Solar System Development Prior to the Great War
2012 First manned trip to Mars.
2020 First Mars colony; smart probes leave on solar system Grand Tour.
2029 First Belt mines and colonies,
2030 Von Neumanns released on Ganymede.
2032 First human exploration of the Saturn system.
2038 Solar studies research station on Mercury.
2040 Second human exploration of Saturn system; smart probes leave for moons of Uranus.
2044 Ceres and Pallas colonies achieve self-sufficiency.
2046 Venus terraforming effort aborted; first Venus station.
2048 Third Saturn exploration team; Von Neumanns released on Titan.
2050 Rapid development of Jovian moons Ganymede and Callisto; research station on Europa.
2053 Belt declares independence; major frictions between Earth and former Belt colonies.
2054 Disappearance of fourth Saturn exploration team.
2055 Earth population tops ten billion; Mars population tops ten million.
2057 Research station proposed for Oberon.
2060 Armageddon Defense Line installed on Luna; Luna population reaches seven million.
2061 Fifth Saturn exploration team.
2062 Belt population tops one hundred million; colonies on Ceres, Pallas, Vesta, Juno, Hidalgo, and twenty-seven smaller planetoids.
2066 Sixth Saturn exploration team; Ganymede/Callisto population reaches eighty million.
2067 The Great War.