An Alternate time line for the Star Frontier's (URS) Project II

This is the updated version of the timeline for the Expanded Frontier of the (URS). some sections were expanded on and explined a little better than in the original timeline. Eventually when I have the Gamma World timeline in place I should have a cohesive timeline going from the 1950's all the way to 220FY which should satisfy many timeline buffs. So here it is.

A brief history of the Frontier

The following section is a
list of major events in the history of the Frontier.

PF. (Pre-frontier)

FY. (Federation year)

100,000 pf. The Illiminati seed the known universe with Chimera
which bonds with evolving proto-matter to create a myriad number of life forms
in the universe.

10,500 pf. Last
remnants of the mysterious Tetrarch Societies die out.

950 pf. Heliopes left on Sollas by Klikks after a Klikk
military exploration vessel is forced to jettison unnecessary cargo.

950-940 pf. The Last War is fought on Earth, resulting in the complete
destruction of the ancient world. During the last war biochemical agents (a
weaponized form of Chimera) produces many mutations among Earth’s life forms.

930 pf. Many Human colonies on other planets in Sol Star system
are left to fend for themselves, and many Humans die out. John Carter commander
of the Martian colony sends teams of humans on the stations three space worthy
system ships on a desperate mission to secure hydroponic supplies, and
life-saving materials from Earth’s orbiting agricultural stations.

929 pf. The first post war settlements appear on Earth,
civilization on the brink of extinction.

928 pf. Year of
Falling Death. Named after the many
satellites that crash to Earth. The first Agricultural space station resumes
operation in Earth’s orbit.

927 pf. Revolts occur on Mars’ colony as food stores run low
and rationing is imposed on the colonists. The revolts ends when contact with
the Agricultural stations orbiting Earth confirm that two of the three missions
was successful, and the first supply ship will be sent to the colony within 3
months.

926 pf. Aldorian/Andorian War begins on Andoria

924 pf. Second revolt
on Mars. When the supplies from the
Agriculture stations arrive, a riot occurs resulting in martial law being
imposed on the colony. The survivors of the missing space flight, crash land
near the Lunar base, and manage to get the base’s life support working,
allowing the few survivors to begin restoring the base.

923-918 pf. Mars, and the Lunar colonies resume full operations, as
supplies and crews are ferried back and forth.

917 pf. The Lunar colony begins building the next generation
of system ships to replace the aging ships still being used to ferry supplies
and crewmembers between the space stations.

915 pf. A mission is sent from Mars to the Jupiter outposts
hoping to discover what has happened to the colonies on Europa.

912 pf. The Europa colonies resume full operations, but
information relayed back to Mars seems to indicate that strange events have
been plaguing the Jupiter colonists.

910-905 pf. The
Reunification, under John Carter the colonies on Mars, Jupiter’s moons, and
Earth’s moon unite. They sign the Thesian Accord, becoming the first Human
government in space. Earth is deemed still too contaminated to be reclaimed.

902 pf. Aldorian/Andorian
War ends. Aldorians are exiled from
Andoria to a far off star system aboard several Generational spacecraft.

900 pf. Construction begins between Mars and Jupiter on
Farpoint Station, an enormous city in space that will allow ships from the
inner systems to refuel and resupply for journeys to the far reaches of the
star system.

882 pf. Aldorians arrive in Aldoria

860 pf . Farpoint station is completed.

855-820 pf. The Human
Wars on Earth begin as Humans from
Earth’s colonies return to Earth to reclaim it from the survivors of the Last
War. During this time millions of mutated species deemed a threat to Humanity
are hunted to extinction.

820 pf. Humans once again become the dominant species on Earth,
after the last remnants of the last War have been swept away. The few surviving
mutant species not exterminated in the purge are relocated to the space
colonies on Mars after signing a modified version of the Thesian Accords.
Unbeknownst to most of Humanity samples of DNA from many hostile mutations
collected during the Human Wars remain in storage in hidden facilities to be
used as bio-weapons.

