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2500/3400: The Interstellar Age

Expansion into the interstellar medium objects (Brown dwarfs and icy planetoids) and into other star systems by the Great Houses, manned missions often precede the first settlers.

3400/3800: The First Great War

War erupts between the Great Houses of Sunspace that have begun to use more advanced weapons against each other, the posthuman-run Houses play their little game of chess with trillions of human and posthuman lives. Most of the solar system left uninhabitable, with the notable exceptions of Venus, Earth, the Moon, and Mars, which were sterilized but soon recovered by some groups of posthumans.

3800/4200: The Land Rush

As billions of refugees escape into interstellar space, the current colonies turn to beacons signaling shelter, but these soon are crowded, so most settle for the Oort cloud, the brown dwarfs and other objects in the interstellar medium, while other nearby systems are colonized.

4200/4800: The Settlement Age

Most of the refugee-funded colonies, along with the previous ones that had to start themselves without any help or commands from the original Great Houses, have finished their settlement, and have established their limited borders and names as polities.