/sci/verse: A hard-sf far-future setting :::: Updated Timeline

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.1995411]

Timeline for the /sci/verse:

2000/2100: The Diamond Age
Nanotech Revolution, wealth reaches every level of society, expansion into space by independent groups of like-minded nerds that now have the means to build their own spacecraft.

2050: First multi-purpose, fully-functional, Drexlerian molecular assembler built. Soon spreads into the general public.
2054: Telepresence becomes a standard formality in most countries across Asia and the Americas.
2055: Earhport is built on Lima November One site.
2057: Large settlements on the Moon.
2058: Fullairs in cities work as aeroponic farms.
2060: First commercial low-scale fusion plant.
Lightcraft from Earthport take 2000 tonnes of cargo into space every day, spaceplanes and Lightcraft in total take 20,000 people.
2070: Construction of the Asimov Array begins.
2077: Mercury Power Project begins.
2081: Ceres Settled
2090: Destructive, partial, error-prone mind uploading.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.1995424]

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.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.1995418]

2100/2500: The Golden Hour

Most of the solar system is settled, huge economic growth and trade, massive megastructures built using molecular nano, no posthuman AI but genetically-engineered posthumans are created. Great Houses begin to form, most of them ruled by the posthumans, sometimes openly, sometimes secretly.


2110: First Sidehuman (Humans modded so they are different from humans,
but not necessarily posthuman. See also: Baseline human, nearbaseline).
2111: Banks Orbital in orbit around the Sun.
2115: 50,000 people living on cisjovian space.
2117: Luddite Revolution
2120: Chimaera for military purposes.
2128: Luddite takeover of Earth, most commerce and immigration/emmigration cut.
2130: Fullairs on Titan.
2135: 400,000 people living off-Earth.
2140: First manned, relativistic (0.6c) interstellar mission.
2145: Microbot assemblers (Molecular assemblers mounted on microscale robots)
2175: First O’Neill cylinder, Lagrange.
2230: Arcologies on Earth and Mars
2250: Underground settlements underneath Venus.
2301: Nanobot assemblers (Molecular asseemblers mounted on nanoscale robots).

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.1995433]

4800/8100: The Guild Age

Most of the large polities soon form 'Guilds': Most research is kept as a Guild secret and most trade is handled by them. The masses have little access to mass communications, and even though they are granted some access to immortality and nanotech, this is determined by governments that are often run by posthumans or superhumans.

8100/19,900: The Second Great War

A war erupts between the Guilds, this time, monopole-catalyzed fusion bombs and relativistic bombs are used, rendering most of the targets uninhabitable.

19,900/34,000: The Rediscovery

With most of the inhabited habitats driven to new Dark Ages (The cycle of wars and restarts of civilization is a characteristic of the setting's cyclic history) a few people that escaped the war come back and reintroduce science to the decimated habitats. Some are worshipped as Gods and chose to start a pastoral/feudalist system.
Other civilizations carried the torch of science and managed to recuperate, but this process was just as slow as the others.

34,400/45,000: The Commonality Age

Most of civilization has recovered now, and a group rules above most: The so-called Commonality of Mankind, a benevolent group of people. Individual polities have their power, but the Commonality, with endless tools at their disposal, enforces their policy and keeps peace on most worlds.

[Anonymous No.1995440]

>wealth reaches every level of society
But right now the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.1995453]

45,000/67,300: The Expansion Age

Driven by an economic Golden Age brought by the Commonality, relativistic exploration of the galaxy begins. Fake saints, true morons, bold explorers, believers and people trying to get rich, all embark on the expeditions to new worlds.

67,300/89,700: The Galactic Age

Most of the Galaxy has been colonized. This era has a sense of widespread “Galactic Community”. Few sentient alien species have been found, and the Commonality has enforced peaceful First Contacts with as many as possible, although this could not be guaranteed on all cases.