821-710 pf. Recolonization. During this time Humans begin recolonizing the Earth.
New Governments, and new Countries emerge. It is a period of great Human
achievement, and sometimes great Human despair as wars over resources,
territory and technology reminiscent of the time of before the Last War
continue to plague humanity.

709-801pf. The Faction
Wars. Earth is plunged into another
World War by factions trying to gain control of the planet. The war ends on
December 21 when the Thesius, the first Human space warship (A Frigate by
Frontier standards) from Jupiter enters Earth’s atmosphere and threatens to
unload its complement of nuclear warheads on any country that doesn’t
immediately stop fighting.

800 pf. The evolution of the Mechanon race begins on Volturnus.
On Earth all global leaders under threat from the Thesius Frigate give up
sovereignty rights to the Council of United Planets and the planet and star
system are renamed Thesius.

799-600 pf. During this time Thesius undergoes a cultural and
ideological change, as the old forms of government end, and a new planetary
democracy emerges led by a grand council of elected representatives led by a
Prime Minister appointed by the Council of United Planets. During this period
great achievements in science, genetic research, and agriculture heal the damage
wrought by centuries of Human existence.

540 pf. Having reclaimed their planet and prospering Humanity
turns its attention towards the stars and begin to experiment on technology
that may one day allow them to bridge the gap between stars.

410 pf. First
Vrusk/Dralasite contact via subspace
radio.

409-349 pf- Dralasite and Vrusk share cultural, and technological
information and both species are enriched by their new partnership.
Technological advancements are made towards the creation of the first propulsion
systems able to bring spacecraft within 1% of the speed of light, but not yet
fast enough to make Interstellar travel possible. Humans though having a head
start on the other races are achieving roughly the same level of progress as
the other races, though it has taken them longer to do so because they are
working at it alone.

350 pf. First
Vrusk/Human contact via Subspace
radio. Technological information traded between the three races solves many of
the problems each race was having in developing its own interstellar
spacecraft. At Farpoint station work begins on the first interstellar starship,
which is named the Venture. At the same time Vrusk, and Dralasites begin
working on their own interstellar ships, and begin seeking a place in space
where they will all come together to meet for the first time.

349-330 pf. Construction of the Venture starship is plagued with
many problems, as several terrorist organizations fearing the looming meeting
of the three races try desperately to destroy the Venture, and try their best
to feed the fears of the Thesians trying to make them abandon building the
ship. Dralasites, and Vrusk starships are progressing at a much faster rate
than the human ship.

329 pf. The remaining mutant races on Mars see the Venture as the
means for them to eventually find their own homes among the stars. They choose
to rise up against the terrorist organizations hoping to earn a ticket to the
stars.

328-326 pf. The Second
Factions War is fought on Thesius,
between the Terrorist organizations, and the Pro-Venture forces. Pro-Venture
Humans cooperating with Mutants finally repairs the long standing feelings of
ill will that have existed between the two races since the humans reclaimed the
planet. Dralasite scientists translate fragments of communication intercepted
via subspace radio and determine that there must be several other near star
races who may be technologically at the same level as they are.

321 pf. Having completed the first interstellar spacecraft
Vrusk begin test flights of the newly created ship, and begin construction of
several more interstellar ships.

320 pf. Dralasite and Humans finally complete their
interstellar ships, and begin test flights as well. This activity does not go
unnoticed, and the Rian begin discussing the impending meeting of the three
races and how that will affect the future of this area of space.

317 pf. Three interstellar ships of unknown origin enter the
Frontier and begin looking for a suitable planet to deposit their precious
cargo (the Yazirian race is one of three species being transported by these
ships).

314-312 pf. Humans begin discussing whether or not they should arm
the Venture, in case the other races are misrepresenting themselves. The
discussion is long and furious, but in the end it is decided that the ship
should not be armed as a sign of goodwill. The three races decide to meet in
the Prenglar star system because it seems to have several garden worlds.

