Back Cover Antiquity, book zero: the story of tomorrow By Ken Walters Welcome to tomorrow.

In an interesting blend of fiction and speculation, Antiquity, book zero: the story of tomorrow is a timeline of what if What if genetics make short work of the molecule of life, but quantum physics cannot quite do the same for the basis of the universe? What if the developing world developed? What if corporation married government? What if this, or something like this is tomorrow. Back story to a planned series of futuristic novels, the timeline stands alone as an intriguing extrapolation of science, politics and economy. The plot stems from our yesterdays; the action rumbles from our today; and the characters evolve from our tomorrows. 2025-2049 2125-2149 2050-2074 Afterward

As always, for my wife Joyce, I love you

I am the sole author of the following work, and by US law, it is automatically copyrighted. As stated in the Forward that follows, one basic motive of this work is to serve as back story for future novels. If words in this timeline inspire your short stories, I am flattered. Your works are not official back story, but I would love to read them. Copyright 2011.

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Forward You are browsing through and perhaps about to read a work of fiction. I do not forecast these events, but rather make the ideas available. This timeline is a step that has taken considerable time in my preparation for a series of novels. That path began with a true historic timeline, and now with a future one. I am a fan of science fiction. I even enjoy it when it is bad. For me, the fiction can be bad for many reasons, characters I care little about, plot lines that adhere only by coincidence, unreasonable turns taken by writers that do not appear to have read their own work. The science can fail for the same or other reasons. I have often wondered why aliens whose only purpose in life is to consume violently have developed technology capable of breaking laws of relativity. The science fiction that makes me think holds me for all of the right reasons. I want my fiction to make you think. Early in this timeline, early so that I will not spoil it badly, geneticists complete the mapping of DNA and learn how to clone organisms. They almost have reached the former and can perform the latter. Reasonably, next ability in the sequence would be the creation of unnatural organisms, and likely this discovery would first turn to microbes. Genetic engineering could instill desired genetic traits. Natural microbes are reasonable for decay and composting. If geneticists could produce more effective decay, they could accelerate decay. Decay was the first step in the formation of certain types of fossils, namely oil. Oil is basic in our current lifestyle, and supplies are becoming exhausted. Effective fungi might lead to rapid fossilization. That idea is a stretch. Fossilization took millennia, but if the fungi are effective enough, perhaps The science and politics I reveal are items of fiction, but I have tried to make most reasonable, while planning out the background to my actual novels. I think they are interesting enough that you may enjoy. I want your comments about anything related. Sometimes, my science passes reasonability. Let me know if it is too fantastic. I may need what I have written for my

novels, and simply appreciate your interest; or, perhaps the error comes from my lack of expertise and a little changing can correct it. Please, comment, whether you enjoy this work or not. Please, check my other sites, including samples from the actual first novel. The egg takes you to the novels blog. Click The Past for my historical timeline of The Novel for the first few chapters of the novel. The Future returns you to this site.

2000-2024 2025-2049 2050-2074 2075-2099 2100-2124 2125-2149 Forward Afterward Before the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, with phenomenal growth during the 1920s, the New York Stock Exchange, the largest market in the world, reached its historic high of 380.33 points. The great fall that spelled the Great Depression sent the 380.33 point value down to 42.84 by 1933, almost a 90% drop in four years. The point value almost immediately sprang back up to 187.17 by 1937. Despite some large rises and falls over the next few years, the market generally remained level through the 1940s, just less than 200. By 1955, it regained the pre-Depression level of near 400 points. By 1965, it reached 1000, roughly doubling in value. From 1965-85, a 1000 point ceiling seemed to have developed. When the national debt for the US began incredible growth during the 1980s, the stock market revealed incredible growth. Between 1985-1990, the market doubled in value from 1200 to 2500 points. From 1990-95, it nearly doubled again to 4500. From 1995-2000, it reached about 8000. By August 2000, it has climbed to near 12,000, paving the way for many investors to amass great wealth. Even though relatively large downturns occur in the new millennium, for instance a loss from the 12,000 back to 8000 by 2003, it consistently corrects the fall, achieving 14,000 by 2008 before another large drop back to 8000. While many factors contribute to personal wealth and the overall economy, extraordinary wealth grows for some, but the US government pays the cost in debt. The national debt remained just under 2 trillion dollars from 1945-80. By 1980, the debts growth, at 3 trillion, mimicked the stock value growth; 1985, 4 trillion; 1990, 5 trillion; 1995, 6 trillion. In 2000, because of balanced budgets, it remains at 6 trillion, but by 2005 it goes to 7 trillion. As for personal income, wealth for the wealthy followed the previous examples. In 1960, adjusted for inflation, the rich in the US earned approximately 40 times more than the average employee. The average wage in 1960 was $4000 per year, and the rich earned about $160,000. By 1990, the rich earned 100 times more than the average wage earner, and by 1992, 200 times more. By 1995, the rich earned 300 times more than wage earners, and by 2000, 525 times more. In 2000, the average wage is $32,000 compared to $17,000,000 for the wealthy. Approximately 80% of wealth is controlled by 20% of the population with the new millennium.

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The United Nations (UN) Security Council authorized the deployment of military personnel in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for peacekeeping efforts. These efforts are disrupted many times with a disappointing lack of success and alleged misconduct of the peacekeepers. The Second Congo War officially ends in 2003, but hostilities continue for fifteen years. By 2015, 10 million have died from violence, disease and starvation. The Dot-Com Bubble fractures. While the formation of the Internet has transpired through several decades of innovation and development, during the latter stages of the 20th Century many businesses became almost completely based on the Internet. These businesses see great stock market gains, but in March many go bankrupt in huge Stock Market losses. From the rumble, several super companies expand With the election of Chen Shui-bian, President, the Republic of China (ROC) ends Kuomintangs domination of Taiwan. The Human Genome Project, begun ten years earlier, publishes its initial map of human DNA. The projects goal is to understand the sequencing of genes in humans and other organisms. The gaur, an animal in the Bovinae family on the endangered species list, is cloned, marking the first time cloning is used successively to replicate an organism near extinction. Two days later, the gaur dies of dysentery, unrelated to cloning. A coalition of US and British forces attack Iraqi air defense sites that violate arms reductions mandated by the UN at the close of the First Iraqi War. Iraq is also suspected to be in violation of a ban on the production weapons of mass destruction and seems to be complicating UN investigations. The first artificial heart requiring no outside equipment is transplanted into Robert Tools. The valve assembly duplicates heart functions for almost half a year before Tools died of a stroke. Al-Qaeda terrorists hijack four United States (US) airliners. One airliner crashes in Pennsylvania after passengers overcome the terrorists. One airliner destroys part of the Pentagon in Washington D.C. The two other airliners collide into each of the Twin Towers in New York City, NY, causing immense devastation and over 3000 deaths. The method of suicide bombing has often been used by smaller political bodies against larger entities, but this series of attacks is the largest to date, by

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far. Directly and indirectly, the episode becomes the focal point for several related wars and confrontations. The Doha Development Agenda (DDA) begins as an initiative of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to restructure trade barriers with less developed nations. Nations within the WTO reaches a stalemate on many issues. The International Criminal Court (ICC) forms to prosecute crimes against humanity. Within ten years over 100 nations extend at least partial representation in the tribunal. In response to the four point attack, now called 911 for its date September 11, the US attacks Afghanistan, where Al-Qaeda is suspected to be led. Using a multiple force and a cooperative effort by the UK , special intelligence, armed and air strikes are carried out. The War in Afghanistan continues for more than a decade. Separately, the US State Department names seven nations, including Iraq, as sponsors of terrorism. Iraq continues to block UN oversight of potential weapons of mass destruction. The US calls for a government change in Iraq, threatening military action and receiving mixed reception from typical US allies. The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was formed in 1963 and dedicated to eliminate colonization within the continent and to foster unity among its members. In 2002, the OAU disbands to form the African Union (AU). The new organization reduces attention to colonization and to increase socio-economic stability. Almost all nations of the AU are either members or receive benefits despite disagreement with some AU policies. The Enron Corporation, a multi-faceted company based in Houston, TX, US, which had reported strong gains repeatedly for many years, declared bankruptcy. The bankruptcy case revealed assorted financial fraud in misleading accounting, share-holders losses and executive windfalls. The case induces the US to form new laws and standards in financial records keeping. The fifth floor of the Doubloon, a small hotel-casino in Las Vegas, NV, US, burns and closes. At 10,000 square feet the Doubloon was one of the smallest hotels with a modest casino in the Las Vegas area in the Enterprise suburb. Enrique Girard, a French entrepreneur, purchases the property, along with a five acre lot, for just over five million USD.

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Led by US and UK forces, a UN coalition invades Iraq. The purposes of the attack are reported to be to eliminate weapons of mass destruction, to free the nation of Saddam Husseins dictatorship, and to reduce the worlds threat of terrorism. Within months, the Hussein government goes into hiding and the invading troops overcame traditional military, facing pockets of guerilla fighters. After a successful invasion, the forces find it more difficult to leave. By the end of the year, Hussein is captured, tried and executed, but large numbers of the population do not want foreign intervention. Weapons of mass destruction, with only a few exceptions, cannot be found. The occupation continues for almost a decade. The Color Revolutions continue by nations formerly controlled under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), although these revolutions remain mostly non-violent. The First Liberian Civil War in 1989 ended dictator Samuel Does rule, but led to the equally dictatorial Charles Taylor. A Second Liberian Civil War in 1999, involving multiple African nations, and forces his resignation in 2003. Three Dimensional (3D) cinema gained some popularity in the 1950s. The appearance of 3D came from different technologies. One of the most common in the 1950s was through anaglyph images, stereoscopically displaying the same image, filtered for each eye. The viewer wore polarized glasses stained by the color filter. Vision created the effect in aligning the scene. While some of these methods required minimal equipment changes for motion picture theaters, some required expensive new equipment. At the time there was little consistency. Disfavor grew and 3D became a minor part of the motion picture industry. In the 1980s and 90s, IMAX Corporation, a Canadian company grew from its 1970s infancy. It recorded larger images with greater resolution than traditional tape or film. Special equipment was required, but the company created a niche in special theaters, such as in theme parks and museums, using very large screens. By the early 2000s, several aspects came together, including the renewed interest caused by IMAX, a desire to move 3D to mainstream movies, greater numbers of special effect, computerized graphic animation, action films, the decreased need for special glasses, and the growth of digitized display. The first full length, 3D, mainstream film, using digitized camera becomes James Camerons Ghosts of the Abyss in 2003, beginning a large number of other films released.

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Many European nations (27) loosely unite along economic and political unionization. The European Union (EU) refrains from demanding a unified front in international issues and refrains from dictating its members' national affairs, but creates a common financial market, adopts a common currency the euro (16 of the nations), and allows free movement of goods and people. Professor Woo Suk Hwang, a veterinarian, at Seoul National University in South Korea successfully clones 30 embryos. As with the cloning of the sheep Dolly in 1996, somatic, non-reproductive, cells are used with egg cells to produce a new fertilized cell embryo. Unlike Dolly, the embryos are not gestated to grow full bodied humans. Instead, the new embryotic cell can be used to grow stem cells or any particular cell type to be used for transplantation. In 2006, accusations of Professor Hwang inventing many of the details of his experiments are alleged, which he later confirms faking. He also is indicted on embezzlement and unethical practices in 2006 Girard reopens the Doubloon, expanding the hotel, the casino and a large entertainment arena. Its reputation quickly grows and the patronage blossoms for affluent users. Surprisingly, Girard sells the business for 100 times his investment. He divests, purchasing several acres near Lake Las Vegas and begins Girard Studio, a Las Vegas based motion picture production company. Adopted in 1997, the Kyoto Protocol stems from a UN initiative to reduce green house gases. In 2005, the Protocol goes into force. Members of the Protocol have agreed to phase out their production of the gases, tiered by the industrialization of the nation and its ability to proceed economically. The UN hopes, despite the slow rate of compliance that the reductions will correct global warming. Most nations have ratified to become a part of the Protocol. A notable exception to compliance is the US who had signed the agreement in 1997. President George W. Bush withdraws US support due to the exemption of rising industrial nations and to the cost of the endeavor. The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) ratifies the Anti-Secession Law, blocking Taiwan from declaring independence. Although most nations recognize Taiwan, where the Kuomintang government evacuated upon the PRCs domination of mainland China, the PRC continues to claim the island as a territory. Without formal independence, Taiwan has met with limited world presence, including the inability to have a seat in the UN, where the PRC is a member of the Security Council.

Matt Nagle, a former star high school athlete who became paralyzed by a stabbing injury in 2001, participates in the BrainGate Neural Interface System by Cyberkinetics Corporation. The device implanted in his brain gives him neural control of multiple items, including a personal computer, although cursor action is imprecise, and a robotic hand. The Nintendo Wii remote, central to the Wii gaming console, is revealed. The remote controllers sensors motion-detect the users body movement and translates them into a game as an interactive part. With the remote, Nintendo markets the Wii in 2006 with several games. Microsoft and Sony produce comparable consoles within the year. A Lebanon militant group, the Hezbollah, launch missile attacks against Israeli towns in conjunction with an attack against Israeli transports near the border. Israel answers the attack with an air strike and artillery against Lebanese infrastructure and with a ground assault. Mostly Lebanese civilians are killed during the month-long war. Both sides agree to a UN cease-fire. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), European Space Agency (ESA) and others complete several space missions and make discoveries: NASAs Stardust Mission returns dust from the comet Wild 2; NASAs Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system but due to distance contact further communication becomes impossible; NASAs probe Cassini-Huygens discovers geysers on Saturns moon Enceladus, possibly signifying the presence of water; NASAs probe Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with an extensive camera array, enters Mars orbit; ESAs Venus Express enters Venus orbit; Kazakhstan launches its first satellite, using Russian launch facilities, The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines nomenclature for planets and other celestial bodies, demoting Pluto to a dwarf-planet and adding four other dwarf planets, one from the asteroid belt between Earth and Mars, two from the Kupier belt near Pluto, and one named Eris, larger than Pluto, beyond its orbit. Separately, Australia tests the HyShot III, a jet designed to travel 7 times the speed of sound. North Korea conducts its first nuclear testing. By 2009, it tests a nuclear weapon.

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Since 2006, food prices have increased more drastically than the general inflation rate, and by 2008, a peak in pricing has caused a major crisis. Several factors have contributed. With sociopolitical emergencies and wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan, oil prices have made steady gains, increasing pre- and post-production costs of foods, from petroleum-based fertilizers to shipping. High populations in non-industrial nations have increased demands. The use of some crops, primarily corn and soybean, for biofuels has reduced supply. Commodity investing in food products has reduced cash reserves. Trade changes and the rise of national trading blocks have turned nations who once sustained subsistence farming into importers. Based upon an alleged East Turkistan Islamic terroristic movement in its western province of Xinjiang, the PRC launches an attack, killing or capturing about 40 suspects. The site, near the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, reveals minimal armament. The Uyghur people who are indigenous to Xinjiang claim the PRC offensive was intended to secure a hold on the province. Oil is given to North Korea in return for its promise to close its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon and to allow inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The IAEA confirmed the shutdown, and in 2008 the water tower is destroyed. North Korea refuses a second inspection in 2008. By 2009, it is confirmed that the reactor has reopened. Intel Corporation, an electronics company, announces through the use of the element Hafnium and a metal alloy advance microscopic transformers are possible. Many companies use this and similar technology to advance nano-technology greatly. Japanese chemists produce the first artificial DNA almost entirely constructed of artificial parts. The synthetic DNA molecule is closer than any previously created models, but can be distinguished from the original DNA. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) becomes the largest and most powerful particle accelerator ever built. While it offers great potential discoveries about the nature of the universe, actual discoveries are modest. In return for allowing cameras, the FOLK TV families are granted minimal pay. Six of the families choose to end the relationship with Girard Studios when they refuse demands for greater compensation. The Mandrakes, a homeless family in New York City, has become the third ranked

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program in the lineup, but when they use their monies for housing, their ranking drops considerably and they are cancelled. FOLK TV involves nine new homes. Unlike similar camera homes on the Internet, the network make an effort for real people living normal lives, rather than sensationalism; however, the most watched programs, such as the Pritchards, have a sensational angle. As the programming continues, FOLK moves toward greater exciting families. The US, Denmark and Norway join eight other nations who have replaced their analog television broadcasting systems with digital technology. The analog system, used since the 1940s, creates a signal through varying amplitude and frequency, then broadcasts the signal over VHF or UHF carriers. The bandwidth is quite large. Digital technology uses binary language, as with computer programming, and transmits the digitized information along a narrower bandwidth than an analog signal. The technology allows a greater range of picture quality, including High Definition (HD) and allows other digitized information, not related to the actual audio-video signal, to be included in the transmission. Dr. Daniel Frumkin and other Israeli scientists produce DNA in a laboratory and publish their findings, which questions the accuracy of the use of DNA identifiers in forensic studies. Frumkin also creates a test for the authenticity of DNA, but many crime labs lack the resources for the testing. Girard Studio initiates the FOLK cable network. Twenty-two families, mostly in the US, have agreed to unobtrusive cameras in their homes. The natures of the families vary, from a wealthy attorney in New York to a homeless family in East Los Angeles to a village in the country of Comoros. The film is minimally edited before being aired in half-hour time slots. An Iowan farm wife, Elizabeth Pritchard evidently forgets about the camera while speaking to a man with whom she is having an affair. When her husband Calvin learns of her betrayal and begins divorce proceeding, several members of the Pritchard segment agree to lapel cameras throughout the proceedings. The segments become one of the most watched series in the US.

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Since the Korean Conflict continued disputes interfere with peace in the region. After multiple bombings by North Korea throughout the 1960s-80s, a make-shift peace accord called the Sunshine Policy allowed inter-relations between the Korean nations. In 2006, North Korea tested and announced its possession of nuclear weaponry. In November, North Korea launches shells into a South Korean island, killing four. Most industrialized nations, other than those who have received aid on their own nuclear research, speak out against the attack, including its former ally the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). South Korea, individually and with the US, begin conducting military tests for possible war preparation. A series of unrelated earthquakes and volcanic eruptions shake different parts of the world. In January, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti becomes the seventh mostly deadly in recorded history with an estimated death toll of over 200,000. About a month later, an earthquake in Chile, although less costly of live with about 500 casualties, is estimated to have an 8.8 magnitude, tying it as the sixth most severe quake in recorded history. Beginning in March with a relatively small eruption in Iceland, Eyjafjallajokull begins a series of eruptions, which during April escalates and disperses enough smoke and ash throughout Europe to disrupt air traffic. In March, a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Turkey kills 57. In April, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake kills 2000 in the PRC. Statistically, 2010 does not produce an inordinately high average of earthquakes. While the Chilean quake was slightly larger at 8.8, for the past ten year period, at least one 8+ earthquake occurring each year except 2002 and 2008, with four occurring in 2007. During 2010, 21 earthquakes between 7-7.9 magnitude occur, roughly twice the average of 11 through the decade. Between 6-6.9, 2010s 153 quakes are only slightly above the 137 average. With 1924 earthquakes, again 2010 exceeds the 1476 average. Much of the worlds population affixes the high death tolls, severity and quantity to peoples growing fear of a forecasted apocalypse in 2012. Craig Venter creates the first artificial cell capable of reproduction. The bacteria, Mycoplasma mycoides, proves living cells with uniquely coded DNA can survive and replicate. The process uses genetic sequencing via yeast, so it is not completely artificial.

Daniel Nocera of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology builds a artificial leaf. The leaf, while not genetic, is made of silicon, electronics and catalysts of nickel and cobalt. It is capable of photosynthesis and can supply electrical energy, with ten times the efficiency of a natural leaf. The IBM Corporation, an electronics company, markets a USB device that can partially read DNA into a personal computer (PC). Only 10 DNA sequence markers can be scanned by the apparatus, but it represents a leap in identity protection. Enrique Girard submits blueprints and proposals for the largest hotel and casino in the world on his property just outside Las Vegas, NV, the US. The five-tower structure will accommodate 10,000 suites, exceeding the 7500 rooms of the Izmailovo Hotel near Moscow, Russia. He also reveals plans for a high-speed monorail to connect Henderson to his resort near Lake Las Vegas to the McCarran International Airport and the existing Las Vegas Monorail, a 16 mile track that would more than triple the existing urban train system. Approval is given to the privately owned hotel-casino, but the plans for the railway are side-tracked, since Girard requests matching funds from the cities along with construction rights. Building the resort will take several years. At the press conference announcing the resort, Enrique also publicly reveals his forthcoming marriage. At 39, Enrique plans to marry 32-year-old Dr. JoAnn McCormick, astrophysics instructor at the California Institute of Technology and robotics specialist at Caltechs Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Enrique chose to become producer and director of Girard Studios third feature film in 2005, a science fiction called Time Abounding. JoAnn served as a technical advisor. Cyberkinetics Inc. reports success with BrainGate Neural Interface System. A small computer chip planted in the cerebral cortex gives functionality to the use of a wheelchair, as well as several computer re-enforced devices, such as personal workstations and voice boxes. While some success had already been noted, this report indicates even greater possibilities than researchers had hoped for. Fully functional robotic limbs are estimated as possible within a few years. About 50 miles east of Japan, an earthquake of 9.0 ties as the fourth greatest in magnitude ever recorded. It causes extreme damage to buildings and infrastructure. Following the earthquake, a tsunami covers 250 square miles of Japan and is felt as far away as the South American coast. Between the earthquake and tsunami, over 10,000 people die. Three nuclear reactors in Japan are

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damaged, with two Fukushima plants emitting radiation. Efforts to contain the leak continue for months, with minimal fallout extending to the Asian continent. The northeastern coast of Japan remains contaminated for 20 years. Beginning with Tunisia and Algeria in December 2010, a series of protests begin in northern African and Middle East nations. Online Internet mass social groups become integral in the organization of the protest groups, as does the lack of a clear-cut protest leadership. The protestors remain highly aware of media coverage and use international interest to gain support. Some of the protests are relatively minor, changing particular policies. Other protests precipitate the traditional leadership to announce they will not seek another term after their terms in office, to dismiss a part or the entirety of their cabinets, or to abdicate their leadership role immediately. Many of the protests remain nonviolent, while others begin the violent overthrow of the politic or are met with the governments use of military to quell the uprisings in acts of war. The first large-scale war occurs in Libya where government leader Muammar Gaddafi sought quick counter measures to the rebellion, thousands were injured or killed, and international peace keepers led by NATO supported the protestors. Internationally, oil prices skyrocket. A combined US force of Navy Seals and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) storm a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bin Laden is killed. By the end of the year, full-scale rebellions and wars have broken out in Iraq and Yemen, with smaller altercations in other Arabic nations. NATO becomes hard-pressed in satisfying UN calls for support. In July, Hazrot Mizra Masroor Ahmad, the fourth Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Community, makes an international plea for the upcoming Ramadan in August. With minor exceptions the Islamic society complies. On Laylat al-Qadr, near the end of Ramadan, Mizra Masroor, often simply called the Caliph, addresses the Islam world again. He calls for the creation of the Ahmadiyya Caliphate and the temporary end of all secular governments in Islamic nations until a peace can be impressed. The Caliphate, which in some ways is reminiscent of a Empire, would give the Caliph great power in overseeing the individual nations. Globally, the call for a Caliphate is greatly objected to. Dictators and monarchs are being told to relinquish control of their countries; protestors are being told to cease their causes with few guarantees of better conditions; western nations are

seeing the creation of a new super-power and the loss of an opportunity to incorporate new democratic governments. The Caliph has made the plea with no military support. Yet, to the growing surprise of the western nations, one-by-one, the Islamic nations agree. By December, the Caliph has control of most Islamic countries, including Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Indonesia. The Caliph wields extraordinary power. He arrests many leaders who knowingly administered without regards to human rights, but he insists their trials will be within the Ahmadiyya Caliphate, and not through non-Muslim courts. Along with the leaders, many of the military are arrested and tried for torture. As Caliph, he selects national leaders with specified terms until elections under Islamic law can be held. Protestors are warned about their use of the inclusion of western support. The Caliphate temporarily seizes control of the Arab League and OPEC, and instructs the Islamic nations to seek non-petroleum alternative energy sources. After nine months of strict control, the Caliph raises a large military, before giving the new leadership control of their nations. One of his final acts, although he retains the right to re-affirm the Caliphate actively through the use of military if Islamic law is broken, is to restructure the Arab League as the Arab Consortium (AC). It will also proctor the region in many ways like European Union oversees Europe. The Caliph earns the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. David Barnes, at Newcastle University, UK, constructs the first complete, artificial DNA strand made entirely of artificial parts and virtually undistinguishable from natural DNA, except for its lack of coded genetic segments. DNA-0 has genetic segments, but these blank genes can be coded into any desired model. Theoretically, the molecule is the basic unit of all life, and with proper coding, it could be engineered into any type of organism. Within the year, Barnes with Dr. Euclea OToole constructs a stable artificial RNA molecule. The neutron bomb is an Enhanced Radiation Weapon (ERW), first conceived in the late 1950s. It causes minimal physical damage but the extensive radiation damages life. By the mid-1970s, the warhead was tested by the US, the USSR and other nations, and the US was capable deploying it in 1978. US President Jimmy Carter postponed development due to protests in 1978, but President Ronald Reagan continued its development in 1981. President George Bush ended production and had dismantled existing weapons in 1992. The nations capable of building the warhead chose not

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to deploy them. In 2012, North Korea announces it has renewed development, and in December, tests a warhead under reproach of the UN. The UN passes a Resolution for the disarmament of North Korea with a 14-0 vote in the Security Council, with the PRC abstaining, but not vetoing the motion. A UN Commission is formed to inspect North Korea the following year. Hu Jintao retires as President of the PRC, and Xi Jinping succeeds him. Upon his succession, Xi addresses the PRC and the world on policies. On the subject of Taiwan, Xi continues the rejection of its sovereignty and its bid for a seat in the UN. On the subject of India, Xi reverses any acceptance of Indias bid for permanent Security Council status, or bids from any other nation. On the subject of North Korea, Xi states the PRC will neither aid nor block its development of new weaponry, and that it will neither aid nor block its attempts to reunify with South Korea. The PRCs hard-line stances are viewed as setbacks. The Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar, invented by the Olmecs and used by the Mayan and other cultures, ends its cycle, which began approximately in 3114 BCE. A variety of scientists noted the Winter Solstice of 2012 marked a galactic alignment that would stimulate a series of physical events that could be apocalyptic. In some ways, this comes true as 272 groups world-wide, obsessive about the event, commit a massive suicide. On December 21, 5114 people die by their own hand, proving a cataclysm for them, but the remainder of the world simply moves on into December 22. The 22 nations meet in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and sign the Treaty of Mecca, formally establishing the Arab Consortium (AC). Among many issues covered, the confederation forms an international trade agreement called the Arab Bank, which encompasses OPEC. The Arab Bank creates a monetary unit called the Dinar. The treaty calls for a non-aggression pact, agrees on the Palestinian border with Israel, and offers a lasting peace with Israel. The Arab Guard is formed to ensure internal peace, and the Arab Court self-proctors human rights violations. Israel and Palestine sign the Treaty of Cairo, establishing permanent borders dictated by the Oslo Accords. The UN Inspection Commission is blocked from entry to North Korea, forcing the UN to begin economic sanctions. NATO deploys a multi-nation fleet in the Sea of Japan.

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The Sony electronics company introduces a microscopic camera capable of being injected into the blood supply to search for potential clots, aneurisms and weaknesses in vessel wall lining. By the end of the year, similar micro-cams can be used for other medical practices. More efficient that cyanide dye, a nano-camera is designed that can travel through the vascular system finding potential blockages. Enrique Girard opens The Platinum Dune Casino in Las Vegas, NV, US., consisting of 10,000 suites, 15 bars, 12 restaurants, eight concert stages, four stores, and two casinos and a small amusement park. Of the two casinos, The Hall is the largest with five floors of gambling, where the general public plays, and The Platinum Cloud, while much smaller covering three penthouse floors, requires a $5000 (USD) cover charge. US intelligence reports North Korea has aimed a neutron weapons at Seoul, South Korea. The UN, the US and NATO demand North Korea stands down. When North Korea requests support from the PRC, neither manpower nor arms are lent, and the PRC states they will not intervene on behalf of either side. Five North Korean fighters draw first-fire from the NATO and cause considerable damage to the Canadian HMCS Iroquois destroyer. For three days, the fleet launch SRBMs to North Korean sites suspected of harboring weapons, including the site of the neutron missile. North Korea successfully counter most of the strikes, but suffer great damage. NATO lands ground forces into the demilitarized zone. Secretly, the UN and North Korea agree on a deal that planned weapons inspections will be postponed indefinitely if the weapon is removed. North Korea allows inspectors to watch the withdrawal of the neutron weapon. When the UN announces the deal, dozens of member nations in the UN disapprove. NATO ground forces are removed, but the fleet remains in the Sea of Japan. Intel releases the Eptium central processing unit (CPU). The Pentium, released first in 1993 with a name based on ancient Greek pente- for five, was the fifth generation of the Intel CPU line. Relatively soon after its marketing, in 1995, the P6, or sixth generation CPU, became available to high-end models, but because of the marketing of the Pentium standard, so Intel retained the Pentium namesake and called the CPU the Pentium Pro or P6. CPU development then moved toward multi-coring and using more than one Pentium CPU. The Eptium, based on ancient Greek

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epta- for seven, marked a new technology considered by Intel to be the seventh generation and produced a CPU that doubled the P6 processing ability. The Eptium Max is released in 2017, but in actuality increased the processing to E8, or eighth generation, levels. The Namibia Round of negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) begin where the Doha round ended, with an expressed desire to enhance participation of poorer nations but in effect giving an edge to affluent nations. Several points quickly reach stagnation, but a Dutch move to simplify the patent process in the EU finds momentum. UN orders Turkey to vacate its occupation of northern Cyprus. The resolution is one of many since 1974 Turkey attempted to takeover Cyprus. UN peacekeeping troops are assigned. Officially, Turkey recants its recognition of The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a nation only it recognized, and announces an open door policy for refugees. The WTO agrees to allow the International Patent Commission (IPC) to splinter from the WTO. The Vodafone Electronics Corporation launches the first completely commercial rocket without government involvement in the launch. The vehicle design came from Bristol SpacePlanes, which Vodafone bought in 2014. Prior to the Vodafone space venture, satellites had been launched by government agencies or consortia, or by aeronautical industries with governmental ties. The Vodafone launch site at Ascension Island was completely funded and maintained by the corporation to control the cost of satellite dispersal. Other electronics companies construct their own sites within the next five years. Indian engineer Tahir Malik applies for a patent for a process he calls Rapid Fossilization. Since 2005, Malik had researched Anaerobic Composting. Typically, composting, a natural process involving the decay of organic materials, requires aerobic decomposition and creates a fertile and natural additive for soil. Maliks hypothesized that aided by a catalyst a structured anaerobic decomposition could be achieved. Further, with the correct catalyst, the matter composted could include petroleum-based waste products, such as used oil, plastics and enhanced rubber. A natural fungal strain discovered in 2012 served as the catalyst. Malik discovered anaerobic composting expedited the composting remarkably well. In the anaerobic vats he built, composting that would normally take a year was accomplished in days. That decay is the first stage of the much longer

2015

process called fossilization. If he extended the time frame, he felt might cause rapid fossilization. The artificial fossils then could be processed into new and unlimited fossil fuels; however, the fungi available could not cause the rapid reaction. Without the catalyzing agent known, he applies for a patent for Rapid Fossilization process. Patent server Padma Das becomes immediately interested, but rather than permitting the patent, she contacts her supervisors, who contact the government. They think that the publication of Maliks work would alert petroleum manufacturers who might interfere. The Indian government communicates with Malik that his research potentially could be enormously damaging to oil manufacturers and to the overall global economy. The Indian government offers to sponsor the research if he does it in secretly. Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider discovers the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle. There had been much anticipation about the discovery in quantum physics, and many physicists doubted its existence. Non-scientists speculated that the discovery and/or isolation of the particle could result in an artificial black hole. The discovery has no universal effects, but adds more questions than answers about quantum theory, especially since the Higgs boson oscillates in a fashion not predicted. The Digital Conspiracy is revealed. Through much of the 20th century, an ongoing debate ensued about the use of subliminal suggestions in video and audio on air performances. The major contention became whether advertisers used unfair stimuli on the psyche to affect sales. By the end of the century, most experts agreed only marginal success could be quantified on the process. With the digital signal used, the possibility rose that coding could be attached to binary signals. While the piggy-backed programs had little direct impact on the user, they mapped social habits just as spyware. Many entertainment producers are charged with Privacy Act invasions with their use of digital communications. The Pacific Union (PU) treaty is signed in Sydney, Australia. The 14 nations of Oceania agree on free trade issues. Japan, the US, Indonesia, the Philippines, and the principality of Hong Kong are invited as non-voting observers. Except for Serbia, the Balkan nations, as well as Poland, the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Latvia are admitted into the Eurozone, and the Eurozone closely aligns with the EU. The UK, Sweden and

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Switzerland have opted out. For the most part only a few European countries do not belong to the Eurozone, and all nations use some of the European Unions benefits. With the Eurozones gross national product roughly equal to the US, it has become the richest union in the world. The US retains a lead over the PRC and Japan to be the wealthiest independent nation. The IPC meets jointly with the WTO. Members elect Willem van Limbergen as Chair of the new IPC. Within the year, many members attempt to impeach him, due to his vision of the patent system. He calls for a hard and soft patent system. Hard patents, aimed for 75% new discoveries and inventions, are geared to protect the inventor and sponsor. They work like contracts with a sponsoring government, with the IPC as arbitrator. Soft patents can occur after a patent design is registered with the IPC. The sponsoring government derives contracts with other nations for the use of the invention or discovery. Two non-patent categories are formed: Collaborations and Innovations. If a party adapts a patented item by 50-75%, the work cannot be claimed as a new patent with the IPC, but the original patent sponsor is obligated either to contract with the new collaborator or to allow the collaboration to be granted a new patent from the IPC. Innovations constitute changes of less than 25% of the original technology. If the innovator cannot agree to terms with the sponsor, the sponsor can accept the innovation as natural progression and claim the innovation, as long as the IPC feels the sponsor attempted arbitration in good faith. At the University of Catania, Argentina, Dr. Elena Drivas creates a single-celled artificial organism with an advanced proto-nucleus. The microbe does not fit in any known scientific classification, so is given a new biological domain class, called the Facticia and a new bio-kingdom named Ormiskos. The organism, labeled the Proto-Facticius One (PF1) becomes the first of several artificial microbes that genetic biologists produce. Malik asks the Indian government to contact Drivas, in hopes of developing an artificial microbe could be used as his needed catalyst for rapid fossilization. They work together for many years and eventually marry. The IPC establishes several new policies. Patent infringement cases will be arbitrated within the IPC by a judiciary body, and not in national civil courts. Genetic strains may be patented. Innovators may alter existing patents without control by sponsors as long as they do not profit from the innovation.

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The Moh Tung, a secret renegade unit in Taiwan, infiltrates North Korea and steals one of their three neutron warheads. North Korea discovers the theft but do not learn who took it. They withhold information about the theft so the world thinks they still possess it. Electronics company, JVC, markets the Halo, a computer game console using the E8 CPU and the AMD GPU, with five associated games. The major difference between the Halo and existing consoles is the true holographic imagery, rather than the 3D effect using glasses to give the illusion of 3D. The process they call Dynamic Volumetric Scattering (DVS) produces true holography through coding light wavelengths and re-casting them in a light broadcast from a special 2 dimensional platform. The game console includes a square yard platform that is placed on a floor or table. Tens of thousands sell within the first month, despite a $10,000 USD price. By 2018, four other manufacturers release similar technology at reduced costs. In a surprise selection, Jakarta, Indonesia, is selected to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The city filed its proposal relatively late in the process. The Eyl Castle in northern Somalia is destroyed by a suicide bomber, and the nation of Eritrea is blamed. Within days, the Somali military is poised at the border and gunfire is exchanged. Over 500 Eritreans are killed. The Combined Task Force 150, a multi-nation naval contingency against pirates, discovers Eyl pirates committed the bombing, and the UN calls for the militaries to stand down but requires no retribution to Eritrea. In East Timor, after the selection of Chahaya Pereria as Prime Minister, and attempted assassination and coup detat begins. General Lemara, along with other members of the western military. Lemara is brought to trial and reveals ties to the Indonesian government. The UN submits sanctions against Indonesia. Apple Corp. releases the H-Pod, a true holographic version of their PDA. Separately, in late 2018, Nvidia Corporation markets the Ray-Force line of graphics controllers. In 2019, Hewlett-Packard Inc. unveils the Depth line of personal E8 computers with holographic capability. Also, Microsoft Inc. releases HART, a Holographic ART developing language to lead in creating computer driven applications. In 2020, MS Heart becomes the first graphics program written in HART. By 2022, 75% of the Internet is holographic.

