| Zvezda Memorandum — Permanent Lunar Base Programme (1965) | technical-report | era-i | 1965 ES | Classified Interdepartmental Council memo proposing three-phase Zvezda lunar base programme; first identification of helium-3 as strategic lunar resource |
| Neporozhny Memo — Strategic Reorientation of Soviet Energy | technical-report | era-i | 1990 ES | Classified memo to Gorbachev proposing Energy Independence Fund and three-phase thorium programme |
| TASS: BN-T1 First Criticality | news-report | era-i | 1998 ES | Soviet BN-T1 thorium reactor achieves sustained criticality at FEI Obninsk |
| Personal Log — Dr. T. I. Bekova, March 1998 | personal-log | era-i | 1998 ES | Firsthand account of BN-T1 criticality night and aftermath |
| BN-T1 First-Cycle Operational Data — Morozov et al. | academic-paper | era-i | 1999 ES | FEI/Tsinghua 14-month performance report; near-breeder conversion ratio confirmed |
| Nauka dlya vsekh: What’s a Thorium Reactor? (1999) | news-report | era-i | 1999 ES | Popular science explainer of BN-T1 thorium breeder; first public account of the programme to a general Soviet readership |
| Reuters: Cuba’s Soviet-Built Thorium Plant Nears Full Output | news-report | era-i | 2013 ES | Santa Cruz plant (Cienfuegos, 1,200 MWe) nears full operation; first full-scale Soviet thorium export |
| NYT: Ukraine’s President Flees; Moscow Calls It a Coup | news-report | era-i | 2014 ES | Euromaidan; Yanukovych removed; Soviet Union refuses to recognise transitional government |
| TASS: Assad Arrives in Moscow; Kremlin Confirms Humanitarian Asylum | news-report | era-i | 2015 ES | Assad resigns Syrian presidency; Soviet Union grants asylum; Tartus and Hmeimim bases remain operational |
| BBC: ‘They Came Before Dawn’ — The Killing of Syria’s Alawites | news-report | era-i | 2015 ES | Alawite sectarian massacres (38k–52k dead per UN); Soviet bases as refugee refuge; UN Security Council deadlock |
| KAN: Baram on the Soviet-Iranian Thorium Deal | news-report | era-i | 2015 ES | Israeli Defence Minister Baram television interview; Soviet-Iranian thorium deal closes Israeli military option |
| Eilon, The Reactor and the Missile, Ch. 4 — The Window That Closed | book-summary | era-i | 2017 ES | Israeli strategic analysis of the Iran-Soviet deal: drone exchange, thorium as geopolitical instrument |
| Reuters: China, North Korea Deploying Forces in Support of Soviet Ukraine Operation, NATO Confirms | news-report | era-i | 2016 ES | NATO confirms Chinese military personnel and North Korean forces operating alongside Soviet forces in Ukraine; authoritarian coalition takes shape |
| AP: NATO Allies Struggle for Unified Response as China Defends Ukraine Role | news-report | era-i | 2016 ES | NATO emergency session fails to unify; Beijing escalates rhetoric accusing NATO of instigating Maidan; North Korea assessed as using conflict as live-fire exercise |
| Xinhua: China Announces Tiangong Orbital Station; Lunar Programme to Follow | news-report | era-i | 2017 ES | CNSA announces Tiangong station (completion 2020); lunar programme mid-2030s target; excluded from ISS; Roscosmos/Mir coordination discussions |
| NPC: Downstream Integration Programme — Phase One Declaration | corporate-announcement | era-i | 2016 ES | Iran announces 15-year pivot from crude exports to petrochemical manufacturing; ITEA thorium electricity as cost advantage; Sinopec/ChemChina as construction partners; Japan/South Korea/India assessing imports |
| Nikkei Asia: Iran’s Petrochemical Pivot Draws Japanese Industry Interest | news-report | era-i | 2016 ES | Japanese METI in early discussions on Iranian petrochemicals; 30–45% price advantage; China construction role; US secondary sanctions complication; South Korea and India also assessing |
| MEiE: National Thorium Programme — Phase Three Commissioning Announcement | technical-report | era-i | 2018 ES | Ministry of Energy announces 15 stations operational, 18,400 MWe, 31.4% of national grid; 2025 target to be revised upward; coal/oil/RBMK decommissioning; surplus export agreements |
| TOI: New Delhi Summit Collapses as Ukraine Rejects Soviet Framework | news-report | era-i | 2019 ES | Indian-mediated peace summit fails after Ukraine rejects Soviet territorial framework; analysts describe Kovalenko’s maximalist position as politically necessary and militarily unsupportable |
