| The year is 2199 and life on Earth is a hopeless struggle with economic chaos and social decay. Incorporated city-states dominate the political landscape and natural resources are virtually exhausted. Civilization has barely survived a 75-year dark age known simply as the Blight. For more than three decades, an engineered virus ravaged the world's agricultural crops while social panic reigned and billions died of starvation. Once-great cities lie in ruin and anarchistic, famine-ravaged Free Zones have claimed whole regions of the globe. the years that followed. |
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| So begins the opening chapter of the Blue Planet Players Handbook. A wonderfull multi-colored RPG by Biohazard Games , published (until recently) by Fantasy Flight Games. Blue Planet takes place on a distant world, discovered in 2078 behind a wormhole. Poseidon, as the world was named, turned out to be remarkably similar to earth; with one big difference : 95% of its surface was covered with water ... | ||
| Year |
Event | |
2011 |
Lavender Organics patents a preliminary method of human genetic manipulation. | |
2019 |
A Zero Nation poison attack kills over 2.000 people in LA, Paris, Tokyo, London and Berlin | |
| 2027 |
Biogene Corporation becomes first corporation to obtain legal persecutory authority, effectively becoming the first Incorporate state. | |
| 2035 |
Biogene implants biomonitors in all of their executive staff | |
2042 |
Woodshole Oceanic Institute develops a method to uplift cetaceans to human intelligence levels. The process id dubbed "Genlifting" | |
| 2050 |
Preliminary steps taken for the establishment of Luna; earth population 8.8 billion | |
| 2076 |
Colonization |
Wormhole discovered |
| 2077 |
Prometheus II launched | |
| 2078 |
Prometheus II enters Wormhole, exits in Serpentis system, gathers data, and returns through Wormhole. | |
| 2079 |
Earth Skyhook completed. | |
| 2080 |
Argos 12 mission to Poseidon; Athena Project begins. GenDiver begins genetic redesign projects. | |
| 2085 |
UNSS Cousteau completed & original Poseidon colonists chosen. | |
| 2086 |
Cousteau launched, passes through Wormhole, enters orbit around Poseidon. | |
| 2087 |
Cousteau begins unloading. Construction of Haven begun. | |
| 2090 |
Blight |
Fischer virus begins the Blight. |
| 2093 |
Construction of Athena Project resupply vessels halted, effectively ending the project. | |
| 2094 |
UN offers sovereignty to any Incorporate state capable of governing where national governments fail. | |
| 2095 |
UNGEO given enforcement authority in an attempt to combat the Blight. | |
| 2095 |
Cousteau's main computer fails. Ship cannibalized for materials | |
| 2100 |
UN votes to subordinate the organization to the Global Ecology Organization. | |
| 2110 |
First report of aboriginal contact. | |
| 2115 |
Cousteau's landing vessel crashes during a rescue attempt | |
| 2118 |
Orbit of Cousteau decays and sends craft crashing to Poseidon's oceans. | |
| 2120 |
GEO declares Blight to no longer be a threat. | |
| 2121 |
Body of aborigine discovered floating in Kingston harbor. | |
| 2156 |
UN restored, but GEO not disbanded. | |
| 2165 |
Re-contact |
Recontact; UNSS Adm. Robert Perry arrives in Serpentis system. |
| 2172 |
First resupply vessel UNSS Ballard arrives in Serpentis system. | |
| 2174 |
Floating research facility is destroyed by marine animals. A cry for help was never issued. | |
| 2185 |
Atlas Materials discovers xenosilicate Longevity Ore ("Long John"). | |
| 2187 |
Long John rush to Poseidon begins | |
| 2190 |
First floating town, Dyfedd, is build by Lavender Organics. | |
| 2192 |
GenDiver destroys Atlas' Undersea Habitat. A minor Incorporate war breaks out. | |
| 2194 |
GEO appoints a Justice Department commission (Marshals, Magistrates, and Shock Troops) to Poseidon to end Incorporate war. | |
| 2195 |
Prosperity Station built to facilitate transport to and from Earth through the Wormhole. | |
| 2199 |
The present day. Poseidon population reaches 2 million | |