"A Second Chance at Eden" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hamilton Peter F.)

Timeline

2091 - Lunar referendum to terraform Mars.

2094 - Edenists begin exowomb breeding programme coupled with extensive geneering improvement to embryos, tripling their population over a decade.

2103 - Earth's national governments consolidate into Govcentral.

2103 - Thoth base established on Mars.

2107 - Govcentral jurisdiction extended to cover O'Neill Halo.

2115 - First instantaneous translation by New Kong spaceship, Earth to Mars.

2118 - Mission to Proxima Centauri.

2123 - Terracompatible planet found at Ross 154.

2125 - Ross 154 planet named Felicity, first multiethnic colonists arrive.

2125-2130 - Four new terracompatible planets discovered. Multiethnic colonies founded.

2131 - Edenists germinate Perseus in orbit around Ross 154 gas giant, begin He3 mining.

2131-2205 - The Great Dispersal. One hundred and thirty terracompatible planets discovered. Massive starship building programme initiated in O'Neill Halo. Govcentral begins large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus population, rising to two million a week in 2160. Civil conflict on some early multiethnic colonies. Individual Govcentral states sponsor ethnic-streaming colonies. Edenists expand their He3 mining enterprise to every inhabited star system with a gas giant.

2139 - Asteroid Braun impacts on Mars.

2180 - First orbital tower built on Earth.

2205 - Antimatter production station built in orbit around Sun by Govcentral in an attempt to break the edenist energy monopoly.

2208 - First antimatter drive starships operational.

2210 - Richard Saldana transports all of New Kong's industrial facilities from the O'Neill Halo to an asteroid orbiting Kulu. He claims independence for the Kulu star system, founds christian-only colony, and begins to mine He3 from the system's gas giant.

2218 - First voidhawk gestated, a bitek starship designed by Edenists.

2225 - Establishment of 100 voidhawk families. Habitats Romulus and Remus germinated in saturn orbit to serve as voidhawk bases.

2232 - Conflict at Jupiter's trailing trojan asteroid cluster between belt alliance ships and an O'Neill Halo company hydrocarbon refinery. Antimatter used as a weapon; 27,000 people killed.

2238 - Treaty of Deimos, outlaws production and use of antimatter in the Sol system, signed by Govcentral, Lunar nation, asteroid alliance, and Edenists. Antimatter stations abandoned and dismantled.

2240 - Coronation of Gerrald Saldana as King of Kulu. Foundation of Saldana dynasty.