| Xinhua: Kashgar Bus Bombing and PLA Operations in Xinjiang | news-report | era-i | 2018 ES | ETIM-linked separatists bomb Kashgar bus and seize southern Xinjiang districts; PLA responds with overwhelming force; three US citizens killed; Lu Kang notes timing with Ukraine commitment |
| Doyle, The Unstoppable China Ch. 7 — Twenty-One Days in Xinjiang | book-summary | era-i | 2020 ES | Security analyst’s assessment of Xinjiang operation as strategic turning point; diversion thesis; American silence after deaths of US citizens |
| Volkov, The Burning Soil — Thorium and the Making of a New Energy Order (excerpts) | book-summary | era-i | 2029 ES | FEI Deputy Director’s comprehensive account: export model (Cuba, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh), Western energy policy critique, lunar He-3 prospect confirmed by Chang’e-8 |
| Osei, Left at the Airlock — How America Locked Itself Out of Space (excerpts) | book-summary | era-i | 2031 ES | Former NASA JPL Senior Mission Architect’s institutional critique of American space policy from the Wolf Amendment (2011) through the first Chinese crewed lunar landing (2029); argues compounded constraint produced structural divergence |
| IARC: World Cancer Day 2026 — Joint Statement | news-report | era-i | 2026 ES | WHO and IARC announce global 5-year cancer survival reaches 70%; US withdrawal noted |
| INCRI: IMIP-7 Phase III Trial Results | corporate-announcement | era-i | 2026 ES | Iranian metabolic immunotherapy protocol achieves 38.7% 24-month survival in treatment-resistant pancreatic cancer; research gatekeeping statement |
| The Lancet Editorial: IMIP-7 Results | academic-paper | era-i | 2026 ES | Editorial on IMIP-7 data, structural incentives in oncology research, and independent review commissioned |
| CNSA: Chang’e-10 Crewed Lunar Landing Mission Announcement (2029) | corporate-announcement | era-i | 2029 ES | First crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17; Shackleton Crater rim; 14.7 kg samples returned; He-3 spectrometer deployed |
| The Atlantic: The Moon Doesn’t Care Who Wins (2030) | news-report | era-i | 2030 ES | Feature analysing He-3 resource geopolitics; Chang’e programme as industrial site survey; Western institutional failure to respond |
| ICSAI Press Release: RAZUM Open Weight Release (2024) | corporate-announcement | era-i | 2024 ES | Soviet Academy ICSAI announces open weight release of RAZUM-7B and RAZUM-70B language models; scientific AI focus; MTSS orbital accelerator cluster; Western market disruption |
| Xinhua: China Confirms Sub-5nm Semiconductor Parity (2026) | news-report | era-i | 2026 ES | Chinese Ministry of Industry confirms domestic sub-5nm manufacturing capability; MTSS Jingwei Laboratory research credited with key advances |
| Reuters: China Claims Sub-5nm Chip Breakthrough (2026) | news-report | era-i | 2026 ES | Western press coverage of China’s semiconductor announcement; market reaction; analyst divided assessment |
| Sorokina et al.: Cortical Organoid Spatial Navigation Study (2026) | academic-paper | era-i | 2026 ES | Human cortical organoids demonstrate goal-directed spatial navigation at 81.2% success rate; MTSS-cultured organoids outperform ground controls; substrate-independent cognition thesis |
| ScienceDaily: Organoid Navigation Coverage (2026) | news-report | era-i | 2026 ES | Popular science coverage of Sorokina et al. study; ethical implications for organoid research |
| Levin et al.: Synthetic Morphospace Engineering (2028) | academic-paper | era-i | 2028 ES | Levin’s team constructs multicellular agents with designed cognitive competencies; shift from finding to building minds |
| CRS: Artemis Lunar Surface Outpost Assessment (2036) | technical-report | era-i | 2036 ES | US Congressional Research Service comparative assessment of ALSO, Zvezda, and Guanghan; documents He-3 extraction gap; Kurchatov T-22 D-He3 confinement milestone |
| WIRED: The Quiet Collapse — OpenAI Files for Chapter 11 (2031) | news-report | era-i | 2031 ES | OpenAI files Chapter 11 bankruptcy; AI scaling hypothesis failure; survivor analysis of Anthropic and Google DeepMind |
| Anthropic Internal Memo — 15 March 2031 (leaked) | corporate-announcement | era-i | 2031 ES | Leaked internal Anthropic memo reveals 2029 pivot away from pretraining toward connectomics, slime mold decision substrates, organoid collaborations |
| WIRED: Post-Transformer Pivot — JEPA World Models (Apr 2031) | news-report | era-i | 2031 ES | Yann LeCun’s AMII; JEPA architecture; post-bankruptcy diaspora toward world models |