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Dr. Theta Noonan, of Oxford University, introduces the idea of Genetic Variety in embryo cloning. After the embryo splits, low intensity gamma radiation changes a few of the genes of the embryo slightly. The resultant DNA is no longer identical to the original. Ten endangered species are successfully cloned. An animal called the Dhole, whose wild population had shrunk to as few as 2000 in the year 2010, increases to 10,000 by 2020. Other subjects are equally successful. Several anti-cloning groups fearing the possible repercussions of cloning technology feel cloning exceeds human rights over nature, and if unchecked, geneticists will attempt to clone humans. Several of these groups unite and form the Natural Life Campaign (NLC) in 2019, soliciting national governments and the UN to ban cloning. Within a year, 20 million people world-wide have joined the campaign. In 2020, the UN rewrites its policy on cloning technology, banning experimentation of cloning larger than single cell organisms. Approximately 80% of UN member nations begin to rewrite their national policies. Cloning and the renewal of endangered species endure a setback for almost 30 years. The Union of South American Nations (USAN) combines several statues of member and nonmember nations into an International Drug Policy (IDP). The IDP decriminalizes most drugs, while the production, transportation and purchase are taxed. Strict limits are placed on the use of narcotics, such as proximity to schools and public areas and while using machinery. These crimes are subject to therapy, rather than prison, at a cost to the user, not to the government, and the users are prohibited from social welfare payments. Strict criminal terms are placed on trafficking drugs to other nations and the use of dangerous paraphernalia, including unsterilized needles. Drug use declines in the South American nations, while revenues are raised. Availability of drugs in other nations is vastly reduced. Justin Burns of Neural Corp. produces a new line of Brain Pacemakers (BP). Previous BPs supplied a small electrical charge to aid sufferers of epilepsy, Parkinsons disease, and other neurological disorders. The new BP, or more accurately Brain Emitter (BE), can also emit a small electrical charge, remotely controlling adapted equipment, such as prosthetic devices. Neural Corp. believes it can create receiver implants for non-mechanical uses; that is, implants can be designed for the legs of quadriplegics, so the user can regain the use of biological limbs.

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A terrorist pollutes the drinking water of Chicago, IL, US, with nuclear waste products. Hundreds of thousands die. On the following day, a man by the name of Harold Blackstone introduces a web page taking claim for the action. He says he has no political affiliation, but rather is a random terrorist who performed the destruction for its aesthetic beauty and absolute completeness. He says he will not commit another terrorist action for seven years, but challenges any and all random terrorists to compose a more beautiful destruction. The Age of Terrorism begins. From 2019 until 2025, random terrorism becomes one of the greatest concerns of human history. Millions die by the hands of killers taking Blackstones challenge. The UN, the ICC, Interpol and independent governments catch a few of the terrorists, but most of them allude detection, performing a single act without trace and leaving no trail. Within the first month after the Chicago incident, ten acts of random terrorism occur around the world. The magnitude ranges from 19 deaths and 378 injured by poisoning while aboard a Princess Cruise ship 4034 killed at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. After all ten acts, the perpetrators publish anonymous web pages, attributing Harold Blackstone as inspiration. Every terrorist claims that no political stance was involved and that no additional act will be made. Most nations begin emergency plans, with added security at airlines, but unlike earlier terroristic activity, the terrorist is from the nation where the crime occurs. Mandatory DNA testing of all citizens is begun in 45 nations, and DNA databases are started. Most of the crimes are not traceable. In light of the interest with holography, ACCO Brands Corporation, who had acquired Forte Technologies some years before, redesigns Fortes VHX-1 Headgear, an early attempt at 3D virtual reality. The Hat console does not produce holographic imagery, but rather presents an enhanced 2D model that engulfs the wearer and allows seeming 3D interaction. The US requires DNA testing for its new database for new applicants for social security numbers. In 12 nations, DNA screening becomes part of the procedure to acquire drivers licenses, and in 16 nations, the screening is attached to passports. A total of 56 nations begin requiring DNA testing on birth certificates. Sabal Sarin, who works for Andrews Travel Enterprises in Sri Lanka, publishes on a personal blog that he sees Harold Blackstone as an emancipator and artist. Because of the low readership of

the blog, Sarin is virtually ignored. Based on a similar design of Timothy McVeighs ammonium nitrate device, Sarin equips ten trucks bomb and places them strategically throughout Colombo, Sri Lanka. Upon detonation, 100,000 are killed. Sri Lankan police quickly apprehend Sarin, and the government calls for the UN to increase its efforts at finding Blackstone, threatening to withdraw its UN seat if Blackstone is not stopped. While not the largest act of the Age of Terrorism, the Colombo Incident becomes the first that causes a nation to blame the UN and other agencies for their poor response. Random terrorism claims a million lives in 2020 in 368 acts. Enrique Girard finalizes negotiations with Cisco Satellite Systems to begin construction of his hotelcasino-resort Night Sky. It is the first private satellite launch not sponsored by a technology based company, and it the largest man-made satellite ever conceived to that point. It is so large that it is modularly segmented to be launched and constructed in orbit, and its orbit is designated beyond other satellite orbits due to its size. Night Skys tri-wheel, gyroscopic design simulates a gravitational pull. With a 2000-room hotel, three casinos, theaters, health spa facilities, and zero-gravity theme park, Night Sky is a huge undertaking, which requires four years to complete. The vehicle design includes a high G-factor rotor, which could be used as a power source. Physicists estimate Mach 100 potential or more (100 times sound speed) could be possible using the power source in existing engine designs. Cisco and other private satellite launch sites begin offering their facilities for general use. The Global Temperature Analysis Report (GTAR) is released. An ease of global warming seems to have continued. After a marked rise from 1980 through 2005 when the combined mean surface temperature increased from 57.5F to 59.8F, the following 15 years, from 2005 through 2020, the temperature seems to have leveled at 59.4F. Television, personal film players and movie theaters begin to go holographic; however, unlike the rapid changes in computer, gaming and cell phones, the shift for theaters and TV is slower. In 2021, 70 of the largest urban areas of the world open holographic theaters, initially for live drama, but later used for holographic films. Both 2D and holographic movie production companies produce new releases, including Enrique Girards newly named Star Studio in Las Vegas. Holographic televisions are available for high-end users, but there is a lack of content. The movement to

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holographic requires completely new equipment, as well as newly produced content. Holographic television will require another 25 years to become dominant. Cryobiologist Dr. Alice Newhouse of Oxford University, the UK, successfully preserves white mice and later spider monkeys in cryonic suspension. The subjects are frozen for two months, and later resuscitated without major side effects. One subject in the experiment suffers extensive cell damage. By 2025, the Newhouse procedure allows cryonics to become an alternative for many patients of incurable diseases to be stored and to await cures for their ailments. Random Terrorism accounts for 448 acts of violence and about one and a half million lost lives. All of the terrorists credit Blackstone with their inspiration. The PU expands its economic basis and becomes a partial political bloc. The Australian dollar, called the Aussie, is named the common currency. Law standards are adopted, but the PU falls short in creating a collective government. President Fidel Castro dies at the age of 96. Raul Castro, President from 2008 until his death in 2016, was Fidel Castros younger brother by five years. In 2016, the retired Fidel Castro re-took the office with the aid of several deputies to handle day-to-day duties. In 2022, the first open election in Cuba in nearly a century brings 42-year-old Jorge Iglesias to office and a federal democracy to power, leaving the PRC, Vietnam and North Korea as the last Socialist nations. Quantum physicist Dr. Wilhelm Nettles of the LHC attempts a string-membrane experiment to prove the existence of boson strings. Theoretically, strings are one-dimensional lines between atomic particles, and membranes are networks of strings. Also in theory, strings can interconnect particles. Nettles experimentation fails to prove boson strings, and sets into serious doubt current theories of quantum gravity. Several schools of physics move from the string model, and some away from quantum theory as holding the answer to the duality of special and general relativity. Bristol Myer, an US corporation, markets Blood Test 50. The finger-prick blood tester checks 50 items, including glucose and cholesterol levels. Several potential maladies are new to simple blood testing, such as red and white cell count. Test 50 uses the blood properties to determine circulatory source and adjusts some readings for a high probable accuracy. In 2023, Bristol-Myer also releases Saliva Test 30, which checks saliva for some of the same readings and a few additional

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ones. In the patent negotiations, the US offers the first 50-year patent to Bristol-Myer. Random Terrorism accounts for 517 acts of violence and over 2 million lives lost. All of the terrorists credit Blackstone with their inspiration. With 126 nations already complying with DNA testing worldwide, the UN calls for complete compliance. Approximately, 90% of all humans have been entered into the Internal DNA Bank (IDB), a database, which is made available to all law enforcement and medical services. Hospitals routinely add new births to the database. Many groups object to the database as an invasion of privacy. The debate intensifies late in 2023 when the IDB associates with GPS observation. Within a 25-mile range, the satellite cameras can pinpoint any person on file. Interpol attempts to plot Harold Blackstone, using a small amount of DNA recovered at the Chicago Tragedy, but finds irregularities in the DNA sample that it blames on a sampling error. Newel Stark, born in Sussex, the UK, but raised from age eight in Istanbul, with his father the Ambassador to Turkey, moved New York at 21. He works as personal translator for Kadir Polat, Turkish UN representative. Blackstones action and implied arrogance bothers Newel, but almost as bothersome is the lack of substantial success by the UN. He leaves the assembly saddened. He and Polat converse. Polat is impressed by the young mans ideology and hears his extreme frustration. Newel expresses a desire that the entire UN should be gutted for a real world government. Polat is still thinking about the conversation when he attends a dinner party, and relates the ideas to his friends. Over the next several months, private discussions ensue about a more pro-active alliance against terrorism. The US American Broadcast Corporation (ABC) cancels the primetime program MedCop, starring Dakota Fanning and Justin Beber, after a three-year run, leaving US television without any nighttime fictional programming, except for syndicated reruns and movies. All programming is in some way is reality based, including self-help, game and talk shows, news magazines, camera accompanying workers, such as the police, fire fighters and taxi drivers, etc. The highest ranked program in the US is NBCs Cabby, where a hidden camera observes passengers. The final fictional series, worldwide, will end in 2025 when the UK cancels Coronation Street. The AU Optronics of Taiwan manufactures the first truly microscopic propulsion unit (MPU). Its size

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is slightly larger than a protozoa, and it uses an electrical impulse engine, which consumes about 90% of its total size. Microscopic cameras become the principal attachment, and are allowed to fly. Initially, the MPU is capable of less than 1 mph, and the unit is durable for less than one month. By the close of the year improvements allow speeds of 25 mph, and unit durability of up to three years. In November, AU markets The Eye as a surveillance tool, an undetectable camera. The Milwaukee Brewers suffer the worse season in Major League Baseball history in 2023. The 24136 record, .17% wins marks the worst percentage of wins ever, and the 136 losses surpasses even the 1899 Cleveland Spiders number of losses (134), a record set prior to the unification of the National and American Leagues. Enrique Gerard, of Las Vegas, buys and moves the team. The Las Vegas Stars Stadium is constructed with holographic technology, so that when the Stars play away games, the live broadcast at the stadium shows full-sized holographic home game images transmitted from the away location to Star Stadium. With several players traded for to create a competitive team, instead of selling out 81 home games at the 100,000 seat stadium, Girard doubles the revenue by selling out all 162 games. In 2023, The Stars finish with at 92-70, but do not qualify for the playoffs. Random Terrorism accounts for 597 acts of violence and over 3 million lives lost. All of the terrorists credit Blackstone with their inspiration. The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) buys 2000 Eyes for a television series called Shadows. In the show, the producers program an Eye randomly to attach to a person and to exhibit them for an hour. In the premiere, a Glasgow Parliament member, Wendell Seafort is chosen and shown committing adultery. Within 24 hours, 100,000 calls go to the BBC, protesting on the grounds of privacy invasion, but the program elicits an audience of 5 million people and is not cancelled. Three days later, by the time the Communication Commission calls for the series termination after its third broadcast, 35 million viewers are watching. The BBC complies with the Commissions ruling and ends the series. Despite the cost of $20,000 per Eye, millions of individuals purchase the product for personal use, resulting in a rash of voyeurism. Swiss corporation Novartis releases the Home Doctor. The keyboard-sized machine collects a wide-range of information for the user. A sterilizible finger pad can take a finger prick to gather 76

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tests, or a slightly more invasive finger nudge to test 156 categories. Saliva swabs can be read, as can blood pressure, heart rate and stress level. A small screen can not only check vision, but also can read eyes for glaucoma and cataracts. The keyboard and screen allow interactive questioning from the user. The original price for the Home Doctor is quite high, limiting sales. When other manufacturers market similar items over the next two years, prices drop markedly. It is later estimated that using such equipment accounts for the early discovery of 100,000 cases of cardiovascular diseases, alone, allowing early diagnosis. By 2029, almost every family of the world owns some brand of Home Doctor. By 2030, Cardiovascular, Ischaemic and Cerebrovascular diseases move from among the top ten causes of death globally to the top 25th. Cancers will remain the most common cause. IRobot Corporation, based in Sydney, Australia, introduces the ATB, Anti-Terrorism Robot. It stands about four feet tall, at 75 pounds, and can emit an unlimited number of remote taser lines. More importantly, it is controlled by the most sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) to date. An upstart electronics company, At Your Service Inc. (AYS), steals the AI design for a series of personal service robots. The AYS design moves away from wheel or track-tire mobility to true biped models. They stand five feet tall and weigh 80 pounds. Three of the five models perform house care functions, while other two perform basic factory functions. IRobot and AYS begin lengthy court proceedings about the theft. Jakarta, Indonesia, creates an impressive site for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For the games, a record 15,089 athletes arrive from 234 National Olympic committees for 352 events. IRobot Corporation uses a nostalgic promotional throwback by constructing the IRobot Blimp to cover the games, using a P-791 Lockheed-Martin hybrid airship. When the blimp docks in Darwin, Australia, Cecil and Nadia Reynolds, and Frank Hardwicke overpower the 5-man security team and take the crew and journalist passengers hostage. They load two home-made nuclear devices, and at gun point, force the crew to continue to Jakarta. Hardwicke, knowledgeable in computer communications, re-writes the IRobot advertising for the blimps marquee. The three sports journalists attempt to overcome Cecil Reynolds and are shot by Nadia. While flying over Olympic site, the terrorists dump the journalists bodies and advertise the name Harold Blackstone on the

marquee. They then drop the nuclear devices. Over one million people in Jakarta are killed. The Reynolds are apprehended when the blimp lands, but Hardwicke escapes. Elsewhere, random Terrorism accounts for 623 acts of violence and almost 3 million lives lost. All of the terrorists credit Blackstone with their inspiration.

2000-2024 2025-2049 2050-2074 2075-2099 2100-2124 2125-2149 Forward Afterward Turkey, Taiwan, Eritrea, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, have become disillusioned by the UNs inability to resolve random terrorism, as well as other private issues with the UN. They abandon their UN seats. The five meet in Istanbul and form the initial plans for the Coalition of Allied Nations (CAN). Kadir Polat, minister of Turkey, donates the small island of Imrali, where a prison and military base stand, calling for the prisoners to be moved to other facilities and the base to be turned over to CAN use, renaming the island CAN City. The five nations commit military troops, with the largest, 25,000, committed by minister Huang Xi of Taiwan, and intelligence agencies to the coalition, naming the service CAN Armed Forces, CANAF with General Guntur of Sri Lanka in command. Sinai Alazar of Eritrea outlines on a hard-lined approach to combat random terrorism, the first tenet of CANs initial constitution. They acknowledge the need immediate results for their war. Santoso, the Indonesian minister, informs the group Frank Hardwicke has been found in Jakarta but no word on the capture has been released. They decide on a somewhat elaborate scam to make a statement on their policies. By stranding Hardwicke near Darwin, Australia, a CANAF unit will apprehend Hardwicke in public, forcibly, and without being given extradition from Australia, CANAF will transport him back to Jakarta. The ruse will send a strong message to terrorists and the world of a stalwart CAN initiative. Upon Hardwickes return to Jakarta, a speedy CAN tribunal will sentence him to execution, the second tenet of their constitution. The group also outlines a formal plan to establish a working coalition, based in Istanbul until CAN City can be built. They implement the Hardwicke Plan over then next few hours. Many nations object fervently chastise the encroachment in Australia and lack of due process with the military tribunal, but populations of most nations applaud their strike on terrorism. Random Terrorism accounts for 677 acts of violence and over 4 million lives lost. All of the terrorists credit Blackstone with their inspiration. Working in a secret facility provided by the Indian government near the city of Tirupati, Tahir Malik and Dr. Elena Drivas-Malik have worked on Rapid Fossilization for five years. In 2020, Drivas designed the four artificial fungi (PF124-7) that together serve as catalysts for decomposition. In 2021, Malik constructed one thousand 50,000 barrel anaerobic vats, submerged through much of

2025

the Orissa district in India. The process required four years. A by-product he calls Proto-gas has to be constantly vented. Proto-gas is virtually identical to natural gas, and the Indian government assists in quietly introducing it into the market. Finally, in September 2025, India sponsors a 99 year patent for Rapid Fossilization under Maliks name and calls a global press conference. They reveal 5 million barrels of Proto-Crude Oil, has been artificially made and a virtually unlimited supply can be available in four years to participating nations. Stock markets plunge as oil prices go into severe depression. The Arab Bank suffers the most. India is ordered to relinquish its observer status in the AC. At the International Automobile Exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany, Volkswagen Group unveils The Luft. Available with a gas turbine, a diesel engine or an electric motor, the Luft is the first hovercraft for popular use. The levitation is accomplished as the engine powers a magnetic field beneath the vehicle, causing a one foot rise of the vehicle. It floats rather than flies. Without the friction of tires on payment, forward motion comes by Forced Air Locomotion (FAL), which also defines the braking system (FAB). The Luft gives speeds comparable to other vehicles, a smoother ride and without friction gas efficiency. They cannot truly fly due to the absence of wings and insufficient drive to sustain flight. CANs vigilante-style military CANAF is aimed at ending random terrorism. In a single year in 2026, their strong-arm tactics and take-no-prisoners style resolve more of Blackstones followers than independent and mutual nations have in five years, but their reckless breach of national borders. Most nations label CAN not as a coalition of nations, but rather as a terrorist group. Yet, CAN gains a large popular support due to its success. By the end of the year, ten African nations relinquish their UN seats and join CAN, with the AU expressing neutrality in the sovereign decisions of its members. By December, CANAF has seized 329 terrorists, extensively using Taiwanese built surveillance Eyes. Dozens of nations begin Rapid Fossilization facilities, some nationalized and others private and sold to investors. Economies, after the initial loss of high-priced oil, recover as petroleum producers divest into the new technology. While advocates against global warning still caution the world that use of Proto-Oil will continue to damage the environment, they admit the recycling of previously un-

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recyclable materials will help in other areas. The world, they say, continues to need non-fossil fuel. To their dismay, cheap fuel deflects movements toward greater fuel efficiency. Fossil fuel is used massively. The UN begins a new study of the rapid fossilization procedure that will create a report in 2030 for consideration as a treaty some time later. Dr. Gregor Petrov at the Kiev Conservatory, in the Ukraine, designs the first artificial microbe, rather than a sub-celled organism like a virus, with a completely artificial nucleus. Previously, the only kingdom under the Facticia bio-domain was the Ormiskos, including proto-nuclei organisms, nicknamed Proto-Facticius (PFs). A new kingdom is named, the Zoion, which includes all artificial animal-like or plant-like organisms that do not exist in nature. New organisms continue to be numbered PF-X. By Night Skys opening day in June, major airlines have negotiated with commercial space launch sites for regular transportation lines to the casino. Girard sells the Platinum Dune to devote his entire effort to the venture. Popularity soars, and other hospitality corporations begin plans for orbiting commercial ventures. Although a consistently honest gambling establishment, Night Sky becomes known as a place for growing self-indulgence for the wealthy. Based on the production of proto-Oil and derivatives, the Indian economy soars to nearly equal the PRCs and Japans. Both the PRC and Japan quickly embrace the technology and begin Rapid Fossilization plants. The Tokyo Stock Exchange processes more business than the New York Stock Exchange, becoming the largest market in the world. Oil prices continue to lose value to $10 USD per barrel. Not only do oil companies specializing in gasoline suffer and collapse, but a large assortment of companies, such as plastics, falter; however, these derivative companies move to utilizing proto-Oil. Still, as prices fall many companies fail with them. Random Terrorism accounts for 718 acts of violence and almost 4 million lives lost. All of the terrorists credit Blackstone with their inspiration. Seven years have elapsed since Blackstones original act of random terrorism and since his announcement of a second act in seven years. CANAF Eye researchers discover him near Kiev, Russia as he attempts his second terrorist action. In the struggle to apprehend Blackstone, he is killed in an incendiary blast, with few remains collectable. Little is learned about his identity, and some people believe he may not be dead.

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The popularity of CAN, who have caught and tried 1034 terrorists, is enhanced. With Blackstones death in 2026, the total number of Random Terrorist actions reduces from 718 to 528 in 2027, the first reduction since the Chicago Tragedy. In 2027, CANAF apprehends 428 terrorists, while other international police find 134 through traditional investigations. In November, 14,237 people are killed in a bombing of a Buenos Aires, Argentina, high-rise. In days after the incident, CANAF tracks Jorge Chivez, apprehends and tries him, executing him in member nation Paraguay. Two days later, a second Buenos Aires high-rise is targeted, with the terrorist Julio Diaz surrendering to Argentinean police. Diaz claims credit for both acts and no affiliation with Chivez. No association between the two can be found. It becomes evident that CANAF executed an innocent man. The Associated Press (AP) reveals information of twenty other innocent people executed by CANAF Judiciary. Four nations recant their CAN membership and re-apply for United Nations seats. The UN delays in deciding. Another attempt is made to dismantle the IPC. Saudi Arabia claims the product of proto-Oil is so nearly identical to crude petroleum that it does not constitute a significant change from the original to warrant a patent, despite its creation. To a degree, the court system agrees, but since no patent had been issued for crude petroleum it is not an infringement. The IPC offers India a patent for both proto and crude oil. Again, a movement begins to unseat de Limbergen, since a patent cannot be issued on a product when no patent had been applied for. De Limbergen further insults the plaintiff by saying, Your world has changed due to your own doing, not the IPC. He rescinds the patent for crude petroleum, indicating it was done to illustrate a point. At National Technological University in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dr. Maria Garcia-Mendez introduces a genetic stimulation process called cosmosis due to its utilization of cosmic radiation. Cosmosis adds fertility to unusable land regions. Argentina patents the process for 50 years. Fearing the growing strength of Taiwan in CAN, the PRC and North Korea sign the Yellow River Pact and begin to organize an offensive against South Korea. CANAF learns about the secret plans and faces an international incident. In secret, Kadir Polat of CAN meets with PRC diplomats in Shanghai and reveals the Taiwanese possession of a stolen neutron bomb from North Korea. The PRC and North Korea stand down.

The AYS Corporation markets updated robot models. This second generation robot is built from a series of models ranging from 5-6 feet, 100-200 pounds, and is human-looking. Skins can make the machines virtually custom ordered. In addition to the original five model functions, two security structures, an automobile driver, and two pleasure models are sold. Enrique Girard orders many models as card dealers and pleasure units at Night Sky. In an attempt to legitimize itself as an alternative to the UN, CAN representatives begin the construction of a site for an eventual central government. The CAN complex, along with a housing and retail area called CAN City, is planned. Newel Stark, now chief assistant for Kadir Polat, becomes author for the initial CAN Charter. The Holonet, a mammoth network of holograph enabled computer servers, goes online. H-Mail and Visit, essentially update E-Mail and Chat. Much of the Holonet remains backwardly compatible, able to carry Internet content, but cannot convert holographic content to earlier equipment. Can City is completed ahead of schedule. The CAN complex remains a relatively simple auditorium. Newel Stark outlines the Charter, which is far more expansive than a strong-arm military force. Using the original Roman Republic as a base model, the CAN government will consist of five main parts: A Forum of non-elected populace who will outline policies for the government to consider, A Senate to vote on those Policies, A Judiciary to oversee criminal, civil and constitutional obedience, CANAF to protect CAN, and An Administration of Science, CANAS, to use technology to protect the world. The Stark Charter becomes a core for the early creation of a fair and complete world government. Members also discuss an enlargement of the official CAN Complex. Building A will consist of an auditorium that can seat 500 Ministers, more seats than nations in the world, and 15,000 offices for staff. Buildings B-F consists of living accommodations for 500,000. Hundreds of stores and services facilities are available. Standing at 33 members, CAN Ministers and their staffs arrive. The initial Assembly is set for January 5, 2029 to write a complete Constitution. General Guntur is named CANAF initial Director. Huang Xi is named initial CANAS Director and asks Dr. Tan Le to serve as acting lead. The AU chooses to align with CAN. While not dictating its members decision it voices concerns with the general structure of the UN and the failure of how the UN has reacted to Random

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Terrorism. Forty-four of its 52 members vote to abandon the UN, including the seven who are already members and the four who had recanted their seats. The seven members of the AC choose to retain their UN position, along with South Africa. CAN totals 48 members. The AC, suffering severe economic setbacks with the profit loss of oil, demand retribution from the Indian government. Indian President Tanaya Malhan offers infra-structural assistance in setting up proto-Oil fields, but no monetary aid. An AC fleet of 18 ships meet a 25 ship-fleet from India in the Arabian Sea, with 10 uncommitted NATO ships. The fifth largest typhoon ever recorded, Typhoon Chebi, with winds of 190 mph and 1002 Mbar reading, moves up from the Maldives. A total of 37 naval ships from the contingencies are damaged and 3145 lives lost, despite not a single weapon being used. Later, the AC accepts Indias aid and begins constructing proto-Oil fields, with substantial financial support of the EU and the US. Pirelli, a tire manufacturer based in Italy, attempts to patent styrene-butadiene, a synthetic rubber using petroleum, based on the use of proto-Oil rather than petroleum. The IPC denies the patent, since no other change in the polymer is offered. Further, they recommends that an Innovation should be denied. Near the end of the year, Dr. Tan presents a series of initiatives for CANAS announces several scientific projects, including Projects Food, Climate and Vaccine, although funding is severely limited. Dozens of scientists decide to travel to a CAN affiliated nation for volunteer work in the projects. Random Terrorism reduces, accounting for 215 fewer acts of violence with almost one million lives lost. The CAN Senate meets even though the formation of the organization Forum cannot be finalized during 2028. The 48 attending nations use their meeting to finalize general administrations for the new government, including term limits for Senators and Senate Directors to organize procedure. The original five nations of CAN become the original co-Directors. Each Director will have a fiveyear term, staggered so that one nation will vacate a seat and new Director is selected; In 2034, Indonesia will vacate its position and a new Directir will be voted in, followed annually by Eritrea, Taiwan, Turkey and Sri Lanka, relinquishing their directorships. Also, CANAS and CANAF

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organization continues, with ten-year term limits for Chairs. Dr. Tan Le is named CANAS Chair, and General Mohammed Adham of Eritrea becomes CANAF Chair until 2039. CANAF divides into three equal entities: Earth Defense (ED) overseeing the military; CAN Defense (CD) overseeing the police and penitentiary forces; and CAN Arbitration (CA) supporting Judicial negotiation of international disputes for members. Each CAN Director will serve as a liaison with a division, with one directing Senate voting procedure. General Guntur announces the re-organization of CANAF at the first full CAN Assembly, 29 full members, mostly third world nations, and 28 partial members. With 750,000 in its active force, CANAF becomes the fifth largest military in the world. Approximately one third fall under the Intelligence Branch, including covert agents throughout the world and Eye researchers in secret facilities, tracking suspected terrorists. Naval and Air bases in Imrali, as well as several Taiwanese and Indonesian ports, number 150,000 and fall under the Naval Branch. The CANAF Army of 150,000 continues extensive training, mostly in Sri Lanka and Eritrea. The first draft of the new Constitution is discussed, but reenters committee when the fine points are not agreed to. A basic organizational plan includes the Senate and Forum to derive policy; a judiciary to hear crimes against humanity in regards to terroristic behavior; CANAF to defend CAN and to seek out terrorists; and CANAS to administer scientific research. Funding issues remain unresolved, as does the relationship between national governments and CAN Central. New Random Terrorism continues dropping to 388 new actions, killing half a million people. Within the year in Project Vaccine, Dr. Cho Hiraga develops a strain of Proto-Facticius microbe (PF422) that can destroy viruses. Her approach is different than historic vaccinations, creating a vaccine that kills all viruses then coding out viruses it wants to protect rather than a vaccine aimed toward a specific strain of viruses. The animal subjects suffer no side-effects. Effectively, Dr. Hiragas work ends most viral diseases, from the common cold to influenza, including HIV AIDS. Bacterial and fungal diseases cannot be treated at this time due to the greater number of the organisms that aid humans. The broadcast approach of the viral vaccine could damage patients. Separately, Project Climate forms Coalition Climatic Center (CCC), a data gathering organization. Construction begins on the CAN complex, with an estimated completion date of 2031.

Random Terrorism continues to reduce, accounting for 215 new acts of violence and almost 750,000 lives lost. The first CAN Forum meets, but mostly involves scientists seeking support through CANAS, rather than general publics seeking a world-wide approach to government. Funds are limited, but a few projects route through the Senate to CANAS. Several members contemplate reinvesting with the UN. Indonesian and Taiwanese financial support increases, based on revenues derived from protoOil processing. Five Asian nations that were formerly part of the USSR join CAN, as well as Chile. CAN begins placing embassies. For partial members who have not vacated their UN seats and whose CAN Senators lack voting ability, Custodian Embassies offer an ambassador, a CANAF international crime task force, a medical facility, and a sanctuary for citizens who feel persecuted by their government. For full members, Envoy Embassies also offer a collaborative CANAF Police Force will aid local police in case work and a CANAS Teacher Force will assist the poor. Steward Embassies are formed at the request of the head of state and offer a wide array of services, including engineers trained in establishing long-term farms, factories, markets and other businesses that help citizens productive and healthier lives. Steward embassies fall under three facets of the CAN administration: Judicial for the Ambassador, CANAF for the protective services, and CANAS for the extended services. Stewardships are placed in eight nations with Gross National Production (GNP) in the lowest 10% of the world. In two years, all eight nations GNP rise to the lowest 25%. CANs core membership draws from the poorest nations of the world, and those nations wealth grows considerably under CANAS Project Steward. Near Zomba, Malawi, 16-year-old Cassim Mutharika, quickly works through years of lacking education and is considered a prodigy in the sciences. He learns botany and develops a unique hybrid grain called jot, a high yield wheat. A single plant produces ten times more grain than traditional wheat and does so in less than ideal soil and conditions. With the aid of CAN, jot becomes a major world-wide grain source, grown mostly in southern Africa. IRobot Corporation produces the Portable Pacemaker. The device attaches to the chest when a user prepares for a heavy physical stress activity and reads heart rate and blood pressure. When the readings reach high points, a beep warns the user. When the heart becomes dangerously

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stressed, a louder beep occurs. When the hearts electrical conduction system is impaired, a mild shock can be applied. The Australian Soccer League adopts the devise for all players and lends its endorsement in the marketing. Working with Project Climate, Dr. Aaryn Wu creates an artificial isobar that can increase barometric pressure in a one square kilometer area for a 30-minute duration. The artificial isobar experiment, held at the Atacama Desert in Chile, brings upper atmosphere rain for five minutes. The rain does not reach the Earths surface, but the attempt is considered a large success. Synthetic diamonds have been possible since the 1950s. The Asmara proto-Oil Plant in Eritrea develops a process to create industrial grade diamonds in several days through pressurization. The Pyongyang Protest begins in the PRC as university student protestors peacefully object to the treatment of a Taiwanese student, Jenny Xiao. It quickly escalates to a riot against the hard-line government. Police react severely, arresting 1233 and killing 42 while dispelling the riot, but new protestors rise. A suicide bomber, Du-Ho Dae, enters the Supreme Peoples Assembly, destroying a considerable area and killing 50, including Premier Dong-Sun Yang. The Civil War moves both UN and CAN to send peacekeepers. After three months, relative peace begins with a UN force assuming proctorship of the PRC. Random Terrorism accounts for 147 new acts of violence and half a million lives lost. The CCC notes the highest single year temperature spike since 1996-1998 two-year rise when the global temperature rose 8F (approximately 4F each year). From 2029 to 2030, the average temperature rises from 59.5F to 64.6F, combined mean surface temperature. On each icecap, a melting of 2% more ice than normal occurs. Although the world temperature returns roughly to its new norm of 59.6F in 2031, the CCC discovers substantial additional damage to the already injured salinity of the oceans. The oceans contain a complex series of loop currents formed between polar and equatorial regions of cold and warm and pumped by salinity. Cold currents travel by highly salted coastal waters from polar to tropic areas, neutral oceanic currents where salt is dispersed, and warm currents from by less salted coastal currents from tropic to polar areas. Loop currents exist in each ocean between the polar and equatorial regions. One such loop exists in the North Atlantic. The Canary Current is a cold current, extending down part of northern Africas western

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coast. A neutral current extends across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. A warm current called the Gulf Stream travels up the North American eastern coast and across the North Atlantic Drift to Europe, completing a loop at the Canary Current. Similar currents exist in the South Atlantic, the North and South Pacific and Indian Oceans. As the polar regions melt, fresh water dilutes the salinity of the oceans, shutting down the pump that keeps the current in motion. So, warmer tropic temperatures are stalled from warming non-Tropic areas. The temperature spike adds significant fresh water to the north Atlantic and begins a cascading loss of salinity. The north Pacific Loop is also damaged, but because of the greater ocean size the damage in mitigated. The South Atlantic and Indian Currents suffer extensive damage, while the South Pacific Loop is less affected. While world temperatures reduce modestly in 2031, Northeastern Canada and Europe experience a steep temperature decline. The two regions endure 20F cooler temperatures than normal during the 2030-2031 winter, and an additional 10F cooler 2031-2032 winter. Madrid and Rome experience five inch snowfalls. The hurricane season brings larger and more frequent storms, with Hurricane Maria reaching the upper level of category 5 storms, but does not touch land. The UN announces renewed studies of the causes of the phenomenon. Near the end of 2031, CANAS announces Project Salinity. Project Salinity is an aggressive plan of multiple parts. Ship building begins for weather class ships containing Wu weather convectors. When completed in March 2032, the ships will be deployed in international waters to attempt to duplicate the effects of the currents in trafficking tropic warmth. The largest submarines ever designed are also proposed to be used as underwater freighters to transport large amounts of mined salts along the currents path. Because the amounts of salt are so large, it will take a large number of seeding operations over several years. The first freighter subs will be completed in May, and new ones will be constructed. Finally, stationary Wu convectors will be placed near the Poles to reduce melting new fresh waters into the oceans. The cost of the operations is prohibitively larger than CANs budget, so CANAS begins without appropriate funding. International interest in CAN and CANAS increases, as the UN fails to take immediate action. CANs membership at 54 begins to rise to 63, mostly South American and central Asian countries

even though non-CAN countries of the North Atlantic and North Pacific will receive the greatest benefits from Project Salinity. Major industrial nations, however, continue support of the UN. Random Terrorism continues to reduce, accounting for 55 new acts of violence and 100,000 lives lost. CAN membership has increased to 63, with other nations taking partial membership. The economy of CAN has improved, even though it abides by the CCC recommendation against supporting protoOil. CANAS reports gains in solar and wind energy, and is researching geothermic and gyroscopic as energy alternatives. Project Salinity completes its weather class ships on schedule, but the lack of funding plagues construction of the submarine freighters and polar stations. The 2032 winter is not as severe as anticipated, pressing some people to think CANAS is provoking an unnecessary panic. Project Salinity cannot quickly repair the North Atlantic Current, since reseeding the salt in the Currents trench is a slow process that must then be followed by the Current retracing its original path over multiple years. On the surface, the weather class ships, equipped with Wu Convectors, serve as weather moderators, but the northern continents have another severe and long winter. It is discovered that a covert a US force, overseen by the CIA, had agitated the Pyongyang Protest and the bombing of the Supreme Peoples Assembly. Using a Synthetic Diamond Aggregate (SDA) and polyvinyl acetate, The Asmara Proto-Oil Plant in Eritrea develops a plastic-like substance as strong as steel. The product, commonly called Diamond Bars are not the first man-made steel imitator, but Diamond Bars are the first major implementation of synthetic diamonds for construction purposes, rather than for cutting tools or semi-conducting properties. Eritreas sponsor of the patent names CAN as its beneficiary, providing large funding. Proto-Oil fields have been laid in 82 UN aligned nations. The use of petroleum products becomes higher than it has ever been due to the extremely cold weather. The prices of fuel remain extremely low and Proto-Oil demand remains high. Approximately 75% of all carbon-based waste is cycled into the vats, but damage to the Ozone layer reaches monumental levels. Almost all scientists draw direct responsibility for the severe weather to Ozone depletion.

