22nd Century
From The Babylon Project
| 22nd Century |
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| 2100 - 2124 • 2125 - 2149 • 2150 - 2174 • 2175 - 2199 |
This is a list of events that occurred in 22nd Century:
[edit] Exact Year Unknown
- The Battle of Nu'Shok takes place, during which The Eye, a priceless Centauri artefact is lost by House Kiro. [1]
- During the Centauri Occupation of Narn, The grandfather of Londo Mollari commits a number of atrocities against the Narn people. The details of his activities are not widely known on Centauri Prime, outside of House Mollari.[2]
[edit] 2101
- Missions to Mars resume as humans establish a series of small scientific and military bases across the Red Planet.[3]
[edit] 2109
- Birth of Kevin Vacit on Earth.[4]
- The Centauri Republic invade the Narn Homeworld. Initially welcomed by the Narns with open arms, the Centauri quickly take advantage of the technological superiority to enslave the population and begin strip mining the planet's resources, which will slowly turn the green and verdant world into a dry, red dust ravaged planet.[5]
[edit] 2110
- The Centauri annex Ragesh III from the Narn Regime.[6]
[edit] 2111
[edit] 2112
- The Minbari Federation send the first of twelve expeditions into Vorlon space. None return.[8]
- On Earth the French people elect a hardline government.[9]
[edit] 2114
- Tom Nguyen begins working as Senator Lee Crawford's assistant.[10]
[edit] 2115
- Earth Alliance scientists certify the existence of Telepaths.[11][12]
[edit] 2116
- In Arizona, Earth, the mother of Kevin Vacit is shot and wounded after being identified as a telepath. While hiding in a cave to escape their pursuers, Kevin's mother passes on to him part of the Vorlon consciousness she carried in her mind before she dies. This would later enable him to hide his own ability. [13]
- Genetic tests on telepaths reveal a marker that indicates that the ability has been artificially engineered. The results are suppressed, known only to a few individuals including Senator Lee Crawford and Dr. Alice Kimbrell who confirmed the results.[13]
- The DeepProbe Network detects a Tachyon emission, indicating the presence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Earthgov agrees to finance an upgrade to the network with the construction of the Heimdal probe.[13]
- The Earth Senate sets up the Committee on Metasensory Regulation, headed by Senator Lee Crawford in response to public concern over the growing number of telepaths.[13]
[edit] 2117
- Earthgov institute the Metasensory Regulation Authority, an initiative lead by Senator Lee Crawford. The purpose of the MRA is to monitor, track and regulate telepaths for their own protection. The Psi Scale also comes into use to grade the strength of telepath abilities from P1 to P12.[13]
- Lee Crawford weds Alice Kimbrell.[13]
[edit] 2118
- Most of the Kith opt to join the MRA rather than keep running. Monkey refuses and takes The Kid with him into the underground.[14]
- Birth of Brenna Alexander, daughter of Desa Alexander and Jack O'Hannlon.[15]
[edit] 2124
[edit] 2132
[edit] 2133
- Kevin Vacit, having been raised by Jack O'Hannlon and working with the Telepath Resistance, attempts to infiltrate the MRA to try and understand the organisation from the inside by becoming the assistant to Director Lee Crawford.[13]
[edit] Circa 2146
- Despite a troubled on again off again relationship, will and Mariah Cirrus volunteer for a long duration deep space flight in cryonic freeze aboard the USS Copernicus. The ship is programed to home in and revive the crew if any signal of intellegent origin is detected during the course of the mission. [17]
[edit] 2148
- An Interplanetary Expeditions team discovers fragments of highly advanced alien technology scattered across Syria Planum, on Mars. The find is classified top secret and the artifacts are moved to IPX headquarters in San Diego.[13]
- Amazonia, New Zealand, Japan and the Indonesian Consortium threaten to pull out of the Earth Alliance if President Elizabeth Robinson continued to push for a universal Metasensory Regulation Authority.[13]
[edit] May
[edit] Friday, 3rd
- At IPX headquarters in San Diego, Dr. Phillip Stoddard working on a hunch that the Syria Planum finds are examples of Organic Technology, has Commercial Telepath Mr. Raskov scan them. Raskov confirms Stoddard's hunch but is somehow affected by the scan and becomes obsessed, making drawing of insects. Stoddard contacts a biotech firm to arrange a possible sale.[13]
[edit] Sunday, 5th
- As Dr. Stoddard negotiates with representatives from a biotech firm, Mr. Raskov asks to touch the artifacts again, but is refused. After lifting the access codes for the vault, Raskov later attempts to break in but trips a security alarm. Fearing for the profits involved, Raskov is murdered and his death made to look like stroke.[13]
[edit] Monday, 6th
- Kevin Vacit and MRA operative Ninon Davion are called in to investigate the death of Mr. Raskov.[13]
[edit] Tuesday, 7th
- Deducing what Stoddard had planned for the artifacts, Vacit confronts him with the result of his investigation and secures exclusive MRA access to them.[13]
[edit] 2150
- Birth of Zathras on Epsilon III, who will become the longest living caretaker of the Great Machine.
