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<p>Lafayette1: /* Sandra Harris */</p> <hr /> <div>==General==<br /> ===[[Ian Rubin]]===<br /> *'''Born''': February 23, 1980; Lafayette, LA<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-8, [[STS-10W]], Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Fractal Rubin===<br /> *'''Born''': March 14, 1980 (Pi Day), Los Alamos, NM<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Parents''': Rena Sinclair (mother), Ardan Sinclair (father)<br /> *'''Maiden name''': Fractal Sinclair<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Ian Rubin (husband: '''12-23-07''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''': Fractal's parents arrived on Earth in 1947 and eventually found employment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a top secret division overseen by the CIA. They worked on both physics research and development of new nuclear weapon designs. Fractal grew up with other Hoomiku and was cared for by her parents as much as was physically possible. In 1986, her parents were killed following accidental exposure to fatal radiation levels during an experiment ordered by the CIA to research telepathy blocking techniques. Both died in front of Fractal, who refused to leave their side in the infirmary. She was placed in the care of foster parents following the accident. While she never considered them her new parents, she did return their affection and was polite, but continued to be deeply wounded by the loss of her parents.</p><p>In 1989, ''The New York Times'' publishes classified information leaked by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell regarding the extent and details of projects involving the Hoomiku held by the United States. The Thornwell leak is considered the defining moment when rumors of aliens form into fact, as he divulged major details about the Hoomiku, including crimes committed by the United States and Soviet Union towards them. President George H. W. Bush eventually acknowledges the species in 1990 under growing pressure from both Congress and the press, a move followed shortly by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The United Nations General Assembly drafts Resolution 45/77, defining both the rights of Hoomiku to basic laws and defining the security and privacy of thought as a basic human right. Given that a breeding population exists on Earth, they are not in danger of dying out. The public is shocked, but no massive social upheaval occurs. Several hate crimes do occur, however, and prompt legislation with regards to both the use of telepathy in certain situations and locations and providing the basis for a lawsuit filed by several hundred Hoomiku against the United States. The suit is ruled in favor of the Hoomiku and as a result, Fractal is entitled to a free college education, a house, and $40,000 on her 18th birthday. She attends New Mexico Tech and briefly works as a DJ at a local radio station. Eventually, she transferred to New Mexico University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in both botany and physics.</p><p>Following graduation, she began to work at a start-up in Albuquerque studying new techniques for indoor crop growth. In 2006, she traveled to Russia for research into aeroponic farming techniques studied by the Russian Federal Space Agency. There she met Ian Rubin in Star City, and the two hit it off and began dating until Ian's flight to the International Space Station on September 18, 2006. The two resumed their relationship following the flight and in December, Fractal moved to Louisiana. The two were married on December 23, 2007.</p><br /> <br /> ===[[Sandra Harris]]===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Gregory Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[International Space Agency]]<br /> *'''Items''': Sandra's most cherished possession is a badly scuffed, space certified [[Wikipedia:Omega Speedmaster|Omega Speedmaster]] (Ref. 3570.50.00) with a black Velcro strap that has permanently been stained a grayish color. The watch was given to her by the International Space Agency for use on the Moon, and she subsequently purchased the watch for retail price from the space agency. She almost never parts with it and would do almost anything (within reason) to recover it if it is lost or stolen. While the sapphire crystal has been replaced due to severe scratching, she has not asked the jeweler to repair the case scratches. The watch is kept in top condition and keeps accurate time, and contains strontium aluminate lume on the dial and hands. In early 2020, Sandra purchased a new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch (Ref. 311.30.42.30.01.005) to replace her original, which is now kept in a display case at her home along with other objects from her career as an astronaut. This watch also features strontium aluminate lume, and Sandra tends to wear the watch with either an orange or 6 stripe rainbow polyamide NATO strap when wearing it daily. Sandra has publicly stated that she intends to bring both with her on her next lunar mission, and wore the newer of the two watches during her spacewalks on STS-250.<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Phoenix 9]], [[STS-217]], [[STS-250]], [[Pegasus 1]], [[Phoenix 53]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Gregory James Harris===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Died''': November 9, 2008<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Stats''': <br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Sandra Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Items''': <br /> *'''Abilities''':<br /> ** Gregory is always able to pull a refrigerated 355 ml (12 fl oz) or half-liter glass bottle of [[Wikipedia:Fresca#Versions|Fresca]] soda from Mexico out of thin air at will. The bottle is constantly full, and drinking from it doesn't reduce the amount in the bottle. Pouring it fills a glass up to the amount that the bottle actually contains and empties the bottle in the process, at which point it becomes full again when done pouring as though nothing was drained from it. Anyone other than Greg or another ghost is apparently unable to do this with the bottle. (You can't fill a swimming pool up this way, in other words.)