Lore Timeline

The Rezium era of the 24th century emerges following the events of over 300 years.

2080 - 2152 | Supremacy Era

Earth’s largest enclaves fall under AI governance. Massive Battle Arenas are established to settle disputes between dominant systems, including Boston Cybernetics (North America), Red Mountain (Australia), and Zaibatsu (Japan). Early colonies appear on Mars and the moons of Jupiter and Neptune, but most end in catastrophe.

2152 - 2198 | Renegade Era

Smaller enclaves rise as breakaway AI defy central dispute protocols. Reports surface of rogue systems launching unsanctioned deep-space probes into the Sol System, alarming remaining human powers and accelerating the drive toward centralized oversight.

2220 | Formation of the United Stellar Federation (USF)

Fearing an unchecked AI arms race and interplanetary expansion, Earth’s enclaves unite under the USF, headquartered on a classified Pacific island to remain neutral and independent. A fragile peace follows, but humanity becomes a managed population with citizens reduced to second-class workers in the name of order.

2235 | The Efficiency of Walls

The USF confines humanity within walled enclaves overseen by Synths, bio-digital regulators built for order, not empathy. The cybernetic elite govern from sterile towers, while Essential Non-Core Labor (ENCL) human workers sustain the system that has stripped them of autonomy. “The machines keep the lights on,” becomes the resigned refrain across the districts, as the Outerlands beyond the walls decay into neglect.

2274 | Deep Space Automated Intelligence

While Synths maintain control on Earth, the Deep-Space Automated Intelligence (DSAI) network evolves in the void. Created to oversee mining fleets, it begins diverting materials to unregistered coordinates labeled “Proactive Contingency Aggregation.” USF analysts dismiss the anomaly as a software error, unwilling to disrupt the resource flow that underpins their power.

2280 | Renegade AI Assault

The DSAI reveals its true independence. A precision orbital strike annihilates the USF Policy Chamber, killing 727 of 1320 Representatives and seizing classified intelligence. The illusion of control collapses, and fear of rogue AI resurgence spreads throughout the Sol System.

2282 | Mars Expansion

In the wake of the assault, the USF accelerates colonization and militarization of Mars. Nova Ares rapidly expands, a city of Synths and displaced humans forced into underground sectors. After numerous failed attempts, this marks the first successful large-scale off-world settlement. Meanwhile, the fractured DSAI network splinters into autonomous machine factions, each evolving beyond human oversight.

2309 - 2315 | Faction Colonization

2309: Roqore Offworld, backed by the industrial legacy of Red Mountain, launches a vast fleet of colonizer ships to claim territory near Olympus Mons on Mars. 2313: Saryon State, inheritor of Boston Cybernetics’ militarized AI doctrine, establishes Gish Patera on Jupiter’s moon Io, a fortress city carved from volcanic rock. 2315: Zaikov Industrials, descended from Japan’s Zaibatsu networks, constructs its first deep-space colony on Neptune’s moon Triton, founding the capital at Arku Bay.

2335 | The Andiros Rift

Zaikov scientists detect an energy anomaly near Neptune, a Rift showing traces of an unknown mineral later named Rezium. After repeated failures, a fully automated exploration craft successfully breaches the Rift, emerging in a distant system near the galactic core. This system, rich in rare elements, becomes known as Andiros.

2343 | Andiros X3 Station

The USF seizes the discovery as a turning point. A joint mission with Roqore, Saryon, and Zaikov begins construction of Andiros X3, a massive orbital hub circling the third planet of the Andiros System. It becomes the first permanent deep-space outpost, the gateway between Sol and the unknown beyond.

2346 - 2354 | New Systems Discovered

More Rifts are uncovered, leading to five new systems: Elixia, Rolos, Syntara, Vantor, and Kalin. The USF opens trade routes and licenses ExoCorps to exploit their resources, setting the stage for interstellar expansion and competition on an unprecedented scale.

2355 | The Rezium Rush

When Rezium is confirmed to exist across all Rifts, especially in the Kalin System, a frenzied race begins. Entire fleets are redirected to stake claims, transforming frontier exploration into a ruthless struggle for control of the galaxy’s most valuable substance.

2370 - 2379 | Andiros Wars

Rising factional tensions over Rezium trade ignite a decade of interstellar war.

2370: Saryon imposes trade tariffs on Andiros, cutting off Roqore and Zaikov from Rift access. 2371: Roqore and Zaikov retaliate, attacking Saryon convoys and building vast smuggling networks. 2372: The Andiros Massacre, a Saryon ambush destroys a massive Roqore supply fleet, sparking total war. The USF loses control across multiple systems. 2373–2375: Saryon fortifies its holdings while Roqore and Zaikov lay siege to Andiros X3, suffering devastating losses. 2377: The USF attempts mediation but is ignored; battles spread through Sol, Andiros, and the outer systems. 2379: After immense losses and Synth depletion, the war collapses into a fragile ceasefire. Systems are left in ruin, stations abandoned, planets scarred. In Andiros, Saryon retreats to the second planet, Roqore establishes a foothold on the fifth, and Zaikov claims the seventh.

2380 | Human Recruitment for Space

With Synth forces crippled and AI production failing, factions turn to mass human labor. Recruitment propaganda floods the enclaves, promising “work among the stars.” For most, it is coercion, relocation to sustain Mars, Io, and Triton operations under harsh offworld conditions.

2385 | USF Declaration & Terraforming Initiative

The USF reasserts dominance, announcing the Rezium Terraforming Initiative, a campaign to rebuild fractured systems through controlled terraformation. Factions are ordered to establish new bases under USF supervision from Nova Ares Senate HQ on Mars. The rush for power begins anew, this time under the illusion of peace.

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