2171:
After the devastating loss of the colonization effort of Pandora by the RDA and the loss of the rare material known as Amrita, the world governments are no longer tolerant of the pseudo-government organization's failures and impose heavy fines and forced change of leadership.
Yet the governments are now faced with the imminent extinction of the human race on Earth.
Forced into a no-win scenario, the governments are forced to put aside their differences and for the first time in history, truly work together for the betterment of all mankind.
The ISA, short for International Space Agency, is created by combining NASA, RFSA, CNSA, ISRO, ESA, JAXA, and many other space agencies around the world.
2173:
After 2 years of brainstorming between top scientists around the world, the ISA comes up with two plans to save the dying Human race.
The first plan is for the deployment of a fully functional AI to terraform the planet Mars for human life.
The second plan is to use colonization ships created from the same designs as the ISV of the RDA to be sent to Pandora as it was the only viable life-bearing world that humanity could reach in a conceivable timeframe.
The second plan is almost immediately discarded as the Governments are no longer optimistic about forming diplomatic relationships with the natives of Pandora.
With the green signal given to the first plan, the work on Artificial Machine Intelligence, or AMI for short, begins.
2180:
After 7 years of hard work, AMI is first tested on Earth after which it is deployed to mars onboard an ISV ship known as 'ISV New Hope' which held over 20,000 human embryos and 10,000 adult humans with all kinds of backgrounds in cryostasis to populate Mars.
After the touchdown, AMI begins the massive work of terraforming Mars.
At the same time, the Earth now faces an unprecedented rise in the energy crisis, causing the governments to use what little remains of the Unobtanium to construct Anti-matter reactors for major countries such as the USA, Russia, China, India, Japan, and Canada while using Tokamak Nuclear fusion reactors for the other countries.
But this is only a stop-gap measure as the Tokamak reactors are extremely inefficient and the Anti-matter reactors are ridiculously expensive to maintain.
And then, they also have to address the concerns of the small percentage of the population that was immortal thanks to the Amrita who demanded more resources as they were more 'important' than the common folk.
All of these problems would come to a head in the next two years, resulting in the most devastating war in human history.
2182:
The Unobtanium reserves of the governments are finally depleted, resulting in the closure of the Global maglev railway systems, anti-matter reactors, ISV spaceships, quantum entanglement superluminal communications, and many other sectors, leading to the complete collapse of the economy in most of the countries of the world.
This directly causes the fourth world war, just 40 years after the third world war.
The war lasts for 10 years and resulted in the collapse of many large countries. The only country to emerge in a partially intact state was the USA, which lost its entire east coast to nuclear weapons, Russia which lost 60% of its territory while the rest was rendered inhospitable due to the use of WMDs, China which lost 70% of its territory to a combination of nukes and chemical weapons, India which lost 60% of its land due to tsunamis, earthquakes, nukes, and chemical weapons.
Japan was completely lost as the island country was the first target of China during the war and was saturated with Nuclear weapons, wiping it off the map. Canada faced the same fate as the entire country was rendered a radioactive wasteland.
By the time the war ended and the remaining countries pulled themselves together, only a handful of the 193 countries remained.
2193:
With the complete destruction of the governing structure of the world, the remaining countries banded together and formed a single governing body.
The United Earth Government, UEG for short, was formed.
The UEG would begin the long and arduous process of rebuilding the world.
It won't be until 2210 that Earth would hear from the colonists of Mars again.
2210:
With the loss of Unobtanium, the UEG is forced to depend on the previous forms of communication from before Unobtanium was discovered, resulting in the reestablishment of communications with Mars, resulting in surprising yet welcome news.
During the ten years of war on Earth and the blackout of communications, AMI continued its mission of colonizing Mars. During this time, AMI had managed to form small bodies of water across the planet using asteroid drops, planetary temperature increases using greenhouse effects, and various other methods.
But that was not the only surprise to the UEG. It was also revealed that AMI had used the time it had to itself during the terraforming state to develop multiple branches of technologies to a high degree, resulting in the creation of advanced solar farms, plasma collider nuclear fusion reactors, much more efficient drone plans for both civilian and military purposes, efficient automated manufacturing systems and a highly effective design for a space hook.
While it had used most of the designs already in its complexes, it had yet to create a space hook as the ISV New Hope along with 10 other ISVs from before the war were still waiting around Mars with its human crews in cryostasis, making it impossible for AMI to receive authorization and resources for the construction of such a mega project.
The UEG immediately had AMI send the complete technological and scientific database that it had back to earth so that they could begin rebuilding the earth.
2215:
For five years, UEG worked on using the most effective technologies to rebuild the biosphere of the Earth while working on the genetics of the human genome to facilitate the human species to live in an increasingly hostile world.