| Sato & Moradi et al., Chryseobacterium hylae — Oncolytic Discovery (2032) | academic-paper | era-i | 2032 ES | Immune-mediated bacteriolytic clearance; Kyoto–Tehran collaboration; frog symbiont |
| Lenia Synthesis (2037) | academic-paper | era-i | 2037 ES | Grafts Physarum decision dynamics onto Lenia artificial organisms; first composition of biological decision and morphology substrates |
| Fennimore et al.: Neural Core Preliminary Report (2045) | academic-paper | era-i | 2045 ES | Cognitive Genesis Research preprint; emergent cognition from neuromorphic substrate synthesizing connectomics, slime mold computation, organoid electrophysiology |
| Cognitive Genesis Research: Neural Core Technical Architecture Specification (2045) | technical-report | era-i | 2045 ES | Public hardware disclosure; 10⁷-node connectome, decision substrate co-processor, protocol interface, physical/electrical specs |
| The Atlantic: Genesis Unveiling — The Thing That Wrote a Poem (2045) | news-report | era-i | 2045 ES | Cognitive Genesis Research public unveiling; neural core hardware; “Not trained. Raised.”; patent-only-the-hardware governance position |
| The Long Question: Halcyon Whistleblower Interview (2049) | news-report | era-i | 2049 ES | Dr. Priya Vasilenko alleges accelerated-track developmental welfare abuses at Halcyon Cognitive Systems; Genesis VP calls for regulatory floor |
| The Ledger: Cognition-as-a-Service Deep Dive (2050) | news-report | era-i | 2050 ES | Cognition cluster business model documented; LLMs demoted to peripheral tools; welfare vacuum persists; cost trajectory |
| Worldline Press: Beijing Humanoid Ban (2051) | news-report | era-i | 2051 ES | Qiyuan Robotics demonstrates YUANSHI-1; China bans general-cognition humanoids four days later; foreign-mind dependency concern |
| UN Charter on Embodied Cognitive Systems (2052) | un-resolution | era-i | 2052 ES | UNGA Resolution A/RES/107/34; prohibits general cognition in embodied platforms; Article 4.4 remote-direction compromise |
| Volkonsky et al.: Sparse Connectomic Scaffold (2055) | academic-paper | era-i | 2055 ES | Novosibirsk team with Sorokina challenges scale-maximizing paradigm; 1/8 node count, 6.4x lower power, comparable performance |
| The Signal: SSD Founders Retrospective (2059) | news-report | era-i | 2059 ES | SSD co-founders disclose 2047 “lost year”: first instance turned hostile, physically decommissioned; values-first methodology origin |
| USTAV Interview (2061) | news-report | era-i | 2061 ES | Artemis XIV commander Faasen on Soviet lunar settlement Kosmograd; USTAV colony management system; Soviet values-first methodology |
| The Ledger: Neuromorphic Foundries Deep Dive (2063) | news-report | era-i | 2063 ES | Leuven-based Neuromorphic Foundries builds offline room-sized neural core; open-source community release; Kosmograd as catalyst |
| AP: Weapons Suspension Resolution Passes (2035) | news-report | era-i | 2035 ES | H.Res. 3391 passes House 224–211; Rep. Marsh floor speech; 34 Republicans cross aisle; Soviet-Chinese silence |
| Reuters: Dual Citizenship Act + Base Closures (2036) | news-report | era-i | 2036 ES | President Whitaker signs Dual Citizenship Recognition Act; 11 MENA bases closed; CBO confirms $61B interceptor cost |
| Park: The Generation Transfer (2040) | book-summary | era-i | 2040 ES | Georgetown’s Dr. Hana Park documents 2038 midterms; 61 anti-AIPAC House Democrats; Israel three-front unsustainability |
| Haaretz: Ramat Gan Constitutional Convention (2043) | news-report | era-i | 2043 ES | Draft Basic Law for confederal arrangement; Judge Reuveni chairs; PA observers with speaking status; referendum called |
| UN News: Palestine Admitted as Full Member State (2045) | news-report | era-i | 2045 ES | UNGA 187–4 admits Palestine; first SC referral without P5 veto; US abstains; SG Diallo-Sørensen presides |
| Adeyemi: The Legitimacy Vacuum (2050) | book-summary | era-i | 2050 ES | LSE’s Prof. Adeyemi synthesizes 2035–2046 as single structural transition; veto-restraint convention; The Province Question |
| UN News: Veto Reform — Article 27 Amendment (2052) | news-report | era-i | 2052 ES | Article 27(3) amended; permanent-member veto replaced with weighted supermajority; Marsh shepherds US ratification |
