. The United Nations finally invites the final nation as it joins. "Humanity" is now under one banner.
2080 AD
UNSAA Is now put into full budget as it passes the budget of the military at 2 trillion dollars, with inflation lowering over the years. It is equivalent to 1.9 trillion dollars now.
UNSAA funds the formerly disfunct Project Dragonfly, a proposed photonic sail craft thrusted by a space based laser. Accelerating at relativistic speeds of 50% the speed of light.
It is to be aimed at the Alpha Centauri system and will arrive in 9 years. One problem is the lag between radio waves and the range of them. As such, UNSAA puts research into Quantum networks
2083 AD
Quantum networks are developed through the advancement of quantum entanglement. and the use of time crystals, a quantum phenomenon.
The first set of research for Project Dragonfly is on building the laser array.
Oops, forgot to mention that the first asteroid-countering orbital stations were built. in a very high orbit. Large laser arrays intended to heat up asteroids and redirect them away from Earth. Two dozen were built in high Earth orbit, where the moon is, and nine were built around Mars; all were large enough to have a laser array capable of deflecting an asteroid the size and mass of Chicxulub or Eros. All are powered by a helion-gigawatt ship reactor.
Tokamaks are now capable of producing 160 gigatonnes of energy per hour. with multiple buildings around Africa, Asia, America, etc. Using the process Helion employs, it provides way more energy than expected. One is planned to be built on the moon.
After the launch of magnetic pusher spheres, Earth's clean orbits are completely cleared of space debris. Alongside Medium Earth Orbit filled with Jericho class space stations, Axiom International Space Corp is investing in more Space centrifuge orbital houses. Earning profit from the Asteroid belt and cooperating with UNSAA to make the first O’neill cylinder, collaborating with Blue Origin as it trimuphs in commercial space flight with its only competitor being SpaceX.
2084 AD
The moon colony thrives in its glory as more and more infrastructure and construction begins on the moon. With roads being constructed and subways constructed inside the moons cleared lava tubes. Connecting all outposts on Luna as maglev technology advances and the first vac train is constructed on the moon. Connecting Armstrong base, Tranquility, and the renewed and radiation cleansed Sichuan base. Used to transport astronauts and designed like a subway, with its average speed being 5500 kilometers per hour. Max being 7800 kph, built on the surface and not needing a complex vacuum tube as the surroundings of the moon are already a vacuum.
High rise buildings start to be constructed, about 40 floors tall as it is easier to build these kinds of buildings in a low gravity planet with no atmosphere. With drones being mainly used using levitating thrusters while connecting steel beams.
Of course, the design was carefully done, still looking like buildings from earth but with different materials. Instead of fungi radiation consumers, advanced Metamaterials are used instead to literally absorb the electromagnetic radiation. With windows being also implemented but is pretty much sealed as these buildings are pressurized.
Luna now shined bright as ever at night…
The UN military replaces the aging C-5 galaxy for the Valkyrie space plane. This is due to its massive cargo capacity and the fact it's a hybrid aircraft and can go at hypersonic speeds in the higher stratosphere. WIth it having a practically unlimited range on earth with its nuclear reactor powering its electric jet engines.
The military version's only difference with its brother is that it is not included with a dual magnetoplasmadynamic thruster.
Mars colonization sprees as multiple satellites orbit it, with a Mars gateway built, about the size of a Jericho station and is of a centrifuge design. 1.2 kilometers in diameter.
The first quantum internet is set up, connecting the 30 thousand population of Luna and 10 thousand on mars with earth's internet. Setting humanity as an interplanetary species.
Quantum connection offers massive broadband alongside the mixture of both quantum and conventional computers. The first yottascale computer is put into existence.
2100 AD
Project Dragonfly is complete, with the needed infrastructure assembled.
