Historical Landmarks

2150...
A black-mass generator and a black-energy projection device are coupled.
The first repulso-gravitation propulsion device is born.
The resulting acceleration makes it possible for man to travel to the stars.

2300...
Mankind settles its first pioneers on Alpha Centauri and Proxima.

2600...
Traces of ancient Xenomorph technology are discovered on Canis Majoris.

2680...
Terra-forming of planets with hostile environments is made possible by the new Fields technology.

2730...
The " Hegemon " war breaks out between large trade groups fighting for control of the space markets.

2735...
The Echosound (named after the machines used to extract hadessium from the mines) is formed.
This is the first workers' union, grouping several terra-forming sites and extraplanetary mines.

2737...
Extreme and ever-worsening working conditions, and the excessive death rate of workers, launch the armed dissent movement of the " Terra-Forming Operators ". Unprecedented reprisals are demanded by the shareholders.
The " Echosound " union is dissolved, its activists are hunted down as terrorists.

2754...
Ferocious competition between the super-transporter lobbies in charge of shipping manpower and raw materials.
The growing scarcity of voluntary manpower gives rise to a " high-salary policy " and " Forced " recruiting.
In spite of a brief boom, manpower is inexorably drying up at the source.
Disease and serious injuries drive ever higher the numbers of handicapped, angry workers.

2760...
Creation of the first readaptation structures for injured workers.
Research in " Bio-genetics ", " Neurobio-cybernetics ", " Neuro-chemistry " and " Mind Development ", opens new horizons. Its goal ? Restoring the value of handicapped workers and bringing them back to the job.

2765...
An independent study shows that personnel having undergone modification by one of these processes increases its yield by 50% compared to so-called " Intact " workers.

2776...
Birth of the Consortium, through an economic merger between " Human Development " research firms.
Increasing demand on the part of the mining sites for " improved " manpower.
The number of insertions of intelligent prostheses, and of voluntary psychological remodeling increases month by month...
Trade boom, record rate of economic growth.

2780...
Unprecedented series of takeovers and buy-outs by the Consortium.

2785...
The Consortium holds an exclusive monopoly on the research and marketing of human development...

2787...
Creation of a " Military Research " branch within the Consortium.

2792...
Intervention of modified-genome military units on a planet ruled by a theocratic government and refusing the manipulation of the human race.
Severe sentence passed by the " United Planets " of the Unicorn Federation against the Consortium.
The Consortium's retaliates by buying up the super-transporter corporations.
Severe scarcity of raw materials in the whole Unicorn Federation.
An agreement is reached with the granting of Consortium embassies on Federation territories.

Today, the Consortium is the most powerful political and economic entity of all the human worlds.