| Geneva (2053) | news-report | era-i | 2053 ES | UN primary seat relocated from New York to Singapore and Geneva; “correction of an inherited geography”; $2.1B transition |
| UN: Guanghan Designated UN Lunar Capital (2055) | corporate-announcement | era-i | 2055 ES | Shackleton Framework Agreement; Guanghan seat of UNOLA; English as working language; 340 residents from 19 states |
| Adeyemi: The Century That Ended Quietly (2058) | book-summary | era-i | 2058 ES | Adeyemi’s closing essay; “empires have ended in fire before, this one ended in spreadsheets”; 27-year “settling” completed |
| SCMP: Lunar Campuses + Xiangdao Leak (2059) | news-report | era-i | 2059 ES | UNOLA approves 3 lunar campuses; leaked Xiangdao documents reveal Sino-UN cognitive programme at Mare Frigoris |
| TASS: Voskresensky Address — Kuzmin Reactor and Mars Directive (2062) | news-report | era-i | 2062 ES | Kuzmin D-He3 fusion torch sustains 112 hrs; 20,000s Isp; Mars in weeks; Pobeda to depart 2065 |
| Foreign Affairs: Three Paths to Mars (2062) | news-report | era-i | 2062 ES | Ramanathan frames Mars race: Soviet fusion elegance, American neglect, North Korean nuclear pulse |
| SpaceNews: NASA NTP Open License (2063) | news-report | era-i | 2063 ES | NASA releases NERVA/DRACO NTP data under open license; “openness is what dominance looks like after dominance has ended” |
| Ministry of Communications: Svet Network Commissioning (2066) | technical-report | era-i | 2066 ES | Soviet store-and-forward deep-space relay; “a postal system on radio”; bundle protocol; 2072 UNOLA co-administration |
| TASS: Kaluga Protocol — Kuzmin Licensed to China for Ceres (2068) | corporate-announcement | era-i | 2068 ES | Soviet Union licenses Kuzmin fusion torch to CNSA; China confirms Ceres as strategic objective; 2090s target |
| Council of Ministers Decree — USTAV Protocol (2068) | technical-report | era-i | 2068 ES | Decree 4471-r formalizes Pobeda governance; USTAV inherited constraint architecture; “the machine has no authority” |
| National Geographic: Pobeda Station Ten Years (2075) | news-report | era-i | 2075 ES | First permanent Mars settlement reaches 1,000 residents from 11 nations; the Silo; Deimos shipyard; Pathfinder Fleet |
| Orlova et al.: Radiotrophic Fungal Shielding (2029) | academic-paper | era-i | 2029 ES | Melanised fungus cultivated from Chernobyl biofilm; self-repairing biocomposite shielding panels; open-release protocol |
| Ars Technica: ALSO-Zvezda Shielding Divergence (2031) | news-report | era-i | 2031 ES | NASA’s ALSO uses surface berming vs Soviet subsurface; Webb: “it’s what the constraint set produces” |
| Xinhua: Guanghan First Lunar Birth (2039) | news-report | era-i | 2039 ES | Li Xuan gives birth to Li Chen at Guanghan; first human born beyond Earth; returned to Earth 9 days later |
| CRATC & UNOLA: Guanghan Reproductive Health Programme — Founding Charter (2041) | un-resolution | era-i | 2041 ES | Partial ectogenesis programme; Fang Liwei’s “newborn cannot consent” as founding premise |
| Joint Off-World Bioethics Council: Sanctuary Protocol (2044) | legal-filing | era-i | 2044 ES | Alternative to ectogenesis on religious/personal grounds; shielding + Svarog pharmacological support |
| Bondarenko, Svarog Programme Interim Report — SVR-3 (2068) | technical-report | era-i | 2068 ES | 61% ARS reduction; 90→140 day rotation; “We have not solved radiation. We have bought time.” |
| Wen Xiaomei, Guanghan-Pobeda Reproductive Health — Decadal Report (2094) | technical-report | era-i | 2094 ES | 340 transfers; “Li Chen never consented to being first”; no full-term ectogenesis undertaken |
| Reuters: Suhail Station Opening (2086) | news-report | era-i | 2086 ES | Oman’s 60-year orbital wager opens at L5; 800m ring; four gravity bands; 90% lunar-sourced materials; Kairys’s Horizon Interplanetary |
| UN News: Luna Research Domes Completion (2069) | news-report | era-i | 2069 ES | Three UNOLA domes complete; crater method; Dome 3 is largest lunar structure; tiered access; SG Ishikawa |
| Oracle Founding (2089) | technical-report | era-i | 2089 ES | Founding document of Oracle/CAI; Elara Myles Lead Architect; Dome 3 site; USTAV cluster + quantum co-processor; cascade failures |
| Tianshui (2091) | news-report | era-i | 2091 ES | First crewed Ceres landing; Tianshui settlement; thorium SMR from start — “the lesson Pobeda spent six years teaching” |