311-306 pf. The Third
Faction War is fought on Thesius as
the date of first contact approaches. The war is long and often brutal, as the
paranoid factions use every means short of nuclear strikes to stop the
impending launch. In the end the terrorist factions serve only to strengthen
the resolve of the Thesian people to see the mission through. The Vrusk and
Dralasites at this point are also struggling with their own misgivings about
meeting with the Human race, who seem a little too violent for their tastes. In
the end the two races decide to go through with the meeting after an impassioned
plea from the Dralasites who seem to understand the fear that must be gripping
a race who up to now believed itself to be the only sentient race in the
universe, and whose long held spiritual beliefs reinforced this notion.

300 pf. Vrusk,
Dralasites, and Humans meet for the first time. This year long exchange between the races produces
many treaties and rules which define the rights, of each sentient species to
coexist with the other races and establishes the rules and guidelines for the
creation of a coalition government to settle disputes between the races. This
governing body is named the Coalition of Worlds

299-290 pf. The newly formed Coalition government allows the three
Frontier races to share technology and information which leads to a decade of
great advancements in technology, medicine, and the sciences for each race.

289 pf Yazirians begin communication via subspace radio with
Humans.

282 pf. After years of communication between Humans and
Yazirians, Humans petition the other races to accept Yazirians into the
Coalition of Worlds. Yazirians become the first race who are allowed to join
the Coalition government on probation, and are considered a protected species.

270 pf. Yazirians are finally admitted as a full-fledged member
of the Coalition of Worlds.

270-125 pf. The Age of
Expansion. During this period the
Coalition races explore the area of space known as the Core, and begin to claim
many uninhabited star systems. During this time many new races are encountered
(the Adrainians, Andorians, Belphans, Ghed’yan, Keltarians, and Rian).

230 pf. Pan-Galactic Corporation started on Gran Quivera on
Prenglar and becomes the model by which future Mega-Corps will use when they
are formed.

220 pf. Port Loren becomes the capital of the Coalition of
Worlds, and the largest spaceport in the Frontier begins operating there.

218 pf. Researchers on Thesius uncover hidden vaults dating
back to before the last war was fought, and many samples of long thought
destroyed bio-weapons are taken in secret to off world locations for study.

215 pf. The Mutant rights accords are signed by the Coalition
of worlds acknowledging the surviving mutant races as true races and they are
given sovereign rights to the planets they have been allowed to colonize.

212 pf. White light is colonized.

210 pf. The House of Lorrds becomes the ruling house on White
Light and declares White Light to be governed by a Parliamentary government
that owes its allegiance to the Royal House of Lorrds.

200 pf. White Light secedes from the Coalition of Worlds.

150 pf. The Pan-Galactic language accepted as a common trade
tongue.

125-10 pf. The Age of
Adventure. The discovery and
exploration of new planets slows down for the next century while the major
races concentrate on mapping the hazards and boundaries of the Frontier.
Hundreds of exploration vessels and brave spacers are lost during this time.
Meanwhile, the discovered planets begin to develop rapidly. Thousands of
fortunes are made and lost during the Age of Adventure. During this time great
advancements in technology are made in an effort to make life easier for the
races as they settle the core.

124-78 pf. The Greater Morass is mapped.

77-57 pf. The Xagyg Dust Nebulae is mapped.

57 pf. Professor Zebulon founds the University of Zebulon.

56-40 pf. The White Light Nebulae are mapped.

39-33 pf. The Yreva Nebula is mapped.

32-26 pf. Thirty-two exploration vessels are lost trying to map
the Lesser Morass.

25 pf. A small pirate fleet under Hatzck Naar raids the
Cassidine and Prenglar systems. The first Common Muster is called.

22 pf. Hatzck Naar's pirate fleet is defeated off Timeon. Naar
is ejected into space and slowly boils inside his spacesuit as he falls toward
Timeon. The muster is dismissed.

19-8 pf. The area beyond the Greater Morass claims hundreds of
exploration vessels. Exploration of the area ceases and it is named the Vast
Expanse.

10 pf. Representatives of the four major races request that
all explorations cease while delegates meet to form a unified defense and mutual
interest organization.

1pf. The "Grand Meeting" of leaders of all the
known races takes place in Port Loren in Prenglar.