<br /> ** Greg is able to pull a gilded metal key from his pocket at will, which he can use to produce a door out of thin air. When used, it is manifested as Greg inserting the key into the air, at which point it disappears as though inserted into an invisible lock. At this point, Greg can push open a door in the air, which is apparently made out of Lucite or acrylic. Greg (and by extension anyone else) can then step through the door to the location connected to the door, which can either be freestanding on the other end or an actual door. The chosen location can be to anywhere in the universe (for example, a door leading from an alley to a location across a city) or to a location in another plane of existence (for example, from an alley in a city in the Caribbean to a recreation of a bar in the afterlife). In this way, the door acts as a wormhole similar to the doors from the Pixar film ''[[Wikipedia:Monsters, Inc.|Monsters, Inc.]]''. Anyone viewing these doors from the side would see the location of the door as an incredibly thin line of smoky, solid air, and viewed from the rear, the area where the door is would appear as a square of a similar smoky, solid area of air that can be stepped through with no ill effect other than a sensation best describe as having stepped through a cold air curtain.<br /> *'''Afterlife description''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Julia Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Thomas Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Whittington===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Rough collie<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Jackie Cormier===<br /> *'''Born''': April 15, 1988; Seattle, WA<br /> *'''Species''': Catahoula Cur (Predominantely blue and white fur with black splotches and spots. Has heterochromia: left eye blue, right eye hazel.) <br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Related to''': David Cormier (brother)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Nickname''': ''Split-eyes'', ''Splits'', ''Blue dog''<br /> *'''Rank''': Petty Officer 2nd Class, Aviation Survival Technician (Rescue swimmer)<br /> *'''History''': Moved to Louisiana at six years of age from Seattle after her father was laid off from Boeing. Joined the Coast Guard and is one of only four female swimmers. Currently resides in Canon Shoals, OR. Originally stationed at [[Wikipedia:Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles|CGAS Port Angeles]], WA until her entire crew was transferred to Canon Shoals following [REDACTED] in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.<br /> <br /> ===#===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Sports related==<br /> ===Wesley D. Romero===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Long-tailed weasel<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Team''': Bangor Tides (Furry Basketball Association)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Carlos Coronado===<br /> *'''Born''': Merida, Yucatan, MX<br /> *'''Species''': Jaguar<br /> *'''Nationality''': Mexican<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Abbey Crandall (girlfriend: '''Sochi Winter Olympics''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Team''': Louisiana IceGators (National Hockey League)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Astronauts==<br /> ===Harold Hamilton===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Gray wolf<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-109|STS-109]], [[Wikipedia:STS-117|STS-117]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Sanders===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': White Siberian tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-113|STS-113]], [[Wikipedia:STS-120|STS-120]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Derek Ozark===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': River dragon (Blue, no wings)<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Ixy Comeaux===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Looking Glass related==<br /> ===Cora Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Halni Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Vargi===<br /> *'''First activated''':<br /> *'''Species''': Artificial intelligence <br /> **'''Primary avatar''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> ===Carla Maxwell===<br /> *'''Born''': October 8, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': River otter<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (''maître d'île'', Phoenix Cay)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bruce Anderson===<br /> *'''Born''': April 17, 1978; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<br /> *'''Species''': Bengal Tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''': Australian<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (pilot)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Frederick Hollande===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Dhole<br /> *'''Nationality''': French<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[TCI Research]] (Director, [[Ellis National Laboratory]], Superconducting Super Collider) <br /> **'''Former employer''': [[Wikipedia:CERN|CERN]] (various roles relating to the [[Wikipedia:Large Hadron Collider|Large Hadron Collider]])<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universes==<br /> ===X===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': Prime/''Wonderland''/''Looking Glass Land'' <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Zachary Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': April 18, 2002; Waxahachie, TX <br /> **'''Date/place of birth listed on current ID''': April 18, 1996; Waxahachie, TX. <br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': Fractal S. Calliden, Roger Calliden<br /> *'''Friends with''': Lindsey Waldroup <br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''[[Looking Glass Land]]'', 2020<br /> *'''History''': Personality and higher brain functions implanted within brain of Lindsey Waldroup. Eventually removed and placed into a high capacity AI core on 2-1-2015. Body restored on: 6-22-2015. Taken in by Ian and Fractal, with official story being that parents died in car accident and Fractal was only living relative. Moved in with them from home in Honolulu.