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Officially, Random Terrorism is named as minor world threat. Winter continues in eastern Canada and Europe. London has a 20 inch snowfall on March 19. The northern hemispheric winter continues through April. Quebec, Canada receives a 42 inch blizzard, followed by record level cold temperatures. Montreal's -53F overcomes the old record low by 18 degrees; Ottawa's -75F eclipses the previous record by 21 degrees. Both of those previous records came in January 1957 and 1968, respectively, not in early spring. Salt submarine freighters begin reseeding the currents. The polar stations have little effect in slowing the polar melt, but the temperature decline effectively makes the endeavor less immediate. Major suppliers of food products falter with bad crops. Southern Africas production of jot becomes a world-wide staple. North Korea holds open elections. The new government retains a Socialistic construct a multi-party politic and the new Parliament, held at the rebuilt Peoples Assembly, includes the Workers Party and the Chondoist Party. While both parties had existed, the Workers Party ruled in a relative oneparty state. Despite the change, most policies remain the same. AYS Corp. produces a fourth generation of robots, properly called Androids. The AI has been enhanced to be able to carrying on inventive and creative conversation with humans, and the android's physical form includes a cellular level of skin. Several protective measures are programmed to avoid free-thinking and to ensure human safety, but the level of AI is so complex, androids who are allowed exist without regular reprogramming do develop some free-thought and emotions. Throughout the calendar year, only southern Quebec rises above freezing in Canada. Norway, Sweden and Finland never rise above freezing. The Siberian region of Russia evacuates west. Massive evacuations also occur in Alaska, US, Greenland, Iceland and Canada. The Scandinavian people survive by virtually never leaving their homes. Many do not survive. A new winter seems to begin in July when temperatures are 20-40F below normal. The warmest weather of the year occurs for the North Atlantic in August, with above freezing temperatures only as far north as Milan, Italy, for Europe and Duluth, MN, US for North America by October. A mini-Ice Age seems imminent. NATO commits naval ships to assist Project Salinity. Canada forgives the Mexican debt in return for sanctuary in November.

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After years of debate, the formal first CAN Constitution is agreed on. In 2035, Mandates, Policies that affect the core purposes of CAN and Directives, practices that form the procedure of CAN will be added. The first highly industrialized nations, the UK, Germany and Canada, abandon their UN seats and join CAN to assure its strong efforts in its Project Salinity of the North Atlantic Current. These three nations represent the first typically western nations to join CAN, and bring with them much needing funds. The Coalition now boasts a 66 nation membership. The 2034-35 winter is harsh. An estimated 10 million people die. The term Arctic Flare is given to a new phenomenon, when tornado-like funnels extend from stratospheric clouds. Rather than wind, the funnels displace cold blasts that lower the temperatures by 50F or more. With the northern hemisphere already at or below zero, the blasts can flash freeze a small area. Scandinavian nations rent large regions of Libya and Algeria where 50% of the population evacuates; by August, more evacuations occur, leaving less than 5% of the citizens in the North Atlantic. Similar, temperate rentals occur between other nations. The Scandinavian nations, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Holland, join CAN. The 10 nations of the Arab Consortium (AC) also commit to CAN. A total of 86 nations have abandoned their UN seats to join CAN, leaving 106 nations in the UN. The Project Salinity completes reseeding the salt path of the North Atlantic Current and continues vigilance through deep water salinity sensors. Current Motivation Units (MTU), powered by nuclear reactors, serve as large pumps on the ocean floor and force the North Atlantic Current to flow. In time, the current can become natural if the fresh water drift from the arctic can be abated, but the continued use of petroleum erodes the Ozone layer and melts the polar region. The effects of the oncoming glaciers are reduced in severity. The mini-Ice Age makes the Scandinavian nations, Russia and Canada uninhabitable and populations move south. By 2037, several north African nations have opened territories for northern countries to rent and retain their governmental structures. Sweden, for example, is located in a 200 square mile region of Libya with makeshift shelters, renting until it can return to Scandinavia or find a new homeland. CANs five Universal Mandates are named: Easy access to food and water; Easy access to shelter and heat; Easy access to safety from violence if that violence can be prevented; Access to an equal

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educational system that does not favor one social class; Access to an equal medical system that does not favor one social class. The UN makes the most fundamental changes to its Charter since its original formation in 1945. India and Japan become permanent members of the Security Council. Two agencies are formed by the UNs merger with non-UN bodies. The United Nations Defense Force (UNDF) is formed with the amalgamation of NATO and Interpol into the UN; and the UNs Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) annexes the World Trade Organization (WTO), forming the UNTO. Several of the policies administered by the new UNTO are directly intended to interfere with CANs ability to fund itself. The IPC refuses merger. The paradox of Ozone layer depletion, the main cause of the polar meltdown, is that the Ozone layer of the stratosphere is depleted by freons and halons, causing a loss of ozone, or O, in the stratosphere, causing an Ozone hole and allowing solar radiation to raise the Earths surface temperature. The freons and halons are caused by the burning of fossil fuels, among other causes. Another result of the burning of these fuels is the production of O; however, this ozone remains near the surface of the planet as a form of air pollution, especially near urban areas and above the oceans surface. Dr. Naaman Tassi, a student of Dr. Dr. Aaryn Wu, uses an adapted model of the Wu weather convector to reintroduce ozone molecules into the depleted portions of the stratosphere. Over the next two years, most of the worlds ozone layer is restored. Tassi, a prodigy, presents his project as part of his dissertation at the age of 20, and at 22 becomes the youngest person to win the Nobel Prize in 2035, along with Wu in a shared prize. Project Restore begins to repair the Ozone Layer. Several Policies move through CANs Forum and call for the CANAS assistance in correcting the climatic condition of nations unwilling to join CAN. A Senate vote of 46-40 moves to continue the aid. The same voting line develops in other Policies. The British Islands, northern European nations, Mongolia, Taiwan, Japan and the northern states of the US are evacuated south as the mini-Ice Age encroaches. Some nations rent lands in Africa and South America. The weather class ships keep most areas south of the 48th latitude north habitable, while the Tassi Convector begins to resurrect the Ozone layer.

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The deadliest two years of the mini-Ice Age occur in 2036-37, when 40 million die of climate-related causes. The mini-Ice Age reaches south to the 40th latitude north, but the Salinity and the Restore Projects begin to repair the Earth. By July, areas uninhabitable months before can be more easily research to see the damage. By September, the ice begins to recede slightly. Lasers have become a common approach to provide noninvasive removal of cataracts and pressures causing glaucoma and other eye diseases, as well as for cosmetic surgery. Later, their use grew for circulatory blockages, cholesterol build up, cysts and benign cancers. Dr. Vijay Mouri of Hurkisondas Hospital in Girgaon, India develops a technique to repair most faulty heart valves with lasers. The process first cauterizes the valve region, then rebuilds the valve. With improvements to his approach over the next ten years, 95% of all faulty valves can be corrected without invasive surgery and a minimal hospital stay. The CAN Forum issues the Energy Conservation Policy (ECP), demanding all member nations to reduce the use of fossil fuel, including Proto-Oil to less than 25% within one year, with all industries and power grids to become zero dependent although private use to be phased out within five years. Further, all member nations proto-Oil fields are to be redesigned to the production of compost, not fuels. Failure to abide will forfeit their CAN seats. The Policy passes 46-40. Policy decision-makers of the CAN Senate have short terms to avoid corruption. Overseers of CAN, the Judiciary, CANAS and CANAF have longer tenures, and especially the Judiciary is dedicated to the perseveration of the principles and Mandates of the government. They become concerned as party lines begin to form between the historically industrialized nations and the developing countries who undertook CAN without profit in mind. The Judiciary offers a warning to the CAN Senate that it will be watchful of collusion among groups of nations that place their own good ahead of the good for the world. Dr. Gretchen Bakke of Sweden becomes CANAS Chair. The UN calls the IPC an economic dictatorship, controlled for twenty years by Willem van Limbergen, even though the Commission has never used patents for personal gain. UNTO presses for open elections for IPC Chair.

The ice line retracts back to the 50th latitude north. Most of Europe south of the British Islands, of Asia south of Mongolia, and of North American continent south of the Ontario Province are safe. Most evacuated countries retake their borders. CANAS calls for the Garcia-Mendez genetic stimulation process, cosmosis, to be used to refoliate the regions. The mini-Ice Age has affected the planet in numerous ways. Approximately 1% of human population, about 65 million people, has died during the previous five years of the mini-Ice Age, making it the largest percentage loss since the bubonic plague. The geography of the affected area is completely changed and many areas needed extensive repair to be habitable. The economic cost is incalculable. For almost ten years, most scientific investigation is directly aimed at the problem, much previous scientific experimentation is destroyed with the regions, and much of the world anticipates a new dark age, as followed the bubonic plague. The social dynamic of the world has shifted. The north hemispheric, industrialized nations endure the brunt of the devastation, and they remained loyal to the UN. The equatorial and southern hemisphere nations that lent aid remain loyal to CAN. One of the first actions by many of the nations returning to their homeland is to reopen their Proto-Oil facilities, in order to power the rebuilding and risking the newly formed Ozone layer. The nations of CAN write the United Earth Policy (UEP), charging the Senate to create a global government that it is willing to defend. The UN sees the UEP as a contract for a world empire controlled by CAN. The Eye is used extensively by both sides as a new Cold War ensues. Economic and scientific embargoes are placed. Project Refoliate ends in nations that are not CAN members. The Arctic Circle returns as the major northern ice line. The mini-Ice Age officially has ended. Project Restore has repaired 90% of the Ozone Layer. Hovercars continue to gain popularity and have virtually replaced wheeled vehicles. Since only specialized hovercraft can fly over the 1-2 foot magnetic loft, only regular licenses are required. The CANAS Project Virus announces placental PF422 inoculations are available. Prenatal mothers can have embryos inoculated for all viral conditions prior to birth, but only for CAN member nations.

Ten nations, including the UK, Germany and Canada relinquish their CAN seats and are re-admitted to the UN. The UN recognizes and adds as members: Kosovo, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia. CAN recognizes and adds: Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Along with Taiwan, an original member of CAN, these nations are not recognized by the other central government. CAN has 77 members to the UNs 119, although both central governments do not recognize several sovereignties. The Australian company AYS markets a fifth generation android. The Japanese company Sony markets a second generation holograph technology that gives minimal real interaction. The US companies Hilton, Hyatt and hospitality newcomer the Flagstaff Group launch orbital hotels, still based on Night Skys gyroscopic design. Other entertainment cooperatives do the same over the next few years. CAN joins the IPC, much to the disagreement many IPC members. They argue that patent sponsorship is a national endeavor, and a coalition, such as CAN or the EU are not eligible. The IPC allows the entry and invites the UN. Most displaced and evacuated nations have returned to their homes. Wu and Tassi Convectors continue to stimulate positive weather conditions, but current Chairperson of Project Climate, Dr. Emil de Carte, announces their use will be ended in June. While no direct side-effects of weather control have been discovered, it remains unknown if a continuing use of control will be damaging to the overall climate. Limits will be made at a later date. The nations begin to continue normal lives, and many CAN non-member nations reopen their proto-Oil fields, rather than turning to natural energy systems. Rhetoric between the UN and CAN nations intensifies. Japanese meteorologist Akatsuka Yoshito claims the Wu Convector was stolen from his design. Several scientists insist the abatement of the mini-Ice Age was natural and not instigated by CANAS efforts. Canada refuses to absolve Mexico of its debt despite their agreement, spurring the Yucatan Embargo that almost leads to war. The US and Russia claim de Cartes failure to use weather control is a vengeful act. The UN accuses CAN of dozens of border-infringement crimes in battling the mini-Ice Age. The CANAF navy begins war games in waters near major world hubs. Jot grain producers, mostly in non-industrialized nations,

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raise food tariffs before new grain crops can be grown in the northern hemisphere. CAN Judiciary accuse the UN and its members of espionage, even though both sides are guilty of spying. Indonesia and the Philippines convince the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to join CAN, adding eight members. Chile convinces most of the Union of South American Nations (USAN), except for Argentina, adding ten more CAN members. Switzerland, Belgium and Poland join CAN. The additional 21 members give CAN 97 members, compared to 100 in the UN. Two separate summer Olympics are held. The UN Olympics in Sydney, Australia are boycotted by all CAN nations. The CAN Olympics in Cairo, Egypt, are boycotted by all UN nations. CANAS announces Project Cosmos a Gyron space station. Through the use of a craft powered by gyroscopic rotor, several interplanetary missions are scheduled. Before the end of the year, the Project is shelved due to funding. The UN forms the United Nations Atmosphere and Climate Control Organization (UNACCO). It funds the construction of Ionospheric Vapor Conducer (IVC), based on Yoshitos model. The IVC offers several distinctions from the Wu or Tassi Convector. Transferring the warm ionic vapors from the upper atmosphere, an artificial high barometric isobar forms near the surface. Theoretically, the isobar ushers warm and dry weather patterns to a region. The IVC can modulate the transference to form gentle rains. Canada and Russia are chosen as test nations, where IVC units succeed in controlling the weather. Commissioner of UNACCO wants to accentuate the benefits of the IVC, and when Typhoon Oho reaches category three seems to be directed toward Hong Kong, the PRC, an IVC is loaded aboard a submarine to reduce the low pressure and to diffuse the typhoon. Instead, Oho intensifies and changes course toward Tokyo, Japan. Reaching level five at 170 mph winds at landfall, Oho wreaks havoc through densely populated cities of Japan, causing over 500,000 lives lost. AYS 5G Androids are blamed for several accidents. A Liverpool, UK automated nanny kidnaps two infants to protect them from activities by the biological parents that the nanny feels are abusive. A few months later, a Tokyo, Japan android bank teller is commissioned to attempt murder of a philandering husband by the wife, but the android is stopped at the last minute by the wife. Later, information leaks that an android was used secretly in the 2040 Sydney Olympics. The most serious

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occurrence happens at Night Sky in 2041, when a blackjack dealer suspects a patrons cheating. The android AI malfunctions, and it kills five guests. Serious questions rise about the use of androids. Entertainment programming industries topple as people move even farther into the private use of the Eye and away from established networked programming. The Eye use is strictly an invasion of privacy, but fails the new standard since the user does not profit beyond direct entertainment. That is, personal privacy has become non-existent unless the voyeur profits financially from the spying. Most nations either have proto-Oil refineries or invest in large production nations, or both. Although many oil companies never recovered economically, most moved into proto-Oil. While prices are low, volume of use is high. An Eye manufactured in 2040 traveled 75 mph and lasted a maximum of three year. The Microscopic Propulsion Unit (MPU) is a microscopic engine powered by gravity inversion, like a hovercraft. The AYS Corporation and Project Energy arrive at similar designs at nearly the same time. A joint Patent is awarded. Similarly The Eye is reinvented, and the power and durability are greatly enhanced. The new Eye, called the Scout, travels up to 300 mph, with sensors to avoid collisions. They can work for up to ten years. CANAF produces millions of Scouts. CAN attempts to rescind soft patent contracts with non-CAN nations, but the IPC forces them to honor their 40-year contracts. UN nations can use the Eye or develop a significantly new technology until 2062. Dr. Noel Wilkerson outlines his energy theory for Gretchen Bakke. Manufactured microbes, one plant and one animal are genetically created to satisfy all needs of its counterpart. The Animus (PF239) feeds off the waste products of the Florus (PF240), while producing its ultraviolet light, heat, moisture and nutrient byproduct; the Florus feeds from the Animus waste products and draws energy for photosynthesis from the "Animus" radiance, while producing its heat, moisture and nutrient byproducts. Their symbiotic relationship is complete and perfect, and completely genetically planned. The process also produces an extraordinary metabolic energy byproduct through their reproductive cycle, which can be transferred into an electrical pulse. A one square inch Photosynthetic battery cell (the P cell) produces enough electrical energy in one hour to satisfy the needs of a New York City block for six months. Until this point, the potentially most powerful energy

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source had been considered nuclear based, followed by the high G-force gyroscopic rotor. The P cell has limitless power, except through physics itself. Project P cell begins with CANAS assistance, who sponsors the 99-year patent. Initially, it offers soft patent contracts only with aligned nations. At 78, Enrique Girard dies at the Night Sky Casino. His final poker hand is a full house. He leaves three heirs, son Charles (48), and daughter Camille (43) and son Frederick (37). Each receive one of Girards three major endeavors. Charles becomes head of Night Sky; Camille becomes general owner of the Las Vegas Stars baseball franchise; and Frederick inherits Star Studios. The original Platinum Dune was sold years before when Enrique decided to concentrate on Night Sky. Five additional CAN Mandates are added to the Core Mandates, creating the Core of Ten. In addition to food, shelter, safety, education and health, the Mandates state that all individuals have a basic right to self-preservation, to equal justice, to open discussion, to equal social treatment, and to the availability of basic needs. CAN announces that while additional Mandates will be passed, the Core Mandates will remain unretractable and unalterable. They are basic truths for all people on Earth. No additional Core Mandates will be added. CAN reserves the right to enter the border of any member nation that breaches the Core Ten. The CAN Senate agrees to the Eleventh Mandate: Wars between nations are illegal. The Second United Earth Directive (UED2) gives Judiciary Arbitration unit absolute control in resolving international disputes of member nations. Failure to abide means the forfeiture of the nations CAN Senate seat and potentially allows occupation by CANAFs military unit. Seven active disputes become resolved quickly. South Korea joins CAN as renewed North Korean activity mounts. Colombian Senator Jose Panza serves a protest to the Judiciary that denying the world the use of P cells breaks the Tenth Mandate. The Judiciary agrees and offers all nations 20-year rights. The P cell becomes enormously popular as a cheap, safe and massive energy source. Proto-Oil plants begin to close. Major industries reliant on proto-Oil, such as hovercraft, auto and airline builders, begin to adapt to the new source of power. Proto-Oil is still needed for other industries, including plastics, but supply far exceeds demand. The Eurozone economy caves in, and the EU splinters, with 18 of its 32 members joining Switzerland, Belgium and Poland in to CAN, to recoup their economic losses. With these 15 industrialized nations, CAN membership goes to 113, with the UN

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The P cell has a similar effect to the Earths energy concerns as proto-Oil had on traditional fossil fuels. The P cell is safer and more powerful, requiring no refinement plants to produce fuel. Mostly UN aligned economies fail when petroleum when the P cell becomes the preferred power source. CAN offers the technology to all nations, stimulating those economic failures. As Proto-Oil becomes a minor source for fuels, most of the rapid fossilization equipment turns toward their original intent, composting. In the vats, compost develops in less than a week and massive amounts of land poorly suited for farming can be made arable. Proto-Oil plants continue to produce products other than fuel, such as plastics and imitation rubber. New fungi are developed that can rapidly fossilize refuse in a month, and all of the plastics made can be recycled. The Night Sky, now controlled by Charles Girard, has experienced falling profits. The weakening economies of UN-related, industrialized nations account for most of the reductions, since CAN members have tended not to use the facility with as must vigor. Feeling CAN might take a greater interest if the clubs connection to the US is eliminated, he declares sovereignty and declares the Night Sky an independent nation. The constitutional government works much like a business and forms the first corporate government format, with a CEO as the national leader. The US begins plans to reclaim the holding by military action, but chooses not to. Willem van Limbergen of the IPC dies at 74. The UN and UNTO immediately push to have open elections for commissioner, but neither the UN nor the former WTO oversee the IPC, so they do not have jurisdiction to select a commissioner. The IPC works outside of any government control. The IPC court system selects Rita Nauru as new commissioner. She continues van Limbergens policies. In Project DNA, Dr. Harrison Mailer revolutionizes previous forms of DNA cloning, one of three main cloning types. DNA or molecular cloning involves breaking apart a DNA strand, ligating it into a new

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sequence, transfecting the new DNA into a cell, and selecting the successful cells. While this process varied since the first attempts of cloning, Mailer re-investigates the process of DNA splitting. Instead of vectoring it into manageable parts, his RNA restriction enzyme keeps the DNA half complete for ligation, allowing more stable cell re-entry. CANAS embraces the new DNA cloning for endangered wildlife, despite some objections. By the end of the year, organ cloning begins on a large scale. Prospective life expectancy world-wide rises from 89 to 92 for women and 87 to 90 for men. With the continuing Project Vaccine, Dr. Fanya Honig, geneticist, produces the first universal antibacterial microbe (PF 1055). It destroys harmful bacteria, while retaining beneficial ones. All viral diseases virtually had been eliminated by medical injections in 2028. Now, bacterial disease is effectively eradicated. Good health extends to 98% of the world population, with artificial organs capable of extending life farther. The average human life-span stretches to almost 100 years. The Philadelphia Pact unifies the US, the PRC, Japan, India and the UK under an economic treaty. Germany and Spain, while attending the Philadelphia Summit, opt not to sign, but pledge not to join CAN for a minimum of the next ten years. Abraham Kolo of Eritrea purchases a proto-Oil plant in Asmara. He dedicates a portion of the plant to the production of Diamond Bars and Diamond Boards, an aggregate sheet. With CAN sponsorship he patents an emulsifier that can reduce the SDA to a thick liquid for transport to be solidified on site. His portable builders produce 12x12 foot sheets, and have robotic arms to construct modular cubes in about 15 minutes. Kolo Corporation begins fleets of his builders. In about an hour, a complete 3000 square foot home can be built. An accompanying truck cuts doors, and windows, and adds amenities. Kolo Corp demonstrates the groundwork for a new age of modular construction. Soon, slight, preprogrammed adaptations of the Diamond board allow seamless windows and air-pressed lifts between multi-storied rooms. Diamond Board is a good electrical conductor, but its veneer insulates accidental electrocution. Instead of using wires, the PC cell charges the house, creating a thermostatically controlled environment of heat and cooling. Transmitters can be attached to the walls to convert the electricity for the use of appliances, eliminating the use of wires. Electrical fires are impossible, but since the Diamond Board is

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uninflammable, any fire cannot travel far. Some types of explosions can destroy thin DC for windows and doors. Plumbing is accomplished through the Diamond Bar reinforcements. A plumber must cut into the bars to install the fixtures. The Diamond Board can be shaped into plumbing basins and some furniture. Kolos hope was to build homes for the growing population of the world in a quick and efficient manner. Kolo dedicates one-half of profits from Kolo Corp. and all patents held to CAN. With dedicated income from P cells, jot, diamond board and Kolo construction CAN becomes a major world-wide economy. After a four year investigation, the IPC finds an AYS technician has committed industrial espionage against CANAS. CAN and AYS enters a private agreement. In exchange for ending further investigation and a potentially devastating court trial against AYS, the AYS Corporation will cease further development of android technology and will focus on robotic alternatives. AYS is given a collaborative patent with Kolo Corp. for the use of robotics in the construction process. Australia agrees to join CAN, and with them the 17 members of the PU move to CAN, giving CAN 130 members to the UNs 67. CANAF announces impending war games. On an unspecified date, CANAF will be notified of a random CAN member using force against another nation. The test will be the speed CANAF commits force against an aggressor. On February 12, 2046, CAN chooses Turkey as a transgressor against non-CAN member Cyprus. Air supremacy is achieved before the end of February 12; a fleet of 40 warships approach Turkeys coast by early February 13; 500,000 ground forces parachute into Turkey by late February 13. The reaction is alarming both to CAN and UN members. North Korea stands from on a South Korean attack planned for May. Using a quanta reversal engine and a P cell power source, the Eipper Aircraft Corporation (EAC) of the Germany reveals the Quicksilver line of engine, capable of .75 light speed, the fastest engine ever timed. At .75 light speed, the engine begins to convert mass to energy and becomes unstable; however, at the speed, both travel and communication, which matches the speed, is virtually unhindered. Travel throughout the solar system is easily possible, although inter-stellar distances would still take considerable time. The Centauri system at slightly less that five light years would take seven years to transverse. Germany denies CAN nations use of the technology.

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Despite military show by CANAF, thirty nations join the Philadelphia Pact, including Canada and Russia. The UN pledges full support of the Pact in the event of a CAN reaction. The CAN Senate overwhelmingly commit not to attack a non-CAN member unless it attacks a CAN member. The Kolo-AYS cooperative proves highly successful in re-inventing the nature of building construction. From private homes to skyscrapers, construction takes a tenth of the time. In 2045, a typhoon destroyed much of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, a CAN member. It becomes the prototype of the new techniques, including the Cu Chi Towers, each 2/3 a mile tall at 300 floors. In September another typhoon blasts the city with minimal property damage. Geneticists were able to find a universal cure to viruses due to the simple nature of their DNA in precellular form. Through broadcast vaccination, the DNA could be broken down. With broadcast vaccines that kill all viruses present in a host, finding individual vaccines became unnecessary, but all viruses would be destroyed unless the broadcast agent was coded to omit certain desired viruses. Curing bacterial and fungal diseases was more difficult with the broadcast vaccine technique, since many bacteria and fungi, more complex than viruses, are desirable. A third level of microbiotic infectious diseases is less common than viral diseases. Prions, like viruses, are precellular, but unlike viruses, they lack DNA. Long considered to be folded protein, prions infect the hosts neurons, causing their protein to fold and leaving gaps. Dr. Phanita Mahathat, of Thailand, discovers the prions directly cause or contribute for far more conditions that previously suspected, including epilepsy, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimers disease, and other neural conditions. She finds that some psychotic diseases stem from prion disorders. Without DNA, curing prion-related diseases confounds geneticists. Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) announce the Mass Oscillator Engine. Completely different from the Quicksilver, the Blue Streak can attain .88 light speed without mass degradation. Sponsor CAN denies the technology to UN members. A staged riot at a South African penitentiary disguises a prison break. Fifty android guards are deployed to bring the riot under control. One of the androids, called Omega, has minimal AI. He notices evidence of the break, follows, and discovers two of the twelve escaping prisoners having almost succeeded. He follows. Psychopathic killer Dunston Hall damages Omega a few miles out

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of the prison, destroying a large portion of Omegas memory unit. Thinking he is human, Omega makes it to Johannesburg where he lives for 8 months, thinking he is an amnesia victim. At a shopping center, Omega sees and recognizes Hall, an image from his earliest memory. A confused and automatic response cascades, and Omega attempts apprehension of Hall. Hall and Omega steal arms from a sporting goods store. Gunfire ensues. Hall is taken, but 87 bystanders have been killed. Public outcry against advanced AI in android units erupts, and many units even with low-level AI are destroyed. CAN adheres to plea and bans advanced AI in all human-appearing androids in perpetuity, a ban they will continue even when advanced AI is made totally safe. Night Sky employs many engineers from AYS in its technical division. Untouchable by CAN, since Night Sky remains independent, the engineers oversee a small production plant in a Night Sky satellite, producing androids with moderate levels of AI to be used at the casino. Filipino Restituto Andrada develops a microscopic Blue Streak engine, giving CAN Scouts nearly instantaneous world-wide capabilities. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Japan closes, replaced by the use of P cells. CANAS and the CCC begin Project Waste, developing procedures for the elimination of nuclear waste. New robotics corporation of the UK, Edge Tech, markets the Stick Man. Hugely less functional than industrial or service robots, the Stick Man is made of fiberoptic wires designed for holographic imagery. Programming directs the wires into wire-frames. Previous holographic entertainment created a purely sensory array (image, sound, and scent), thereby forfeiting total interaction by the user who could not touch or affect the scene. The Stick Man gives the images a full-bodied and tactile appearance. Now, an interacting user has an equally material body to play with, so an avatar is not needed. True interaction requires too large a playing field. The UK denies the technology to CAN members. Project Cosmos is re-introduced. Cosmos Station will be of a gyroscopic design, like orbiting commercial facilities. At Cosmos Station, modular shuttles and camera-scanner probes, using P cell batteries, will be constructed for the exploration of the Solar System. The station is completed near the end of the year, and the first shuttle-probe envoy is labeled Project Mars.

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Secretly, several former Eurozone members meet with UN members, supplying sensitive CAN information. Discovered by CANAF using Scouts, Italy, Belgium and Luxembourg vacate their CAN seats to avoid prosecution. In 2040 in the US, a record 12,000 corporation reported annual earnings in excess of one trillion dollars. Elsewhere in the world, 25,000 corporations showed similar earnings. Because of CAN sponsored patents, including jot, diamond board and especially P cells, 19,000 of those corporations report zero to negative growth in 2049, with one third filing bankruptcy. Approximately 75% of all smaller corporations report losses, with two-thirds declaring bankruptcy. Unemployment rises to 62%. The PRC, Japan, India and the UK economies report only slightly better results than the US. Industries in CAN member nations detail sharp growth and unemployment at less than 5%. In an article in Time magazine, Peter Sorenson says, the once developing world has grown up. Project Mars offers new details about the geology and geography of the planet and reveals a sizable amount of sub-surface water. No life-forms, even microbiotic, are discovered and the surface cannot be easily terra-formed to support life. A domed Mars base is constructed at Hellas Plantia. An automated forklift with artificial intelligence (AI) malfunctions in a Canadian factory. It arbitrarily goes on a killing spree, murdering 52 workers. Later, psychiatrists diagnose the machine with a form of psychosis, the first time a psychiatric condition has been attributed to a non-life form. CANAS begins a study of AI. Movements to restrict the use of advanced AI in all robotics, not limited to androids, begin by both the UN and CAN. CAN agrees to Mandate Fourteen: Weather is among the most natural phenomenon of the Earth and should never be controlled completely; however, as human technology is capable it should be used to protect life and property against the mal-effects of severe weather. Project Climate is given the responsibility to interpret dangerous weather systems and to divert them from populated areas. CANAF begins covert Operation Intruder. Dozens of young operators are installed in UN-aligned nations. The operators are given falsified vital documentation and entered into through their foster care system. Their goal is to live normal lives until their potential deployment into an active duty, based on future needs of CANAF.

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Through the first half of the 21st century, Capitalism proved itself to be a strong ideology. In 2000, the five richest economiesthe US, the PRC, the Eurozone, Japan and the UKhad created a caste system based on wealth. Those rich nations, all belonging to the northern hemisphere, were nearly devastated by the mini-Ice Age, and were saved by a coalition made up of the poorest nations. While many of the people and most of the property was destroyed, the Capitalistic ideology remained undamaged. The rich nations regained their lands, rebuilt their edifices, and restored their populations. Rapid Fossilization and Proto-Oil destroyed companies, but new companies formed. The P-cell destroyed companies, but new companies formed, again. That upstart coalition that had saved them once, now was making those poverty-stricken countries viable, and it stretched its newly formed muscles against the idea of wealth they had invented. Otherwise, at the centurys mid-point, holograms populate most entertainment modes, along with the growing number of personal, holographic micro-cams, called Eyes and Scouts. Voyeurism is the most common form of entertainment, with fiction quickly waning. Quantum physics is just as quickly becoming a minor science, rather than the answer of the Universe.

2000-2024 2025-2049 2050-2074 2075-2099 2100-2124 2125-2149 Forward Afterward The world population rate of growth remained roughly flat from the end of the bubonic plague deficit at circa 1000 CE until the beginning of the Industrial Age in 1700 CE, moving from .25 to .5 billion globally. By 1800 CE, it had doubled to I billion. Soon after 1900 CE, it doubled again to 2 billion. By 2000 CE, population exceeded 5 billion. Every nation, whether industrialized or not, rose; however, the rate in non-industrial nations was largely offset by starvation and disease. By 2000 CE, two nations contributed most to the total population. The PRC contributed 1.25 billion to the total, and India added 1 billion, roughly half of the total earth population. Ranking third, the US contributed slightly over .25 billion. The PRC, India, the US, and many nations attempted to stabilize their growth rates, with moderate success. Three main factors cause population growth. Obviously, birth rate is important and became the focus of population control measures. Simply stated, if two parents produce three children, population grows. Just as important as birth rate, death rate affects population growth. Even if those two parents produce only two children, accomplishing zero growth, if the parents do not die at a relatively early age, a greater number of persons overpopulates the planet despite a low birth rate. The curing of disease, the easing of violent death through war and adding of safety from accident allow humans to extend their life expectancy; however, those long lives also contributes to overpopulation. Theoretically, transplantation could keep humans alive for very centuries. The work of CANAS has protected the lives in nations that previously lost great life through starvation and disease and it has taken time to adjust those birth rates. As economies falter in the historically industrial nations, child rate growth increases. Overpopulation is perhaps the most difficult problem the world has ever faced, since its solution restricts basic human drives to populate and to live in health. Project Demograph, an ongoing census by CANAS, watches overpopulation and population movement. Project Demograph announces the Earths population has risen from 11 billion in 2040 (CIA World Factbook) to 17 billion in 2050 (Project Demograph). Dr. Emily Thatcher, director of Project Demograph, estimates that the available space on the planet will be virtually exhausted in 350 years. The main causes for the increase are the advance of life expectancy from 88 to 92

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years and an average birth rate gain from 20.7 to 21.6 per 1000. The ten most populated nations of the world, in billions, are: India 2.0, the PRC 1.5, Indonesia .51, Pakistan .50, the US .49, Nigeria . 37, Bangladesh .35, the Philippines .15; Mexico .14. Russia .10. Mexico is new to the list. Japan has fallen out of the top ten. Indonesia and Pakistan have passed the US. CANAF detects three spies from the UK at Project Motion where the development of P cell hovercraft and passenger aircraft are being designed. CAN expels the intruders and places restrictions on P cell usage in UN affiliated nations, inflating the cost. The price hike is challenged in the Judiciary, based on the Ninth and Tenth Mandates. The judges find that prohibitive pricing effectively denies it to the poor. Called the Tech Caveat, the finding will be used repeatedly over excessive pricing of technology and goods, especially for items that are otherwise unique and not subject to a competitive market. CANAS announces Project Sahara in cooperation with the AC. Most proto-Oil fields have been converted to the production of Diamond Board and compost, far more compost than needed. Project Sahara will combine the use of billions of toms of compost and the geo-architecture to form rivers and lakes. Terra-formers learn terra-forming techniques that might be usable on other planets. By 2058, the Sahara, still to equatorial for many crops, becomes a large region of farmland and urban. Dr. Najib Shah, a geneticist from Malaysia, successfully combines the DNA of Oryza sativa with genes of the Zosteraceae family. The result is called sea rice. Ecologically friendly to the marine environment, sea rice can be grown and harvested on the sea floor. With CAN sponsorship, the new grain is patented with a falsified DNA blueprint. The CANAF operation is an attempt to uncover an espionage line to the UN. The false blueprint surfaces in a jointly operated US-Canadian DNA laboratory, as geneticists attempt to alter enough of the schematic to file its own patent. CAN confesses the false blueprint with the IPC and offers to pay a fine, but also reveal the obvious patent theft. The IPC accepts a relatively small fine from CAN and accepts the corrected DNA blueprint. It orders a large retribution to CAN from the US who attempted to patent the grain. Sea rice becomes specialized to islands in the Indian Ocean and throughout the South Pacific. Quickly, sea rice accounts for comparative market share with corn, rice, wheat and jot.