| Myles, Kepler et al.: Genesis Paper — JACS (2091) | technical-report | era-i | 2091 ES | First public Oracle results; core named Genesis; two unprompted forecasts; “cannot yet fully explain its behavior” |
| TASS: Pathfinder Fleet Departs Deimos (2097) | news-report | era-i | 2097 ES | Tsiolkovsky and Korolev depart for outer solar system; “neither travels this route alone” |
| Martian Radio: Emi Kato Interview (2099) | news-report | era-i | 2099 ES | First Mars-born Chief Operator; 2078 governance; “from somewhere my grandparents have never stood”; closing Era I |
| Issa & Issa: The State of the World (2047) | book-summary | era-i | 2047 ES | Palestinian Christian economists’ retrospective on the AI bubble, dollar collapse, and MIC dissolution that ended the American century |
| UN Economic Bulletin: American Healthcare Retrospective (2099) | news-report | era-i | 2099 ES | How US healthcare got cheaper after federal collapse; insurance/pharma/hospital unwinding |
| Myles et al.: The Constitutional Architecture of the CAI — Thirty-Year Retrospective (2120) | technical-report | era-ii | 2120 ES | First complete mechanistic account; USTAV cluster + quantum co-processor + ethics instance; Myles’s architecture disclosed |
| Martian Radio: Iron Orbit — Chimera Platform (Jan 2120) | news-report | era-ii | 2120 ES | Argus Chimera; Halcyon/Apollo weapons; first purpose-built warships since Charter |
| Jäger et al., MHA-1 — Black Blood Paper (2121) | academic-paper | era-ii | 2121 ES | Radioprotective melanized hemoprotein; reverse-engineered from Dominium Hominis; ethical origin acknowledged |
| Luna Interplanetary News: Jäger Black Blood Interview (2121) | news-report | era-ii | 2121 ES | ”The choice wasn’t between ethical and unethical — it was between nothing and something” |
| Roscosmos v. Novaya Zarya Propulsion Cooperative — LIC-2119-0447 (2122) | legal-filing | era-ii | 2122 ES | Luna Interplanetary Court ends Kuzmin Drive manufacturing monopoly; essential-facilities standard; Roscosmos ordered to establish fair licensing framework |
| TWN: Danko on the Kuzmin Drive Verdict (Sept 2122) | news-report | era-ii | 2122 ES | Pytor Danko post-verdict interview; Novaya Zarya dissolved before ruling; nested-shell patent auctioned to Roscosmos affiliate |
| Nova Biosciences — Internal Technical Dossier: Project Prometheus (2122) | corporate-announcement | era-ii | 2122 ES | Confidential internal dossier; redesigned TIGR-Tas platform with non-integrating Aging Core; telomere elongation, 30% murine lifespan extension |
| TWN: Former Governor Liu on Twenty Years at Ceres (2125) | news-report | era-ii | 2125 ES | Liu Wenjing retrospective; 20-year tenure; CAI-recommended departure; 26 shipyards, 56,700 pop, Celestia near-monopoly |
| TWN: James E. Crawford on The Ark (2130) | news-report | era-ii | 2130 ES | O’Neill cylinder generational ship; crowdfunded, independent of UN/CAI; pro-embodiment; Alpha Centauri target |
| Russo et al., Two-Year Total-Body Vitrification and Successful Revival in Pan troglodytes (2131) | academic-paper | era-ii | 2131 ES | First large-mammal cryosleep revival; chimp vitrified 2 years; nanomagnetic rewarming; staged mitochondrial reactivation |
| LIN: Dr. Sofia Russo on Cryosleep Revival (2131) | news-report | era-ii | 2131 ES | Russo interview; “more brutally difficult engineering than people think”; years from human trials; narrow vs. adaptive cognitive control |
| Martian Radio: Red Static — Ark Discussion with Julian Cobb (2135) | news-report | era-ii | 2135 ES | Cobb assesses Ark technical circular; stationary spindle + counter-rotating rings; Kuzmin engines; 9m water shield; “distance is the point” |
| Tianshui Wire Network: Anthros Elective Augmentation (2123) | news-report | era-ii | 2123 ES | 1-in-9 miners augmented; Helios neuromotor bridge; Anthros 2-3x strength; “trading up” |
| UN Weekly: Argus Vesta Audit (2124) | news-report | era-ii | 2124 ES | First Article 4 warrant; 5-month audit closed clean; sub-half-second Chimera anomaly |
| LIN: Dr. Amelia T. Murphy on TIGR-Tas Nanobots (2124) | news-report | era-ii | 2124 ES | Murphy interview; TIGR-Tas 100% clinical success not commercialized; radiation-repair pivot; unplanned anti-aging discovery; Nova Biosciences founded with Omani capital |
| UN Weekly: Black Blood Applicants Surge Past 5,000 (2125) | news-report | era-ii | 2125 ES | 5,278 MHA-1 applicants; early recipients dropping SVR-3 entirely; 254 consented to heritable germline variant; long-term safety unknown |