<br /> <br /> ===Roger Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': October 4, 1978; Rachel, NV<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Spouse''': Fractal S. Calliden<br /> *'''Employed by''': Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (researcher, SDC detector)<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''Looking Glass Land'', 2020<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bonnie Krueger===<br /> *'''Born''': ????, ????; Goldfern Station (Sometime in the future in a space related setting; Current age is 23)<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Stats''': 5'8", 137 lbs, green eyes. Possibly missing a small notch from one ear following a bad deal she failed to complete.<br /> *'''Clothing''': Blue jeans, black combat boots, white t-shirt, torn black leather jacket with a VERY faded logo of an old Earth space program on the back. <br /> *'''Items''': Brown leather holster, 2 year old laser pistol or plasma pistol plus battery pack for the above. Carries a beaten up rucksack or backpack containing her worldly goods.<br /> *'''Backpack contents'''<br /> ** Captain's license (''Goldfern Station'' - issuer)<br /> ** Phone (Most likely the newest thing she owns)<br /> ** Slightly beat up, but high end VR headset.<br /> ** One pair of welding goggles modified to be sunglasses with a HUD inside of the lenses. Goggles are the type with two round lenses, as opposed to a single square pane of glass.<br /> ** Roll-up solar panel/charger<br /> ** Treasured book from mother about a rare lost item<br /> ** 1 bottle of a rare alcoholic drink<br /> ** 1 change of clothes (no shoes)<br /> ** 1 memento of Earth<br /> ** 1 journal<br /> ** 1 MRE<br /> ** 1 bottle of water (1 liter)<br /> ** 1 30 minute air bottle with mask.<br /> ** 1 towel, somewhat bland but still fluffy and serviceable. Still clean enough to dry off with.<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ????<br /> *'''History (Revised for forum RP)''': Only child raised by her mother. Dad's rarely mentioned and Mom insinuates (read: ''adamantly maintains'') he's dead and spaced. No proof of it, though. Regardless, Bonnie has grown up in the light of the renaissance of renewed interest in Earth on Goldfern Station, brought up by a mother who worked far too hard for far too little money, but who genuinely loved her and filled her with wonderful stories of adventure, space and wonder for the "Pale Blue Dot". Tales of great explorers, the heady early days of space travel, the men and women who fought to break out of gravity wells to visit worlds in the same system. Tales of outlaws, as well: her namesake, Bonnie Parker, of pirates and Capone... of their fates and of the music and culture of a place lost to time and space. Filled with dreams, she fought hard to get her captain's license... only to discover that dreams have prices... as well as interest rates and late fees. Striking out on her own and saddled with a few old debts but no ship to pay them, she takes out one last loan: to buy a ticket to another star, another world. One where a ship awaits, she hopes, along with jobs, wealth and maybe, just maybe... Earth and eternal glory.<br /> *'''First intro''': Arrives at Helios Station with just enough to pay the docking fee, but her ship is repossessed within 10 minutes of her getting there. Stranded and pissed off, she decides to blow some of her meager savings at a bar, where a ''highly'' drunk tiger sits next to her and, in the middle of trying to tell him off, he reveals something highly crucial to her quest. She decides to ply the rest out of him with a few more drinks. She gets the info, but stripes decides to try to get into her pants right there in the middle of the room. She cracks a bottle of booze over his head and knocks him out cold, and grabs a few mysterious coins he's dropped while getting out of there. As "Timber" by Pitbull starts to play, she races away from station security as fast as her legs will carry her, shoving aside anything in her way and doing a good attempt at parkour... until she runs into her new best friend...<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universe/timeline descriptions==<br /> ===Looking Glass Land===<br /> *'''"Short" version:''' Otonichi (alien sneps) and Hoomiku (other alien felines with big ears) evolve on a planet around the star Tau Ceti named Ishonko. They eventually master space travel. Sometime in the 1930's, war were declared. King Zalkyo Jeskalt, of the Otonichi, is a murderous fuckwit. He hates hoomiku and the war grinds to a stalemate up to the moment when a couple of hoomiku terrorists blow up a city where the body of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in Otonichi history, resided in a glass sarcophagus. Zalkyo decides "These people are DEAD" and goes on a genocidal bender. Most hoomiku are dead, and the few who aren't flee to Earth towards the end of World War II. A few rogue hoomiku hide out in an asteroid mining base somewhere in space and tinker with time travel. They get discovered by the Otonichi in the 1950's and press the magic button to GTFO. They end up around earth in 1859 in the middle of the worst recorded solar storm in history. They escape to Earth. We'll come back to them in a bit, because THIS part is also complicated. Time keeps moving into the future. Someone comes to Zalkyo during the Cuban Missle Crisis with the suggestion that "Look, these people are going to blow each other up. If they DON'T, they could be a problem. Fuck with enough of their space program, and they'll stay on the ground." He signs off on this, and a few teams go covert on Earth to do that, since they look like snow leopards. They screw around with the Russian lunar rocket, kill the Apollo 1 crew in the fire, and POSSIBLY