[edit] Friday, July 17th
- The city of San Diego is destroyed by an act of nuclear terrorism.[18][19] The weapon used is traced back to the breakup of the Soviet Union in the late 20th Century.[20]
[edit] 2152
- The beginnings of the Psi Corps were in 2152 when Earth Alliance President Elizabeth Robinson passed telepath equal opportunity laws and established the Committee on Psychic Phenomenon.[13]
[edit] 2155
- Stephen Walters was born on June 15 in Casper, Wyoming.[13]
[edit] 2156
[edit] April 7
- First contact occurs between Humans and the Centauri. Soon after interstellar travel becomes possible due to jumpgate technology acquired from a trade deal with Centauri.
[edit] 2160
[edit] 2161
[edit] April 12
- The Psi Corps is established by the Earth Alliance to monitor and train the growing number of telepaths, former senator, Lee Crawford is appointed director.
[edit] 2165
- The Proxima III colony is established by the Earth Alliance.
[edit] 2171
- Around the time where the last recorded case of 'demonic possession' occurred, according to Father Cassidy.[21]
[edit] 2172
- Stephen Walters joins Earthforce.[13]
[edit] 2175
- Stephen Walters discovers his telepathic abilities and voluntarily joins the Psi Corps.
[edit] 2176
- Jenny Winters is born in Vermont, United States.
[edit] 2177
[edit] 2178
[edit] 2186
[edit] 2189
- In the years following on from their visits to the Yucatan and Antarctica, Psi Corps Director Kevin Vacit's study of Natasha Alexander's research on the tales told of a still unknown alien's death leads him to conclude that the other alien may be hiding on or near Venus. Obtaining data from a satellite orbiting the planet he finds a magnetic anomaly at the Venusian south pole almost matching those recorded over Antarctica. Accompanied by Natasha, Vacit travels to Lucifer station in Venus orbit and from there to an orbit over the Venusian south pole.[13]
- After a few days of sending out messages and probe to the surface, a Vorlon vessel captures their ship. Taken aboard, the Vorlon shows them a glimpse pf the coming Shadow War, revealing to Vacit the Vorlon conscientiousness within his mind and where and how telepaths were created, demonstrating to him the importance of telepaths and the Psi Corps in the coming conflict. A telepathic trigger is planted in Natasha's DNA to compel her or one of her descendants to come to the Vorlon Homeworld when the Shadows come again. Returning to their own vessel the Vorlon ship disappears. Upon his return to Earth, Director Vacit realises that to strengthen Psi Corps he'll have to destroy the resistance he has been secretly supporting for years.[13]
[edit] January
- Wednesday, January 21st, 2189
- Birth of Stephen Kevin Dexter, better known as Alfred Bester.[13][24]
[edit] September
- In order to produce strong telepaths, the Psi Corps begin a purge in which eventually Fiona and Matthew Dexter are killed. Stephen, just a few months old is taken by the Corps and renamed Alfred Bester by his grandfather, Kevin Vacit, after the noted 20th Century author.[13]
[edit] 2190
- Following the deaths of Fiona and Matthew Dexter, Stephen Walters takes over what's left of the Telepath Resistance. He earns the nickname "Black Fox" by the Psi Cops that hunt him.[25]
[edit] 2191
[edit] 2195
- Birth of Jha'dur on Omelos in the Caliban Sector.[26]
- After saying goodbye to his grandson, Alfred Bester, Kevin Vacit arranges for the Centauri to transport his one man ship to the nearest jumpgate to Vorlon space. At the secret archive on Ganymede, he places a heavily encrypted file into the system. Time-locked for the next 65 years, the file details Vacit's flight plan and his reason for going. After being dropped off by the Centauri, Vacit pilots his ship at sublight speed, beginning the just over fifty eight light year journey to the Vorlon outpost where telepaths were first engineered.[25][27]
[edit] 2196
[edit] 2198
- The Centauri Republic provides humans with advanced terraforming technology. Serious terraforming of Mars begins with the melting of the southern polar ice cap and the pumping of CFCs into the atmosphere to retain heat from the sun.[29]
- Birth of Alisha Ross.[30]
[edit] 2199
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| Timeline | ||
| Before the Third Age: | 20th Century and earlier • 21st Century • 22nd Century • 2200s • 2210s • 2220s • 2230s | |
| 2240s: | 2240 • 2241 • 2242 • 2243 • 2244 • 2245 • 2246 • 2247 • 2248 • 2249 | |
| 2250s: | 2250 • 2251 • 2252 • 2253 • 2254 • 2255 • 2256 • 2257 • 2258 • 2259 | |
| 2260s: | 2260 • 2261 • 2262 • 2263 • 2264 • 2265 • 2266 • 2267 • 2268 • 2269 | |
| 2270s onwards: | 2270s • 2280s • 2290s • 2300s and beyond | |