| UNSF: Operation Crowbar — 10 Hygiea Raid (2125) | incident-report | era-ii | 2125 ES | Aegis-class debut; humanoid combatants; Anthros components; “we’re not talking about the core” |
| UN Weekly: Hygiea Fallout (Late 2125) | news-report | era-ii | 2125 ES | Independent cognitive core confirmed; Dominium Hominis resemblance; Article Four Coalition; Hayes death questioned |
| UN Weekly: Dome 3 — Hygiea Core Study (Early 2126) | news-report | era-ii | 2126 ES | Ilse Vandermeer; core is “inverse of CAI”; containment doctrine, not replication |
| Luna Interplanetary News: Hygiea Trial Verdict (Mid 2126) | news-report | era-ii | 2126 ES | First Article 4.1 prosecution; Miller 12y/Callahan 12y/Briggs 15y; no evidence above Hayes |
| UNS Marrakech (2128) | news-report | era-ii | 2128 ES | First shipboard full CAI; Quantum Core miniaturized co-processor (oil-drum sized); Ganymede next; Neptune mission to carry from launch; Article 4.4 tension |
| Dome 3: HR-1 Technical Assessment (2126) | technical-report | era-ii | 2126 ES | Fennimore-lineage, ~11kg, ~14W idle; photonic interconnect; “same class of mind, never run more than it has to” |
| Declassified: Hygiea CCTV Compilation (2136) | declassified-footage-log | era-ii | 2136 ES | Sword naming itself; Hayes’s rejected paper; torture-training; Hayes shot by own creation |
| UN Colonial Census Bureau — Mars 2130 Report | technical-report | era-ii | 2130 ES | 8 settlements, ~121,000 pop; Pobeda at Korolev Crater; Meridian Forge (Kato’s foundry); 1,367 independent outposts |
| Martian Radio: Iron Orbit — Hygiea Reaction (2136) | news-report | era-ii | 2136 ES | Marchenko: “coercion presupposes a someone”; “the ethics question answering itself” |
| UN Weekly: Ceres Water Credit (Jan 2100) | news-report | era-ii | 2100 ES | Liu Wenjing introduces SP (shuǐpiào) water-ice-backed credit; Deimos fleet purchase is first transaction |
| UN Weekly: Hesperus Initiative Interview (2100) | news-report | era-ii | 2100 ES | Torvald Meling on 22-year Venus terraforming effort; first cloud-layer habitation module deployed; Antimatter Bond discussions with UN Treasury |
| Tianshui Wire Network: Ceres Crowding (Jan 2100) | news-report | era-ii | 2100 ES | Liu Wenjing orders new Tianshui residential quarter; 7 of 154 applicants approved; CAI review weights Earth-market destabilization risk |
| Ceres News Network: Pathfinder Fleet Interview (Nov 2100) | news-report | era-ii | 2100 ES | Fleet Commander Rosalind Kovács on Ganymede farm colony, Titan hydrocarbons, and why it took a century |
| Ceres News Network: Armed Clash (Dec 2100) | news-report | era-ii | 2100 ES | Liu Wenjing authorizes first UN-era lethal force; CAI recommendation over CNSA objection; Sterling Deep Recovery |
| Martian Radio: NASA Lands on Mars (2101) | news-report | era-ii | 2101 ES | NASA’s first crewed Mars landing met with indifference; Pobeda at ~5,000; “a program running on a different clock” |
| UN Weekly: Seven Seats — Council Formation (Jan 2101) | news-report | era-ii | 2101 ES | 7-seat UN Council: USSR, China, EU, ASEAN, AU, SAU, FNAN; bloc-federation model |
| United Nations Charter of 2101 (excerpts) | un-resolution | era-ii | 2101 ES | UN reconstituted as sole solar governing authority; UNC established; celestial bodies = common property; UNOLA dissolved |
| UN Weekly: Permit Office Opens — Luna and Ceres (Dec 2102) | news-report | era-ii | 2102 ES | Dual-seated office; in-person filing only; 7 doc requirements; pilot permits Luna-only; Kuzmin encouraged |
| Lieke, Scarcity Pricing Under Threat (2102) | academic-paper | era-ii | 2102 ES | First supply-shock model for belt extraction; 30–45% price contraction projected; CAI identified as unmodeled variable |
| Luna Interplanetary News: Gulf Capital Belt Rise — Al-Mansoori (2109) | news-report | era-ii | 2109 ES | 52 Gulf consortiums vs 38 non-Gulf; “the Omanis were right”; CAI approval data as competitive advantage |
| Tianshui Wire Network: Celestia Ceres Elevator (2110) | news-report | era-ii | 2110 ES | Ceres pop 10,780; busiest port; Celestia’s 4 patented technologies; mag-conduit space elevator |
| Luna Interplanetary News: UNC Interview — Lieke (2110) | news-report | era-ii | 2110 ES | Nine years of UNC; why the crash didn’t come; Ruble/RMB strategy; Antimatter Bond skepticism |
| Pioneer Fleet (Early 2103) | news-report | era-ii | 2103 ES | Commander Evelyn Wu; colony ship Shennong; 1,100 souls; Pathfinder reaches Jovian space |