do something to Apollo 13. They then lie back until 1986, when the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' launches with a teacher on board. ''ENTER DIVERGENCE POINT BETWEEN LOOKING GLASS LAND AND REGULAR LAND '''HERE'''.'' Now, in 'Looking Glass Land', they activate the range safety system on the Space Shuttle right at SRB ignition and it blows up on the launch pad, killing the crew, destroying the pad and possibly killing a few people watching. The nation's devastated, but things go on and they're not caught. In 1990, they destroy Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' during STS-31 and blow it up in the air, killing the crew, destroying the Shuttle '''and''' the Hubble Space Telescope. This, coming four years after ''Challenger'', ends America's manned space program at the 1991 State of the Union. With no Space Shuttle to work on the ISS, and no ISS to speak of, the Superconducting Super Collider, a large atom smasher in Texas, is completed by 2000 rather than being cancelled in 1994. It discovers the Higgs boson in 2002... and lead researcher for the SDC collaboration Fractal Calliden, who married her college sweetheart Roger and has a son named Zach, announces the news. The Russians and Chinese, meanwhile, stubbornly carry forth with space. Around 2012, Melor Oliver, a big ol' wolf, is discovered to be using time travel to send stock information two minutes into the past to himself to make money. The SEC is annoyed and tries to pin him for something, but no luck. They do, however, Shanghai him into a secret project to research this. In 2017, the Otonichi try to screw with a Shenzhou launch from Jiquan. That's when they fuck up and the Chinese catch them. The world is now made aware of what's going on and that there's aliens screwing with our space programs. China hauls them out in a big show trial, then kills them for treason.</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* 2010s */</p> <hr /> <div><center>'''<u>ISA SECURE DATABASE</u>'''<br /> </br><br /> '''"LOOKING GLASS LAND" — SUMMARY'''<br /> </br><br /> '''TOP SECRET//LG/SAR-HG//ORCON/NOFORN'''</center><br /> <br /> ==Introduction==<br /> ==Timeline==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |+ Timeline color key<br /> |- style="text-align:center;" <br /> | style="width:96px;" |Prime<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#d3edff;"|Looking Glass Land<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#edffd3;"|Both<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1800s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1859||align=center rowspan="3"|1-2 September||style="background:#edffd3;"|The Carrington Event occurs. One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, a major coronal mass ejection occurs at around noon on September 1 and impacts the Earth less than a day later, causing auroras bright enough to read newspapers at night in some areas, and visible as far south as the Caribbean. Telegraph operators around the world report receiving electric shocks and being able to transmit with their power supplies turned off, when systems aren't disrupted by the storm.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Arrive1"<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. Due to the damage to the pod's shielding, the pod suffers a catastrophic failure on reentry and disintegrates over the English Channel, killing everyone aboard. The remaining 2 members of the crew, the station's commander and executive officer, enter a final escape pod after verifying the station is on the proper course for disposal and land successfully near the first 4 in England.<br /> |-<br /> |A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. As this pod leaves the station, a team from Project Hourglass, arriving from [[#HG-Station-Leave1|2014]] in the modified Otonichi infiltration ship ISV ''Opened Item'', trigger a proximity alert and are hailed by the station commander, who asks them to effect a rescue. The Hourglass team docks with the damaged pod and incapacitate the injured Hoomiku with knockout gas before securing them. After verifying that the data recorder they are looking for is not aboard, the pod is left to burn up in the atmosphere. The Hourglass team then board the station and move it into a stable orbit around the Earth before prepping it for a jump to the Asteroid Belt. After an initial confrontation, a truce is reached between the commander, his executive officer and the Hourglass team, and the 5 rescued Hoomiku from the damaged escape pod are treated for radiation sickness. The 4 Hoomiku in England are left on Earth to avoid interference in the timeline.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Past-Arrive"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1868||align=center rowspan="2"|July 1||Lindsey Waldroup arrives from [[#Lindsey-Jump-Start|2020]] and steals the data recorder from the Hoomiku crew who landed on Earth in 1859. As she is attempting to leave, she is robbed by an unidentified assailant. The robber manages to steal the data recorder from her as she attempts an emergency jump forward to escape. Due to a miscalculation, the device she uses to escape sends her to Waxahachie, Texas on [[#Lindsey-Jump-2014|September 30, 2014]]. The data recorder is eventually sold multiple times until it lands in the possession of Jordan Thorpe, a small-scale artifact dealer who books passage to America on the maiden voyage of the RMS ''Titanic''.<br /> |-<br /> |'''NOTE:''' The above event has been identified as the point of divergence between the Prime timeline and the alternate timeline known as "Looking Glass Land". According to data acquired by Project Hourglass/Bootstrap, all information currently points to Lindsey Waldroup's actions being the catalyst for the events that followed in the Prime timeline, rippling backwards to 1859 due to the presence of Hourglass personnel at the arrival of the Hoomiku space station. The Prime timeline, in effect, is a paradox created the moment Ms. Waldroup entered the past.