During these days, the UEG discovered many of the dirty secrets of the now defunct RDA which included many illegal experiments, suppression of alternate fuel methods that did not rely on Unobtanium, corruption, embezzlement, black market sale of the Amrita, and many more crimes that the world did not know about.
Among this laundry list of crimes committed by the destroyed company, the UEG found the details of the Avatar project and the complete research of the exomoon Pandora by Dr.Grace that was suppressed by the RDA so that it would never see the light of day.
This research and the Avatar project details proved to be the miracle that the UEG was looking for.
With the help of the Avatar project, the UEG devised a way for human DNA to be modified to an extreme degree. This new DNA plan would allow a human to be born with the same kind of carbon fiber reinforced skeleton of the Na'vi, but they would retain the powerful muscle structure of humans. They would also gain the enhanced brain structure that an Avatar body would have, enhancing the IQ of the human. Along with these modifications, the enhanced body would also have the powerful heart and lung capacity of the Na'vi people, allowing for the human race to be able to withstand the heavily polluted world of Earth.
These new types of humans would be named the Homo Proximus, the next step of man.
Unfortunately, this technique could only allow for the next generation of humans to be born to have these superhuman physiques. There was no way for existing humans to achieve these bodies with the current technology unless they decided to upload their memories into a new clone body created with the modifications.
2220:
The very first homo proximus baby is born to a geneticist named Sarah Shepherd and the entire world celebrated its birth.
With the shortage of energy being a thing of the past and the Earth nearly brought back to livable conditions, the UEG sets its eyes back on the stars as work begins on creating a new form of starships that did not need any exotic material, such as Unobtanium, to function.
During this time, an emerging corporation by the name of DOLOS Inc, one of the first companies to be established after the war, begins making waves in the world with its hands on almost all kinds of product manufacturing and sale. A lot of people begin to fear the rise of a new quasi-government in the form of Dolos Inc due to the ever-present shadow of the misdeeds of RDA.
The UEG also faces the same fears and ends up passing several laws that prevent a private firm from having armed forces in any way, shape, or form.
2225:
AMI once again helps propel humanity forward by designing a highly efficient plasma propulsion system for starships, allowing for the replacement of the anti-matter engines used in the ISV spaceships although the new system did not have the same kind of speed as before.
This new generation of ships is named Reclamation class ships.
Armed with these new ships and the newly constructed skyhook from AMI's designs, the UEG begins the establishment of a moon base to harvest helium-3 for the thousands of Plasma Collider fusion reactors that now powered the entirety of Earth.
For the next twenty years, the UEG would be focused on the construction of a new Global transit system in the form of Hyperloops developed by AMI, powering the massive boom of population, using genetically modified crops to provide food for the people, and focusing on acquiring resources for the Earth through asteroid mining with the moon base being the main hub for the transport of resources.
Due to the massive success of AMI, many emerging corporations begins their own attempts to create fully functional artificial intelligence. The UEG being the witness to the many benefits that AMI brought, authorizes the attempts and even provides the details that they have regarding the creation of AMI by the RDA.
Within just five years, DOLOS Inc reveals its success in the creation of an AI named Eden.
2250:
With 40% of the population now made up of Homo Proximus, a new phenomenon is observed.
Psionic abilities, such as telekinesis, telepathy, and extra-sensory perceptions that were once thought to be fantasy were observed in the Homo Proximus.
After careful studies, it is revealed that the source of these anomalies was the combination of the extremely powerful human-Na'vi hybrid brain found in the Homo Proximus. While the Human brain was already the most complex structure in nature, it was enhanced even further when the exotic genetic markers of the Na'vi were introduced into the human DNA, resulting in the Homo Proximus manifesting these powers that were thought to be impossible even by Dr.Grace from the Avatar project even after she had studied the entity called Eywa on Pandora and worked on the Avatar project that used psionic devices to transmit the consciousness of the pilot to their avatar bodies.
While there was a minority that feared these new powers, and by extension, the Homo Proxima, it was just that, a minority. Nobody took them seriously due to the fact that most of them were made up of the remnants of the RDA and the last handfuls of the Immortals left after the war.
While the general public dismissed these vocal minorities, the UEG had not forgotten the threat that they once posed to the very existence of the human race. Thus, it carried out many silent assassinations to get rid of the RDA remnants and stored the Immortals in cryo-pods buried deep beneath the Earth, never to be seen again with the exception of one particularly vocal and the new human hater that would be experimented on by an off the books science team to try and artificially synthesize Amrita from his genetic material.