The massive laser required to propel the solar sail is built at the Earth's L1 lagrangian point and measures nearly 300 meters in length and 3 kilometers in diameter. Powered by a gigantic photovoltaic array covered in advanced metamaterials that enhance the ability of the solar panels, powering the laser space station named Tycho.
The space station receives almost 5 petawatts of energy. With it to propel the Dragonfly solar sail with a 900 terawatt laser to propel the 40 meter diameter Solar sail retracted from a 5 meter sized computer with a quantum connection device and sensory equipment and advanced micro 10k cameras.
If you're also wondering, Tycho is also used to study laser activity, etc. Also testing and improving the potential of inertial confinement fusion on a smaller scale as a cheaper alternative to tokamaks, which could be used for newly established colonies and massive capital ships. Replacing the National Ignition Facility and setting it as the most powerful laser to date firing a 900 petawatt laser in a trillionth of a second.
As the solar sail was retracted far away, the project began smoothly. With Tycho Station initiating their firing sequence as the immensely large station fired its non-visible 900 terawatt laser. hitting the solar sail with accelerated photons as it started to move and accelerate quickly.
Before long, it hit relativistic speeds of 1%, 10%, and 30%.
And finally, exiting the system at 50% the speed of light. as Tycho rests and releases all the excess heat via its gigantic radiators.
2110 AD
The probe arrives as the immense photons from Alpha Centauri A decelerates it into an orbit to one of the planets present. It surveys its surroundings before firing its magnetoplasmadynamic thruster as it explores the alpha centauri system before it finds something peculiar…
Getting into an orbit to the supposed gas giant named polyphemus. The probe surveyed one of the gas giant's moons, finding something…..alive, and radiating tons of heat into space.
Upon visual location, it seemed like a world…filled with Biomass. This lasted for 5 weeks before the probe detected something going towards it and being engulfed by some meaty biomass ship.
This alarmed the UN after its report from the UNSA. It was all fun and games till an entire fleet of peculiar interstellar asteroids numbering at 20 entered the Sun's gravity well. Detected by outposts on the dwarf planet Pluto.
Small nano sized satellites were sent and sent back horrific ships that looked like something from a biomechanical nightmare.
These ships were moving without thrusters when they where accelerating at a speed of 100 kilometers per second. Slower than most Fusion drives but these things where doing it without thrusters!
We studied them till they got into an interplanetary course to Pluto……In which, once they got into an orbit around it. Started deploying their horrific forces of smaller ships..
The larger ships seemed to deploy missiles at the laser arrays as they impact and destroy the arrays. With the smaller ships decelerating with thrusters and deploying their ground forces as they terraform the lands of Pluto.
The pluto outpost defended well as they deployed their forces of power suit soldiers with M9A1 Electrothermal SCAR-Zs and AMP mecha suits carrying their 30mm hand held electrothermal autocannons.
The issuing of electrothermal guns had bullets to propel at almost the rate of early railguns. Or Mach 7.
The state of the art equipment was good against the alien terraformers but wasn't good enough against the aliens who where using guns similar to theirs. With electromagnetically charged bullets with little to no recoil.
Soon after, Pluto was taken and terraformed, looking like the moon orbiting polyphemus.
This alerted the UNSA, sending its 1st fleet of Enterprise dreadnoughts. Compromising 200 ships as they make it to striking distance of Pluto at 300 thousand kilometers away.
The Enterprise dreadnoughts open their bays as multiple missiles come out. With their RCS stabilizing as almost 1000 Nuclear guided missiles ignited their magneto thrusters as they thrust forward fast.
Accelerating at mach 900 before releasing multiple warheads. Warheads being small but deadly at 200 kilotons, well, speaking that there are 10000 warheads accelerating at mach 900 in a collision course to pluto.
Soon after, pluto ignited into nuclear fire as the interplanetary planet busters destroyed everything on pluto. Including the biomass present.