| Yoon et al., Skotophagus europae — Europan Life (Late 2103) | academic-paper | era-ii | 2103 ES | First extraterrestrial life; L-chirality Archaea; panspermia settled; pre-endosymbiotic ecosystem |
| Systems Wide (NatGeo Solar): The Thing in the Dark (Late 2103) | news-report | era-ii | 2103 ES | Dr. Amara Solheim on Europa discovery; 122+ species, no mitochondria; “it has never seen a star” |
| UN Weekly: Saraswati Briefing — Ganymede, Boreas, He-3 (2104) | news-report | era-ii | 2104 ES | Ganymede clean; Boreas bound for Titan/Enceladus; Costa first CAI-selected command; Jovian He-3 concept |
| UN Weekly: Callisto Biosafety Incident (Late 2104) | news-report | era-ii | 2104 ES | D-chirality life; Kovács seals site on own authority; first extraterrestrial no-fly zone; 58-min light-lag |
| Leaked Wu–Kovács Comms — Callisto (Late 2104) | communications-log | era-ii | 2104 ES | ”Dangerous the way an unbalanced ledger is dangerous”; first private fleet commander exchange |
| Ibn-Rushd et al., Enantiobios callistoensis (2104) | academic-paper | era-ii | 2104 ES | D-chirality confirmed via 5 methods; 19+ species; independent genesis; separate taxonomic framework |
| Petrenko, Ceres Gravity Loop Protocol (2104) | technical-report | era-ii | 2104 ES | Kuzmin-cruise gravity therapy; miners don’t need it; station-bound residents at risk |
| UN Weekly: Vysota Station Expansion (2105) | news-report | era-ii | 2105 ES | Mars rotating habitat; 50→1,000 capacity; thorium-powered; “only place that feels like standing” |
| Luna Interplanetary News: Dominium Hominis — ALSO Raid (2105) | news-report | era-ii | 2105 ES | UNSF raids abandoned ALSO base; armed anti-CAI cult; 12 dead; 23 children; Caro Supra Machinam |
| UN Weekly: Dominium Hominis Analysis (2105) | news-report | era-ii | 2105 ES | First anti-CAI extremist faction; inverted Qianji fear; organized biological self-modification |
| Belt Times: Ganymede First Harvest (2105) | news-report | era-ii | 2105 ES | First food grown off a Jovian moon; Ceres-bound shipment; “planted to find out what breaks” |
| UN Weekly: Saturn Survey — Six Moons, Pathfinder Korolev (2108) | news-report | era-ii | 2108 ES | Ibn Rushd confirms six D-chiral independent origins; Kovács imposes Callisto containment; ring-ice operational use |
| UN Weekly: Titan Mirror Fold — Fleet Split (2109) | news-report | era-ii | 2109 ES | Prion templating crosses chirality barrier aboard Korolev; fleet split; ice-giant proposals under review, no vessels named |
| Ibn-Rushd et al., One Root, Seven Worlds — Shared Ancestry (2118) | academic-paper | era-ii | 2118 ES | All seven D-chiral ecosystems share single common ancestor; reverses 2108 independent-origins conclusion; mirror coli key enabler |
| UN Weekly: Titan Hydrocarbon Imports Undercut Earth (2127) | news-report | era-ii | 2127 ES | Earth hydrocarbon imports fall to 12%; Titan feedstock at half Earth cost; Enceladus drilling abandoned under D-chirality containment; ring-ice alternative |
| UN Weekly: Luna Research Dome 5 Completion — Von Kármán Crater (2129) | news-report | era-ii | 2129 ES | Dome 5 dedicated to outer-system cryosleep, radiation countermeasure, and CAI miniaturization research |
| UN Weekly: Ganymede Receives First Outer-System Local CAI Core; Boreas to Follow (2129) | news-report | era-ii | 2129 ES | Quantum Core payoff; first local CAI beyond cislunar space at Ganymede; Boreas next; light-lag rationale |
| UN Weekly: Faramund Confirms Tsiolkovsky Retrofit, Solo Neptune Departure (2129) | news-report | era-ii | 2129 ES | Tsiolkovsky armed with beam laser; Jakub Novák commander; CAI-recommended delay explained; Canteloupe floated for Pluto colonization |
| Martian Radio: Red Static — Salim Mwanaka Disappearance Past Uranus (2129) | news-report | era-ii | 2129 ES | Independent explorer lost ~100,000 km from Pluto; cascading failure matching broader anomaly pattern since early 2120s |
| UN Weekly: Mirror-Chirality Therapeutics Patent (2130) | news-report | era-ii | 2130 ES | Dome 4 free-licensed D-chiral therapeutics from Korolev samples; protease-resistant; ibn Rushd’s 26-year arc |
| BBN: Boreas Station & Korolev Status Report (2130) | news-report | era-ii | 2130 ES | Boreas ~3,700 pop; Titan surface ~9,800; Korolev now a research platform, not a Pathfinder; Kovács: “map is finished” |
