Timeline

2014 - Problems surrounding Earth's population, environment, and energy began to reach a peak. In a drastic attempt to solve these problems, Earth, represented by the United Nations (UN), began to focus all their energy, funds, and talents into space transportation and discovery. The international project, the "Orbital Transport Concept", is announced and received in variation by the general public. Some found it risky to invest all remaining resources into the unknown abyss that was space while others saw promising profit; however, everyone agreed that they had little choice and it was either that or wait until every single resource was exhausted, bringing with it the certain extinction of mankind.

2020 - The fervor for space development is rekindled by completion of the first lunar foothold. Plans for the establishment of lunar colonies are announced.

2022 - Construction of the L1 Mars Catcher outpost is completed and lunar mass drivers are first introduced.

2027 - Earth successfully launches a satellite anchor and begins construction of the Orbital Transport Elevator.

2032 - The international project, "Mars Colonization Concept", is introduced to the public.

2039 - First Martian colonies, referred by colonists as Spheres, are established. Nereidum Universal Technology Limited (NUT Ltd.) is also established.

2040 - An unmanned space probe discovers a mysterious flat land on the Jovian moon Callisto. The first lunar colony cities, Gemini and Apollo, are officially established. Following this success, the UN makes plans for a colonization project on Venus as well.

2045 - The Orbital Transport Elevator is completed; humanity is propelled into a full-scale space age. NUT precipitates space development projects with the first generation LEV and there is a rapid increase in the number of lunar resource excavation facilities.

2048 - Construction begins on L4 and L5 space colonies. Plans for L3 space colonies are also made.

2063 - The United Nations announce that fossil fuels had dried up. Mass panic follows on Earth and its surrounding colonies.

2067 - A manned space probe to Callisto discovers a new mineral deposit, Metatron, in the flat land that was discovered years earlier, and the Age of Space Dependence begins. The UN forms the United Nations Space Force (UNSF), establishing a military presence in space that would manage any and all human colonization.

2068 - Immigration starts for colonies on L4 and L5. There is also a rapid development of LEVs as a space work vessel. Terraforming of Venus begins, despite setbacks due to the planet's unstable atmosphere. Construction of L3 colony begins

2073 - Construction of permanent footholds on the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos begin.

2081 - Applied use of Metatron revolutionizes electrical technology. The first L3 colony is completed and immigration soon begins.

2093 - The discovery of the spatial compressing effect of Metatron is made.

2100 – Following a line of political crisis throughout the end of the 21st century, the United Nations is reformed from the ground up as the supreme governing structure of the Earth and its colonies. Among other changes, this "New UN" is administrated by the Presidium, having replaced the old Secretariat, while the heads of its various organs are retitled Chairman. But perhaps the most symbolic change is the UN's new sigil, which replaces the original map of Earth with a lateral outline of the Sol System.

2104 - Moves are made toward the application of the Urenbeck Catapult.

2111 - Construction of the permanent foothold, Antilia, begins around the Jovian moon Europa. UN also draws plans for future colonization around Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, which along with the colonization of Venus are carried out in the background over the years.

2130 - The first stage of the Martian Terraforming project is completed and full-scale colonization begins. The United Colonies of Mars (UCM) is established as Mars' ruling government body. Fervor for further lunar development begins to fade out.

2135 - There is an outbreak of bacterial contamination on one of the Martian colonies and Earth Block quarantine line is fortified.

2145 - The Urenbeck Catapult is completed on the Martian moon, Deimos. The Space Transportation Revolution takes place, eventually culminating in the Urenbeck Network that comes to extend from Mercury to the outer dwarf planets, granting humanity full access to the Sol System.

The UCM establishes the County system for Martian colonies.

2157 – The Candor Incident. Discord deepens between the Terrans, Martians and Enders. Martian scientist Doctor Rikoah Hardiman reportedly discovers the final secrets of Metatron and soon produces the Aumaan Plan. The first machinations of what would later be the Orbital Frame are created.

2158 - The Martian militia BAHRAM is formed within the county of Vascilia on Mars. NUT secretly obtains rudimentary Orbital Frame technology.

2162 - Rikoah Hardiman dies, rumored to have been assassinated. His son Ridley Hardiman, who is a Major in BAHRAM under the alias Wilhelm Nohman, takes over his father's assets and the Aumaan Plan.

2167 - The Orbital Frame prototype, Idolo, is created. Senior Lieutenant Radium Lavans of BAHRAM is assigned as its test runner. Certain events eventually lead Radium to break into Deimos Station and attack the UNSF garrison there, with a BAHRAM LEV battalion intervening to keep Idolo from falling into Earth's control. Over three hundred UNSF Phantomas were singlehandedly destroyed by Idolo before its own destruction. This would later be called the Deimos Incident. The Orbital Frame concept becomes public knowledge as a result. Radium and project head Doctor Rachel Links are listed as MIA.

2168 - A pack of Metatron is escorted to Antilia colony secretly, whose escort is under the command of BAHRAM Captain Dingo Egret. The escorts are wiped out by a UNSF squadron, but the Metatron reaches Antilia anyway.

Meanwhile, BAHRAM officially establishes itself as a full military force and Nohman is promoted to Colonel.

The mafia group Red Harvest illegally establishes its own space colony, Zalgas, at L2 around Earth.

2172 - James Links, a space-trucker and would-be family man, discovers the mysterious Orbital Frame Dolores and begins his adventure.