As for the biomass ships, they were soon dealt with as the fleet launched multiple casaba missiles. Which decelerate before there targets and igniting their hydrogen bomb shaped charge as plasma is directed at the bioships and literally getting shredded by the accelerated plasma
2101 AD
with the advent and encounter of another alien civilization. For fucks sake, UNSA funding has been increased to a whopping 20 trillion dollars. A bill is passed to absorb the UNN, or United Nations Navy, into a subcategory of the UNSA. Officially named the UNSN, or United Nations Space Navy, which still incorporates water based ships.
The UNSN overlooks past documents and looks into the Orion concept. Originally thought of by the United States Air force.
However, instead of using nukes as propulsion,It would instead use 20 Tyrannosaur Fusion thrusters, with the shock absorber still included.
The Orion-class battleships came to be. Well, much bigger than planned, actually.
being almost 320 meters in length but 200 meters in diameter. length-wise, not the greatest, but in gerth. Godly
It carried a massive Helion compact 20-gigawatte fusion reactor, along with over 50 tyrannosaur Fusion thrusters with a thrust 200 times greater than any 21st-century chemical rocket and a specific impulse 20 times greater than an Ion drive, joined with two extremely large internal tanks filled with deuterium and helium 3. which can be underway refueled by the host ship due to the mass availability of synthesizing both gases but refueled in a station on the moon. Jupiter, and Saturn are way cheaper.
The Orion class would also be fitted with the latest PDC system of 5-megawatt retractable CIWS lasers. Alongside the fitting of external ETC cannons, 5 inch ones numbering five around the hull of the ship, Carrying casaba shells and nuclear shells.
Finally, nearly 500 interplanetary planet busters and 200 anti-shuttle craft missiles will be carried. The latter missiles are intended for smaller targets as opposed to massive capital ships and planets.
The need for more Orion-class battleships came as more asteroids were hauled into the inner planets for mining. More than 9000 Alan Shepherd class asteroid haulers would be coming each day with asteroids for mining to make more of the warships.
This was also joined with the mass colonization of Pluto and the implementation of a base of operations on the farthest planet in the solar system. with the assembly of large orbital railguns and the construction of silos on the planet to carry interplanetary planet busters as well. Pluto will be the most militarized planet, with 35 thousand silos constructed to launch interplanetary busters by 2110.
2110 AD
Pluto's military construction is completed, with more than 35 thousand silos present carrying active radar guided planet buster missiles. Alongside more than 2000 100 meter orbital railgun platforms that can accelerate its 30 inch slug rounds at 500 kilometers per second.
Tycho station located in earth's L1 point tests its first solar sail round. A guided missile with fuel only for its RCS thrusters, as it will be propelled by tycho station via solar sail.
This will be humanity’s first relativistic guided weapon, expected to snipe incoming alien ships that are bound to enter the system.
The missile is made with a titanium alloy shell and has a nuclear charge inside of it just in case. It would target individual alien ships and hit it with the force of relativistic speeds.
2150 AD, current time.
The UN has advanced to singularity with much better equipment. with the issuing of more advanced AMP suits/mechs and pressurized battle suits. Mars' moons, with Earth and Mars becoming powerhouses. Phobos and Deimos are filled to the brim with railgun platforms, as most of Mars' orbit is either filled with Jericho stations or 30-inch orbital railgun platforms.
As for Earth, its orbit is also either filled to the brim with Jericho stations or railgun platforms. With the surface of earth having mountain sized guns in each continent. With all being railguns but are more professionally named. Mass drivers.
also known as the Everest class of mass drivers. These were also built on Mars, Pluto, Ganymede, Enceladus, Europa, and all other terrestrial moons and planets the UN has colonized. Even Ceres and Eros. and would accelerate projectiles the size of 10 story buildings at 1000 kilometers per second.
More than 9000 Orion class battleships and 11,000 Enterprise-class destroyers were produced. All divided into fleets, patrolling the solar system with updated equipment, awaiting the alien invasion...