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1910s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1912||align=center rowspan="2"|10 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' departs Southampton on her maiden voyage, bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sail"<br /> |The members of Project Hourglass arrive in Southampton from [[#HG-Titanic-Leave|2013]] and board the ''Titanic'' in order to secure an artifact that is clearly of Hoomiku manufacture from the ship prior to its sinking. They are booked in Cabins B-51, 53 and 55 for the voyage under names which appear on the official manifest in the future.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sink"<br /> |align=center|1912||align=center|14-15 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later, killing more than 1,500 people. News of the disaster shocks the world and leads to the establishment of new safety standards on the seas.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1920s===<br /> <br /> ===1930s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))<br /> Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates a 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.<br /> |- id="ReskontMission"<br /> |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1940s===<br /> <br /> ===1950s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- id="Sandra-CastleBravo"<br /> |align=center|1954||align=center|1 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Castle Bravo, the first test of a solid-fueled thermonuclear weapon by the United States, is conducted at Bikini Atoll. The bomb exceeds its intended blast yield by nearly 2.5 times, generating a yield of 15 megatons. The test is the largest weapon ever detonated by the United States and causes a large amount of fallout. The radioactive debris contaminates nearby islands, their inhabitants and the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel ''[[Wikipedia:Daigo Fukuryū Maru|Daigo Fukuryū Maru]]'' ("Lucky Dragon No. 5").<br /> *Members of Project Bootstrap have speculated about (but have not yet confirmed) the possibility of time travelers at this event due to indications of possible temporal abnormalities on this date. However, this situation is still under investigation and no conclusive proof has been found.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|1955||align=center|5 November||style="background:#edffd3;"|Acting on a tip, the Otonichi Intelligence Service discovers the location of a rogue Hoomiku research and mining installation. The information they receive leads OIS to believe that experiments in time travel are being carried out by the facility. King Zalkyo Jeskalt orders an immediate strike to neutralize the base. An intense firefight ensues, and as the situation appears to be reaching a climax, the severely damaged station disappears without a trace. The station crew, in an act of desperation, activate their time machine using their dwindling power supply and travel to the Sol system. Due to the emergency nature of the jump and damage to the time machine’s computing cluster, they jump a significant amount of time in the past, arriving near Earth on [[#Station-Jump-Arrive1|September 2, 1859]]. Despite an exhaustive search, no clues can be found by the Otonichi as to the whereabouts of the base.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1960s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|26 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy meets with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) and confides that he believes an invasion of Cuba is the only way to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from the island. He is persuaded to wait and continue with diplomatic and military pressure. The situation is at an effective stalemate.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo Jeskalt to discuss the situation on Terra. Two schools of thought exist within the College: a first advocates for immediate intervention in order to resolve the crisis or shape the situation to one beneficial for the Otonichi while the second advises that doing nothing is the only possible option, due to the possibility of the crisis either resolving itself (peacefully or otherwise) or of the mere presence of an outside force defusing the situation in a way that would be undesirable to the empire. At an emergency meeting of the royal Cabinet, a lone researcher for the College convinces the king to allow the crisis on Terra to continue until it reaches its inevitable conclusion, with Terra running headlong into the Great Filter through nuclear war. The king agrees and orders no intervention be carried out. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|27 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cuban Missile Crisis: As tensions reach a boiling point between the United States, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Soviet submarine ''B-59'' is surrounded by a group of American ships, which begin to drop depth charges in an attempt to force the submarine to surface. Unsure whether war has already broken out, Captain Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky and political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agree to use a nuclear-tipped torpedo. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, whose vote is required in order to authorize the launch, disagrees and denies the launch, averting what could have been the opening shot of World War III. The submarine eventually surfaces and leaves the area. This day, later known as "Black Saturday", is one of the closest moments in Terran history to possible Armageddon.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1966||align=center|14 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, dies following an operation. The loss of the lead designer and driving force behind the Soviet Union's success in the Space Race deals a devastating blow to Soviet plans for spaceflight.<br /> *The possibility of Otonichi agents murdering Korolev was investigated by members of Project Bootstap, but cannot be conclusively determined. This is considered unlikely, however, in view of his numerous health issues. Copies of Otonichi Intelligence Service records from the time period do suggest plans to eliminate Korolev and Wernher von Braun by agents on Terra, however no serious attempts appear to have been made against either.