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Volcano Hibok-Hibok in Camiguin, Philippines, begins an active cycle with steam followed by eruptions. The eruption is minimal and no life is lost. While the event is considerable, much equal or greater Earth activity has occurred; however, Project Restore has particular difficulty with the volcanic ash, slowing the restoration greatly. New studies begin to discover why ash makes refoliation difficult. Connor OHare becomes new CEO of Flagstaff Corporation, a hospitality group based in Ireland. The hotel-casino Orb has been profitable for many years, but Lenich re-envisions the venture. He closes the Orbs casinos and creates five robotic-enhanced holo-theme parks. The scope of the five parks varies from season to season, but begins as Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Middle Ages, New World Explorer, and Fantasy. The holographic array is large, and Stick Men provide great interaction with users. By the end of the year, Orb grosses more money than Night Sky for the first time. A four-year study of CANAS called the Maas Report reveals details about the worlds entertainment practices at the mid-point of the century. CAN and non-CAN populations maintain similar desires and practices of personal entertainment, varying by patent available technology. About 14% of people read regularly and 32% read occasionally, usually non-fiction. The television industry has become virtually non-existent, in favor of personal use of the Eye. Music and holographic motion pictures, with a vast majority of the latter occurring at home on personal devices. Fewer than 5% of the worlds population went to a theater for a motion picture within the past year. About 10% went to theaters for live drama. Over 70% of music artists have never performed live in concerts. The Holonet remains popular, with 88% of people using it occasionally, 72% using it regularly, and 64% using it often. Gaming consoles are used at rates very similar to the Holonet, 83%, 73% and 69%, respectively. At least, 95% of people have used an Eye at least once, either for non-entertainment surveillance or for entertainment; 78% have owned or do own an Eye; 66% use Eyes regularly, spying people they know, and 53%, spying on unknown persons. The average person spends 27% of total time in entertainment pursuits. EAC updates the six-year-old Quicksilver design and resolves some of the mass instability issues. The new engine again becomes the record-setter, clocking at .85 light speed traveling. Quantum

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physicists have not yet found a means to break light speed. Project Cosmos launches Projects Venus and Lunar. Five former USSR nations, unable to meet terms set by the Philadelphia Pact choose to join CAN, along with five Central American nations. Only the 57 member Pact nations remain outside CAN. They agree to begin arbitration with CANs Judiciary. The Pacts major concerns are patent use and economic aid. CANs Judiciary is most concerned with potential collusion with other governments to form a party system within the CAN Senate. TAI resolves several issues with mass degeneration in near light speed travel. A limit of .98 light speed is accomplished. CAN places a .95 light speed limit to prevent any chance of mass breakdown. Greater than light speed travel is considered unattainable, based on relative physics, since mass would become unstable although it cannot be converted to energy. Dr. Alana Preston produces genetic autosomal inoculations in association with Project Vaccine. The inoculation can reduce the transference of autosomal dominant and recessive disorders to less than 1%. Conditions, such as Huntingtons disease, cystic fibrosis and sickle-cell anemia, can be prevented. Based upon the Fifth Mandate, CANAS offers the technology to all nations, CAN and UN. Forum Policies enter the CAN Senate, fearful that genetically enhanced humans will be research. Mandate 18 is written, saying all humans have the right to their own natures and individualities, and only potentially terminal inherited flaws in humans can be corrected through genetic engineering. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) closes. For over half a century, scientists, mostly quantum physicists, have used the facility in attempting to prove basic theories about atomic particles and their exact relationships and in hoping to explain the nature of the universe. Since the Nettles failure in 2022, quantum physics has started to wane in popularity. In an attempt to curb escalating over-population, CANAS completes two underwater cities, Projects Pacificos and Atlantis, in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans respectively. Each can sustain populations of 5 million. Overseeing Project Oceana presents CANs first formal national-colony, controlled directly by the CAN government. Oceana, the united front of the two cities, is given a Senate seat. Of Project Vaccine, Dr. Phanita Mahathat creates a prions inoculation, with an 80% success rate.

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Conditions effectively corrected are epilepsy, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, and other neural maladies. Alzheimers disease shows only a 10% rate of success. At the ten-year anniversary of the Philadelphia Pact, the 57 nations, including all five of the original nations, reconvenes as agreed to. The 57 nations are the final members of the UN. The CAN Judiciary has agreed to most terms, but patents and economic aid will be withheld if a party system rises from their presence. By consensus, all of the nations except North Korea consent to abolish the UN and join CAN. The Vatican City and Night Sky remain the only non-aligned principalities. CAN warns the rogues that their independence will be accepted and they may enjoy all benefits CAN is able to offer; however, any infringement against a CAN member will be met severely. Further, any aggression by a CAN member against these sovereignties of any other CAN member will be answered just as severely. The Philadelphia Treaty is signed on August 10th, which is named Unity Day. With the few exceptions, the CAN Senate convenes with every nation and principality of the world present. Roll Call begins prior to the selection of a new Director. When Taiwan acknowledges its presence, the PRC announces to the floor that it does not and will recognize Taiwan. Briefly, since such an announcement had never been made during Roll Call, Senate Director Rafael Hargita of Chile suspends the procedure, confers with Judiciary liaison Amit Rayamajhi of Nepal. Hargita declares a failure of Roll and adjourns the Senate, stating the Senate cannot continue with the disparity. After a conference with the Judiciary, he eliminates participation by all new members to perform Roll Call. Rayamajhi addresses the Senate to inform them of the Judiciary decision. The PRC is denied entry into CAN. Laos and Cuba abandon their seats. Hargita begins a full Roll Call, including new members, without incident. The US reorganizes state boundaries and senatorial representation. In a bill authored by Senator Dorothy Jakes (NY) and Congressperson Samuel Hollister (VA), the new divisions attempt more representative order for the Houses. Statehood is given to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as Carib; Guam and outlying islands, including American Samoa, as Mariana; Washington DC; South California, south of the 40th parallel north. In addition to the four new states, the 35th amendment to the US Constitution warrants eight urban senatorial seats to the North, East, South and West

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regions. The regions remain governed by states and elicit House Representation based on congressional zoning, the regions each receive their own additional Senate seats. The amendment began in 2050 and is ratified in 2055. Project Vaccine announces Dr. Preston has successfully found an inoculation for chromosomal translocation disorders, curing or preventing 95% cases of leukemia and lymphoma, as well as other disorders. A Representation Policy enters the Senate, calling for Senate representation based on population rather than border. The Policy has been entered before, but the general population seems to prefer border rules. As Senate discussion, it becomes clear the new membership strongly presses for a change. The vote rejects the Representation Policy. The Judiciary suspects collusion and begins a covert action to see if the Forum is being influenced by the Senate and if the Senate is in the process of forming parties. The covert action is called Operation Shift. Project Mind reveals that neurologist Dr. Cais Li has identified an area of the cerebellum that she calls the Cerebellum Vertex (CV) as a concentrated sub-portion of the hippocampus and is made up of white matter cells, with a high concentration of iron. The area is very small, seeming to be less than 1% of the hippocampus and had been thought to be a part of the organ. Li postulates that the CV is actually distinct from but related to the larger structure, but is more integral to the cerebellum itself. She feels a further understanding of the CV can relieve Alzheimer disease, a prion disease not affected by Dr. Mahathats inoculation. Great disappointment is evolving about quantum physics. For many years, it postulated about the natures of the atom, the universe, energy and time, but to date its research has produced unsubstantiated theory and limited results. A particular popular dissatisfaction has been its inability to find a means to break the speed of light. Noted quantum physicist Dr. Bera Gustov says, Physics is limited to physics. Many students divert toward other studies. The area of quantum engineering is growing, as it tends to avoid theory for practical application. By 2056, the lowest number of students pursue quantum physics, worldwide Policy Patent Restraint, an attempt to dissolve the IPC, is read by the CAN Senate on February 20 shows clear indications that Greece, France and the UK know details not suggested in the Policy

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Statement. A Procedural Caveat is noted by Nigeria, part of Operation Shift. When the Caveat goes to the Judiciary collusion is proven existed via Eye surveillance, and many nations are involved. The judges cite 58 members who are cited, fined and warned that another attempt will result in their censure from the Senate. Russian Senator Nadiya Dmitryev abandons her CAN seat. Project Cosmos designs the Gyron, an immense, orbiting complex of 500,000 compartments and general areas for private commercial ventures. Each Gyron would be able to sustain a population of over a million. Modular building begins. Dr. Cais discovers a high magnetic component to the CV and speculates that its magnetism may be directly related to human memory. Her basic theory, which she proves in 2058 and receives a Nobel Prize, is that the CV stores a large variety of magnetic impulses just as artificial memory chips, and just as those chips can stimulate paralyzed body parts, the CV automatically provides this function. She hopes to find an internal neural language that can use electro-magnetic relays to be programmed onto the CV that can restore functions lost in Alzheimer patients. She finds, however, that the brains programming language is extremely difficult to decipher. CAN Roll Call shows 12 members absent, all recently cited for collusion and all former members of the Philadelphia Pact. They are censured from the Senate for five years. Li, with a former technician from AYS, Gloria Maynard, decodes a portion of the brains neural language. Rather than the binary computer construct or the randomized human language construct, the brain operates on a base-16 construct. The discovery begins several profound reconsiderations and begins relative controversy for mathematicians and many psychiatric fields. Physicists and quantum physicists, as well as other scientists, begin research to see if anomalies in their past studies might be caused by basic flaws in precepts. For Li and Maynard, the immediate need is to find a means of translating the neural language so that binary programming can be administered on the CV. Enrique Gerard II reaches his 21st birthday. Son of Frederick Girard, former head of Star Studio, and Marlena Devereux, former actress, the young Enrique has become one of the most recognizable faces in the world. Frederick, now 54, gives his son equal holdings in the studio. With the new wealth, young Enrique divulges his plans to open the Your Universe (YU) theme park in the

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Holonet. At their own homes, using the YU units, people can enjoy the broadest vacations imaginable in their own mind. The YU units are unparalleled in sales. By the end of 2058, 42% of the world owns a YU, and vacation at least a while every day. 2059 2060 Dr. Nguyen Quang Do, Vietnamese scientist and mathematician of multiple disciplines concludes at least on small part of the brain is set in binary logic with base-16 complexities. Using collapsible construct of base-16, he claims to decipher a binary language that can work in a limited way with the CV, giving hope to Li and Maynard. He begins a ten-year study of the CV and AI. The first city Cosmos Gyron is completed and named the CSS Aristotle. Within three months, one million people take residence on Aristotle. Project Demograph announces the Earths population has risen from 17 billion in 2050 to 22 billion in 2060. Dr. Emily Thatcher, director of Project Demograph, estimates that the available space on the planet will be exhausted in less than 275 years. The main causes for the increase are the advance of life expectancy from 97 to 100 years and an average birth rate gain from 21.6 to 22.6 per 1000. The ten most populated nations of the world, in billions, are: India 2.3, the PRC 1.4, Indonesia .59, Pakistan .58, the US .50, Nigeria .47, Bangladesh .45, the Philippines .25; Mexico . 24. Vietnam .11. Vietnam is new to the list. Russia has fallen out of the list. Otherwise the order remains intact. Li and Maynard, using Nguyens language model, begin binary CV translation. They learn the CV can be coded in binary by infrared light. The program Maynard writes can open pathways for Alzheimer patients to regain abilities lost by the disease. Li discovers the stimuli can even repair damaged brain cells. Further, they successfully train a subject to manage computer devices and prosthetic or paralyzed limbs without the implantation of an artificial chip. Project Cosmos launches Gyrons CSS Pythagoras and Archimedes with waiting residents asking to come aboard. Swedish writer Gunnar Lundgren publishes the novel The Skara Leaf through Alfabeta Bokforlag AB. It becomes the last original novel published for 35 years. The book sells 7000 copies. Nonfiction literature remains moderately strong, but the written word is losing favor to computerized holograms.

South Korean corporation Sundial releases Timepiece. The wrist-mount device is capable of dozens of functions, from a basic watch to a personalized calendar to a mobile phone to a heart monitor to a defibrillator to a 3D gaming station. Hundreds of social games are quickly made available. A common Policy to enter the CAN Senate has related to a desire for android research for military purposes of for domestic care. The Judiciary has long been leery of the use of AI in androids, based on past accidents. The Policies have been rejected. A new attempt for research has entered the Senate floor, called Policy Base-16 Android, using the Li-Maynard language. Renewed Senate interest grows, and a general feeling that the Policy could pass develops. The Mexican Senator Antonio del Rio speaks against the measure, citing Judicial preferences. The argument sways the Senate, but more surprisingly it shows true involvement of a former Pact nation to basic CAN principles. Project Cosmos reports that every major and minor solar planet, as well as many moons, have hosted at least one exploratory probe. No sign of even microscopic life has been recorded in the solar system, and the surface areas lack basic needs for fertility to support life. Several useful metals in limited supplies on Earth have been discovered. CAN agrees to allow independent nations, at their own cost, to begin mining operations; however, CAN determines no nation can claim a celestial body as a possession. CAN also says mutual claims of mining products will be determined in CAN arbitration, and parties must abide by decisions as they would for other disputes. Dr. Mahathat develops a prionic inoculation for psychosis that is 75% effective. In 2027, geneticist Dr. Peter Channel developed an artificial bacterium Clostridium decor, a protein capable of replacing botox in cosmetic surgery with fewer side effects. It became the staple in the industry. Cosmetics corporation Adonis markets the dallas mask, an over-the-counter tool that conforms fatty tissue to remove most age marks, such as wrinkles. A Forum policy calls for colonial expeditions to begin on the moon and Mars. It suggests that while complete planetary preparation for human life might take time, portions of the terra-formed region might be available sooner. The Policy receives overwhelming support in the Senate, both by mainline members and the bloc, and the Policy Pioneer is passed on to CANAS for administration.

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Project Pioneer begins as research. The CSS Plato and Socrates are completed and launched into orbit. As with the Aristotle, within months one million residents become citizens in each of the new space cities. All three cities are considered territories of the CAN government. Separate from Lis scientific work, Maynard creates International Technologies Corporation (ITC), with the aim of popular use of the CV. Dreammaker One is outlined in June. The apparatus translates pre-constructed stories and games onto the CV for live experience. Maynard orders painstaking study of the device to assure no long-lasting damage to the brain, and her team of technicians begin the study. She did announce details of the capabilities of the machine and a clearly restrained patent to avoid corporate theft. Letting the public know about the device works as a publicity maneuver and a great number of people grow expectant awaiting the release of the first truly new entertainment gadget in decades. The technicians add many guards into the operation, mostly to curtail extended exposure. Dreammaker One sales phenomenally after October. Many holographic entertainment companies begin adding CV game-ware. PRC, North Korea and 12 censured members take CAN Senate seats. Dreammaker One causes a form of time displacement, allowing users to experience hours of mental activity in minutes of real time. The machine produces a more exhaustive experience than holograph viewing, and the CV activity isolates the user from the outside world. Users admit the extraordinary sensation, but many say they prefer holographic games. Sales fall but strong interest exists. Maynard releases some of the technology. As game companies form CV counterparts to products, it is decided CV games need clear time limits. Although the brain is not damaged with their use, enjoyment is often compromised by after effects. Prescott Publishing releases several classic novels in Dreammaker One. Enrique Girard II moves Star Studio into the CV product line very early, even starring in dozens of Dreammaker One movies, during which the user could cast him in roles and then live brief realities with him. Star Studio sees its greatest revenues since the original Enrique saw the promise of holographic films and created the company.

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Civil unrest begins in the US. The Open Education Act of 2041 attempted to improve the level of education in public schools, while not addressing private schools. The Act made teachers wages based on scholastic performance. After 2052, private schools geared teachers wages on tuition. For over a decade the quality of teachers declined in public school, while it rose in the private sector. Protests continued for many years, and in 2064, large numbers of the US population grow in the CAN Forum and hope to cite the US for failing to abide by the Third CAN Mandatethat all mankind deserves an equal education. Covertly, the US attempts to undo the growing movement of its citizens in the Forum and incurs a citation from CAN Judiciary for unlawful inhibition of free speech. The US loses its CAN seat until it resolves its internal educational practices. Projects Mars and Luna began as semi-permanent domed stations where scientists research the planets and their potential for terra-formation. Project Cosmos upgrades their priority to begin initial geo-architecture for environmental placement. The Great War is a holo-game for Timepiece. Set in the early 20th century, the gamer takes the role of a soldier for one of the warring armies. A social game, the Great War allows interaction with other users. Unknown to most users, Timepiece Inc. has coded a cheat mode accessible only with authorized cheaters. The cheat is actually a highly sophisticated entry into an espionage society. Dozens of CAN Senators are soldiers in the Montenegrin Army prior to the Battle of Mojkovac in 1915. The game truly involves former Pact members and others, communicating in an attempt to overtake control of the CAN Senate. Real communication has been thwarted by CANAF surveillance, but the game is unknown to CANAF and coded to deflect their deciphering. The covert activities remains undetected by CANAF. The US has reorganized its educational system enough that it regains its CAN seat. CV game users begin reporting side effects from the system. Some memory loss is noted. Also, many users cannot exit game conditions without outside aid. They become part of the experience they are watching. If unchecked, it is anticipated they could remain enthralled for months. CANAS recalls the gaming system. CANAS generates requirement guidelines for CV entertainment companies, beginning with details about all conceivable game dangers. Even more strict than the original ITC guides for their product, CANAS requires testing of users for possible injury and places

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limits on duration of use before the game is re-marketed. ITC suspends production and reverts into small collection of developers to research the technology fully. Other entertainment companies end activity altogether. 2065 2066 Worldwide, eight of the ten largest corporations are producers of entertainment, communications or electronics. Japans third ranked Nippon Telegraph-Telephone Corporation (NTTC), a communications and electronic conglomerate, and tenth ranked Sony-Sega Inc., entertainment and software producers merge, creating a new corporate leader as Nippon Inc. Japanese President Aoi Mori is discovered to have close business ties with NTTC, causing accusations of graft. With General Sakamoto, she stages a military stand in Japan to secure her presidency before impeachment proceedings can begin against her. Geo-architects in Project Mars have completed the canal phase of Martian development. Using robotic lifters and graters, the original canal system, along with newly formed canals could transport water efficiently. Project Luna remains slightly behind its Mars counterpart, having to construct the system completely. Project Luna also faces the more crater scarred dark part of the Moon. Plans for changing the rotation to supply light to the entire body have been made, but models cannot determine the effects that would occur on Earth if a different rotational pattern is made. Project Luna faces an additional problem, due to lack of a molten core on the Moon. It is anticipated geothermal mines could be constructed on Mars to raise its surface temperature; however, with a much smaller molten core, the mines would be of little use. Both Projects remain of moderate importance to CANAS. Potential land masses that would be made available if an ocean system could be placed would develop minimal land for colonization, satisfying only a few nations needs. Marshal law exists in Japan as President Mori overturns her cabinet and the Parliament. CANAF refrains from involvement due to its internal national nature. Mori outlines a new Constitution based loosely on Night Skys model, creating the first Corporate Democracy in which Japan becomes a commodity of Nippon Inc. and independent companies receive profit guarantees as part of the conglomerate.

Marco Fantoni becomes Italian CAN Senator. At 16 in 2049, Marco was a trouble maker who seemed to take pride in breaking rules. In the Italian foster care system, he was placed in the home of Emilio and Ada Morelli, where he remained until his majority. At 20, he calmed his personality, began studying law at the University of Chieti, and graduated with honors. He moved into the political arena at 30 in 2063, but was defeated in a mayoral campaign in Chieti. Italian President Femi Piccolo took note of him and selected him for CAN Senator chief-of-staff in 2064, and as CAN Senator in 2066. Marco had actually been placed in the Italian foster care system in CANAF covert Operation Intrude in 2049. In 2065, he learned about the Great War cheat. Not called to duty by CANAF, he contacts them with information about the system. They choose to allow him to retain his identity, but a few CANAF agents enter the Great War game. The Faroe Islands appeal to the CAN Senate for membership. CAN recognition requires a sufficient petition if the lands are claimed by another nation. Denmark maintains its control of the islands. The Faroe Islands requests CAN aid in declaring independence from Denmark. When Denmark decides to overcome the independence claim militarily rather than through Judiciary arbitration, CANAF is involved. CANAF administrators call for emergency action in protecting the territory. Approximately, 50,000 CANAF troops are deployed, almost as many as the population of the Faroe Islands. When Denmark refuses to stand down, claiming the concern as a national matter without CAN jurisdiction, missile fire commences. The battle lasts for 73 hours, and marks the first armed conflict in years. Addressing the CAN Senate, Director Alma Noriega of El Salvador apologizes to the world for the use of force and the loss of life, but she says, CANs purpose is not to replace the national character but to preserve it, and we have done well. For no time in human history has the Earth so peaceful so long. We now must address the problems from our success, not from our failure. For those who have died here, I offer this, you have died in an honorable way to help show the greatness that can be human. The Faroe Islands are granted independence from Denmark and given a seat in the Senate. Denmark abandons their CAN Senate seat. Project Gyron launches its tenth Gyron, the CSS Euclid. The ten Gyrons give twelve million people homes. They petition for national recognition as a collective country, similar to Oceana and its two cities. Before a CAN Senate vote, the Great War Conspirators test their power and manage to

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block the request. Dr. Benito Mendez, grandson of Dr. Maria Garcia-Mendez, extends her work, with exhaustive but untried research about terra-formation. His hypothesis states that through cosmosis, using his filtering system, complete planetary bodies could be prepared for life, with water, land and oxygen needs. His time table for terra-forming a planet is exhaustive, predicting 100-150 year period for completion. He is allowed to conduct experimentation on Project Luna. After several years of espionage via the Great War game, CANAF has watched conspirators direct Forum Policy submissions and Senate votes. Most of the initiatives have been more economically motivated than political, with the exception of the Gyron Senate seat. CANAF has not pursued hoping to retain its advantage in knowing their activities. CANAF has proof that 41 member nations are entrenched in the conspiracy, with twelve satellite nations involved. The PRC and Russia have begun groundwork for a true coup de tat, with their own operatives in CAN-aligned nations able to affect Senate voting. The conspirators feel they control 80 votes, with a goal of 87, feeling additional votes likely to side with them with direct involvement from the conspiracy. CANAF contacts the Judiciary wit the information. Dr. Nguyen completes a ten-year study of the CV and AI. In his first report, he claims that the basic computer language used in androids was basically sound, but the language opened logical incongruence of neither-both syllogism. Androids could not operate under the logic. Also, some android models used a mimicking technology that interfered with the AI. He announces using the binary language he gave the CV industry should work in AI. He also says a more elaborate finding will be announced shortly. It actually is not released until 2074. Immediately, mathematicians dissect the new neither-both syllogism. They claim his finding, after ten years of work, amounts to gobbledygook and means nothing. Despite their criticism, they cannot overcome the point that the binary language he created ten years before has worked in CV research and programming South Korea adopts a new Constitution based on Japans Corporate Democracy model. Dr. Mendez reports success in using cosmosis on lunar soil. In a test, viruses fail to form on untreated dust, but thrive when cosmic radiation bathed the dust through his filtering system. A second test, using bacterium, has similar results. His filtration system uses 127I, an iodine isotope,

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along with an array of dichroic filters. His device is small, capable of filtering cosmic radiation onto no more than a square foot area. Lunar engineers assist in the construction of a much larger converter that would be mounted on a crane. After a month of work, the converter is in place and allows an acre to receive the cosmosis effect. After a week of work on the treated area, 50% of the experimental fungi, protozoa, and algae survive. In non-lunar water, the algae undergo natural photosynthesis, and O2 CO2 and H2O develops. Based upon his design, the Cosmos station constructs the first of several Cosmosis Effect Satellites (CES) for lunar and Martian orbits. The first stages of terra-forming begin on the Moon by the end of the year; however, the Martian satellites fail to assist in the survival of any microbiotic life on the planets surface. Expansive terra-formation on the Moon continues to be hindered by the surface temperature outside the test area. Unlike the Moon, Mars extensive ice at its poles in subterranean. If thawed, it is estimated enough water would be available for one small ocean. While that would be insufficient for colonization, it would satisfy needs for terra-formers. The photosynthesis-respiration of organisms developed during terra-forming would add significant additional water and a breathable atmosphere. Mars also has a molten core similar to the Earths. Geo-architects have surveyed sites for multiple geothermal mines, and begun drilling several mines in the Hellas Planitia basin. On the Moon, regional heaters will need to be designed. The Nippon corporation acquires ITC and Dreammaker One The Judiciary addresses the CAN Senate after Roll Call. They call for the arrest of 53 Senators, including Marco Fantoni. CANAF agents move in to arrest 1734 other conspirators, world-wide. Because of the massive involvement, the Great War Conspiracy Trials will take years. All conspiring nations lose their CAN Senate seats until the trials are complete. The CAN Forum presents Policy Deep Defense for Senate consideration. The Policy asks for multiple Gyron-type defense stations to be launched into orbits just outside the solar system. When passed by the Senate, the Policy enters the first CANAS-CANAF joint directorship. A total of 96 Gyron-type unmanned bodies are planned to be launched into solar orbits outside of the Kupier Belt at 75 Astronomical Units (AUs), approximately 7 billion miles from the Sun. The stations would orbit not only on the planetary plane, but also on planes of 30, 60, 90, 120 and 150 degrees. The six

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planes would have 16 Balls at equal distances in rotation, for a total of 96 stations. Each station would be unmanned and equipped the most advanced weaponry available, as well as becoming a repository for 95% of all nuclear fissionable material known on Earth, and could be used as deep space ports if necessary. The expressed purpose of Project Deep Defense is readiness in case the Earths own extra-solar exploration elicits negative response from possible alien life forms. The 7 billion mile orbit is approximately one-tenth of a light-year. CANAF proposes a similar planned defensive satellite system in Earth orbit. The production of the unmanned systems will fall under the administration of CANAS and Cosmos until completed, and the completed system will become administered solely by CANAF as Projects Deep Space and Near Space. The CAN Senate rejects a Policy to man Projects Deep Space and Near Space with human-like androids with advanced AI and with small fighters capable of defending the Solar System, relying on the mine and missile technology, instead. A fear of androids continues. Russia, France and Germany begin referenda to institute Corporate Democracy governments. The Hellas Planitia basin sustains a 50F-100F temperature range due to new geo-thermal mines, with the variation caused by solar exposure. Mendez has joined Project Mars to determine why the CES do not work on Mars. Working with geologist Helen Gainer, they determine several unexpected variances between Mars and the Moon. On the Moon, the 127I isotope exists naturally although in smaller quantity than on Earth. On Mars, 127I isotope does not exist naturally, and when artificially introduced it is stable only for about three days. The discover 134I isotope is stable and natural on Mars. When the CES have the127I isotope replaced with 134I, the cosmosis effect is almost identical as on the Moon. Called the Iodine Fingerprint Discovery, planets have different isotope ranges, at least of Iodine. The discovery confirms that the Moon originally was probably once a part of the Earth and jettisoned during some pre-formation event. The likelihood of having the same Iodine Footprint is remote, otherwise. Enrique Girard II marries Russian actress Petra Numerov. Six months later she gives birth to their first son, Enrique Girard III. Now residing on Night Sky, they are arguably the wealthiest family almost on Earth. Project Demograph announces the Earths population has risen from 22 billion in 2060 to 44 billion

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in 2070, a far greater increase than expected. Dr. Joel Sampson, director of Project Demograph, estimates that the available space on the planet will be exhausted in less than 200 years. The main causes for the increase are the advance of life expectancy from 100 to 114 years and an average birth rate gain from 22.6 to 28.1 per 1000. Entertainment occupies 25% of peoples time. Sampson theorizes about a relationship between birth rate gain and idle/entertainment time, which is now up 5% from 2060. The ten most populated nations of the world, in billions, are: India 3.9, the PRC 2.5, Indonesia .99, Pakistan .88, the US .80, Nigeria 68, Bangladesh .65, the Philippines .59; Mexico . 54; Vietnam .53. The order remains intact. In India, a region from Chandigarh to Calcutta, is populated at a density of 5000 people per square mile on average, continuous in inhabitable land, with area of densities at 375,000. The provinces of Maharashtra to the west and Tamilnadu to the south have similar densities as the northern regions. In the PRC, a density of 5000-500,000 people per square mile covers their western third of the nation. The entire nations of Indonesia and Pakistan, where inhabitable, share densities of 7500400,000. In the East Region of the US, from Boston to Washington DC, the average density is 40,000 people per square mile; in the North, from Minneapolis to Cincinnati, it is 20,000; the states of South California, Texas and Florida, it is 15,000 on average. The Great War Conspiracy Trials continue. Hundreds of conspirators have been found guilty, but sentences have not been decided. Several of the involved nations seek treaty negotiations with the CAN Judiciary to avoid the trials. Geo-thermal mines have melted a large amount of ice on Mars. The Hellas Planitia basin has been filled to a depth of 5000 feet. The basin is capable of four times that depth. With a diameter of roughly 500 miles, a third its capacity, the site is currently slightly larger than Lake Superior on Earth. It is name Lake Ares. Eventually, the lake will be the size of the Gulf of Mexico. With several CES in orbit, extensive terra-forming begins. Much of the worlds population is alarmed by recent census reports. Many do not understand that the sheer size of Mars will not allow much migration to alleviate overcrowding, and the terra-forming will require a great deal of time to be completed. Mars Now riots begin in many overpopulated urban areas. Temperature conditions on the Moon are more sever than Mars due its core. Extraneous heaters

provide little real assistance. Canadian inventor Charles Hornspeck explores a plan. Rather than using inductive heaters, he postulates a sonic field. The lunar-based sound devices would use frequencies from super-sized speakers aimed at the lunar surface. He predicts a bounced field would be produced that could envelop the Moon if the speakers are large enough. The sonic field should act similarly to the Earths upper atmosphere. Excessive heat from the lighted half of the moon could be transpose to the dark half, equalizing temperatures. Holographic tests affirm his theory. He seeks Canadian sponsorship for a patent and research aid. The design for Project Deep Space and Near Space stations are finalized. Each gyroscopic satellite will house 48 thermonuclear missiles capable of mass-seeking navigation and approximately 10,000 megaton yield. Additionally, 100 thermonuclear mines of about one-tenth the yields can be dispersed without navigational ability. The inner portion of the gyroscope can serve a crew of 15 with temporary quarters, but the stations are set to be unmanned. The AI of the control system has minimal intelligence, awaiting orders. The stations will also support multi-sensor macro cameras. Project Deep Space will study extra-solar stars, keying on movement toward the solar system. Project Near Space will also study stellar bodies, movement toward Earth and 25% of the sensors will be dedicated to studying the Asteroid Belt for potential rogues. Upon hearing census results, growing numbers of people fear the Overpopulation Crisis. Overpopulation has been a concern for some time. After millennia of modest population growth, during the 19th century and industrialization major rises began. By the late 20th century, many nations attempted to impede the rise. Near the beginning of the 21st century, the UN department World Health Organization (WHO) predicted population by 2070 would be less than 10 billion. Most of the attention in controlling the problem came from affecting birth rate increases. The cause of the problem is two-fold. If a population of 100 doubles within a year, there is not necessarily a population growth. If the death rate of that population is 90, the overall rise is only 10 or 10%. Birth rates have risen slowly, with similar declines, ultimately remaining level. This leveling does not prevent overpopulation. In that population of 100, if the birth rate is a modest 10%, but only 25 people die, population will have nearly doubled in a year. Medical advances have increased life expectancy to over 100 years. People are dying at a slower rate.

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The Hornspeck Sonic Model is patented by the IPC. Canada denies CANAS use unless they begin arbitration talks concerning the Great War Conspiracy Trials. CANAS seriously doubts the viability of a sonic induced field. CAN Judiciary want an end to the trials and to foster a lasting peace with the non-aligned nations and to add them to the central government. Using the Canadian offer, they begin the Second Philadelphia Treaty talks. Simultaneously, the Forum enters Central Government Policy that calls for military action as an option to retain member nations. Mandate 42 passes the CAN Senate, requiring all nations to support CANs central government and to be subject to military invasion in failure to do so. Rightly, perceived as a threat, the Mandate boxes in the conspiring nations. They are forced into re-entering CAN or face invasion. By re-entering CAN, conspiracy charges will be dropped and the Great War Conspiracy Trials will end. In a joint statement, Presidents Elizabeth Gower of the US, Pan Zhuang of the PRC and Vasiliy Basov of Russia speak to their nations, and to their allies. They say that to their last breath they will defend the safety and independence of their countries, but must the world stand together to defend its safety and survival. They go on to say delegations have been sent to the CAN Forum to request re-admission into the Coalition and ask that all allies who have abandoned their voice in the Coalition to rethink their actions. The Earth, they say, is facing a new struggle more severe than World Wars 150 years before or than Terrorisms War 50 years before or than and an Ice Age almost 25 years before. The war we face today is truly a war with ourselves. The very characteristic that permits our survival threatens our survival. Overpopulation must be dealt with, and our battle must be to find a means. For the first time in approximately 6000 years, the Earth enters a period of 50 years without an international war. CANAS determines the Hornspeck model is not viable, but it opens a solution that his not been sufficiently researched. A Driven Harmonic Oscillator (DHO) could produce a forced field above the Moon, which could change heat distribution on the lunar surface. CANAS engineers begin working on DHO models. After nine months, using near light-speed drivers, a system is devised. For his contribution to the original idea, Hornspeck is given the patent with Canada his sponsor. By late 2072, a DHO system is in place. Heat manipulation is controllable. The system is deployed on Mars, ending geo-thermal mining.

Project Mars begins showing success at Lake Ares. Algae are being sustained and a weak gaseous atmosphere is developing. Multi-cellular algae are planned for 2072. Dependent upon setbacks, a more compete eco-system could be possible by the end of the decade. Despite the positive news, many people become enraged at a perceived slow approach by CANAS. Protests and riots begin in a dozen nations, with people fearing the planet will deplete its resources due to population growth. President Ramya Machingal addresses the issue in a campaign speech. He calls for greater abstinence and for the elderly to refuse life-extending surgeries. His popularity drops from 55% to 33%, and President Suresh Ramani is elected and sworn in after claiming the people of India must be willing to migrate when new worlds become available. More and more, politicians do begin risking defeat by facing unpopular decisions. The UK government passes legislation offering tax assistance to domiciles with no more than one child. The US government passes a Resolution to offer an income tax break for only one dependent per family. Over two dependents result in additional taxes. An amendment is added to exclude preexisting dependents from age 1-16, but new births will cause the Child Tax. Several forms of government assistance add new charges to families. The hope of the legislation is to reduce the number of new births. An accompanying tax break for corporations helps the passage of the Resolution. President Mori of Japan renames the office to Chief Executive Officer (CEO). CEO Mori supports a movement to restrict wages and salaries based on family size. In Vatican City, Pope Adrian VII reverses the Roman Catholic view on contraception, but retains opposition to abortion and sterilization. Significant amounts of water, frozen on the Moon, have begun malting and are transported to a new base near the Aitken basin on the Moon. The basin, roughly the size of Hellas Planitia on Mars, becomes the site of Lake Selene. Extensive terra-forming begins. Project Mars terra-formers introduce lichen into Lake Ares. The water level has increased one foot. Atmospheric gases form more readily just above the lakes surface, but quickly dissipate into space. Both Projects will continue progress as more advance life-forms succeed, and water and atmospheres grow.

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Germany increases spending on family planning and education. Users of birth control receive tax aid. Indonesia creates the first Century Law. A flat government stipend will be granted to the estate of any person who agrees to euthanasia at the age of 100 years or more. Pakistan invokes the Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Law, offering an estate stipend for terminal patients who agree to DNR statements. The African Union (AU) proposes Century Laws for its member nations. Also, various tax-to-child legislations are encouraged by the AU of its nations. The Pacific Union (PU) proposes the Life Tax, higher taxation on a variety of surgeries whose principle use is to extend life beyond 75 years. Multiple protests and riots begin, worldwide, complaining about Death Laws, which seek to end life, rather than face the real issues of overpopulation. Long established governments face popular parties seeking to change how governments operate. A coup de tat in Indonesia replaces President Sugiono with the Indosat-Media conglomerate. The corporation releases a government strategy based on earlier political models. Long-range macro-cameras in Project Deep Space reveal the most detailed photographs of nearby stars. Planetary bodies orbiting some of the stars are clear, but exact information is impossible to determine. Project Demograph will announce official population estimates in 2080, but approximately 33 billion people inhabit the Earth, with several areas of growingly dense populations. Mega-cities are on the rise. Although the Corporation of Japan has been among the leaders in population control, Tokyo and its satellites now inhabit about a third of the island and number almost a half a billion people. Similarly, Seoul, South Korea, has overrun a third of the nation and numbers over half a billion. Mexico City with its suburbs now has a coast on the Gulf of Mexico, with a total population equal to Seoul. In the US, from Boston, MA to Washington DC has become a mega-region with well over half a billion citizens, a third of the population of the US. As important as total population, the density has become a great concern, and the smaller area nations feel the greatest compactness. Sweden begins the ratification process for a new Constitution based on the Forum-Senate model.

