From The Babylon Project
This is a list of events that occurred in 21st Century:
- On Earth, NASA scientists announce that the microbiotic fossils found in a Martian meteorite in 1996 were the remains of organic life that once lived on Mars, though the results are disputed.[1]
- The Russian Mir space station is deorbited and crashes into the Pacific ocean after 15 years of service.
- A Near Earth Asteroid narrowly avoids a collision with Earth.[2]
- On Earth the Communist Party are elected to power in Russia, lead by Kolishnikov. Later, following a civil war, Russia again turns to the West for aid only to find itself stuck as an "economic colony" for the next twenty years.[3][4]
- The first permanent Lunar Colony is established in the Sea of Tranquility on Earth's moon. [5]
- On Earth, the Jihad Party are elected to power in Iraq.[3]
- On Centauri Prime, the Emperor's daughter spots the first flower of spring poking up through the snow in the Royal Gardens. She orders that a Guard is to stand over the spot to protect it. The Princess soon forgets about it and the order is never countermanded until 200 years later.[6]
- On Earth, the last gasoline-powered motorcycle is manufactured.[7]
- The Chilean war breaks out on Earth. Antarctica is briefly occupied.[2]
- Having completed experiments on Human DNA to create telepaths complete, two Vorlons come to Earth and hide in near the Gamburtsev mountains in Antarctica and quietly begin abducting humans and implanting them with the telepath gene. Some of the subject's half remembered accounts cause a resurgence in the "ancient astronaut/angel" cults that first gripped earth in the 1950's. The father of Desa Alexander is a member of one such cult.[2]
- Earth's first manned interplanetary vessel, Ares 3, lands on Mars carrying an international crew of four.
- A civil war on Gromahk results in the release of a genetic plague. Though the Grome overcome the plague's lethal effects, it will cause each generation of females to grow less and less fertile and give succeeding generation's skin a pitted, somewhat diseased look.[8]
- On Brakir, the arrival of the Brakiri system's only comet heralds the Day of the Dead. Many strange stories are told of that night and the comet doesn't return for another 200 years.[9]
- A civil war ravaged race in the Eridani Sector begins picking up transmissions from other worlds. The local government covers up the transmissions and decides to use the idea of alien infiltrators as fictional scapegoats to divert resentment away from the government.[10]
- Ares 13's breaking system fails during Mars entry, killing all seven crew members. Mars missions are halted until 2101.
- Birth of Morobuto in the Central African Bloc.
- Allies of the Shadows discover the Vorlon activity on Earth and track them to Antarctica. One Vorlon is killed while the other escapes, hiding on Venus. Across Earth, many of the first generation Telepaths "see" the death of the Vorlon and pass on an account to their cultist followers using a variations of the Mayan legend. Some of the cult members travel to Antarctica and recover some Vorlon organic technology. [11]
- A Russian satellite detects a magnetic anomaly and a hole in the Antarctic ice cap where the Vorlon ships were hiding.[2]
- Hostilities erupt between India, Pakistan and their allies, The United Islamic Nations and the Indonesian Consortium, after an attempted annexation of several Pacific Rim nation states. Other nation states begin to take sides in the growing conflict and Earth is dragged into a Third World War.
- On Earth, World War III comes to an end, at the cost of countless lives.
- On Earth, following the dissolution of the United Nations, the Earth Alliance is founded. The new Earth Senate is located in Geneva, Switzerland.
[edit] Circa 2089
- Birth of Jack O'Hannlon on Earth.[12]
- Earth Alliance scientists prove the existence of Tachyon particles.[2]
- On Earth, the DeepProbe Network is activated in a renewed effort to detect extraterrestrial life.[13]
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