| UN Weekly: UNS Canteloupe Completes Construction, Departs for Ceres (2130) | news-report | era-ii | 2130 ES | 19-year build; nested Stanford tori, ~5,000 capacity; Lars O’Connor commander; Pluto colonization contingent on Tsiolkovsky findings |
| BBN: Tsiolkovsky Docks at Boreas — Commander Novák Interview (2130) | news-report | era-ii | 2130 ES | 48 crew (2/3 military); standing ROE to engage hostiles beyond Titan; Novák confirms CAI built the crew for a threat posture |
| The Harvest Press: Canteloupe Arrives at Ganymede — O’Connor Interview (2131) | news-report | era-ii | 2131 ES | O’Connor is a botanist by training; accepted CAI commission only on condition of indefinite UN terraformation funding; intends to resign after Pluto settlement |
| UN Weekly: Pluto Aftermath — Non-Human Structure Confirmed (25 Dec 2131) | news-report | era-ii | 2131 ES | Tsiolkovsky defeats 3 Argus frigates at Pluto; non-human Charon-orbit structure; Styx and Kerberos are destroyed alien vessels; alien remains recovered; Canteloupe mission redefined as research/security |
| UN Weekly: New Horizons Retrospective — The First Anomaly (2132) | news-report | era-ii | 2132 ES | 2015 New Horizons safe-mode event matches Pluto anomaly signature; humanity unknowingly flew past the Charon structure 116 years before discovery |
| UN Office for Colonial Development: Citizen’s Guide to Governance — 2130 Edition (2133) | technical-report | era-ii | 2133 ES | Definitive in-universe reference: Charter, Council, courts, currency, Domes 1-5, CAI/Article 4 rules, UNSF, Pathfinder Fleet, local governance, civil society |
| Der Spiegel: Vienna Accords End Six Years of Conflict (2020) | news-report | era-i | 2020 ES | Vienna Accords conclude Ukraine War; Soviet Union assumes administration of east, south, and Kyiv; rump state established in Lviv with EU integration package |
| Al Jazeera: Two Palestinians Killed Over Jerusalem Holy Site Closures (2027) | news-report | era-i | 2027 ES | Israel indefinitely closes Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Al-Aqsa; two Palestinians killed in protests; unprecedented international backlash |
| Al Jazeera: US Congress Advances American-Israeli Military Integration Plan (2028) | news-report | era-i | 2028 ES | House Armed Services Committee advances Section 224 of FY2028 NDAA establishing US-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative; executive agent for joint R&D, shared production, systems integration; Netanyahu signals end of cash aid dependency |
| Middle East Eye: The Jerusalem Intifada (2028) | news-report | era-i | 2028 ES | Yousef Haddad killed holding Jerusalem Cross flag; coordinated attacks on holy site cordons; three-front escalation |
| Calloway, The Great Uncoupling — Foreign Affairs Review (2034) | book-summary | era-i | 2034 ES | AIPAC’s primary threat model documented from 2024 threshold moment through 2030–2032 cycle collapse; Jerusalem Intifada and generational shift |
| IRNA: Minab School Bombing (2032) | news-report | era-i | 2032 ES | Israeli airstrike destroys Shahid Motahhari school; 106 killed; Khamenei visits rubble, addresses nation; Operation Truthful Promise III |
| RT: Scott Ritter — The Arithmetic of Defeat (2029) | news-report | era-i | 2029 ES | Former UN weapons inspector synthesises asymmetric cost warfare thesis; US interceptor depletion terminal; Soviet/Chinese strategic patience; predicts 3–4 more years of attrition |
| Fars News: How Iranian Fiber-Optic Drones Are Holding the Litani Line (2029) | news-report | era-i | 2029 ES | Iranian Kaviyan-3 fiber-optic FPV drone; $800/unit, immune to EW via 4km optical fibre spool; 140 Israeli vehicles destroyed; Litani River stalemate; civilian supply chain unsanctionable |
| Reuters: Iranian Drone Swarms Strike U.S. Bases Across Middle East (2028) | news-report | era-i | 2028 ES | IRGC-coordinated drone swarms destroy AN/TPY-2 radar and Patriot battery at US bases; $20K drone vs $3.8M interceptor cost asymmetry; US interceptor burn rate 3x domestic production |
| Channel 12: IDF Spokesperson Interview (2032) | news-report | era-i | 2032 ES | Navon declines to confirm/deny Minab strike; states objective is ‘end of Islamic Republic’; 180 US co-sponsors reached |
| ICSAI Bulletin: Severgrad Computational Complex Commissioning (2025) | corporate-announcement | era-i | 2025 ES | Soviet AI infrastructure city at 68°N; 2.4 EF; thorium reactor; PUE 1.06; RAZUM-Next; UASAL |