After many years of study, Dr. Nguyen releases the body of his work. The Tetrahedral Theory: Binary is one of two equally simple logical constructs. Binary reveals an either-or relationship. Abinary reveals a neither-both relationship. These correlative constructs serve as all apexes of a tetrahedron pyramid and as four integers in the base-16 language of thinking. There are six edges and four planes in the model. One plane is empirical, relative to quantitative data. One plane is sensual, relative to sensory data. One plane is metaphysical, relative to data that is neither empirical nor sensory, but that is otherwise unknown in an empirical or sensory manner. The details of the plane cannot here be explained. Four of the six edges are dynamic to atrophic, objective to subjective, ordered to chaotic, and causal to unrelated. Nguyens model fails to identify the fourth plane or the fifth and sixth lines, leaving them as unknowns. In theory the four-integered apexes and the four-sided model result in the base-16 language of the brain. When pressed about the omissions, Nguyen claims no current knowledge explains them, but they exist within the basics of the thinking language. He goes on to elaborate about the metaphysical aspect, saying that on certain levels the idea has been known since early man but has not understood. A true and complete understanding of the tetrahedron can only come, according to Nguyen, after all apexes, lines and planes have been revealed. Using mathematical bypasses for the unknown elements, just as he did early in his research for the CV allowing them a simplified thought language, Nguyen creates bypasses and releases a more complex but useable language. Immediately, mathematicians label the ideas as non-sense, logically.

2000-2024 2025-2049 2050-2074 2075-2099 2100-2124 2125-2149 Forward Afterward Nippon Inc. acquired ITC and rights to Dreammaker One in 2068. For several years, the use of CV stimulation has been absent from entertainment producers although it remains a medicinal tool. The extremity of CANAS restrictions on CV technology have made it seem impractical for marketing. Since the acquisition, Nippon has made fundamental automation to adhere to the restrictions. It markets The Wrap Console, the Involve gaming software, Ourstory scholastic history software and Dreammaker Two. CANAS begins inspection of the packages. Sales soar. Nguyen University opens in Hanoi, Vietnam, funded in part by Dr. Nguyens compensation for winning the Nobel Prize. Among the many disciplines and departments the organizers develop, Nguyen takes special note that a serious Metaphysical component is set. The Corporate Party forms in India, promoting Devan Jagadish, Inc. for the presidency. A government model, the Corporate Parliament, is presented. India would retain a mostly democratic format, electing corporations for five-year terms. Parliament would stay the same. Australia is on the brink of a similar corporate government, with AYS as its candidate. Approximately 90% of all nations have added laws governing either life expectancy, birth rate or both. Most of the laws use financial or tax incentives to limit dependents. In 77 countries, Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) laws exist, and in 62 a form of Century Law has been passed. All nations have increased population education to help reduce family growth. Despite the attempts, a majority of the worlds populace endures the roadblocks and strives toward longer lives and mostly uncontrolled reproduction. AYS Inc. becomes the leader of the Australian Corporate Parliament government, based on Indias model. Also, in 2076, both Argentina and Thailand incorporate their nations constitutions. Scientists and mathematicians continue debunking Nguyens logic, but his refinements in AI programming give practical credence to his ideas. Several base-16 models for the thought process and internal language are advanced, but the scientific community debunks those variations as well. Nguyen immerses himself in Nguyen University and shifts his attention toward his new Metaphysical department.

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Project Deep Space has made considerable progress in star charting. Planetary arrays are seen on 12 of the 25 nearest stars, but specific information about the planets is impossible to ascertain, and the lack of long-range observation does not mean arrays do not exist on the other stars. CAN agrees to the formation of Project Neighbor, inter stellar probes to investigate nearby stars and planets. At .98 light speed, the probes will take years to arrive at their destinations, and at the distances, due to the speed, communications will be impossible until the probes arrivals. Probe reports will take an equal number of light years to return to Earth. Twenty-five probe missions are planned, using paired probes to insure arrival. Modular construction of each probe pair will take years. The first probes will be launched in 2079. Many member nations press for an android crew aboard the Project Neighbor probes, but CANAS insists the probes are exploratory and a human-like crew is not needed. The Nippon Corporation is employed by the Corporate Party of Mongolia to assist in drafting a party stance statement. The CAN Judiciary, which has remained silent about the proliferation of corporate governments, blocks the involvement. Based upon its oversight of international trade rules, the Judiciary states international dealings for the purpose of political reform is a form of boundary intrusion. It forbids any nation from actively altering a nations political form. Mongolia fails to ratify a constitutional change. On Mars, Lake Ares is 75% complete. An eco-system has been established in a 2000 mile radius. Algae and lichen stands are considerable and are the main contributors to higher rate of oxygenated atmosphere. Over the lake in 2072, a 95% CO2, 3% N2 atmosphere has become 80% CO2, 10% N2, 9% O2, extending 30 feet above the basin. The atmosphere is breathable for brief periods, but excessive carbon dioxide makes unassisted breathing difficult. On the Moon, terraformation is slower. Lake Luna is 50% complete. Algae and lichen are producing 92% CO2, 5% N2, 3% O2, and assisted breathing is necessary. A relatively small hovercraft accident in Calcutta, India, kills 1324 people due to massive traffic jams and overcrowded streets. Accidents of this type are becoming frequent in every urban area of the world.

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Stew Lanker dies. Stew was a relatively average man, born in the small town of Dotier, MI, US in 1955. In the 1970s, he studied philosophy at Wayne State University, but left the program in his junior year despite good grades. He had few plans for the future, but doubted the degree would help him for any goals he might find. For a while, he sold manufactured homes; for a while, he drove a semi truck. He married, divorced, and married again. At 30, he learned he probably could not father a child due to low sperm-count. His second wife wanted a child badly and left him. He and his third wife Anne adopted three children. When Anne died at 65, Stew took a job on a tuna boat in the Gulf of Mexico, but did not care for the hard work. He settled in to retire in Progresso, Mexico, occasionally visiting his children in the US. In 2025, gallstones caused pancreatitis, and Stew, at 70, accepted his probable demise with little contention, but his son Hank, who had become a doctor, convinced him to have an artificial replacement. Stew survived with a new pancreas and later with a new gall bladder. He received immunizations against viral diseases in 2031. When the mini-Ice Age worsened during the 2030s, all of his children and most of their families joined him in Mexico. Most returned to the US in the 2040s. At 85, Stew was tired. He felt he had accomplished little in his life, but was ready for it to pass. He bought a medium-size sailboat, which he named The Annie, and decided to spend his final days at sea, occasionally taking a crew and passengers for Caribbean tours. His son Hank and daughter Catherine, his other son Robert having died in 2046, visited Stew on the Annie in 2055 to celebrate his century mark. Alone on The Annie in 2058, he had a massive heart attack. He radioed Hank to say good-bye. With Stew unconscious on his bed, the US Coast Guard found him and took him to Lower Keys Medical Center, FL that replaced his heart and lungs. Stew began writing when he returned to The Annie. Dr. Nguyens work interested him although he disagreed with the ideas. When he learned about the Tetrahedron Theory in 2075, he began a long ocean voyage to Vietnam. He dies en route, 208 miles from the coast of Tikopia, the Solomon Islands. Derelict, The Annie sinks. Hank and Catherine send search parties that fail to find The Annie. Hanks son Carl Lanker names his first child, born in 2080, Stew, nicknamed Stew Two. Quantum physics takes another jolt as dark matter and dark energy traces are not detected by Project Deep Space scans in preparation for probe launches. Current theories postulate that dark

matter and dark energy constitutes 23% and 73% of the universe respectively, with matter and energy forming most of the remainder. The theory of dark matter and energy explains part of the Big Bang Theory. Quantum physics predicted that when the probes exited the solar system, the yet unproven dark constructs could be detectable. In the otherwise vacuum of space, the probes have found trace pockets of dark energy and matter. Inconsistencies of the Big Bang Theory will need to be resolved. The first Project Neighbor probes are completed and launched. The probes are among the most technically advanced devices ever constructed. The AI brain, based closely on Nguyens AI language model, have virtually no trace of failure. The processor should not fail for the many years it will be in use. Every function of the probe is four times redundant, allowing for a low probability of failure. The probe is 145x52x78 meters and conical. Over 100 macro-cameras can be launched from the probe and each has the capability of 119 scan features. The probes also carry detonable nuclear weaponry for protection. Two probes are launched. The first will arrive at the Alpha Centauri tri-star system (4.25 light years away) in 2083, with data returned in 2087. The second mission will reach Bernards Star (6 light years away) in 2085, with data returned in 2091. Project Demograph announces the Earths population has risen from 44 billion in 2070 to 57 billion in 2080. Dr. Joel Sampson, director of Project Demograph, estimates that the available space on the planet will be exhausted in less than 160 years. Life expectancy has increased from 114 to 122 years and an average birth rate reduction from 28.1 to 25.7 per 1000. Approximately 50% of human population was born before the year 2000, but states migration to Mars and the Moon will help mitigate the crisis. The ten most populated nations of the world, in billions, are: India 4.9, the PRC 3.1, Indonesia 1.8, Pakistan 1.2, the US 1.1, Nigeria .87, Bangladesh .84, the Philippines .68; Mexico .65; ten nations at .62. Otherwise, the order remains intact. The average mortality rate worldwide is 3 per 1000. After the report, Dr. Willow Powers disputes several elements of Project Demograph predictions and CANAS activities. According to Powers, the 160-year exhaustion prediction does not take into full account the idea of population density, but rather focuses upon average density. The heavy density in some areas of India and the PRC, particularly, and other regions as well, will reach safety and starvation levels within 50 years, radically reducing the

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overpopulation crisis in a massive catastrophe, exceeding the mini-Ice Age. The census precipitates new rounds of protests. Several of the riots are extreme, forcing some nations to use their military to assist police actions. During a riot in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pro-limits advocates insist the government to become more active in reducing the crisis. Protests turn to violence that continues for two months, with 1400 deaths. When the government passes DNR laws, new riots begin from pro-rights advocate rallies. Another 800 are killed in the violence. A 25-nation committee turns to CAN for assistance with their domestic upheavals centering on the population crisis. The CAN Judiciary make their first statement, blaming the indulgences of people who are unwilling to change their own behavior. They say that the global warming from the 20th century was the principle cause of the mini-Ice Age, and it derived from peoples blind use of dangerous energies. The Judiciary adds that there was little an individual could do to stop the process and its result. The overpopulation crisis, however, stems directly from the individuals choices. The Judiciary refuses aid to the nations who must teach their people. Eight nations form the New Eurozone, maintaining a trade, scientific and border relations. They adopt the Cologne Merge. Effectively, the Merge grants 2% ownership of each nation by each of the other nations in the Merge. Two of the nations, Germany and France, have ratified essentially Corporate governments; and three, Spain, Luxembourg and Austria, have transformed their governments into acting corporations without changes to their Constitution. Belgium and the Netherlands, while still parliamentary in nature, increase the corporate level of their government by the Merge. The grant of ownership in parts of nations becomes known as co-operative governments, or Co-Ops. The CAN Judiciary agree that the Co-Ops do not break trade laws, as long as no nation controls more than 50% of another. Only two facilities support the production of androids. Night Skys operation builds and maintains completely human-like robotics used at the hotel, casino and theme parks. They have moderate level AI, incapable of free thought or emotion, but are able to imitate both. Especially the pleasure units are almost indistinguishable from living humans. The second android production facility is operated by CANAF and produces only military and quasi-military androids capable of minimal AI. Specific commands can be processed and carried out independently, but free-thought causes an

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Great anticipation occurs when Senator Emily Henderson, from the US, is selected as one of the five CAN directors, CANAS liaison. It is the first time that a nation from the Philadelphia Pact has a directorship position. For ten years, a peace has existed and the US has become one of the most active members supporting CAN Mandates. CANAF watches carefully to prevent any sort of coupe attempt, but none follows. Henderson becomes a major contributor in trying to control the overpopulation crisis. Uruguay and Chile finalize a Co-Op plan with Argentina, called the Mendoza Co-Op. Uruguay and Chile receive 2.5% of the very wealthy Argentine Corporation, for 5% of their own corporate governments. Forums are becoming popular quasi-political institutions. In nations of varying political forms, specialized organizers, called Proprietors, orchestrate political, social and special-needs Forums. The Forums often begin on the Holonet. Proprietors arrange free space, sometimes in off-hour schools or athletic stadiums, where people gather and communicate ideas during Forum Symposiums. The Proprietors schedule experts in some fields for large lectures or for small classes. Consultations and workshops are planned to train writers how to draft clear Policies that are dispatched of the government. Proprietors and staffs are either paid directly through Attendance Fees or through sales of particular items or services they market. World-wide, the six of the ten largest Forum Proprietorships are overseen by chain restaurateurs, while the other four are overseen by food packagers. Governments vary in their observance of Forum-based Policies, many using the ideas as a basis for budgets and laws. Estonias parliament, the Riigikogu, failed to pay sufficient attention to Forum-based Policies in 2078. The Forum managed to affect the following election in 2080, by reducing the majority party, the Capitalist Party, from 190,000 votes, or 33%, to 115,000 votes, or 20%, and ending their majority.

Lake Ares is virtually full and roughly the size of the Gulf of Mexico. Genetically enhanced Porifera are introduced. These hot sponges radiate a heat source as a byproduct. Ferns are also successful. Conifers and corals fail. Atmosphere rises over the lake for 25 feet is now 72% N2, 17% O2, and 10% CO2 with a sustained breathable atmosphere for 2000 mile diameter. Lake Luna, 60% its potential size, successfully introduces Hot Sponges, but other life forms do not survive. The 48% N2, 47% CO2, and 5% CO2 cannot sustain human breathing. The first two Project Neighbor probes should have reached the Alpha Centauri system. Immediately, they will analyze for a planet that could be colonized. That data will be received in 2087. Otherwise, the probes will thoroughly examine the system for more information about space, stars and the formation of planets. Gursimrah Kaur designs the Light Speed (LS) train. Her design implements a single-person car about the size of a telephone booth. The modified Quicksilver engine would accelerate the car to near light speed instantly. G-Force is a non-factor due to the duration of acceleration of nanoseconds. The train requires a vacuum tube for the length to be traveled. She constructs a 500 foot tube. The car travels the distance seemingly instantly, but in fact is at .5 LS and capable of greater speed. She adds a sensing unit that detects if a car is in the tube that prevents a second car at the same time to prevent crashes. The Indian corporate government assumes ownership of the system. Quentin Taylor is elected President of South Africa, basing his campaign upon the establishment of a Forum-Senate government. His main opponent Leona Ottumwa based her campaign on the establishment of a Corporate Democracy. The two candidates were clear and specific about their plans, and relatively honestly depicted their opponents outlook. The choice came between the individuals voice in the government and the individuals profit. Taylor won 49% of the vote to Ottumwas 48%. A re-count ensues, reaffirming Taylors win. Ten nations, from Morocco to Ghana, form the West African Co-Op, investing 2.5% of ownership of each nation. Four of the nations are not corporate and not leaning toward the corporate model, with Mauritania actually leaning toward a Forum-Senate model. Project Neighbor completes and launches four probe pairs: Wolf 359, Lalande 21185, the Sirius

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and the Luyten 726-8 stellar systems, will take almost 8-9 years, arriving in 2091-2, and returning data near the beginning of the next century. India begins the construction of the first LS train. The subway system, constructed of Diamond Board as vacuum tubing, will connect Delhi-Mumbai-Bangalore by a near light speed train. The 700+ mile trip from Delhi to Mumbai will take .003 seconds, and from Mumbai to Bangalore, at 500+ miles, .002 seconds. India sells trials of the Patent to the PRC, the US, Russia, and other nations. Former student at Nguyen University majoring in metaphysics, Alberto Ramirez, buys a lottery ticket in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and wins a record world-wide jackpot of $175 billion USD. With the money, he begins the Church of the Occult (CO), which blends ideologies from most religious doctrines with extra-sensory perception, magic and the belief in ghostly spirits. A gifted orator and writer, Ramirez authors El Otro, an encompassing doctrine. He gains a following in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina. On May 14, he makes predictions on ten sporting events in ten countries, successfully predicting eight of the outcomes. When asked to repeat the feat, he claims he will not reduce himself to appeasing skeptics. His following grows. His sermons and writings call for universal acceptance of ideas, departing from occultist ideologies. Russia ratifies a Corporate Parliament, based on the Indian model. Effectively, the nation had acted as a corporation since the selection of Tatyana Stanislavoff, the first female Russian Prime Minister, in 2082. Project Luna has seen great strides in the development of an atmosphere and eco-system. Both Project Luna and Mars have atmospheres rising for 50 feet, with gas distribution of about 85% N2, 10% O2, and 4% CO2, roughly equivalent to Earths. The lakes are at their capacities, and the influenced area has a 3000 mile diameter. Corals and conifers are involved in both eco-systems. Project Mars has introduced Cnidaria. The jellyfish add the first mobile, multi-cellular life forms, assisting with the distribution of other life. Neither Project has successfully included terrestrial life. It took the Earth millions of years to attain the success the Projects have accomplished, but many people think they are a waste, since colonization has not been achieved.

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The first leg of the Indian LS train, called the Ray, is completed between Mumbai and Bangalore. Gursimrah Kaur has asked the government to allow her inclusion in a planned inaugural event. They allow her to be the first person to use the train. As she boards in Mumbai, she pitches a tennis ball into the air, travels to Bangalore over 500 miles away, is given a tennis racket, travels back to Mumbai in time to hit the ball. Her swing is errant and she misses the ball, but is applauded for being so close. Jokingly, she says she needs tennis lessons. Turkey modifies its Constitution, establishing a Forum-Senate style of government. The powers of the parliamentary Ministers and Prime Minister are severely curtailed with the establishment of a Forum to pose Policies. Ministers vote on those Policies. Unlike CAN, after those votes, new bills and laws can be debated and voted on, but a Forum-Tribunal oversees the voting to veto any Law that overturns a Policy. The constitutional reform had been attempted in 2080 and failed, resulting in the formation of the Reform Party. By 2084, the Reformers led a shift of 54% of the Parliament from the AK Party to the Reform Party. From 2050-86, several democratic nations had made more subtle movements toward a Forum-Senate governmental style, with less powerful Forums. Aquatic worms begin thriving on the Moon and Mars. Before the end of the year, several species spend part of their lives on the muddy shores. They are the first terrestrial life forms. The PRC begins an LS line, called the Connect, from Beijing to Guangzhou, about 1200 miles. Two months later, Russia begins a line, called the Speed, from Moscow to Novosibrisk, about 1800 miles. Recognizing the growing trend of LS lines, CANAS leads CAN to the establishment of safety guidelines. National lines are unaffected, but lines that cross national borders are given limits. Although near-light speed has not yet proven mass deterioration, a land speed limit is set at .5 times the speed of light, which still offers near instant travel. A sensor system must be approved by CANAS to avoid possible collision. Severe geological areas, such as volcanoes and fault lines must be excluded. Called the Land Travel Mandate, nations agree unanimously, knowing safety rules will enhance usage. Project Neighbor begins receiving extensive information from the Centauri system. Probes arrive at the Alpha Centauri system, consisting of two white and one red dwarf stars. Centauri A, a star very similar to the Sun, consists of two planets, at orbits similar to the first two planets of the Sun, equally

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impossible to support life. Centauri B, a smaller white dwarf, has one planet much like Mercury. Centauri C, a red dwarf, has no planetary bodies. The tri-star system seems to have reduced the formation of terrestrial planets. The lack of positive data is very disappointing. It was hoped that some of the larger asteroids positioned in orbits conducive to life formation might have had microbes, but even H2O ice is absent from the system. The probes begin a thorough study of the star system, relaying the information to Earth. Sustained orbits of some of the promising asteroids are frequently, in astronomical terms, disrupted by stellar flares. A large asteroid orbiting Centauri A acquired its current trajectory less than one million years ago, too little time for terrestrial planet building. Bivalves, mollusks and crustaceans survive at Projects Luna and Mars. Approximately 1000 square miles of the Moon and 1500 square miles of Mars have self-surviving ecological systems. India completes construction of its first LS train. Two tunnels are built, one with an express train only making four stops between Delhi and Bangalore, a second train makes multiple stops. Plans begin to include Calcutta in the route. Several Indian municipalities plan lines to the trunk stations. Within a six-month period, eight of the largest banks are robbed of 15% of the worlds physical currency. No trace of the theft is discernable through multiple camera footages. During a meeting of the CAN Senate, a South African man, Miles Courtney, near the Directors table, removes a helmet and reveals his head, then proceeds to remove a suit to exit a state of invisibility. Shocked, the Senate listen while CANAF security approach. He asks the Directors for five minutes before his arrest, saying the entirety of the banks currency will be returned if he is allowed to speak, otherwise the monies will never be discovered. He pleas that the CAN Senate considers the elimination of currency, replacing it entirely with its electronic equivalent. The speech was prepared and precisely 4.5 minutes in length. Quickly, he dresses in the suit and disappears, leaving a detailed note about the location of the currency, but no explanation of the invisibility. CANAF identifies Miles Courtney within hours. Using DNA scans from satellites, they locate him on a small, Mediterranean island and arrest him. CANAF officials seize the suit, lying about their possession of it. In a moderate scandal during 2092, the CAN Judiciary discovers the cover-up. The suit is covered by billions of nano-cameras and nano-monitors. The monitors display their paired cameras for the exact reverse

side of the person covered. Effectively, the wearer is seen through. The suit cannot evade DNA scanning. In 2105, CANAF implements the Invisibility Suit as part of its weapons arsenal and standard equipment. Courtney is sentenced 25 years in a CAN penitentiary. Upon his release, be begins researching DNA damping equipment. Chemist Dr. Tola Walczak isolates a new biopolymer, Salozene. The substance is very malleable and can be used as the backing for computer cards or actual chips. Salozene is constructed of organic material with completely artificial and loosely coded DNA. The artificial organic substance can be constructed into artificial organs for transplant; however the process offers few advantages to traditionally cloned organs. It is soon discovered that a Salozene artificial organ, once transplanted, spontaneously assumes the DNA signature of the host. The process is called Spontaneous Cloning or later Replicating. The US begins an LS line from Boston to Los Angeles, via New York and Washington DC, about 3000 miles. The Forum of the Republic of the Congo, considered one of the most powerful non-legislated Forums effecting national politics, issues a series of Policy changes within the Parliament. These changes change the basic style of government, increasing the Forums role in law-making. Without constitutional reform, the nature of the government has become an active Forum-Senate politic. Referenda begin an actual change in the Constitution by 2092. Bony fish and insects are introduced to both Luna and Mars. It is estimated both planetary bodies will have a vibrant ocean and coast within five years, and initial colonization might be possible soon. Canada plans an LS line from Quebec to Vancouver, via Ottawa, about 3000 miles. Before implementation, a loose Co-Op, called the NorAm, is agreed to, involving Canada, the US and Mexico. At the NorAm meeting in Washington DC, corporate shares cannot be agreed to; however, technical growth issues take center-stage. The nations reach the NorAm Treaty to disclose scientific advancements fully with patent-free use, with patent profit-sharing to be determined on an individual basis. The US LS line receives plan upgrades. More tributary lines are slated, including lines to Quebec, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Chicago, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Mexico City. The LS Line, also called the NorAm,

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The eight-member Merge announce a combination LS line, with a main trunk between Madrid, Spain, and Berlin, Germany, about 1200 miles, with tributary lines to other capitals of Merge nations. Late in the year, the PRCs Connect completes its first LS line and additions begin, including a bridge route to Hong Kong, and major trunk lines to Chongquig and Shanghai. Extended plans include Urumqi and Lhasa, Tibet. At 45, Alberto Ramirez dies. When he awakes the morning before his death, he tells his wife Aina he had an uncomfortable dream but does not share details. In a journal he keeps daily he predicts his death by the hands of an intruder before traveling to a planned interview with a prospective assistant. At the meeting, arranged at a nearby caf, a man by the name of Felipe Juarez, high on a cocaine derivative drug, commits an assault on the restaurant and kills five, including Ramirez. Grief-stricken Aina delivers the next sermon at the CO and tells of his last moments and final prediction. Over the next few weeks and months Aina continues the church in his name. No longer hindered by his refusal to replicate his ability to predict the future and headed by an inspired leader in Aina who does not need to qualify her ability, the church grows. Alberto had a devout following of about 10,000 world-wide. By 2090, Aina gains an active following of millions. The Corporation of Japan releases designs for a new extra-terrestrial ship building design. The current design, while occasionally having been modified, is essentially the same as it has been for 40 years. Large ships for space use are built modularly on Earth, launched into orbit, and constructed. The system is efficient based on the supply of parts, but it is time consuming. The new Japanese model includes two main parts. First, large freighters are designed that can haul bulk Carbonale, an extract from rapid composting that is processed into diamond board. A great deal more Carbonale can be shipped than modular parts. The second part of the Japanese system is the Rigger, a new ship design. A Rigger as the capability to process the Carbonale into

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diamond board, and then structure it into the modular parts for a ship. The Rigger is also a shipbuilder. Each Rigger employs hundreds of workers who can build a designed ship in a fraction of the current time. Several Riggers are planned, but the first will have to be constructed by modular method. Russia completes the Speed, a trunk LS line across its western half with tributary lines to other cities. It begins construction of a 2300 mile line from Novosibrisk to Vladivostok. Several other nations and nation groups announce plans for LS lines. The West African Co-Op plot a line along the western Africa coast; Arab nations plan a line along the Mediterranean coast into Iran; The Afrika Line draws together South Africa to Ethiopia; the PanAm Line connects Argentina to Colombia; the Aussie ties Perth to Sydney and Melbourne. Project Demograph announces the Earths population has risen from 54 billion in 2080 to 66 billion in 2090. Dr. Lo Chin, director of Project Demograph, estimates that the available space on the planet will be exhausted in less than 170 years. Life expectancy has increased from 133 to 141 years and an average birth rate reduction from 25.1 to 24.1 per 1000. The most populated nations of the world, in billions, are: India 7.5, the PRC 5.9, Indonesia 2.8, Pakistan 2.5, the US 2.3, and twenty-five nations at 2 billion. Project Neighbor leadership decides to postpone future probes until sufficient Riggers are available for probe construction. Probes destined for Ross 154, 9.7 light years, and Ross 248, 10.3 light years, are almost complete and will be launched immediately. Their return data will be recovered in 2110. Other probes will be delayed. Working in conjunction with Japan on freighters to transport Carbonale, South Korean Park Ji-young develops a Carbon-Potassium polymer, reinforced with diamond fragments, which he quickly patents. The polymer, called Poly-Tripotassium-Carbide, is as strong as Diamond Board and easier to cast. With the discovery, a major source of income for CAN, who has exclusive rights to Diamond Board, is impeded. Project Mars reports a phenomenon terra-formers call the Atmospheric Leveling Effect (ALE). As the newly created atmosphere of the colony reaches one-third of the planets surface, within hours, a thin atmosphere envelops the planet. The original atmosphere becomes an upper layer, covering

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the planet. The planet experiences massive wind storms, and one Martian tornado cluster destroys part of the major terra-formation facility, with a make-up of 80% N2, 19% O2, and 1% CO2 and is breathable for 500 feet. Within 10 days, the height rises to 2000 feet. Scientists upgrade their glacier melting and soil developing schedule. Mars will be ready for pioneers by 2093. Pioneers have become a code name for preliminary colonists. They will be trained to prepare the land agriculturally and to build initial edifices. Many thousand skilled laborers have already volunteered for pioneering. The Japanese concern, Space Rigging Inc., completes the first Rigger, the Nippon. It is dedicated to construction of additional Riggers. The Nippon took 14 months of construction using the modular method; however, it reduces construction time to one month. Rigging guides a new era of space station and ship building. Project Neighbor receives information from probes about Bernards Star. The star, a red dwarf, approximately 20% the size of the Sun, is a very old star. For centuries, there has been speculation about planets, with some claimed sightings, and Project Daedalus had been planned but failed earlier in the century. The probes begin a closer examination of the system. CANAS ends 43 Projects, due to funding issues. All of the chosen terminations are low priority scientific investigations, such as Project Caffeine, searching for a synthetic replacement for Caffeine. On average, 10-15 Projects are terminated annually either due to completion or failure. The amount of terminations is large and concern active endeavors. Only five new Projects are started. Over 100,000 man-made satellites of various forms orbit Earth. A vast majority of these, 82,298, are small, communications relays that are built on Earth and transported into orbit. Orbital cameras and telescopes make up 17,457 space objects, and most of these maintain orbits beyond the comline. Principally built by a Gyron design, 2258 stations orbit beyond the cam-line, including CAN Gyrons, Night Sky and other entertainment stations. With the relative ease of Space Rigging, the number of stations grows. Dozens of realty concerns begin space apartment complexes; Retail concerns open stores and restaurants; and Science and Tech concerns found colleges and research facilities.

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In the US, NASA proposes the Jupiter Moon Missions. Large, domed research facilities are planned for Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. The harsh conditions forbid terra-forming or colonization, but the bio-domes offer sufficient protection for researchers. Minerals, scarce on Earth, are discovered. Soon, multiple nations begin mining operations on the moons of the giant planets. Of the 53 Projects suspended by CANAS over the past two years, 37 are resurrected by corporate sponsorship. The AYS Corporate government of Australia markets the Portable ER (PER). The hospital emergency room is completely interactive with the most realistic Stick Men ever used in holography. Paramedic responders can install an entire ER at site of accidents, with holographic doctors capable of the most intricate surgery. Patients do not need to be moved until in recovery. At the sites of larger catastrophes, multiple ERs can be installed to tend to hundreds of wounded victims. Formally called Project MASH while being developed at CANAS, funding prohibited the development of such detailed holography. AYS patents the system. It had promised CANAS 1% of any profits if the system proved practical. AYS amends the contract, increasing the share to 5% when hospitals make the units staple in paramedic equipment. Sonja Lien of Molde, Norway receives her fourth transplanted cloned liver. Born in 1893, she is the oldest person on Earth and the first to reach 200. She also is considered to be the most surgically operated person, with 87 organ transplants and a total of 469 other operations. Despite her age, she remains relatively active. Her Tart Klubb, a potato dumpling, has won special honors for the past ten years at the Norwegian Food Festival in Alesund, Norway. Each year, she changes the recipe slightly, and no one knows it exactly. CEO Enrique Girard II orchestrates the largest holographic event ever attempted, the wedding of his son Enrique III to French pianist Celeste Durand. It is estimated 8 billion people crowd holographic theaters to see the ceremony. Enrique III becomes executive vice president of Girard Enterprises in 2094. PRCs Yang Lo, patriarch of the tenth wealthiest family on Earth, funds the construction of Dasha, an immense personal domicile in space.

Despite several nations successful move toward the corporate model government, the US has resisted the political form. For two terms, from 2084-92, President Dillon Browning has attempted to press legislation toward that end. While a well-liked diplomat, he has been unable to champion the cause. Politically, he masterminds an unprecedented situation in the US when both the Republican and Democratic Parties nominate his heir-apparent Vice President Preston Foster. Independent voters constitute 42% of the electorate. A ground-swell movement called the Parliament Party advocates a political system similar to that of CAN. The Parliamentarians hold a national caucus in Toledo, OH. They nominate Cicely Wright, the sixth woman ever nominated for President. After an extremely close vote, Wright wins, becoming the first President not affiliated with the two major parties in over two centuries and the third woman ever to win the Presidency. Bolivia and New Guinea ratify Forum-Senate constitutions. All eight nations of the Merge legislate corporate governments. Several thousand pioneers arrive on Mars, even while soil developers are still at work. A rich loam is available over two-thirds of the planet, formed by prepared compost. Pioneers begin plant base crops that will be turned to further enrich the soil. Engineers begin an infrastructure and initial housing. The CAN Senate has begun hearings about the disposition of the area among world nations. The quantity of inhabitable land is not nearly the amount the general population anticipated. Migration to Mars, and to the Moon, will only affect a small part of the Earths overpopulation concerns. As predicted, when the new atmosphere covered one-third of the total area of the Moon, ALE occurred, covering the surface. Since bony fish and insects were introduced in 2088, multiple new phyla have not been added. The oceans and shorelines are diverse with life, but more advanced species are halted until near human colonization. The Moon will be ready for pioneers in 2093. The CAN Forum is wild with activity, with CANAF riot control troops readied for action. CAN City administrators address the crowds and tell them the Forum is disbanded. Protests center around two related concerns. Much of the Earth populace feels it has been misled about the potential of Martian and Lunar migration. Essentially, the inhabitable regions constitute two new continents in size and will alleviate no more than 10% of human population. A second concern involves the

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disposal of that new land. Many people feel it should be doled out evenly among the nations of the world. Some nations would receive no more than a new non-terrestrial city. Another faction feels the lands should be divided among the most populated nations. Such a division would give some true relief, but it would be temporary if the causes of overpopulation go unchecked. Protests continue, but riots are avoided. Hours pass with the Forum realistically muted. CAN spokesmen advise the people to return to their residences and to await formal word from CAN. Senate liaison Elizabeth Sanchez speaks. She tells the people CAN will dispense the new land to the most populated nations, with the precise allotment to be announced later. She urges the people of the world to find a way to alleviate the overcrowding and to issue these ideas as Policies. CAN seeks only to aid humanity, but humanity must first aid itself. Migration will never be the ultimate answer. The people listen, their anger and frustration subdued, but they do little to change their fate, as the people continue to resist the actions that create the problems. Russia completes the longest LS Train, from Moscow to Magadan, over a 5000 mile trip. At .5 light speed, it takes .01 of a second. With the practiced success of LS Trains, Russia requests international approval from CANAS to complete a route across Europe. CANAS approves the petition. The US requests CANAS to build a tunneling line beneath the Pacific to connect to Hawaii, since the line would travel beneath international waters. CANAS denies the plans for safety reason. Re-envisioning the need, the US Corp of Engineers develops the LS Tube (LST). The LST is a pliable tube, large enough for trains to travel through. It would be laid on the ocean bed in a similar method once used to lay submerged telephone lines prior to extensive satellites. Not only safer than the tunneling plan, LST is far easier and cheaper to accomplish. CANAS approves the LST. The growing Light Speed rail system has severely damaged air transport, and with the LS system controlled by governments, airline companies have been unable to divest. Pedro Ezkibel, former CEO of Euro-Ryanair, remains in the passenger transport business with his off-shoot airline Ezkibel, over several years taking charge of other companies through mergers. Ezkibel offers traffic from Earth to orbiting satellites and between satellites. Quickly, Ezkibel Travels monopolizes space transport.

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Euxenite is a rare Earth mineral, occasionally used in gems, but more practically useful in home medical devices. The Georgia Republic and South Africa, independently conduction mining research on the Uranian moon Miranda, discover large deposits. A tense political struggle begins over mineral claims, inducing both nations to increasing potential war-efforts. The CAN Judiciary develops a treaty before open war develops. The situation is the closest situation to war since the unification of CAN. Called the first completely Democratic Co-Op, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica form the Gulf Co-Op. All of the nations continue Parliamentary-style republics. The co-operation involves Gross National Product, rather than corporate profits. It also shares scientific and technical management under the Gulf Science Administration (GSA). While not part of the financial Co-Op, all of the Greater and Lesser Antilles nations join the GSA, with initial plans to connect the islands by an LS train. Unlike most island connections, the Caribbean Line is not submerged, but instead strung aloft, making it the longest bridge, from Havana, Cuba to Maturin, Venezuela at 1200 miles. It is not a continuous bridge, as some portions are built land-based on the larger islands. The Pantai, a 26-floor apartment complex built prior to diamond-board construction, was once one of the most affluent complexes in Central Kalimantan, but has been reduced to low-cost housing for the growing population. An electrical fire on the eighth floor escalates into a major blaze. It is later confirmed that many of the single-dwelling apartments have sub-let rooms for multiple families. Over 15,000 die of burns, smoke inhalation or falls from upper stories. Nigeria and Argentina independently form new constitutions based on the corporate model. El Salvador, Madagascar, Nepal and Malaysia approve Forum-Senate governments by new constitutions. Cicely Wright is overwhelmingly elected for a second term as US President. The new DemoRepublican Party carries only three states and less than 39% of the popular vote. The Parliamentarian Party not only wins the White House, but it sweeps both houses of Congress. Americans seem ready to implement a Forum-Senate Republic. Constitutional amendments and the drafting of a new Constitution begin. Wright will be the last US President when the Parliament becomes operational in 2099.