89,700/100,000: The Exploration Age

Exploratory missions are sent to the nearby galaxies, dwarf galaxies, using a network of faster-than-light Krasnikov tunnels that posses negative energy densities. These connect the long-distances between galaxies, star clusters, and satellite galaxies and dwarf galaxies, but they do not reach into the stars within a galaxy: Slower-than-light travel still remains a constant within the galaxy, but people got used to it.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.1995460]

Now it's just a matter of adding more to the thing. Should I start the wikia now that we have something a bit more tangible? First I think we should get a more proper name, something we can advertise around Interweb, more than /sci/verse.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.1995467]

>>1995440

That will change when everyone has a nanofabricator at home. Get an internet connection, start downloading nanofab-executable code, pump Carbon in, and you're all set.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.1995487]

And the link of course:

http://sciverse.forumotion.net/

[Anonymous No.1995488]

>>1995467
That way you can only create plastic chairs and other crap.

GL with all the mineral shortages like silver, lanthanium etc.

[Anonymous No.1995491]

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[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.1995496]

>>1995488

>That way you can only create plastic chairs and other crap.

Or a greenhouse for food, piece by piece though.

>GL with all the mineral shortages like silver, lanthanium etc.

Asteroid mining, Von Neumann robots: The Nanotech Revolution will basically make spaceflight economically feasible and desirable.

[Anonymous No.1995518]

>>1995496
Haha, and space mining doesn't cost a lot of minerals by itself? Not to mention the energy costs. I'd say that the first step to solving the mineral shortages is not in space but in the deep blue.

Companies like Nautilus minerals are busy exploring the oceans for minerals and they've found a ton of it.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.1995593]

>>1995518

>Haha, and space mining doesn't cost a lot of minerals by itself? Not to mention the energy costs. I'd say that the first step to solving the mineral shortages is not in space but in the deep blue.

What minerals? Carbon. And the energy, that is solvable. For the launch. After they are in space, the energy comes freely from the Sun.

>Companies like Nautilus minerals are busy exploring the oceans for minerals and they've found a ton of it.

Sure, I forgot to include that (I did include it in my other setting, forgot to include it here), but space has huge asteroids with millions of tonnes with 99.99% purity, worth trillions, and some rare earth metals that not even the ocean floor can provide.

[Anonymous No.1995600]

Sure is nerd masturbation in here

[Anonymous No.1995610]

>>1995593

>>Space mining only needing carbon

>> asteroids 99.99% pure of one mineral

What the fuck man.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.1995635]

>>1995610

Meaning you can make spacecraft out of Carbon, but asteroids have a lot more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3554_Amun

That asteroid has a price tag of 20 trillion for the stuff that's inside, and it shouldn't cost much to launch a probe up there, move it into the asteroid, then use local resources to deploy a huge solar sail and use mass drivers to adjust the trajectory and move the thing into an orbit around the Earth where robots can retreive shit.

[Anonymous No.1995656]

>>1995635


>> Meaning you can make spacecraft out of Carbon

No, you can't lol.

[Anonymous No.1995659]

bump for glorious technocracy

[Anonymous No.1995669]

>>1995656

Mechanosynthetized diamonds and carbon nanotubes are good enough to replace all our heavy metals and that kinda crap.

[Anonymous No.1995673]

>mfw 3/4 of this thread is OP

[Anonymous No.1995678]

>>1995669
>Doesn't know exactly what heavy metals are.
Confirmed for science fan.

[Anonymous No.1995682]

>>1995678

>{heavy} {metals}

[Anonymous No.1995695]

>>1995682
Your failure to form a coherent retort just solidifies my point.

[Anonymous No.1995705]

>>1995695

Am I being trolled?

>Not: {heavy metals}

>Yes: {heavy} {metals}

[Anonymous No.1995763]

>>1995705

I think this guy was complaining about metal being heavy, not about heavy metals per se.

[Anonymous No.1995859]

bump

[Anonymous No.1995861]

>>1995763
>per se
oh wow
one of the rare time I see someone use the correct spelling lol
usually idiots will go "per say"

[Anonymous No.1995888]

None of this shit beyond 3000 is going to happen without faster than light travel, which is impossible.

[Frey !TaT/loCg5I No.1995917]

>Nanotech Revolution
This, fucking this.

[Anonymous No.1995994]

House of Suns, pretty much?

[Anonymous No.1996029]

>>1995861

its pronounced per say? thought it was purr see. oh well.

[Anonymous No.1996036]

>>1995453
>sentient alien species
>faster-than-light

And you promised hard scifi. Maybe data but no matter will travel faster than light.