1 f.y. The United
Planetary Federation, a mutual defense organization is established. Almost all the known races join except the Andorians
who remain allied but separate, and the Adrainians who were insulted that their
demands were not met by the other races also refuse to become members of the
UPF. Under UPF authority, Spacefleet becomes a permanent defensive force.

2 f.y. The Streel Corporation is founded on Pale and quickly
rises to become a mega-corporation in its own rights.

3 f.y. The Brotherhood of Spacers becomes the first cadre on
the Frontier. The first spacer’s guild hall is established in Port Loren.

5 f.y. Star Law is established by the UPF.

6 f.y. The First
Dramune War is fought.

8 f.y. Cassidine Development Corporation is founded on Triad
and like Streel corporation quickly consolidates its power to become the third
most powerful Mega-Corp in the Frontier.

9-16 f.y. The creation and growth of mega-corps proceeds at an
ever-accelerating pace.

17-27 f.y. The Blue
Plague sweeps the Frontier. Scientists
believe it was brought to the Frontier by an alien vessel that was intercepted
by a Frontier survey team. Because of the Alien environment aboard the ship,
the plague was not immediately detected and had a chance to mutate. It is
believed that vermin aboard the survey ship became infected and since the ship
made several stops in the Frontier the plague spread rapidly. It is called the
Blue Plague because of its earliest symptoms - large blue welts that appear
about the face and extremities. These welts leave horrible black scars even if
the victim survives the plague. Rumors begin to circulate that the blue plague
is in reality a bio-weapon that was being tested, and somehow got out of the
facility.

20 f.y. Four star systems become so infested with the Blue
Plague that the Council of Worlds, the diplomatic organization of the UPF,
requests all races to recognize a permanent quarantine of these four star
systems. The systems are designated by Greek letters. By decree from the UPF
any spaceship seen leaving one of these systems is to be destroyed by
Spacefleet before it has a chance to spread the plague any further.

22 f.y. Many core worlds suffer massive population losses due
to the Blue Plague with most planets that are infected being temporarily
quarantined.

23 f.y. The Medical
Services Organization is founded. Funding
pours in from most of the Frontier worlds. Gretl Grohn is named as the MSO
Chief Surgeon.

24 f.y. A vaccine for the Blue Plague is discovered at the MSO
Center on Morgaine's World. Rumors still persist that this was a bio-weapon
that somehow got loose.

27 f.y. The Blue Plague is eradicated from the inhabited
planets in the Frontier. In total, nearly one billion victims fell to the
plague. UPF investigations as to the cause of the Blue Plague do nothing to
quell the rumors about the origin of the plague.

28 f.y. Very tough laws and penalties are laid down by both the
UPF and the Council of Worlds concerning the intersystem transportation and
handling of flora and fauna. Star Law is given jurisdiction over planetary
imports and exports.

36 f.y. The Second
Dramune War is fought.

50-60 f.y. Laco's War. PGC and Streel wage the first Corporate War on Laco.
The UPF eventually steps in and empowers an Inter-Corporate Commission (ICC) to
resolve the differences. Other mega-corps study Laco's War as a possible legal
precedent for solving disputes.

61 f.y. The Third
Dramune War is fought.

63 f.y. Streel attacks CDC operations in various star systems.
Star Law intervenes and averts a potential Corporate War.

64 f.y. Tough new guidelines for legal ownership of a system or
planet are laid down by the UPF and the Council of Worlds. The guidelines are
designed to halt Mega-Corp expansion.

65-172 f.y. Second Age of
Exploration. With the new guidelines
forcing mega-corps to play fair, most mega-corps turn to as yet unexplored star
systems beyond the Core as possibly new sources of both raw materials, and
perhaps new markets to exploit. Within the next few decades the Frontier
expands into the area known as the Central systems and the Outer systems.
During this period of expansion Frontier survey teams come into contact with
many new races, some which join the UPF but many however choose to remain
independent.