The total inhabitable land mass of Mars constitutes 42% of the planet, approximately the size of Africa. CAN announces India, the PRC, Indonesia, Pakistan and the US will be given exclusive access to Mars. Pakistan relinquishes any rights on Mars to avoid sharing Mars it with India. Nigeria receives the region. CAN determines selection and transportation of pioneers will be determined nationally. All of the five nations are responsible for their own transport of colonists. Independent from CAN and CANAS, the Commission for International Travel (CIT) is formed In Bombay, India, by a twelve nation task force. CANAS continues to govern certain guidelines for the safe placement of rail and a potential veto of CIT decisions if non-compliant to minimum safety rules, but CIT becomes the overseeing entity to the growing system to maintain compatibility internationally. CIT implements a door safety mechanism: When any door on the line is closed, all other doors are locked open. Only one car on the line can move at a time to avoid collisions. Cars can travel between locations almost instantaneously, so they are closed for a fractional second. Nations are allowed one hub. Travelers on tributary lines are taken to their hub, then to their destination hub, then on a tributary line to the closest station to a desired destination. Hubs become major focal points where custom inspectors, if employed by the nation, are located, as well as taxi services, rental hovercraft, hotels, restaurants, entertainment and other businesses rent space. India is prepared to transport 10,000 initial pioneers to its Mars colony. By July, Martian pioneers are ready to begin additional construction after the city architects. In September, the PRC begins a similar program. A make-shift tech Co-Op among Indonesia, the US and Nigeria begins transporting pioneers in early 2097. New India is founded in former Tempe Terra, Mars. Colony Shandong-erse of the PRC is founded four months later in former Terra Sabaea, Mars. Due to the basic geography of the Moon, 72% is overcome by ocean, mostly on the dark half. The land mass available is slightly larger than Australia is habitable. CAN awards the area to Pakistan. CAN retains a large island on the dark side, and two small islands on the lighted side of the Moon for CANAS research. Pakistan begins colonization of Hunza.

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The CO, or Church of the Occult, reaches 1 billion members, world-wide, making it the fifth largest religion of the world. Although still called Occultists, generally, occultism has been minimized as the religion grew, supplying less than 5% of the core doctrine; however, stemming from that occultist base, the practice called Intuit remains strong. The 15th Doctrine of the OC states members should enter the state of The Quiet Intuit for 30 minutes each day. Similar to some forms to Yoga in the Hindu religion, The Quiet Intuit is accomplished by concentration of the emptying of the mind. Undocumented, some Occultists claim they can read minds and see the future while in the state. The UK-France LS bridge, the Churchill-De Gaulle Bridge, connects the British Island to the European mainland with an LS rail line. Indonesian colony Tanah is founded in former region, Terra Meridani of Mars. US territory New Columbia is founded in former Tyrrhena Terra, Mars. Nigerian colony New Abuja is founded in former Terra Cimmeria, Mars. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Papua New Guinea, and Canada legislate corporate-style governments. Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos form the Southeast Asian Co-Op with 10% shares. Colombia and Peru install Forum-Senate governments. Game company Tran Hai Le Inc., a subsidiary of the Vietnamese Corporation, markets the Personal Geneticist. Fashioned like an old-styled chemistry set, the PG allows users to easily perform simple genetic experiments. Within a few months on the market, many users discover they have sufficient sources to build their own P cells, and since the energy units are not being marketed, they do not defy CANs patent rights on P cells. Millions of the toys sell simply for users to make an unlimited number of P cells. CAN finances continue to suffer with the personally made batteries, as well as with competition against Diamond Board from the Poly-Tripotassium-Carbide polymer, along with other revenue losses. Francois Marmol became an apprentice luthier at 16 in a small craftsman shop in Lormont, France. He learned the art of building violins and lutes. He inherited the shop in 2017. Marmol Violins Shoppe became the last craftsman-style builder of musical instruments in Europe in 2046 and worldwide in 2058. With his own small staff, he continued building violins until 2087 when he finally closed his shop. Upon his death in 2098, a surviving apprentice, Lillith Ardant, currently CEO of

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Synthesizer, Inc., says, Now, the music is gone. Sonja Lien dies in her Molde, Norway, home. She is 205 years-old. Forty-seven other people on Earth are considered to be in excess of 200-years-old. Anticipation about data from Wolf 359 is markedly less enthusiastic than about the first probes from the Centauri system and Bernards Star. Wolf 359, like Centauri C and Bernards Star, is a red dwarf, although larger than the others at about half the size of the Sun. When the reports finally arrive in 2099, they show a planetary system of eight bodies. The first is terrestrial, but too small and too near the star for terra-forming consideration. The third through seventh bodies are large and covered with deep methane atmospheres. The eighth body, smaller than the first, is too distant and cold. The second planetary body, named Lykos by the CANAS Nomenclature Department, is slightly larger and very similar to Mars. It contains no detectable life, but could be terra-formed, just as Mars has been. Since the terra-formation process would take a long period of time and the yieldable land mass is so small, CANAS feels an expedition would be fool-hearty. Popular demand causes them to change their decision, as millions of people are willing to make the trip. CANAS announces Project Lykos, a team of scientists to attempt terra-formation. The Project meets some criticism that Android terra-formers could have accelerated the endeavor, but realistically most people recognize that the small size of the planet is a greater hindrance. Lykos offers little more than the Martian colonies and will require an equal effort. The CSS Lykos will start its voyage early in the next century. The European LS Combo is completed. The Combo is a complex of 44 subterranean rail lines connecting the fifty nations of Europe, with the terminals at the national capitals. By boarding the train, a person is transported at light speed to the destination, in milliseconds. To travel to the UK or Ireland, the person must lay over briefly at Paris to board the Churchill-De Gaulle to London. To travel to Sweden, Norway and Finland, the traveler must board the Oresund Bridge to Malmo, Sweden. Iceland is unconnected by LS rail. Dr. Apara Obiora arrives at New Abuja, Mars.

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As the century peters into history, in many ways little has changed. Wealth rises and falls, governments rise and fall, ill feelings rise and fall, but humanitys worst enemy remains humanity, and each individuals worst enemy remains himself. The only aspect of man that continues to rise, and rise only, is technology. From the time when the earliest of mankind developed control of fire and the manufacture of tools, the tools have only improved in efficiency, durability and ability. But something is lost with this continual improvement. Juliette Cassel enters a restored Teatro San Cassiano in Venice, Italy. Her performance centers festivities for a new century concert on December, 31, 2099. The violinist lifts her Marmol violin to her shoulder and begins Alban Bergs To the memory of an angel. According to Lillith Ardant, the music has died. A skilled engineer could repair or even rebuild a violin like the one she holds, but it would not be the same. Technology only rises. Without the ability to pause, technology can never see the steps necessary to have made it what it is. The human controller of the first flame never needs to be cold again, but he can never understand the cold, he can never feel the hunger, and he can never experience the need. The individuals worst enemy remains himself, and he has pitched his reigns on the horse of technology that can never look back. It is little wonder that the individual never learns, that humanity never learns, that history never learns from its mistakes.

2000-2024 2025-2049 2050-2074 2075-2099 2100-2124 2125-2149 Forward Afterward Project Demograph announces the Earths population has risen from 66 billion in 2090 to 83 billion in 2100. Dr. Natasha Grononev, director of Project Demograph, gives no estimates about the available space on the planet. Life expectancy has increased from 133 to 142 years and an average birth rate reduction from 25.1 to 22.7 per 1000. The ten most populated nations of the world, including nonterran colonies, in billions, are: India 8.6, the PRC 6.8, Indonesia 3.4, Pakistan 3.2, the US 3.0, Nigeria 2.9, Bangladesh 2.8, the Philippines 2.3; Mexico 2.2; thirty-five nations at 2 billion. Overpopulation has become the most foreboding issue of mankind, rivaling if not surpassing Ice Ages, wars, prejudice, slavery, the exploitation of indigenous people, economic depressions and the Black Death. While the birth rate has actually declined, medical science has made a healthy longevity simple. A person born in 2100 has an estimated life span of 152 years. Of people born prior to 2100, 16% were also born prior to 2000; that is, 16% are older than 100, and 5% are older than 125. The most common cause of death is accident, followed by suicide and homicide. Most diseases have been cured and virtually all of the rest have simple treatments. Approximately 56% percent of workers belong to the service industry, with over half of those in the entertainment industry. Industry workers and farmers, each, constitute about 14% of the remaining work force. Unemployment rests at 27%, where it has roughly remained for 40 years. The written word through journalism, fiction and poetry, for the most part, does not exist. Instead, ideas are conveyed directly to holographic pads or CV helmets. The chief form of entertainment remains self-propelled microscopic cameras that can intrude anywhere. Privacy has become an issue only if the viewer uses the images for profit. Entertainers offer up their lifestyles to be viewed, using the Holonet to advertise their availability. Near light speed travel is possible in the vacuum of space or through vacuum tubes on Earth. The LS Train system allows instantaneous global mobility. Airports have been converted to transport terminals, bus stops to depots. Otherwise, ground transportation is accomplished by personal hovercraft. PRCs new constitution revolutionizes the Corporate government style. The government establishes a merger of all major businesses within the PRC with independent CEOs handling daily operations

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but the national CEO resolving larger issues. A representative government called the Union combines elements of an elected Senate and a common Forum. While the Union does not establish issues of policies, it serves for collective bargaining between workers and management. All workers are paid sufficiently to satisfy CAN Mandates of food, shelter, health, safety and the like, and they are given share options and the opportunity to prosper with the national company. The more shares they buy, the more they can earn, but they are risking downturns. Industries that employ fewer than 1000 workers are not obligated to join the merged property; however, those heads of industry and their workers can buy shares. No one is required to buy shares. The PRC sets an open election from its subsidiary companies to select a CEO. A judiciary is overseen by the CEO. The government allows open trade on countries. The Beijing Stock Exchange triples the size of Indias and the US stock markets, as it opens the National Trade Market. Soon after it opens, the PRC attains 40% of Mongolia. CAN threatens the PRC that 50+% take-overs of another nation will be interpreted as border infringement and CANAF will be used to protect national boundaries. Current Corporate governments in India, Japan, Australia and South Korea begin modifications to the PRC model. Reports from probes bound for Lalande 21185 arrive. The star, another red dwarf, has an assortment of asteroids and two gas giant planets, but no planet capable of terra-formation. The probes for the Sirius and the Luyten 726-8 stellar systems arrive. Luyten 726-8 A and B, two red dwarfs, are not expected to report habitable planets, based on earlier red dwarf probes. As with the earlier red dwarfs, little more than asteroids are discovered. Sirius is another matter. The Sirius stellar system is the brightest star in the night sky, due mostly to its close proximity. Sirius is considered the most promising of the initial eight probes. Unlike the stars closer to the Earth, which are red dwarfs, both Sirius A and B are white dwarfs, closer to the size of the Sun. Sirius A, about twice as massive as the Sun, has a diameter of about 3.5x the Suns. Sirius B is very similar in mass and size with the Sun. The two stars orbit one another, at a distance of approximately .1 light year, or the length of the Sun to its outer most planets. The probes discover a total of 16 planets. Ten of the planets orbit the stellar pair in extremely wide orbits, with planetary years ranging from an estimated 500-1250 Earth years. The probes have made only basic scans of the outer planets.

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They vary in size, but their stellar distance excludes them from having appropriate conditions to support human life. Three gas giant planets have unique orbits that appear to be roughly equal from Sirius A and B, resulting in a figure eight orbit about each star. More study will be needed of the phenomenon, but the probes focus on the final three planets near the stars. Two planets orbit the large Sirius A at a distant roughly the same as Earths distance from the Sun will annual orbits of about 4 Earth years. Both of these planets are slightly larger than Mars. They have adequate size, atmospheres and temperatures to support life. CANAS issues the names Argos and Maera. Upon further inspection, both planets have well developed life. Argos appears to be at the early Triassic period, based on Earth prehistory; Maera seems to be Jurassic in nature. Pre-instruction to the probes AI orders extensive examination. Finally and most importantly, one planet is discovered orbiting Sirius B. Named Cerberus by CANAS, it is .85 times the size of Earth, at a stellar distance roughly equal to Earths distance from the Sun. A fully formed ocean, mostly in its northern hemisphere, covers 60% of the total surface, leaving more total land mass than on Earth. It has a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere with trace gases and an average mean temperature of 85F at its equator. Initial scans show minimal life on Cerberus, and the probe begins closer inspection. Twenty-two nations and Co-Ops announce plans for Sirius expeditions, with several actively beginning inter-stellar ships. The CAN Senate drafts a strong resolution denying nations the right to launch independent explorations. Tensions draw extreme when many of the nations threaten to withdraw from CAN and when CAN threatens military action against any nation attempting to leave the Solar System. The nations offer an ultimatum that CAN must provide a satisfactory plan for the exploration and possible colonization of the Sirius planets within two years. The American continents remain unconnected to the Europe-Asia-African land mass. Led by Australia, construction begins on a submerged LST, called the Medley, to connect nations of the South Pacific, including a line to Honolulu, HI and the CAN underwater colony Pacificos. A competition begins between the system, Japan working on a separate route to Hawaii, and the UK constructing a route to Boston, MA. Whichever route is finished first will, in essence, globally connects most nations of the world by an LS line. These routes are hindered by CANAS guidelines of the routes crossing platonic fault lines. Meanwhile, in 2104, A Brazilian concern successfully

draws a plan across the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, connecting Natal, Brazil to Monrovia, Liberia. Australia and Japan complete their routes by the end of 2105. 2102 After nine years of dormant cameras, images from the Sirius system stream back to Earth. Enthusiasm mounts about all of the planets. CANAS releases visual rights for common use. Tens of millions of people examine the new world. Argos and Maera are immediately seen as dangerous. Predators equaling Earths Tyrannosaurus Rex monopolize the land on Maera. On Argos, a foreboding creature looks like a giant iguana although it is actually amphibian. Early reports of Cerberus reveal the greatest predator is a fish that has a turtle-like shell. Dubbed the Turtle Shark, the fish seems to eject an acidic bubble around its prey, which aids in digestion. The fish then consumes the entire bubble. While its habits appear dangerous, the creature has no land contact. Within six months of the first camera feeds, 50% of all humans watch the tapes daily. The Great Constitutional Shift begins. In less than a year, 48 governments begin the adoption of new Constitutions. New Corporate Democratic or Parliamentary governments are installed in 35 additional nations over the next two years, while 13 nations approve Forum-Senate governments. Enthusiasm about Project Neighbor begins again, while the fate of space travel rests first in the colonization. Probes are launched for Aquarii EZ, Proxima Cygni, Procyon, Struve 2398 and Groombridge 34. Data from these unmanned expeditions will be gathered between 2122-23.

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Sirius reports arrive on Earth. More amphibian-like animals are discovered on Argos, as well as many species lower on the evolutionary hierarchy. DNA scan indicate the life forms are distinctly different from their Earth cousins, but exhibit similar traits. The parallel evolution carries over to most life forms discovered in the Sirius system. On Argos, small to large amphibian-like creatures occupy both the ocean and the land areas, along with a large array of fish, mollusks, and other life in the oceans. On the lands, insects, arachnids, crustaceans and other animal life reside, but no reptile or higher level animals are seen. The carnivorous amphibians reside on the land and hunt in the ocean. Extensive mosses, grasses, brush and trees cover the terrain. The total land mass is approximately two times the size of the Eurasian continent, totaling approximately 44 miles2. Similar oceanic animals and land foliage are found on Maera, but they do not share common DNA structures. On Maera, warm-blooded dinosaur-like animals inhabit the land, but neither birds nor mammals can be found. The total land mass of Maera is slightly larger than Argos, at 47 miles2. On Cerberus, life forms are not nearly as advanced as on Argos or Maera although the land mass is greater at 66 miles2, giving it more land mass than Earths 57.5 miles2. The Cerberus is smaller than Earth, but the land to ocean ratio is closer to 39-61, rather than Earths 29-71. Cerberus seems to equate roughly to Earths Devonian Period of the Paleozoic Era. In the oceans, many simple animal groups thrive. In addition to phyla and species similar to Earths, such as bivalves, seaworms and fish, many cross-overs exists, such as a large number of sponge-corals, worms with shells and metamorphic fish whose early life is roughly crustacean-like. Bony fish and mollusks seem to be the dominant hunters. On the land, far fewer types of animals live. Even insects seem absent. Worms, from microscopic to a five foot long variety, snails and slugs share the land mostly with mosses. Some ferns, grasses and conifer trees are present in equatorial regions. The atmosphere contains almost 1% methane. While it would not be toxic to humans, it does present environmental concerns. Billions of people from Earth await the CAN and CANAS plan for Sirius, and thousands of Policies are introduced from the Forum to the Senate. Rather than reviewing and voting on each Policy, the Senate orchestrates main points. For the time being, due to the advanced nature of its life forms, Argos and Maera are excluding from colonization plans. Instead, CAN publishes Project Cerberus.

The Project is a three-phased colonization model. The first phase, Project Prepare, is exploratory and entails initial preparation of the planet. Probes will continue extensive study of Cerberus, along with Argos and Maera. Immediately, the CSS Lykos will be diverted from its mission to terra-form Lykos. With a new ship, the CSS Cerberus, Project Prepare will begin an 8.5 year journey to Cerberus by the end of the year for the terra-formers. The scientists will correct methane levels to human tolerance levels, geo-architect the land as possible, research fundamental environmental changes to facilitate colonization, and begin the establishment of plant and animal life for human support. Upon the return of the CSS Lykos and construction of the CSS Cerberus, and the mission be given five years before the second phase, Project Pioneer, begins in 2109. The time lapse is attributed to the construction of Pioneer class ships capable of transporting large numbers of humans. Still, the terra-formers will not have even completed their mission, much less filed reports, before Project Pioneer begins. Pioneers will begin agriculture, design water delivery methods and road infrastructure, and construct buildings and cities. One million pioneers, based on volunteerism and skill base, will be allowed to attempt Cerberus architecture. The Senate clearly states that there are great risks in the effort and no more than the one million pioneers will be allowed to take the risk. National travel attempts will be blocked. Additional colonization will only be allowed after the pioneers have succeeded for three years and that information has returned to Earth, over 20 years in the future. National allotments and mapping issues will be announced when complete after arbitration, probably in 2106. The Senate vote on Project Cerberus barely passes, with the most populated nations voting against it due to the time table. Most nations facing extreme overpopulation begin to maneuver distance from the CAN plan, positioning themselves possibly to proceed with their own, independent colonization efforts. Senator Vera Milorad of the Republic of Georgia, facing extreme overpopulation sentiment in her country, makes an impassioned call for the safe implementation of the CAN timetable. The massive relocation effort of billions of humans to lands almost 10 light years away is the most extreme human endeavor ever attempted. It must be attempted, according to Milorad, with every safeguard possible in place. Most of the overpopulation concerns of the Earth are caused by humans, not external forces even those caused by humans. Humans choose to reproduce at rates virtually

unchanged in centuries. They choose to offend nature by curing diseases intended to maintain the species. They choose to extend life artificially with replacement organs. They choose to live over a century. Thereby, she says, they choose to face this consequence of over-population. By the grace of technology, part of the crisis can be stemmed through migration. She says she is saddened that those who have caused the crisis are willing to chance the lives of billions for convenience and personal preference. Enrique Girard III, who was in the process of initiating four holograph theme satellites, dedicates one to the Sirius stellar system. Using life-size holograms and Stick-Man interactivity, the park allows users to explore the new world with reasonable accuracy. Not only does Girard include Cerberus, but also Argos and Maera, so users can experience safe, first-hand experience. Without paying Night Sky premiums, users can experience the world through CV helmets, with less interactivity. More details of Project Cerberus have been decided by CAN panel. Ship construction will begin on the Pioneer Ark class capable of transporting 10,000 pioneers. CANAS will construct 50 Pioneer Arks to house half a million pioneers in cryonic sleep. The ship design will be shared internationally, and nations collectively may build another 50 Arks. No more than one million pioneers will be allowed, but nations may begin choosing pioneer volunteers, with numbers based on Earth population estimates. The panel will review the choices based on percentages and skills. Additionally, the CANAS ships will transport a pre-selected central government based on a governorship model, rather than a Forum-Senate form. Also, a contingent of CANAF military will be transported. The government will remain centralized throughout the pioneering period. Territories may select a new governor after five years. Pioneer and colonial placement will be based on the 2100 census formed by natural cartographic lines. A special joint session of the CAN Senate and Judiciary will follow the Senates 2105 Senate session to make assignment. The Argos probe has classified 12,538 species of amphibian-like life and has identified 156 formerly thought to be amphibian to have both reptilian and amphibian qualities, with several species with qualities never seen before. Of the amphibians, which seem to dominate the land mass, 279 species are carnivorous and 14 measure in excess of 25 feet, foot to shoulder. The fauna is roughly

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equal to that on Cerberus, but DNA inspection shows only basic similarity. The plants are distinct by planet, with different genetic layouts. On Maera, 16,256 species of dinosaur-like creatures have distinctly different DNA structures, but show a common ancestor. All of the animals are warmblooded, and 2231 have rudimentary feathers and may be more avian in qualities. On Maera, 60,217 species of amphibians exist, with only a few carnivorous. Many more species of animals and plants are being cataloged, and a stratum is being compiled to show a taxonomic hierarchy. While all of the discoveries are unique among the planets and with Earth, anthro-biologists and archeologists are learning about prehistoric Earth. In a private experiment in Nigeria-Mars, Dr. Apara Obiora builds an artificial human, using organs made of Salozene. She names the being Aren. Arens DNA is mostly uncoded, except for basic human information. That is, for true humans, DNA is a unique strand, created after thousands of years of reproduction. Signatures of each parent are spliced into a new human, and each parent had DNA similarly spliced. Aren, however, has no historic pattern. His DNA carries the human script, but with genetic planning dictating traits. Given time, Obiora could produce hundreds of similar beings. The Salozene parts are appropriate for a 25-year-old with a fully mature brain. Aren proves to be a quick learner and is taught human skills, just as a human whose memory had been wiped clean. After six months, Aren is capable of interacting with humans without demonstrating his true nature. Obiora accepts Aren like a son. Although the doctor wants credit for the creation, a human respect for Aren develops, so Obiora chooses the keep the experiment secretive. Aren lives with Dr. Obiora like a son. Japanese rigging has made probe construction far simpler, allowing Project Neighbor to complete its original 26 probes quickly. The final three probe pairs are selected not entirely by distance, but also by star-type, planned for stars more like the Sun. Epsilon Indi, at 11.8 light years contains a star much like the Sun with two brown dwarf companions. The main star is only slightly smaller than the Sun. The brown dwarfs are actually not stars but act more like large planets. Tau Ceti, at 11.9 light years is also similar to the Sun although somewhat deficient in metals. The final star chosen, Van Maanens Star is a white dwarf at 14 light years has a similar mass and diameter to the Sun. While several red dwarfs are closer, probes dedicated to their research are delayed until more

information about planets near the red dwarf is ascertained. The joint mapping session of CAN meets. When the mapping phase of Project Cerberus begins, old animosities between nations return. Currently, 214 independent nations and principalities are recognized by CAN, all with representation except for Vatican City and Night Sky. Due to the natures of CANs endeavors of Oceana and Gyron, these two are automatically excluded from any colonization attempts on Cerberus, but CAN reserves its own territory, called Cerberus Prime. Another 32 nations, because of their size and lack of overpopulation problems, have opted out of colonization. Regions must be decided for 181 colonies. Cerberus has eight continental drifts. Three of these drifts appear as large, independent continents with archipelagos. Two of the continents are connected by a relatively thin isthmus, with a quarter of the northern-most continent covered by tundra and an icy polar region. The remaining three continents are connected and divided by high mountain ranges. The Judiciary determines apportioned land will be based on current population, rather than by current geographical size on Earth. Senators begin aligning colonies according to continents they wish to share. North Korea attempts a reconciliation with South Korea for a nearby placement, but South Korea rejects the idea. Several Arab nations move for considerable distance from Israel. Other long-held ideology differences affect alignments. A large island continent to the northwest becomes the site for the UK and many of its friendly former commonwealth nations. India is allotted to a similarly sized island continent. Most borders are formed by clearly defined natural topography, such as rivers and mountain ranges. The negotiations and placements continue for two months. Based upon the 2100 census, approximately 83 billion humans reside on Earth. After negotiation, the CAN Senate agrees that no more than 41.5 billion will be allowed to migrate, and the central government will sanction no more than 20 billion with its assistance. After that number, nations will have control of their colonization. North Korean operatives infiltrate the South Korean work force and buy shares of South Korea. As the number of shares grows, North Korea begins to urge for a management shift. Finally, they attempt a hostile takeover. CAN was pledged not to interfere with trade practices among countries, but the nature of the transaction is war-like. Before the CAN Judiciary resolves on a course of action, South Korea has repelled the take-over attempt on its own.

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Italy negotiates with Vatican City to allot an area on Cerberus for an independent province, New Vatican City. The Occultist Party, a religious-political party in Panama, wins the Presidency for Jose Juarez, Felipe and Ainas son. In 2108, The Occultist Party delivers President Liana Panza for Guatemala and President Arturo Hernandez for El Salvador. All three nations lean toward Forum-Senate governments, but maintain a basic Democratic structure. The UK adopts a Corporate Constitution. The debate between the form and Senate-Forum has been intense. The population seems almost split in half between the politics. Human fascination with Sirius is extraordinary. One old slots room at Night Sky is transformed into The Creature Room. Guests watch fights and hunting of the Maera and Argos creatures, betting on victors. Holograph social groups begin identifying favorites in social categories. Camera feeds run non-stopped, and many people become addicted to watching. Simplified, the Big Bang Theory explains the birth of the Universe as a high energy eruption of infinitely dense matter. In theory, the results of that explosion resolve the continual formation of galaxies and their movement away from a hypothetical center point. Although the model has been generally accepted for 200 years, despite areas of dispute, one challenge has been difficult to answer. The model assumes the existence of dark or anti- matter and energy to constitute 23% and 72% of the Universe, with atoms and energy comprising the remaining 5%. The dark matter and energy are necessary to answer discrepancies in measurements; however, they are unable to be observed. Magnetic anomalies have been discovered since the beginning of Project Neighbor, as the probes detected regions of space that seemed to contradict conventional gravitation, emitting prohibitively strong anti-magnetic fields. Probes continued to discover the regions throughout space. Since the fields made close examination impossible, the natures of the regions remained undiscovered. In a paper by Dr. Rudolf Nemerov concludes that the anomalies, which he calls Reverse Gravity Fields (RGF), are regions of dark matter with fields of dark energy. Concentrations of the anomalies would answer galactic measuring, but the total numbers would not constitute 95% of the Universe. Nemerov fails to offer a replacement for the Big Bang Theory, claiming only an answer to the measurement difference.

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Dr. Obioras home is secluded within the Martian planned city. She falls down a flight of stairs. Aren attempts to give aid, but the broken spine is well outside his ability to correct. Obiora dies before emergency units arrive. Aren is left in the house and assumes its care. Physiologically, intellectually and emotionally 28-years-old, Aren begins a traditional lifestyle, not knowing details about his creation. The first major modification to the hovercraft is made in several decades by the Corporation of Denmark. Fully Automated Piloting (FAP) is performed by satellite feeds. The pilot speaks an address or latitude-longitude coordinates. The navigational system controls the vehicle to its destination, while trafficking it from potential collisions. Speeds are ramped to approximately .8 sound speed. In 72F, dry atmospheric conditions, 600 miles per hour are maintained. Higher speeds are possible, but not deemed safe by CANAS. Significantly slower than LS trains, hovercraft offer exact destinations rather than delivery to stations. Aren Obiora meets and begins a relationship with Davani Lawal, a dentist in the Nigerian colony. Near the end of the year, they seek to marry. Problems begin when they apply for a marriage license. Part of the process is a DNA check. Since the Age of Terrorism, DNA cataloging has been performed at birth and added to a database. The DNA check during the licensing procedure is to affirm the immunization of microbiotic diseases; however, Arens DNA is not in the database. Studying the DNA, doctors immediately see anomalies that cannot be explained. Authorities become concerned that the DNA is not human, strictly speaking, and fear human exploration into space may have resulted in alien research of humans. CANAS and CANAF are contacted. Aren is taken for observation and study. Information leaks to the Holonet attribute him as an alien. Concern about the fate of the pioneers grows. The Pioneer-class Arks are complete. Five 300 foot long cylinders branch from spherical center of a diameter of 50 feet. Each cylinder could accommodate about 1000 passenger awake or 2000 in cryonic sleep, for a total of 10,000. The central sphere is for crew, engine and defenses. Since the unmanned probes had all been successful, there was disagreement about the need for an awake or asleep crew, or no crew whatsoever. The final decision calls for four crews of 30. One crew remains active, with work and normal sleep hours, for one year, while remaining crews continue in

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cryonic sleep. At the end of each year one crew will replace another. The crews rotate, so each will serve every four years for a total of two during the voyage. The freighter class is a cubical ship with 1000 foot sides that includes storage for livestock for cloning, machinery and supplies. Each envoy will have one Ark and two freighters. Pre-selected pioneers begin boarding. In August, the Pioneer Arks begin their voyage. People continue learning about the Sirius system from the original probes, but must wait until reports from the scientists in 2119. The fate of the pioneers will not be learned until 2127, and with their fate rests the destiny of further colonization efforts. Although Arens knowledge about the nature of his creation was severely limited by Dr. Obiora, a CANAS attach, Philippe DuMont pieces together his history. Public speculation about aliens is growing, and DuMont knows some statement must be released. DuMont develops a friendship with Aren and knows Aren is a fully functioning human whose previous life would be impossible if released. Hoping to assist Arens return to his former life, DuMont decides on a cover story. He tells CANAS officials that he and Dr. Obiora began the project in secret. DuMont places CANAS in a difficult situation about the project. They demote DuMont but extend his cover-up. Recognizing the public demand for the development of human-like androids to be used for dangerous and meticulous work have plagued CANAS for decades, so Project Facticius is created. According to CANAS, the artificial humans are hybrid humanoids capable of the functions desired of an android. CANAS geneticists reproduce Obioras work in private, but employ recessive traits, hoping to create artificial humans more prone to follow demands than Aren would be. When they succeeded, DuMont acquires an unsuccessful prototype and presents it as a deceased Aren. He helps Aren with a new identity as Curtis Obiora. Curtis returns to Mars to marry Davani Lawal. Project Preservation, began in 2081, attempted to use CAN embassies to help instill national heritages. Preservation Schools worked closely with their host nations to teach older methods of life. While some nations have achieved greater economic and technological goals than others, of the past 75 years a leveling effect has begun. The disparity between nations is far less. As countries have leveled, they also have grown more similar. The root impetus of Project Preservation was to allow the people to appreciate their pasts. Funding concerns within CAN have forced cuts to projects with limited focus. In 2108, CANAS announced the termination of Project

Preservation. In 2109, 18 national Co-Ops meet in a non-CAN related meeting in CAN City. They decide to resurrect Project Preservation as the International Preservation Society (IPS). Former chair of Project Preservation, Dr. Karen Swelt, is named chair person. Project Demograph announces the Earths population has risen from 83 billion in 2090 to 92 billion in 2110. Dr. Natasha Grononev, director of Project Demograph, gives no estimates about the available space on the planet. Life expectancy has increased from 142 to 149 years and an average birth rate reduction from 22.7 to 22.3 per 1000. The ten most populated nations of the world, including non-terran colonies, in billions, are: India 9.9, the PRC 8.2, Indonesia 4.1, Pakistan 4.0, the US 3.2, Nigeria 3.0, Bangladesh 2.7, the Philippines 2.5; Mexico 2.4; forty-two nations at 2 billion. Data returns from probes at Ross 154 and Ross 248. Ross 154 is another red dwarf star with miscellaneous asteroid debris in orbit. None of the asteroids could be terra-formed to accommodate life. Information from the Ross 248 probe arrives four months later. It is very similar to Ross 154 although the two are not in near proximity to one another and do not form a star group. Ross 248 has one considerably larger asteroid than Ross 154, about one-tenth the size of the Earths moon, but it cannot be terra-formed. Since the early days of CAN, the Financial Department had been overseen by the Judicial branch, including control of P cell, Diamond board, and other patents. Giving an extremely lucrative budget to CAN. With the rise of national Corporate Constitutions, a movement has been sustained since the beginning of the century to reform the Forum-Senate government of CAN into a Corporate one, but the attempts have repeatedly failed. The Budget Administration of the Judiciary was a panel of five Budget Ministers, named by the Judiciary to serve five-year terms, alternating one Minister out each year, much like the Senate Directorship term limitations. Administrator Peter OLeary, beginning his second term, orchestrates a corporate coupe to control CANs budget. The internal conflict virtually suspends most activities of the Judiciary and the Senate to a standstill. Dozens of CANAS scientific Projects are forced to stop and CANAF security is jeopardized. The number of nations involved and their degree of complicity are unknown. Two Senate Directors, at least one Judge and three Budget Administrators are evidently part of the conspiracy. The Senators call for a

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Constitutional Reform Policy to be voted on. The reforms almost pass the vote. CAN unrest continues for years, until a stable government is re-established. Ferreting out parties to the conspiracy takes ten years. Dr. William McLemore, quantum engineer, releases his Pin-Hole Effect Theory. He directs a light ray around an arc caused by the RGBs found in deep space. The arcing creates a pin-hole effect, allowing acceleration beyond the light speed limit. As important, McLemore constructs a working model. The beam travels two times light speed to a beacon-satellite launched by Project Deep Space. The communication reaches the beacon in half the time for an ordinary signal. By August, Dr. McLemore advances the theory into phase units (PU). PU1 is natural light speed; PU2 was accomplished with his earlier experiment at two time lights speed; PU3+ can be enabled by plotting the associated arc. For reasons unknown to McLemore, PU10 is the new limit for communication speed. Material bodies cannot travel at the Pin-Hole speed. Communication is sent to the Cerberus terra-formers who should be arriving in 2113, instructing them how to upgrade their communication. Pioneer ships launched in 2111 are traveling too fast to receive instructions, as their speed interferes with two-way communication in flight. The terra-formers will facilitate instruction when the pioneers arrive. Colonial ships will be equipped for two-way Pin-Hole communication. For the first time since CAN was founded, the Forum and Senate do not gather. Instead, the Judiciary, supported by CANAF, assumes control. General concerns and ongoing Projects are maintained, for the most part, but no new Policies are heard. The Judiciary calls for new representatives and insists upon a complicity test. By the end of the year, new Directors are chosen by the Judiciary. In 2127, trials begin while arrests continue. The coupe was deep, involving dozens of nations. Other collusion is discovered unrelated to the coupe attempt. The entire Senate is disbanded and nations required to select new representation who will be tested for loyalty to the CAN principles. Riots begin in the Forum, forcing a strong display from CANAF. The US, Canada and Mexico form the North American Co-Op, a democratic co-operative, sharing 10% of GNP. Now, 75% of all nations belong to some form of Co-Op; 41% have formal Corporate Constitutions, with 6% others controlled by corporate-leaning governments; 29% have formal