The UNSF occupies Antilia through force and, shortly afterwards, the Antilia Raid takes place. Civilian Leo Stenbuck inadvertently boards the Orbital Frame Jehuty and escapes with it to the transport ship Atlantis. BAHRAM seizes Jehuty's twin, Orbital Frame Anubis, with Nohman, who led the Raid personally, taking it as his personal machine.

BAHRAM launches a full scale attack upon the UNSF all over Mars, beginning what would later be known as the Martian Wars. During this period, there is an attack on the Orbital Transport Elevator on Earth, led by the Orbital Frame Hathor and the reemerged Radium Lavans, with the intent of making the elevator collapse onto the planet; James Links and Dolores' adventure ends by putting a stop to this. The event is dubbed the Orbital Transport Elevator Disaster (OTED) and in spite of James' earlier televised attempt at peace, discord deepens even more between Earth and Mars.

During and following the OTED, much of the BAHRAM general staff, beginning with Rutger Tyusha, is systematically assassinated. As a result, Nohman takes full control of the organization.

2173 - The Martian Wars continue as the UNSF increases its foothold on Mars, giving rise to numerous resistance movements. One such movement, Born In Space (BIS), attacks and successfully destroys the UNSF presence in Hellespontos County. However, after seeing the destruction caused by BAHRAM, they end up fighting them as well. BIS eventually goes into hiding after the conflict ends in Hellespontos.

Later on, by using large-scale force and taking advantage of the lasting turmoil caused by previous events, BAHRAM occupies Mars, Deimos and Phobos indefinably. With no force left to stop him, Nohman turns his full attention toward completing Aumaan.

2174 - The Aumaan Crisis. Crazed and mutated by overexposure to Metatron, Nohman unleashes his wrath upon humanity through the great power of Anubis and BAHRAM's legions. Millions, both citizen and soldier, die within mere weeks. The UNSF launches a desperate final attack on Vascilia itself, codenamed Operation Thunderchild, in order to stop the carnage, only to be utterly decimated.

However, the course of events would soon change for the better with the reemergence of the Orbital Frame Jehuty, which is now run by Dingo Egret. Fighting alongside Jehuty's former runner, now-UNSF Major Leo Stenbuck, Dingo leads a second and much more successful attack on Vascilia. Unfortunately, Nohman soon reveals his true intent with Project Aumaan: the destruction of all existence by manipulating dimensional space from the fortress Aumaan, initially thought to be in Vascilia but actually located deep within Phobos, claiming it to be the "Will of Metatron". Dingo manages to defeat Nohman and prevent Aumaan from occurring; not before, however, making the Earth forces promise to liberate Mars and recognize it as an equal, independent planet. After Colonel Elena Weinberg answers for Earth, there is a final clash between Anubis and Jehuty, in essence twin brothers, within the core of Aumaan.

In the end Dingo comes out as the victor and Aumaan is destroyed, ending the Martian Wars. Humanity is once again at ease, and Dingo Egret is celebrated as a hero of mankind. Earth celebrates its victory over BAHRAM and Mars rejoices over its long awaited liberation.

2175 - Despite the original answer to Dingo's request, the UN secretly had no desire to follow Dingo's request and liberate Mars, and soon enough launches a full UNSF battle fleet to reoccupy the planet under Earth's marshal rule. All but the ruined Vascilia are placed under Earth's banner, and the UCM is officially dissolved and replaced with Earth-backed governments, which are presented as de jure UN member states.

Earth's reasoning centers on Mars' chaotic nature, which many politicians claim is the true cause behind everything from the Deimos Incident to the still fresh Aumaan Crisis. Mars is portrayed as being too young and too reckless by Earth media, thus sending the message to the masses that giving them independence would only lead to more disaster. Metatron is also given a bad image due to Aumaan, with many calling for the illegalization of its usage, and soon enough the UN passes the Anti-Metatron Body Act, which prevents the mining, processing, experimenting and manufacturing of/with Metatron and anything already built from it. The only exceptions are, of course, the Urenbeck Catapults.

Several UN officials, politicians and soldiers either resign from their posts in protest against the UN's actions or simply go AWOL. Among them are Elena Weinburg and Leo Stenbuck, who disappear along with the Orbital Frame Jehuty. Dingo and fellow Aumaan veteran Ken Marinaris also go underground during this period.

To keep from also being dissolved, NUT enters into a private military contract with the UNSF.

2176 - After fully reoccupying Mars, the UNSF launches a massive military campaign to actively neutralize all forms of resistance throughout the Sol System, no matter how big or small. The media refers to this as the Terran Crusade.

While most resistance movements are poorly managed and underarmed, there are more than a handful of rebel factions that have access to Orbital Frames. To combat those, Special Taskforce Aegis, an autonomous unit of the Space Force tasked to hunting down any armed force that is in possession of Orbital Frames and/or other Metatron based assets, is established. Due to its mission profile, Aegis is immune to the Anti-Metatron Body Act, and is supplied by NUT with the Metatron constructed battlecruiser Argo and a legion of Orbital Frames.

2179 - The Crusade ends and almost all opposition to the UN are neutralized. Earth once again begins exploiting Mars' natural resources (and those of the Sol System in general) for its own agendas. As a result, while most of the fighting may have ended and stability has seemingly returned to the Sol System, tension only grows.

2183 - During this time of forced and uneasy peace, a mysterious armed force begins to harass UNSF bases around Mars with well thought out and coordinated hit-and-run strikes, using Orbital Frames as the main catalysts. Many are reminded of the initial days of the Martian Wars, as the strikes are too planned out to not be military and possibly BAHRAM related, and so the UNSF moves to investigate the matter. Meanwhile within Noctis Labyrinthus, a discovery is made that will forever change the era as known...