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1967||align=center|27 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *During a dress rehearsal for the launch of Apollo 1, a cabin fire ignites and kills Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Major changes to the design of the capsule and to procedures are implemented in the aftermath of the disaster. The cause of the fire is never conclusively determined.<br /> *Decades later, investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the direct cause of the accident was sabotage of the cabin electronics by elements of the Otonichi Intelligence Service working to sabotage Terran spaceflight activity. Apollo 1 is their first major attempt, and while it results in a temporary setback of the Apollo Program, their efforts do not work as intended. They regroup and formulate new plans.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|3 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *The second launch attempt of the Soviet N1 rocket ends disastrously just 23 seconds after liftoff. A damaged engine causes the automatic shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines just 15 seconds into the flight, and the fully fueled lunar rocket crashes back onto the pad in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the history of the planet. The explosion completely destroys the launch pad, and subsequent United States satellite imagery confirms that the Soviets are building a rocket capable of reaching the Moon. The cause of the disaster is eventually traced to the liquid oxygen tubopump of the #8 engine on the first stage exploding due to ingestion of a foreign object, most likely a loose bolt. Fuel filters are added to future missions. The pad requires more than 18 months of reconstruction.<br /> *A subsequent investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the ultimate cause of the accident was Otonichi tampering. It has subsequently been concluded that the Otonichi attempts to sabotage the Soviet lunar program were a direct attempt to avoid the possibility of a Soviet lunar landing being used as motivation for a NASA mission to Mars and future Solar System exploration. Their work was greatly assisted by a badly underfunded Soviet space program which featured numerous competing design bureaus attempting to court state favor and the death of Sergei Korolev.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|20 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Apollo 11 lunar module ''Eagle'' lands on Earth's Moon, and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on its surface. This moment is, effectively, the end of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union and fulfills President Kennedy's 1961 promise to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo to discuss the implications of the landing. It is universally agreed that Terran spaceflight activities, if continued at their current pace, will lead to the eventual discovery of the Otonichi. A small number of researchers suggest peaceful revelation of the existence of the Otonichi to the people of Terra. Their proposal is rejected and the King authorizes further covert attempts to interfere with possible Terran discovery of the Otonichi by tampering with radio astronomy investigation programs and further attempts to sabotage Terran spaceflight activities.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1970s===<br /> <br /> ===1980s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|14 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|Fractal Sinclair is born in Roswell, New Mexico.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|12 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cora and Halni Jeskalt are born in Alkonost, on the planet Ishonko. As Cora is born first, she becomes next in line to the throne of the Otonichi civilization.<br /> |- id="HG-86-Arrive"<br /> |align=center|1986||align=center|27 January||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1986||align=center rowspan="3"|28 January||Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes on the launchpad during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1986||align=center rowspan="2"|9 June||The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be a failure of the O-rings in the right Solid Rocket Booster due to the cold conditions at launch, which led to the escape of super heated gasses and the subsequent breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after launch. The report also notes a number of contributing causes to the accident and criticizes NASA management decisions that led to the accident.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be the unauthorized activation of the range safety system onboard the Shuttle at the moment of booster ignition, destroying the Shuttle, the launch pad and killing several ground personnel and spectators. The report concludes that a valid command was sent to the system to arm and activate it at liftoff, but records from Patrick Air Force Base and testimony from the Range Safety Officers indicate conclusively that no command was sent from them. The failure is attributed to a serious fault or outside tampering, but the exact cause is never determined with certainty.<br /> *The report includes testimony from Morton-Thiokol engineer [[Wikipedia:Roger Boisjoly|Roger Boisjoly]], noting the possibility of a failure of the Solid Rocket Booster O-rings during launches on days with very low temperatures. Initially seen as a possible cause for the accident, investigators cannot conclusively find evidence for this as a cause for the disaster and the subsequent discovery of the range safety system activation leads to a lack of further investigation into this possibility. It is included as a mere footnote in the report.