2271:
The world marks the century since Humanity left the exomoon Pandora for good and nearly nine decades since the Mars terraforming project was launched.
It was also this year that AMI finally achieved its primary objective of terraforming Mars completely.
Mars is now a garden world that is comparable to what Earth once was in its glory days.
With its task complete, AMI's central core is brought back to Earth aboard a Reclamation class ship with much fanfare and is installed in a massive complex located at the headquarters of the UEG located in the former state of Texas.
Here, AMI would continue to provide services to humanity by giving scientific advice to the UEG.
2282:
A century after AMI's initial launch, Mars is now home to more than a few million people.
The entire population is now made of 80% of Homo Proximus, the remaining 20% being the old humans that were only alive due to the extreme advances in medicine facilitated by major breakthroughs.
DOLOS Inc establishes a research center on the moon under a secret project spearheaded by the UEG called 'Project: Prison Break'.
With humanity now in a golden age, the UEG launches several AI created by DOLOS are launched to Venus and Europa to begin their terraforming process. Multiple AI are sent to speed up the terraforming process and to ease the load on the AI since AMI had described to the UEG how she almost went rogue due to isolation and the burden of her mission.
2293:
The Entire human race celebrates the century since the war and honors their dead ancestors.
The human race is now 100% Homo Proximus.
Venus is completely terraformed and colonized while Europa is partially terraformed.
2300:
During the new year celebrations, DOLOS unveils the project that they were working on in secret.
The VHOLE engine is revealed to the general public as the FTL engine that DOLOS developed under project Prison break.
The public celebrates this occasion as the UEG declares the construction of a new class of colonization ships to be built for interstellar colonization.
The IXION class ships are announced.
2310:
The very first IXION class ship floats off the space docks. Its massive structure is similar to a massive ring that is 2 Km in diameter.
The IXION class ships use a heavily modified Anti-matter propulsion system that does not use Unobtanium for achieving sublight speeds. Once the ships are far enough from a celestial body, it will use their VHOLE engine to jump into Self-Similar space, a higher plane of existence where time, space, and distance have no meaning and arrive at their destination instantly.
But this method of travel has extreme danger as initial testings revealed the chance of a random distortion of space, resulting in any nearby Celestial body caught in the distortion being completely destroyed. Aside from this, there is also the possibility of accidentally traveling in time or ending up in a completely different dimension altogether.
To avoid these accidents, AI is required to be integrated into the ships to allow for the precise calculation of the travel route to be taken by the ships through the self-similar space with respect to the real space location of their target.
2400:
With the boundaries of the solar system broken nine decades ago, Humanity is now an interstellar civilization with more than 10 worlds under its name.
During the past decades, the AI earned citizenship in the UEG thanks to their massive population, their continued support of the human race, and the requests of the humans themselves to their government to make their companion AIs full-fledged citizens.
The IXION class ships are now upgraded to be 6 Km in diameter with the task of material and personal transport between the 10 worlds of the UEG.
Unfortunately, Pandora is not considered a part of the UEG as the government and its people have branded the small but thriving population of Homo sapience on the exomoon to be traitors of their kind and the natives as savages that do not deserve their presence.
While there were many corporations that were tempted to go to Pandora to claim its resources, the many reminders from the UEG about the previous attempts and the many dangers of that world dissuaded them.
In truth, the UEG did not want another problem on their hands due to the threat that the humans of Pandora posed to the UEG in the form of a reminder of what humanity used to be like before WW4.
Besides, the Humans of Earth had long since evolved past anything that the primitives and traitors of Pandora can hope to achieve, hence their presence would be nothing more than a hindrance.
2450:
Artificial Unobtanium is synthesized by DOLOS by replicating the conditions of the formation of the exomoon Pandora at a microscale, opening a door to the integration of many old yet superior technologies to current tech.
Within a short ten years, the IXION ships are modified to replace their Anti-matter propulsion systems with a much more efficient and powerful gravitational repulsor propulsion technology. The Plasma propulsion systems used by the Reclamation class ships are also overhauled to use Unobtanium in their components, allowing for extreme sublight speeds.
The Unobtanium is also used by DOLOS to create a powerful laser mining array that would allow for the efficiency of asteroid mining and planetary mining across the UEG space to increase exponentially. The military research division of DOLOS modified these lasers to create a powerful DEW system for starships.
DOLOS also built a powerful planetary defense network that the UEG commissioned them to build around all the planets of human space. The defense network consisted of hundreds of satellite platforms operated by AI that were equipped with powerful nuclear weapons and Laser weapons designed to take out any large meteors or astroids headed toward the planets.
2470:
A distress signal is received by the UEG originating from the Hells gate command center on Pandora.