173-190 f.y. The
Frontier/Aldorian war. During the last
phase of the Frontier’s expansion they encounter the Aldorians, a race of
beings who originally shared the Andorian homeworld, but who had been cast out
after a brutal war. This warrior race feeling threatened by the rapidly
expanding Frontier chose to attack the Frontier rather than use diplomacy and
the ensuing war, while devastating serves to show the UPF and Spacefleet where
its weaknesses are, allowing them to in the end become a much more capable
Intergalactic organization, with a powerful space fleet that is more than
capable of defending UPF territory.

191-193 f.y. The Ordanian
Conflict. The Ordanian high council,
decides to expand its borders into Aldorian, and Frontier space, believing that
the Frontier/Aldorian war had sufficiently depleted their enemies resources to
the point that they could not muster a defense against the Ordanian might, at
first this seemed so, but the two enemies (Aldorians and Frontiersmen) managed
to hold a truce long enough to help each other fight back the Ordanian
invasion.

194 f.y. The UPF decide that a permanent UPF Landfleet force
must be maintained at all times for the defense of the Frontier as a result of
the Ordanian conflict which had not only been a space war but had included
several large land battles.

195 f.y. The UPF meets with Aldorian and Ordanian Delegates, and
sign non-aggression treaties that acknowledge the right of non-Frontier races
to coexist with the Frontier. Several other races that did not join the
Frontier also sign a treaty acknowledging their rights to coexist with the
Frontier. The borders of the Frontier are defined as a result of this treaty.

201 f.y. Frontier ships enter Rim space for the first time.

202 f.y. The Frontier acknowledges the Rim Coalition as a
sovereign government.

203 f.y. Galactic Task Force and MercCo fight a major Corporate
War over settlement rights on a moon. Hostilities quickly spread to include all
seven of planet’s moons and over a half dozen mega-corps. The greatest
Corporate War fought in Frontier history begins in earnest.

204 f.y. In an effort to stem the growing numbers of Corporate
Wars, the UPF and Coalition worlds grant Star Law the authority to recruit and
use mercenaries and to establish the Star Law Psi-Corps, a special branch of
psionic (mentalist) officers.

205 f.y. Mega-corp recruitment doubles in non-enforcer
professions. A trend of smaller and cheaper skirmishes or espionage missions to
replace the larger, more expensive Corporate Wars begins to show. Over the next
two years the term "Corporate War" comes to mean a war of
intelligence gathering, tactical enforcement procedures, and industrial
sabotage rather than full-scale military operations.

206 f.y. The Rim and the UPF enter into multiple defense
treaties and economic trade agreements, but the Coalition gives severe warnings
to all mega-corps that their militancy will not be tolerated in the Rim. Tourism
between the UPF and Rim is established and is immediately successful. Many Rim
Coalition Races are given Protected status under Frontier law, and several
races within the Rim actually join the UPF.

207 f.y. Star Law is invited to the Rim to help the Coalition
train their own planetary branches.

210 f. y. The first Star Law graduating class containing
Ifshnits, Humma, and Osakar finish their training. The violent outbursts
threatened by a few radical cults never appear.

212 f.y. The first Rim Star Law agents appear. The structure is
identical to the UPF Star Law organization.

214 f.y. Star Law is given equal powers, rights, and
jurisdiction in both the Rim and UPF systems for interplanetary and
interstellar crimes. While it works mainly with the local law enforcement
agencies, Star Law is recognized as the only law enforcement force with full
authority throughout the entire Frontier.

215 f.y. A human assassin fails in his attempt to shoot Queanee
Kloonanu, chairman of the Council of Worlds. A small bioform is found attached
to the human's back. Scientific studies show it to be some kind of intelligent,
parasitic organism with a genetic make-up never before encountered. See-through
apparel becomes fashionable almost immediately.

216 f.y. The University of Zebulon publishes the first volume of
Zebulon's Guide to Frontier Space, a multi-volume collection of confirmed
flora, fauna, cultures, devices, customs, and history of the known Frontier. It
is considered the definitive work on the Frontier and is immensely popular.

220 f.y. The Grand Celebration, commemorating 220 years of the
UPF treaty is planned for the entire year. Gala social functions, parades, and
celebrations are planned on every planet in the UPF and even some in the Rim.

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