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1989||align=center|24 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|''The New York Times'' publishes classified documents obtained by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell which contain numerous details on projects involving the Hoomiku performed by both the United States and Soviet Union. The story becomes a media sensation overnight and Thornwell is arrested within hours of publication.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1990s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 5 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|29 January||style="background:#d3edff;"|At the 1991 State of the Union Address, President George H. W. Bush announces the cancellation of America's manned space program and shifts NASA's priorities to the cause of robotic exploration of the Solar System. The three remaining Space Shuttles are decommissioned and placed on display in museums, with Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' placed on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|4 December||style="background:#d3edff;"|Pan American World Airways ceases operations, with PAA Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami, Florida being the last flight in the 64 year history of the company.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|21 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The House of Representatives narrowly votes to approve funds to continue the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas. The project, roughly 1/5th of the way to completion, faces increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill due to reports of project mismanagement and skyrocketing costs. Over the next few months, a staff shakeup leads to lower cost projections and a revised timeline for completion, with the massive particle accelerator due for activation before the end of the year 2000.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|27 October||The House of Representatives votes 283 to 143 to reject a Conference Committee report with continuing funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is officially terminated. Access shafts to the 14 miles of completed tunnels are filled in and over the next year, the project is officially wound down and abandoned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1995||align=center|August||A private expedition to the wreck of the ''Titanic'' is carried out by a group of French treasure-hunters. After contracting the Russians in order to use the R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' and its MIR submersibles, a number of artifacts are recovered from the wreck. INTERPOL, acting on a tip, arrests the men and confiscates the artifacts, a number of which corrode due to improper cleaning and handling. The artifacts are eventually sold to Magnolia Parks and Entertainment, for use in a future museum devoted to the ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1997||align=center|15 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|The ''Cassini-Huygens'' mission to Saturn launches on a Titan IV-B booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The $3.2 billion Flagship-class mission promises to unlock untold scientific discoveries of Saturn and its moons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|24 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|NASA announces that it plans to launch a Mars sample-return mission before 2010, and planning begins for a tentative launch in 2008.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|DOS-8, the core module of the ''Mir-2'' space station, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Federal Space Agency finalizes plans with the Chinese government for cooperation on space station construction. The European Space Agency expresses interest, but doesn't commit to the project in full.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2000s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|9 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The first particle beam collision, at an unprecedented energy of 40 TeV, occurs at Superconducting Super Collider. The event is hailed as a monumental moment in physics and science and scientists from around the world anticipate new discoveries, chief among them the Higgs boson, the long sought particle thought to imbue mass and a critical missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. CERN announces it will suspend operation of the Large Electron-Positron Collider by 2001, and several European countries push for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in an attempt to foster new scientific innovations while America probes new frontiers of particle physics.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|12 December||style="background:#edffd3;"|Following a lengthy and contentious recount of votes in Florida, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling on ''Bush v. Gore'', ending the recounts in a 5-4 decision and, as a result, George W. Bush is elected 43rd President of the United States, defeating Vice President Al Gore.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|18 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|Zachary Calliden is born in Waxahachie, Texas.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#edffd3;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|26 August||The Columbia Accident Investigation Board issues its report. The immediate cause of the accident is revealed to be a breach in one of the reinforced carbon-carbon composite panels on the left wing of the Space Shuttle, caused by foam from the External Tank striking the panel at supersonic speeds. During reentry, plasma entered the wing and compromised its structure, leading to the eventual destruction of the vehicle due to loss of attitude control. The report also indicates a large number of faults with NASA decision making policy and risk assessment procedures, as well as a culture where deviations from design criteria were regularly accepted so long as mission success was not compromised. The report makes numerous recommendations for future spaceflight operations. The International Space Agency's fleet of Orbiters, recently approved for construction, begin to undergo design modifications to allow for higher crew safety standards.