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parliamentary or democratic governments; 24% have constitutional Forum-Senate governments. 2113 For a second year, CANs Forum and Senate do not meet. The judiciary continues trials, and CANAS and CANAF retain administrative leadership. Many political experts predict CAN will not survive its own investigation and a centralized Earth government will fail. Strong corporate nations will takeover smaller nations and foster a series of mini Empires, similar to the late 19th century. The CSS Lykos and Cerberus arrive at Cerberus, and scientists start procedures to reduce the toxic levels of methane in the atmosphere. While methane, which is non-toxic, levels are high at just over 1% and present concerns about their combustibility and greenhouse effects to the atmosphere. The apparent cause of the methane is that it is a remnant of an earlier atmosphere, more like Oberons or Titanias, two of Uranuss moons. The gas began to diminish as the planet became capable of sustaining life, and has been decreasing, since that bio-system replenished the atmosphere. The terra-formers use equipment to modify the methane in to CO2. The overall atmosphere of Cerberus is quite adequate for Earth life forms. The terra-forming needs are hugely less than on the Moon and Mars. Many of the scientists have little to do, since their specialties are unneeded and the expedition lacks tools for pioneering. The land mass and its geology, the river and lake systems are adequate for pioneering. Several of the scientists begin research expeditions outside their expertise. They study the fauna and wildlife, both of which are reminiscent of an early Earth. Dr. Theodore OLeary, a cosmosis expert, begins a pictorial journal of the plant life that in time will be equated with Audubons Birds of America. Other scientists begin to explore Cerberus, using hovercraft. Soon after their arrival, they receive unexpected data from the Earth with instructions of communication upgrades. Their reports will be delayed about a year. Terra-formers cannot find any Earth viruses, bacteria, fungi or other microscopic life forms on Cerberus. Instead, there is an entirely new array of microbes. Since the 2020s, treatment of disease-causing microbes has stopped from being the identification of the organism and securing a vaccine for its destruction to being the application of a global vaccine to eradicate all particular types of parasitic microbes with a vaccine that does not injure useful microbes. Tests on the new organisms show they are intolerant of the current vaccines and thus will be eliminated. Now, the

scientists begin studying the new microbes for any positive effects on Earth life, so that the vaccine can be engineered to permit the new microbes, if found. 2114 2115 A new Earth CAN Senate meets. Five new directors are named. It votes overwhelmingly to support its original Constitution and to outlaw any attempt to redirect the Senate to a more corporate style. Corporate nations do manage to eliminate the illegality of party-politics within the Senate. Senators openly can side with a view along government-type lines without the threat of collusion. Representation clearly is divided between the Corporate and non-Corporate models. The Forum also restarts, but due to its populous nature, it remains small in 2115 and submits relatively few new Policies for Senate votes. All of the Policies relate to CANAS research, but CAN funding is becoming increasingly difficult. Arrests have been made on 34 former Senators and 74 others within the CAN government, including Judges and Administrators. On Cerberus, Drs. Theodore OLeary and Alona Valdez are common-law married and in a year give birth to Adam OLeary the first native Cerberian. Horticultural terra-formers attempt to find native grasses on Cerberus that with assistance can overtake much of the moss dominated land. The grasses and conifer trees are most prevalent in the equatorial regions. The terra-formers found Camp 2 there. The grasses are in their early evolutionary stages. Three species seem most hearty. Using DNA from their food supplies, a new seed-bearing grass is formed. The plant is flaxlike. Pollination is difficult. On Projects Luna and Mars, plants and insects were transported from Earth and little horticulture was needed beyond adaptation to those new environments; however, insects are non-existent on Cerberus. To accomplish their mission, the scientists must either genetically manufacture insects, contrary to CAN law, or find insects locally on Maera or Argos. Currently, Maera is .66 light years away. The CSS Lykos launches with the expedition party, instructed not to interfere with natural evolution on Maera. Tensions remain high as the CAN Senate attempts to conduct normal affairs. The Corps, clearly corporate in party lines, out-number the Purists who clearly favor Forum-Senate governments. Two other party lines emerge. The Modernists favor corporate governments for nations, but tend

to prefer the Forum-Senate for the central governments. They work with the Corps on many Policies, but block changes in the CAN government. The final group is the smallest, the Occultists, are least willing to work with the Corps on any issue and even pressure the Purists to favor Policies that tend to change original CAN thinking. Within six months, the new grasses succeed throughout the equatorial latitude and begin spreading. Forestation is also succeeding. The moss and fungal populations are being starved off. Technicians begin recalling the hundreds of probes in the system to upgrade their communications. On Maera, the CSS Lykos has clear instructions not to disturb the ecosystem beyond the acquisition of needed species of insects. After a nine-month flight, the mission lasts five days. Hundreds of species of bees, butterflies and ants are collected in large numbers to expedite introduction of pollination on Cerberus. People from Earth become newly mesmerized by the seemingly endless successes of the terraformers. Cerberus grows even more iconized as a new Garden of Eden. Terra-formers are followed like celebrities through their reports. Project Facticius on CANASs lunar facility grows. Large numbers of Artificials are produced for testing. Unlike Obioras genetic models, Facticius geneticists maintain the same blank DNA must be used for all Artificials. These Artificials exhibit recessive genetic traits and appear almost identical, dependent upon gender. Information grows about the Artificials innate inquisitiveness, quickly learning ability and aptitude for care giving and teaching. CANAS maintains artificials are a hybrid android with human DNA coding and organic brain, rather then AI. The intended use would have the artificials serve as deep space terra-formers and pioneers. Artificials live in a community called Facticia. Despite lingering doubts about the stability of the new CAN government, the Senate deals with several pending Policies from the last few years. The status and relationship of future Cerberus colonies and Earth has remained highly contended. The Corps want the colonies to remain under the control of the Earth national governments, as with Lunar and Martian colonies. The Purists and the Occultists prefer immediate independence for the colonies. The Senate agrees to a proctorship period. A colonial governor with legislature and staffs will oversee the colonies based on Earth

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Policies. With the completion of the third wave of Colonial transport, the colonies will be allowed to vote on status. The colonies will be required to establish a CAN-like central government, CerberusCAN, for 15 years after their vote on status, at which time they can eliminate the central government if they choose. The CAN Judiciary requires any Cerberus nation and government to observe the Core-10 Mandates at risk of war with CAN. That provision has no time limit. Cerberus terra-formers continue to alter the eco-system to a more human-friendly environment. Socially, a few suffer extreme home-sickness and a condition they call Remote Domicile Syndrome (RDS) for being so removed in both distance an time from home. Most, however, revel in the nearperfect condition of Cerberus. Their air and land is not the product of hundreds of years of abuse or of engineering in the near colonies of Earth. Cerberus is on the brink of readiness for the pioneers, whom some of the scientists theoretically disapprove, since they will construct a near carbon copied Earth. Holographic entertainment has moved from personal use to large scale holographs operated by companies. An estimated 17% of individual users have holo-pads for games or viewers, while 89% of theme parks and other large depictions are holographic and 97% of all communication devices are holographic. CV helmets and other variations of CV dispersal account for most personal game, entertainment and communication devices. The Corporation of Germany attempts to re-introduce personal users to holographic dispersal, using the Globe Podium. Rather than depicting the holograph full-bodied with Stick-Men and Objects, the Globe opens a sphere in which the holograph is displayed. Globes become increasing popular for personal entertainments. The use of Globes begins an era of Throw-backs, people finding pleasure in older styled entertainment. Information from the probe destined to Epsilon Eridani fosters considerable interest. One of the most Sun-like stars in near space, Epsilon Eridani is only slightly less massive and smaller than the Sun. Like the Sun, it is not in a star cluster. Three gas giant planets orbit the star, along with multiple asteroid belts. A single terrestrial planet is discovered at a stellar distance slightly less than the Suns Mars. Minimal land is found, and 85% of the planets surface is oceanic. The land surface present consists of rocky mounds that do not lend to life forms. Within the oceans, millions of aquatic life forms dwell, with many highly evolved fish species. The lack of land makes the planet

unusable for humans. On Earth, especially the affluent begin to solicit CANAS to distribute Artificials for employment as tutors and nannies. Hundreds go into development on the Moon and adopted by the affluent homes. Production increases radically, both by natural breeding and Spontaneous Cloning of Salozene machines. The Artificial population reaches 10,000, mostly in the Facticia community. Facing budgeting shortfalls, the CAN Senate calls for a member tax, causing great angst for many nations. The Corps defeats the Policy, with Modernist assistance. Another Policy is heard, openly calling for the CAN government to reform into a corporate entity. Only, the Corp back the change, which is defeated with the Senate. Polls reveal a third of human population feels CAN should suspend Earths centralized government altogether. The Pioneer Arks, representing 163 Earth nations, arrive at Cerberus. The pioneers populations are roughly proportionate to census figures of 2100. All five pilot crew teams per ship are awakened a week in advance of arrival. Upon arrival, the 200 freighters are navigated to their pre-designated colonies, and two of CANs freighters land to unload several hoverbus units. The Arks orbit until ground preparations are made. To avoid competition among the nations and colonies, it was previously decided that all pioneers would be delivered to their new homeland before being awakened. No pioneer would know who landed first. One by one the Arks land at Cerberus Prime, and the cryonic compartments are unloaded and bused to their new land. The landing takes eight hours. When completed, the compartments are remotely unsealed. Construction of the cryonic compartments allows their use as sleeping compartments for the pioneers and supplies with one month of food and water. Each colony is equipped with ten hovercrafts and two robotic crafts built to unload the freighters. Several of the smaller colonies work cooperatively. Over the next few days, the pioneers unpack and construct their initial settlements and food storage areas. They take little time to explore their new homes. Additional, packed equipment aid them in outlining their main city and in surveying for farms and ranches. When needed, they contact Cerberus Prime for assistance in additional terra-forming. The scientists also aid them in cloning livestock. In six month, despite occasional problems and questions, the all pioneering colonies became viable. CANs Pioneer Arks and most national Arks remain on Cerberus, unable to significantly assist in the

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People from Earth marvel at the success of the pioneers, just as they did the planet and the initial scientists. Many people choose specific pioneers to watch closely, on a daily basis, and become engrossed in their endeavors. Some people are concerned that the endeavor has become too easy and certainly will face pitfalls. Most of their pitfalls are social. Prerequisite for pioneers was a relatively small unit on Earth. No one was allowed to leave a significant other or children on Earth. Still, many pioneers become homesick, awaiting friends and families destined with the first wave of colonists. Other pioneers do better socially on Cerberus, creating new friends and starting new families. Viewing the pioneers success, new calls for immediate colonization follow. Unlike the earlier deft-ears, CANAS and the Senate recognize Pin-Hole communications has changed the situation. The Senate moves to give the pioneers three years. Assuming no setbacks occur, colonization can begin in 2022. Another member tax is raised, to support the construction of a colony fleet. The Corps do not block the Policy. It remains unclear if a deal had been orchestrated or if the Corps realized funding delays would allow CAN to delay. Trade in Artificials increases. CANAS continues to insist that the recessive gene pool is necessary and all artificials must be identical. CANAS also claims that while reproduction between humans and artificials is possible, its success is unlikely. In fact, artificials are genetically engineered to reduce success rate in cross-species reproduction. Tens of thousands of Artificials become employed as caregivers and teachers.

Enrique II, at 80, formally retires as CEO of Night Sky and Girard Enterprises, giving the companies to Enrique III at 48. Enrique III and Celeste have three children, Enrique IV, 20, Gustave, 10 and Camille, 3. Enrique II requests permission to travel with colonists to Cerberus in order to begin a Night Sky operation there. Before permission is granted, he dies in a drowning accident. In his place, Enrique IV takes the seat, with plans of beginning Cerberus Night Sky. India, the PRC and Indonesia, as a three-nation technological Co-Op, begin a colony Ark system with the capacity of transporting 20 billion citizens, the CAN Senate and Judiciary warn them to cease the construction. CANAF extends its construction of destroyer class space ships, while the Co-Op continues its Ark. With the Ark construction about two months from completion, ten destroyers surround them. The national governments are warned to evacuate all human construction crews. CANAF personnel boards the Arks and forcibly removes all humans before bombing the Arks. Protests at CAN City rise to violent levels and CANAF security arrests hundreds of the rebels. CAN Senate suspends the three nations memberships until the Judiciary can review the nations actions and CANAFs reaction. CAN Judiciary rules that CANAFs actions were not extreme. The pioneers prove to be effective and efficient workers, in most cases. The pioneer method involves the selection of a geographic region. A collateral work force of geo-architects go to the periphery, planning and implementing area, while a force of city builders go to the best suited interior land for the infrastructure of a town. Farmers and ranchers prepare the land. In two weeks, the basis is laid, and the force moves on. The strategy began is the region deemed most suited for a large city. From there, the central movement of the forces is based, while city builders elaborate on the basic structure of a town. Riggers work non-stop on the Colony Arks, both for CANAS and for nations and Co-Ops. The ships are by far the most elaborate vehicles ever planned or built, with even single fuselages larger than previously built ships, but each fuselage serving simply one arm of the mammoth Ark. CANAS funds erode. If CANAS must stop construction, the entire colonization process will be in jeopardy. Actor guilds from many nations have arranged deals with Tri-Com to produce Fictions, a collective term for plays, serials and motion pictures. Large archives of old materials, mostly old motion

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CAN Judiciary finds for the schools staff, forcing the UK to reopen the academy. The Judiciary also awards the Artificial-oriented staff the right to decide on teaching methodology without human oversight.

CANAF reveals the SSR-52. T fixed-wing rotorcraft attains five times supersonic speed, and with its four 16 inch rotors and large fuselage, it can transport ten tons or 10,000 passengers. The public sees the craft as unnecessary expenditures while CANAS projects are being cut. CANAF builds 25 crafts before ending the program. Girard Enterprises announces a colonist fee. Millions of the poor are unable to make the new start on Cerberus as they had planned, while billions succumb to the fee. Over 80 billion tickets are sold within the first year. By the time the first wave of Colonial Arks begin their voyage, almost half of the Earths population have purchased passage to Cerberus. Project Demograph makes a special announcement: The Earths population has reached 100 billion. The Girard Arks, numbering 50, and 50 similar Colonial Arks produced by independent nations are complete, loaded and prepared to begin the nine year voyage to Cerberus. One hundred million humans are cryonically sleeping in deep space on the Great Migration. Billions of people on Earth await their turn. Girard Enterprises solicits more Riggers to build the Arks faster, while maintaining safety procedures. The Academy Trial tips off a new debate over human rights given to Artificials. The commerciality of the use of Artificials as caregivers has bothered activists, particularly Occultists. The leadership of the Corps feels Artificials are man-made Salozene machines, metamorphosed with pre-scripted DNA, and suggests they are hybrid androids. Fearing losses in national elections, many Modernists feel that giving the appearance that they oppose human rights will be damaging. They decide not to

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Occultist ideology, the party bonds with the Purists 2123 The Great Migration launches another one hundred million colonists toward Cerberus. Data, still slowed by pre-Pin-Hole communications, returns for the EZ Aquarii and other star systems. It reveals Aquariis the three-star system of red dwarf stars. Multiple small planets orbit the stars and the entire system, along with many asteroids, but none of the planets are larger than the Moon. None can be used for terra-forming. Later in the year, data returns from Proxima Cygni and Procyon. Proxima Cygni, also called Bessels Star, is actually a binary pair of orange dwarfs, each slightly smaller than the Sun, each with a variety of relatively large planets. One planet orbiting Cygni B is 1.2 times the size of Earth. The planet is named Bessel. No water or life is discovered. Terra-formation could be accomplished in 15 years from its onset and could produce approximately three-fourths the habitable land mass as on Earth. The two-star Procyon system, similar in form to Sirius, consists of a large white star and a white dwarf, although Procyon B is smaller than Sirius B. Like the Sirius system, some planets orbit each star, and others orbit the dual system. Orbiting Procyon A and B are five terrestrial planets at the intrinsically correct distance for possible habitat. They are named after the original founders of CAN: Alazar, Guntur, Huang, Polat, and Santoso. One is barren. Four of them have water and arable soil, as well as microbiotic life. Three of them have microbiotic life evolved past the fungal stage. Two of them have algae-level plant life. One of them has microscopic animal forms. All six of the planets, including the one at Proxima Cygni, it is estimated, could be made ready for habitation in ten years or fewer, after the twelve-year trip. Proxima Cygni and Procyon are each approximately 11.5 light years from Earth. The Girard purchase has given much needed funding to CAN, along with contributions from the Occultists. CANAS announces Project Terra-Form. Still refusing to employ androids, the Project calls for Artificials to be trained for the terra-formation of each of the newly discovered planets on Proxima Cygni and Procyon. Popular interest is comparably scant. People now view Cerberus as a near-utopia, ready to be taken, and are beginning to consider Maera and Argos as potential homes, despite CANs demand that they are not to be used for colonization. Activists require any Artificial

must agree to training. 2124 The Great Migration launches another one hundred million colonists toward Cerberus. Separately, CANAS launches Project Milky Way, terra-formers to the planets of Cygni and Procyon. They should arrive in 2136. Data from star systems Struve 2398 and Groombridge 34 returns. Both are red dwarf pairs, and both fail to reveal inhabitable planets. Pre-Pin-Hole data from the probes pairs launched in 2105 will be received in 2129 and 2133, respectively. The International Preservation Society, previously Project Preservation, and the rise of the ThrowBacks have invigorated an interest in history. CANAS begins one of its few purely entertainment endeavors with Project Past and Yesterday Park, a converted Cosmos macro-cam equipped with state-of-the-art holography into a theme park. Less exploitive than entertainment theme parks, at Yesterday Park, visitors can study historical records first-hand. The success rivals Night Sky parks and adds significantly to CANs economical base. With the rise of voyeur-based entertainment of the mid and late 21st century, award presentations for entertainers grew out of style, even though an interest in music performers never abated and theater acting remained available via traditional holography. Tri-Com organizes The Multi and begins polling Globe users for votes on favorites during 2123. The presentation of the Multi Awards is released in 2124. Singers, actors, writers and directors across many media, along with specific performances. The Awards ceremony, recorded from Night Sky, is a week-long event with hundreds of awards. The ten-part presentation becomes the most watched Globe serial of 2124. The Multi Awards ceremony becomes an annual event.

2000-2024 2025-2049 2050-2074 2075-2099 2100-2124 2125-2149 Forward Afterward The Great Migration launches another one hundred million colonists toward Cerberus. Girard Enterprises at Night Sky facilitates one of the largest and most advanced scientific research operations in the world. Quantum engineer Anna Thorsenberg has been researching Reverse Gravity Fields (RGF) and potential technical applications, using the abandoned Large Hadron Collider (LHC) now owned by Girard Enterprises. Her research has been ongoing for 15 years. Her hypothesis assumed dark matter and energy exist throughout the Universe in microscopic amounts and are unable to be sensed due to the dark energy fields. The larger RGFs sensed in space are very old examples that have grown. Her attempts to reproduce and to isolate a region of dark matter have failed until 2123. When she isolates an instance of dark matter, a dark energy field immediately develops at an estimated diameter of one millimeter. With the development of the RGF, the experiment causes what seems to be a major implosion. About a 40 foot diameter region of matter apparently disintegrates, including a partial wall of LHC. Later, matter-sensing devices discover an ion trail and find the region of LHC near Uranus. The entire RGF produced dissipates in a few seconds, thought to be overcome by the Earths gravity. Thorsenberg reports the findings to the Girard research facility. Representatives of the Central American Co-Op meet in Managua, Nicaragua. Originally, the conference planned to reapportion GNP shares, but contrary to CAN Mandates, based on old collusion Policies, political discussions rise. Six of the seven nations, with Belize abstaining, agree to the principles of a unification plan. Groundwork for the formation of the nation of Central America, is made. Referenda are introduced in the six nations, and CAN Senators apologize to CAN, stating unification discussions had not been planned. CAN Judiciary offers mild objections but finds the Senators are being honest in their explanation of the meetings. The six nations vote in favor of the referenda, and a Constitution is drafted. With six of the most solid Purist governments unifying into a single government, the thin balance between political forms moves back in favor of the Corps. The Corps decides they need to press CAN government to a Corporate model while they have the votes. The Great Migration launches another one hundred million colonists toward Cerberus.

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The successful manufacture of dark matter in the Thorsenberg experiment is analyzed by a panel of Girard scientists and quantum engineers. The dark matter instance, unable to be measured by matter-oriented quantities, instantaneously produced an RGF. That RGF expanded in a ButterflyEffect to 42.5 foot in diameter. Nothing within the field was damaged. At its apex in size, upon retreating to its original dimensions, the entire enclosure traveled approximately two billion miles to the vicinity of Uranus in .015 light days, which would make the speed about 9 times the speed of light. The enclosed area remained perfectly intact, suggesting the field protected the trapped matter. Believing the CAN Judiciary would be forced into giving them the same latitude it gave the Central American Co-Op, The Nippon Corporation of Japan and the South Korea Corporation plan to adopt a bunsha management period, splitting several major endeavors into unique Corporate nations and asking for CAN recognition of the corporations as national entities. Judiciary offers no latitude, refusing to consider the new nations. Further, the Judiciary censures both Japan and South Korea for five years from CAN Senate voting, with the worse case of collusion in years. When corporate reform policies enter the CAN Senate for voting, the Policies are again defeated. The Great Migration launches another one hundred million colonists toward Cerberus. Using holographic imagery, stagers successfully duplicate Thorsenbergs experiment with the same results, the manufacture of dark matter of the same measure produces a 2 billion mile trip of a 42.5 foot region. The size of the measure proportionally determines the size of the region moved. The distance traveled can be determined by duration of the experiment. Finally, the direction can be determined by pre-set plotting within the region. Effectively, an RGF bubble can be manufactured and allow greater-than-light-speed travel for a vehicle.

The pioneers efforts have been on-going and continually watched for years. At Cerberus, they are far exceeding anticipated success. Over half the planet has been landscaped, areas made ready for farms or ranches or homes, with towns to small cities of empty buildings, all waiting for the colonists. Several large cities wait with vacant skyscrapers, stores, shops, restaurants, apartments, condominiums, homes and basic infrastructure. Roads and canals connect the cities. City planners have blueprints for an LS train system, but the idea is shelved as colonists will arrive too early for everything to be in place. The rate they will arrive scare everyone, from ditch-digger to Governor. Speculation that Cerberus will become more populated than Earth within a few years scares them most. On Earth, spectators hear their words and worries, watch their work in fields and high-rises, smell and taste their stews through the marvels of advanced holography. On Thursdays, many of the pioneers of the UK play soccer; on Saturdays, many of the pioneers of the US play softball; all of the pioneers find their forms of respite; and people of the Earth watch. Then, the spectators ready themselves for work and for play, still thinking about their cousins who might be seeing the message they prepared almost a year ago. Between Cerberus and Earth, hundreds of millions are travelers. Many travel in luxury liners, watching shows, gambling. Others lay in cryonic sleep. All had the monies to purchase Girards tickets. It is estimated two-third of the most wealthy of Earth will soon be of Cerberus. The Great Migration launches another one hundred million colonists toward Cerberus. Girard Enterprises operates a mining post from a domed outpost on Europa, a moon of Jupiter. It uses the facility to test an RGF propulsion craft. The space craft, called the Enrique One, accomplishes a safe jump of .25 light years at 8.7 light speed. After four safe unmanned tests, a manned Enrique One attempt is also successful. Within the space, time transpires as normal, but 8.7 light speed is attained. Cerberus can be reached in 12 months. Rather than release information about their success, Enrique III chooses to attain CANAS approval for the technology. Inexplicably, Girard Enterprises announces a delay of the Great Migration. The CV Club of Borovichi, Russia, began its second annual Expedition. Borovichi Travels markets the Expeditions, which use detailed information to allow customers, linked by satellite signals, to experience a story first hand via CV helmets from the comfort of their homes. Last year, the clubs

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Expedition took them to Leo Tolstoys Anna Karenina, where each of the 15 club members assumed a characters role. They experienced the ancient aristocracy. This year, they traveled to Argos, members as themselves on a true CV expedition. The program did not curtail the hazards of a trip to the dangerous place. Four members became transfixed, unable to tell reality from programming. Two died of cardiac arrest before help could arrive. Girard Enterprises announce Hyper Light Speed (HLS) and receive test permission from CANAS to experiment outside the Solar System. Fifty unmanned attempts, ranging from large crafts to small ones, all succeed, leaving new, small RGFs as exhaust. Crafts open pathways over one light year from the Solar System and return safely. Navigation gives pin-point accuracy. Twelve manned attempts also elicit perfect results. Girard Enterprises reveal The Great Migration will restart in 2130 at 8.7 time light speed after pilot ships are deployed to intercept current colonists en route to expedite their voyages. Pioneers are alerted that 500 million colonists will arrive by 2131 rather than the first wave of 100 million in 2135, with millions more to arrive soon thereafter. Thirty-seven Girard Colonial Arks, as well as 48 national Arks, in production are to be completed, but additional large Arks are not needed, since much smaller craft can transport colonists more easily. Recognizing Cerberus will face difficulty with the pre-mature time-table, Girard Enterprises announce a brief respite in the Great Migration until 2135 for the planet to adjust. Hopeful colonists will be delivered far more quickly, so the delay is marketed as reducing a nine-year cryonic voyage to year-long space cruises. Despite profiteering with the ticket sales, the Girards popularity skyrockets surpassing their height a hundred years before when Enrique Girard first opened the Night Sky.. Girard pilot ships are dispensed for the CANAS terra-formers of Project Milky Way en route to the newly discovered planets around Cygni and Procyon. The pilot ships opened HLS bubbles to a light year from their target destinations. The missions will begin six years ahead of schedule, in 2030.

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Philippines 4.0 each, Mexico 3.5; nineteen nations at over 3 billion. Pioneers at Cerberus receive reports from Girard Enterprises of the breach of light speed and the expedited voyages. Based upon the pioneers success rate, the planet is capable of sustaining the 500 million with relative ease. While the colonies vary slightly in levels of success, housing is available for 750 million, and the agricultural, industrial and service preparation will satisfy one billion. The open-ended future concerns the pioneers. Multiple billions of people could arrive well before the planet is ready. The governors office sets into place a reception and disposition system to move colonists into their pre-determined colonies. The first wave of 100 million will include 20 million CAN, CANAS and CANAF staff to assist the placement, but Cerberus Prime is among the least prepared site capable of housing only 5 million. Pioneers work diligently to make the planet ready; however, far greater assistance will be needed from colonists to make ready the remainder of Cerberus. Project Terra-Form commences as terra-formers arrive at the Cygni and Procyon systems. Bessel, the lone inhabitable planet of Cygni, receives the largest group of terra-formers. It is a barren planet almost twice the size of Earth and will require significant terra-forming. Many lessons have been learned from the total terra-formation of Mars and the Moon. Terra-formers uncover the iodine isotope to aid cosmosis and begin Hornsbeck Fields to distribute heat. No water, even in the form of ice is discovered, but multiple asteroids contain ice that is transferred to the planet. Within the first year, Bessel receives equivalent terra-formation that took five years on Mars. A major lake is constructed, algae raised, and a variety of early evolutionary life forms introduced. An Atmospheric Leveling Effect gives the entire planet an atmosphere in 2138, when geo-architecture begins. Bessel is ready for pioneering in 2140, but no pioneers are en route. Terra-forming the Procyon five also accomplished quickly, with terra-formers split among the planets. The more advanced planets receive bio-architecture, while the less developed planets receive bio- and geo-architecture, and the barren planet of Alazar receives atmospheric architecture like Bessel. Terra-formers move on when their mission is accomplished to proceed on the next planet. By 2136, all of the Procyon terraformers are on Alazar, and as with Bessel no pioneers are en route. Only scientists regularly view the in flux of reports that begin in 2132. CANAS announces that Terran, Gi and Choma are not

eligible for colonization, due to the advanced nature of their life forms. The Fish Litmus Test is proclaimed, stating that planets at an evolutionary level beyond bony-fish will not be accepted as colony-friendly. Generally, the populace supports a Warm-Blooded litmus test, with colony readiness extended up to bird and mammal life forms. While only a minor number of people had voiced interest in the new planets for relocation, the proclamation further distances CAN and CANAS from popularity. Polls reveal 29% of Earth people want the dissolution of a central government and 15% want a different central government. Only 56% of the population generally approve of CAN. The first wave of colonists arrives at Cerberus. National colonies are moved to their regions, while Cerberus CAN organizes. Eight million CANAF staff takes temporary housing within the colonies because insufficient housing is available at Cerberus Prime. National colonists feel Cerberus CAN is being intrusive to their independent supervision. At Cerberus Prime, millions of staff assume lessthan-ready housing. The first tickets sold by Girard were the most expensive, and a great quantity of the national colonists are ill-equipped to aid the pioneers in their expedited efforts. The second and third wave of colonists arrive within the year. The fourth and fifth arrive by mid-2132. Great confusion occupies the initial colonization effort. The lunar colony of Facticia reaches one million, with another one hundred thousand employed on Earth in care giving roles. An argument begins in Senate whether to accept the Artificials bid for independence or maintaining the colony as a breeding ground for servants. Narrowly, the bid for independence is defeated, drawn between an openly corporate alliance and a Forum-Senate and other government contingent. A significant reliance upon the marketing of Artificial for the CAN budget seals the Artificials fate. Camille Girard, 15, disappears. Suspicion of a kidnapping becomes a major news item. DNA profilers cannot discern a clear feed. The investigation uncovers a carefully meditated escape by the minor, Camille, involving bribery of geneticists for DNA masking and the creation of a new identity. She hates the limelight of her family, and the profiteering that she considers the Girard colonial fleet seems to involve. She has taken the last name of Verne from her favorite author and moved to the US Florida Key Islands. The court emancipates her independence. Back in Florida,

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Artificials incorporate Academy. For some time, CANAS oversaw Project Academy, an education initiative using CV programming and tutors. The practice had been utilized for several decades with markedly greater success than traditional learning. Artificials showed very high aptitudes as tutors. With human administrators, Project Academy was marketed to national governments. After The Academy Trials, wherein Artificials gained limited human rights, Artificials worked to oversee the Project outright. CAN granted them administration in return for compensation for the use of Artificials who were patented by CANAS. The CAN Judiciary awards the Project, now called simply Academy, entirely to Artificials. The Academy system of education transfers information to students in an induced sleep via a CV delivery system. Tutors extrapolate the information in one-on-one discussions. The system goes farther than most others. Social interaction of school-aged children is accomplished by independent student communities, overseen by adults. Also extra-circular activities occur in the communities. Throughout most of their time in the system, students work with non-tutors, called mentors. With mentors, expert in their fields, students specialize their aptitudes. Many thousand Artificials move to Earth to work as tutors. Cerberus CAN relieves the gubernatorial office and forms a central government. Housing on Cerberus Prime begins to match occupants. Larger numbers of colonists begin to take to the prepared farms and factories and to the assistance in preparing the planet for future colonization. Cerberus CAN decides to retain its current structure until 2135, when it will mature into a ForumSenate government style. The five Colonial Arks return to Earth. Earth CAN Budget Administrators attempt to call for a membership tax upon nations. The measure is defeated. Fifty CANAS Projects end and a moratorium is place upon new projects. The Vermes Rex receded into the wild when the pioneers arrived, but the large colonization quickly eliminated these wild territories. At the Cerberus border between Sweden and Italy, extraordinary

numbers of the Vermes Rexes are discovered, and great agricultural losses ensue. Colonists call the outbreak an infestation and want the pests elimination. Large-scale extermination begins. Earth CAN, still exerting provisional oversight of Cerberus CAN, warns them that the species extermination is counter to many Mandates, but does not break the Core Ten Rule. Earth CAN popularity falls to 51%, due largely on its stance about the Vermes Rex. Colonists press the Cerberus government to establish a Galactic Bank. The bank would pin monetary values from Cerberus to Earth equivalents. Wealth transported to Cerberus retains its value, and many of the most wealthy retain their monetary assets with few if any assets Cerberus based. Many pioneers are solicited for hire. While a few succumb, the general tendency is to let the colonists find their own way. Many pioneers begin a loose alliance that transcends borders. Enrique Girard IV, aboard the first wave of Colonial Arks, secures permission to launch Night Sky II above Cerberus. Like the original Night Sky, it combines hospitality suites, casinos, entertainment stages and holographic parks. Many colonists are among the most affluent of Earth and quickly make the facility successful. Girard plans additional satellites. Reports from Van Maanens Star are expected but fail to materialize. Costs prohibit CANAS from a exploratory mission. Many humans suspect the star might be inhabited by intelligent beings that destroyed the probes. On Holonet site entitled Satire, an interactive cartoon is broadcasted. Colonists are portrayed as fat, self-absorbed and ill-informed. Cerberus CAN closes the site, despite claims of freedom of speech. The phrase eat worms becomes a rallying point against the new caste system on Cerberus. The Cerberus colonies are a work-in-progress, with most colonists asked to finish land while pioneering efforts prepare more remote regions. Many colonists lack the ability and work must be repaired. The Cerberus cities are already swelling past levels on Earth and creating worse overpopulation than the colonists had sought to escape. A group of 20,000 Nigerians decide to occupy their remote region and start the construction of New Calabar. Their surveyors are not professional and the city is built on lands owned by the Congo colony. The territory dispute goes on for several months until the Cerberus Judiciary awards the city to the Congo, because the Nigerians

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Project Past releases a CV program Another Day, allowing first-hand experience of historical events. In many ways, the program offers little new; however, programmed safety precautions, such as timed exposure are new and patented by CANAS. Trey Lanker completes his degree in quantum engineering at Georgia Technical University in the US. He relocates in Atlanta and takes a job at Allied Services, Inc. Soon, he meets a distant cousin, Rita Hallmark, who peaks his interest about his great-grandfather and namesake, Stew Lanker. Stew Lanker owned property in Florida, so Trey decides to visit and learn more about his heritage. A Forum Policy enters the Senate, calling for CAN to be dissolved. The Policy is easily defeated; however, the Forum reaction is startling. Within minutes of vote count, crowds raise signs and banners proclaiming END CAN. Hundreds of protestors rush the doors of the Senate and the Judiciary. CANAF security is forced into riot control to repel them. Scanners show a few of the protestors have organ bombs, usually a surgically placed gall bladder. The severity of the demonstration is not expected. It appears to have been orchestrated by an organization, but no evidence exists about its source. A Forum-Senate government begins on Cerberus. Half of the Policies entered by the Forum call for the preparation of Maera and Argos for colonization. Since senatorial selections have not been completed, the preliminary Senate is comprised of CAN officials completing their tenure and supporting compliance with Earth CAN Mandates. They defeat the Policies. Their terms of office, however, are lame-duck and in 2136 a newly selected Senate will take office. With the five Ark armadas back at Earth, along with another armada completed during the interim, space for 600 million colonists in cryonic sleep is available. Additionally, Girard Travels has completed 500 Cruise Arks with a total capacity of 100 million awake passengers. Their voyage will

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more than double the Cerberus population in 2136. Multiple national ships are under construction. An estimated 100 billion people on Earth now want to relocate. Trey Lanker seeks an oceanographer in the Gulf of Mexico to assist in plotting the last known locations of his great-grandfather, Stew. He finds Camille Verne. They travel to the coastal homes where Stew once lived. During their travels, the two fall in love. They extend their search across the Panama Canal to retrace Stews final voyage toward Vietnam and Dr. Nguyen. Research about Stews organ transplants give them DNA signatures that can be used in a more advanced search than when the Annie went down. National Forums of varying governments begin to pressure the end of support for Earth CAN. Popularity of CAN has reached an all-time low. The Society for Earth Nations (SEN) takes claim for the 2134 Forum demonstration. The terrorist group coordinate five bombings of CAN embassies, killing 47. CANAF quickly uncover, Harriet Wang, an Australian teacher living in Macao as the central leader. She is arrested. A new Cerberus CAN takes office, reforming the government almost entirely. The basic format remains the same, with an intact Forum and Senate. In fear of war with Earth, the new Senate complies to satisfy the Core-Ten Mandates. New CANAF and CANAS directors are named. The Senate votes to construct an extensive army of Android soldiers under the command of Cerberus CANAF. Fearful of the abundance of new and future colonists, the Senate votes to prepare Maera and Argos for colonization. New colonists arrive on Cerberus, totaling over 600 million. Housing in several colonies surpass maximum capacity, and in other nears the maximum. Pioneers and colonists able to assist with construction continue to work non-stop to prepare the planet. A caste system quickly divides the affluent from the workers. Camille Verne reveals her familial identity to Stew. The potential that she is a potentially wealthy heiress does not matter to him and has nothing to do with his feelings for her. In the South Pacific, Trey and Camille find the sunken boat, the Annie, and salvage equipment, including electronics and a journal. One electronic implement appears to have been constructed manually by Stew Lanker.

