When Empires fall

     Before this story starts, I, the writer, would like to ask you to ask yourself one question. One question only; Did Mankind deserve to exist?

     We are destructive and warlike, polluting entire Eco systems and exterminating species. We kill each other in droves and construct weapons of mass destruction. Yet we're so intelligent and ingenious, we surpassed all life on Earth simply by harnessing fire let alone sending men to the moon and back.

     Now this relates to a future of interstellar existence by predicting the outcomes of when a species like humankind projects it's traits onto a galactic scale.

     I wrote this story partly because I wanted to imagine the effects of a galactic human civilisation where her personality isn't isolated on one world floating in the middle of nowhere.

It's also to explore the consequences of war, technology, and industrialisation on a grander scale.

     But yes, a good portion was because I wanted to imagine Twilight Sparkle hearing of interstellar technology without magic: IMPOSSIBRU.

Heh.

     Anyway, that's a surprising amount of deep though I've encountered and written.

I think I should actually get on with the story, seeing as this is still the freaking Prologue.

     This story starts as the interstellar timeline.

[PLEASE NOTE, SKIP THE TIMELINE IF YOU WANT TO, EXCEPT FOR WHERE IT SAYS IMPORTANT EVENTS, CAUSE THIS WILL REALLY RELATE TO THE STORY.]

2016 Britain wins a small Carribean skirmish against Mexico.

2018: The IEV (International Exploration Vessel) is completed by American, British, French, German, Canadian, Russian, Chinese, Indian, and Australian efforts, the IEV is a large 25 crew craft capable of regular travel between the Moon and Earth.

2019: A Chinese team lands on Mars, European and American space agencies humiliated.

2021: North Korea and US on the brink of war.

2024: North Korea surrenders after combined efforts of NATO, Japan, Australia and South Korea.

2025: War in Afghanistan finally ends.

2026: The Hubble Telescope has found more and more water worlds, alien life theory even stronger.

2028: World War 3 begins after China invades Taiwan and Russia joins China, after succumbing to a Communist dictator.

2033: World War III ends with 205 million casualties, Cold War 2 begins after Uneasy Armistice between the Russian Empire and Europe.

2034: Pre-built research structures  carried by NASA placed on Mars, first structures on another world official.

2036: Capitalist reform in Russia, second Cold War ends, Poland independent.

2044: First military space raft designed by the US, basically a large shuttle with some machine guns and light armour.

2046: Space race as US and the Western European empires compete in making larger and better combat modules.

2051: World population exceeds 10 billion, Saudi Arabian crisis begins after exhaustion of Coal and severe Oil shortage.

2054: The Crusader module constructed by British/French/Russian efforts, first Dreadnaught class, stated as finest warship made by man.

2056: Timeline guy has still not shut up.

2062: S.E Asia nuclear Crisis between Facist and Democratic states.

2065: UN London building bombed at a conference.

2075: Voyager Vessel built by NATO, robotic mission to Mercury, twin vessel Newton to Pluto.

2076: More than 50% of man's rescources from Asteroid operation, Billionaire builds a private retreat on Mars.

2088: 100th man to build a mansion, colonisation ideas spring up.

2096: Robotic mission to a rock planet 8 light years away reports back to NASA hub.

2105: Spacedocks assembled to ease any shipments between Earth and Mars.

2122: Timeline still going.

2123: New Angeles port established on Mars: has 4 Spacedocks and Private retreats for 600 residents.

2144: First man to live beyond the age of 170.

2165: You know, I'm going to keep going like this so I would probably speed up ahead a little.

2170: New Angeles has 1,000th Residential owner.

2178: OASIS Industries founded, Britain and the Commonwealth planning their own Spaceport.

2198: New Mumbai port with 25 docking platforms and 2,600 residents.

2204: Russia sets up New Volga port.

2206: Great colonisation race begins.

2219: Commonwealth imperial fleet established, with 4 dread sights and 22 combat shuttles.

US sets up The United States Space Fleet and Russia sets up the Russian Space Fleet.

2230: 10,000 resident on Mars, a baby is a global celebrity for being born on Mars, the first Martian is a new spark for Martian development.

2244: Tensions rise as the three powers (Russia, Commonwealth, and the Us) continue their space armaments race.

2273: First Space war, UN conferences end it, but not until after the Skirmish of New Boston, where the entire space capacity of the powers clashed.

2302: Beginning of the population crisis, pressing urgency to make mass relocation to Martian colonies possible.

3rd child illegal in all UN nations.

2329: Goverments secretly release RP442, a chemical pathogeon which kills 4 in 5 embryos, effectively halting population growth.

2352: Despite huge efforts, Mars still lingers at 80,000 residents.

2369: New Mumbai hits 35,000 residents.

[OKAY, SKIPPING HUGE AMOUNT OF DAT TIMELINE]

2656: After the Great War of succession unifies mankind, they refocus on interstellar colonisation after perfecting Warp nexus 2 (24,000x the speed of light)

2772: On the mining world of Keplar 6667 Alpha, observation posts detect alien craft, exploration vessels scramble.

2789: First contact war between Mankind and the Jerkunt.

UNIC sends an armistice request (UNIC: United Nations Interstellar Command).

2801: After UNIC defeats the Jerkunt in a decisive space battle, they accept the Armistice.

2955: UNIV encounters the Gektica, UNIC crushes them in the second contact war.

3065: Multiple species found require an alliance.

The Interstellar Union of Empires is founded IEU, mankind holding the peacekeeper title.

3188: Serljen encountered, they are extremely powerful and lead a war between them and Mankind, Man wins after 40 years, Serljen flee in 3228.

[SKIP AHEAD:]

3777: Great War of Dominance begins, mankind systematically crushes all other species after a revolution installs a new expansionist government.

3802: Warp Nexus 6 perfected. (1,560,000x speed of light)

3902: Great War of Dominance ends, Mankind a super-super power, ruling over 3 billion worlds.

NOW FOR REAL IMPORTANT EVENTS

4226: Bio weapon hits major colonies after terrorist attack on military base.

     -Basically causes Dead space apocalypse.

     -The bio weapons is so advanced, mutations soon result in even Man's weapons technology unable to contain it.

[Galactic crisis.]

4221, Only 1 in 5 worlds remain, Galactic super weapons constructed and used in desperation.

4335: Genesis project begins, a world is protected by advanced shields, with records if everything mankind has achieved in it.

     -It contains technology and Stasis facilities.

     -It is designed as last resort, should Earth ever be lost.

4456: Earth stops taking in refuges, Hexallion shields set up around earth and the Genesis project world.

4599: Crucible fired, Crisis ends, but at a cost, only where the Hexallion shields were survived.

4665: Genesis project mostly abandoned due to desertion of staff to Earth, Genesis facilities left deep underground.

The last remnants of humanity on Earth must begins the long reconstruction of their empire....