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New leader of the Occultists, the Reverend Rita Guerrido, addresses government concerns in a holographic sermon. She retraces the rise of CAN, their successes against terrorism, the environmental catastrophes and disease. She says, we may not always agree with our leaders but they always lead us from the chaos of our existence. A swell of support surfaces for CAN in Occultist sects, even though large populations of other continue to seek its end. Project Near Space reports a collision within the Asteroid Belt. Such collisions are relatively common, but do justify dedicated research. A small asteroid of less than 3 miles diameter has collided with 3 Juno, a moderate to large asteroid of over 100 miles diameter. A relatively small portion of 3 Juno has broken off and begun a rogue solar orbit. Traveling at 13 miles per second it begins a new orbit that should make it collide with the Sun in about 2.5 years. The new asteroid, named Juno B, has a diameter of about one half mile. Asteroids of greater than 200 foot diameters are automatically tracked. Cerberus CAN opens minimal exploration of Maera and Argos. CV safety precautions programmed into Project Pasts Another Day group become CANAS approved standards. All existing CV programs have to be upgraded to meet the safety standards, paying the CANAS held patent. Trey Lanker and Camille Verne marry in a private ceremony. While several members of Treys family attend, only Celeste Girard is invited and only if strict secrecy is maintained. The couple takes a home in Whangarel, New Zealand. Camille begins a new tour boat business, taking on Trey not only as spouse but first mate. The two become fascinated with the region. Most of the most advanced island nations carefully maintain their historic identities. Many islands are virtually aboriginal with descendants of their homelands. Only a few have direct access to the LS Train system, and the South Pacific remains the most air and sea travelled areas of the world. Trey spends a great deal of his free time studying Trey Lankers journals and analyzing the small handmade devise. He understands the basic principles his great-grandfather made about the thought process and the Tetrahedral Triangle Theory. Reports return to Cerberus from Earth. Earth CAN strongly suggests a change in policies that will exterminate multiple species on the sister planets. Earth CAN recognizes the exploration and even

extermination of species do not contradict the Core-Ten Mandate. The Cerberus action is not automatically an act of war. Earth CAN tells Cerberus that a continuation of the activist policies will endanger relationships between the colonies and Earth. The popular opinion on Earth is mixed. A large segment of Earths population envisions the massive extermination of multiple carnivorous species will offer great entertainment. Another large segment, led by the Occultists, view the Earth CAN stance as morally right and the extermination is gratuitous on behalf of a wealthy elite not satisfied with a fresh world poorer humans could not afford. Overall, public opinion of Earth CAN improves slightly. One billion colonists arrive at Cerberus from Earth. Growing numbers are not rich and are willing to assist in the continual construction of the planet. Juno B continues its new trajectory, accelerating slightly, as expected. It is the fourth largest asteroid currently being tracked. It should impact the Sun in 2141. Trey and Camille Lanker give birth to twins, Gabriela and Celeste. Primarily serving as a househusband while Camille takes on boating tours, Trey first extrapolates from Stew Lankers thought process theories of the tetrahedral triangle to quantum physics. Almost two billion more colonists arrive on Cerberus on new and old Arks. Two billion more colonists are en route. The influx will exponentially grow over the next ten years. City builders can barely keep pace. A first wave Pioneer, Hawken Stender of Norway, organizes the Pioneer Forum against the overwork of the pioneers. Throughout the year, the movement grows from colony to colony. By 2140, 47 Pioneers are selected to the Senate.

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Cerberus CANAF androids begin a massive offensive, mostly by air, against the most dangerous species on Maera. The Salamander War, as they are called, seek out the extermination of dozens of giant carnivores. Earth CAN demands the immediate end of the hostilities set purposefully to bring extinction to indigenous life forms, but it has little power to counter the attack. Cerberus CAN sincerely states its regrets in the action, but claim they are necessary to avoid impending overpopulation when renewed colonization begins. Much of the Earths population views the wars daily as entertainment, adding to the growing sentiment of relocating. Others refuse to watch the Cerberus actions. If they did watch, they would see. Supersonic aircraft perform bombing raids of prehistoric animals. Along with the carnivorous amphibians, all animal and most plant life is eliminated. Rainforests elicit blackened smoke of destruction. Twenty-seven species of giant salamander-type creatures have been difficult to overcome on Maera. Fifty percent of the Android troops have been destroyed, but more are built. By the end of the year, only twelve species of carnivorous giants exist. Ground troops exterminate multiple species of smaller land animals. The offensive and the android military are effective and unaffected by the destruction. Maera is determined safe for human habitation before the close of the year. Second-wave pioneers, made up mostly of colonists who have learned how to prepare terrain, begin to be deployed on Maera. A similar Argos offensive will begin at the completion of Maera pioneering. The first pioneering effort on Maera is met by a nest of small amphibians, approximately the twice size of Earth bullfrogs. The animals have canine teeth and deliver a poisonous venom. All 100 pioneers die within six hours. Cerberus CANAS geneticists construct an amphibian-only deadly virus. The government had hoped not to exterminate all of the amphibians on Maera, but it is chosen as the only way to secure the planet. Cerberus CANAF moves to eradicate the Mauran amphibians in a manner that it could have years before, through a massive viral attacks aimed at targeted species. Juno B makes its closest approach to Earth, en route to the Sun. At its distance, a telescope is required to see it and it is visible for three hours. While tending to the twins and his new son Stewart, Trey Lanker has a revelation about the failure of quantum physics as a physical science. He theorizes that all physical sciences, either directly or

indirectly, assume as a constant three vertices in a tri-vertical continuum. The continuum can be easily plotted by tri-coordinates. Trey believes a fourth vertex exists, and the universe is within a tetrahedral pyramid with four faces. He begins to re-calculate basic quantum theories, the existence of a sub-particle called the quanta, the string-fabric theory and special relativity. Project Demograph announces the Earths population has steadied at 104 billion in 2130. Dr. Josef Krakow, director of Project Demograph, attributes the end of population growth to the greater than six billion colonists now residing on or en route to Cerberus and a leveling tendency over the past three decades. Life expectancy has increased from 153 to 154 years and an average birth rate increase from 22.4 to 22.6 per 1000. The ten most populated nations of the world in billions, are: India 12.0, the PRC 10.0, Indonesia, Pakistan, and the US 5.0 each, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and the Philippines 4.5 each, with twelve nations at 4 billion. The total population on Cerberus is estimated at 3.4 billion. When reports of the pioneer losses on Maera reach Earth, CAN sites the safety and security Core Mandate as being breached. It formally moves in the Judiciary for diplomatic sanctions and the declaration of a state of war. The Judiciary supports the call for sanctions, but has no demonstrative links, such as trade, which can be embargoed. Theoretically, a state of war now exists between Earth and Cerberus. Earth CAN is quite sensitive to its tenuous public opinion and the effects of the declaration of a war with Cerberus. Large numbers of humans who deplored the random violence of the Salamander War seem to feel the government of Cerberus needs to be made aware those actions are deplorable. Other humans who relished the war seem to want to see a war between the Cerberus androids and Earth Artificials. Within days of the declaration, Night Sky is preparing odds if a battle actually ensue. As involved as Earth humans are with the circumstances of Cerberus, Maera and Argos, they are dis-involved with Bessel and the Procyon Five, now ready for pioneers. One segment is interested. Facticia, the lunar colony of Artificials, has maintained close vigilance. While less vocal than their human counterparts watching the early preparation and pioneering at Sirius, the Artificials showed pride in the accomplishments of their terra-formers. Several thousand have expressed interest in a pioneering effort, but Earth CANAS has mostly abandoned Project Terra-Form.

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CV helmets and holographic pads have long been the standard for inter-active connectivity between user and scene. Both have grown in their sensory appeal, capable of involving all of the users senses. As generations of both evolved, the immersion level has increased. Without safety standards overseen by CANAS, experts feel a user could be totally enveloped, especially in the CV experience. With life-supporting devices attached, the user could live the experience without realizing it was a program. Holographic pads are more tactile and friendly for the Holonet. Holographic globes, available for the past quarter century, reduce immersion radically. They have grown from being the medium of acting entertainment to include becoming the most sensible for communication and research. CANAS presents the first new device in many years with the Responder. The Responder communicates remotely to the users CV and codes it into holographic pads and globes. Through voice and later thought commands, the user can dictate their own entertainment. Trey Lanker as become distraught in his quantum theories. While he has successfully re-structured many basic equations into his tetrahedral model, like traditional quantum physicists conjectured antimatter and anti-energy need to exist in much larger quantities than have been discovered. Meanwhile, Stewart, now ten-months has formed his first word, No. The answer to every question and every statement is, No. For Stewart, No is everything. Stew Lanker predicted that one of the planes of his tetrahedral thought theory was Void, even though Treys own theories see the plane simply as a plane, meaning nothing. Nothing is not a plane, Trey thinks. It is the contents of the pyramid. He goes on to himself, Nothing exists on some level, even though that seems to be an oxymoronNothing exists. CAN appeal is somewhat on a rebound as the Earth faces what potentially will be its greatest civil war. Rhetoric reams high both on Cerberus and the Earth. Both sides want to develop a plan that can take into account a greater than year distance between them and create surprise, despite so many obstacles to quickness.

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On April 20, Juno B is tracked toward its solar collision and tracking sensors recalled to Project Near Space when a collision is assumed; however, Juno B only enters the Suns corona. Juno Bs centripetal force sends it back into space. For several days, the Suns glare disguises Juno Bs new trajectory. When Project Near Space finds it again on May 6, it has accelerated to 50 miles per second, slowing at a moderate rate, and will intercept Earth in about 10 days on May 12. The close proximity to the Sun has burned Juno B to less than 100 yards in diameter, and impact is not estimated to cause a global catastrophe. It is large enough for a regional disaster, equivalent to a 10-15 megaton nuclear explosion. CANAS has prepared an Asteroid Impact Plan (AIP). Project Near Space can deploy a missile and mine offensive, but the deployment requires ten days, sufficient time for a typically tracked asteroid or comet coming from deep space, but the distance of Juno B coming from the Sun makes the deployment almost impossible. Project Juno B is expedited and attempted on May 10. It fails. Trajectory indicates impact in the South Pacific, mid-way between the Fiji Islands and New Zealand The evacuation of the South Pacific is decidedly more difficult than almost any other region of the world would have been. The LS train system connects major cities to any point of the planet, but the islands lack entry points. The train begins running non-stop, as other uses of the LS line are postponed worldwide. As quickly as people can be ushered to hovercraft, urban dwellers of New Zealand walk into the train and on to safety. The CANAF fleet of SSR, supersonic helicopters, rushes to the aid of the thousands of smaller islands, capable of transporting thousands. With each hour, tens of thousands of people move to safety. On the coasts of Australia, the East Indies and South America, potential victims of the shockwaves and tsunamis travel inland. CANAFs efforts work to overcome panic and to offer safety. The evacuation is heralded as a monumental human success. An estimated 500 people die, mostly due to panic rather than the collision. Juno B collides on May 12, 2141 at S30.18 W169.29. An impact shudder extends to a radius of 1000 miles, destroying part of the northern island of New Zealand, the islands groups of Tonga and Fiji, and assorted other islands. Tsunamis extend to Australias east coast, the Indonesian islands and western coast of South America. A cloud of ash and debris rises from the impact site. Project Climates fleet of 24 super sonic submarines equipped with weather convectors are set to

drone operation, without crew. In the violent waters of the South Pacific, they press to about 500 miles around the impact site. They attempt a series of actions never tested in practice, and tested with holographic imagery for the first time less than a week before. The convectors open full Ozone holes at the atmospheric entry point of Juno B. The convectors conduce debris through the atmosphere and into space, where gravity will burn the fallout in the upper atmosphere. CANAS estimated a 47% possibility of success. Over 75% of the debris is conduced. The submarines remained stationed for nine-months. Five are destroyed in the aftermath of the collision; however an ash winter blocking the atmosphere is avoided. Earth CANs popularity soars. Camille Lanker and her family enter the LS Train for Atlanta, GA, the US. Trey soon follows. A few months later, they move to Miami, so she can begin a new tour service. He begins teaching at Georgia Technical Institute. The remaining ash and debris continues to affect the regions weather. Most of the East Indies are re-populated by July 2142, as are the coasts of Chile and Peru. Australians reclaim their coast soon afterward. The entire population of the South Pacific Islands, totaling less than 150,000, and New Zealands population of 5 million has been displaced for an indeterminate amount of time, most given refuse on Mediterranean islands overseen by CAN. Juno B impacts the highly volcanic region of Tonga and Kermadec Trenches and causes a dominoeffect of earthquakes along the southern tip of the Ring of Fire, setting off dozens of volcanoes. This destruction continues for years, making much of the South Pacific uninhabitable. The submarines used to transfer ash caused by the Juno B impact remain on site to work on the additional ash from the volcanoes. New Zealanders present plans to CAN and CANAS for the construction of the New Zealand Gyron, capable of housing 10 million. CAN agrees to the construction an orbiting nation in return for control over the Pacific region during its repair and thereafter. The Earth faces one of its worst disasters ever, in volume; yet, the loss of life is minimal, less than a single fire in an overcrowded urban area. The speedy action of CANAF and the availability of the LS Train system account for the successful rescue operation. Thoughts about the atrocities on

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animal life on Maera and prospectively on are Argos calmed by the appreciation of the near miss humans escaped. The declaration of war against Cerberus remains in force by inactive. When Cerberus hears about the Juno B catastrophe, most block their ears from the words of advocates of war. Still, the words of war are whispered. New Maera pioneers have been more successful than the first pioneering expedition, but Maeras rain forests are more difficult to overcome than the moss fields of Cerberus. Preparing land for colonization proceeds slowly. SEN, a terrorist group demanding the end of CAN, attempt to organize a new offensive against CAN. Large numbers of dis-enfranchised people who followed the extremists earlier decide not only to turn their backs, but also to notify law enforcement of the activities. Dozens of terrorists are caught and arrested. Between 2140-42, eight billion colonists have arrived on Cerberus. Its population now stands at approximately 20 billion. Sales of tickets, now greatly reduced in price, fund the migration of two billion every four months, as well as give profits to Girard Enterprises. Girard announces a new line of armada that will quadruple available migration space. He estimates another 25 billion colonists can be handled in 2143. On Cerberus, the Pioneer Party controls 53 Senate seats. Large numbers of incoming colonists share views against the elitist nature of the businessmen in charge of the government. The Pioneer Party attempts to block growing interest in preparing Argos for colonization, with the massive destruction of the dinosaur-like population. Argos supports larger areas of grassland and fewer rain forests. The Pioneers face not only the elite power central that has developed but billions of populace fearful of overpopulation through migration, Trey and Camille Lanker enroll their children in Facticia Academy, Miami. Especially Camille becomes interested in the academys mentoring program. Combined with their CV learning process and tutoring, Facticia seeks life mentors for their students, training them in life skills and applied knowledge. Sailing is a highly desired applied skill for the Miami area, with decreasing numbers of practitioners. Camille begins training a teenager named Don Peters. Both Camille and Trey become friends with several instructors.

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New Zealanders take occupancy of the New Zealand Gyron. Formally inhabited South Pacific Island nations, mostly, assume possession of a series of satellites set to orbit the Gyron. Enrique III offers CAN a large sum of money for the New Zealand island, enough to fund the entire reforestation project. Before agreeing to Girards terms, CAN offers the homeland to the New Zealanders who choose not to accept. Enrique plans an Earth-bound amusement park on the island when it is habitable. Good to his anticipation, Girard Enterprises begins the largest single migration armada yet started, with almost 30 billion colonists from Earth taking route to Cerberus. When they arrive, the approximately 55 billion on Cerberus will outnumber the 50 billion people remaining on Earth. Cerberus preparation is 90% completed. The Assault of Argos begins. Much more dependent on drone and minimally android-staffed airships, the Dino Wars uses carefully engineered viruses dispersed on the Argos terrain. Coded to attack DNA types, carnivores and dangerously large herbivores cannot see the blitzkrieg being hurled upon them. The clouds of quick-acting viruses emitted from the ships settles into their cellular structure. They topple over in droves. Cerberus airships work in triple formation, overtaking a hundred square mile area, with their deadly cargo. Relatively small android support lands and destroys smaller and sometimes unknown species. Twenty such triple formations work the terrain methodically. After the initial ground troops finish their task, a second clean-up troop closely completes the attack. Little exciting happens, the process remains the same, and the results seem cruel. Cameras and scanners depict everything. The dinosaur-like creatures appear to have welldefined communities, with clear hierarchies and rules. Many of the lifestyles appear more like gorilla communities in the wild than lizards. The Pioneers fail to block a Cerberus CAN vote for the preparation of Argos. The Dinosaur War begins on Argos, but in spite of the popular support of active battles, Cerberus CANAF selects to use viral weapons. Extermination of dangerous species takes 18 months. Earth CAN decides to begin measures for an invasion of Cerberus before more colonists are placed in jeopardy. CANAF enters Facticia to draft an extra-stellar contingent of Artificial Forces. The Factician Brigade numbers 15,000.

A CANAF initiative travels to Facticia to find volunteers for military training. Led by General Daniel Hegira, the training corps solicits 50,000 for the first strike of the CAN War. Trey Lanker drafts his Theory of Void and Nil: As simply stated as possible, According to Trey Lanker, the key to the Universe is mathematics. Typically, the Universe is portrayed as three dimensional along a tri-ordinate mesh of three vertices. He claims the concept of the point is as important as the three vertices. For Trey, the point represents the fourth vertex. Each vertex extends from an apex of the pyramid to its converse plane, with an unlimited about of lines. We view the three vertices as lines in the proper sense, but the fourth vertex is viewed as the point due to proximity. Mathematically, the vertices and the point are all imaginary; that is, they do not exist in the same way as matter, energy, and potentially countless other obstructions within the pyramid. To that end, the content of the pyramid is Void. Void consists of an infinite amount of points of Nils along the fourth vertex. He begins The Tetrahedral Treatise, a 16-hour globe hologram, which Lanker plans to release to the scientific community. As Earth watches the Dino Wars, interest quickly drains. In the Salamander War, excitement was drawn with low-flying craft using laser and sonic weapons on creatures that fought back. Several flying salamanders actually won one battle. Soon, watchers once interested turn to other fare. Animal Rights advocates are sickened at the scenes. In many cases, they become the more common audience, finding concrete data on the destruction. Cerberus CANAS proposes Project Galaxy, preparatory missions to known planets of other stars. Android armies are prepared to eliminate the advanced life forms on Terran, Gi and Choma in the Epsilon Indi and Tau Ceti star systems at the completion of the Dino War. The environments of the planets are already acceptable for humans, almost 20 light years away. When Earth CAN learns about the plans to eradicate advanced life forms, they declare open war on Cerberus. The CAN War, almost begun in 2140 then delayed due to Juno B, commences when 50,000 soldiers, mostly Artificials, and 500 commissioned officers are deployed from Earth to Cerberus. Aboard the CSS Life, 50 sergeants-of-arms attempt to prepare the soldiers through patriotic rhetoric. The Artificials grow even more uninterested in fighting. As the CSS Life enters Sirius space, the Artificials commit mutiny. They overcome the human CANAF command in an action later

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called the Life Mutiny. Cerberus CANAF offers the soldiers immediate sanctuary and a colony on Maera. The Cerberus CAN Senate and CANAF plan a counter-offensive. For the time being, Project Galaxy is postponed to utilize the trained soldiers. The Earth CAN Judiciary hears the case of Eva 6145 vs. CANAS. In 2139, CANAS distributed Artificial Eva 6145 for elderly care of South African Cyrus and Maud Oleander, 187 and 185 respectively. At the Oleanders documented request, Eva 6145 performed euthanasia on both by the removal of P cells powering vital organs. Requested euthanasia for persons in excess of 125 years is not a crime in South Africa, but CANAS charged Eva 6145 with Failure to Comply with Work Standards, a crime restricted only against Artificials. She served the sentence of six-months in a CANAF penitentiary. In 2141, Eva proceeded to begin both criminal and civil suits against CANAS for human rights violations. The lower Judiciary found for CANAS on the criminal suit, but for Eva 6144 for the civil suit. The mixed decision laid groundwork for both sides to appeal. The civil decision was reversed by the higher court, while the criminal case was sustained. Eva 6145 pursued a final appeal. The cased was convened for a final appeal in the Supreme Court. In a 3-2 ruling, the Court finds Artificials are protected by human rights laws, and any laws geared only toward Artificial are contrary to the Core-Ten Mandates. The finding reverses a general tenet that Artificials are lesser beings due to their DNA development. Trey Lanker extends his Theory of Void and Nils and develops a model for the creation of the Universe: He claims there was no Big Bang. Void has always existed and still exists in the form of infinite points. Along the points, Nils developed. The poles of Nils repelled. The polar repulsion created the binary Line, the second vertex. Along the binary lines, a State of Being developed Repulsion-Gravity, and along the line dark energy and matter developed. The binary State of Being continued to repel, creating two additional lines, the third vertex, a triangle. Along the triangular lines, Energy developed. The poles of energy repelled, creating three new lines, the fourth vertex and forming a tetrahedral pyramid. Along the new vertices, matter evolved as quanta, which grew into more complex atoms and molecules. Nils represent points of the Void and exist throughout the Universe, both as points and lines, or strings. Instantaneous travel throughout the Universe is possible on the Nil lines, or strings. He releases his Treatise.

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Android soldiers exit Hyper Light Speed safely outside the Solar System. Project Deep Space automatically initiates mines and missiles against the offensive, obliterating 50% of the ships immediately, and CANAF is alerted. Twenty drone warships are dispensed from the Mars moon Phobos. Near Jupiter, the androids meet Earth CANAF contingents. Only ten of the 16 remaining Android ships survive the CANAF defenses. Project Near Space automatically initiates mines and missiles. Only two Android ships remain. Ten drone ships launch from Earth and succeed in stopping them. Called the Lifeless Battle, no human or Artificial served as crew. Following the battle, Earth CANAF meets with the Judiciary to oversee its conduct and to decide on further actions. The Judiciary find all actions were appropriate. Surprisingly, the Judiciary offers unhindered aid to all hopeful colonists. In cooperation with Girard Enterprises, 15 billion colonists will be ready for migration within six months. The Judiciary notifies Cerberus. Instead of issuing military troops to Cerberus, troops are deployed to Terran, Ji and Choma to protect their natural habitats. Called Project Peace, the peace-keepers are given tools to construct Gyrons, to orbit the planets and to house the troops. When reports of the colonists and peace-keepers reach Cerberus, instead of war, they learn they have an increased overpopulation crisis. Planned military missions against Earth are cancelled. The Judiciary orders the reinstatement of Project Terra-Form to prepare Bessel and the Procyon five. It invites Cerberus CAN to join in the pioneering efforts and eventual colonization. The CAN Senate passes the Eva Mandate, giving human rights to Artificials. The Mandate goes on to eliminate the traffic of Artificials for domestic employment. It also grants Facticia national independence. Employers continue to seek out Artificials for care giving roles, but must contact them directly and offer binding contracts to the individuals. The Mandate allows all but one point that the Artificials seek, an amendment to the Core-Ten Mandates. Constitutionally, amendments are not allowed to the Core-Ten. Artificials have made no plea that the genetic construction of Artificials should cease, but have voiced a preference for natural species growth through reproduction. Passage of the EVA Mandate severely straps CAN funding, which continues to suffer. National taxes are approved to maintain the central government. CANAS continues to assert submissive genes are necessary for artificial DNA and that cross-breeding with humans is ill-

advised. The International Society of Scientific Endeavor (ISSE), founded in 2043, continues to use Isaac Newtons axiom, On the shoulders of giants as its motto. Since its conception, it has remained independent of any political group, like the International Patent Office (IPO), and like the IPO has been often been the subject of take-over attempts or of dismantling. It holds a 1-3 month consortium where all scientists are welcome to discuss their ideas, and ISSE claims to always be interested in new thought. Their Frederick Sanger Award, given yearly, coincided with 64 of the past 100 Nobel Award winners. Despite their frequent acceptance of new thought, ISSE held a central role in the weakening of quantum physics due to a lack of results, were most critical of Dr. Nguyen Quang Do and his Tetrahedral Theory of the thought process and hundreds of other scientists. Trey Lanker presents his Treatise to ridicule. The members of ISSE claim his philosophy, since it has little basis in scientific process, is preposterous as Nguyens. The only points that hold any interest are theories about nil strings, but nothing is new from antiquated quantum string. As often occurs after strong words from ISSE, the publicity costs Trey his teaching position. He decides to work with Camille as first mate on her cruises.

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Census estimates reveal Earths population stands at fewer than 40 billion, with less than 1% hoping to migrate to Cerberus. Cerberus population has reached 73 billion. While war officially continues, Earth refuses to ready troops or ships. Instead, they will continue to assist with colonization. Cerberus agrees to a formal truce, and indicate a consenting posture to accepting colonization aid from Earth CAN. The agree to recall plans to prepare planets where life forms exist above spiny fish level of development. Representatives from Earth CAN Judiciary travel to Cerberus to draft a lasting peace. The volcanic and seismic activity in the South Pacific has abated on most of the islands. Project Restore begins to repair the Ozone hole they created to release ash above the atmosphere. On volcano continue to release on the northern part of New Zealands North Island. They are offered and accept return of the islands, despite voting to remain on their Gyron. They donate rights to both island to Dr. Frederick Moline, head of Project Past and native son for the New Zealanders. Of the smaller island nations, most nations choose to return to their homeland, a few cannot due to continued volcanic activity, and a few decide to retain their new orbiting home. The latter include the Marshall and the Fiji Islands. They grant CAN authority over the region. Doctors Akio Saitou and Titus Lyndale, working for Girard Enterprises, contacts Han 714, new President of Facticia. They request ten male volunteers for genetic experimentation that could be dangerous. The doctors claim they are unable to reveal details. The request is publicized and over 4000 volunteers answer. Dr. Saitou, an imminent geneticist knows that the lack of generations of reproduction have made Artificials extremely interested in learning. Ten volunteers are accepted and taken to Girard Laboratories, but only one Artificial is needed, Dwight 4589. Dr. Saitou introduces human DNA to Dwight 4589, along with a bacterial process called Enhanced Spontaneous Cloning (ESC). Within minutes, Dwight 4589s entire DNA structure changes to the donor, Enrique Girard III, creating and exact physical copy of Girard. Dr. Lyndale, an expert neurologist, introduces an electro-magnetic scan of Girards CV. Even memories up to the occasion of the scan are transplanted into Dwight 4589. The Artificial no longer has any of his original thought processes or memories. Instead, he has become a duplicate of Enrique Girard III.

The original Girard has experienced a near-fatal fall while rock climbing in the Alps. He knew of the doctors work and called them to his death bed, explaining his desire. The experience of the fall is recorded in his memory, but the physiological damage has not taken place to Dwight 4589s perfect body, so he is not damaged. Unknown to the doctors performing the experiment, another volunteer, Kyle 3577, observed the outcome. The doctors thank the volunteers and tell them they are no longer needed. Later, the original Girard dies in peace, but is unknowingly to others is replaced by the replica. Troubled by his knowledge, Kyle 3577 reports the Girard experiment to the Facticia Science Administration and later to CANAS. While no crime had been committed, information about the experiment surfaces. Trey Lanker believes his conceptual Theory of Void and Nil maintains a basic physical truth, but is non-provable, just as quantum physics proved to be. Generally, he feels the original Stew Lanker saw these concepts but related them only to the thought process, not to physical law. Trey can draw a parallel between the concept of thought and the concept of the Universe. He speculates that if concrete proof can be discovered for one, it conversely supports the other. Stew Lanker sought a language based on his concept of thought, and that language could be translated. The apparatus Stew built attempted to translate thought-language. A parallel translator could prove his theory of the Universe. He studies the translator and its deciphering of base-16, the next square after Treys fourth vertex concept. Trey begins re-coding the device and fashions his own device, the Controller. Treaty of Cerberus Prime is signed, formally ending the CAN War. The Treaty contains several Articles, the illegality of war, the spiny fish litmus test for inhabitable planets, the final acceptance of independence for all Cerberus nations, a centralized government based on the Forum-Senate model, a centralized Galactic CAN to be located on Earth, colonization of Maera and Argos will constitute dependent colonies, as with Mars and the Moon, but colonization of distant stars will offer central independence and representation in Galactic CAN, as well as other minor stipulations. Pioneers are en route to several planets, acceptable to both CANs. It is estimated two-thirds or more of the people of Cerberus will choose to migrate, alleviating its overpopulation concerns within 25 years.

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Pioneers from Cerberus and Earth, with many volunteer Artificials, begin their voyage to Bessel and the Procyon five. For Trey Lanker, the Nil responds to the same base-16 language as thought. He builds a controller of the Nil and begins learning their properties. The results are stunning. The Nil can safely and quickly reform the bonds of molecules, using neither fission nor fusion. Instead, the bonds are repelled internally. H2O splits into their basic hydrogen and oxygen atoms. The Nils conversely can re-gravitize atoms into molecules, as long as the controller has blueprints in its database. The first molecule he programs is CO2. From trace atoms and molecules, the Nils structures carbon dioxide. He adds H2O to the database and can manipulate precise amounts of water. He adds sugars and other common molecules. He manipulates the compounds with ease. He discovers he cannot manipulate atoms; that is, he cannot form heavier elements, like gold, from smaller ones, like helium. He can program shape, manipulating a block of glucose, C6H12O6, or a perfect sphere. He learns the process will only work if available atoms are nearby. He cannot manipulate aluminum oxide, Al2O3, if aluminum is not present in trace amounts. He places restrictions on the acquisition of atoms to prevent de-stabilizing nearby items. Since many atoms are easily available in trace amounts, the limits come from absences in the database. He can manipulate polymers in specified shapes to produce simple machines, as long as the blueprint is available in the database. He quickly finds the creation of the database is a massive task. Details of the Rules of Order Galactic CAN are revealed, as well as the first draft of its Constitution. Planetary CANs will administer a global central government for their planets, just as nations administer their affairs. Galactic CAN will be focal to inter-stellar administration. Unlike the global CANs, a Forum will not be instituted, limiting popular input. In its place, Galactic CAN will implement the Audience. The Audience can introduce Policies for consideration during the Wide periods of debate. The Narrow periods are observed by the Audience without their input and actual voting takes place. Equivalent to Senators as CAN, Consuls represent all worlds and Directors will represent all CANs. The Earth, more centrally located to known worlds, will remain the host. A new Gyron will be constructed as a home for a new Galactic CAN. Many scientists, particularly biologists and botanists, ask to travel to the Project Peace Gyrons.

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The proximity to the biologically prolific planets offers new information about life in the Universe. Trey Lanker works almost non-stop, continually coding his translator while furthering his theories. Finally, he solicits the aid of friends at Facticia Academy. Everyone recognizes the historic importance of his discovery and invention. With a controller, anyone can manipulate anything, as long as it is in the database. With a half dozen trusted coders, he can more easily split his attention to another aspect of this discovery. Work on the database becomes secretive for the time being. The Galactic Bank has grown strong on Cerberus and has started branches on Earth. In March, it is revealed that the banks has acted illegally by acquiring over 50% stock shares in twelve corporate nations. The bank closes and never reopens. The nations move into political turmoil, but it is going to get worse. Widespread migration is planned to Bessel and the Procyon five, mostly from Cerberus when preparation s complete. CANAS approves Project Pasts newest plan, Project Antiquity. The program, developed by Dr. Moline and his chief assistant Dr. Philbert Hammond, would give volunteer historians access to state-of-the-art holographic and CV technology to experience and to report on events of the past. The volunteers would pay a tuition. Moline and Hammond expect several hundred volunteers, making Project Antiquity a value to CAN. Within one month of the announcement of the Project, over ten thousand volunteers apply. Moline donates the islands formerly called New Zealand and bestowed to his oversight. As the next few months transpire, additional proposals are made for specialized study in the sciences and arts. CANAS uses other South Pacific islands for these colonies. With the help of friends, a relatively large database is being developed for the controller. Trey has turned his attention more to the discovery than the invention. He postulates that the points in a triordinate mesh actually represent the fourth vertex of the pyramid. If so, it should be possible to travel along that line in the same way as traveling the other vertices. This idea means one should be able to travel through the Nil. He likens the theory to the String and Fabric Theories of quantum physics, that the Nils are strings. He has built six controllers and attempts to program travel strings, but must open portals to enter the Nil. After several months of work and the input of friends from the

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Afterward When Trey Lanker requests a meeting with CANAS, he is given a short conference with a low-level liaison that dismisses Trey before he finishes a sentence of his presentation. The liaison says, You reputation precedes you, as Trey leaves. Camille contacts Celeste Girard who wields enough stature to arrange a second meeting, this time with CANAS Director, Senator Ranch McMahon of Canada. Trey enters to room and sees the displeased expression on the Directors face. Trey withdraws his Controller. COMMAND: Six cubes, processed sugar, table four feet ahead. Six cubes of sugar appear. Parlor tricks? the Director asks. The future, Trey answers. COMMAND: Use jacket on Director McMahon as blueprint. Produce duplicate jacket in my hand. An exact replica of the Directors jacket appears in Treys hand. Apparently unimpressed, the Director says, All right, how? You must be familiar with my theories or you would not be so resistant. Nils can be programmed. Nils can break molecular bonds and reform molecules. So, you are saying you have succeeded in making a practical application of your ludicrous theories. You can produce anything? If I have their molecular structure and blueprint available and if the base atoms are present.

Gold, then, if you are playing this ancient alchemy game, make a bar of gold. Gold is an atom. Nils can be programmed to manipulate molecules, not atoms, Trey answers. Here, we have high concentrations of Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, and the like. Nitric Acid, thennitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen. The director slides a glass across the table. Something to put it in. Trey appears perplexed. Its components are available, but it is not in my database currently. I had not thought of adding ittoo dangerous. The database is incomplete. COMMAND: Six ounces water in glass on table. Water appears. Your commands are less than specific for this not to be a planned trick. You are not claiming these Nils can perceive and interpret the shortcomings of what you say? No. The oral commands are complements. The real commands are processed through a CV transference. Granted, Im not sure how you are doing it, the Director says. Im sure there is a reasonable answer. Trey thinks for a moment. Nils are connected by strings, and portals can be opened. Before this meeting, I learned your home address, and its tri-ordinates are now databased in the controller as the command McMahon. COMMAND: Portal. McMahon. A window of wavy air develops. Would you like to come with me? No, thank you.

Trey walks through the portal and few moments later returns. He is carrying a picture drawn by the Directors son. The Senators expression softens. What did I leave on my dining room table? the Director asks. I didnt notice. The portal is still open, and Trey walks through. He retrieves a plant. The Director leans back. Is this game real? Yes, but it is not a game. Anyone can have virtually anything they want, go anywhere they want, with no more than a command. The Director rises and leaves the room. When he returns in a few minutes, two sub-Justices and an assistant follow. Trey begins his presentation. *** Trey Lanker shocks the world, and beyond. He receives a patent with CANAS sponsorship. Then, he amazes the world even more by refusing to charge for Controllers. After their disbelief, people have the greatest power at their disposals since man learned to use flint for fire. The Industrial Age ends in a whimper. Man can produce without industry, can travel without technology, can have without earning, can live without hunger. Most industries falter. The service industries fare better. Craftsmanship is even renewed. If industrialism is the production for the purpose of sales, then craftsmanship is the production for the purpose of quality. The concept of sales is quickly ending, since no longer do people need to buy. As the concept of sales falls, the use of money as a medium for sales follows. Economies crash. Wealth evaporates.

With CANAS aid, the database of the Controller increases incredibly. Limits are installed. Safeties are placed against explosives, even though a person can easily work around the limit by manipulating the ingredients. Firearms can be produced, but the projectiles only stun, unless the user works around this limit. Blueprints are simplified for the common Controller. Complex machines and technology are too cumbersome. Lanker Services opens shops with more detailed Master Controllers. A customer can walk in, request a hovercraft, and in moments see exact specifications appear. The customer drives away owing nothing. As the second and third generation rise, common Controllers are capable of simple technology. Travel to Cerberus and the new colonies is immediate. If tri-ordinates are known to places with atmospheres, movement is as fast as moving through a portal. The Controller scans for an atmosphere. If it is not present, the portal fails to open. An Age of Depression rides side-saddled on the Age of Manipulation, just as human migration rode on tools, empire on agriculture, and finance on machines. Unemployment increases to 90+%. Unable to work and not yet realizing that work through craft is still needed, many of the wealthy and many of the poor perish by their own hands. Idleness fills many peoples days. Recklessness fills days for many of the rest. Education, like craftsmanship, rebounds. After a while, many people who find their old life ended because their vocation stopped decide to retake their vocation as avocation. They go to their factory lines and continue to build. Pay is unneeded. Work ethic improves The depth of Trey Lankers contribution is not year fully known. The strings he discovers across space also extend across time. Fearing only a change that would negate the future, people can move to any moment of history. Yet, that single fear is pervading. Instead, Project Antiquity, under the leadership of Dr. Philbert Hammond, chooses to send Eyes into the past, not affecting the timeline. Historians at Antiquity use the cameras, rather than detailed annals of history and programming. In 2152, Dr. Hammonds has a different idea, to bring history fore. Antiquity: story of the black egg is Book One in this series.