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|10 November||The International Space Agency's governing body, the International Council on Spaceflight Activities, gives authorization to proceed with the Phoenix Program. The program's goal is to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the 2010s and establish a permanent research outpost at the lunar south pole. In a separate vote, the Council gives tentative approval for a project to use components from the lunar program for use in a possible mission to Mars before 2020.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 59 of the Chelsea Piers, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||[[Edward Marshall]] is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Barack Obama is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-6 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 59. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is traced back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.<br /> |- id="HG-Titanic-Leave"<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|25 November||Members of Project Hourglass travel to [[#Titanic-Sail|April 10, 1912]].<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2014||align=center|22 May||After several months of quiet negotiations, the Department of Energy gives approval for [[TCI Research]] to begin construction on the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The company purchases the remains of the various facilities from the government and begins the process of drilling new access shafts to the abandoned 14 miles of tunnels to determine their condition. Construction is estimated to take a bare minimum of 6 years. In an effort to speed up the process while negotiations are made to acquire land needed for the project, seven tunnel boring machines are ordered and one of the largest civil engineering projects in United States history begins to take shape. Opposition in Congress is immediate, most notably from Idaho Senator Arlen Hawking, who criticizes the project as a handout to the home state of President Marshall, a gross expenditure of money that could better be spent elsewhere and a possible threat to humanity.<br /> |- id="ZachBodyRecover"<br /> |align=center|2015||align=center|22 June||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|8 July||A week and a half before the Republican National Convention, presumptive nominee Donald Trump announces that he is suspending his campaign, throwing the race for the Republican nomination into chaos. At a press conference announcing the event, Trump implies that he is withdrawing from the race against his will due to coercion by outside forces and hints of a "witch hunt" against him. He does not, despite repeated questioning, establish what forces he is referring to.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|19 July||On the fifth round of voting, Senator [[Arlen Hawking]] of Idaho wins the nomination for President, defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In his speech to the convention, Hawking pledges to unify the party and begin the process of making the nation prosperous once more.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|21 July||Ares 1's Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) ''Mayflower'' lands at Eberswalde Crater, becoming the first mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars. Hours later, Harold Hamilton becomes the first person to set foot on the Martian surface, followed by David Sanders, Vasili Petrov, Karri Litmanen, Liu Junlong and Kan Yamakawa. The crew begins a 550 day mission on the surface.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2016||align=center rowspan="2"|8 November||Arlen Hawking is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of Energy [[Elizabeth Gaines]].<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|25 December||A surprise attack is launched on critical orbital infrastructure around Ishonko. At least six large civilian ships fitted with advanced Terran FTL drives acquired on the black market are filled with explosives and rammed into the main civilian spaceport, Otonichi Imperial Fleet headquarters and a large orbital repair dock over the planet. Numerous civilian and military ships docked to the stations suffer severe damage and thousands are injured, killed or missing. Multiple daring rescue missions are made as Kessler syndrome begins to occur in Ishonkan orbit. Within hours, the Otonichi deorbit the remains of their primary military command center and civilian spaceport and mobilize their fleet in a defensive posture. The Otonichi fleet is given full access and use of a ship repair facility under construction by Looking Glass in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Ishonko goes into full planetary ground stop for the first time since the bombing of Reskont.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|15 March||Princess Regent Cora Jeskalt gives royal assent to the 3rd Monarchy Act, becoming sovereign of the Otonichi Imperial Empire. The act includes numerous provisions seen as an overt power grab by Parliament. Among the provisions included in the law is a clause which states that the monarchy shall be declared dissolved on the death of Cora Jeskalt provided she has not produced an heir. Hours after signing the document, HM Jeskalt travels to New Orleans on Terra for undisclosed reasons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flies over Hokkaido, Japan before crashing into the Pacific. With tensions on the Korean Peninsula reaching a dangerous tipping point, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss options. President Trump states that "all options are on the table" and threatens to retaliate with "force unlike anything they've ever seen" should any further provocation occur.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|3 September||style="background:#d3edff;"|The United States Geological Survey detects a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of North Korea's principal nuclear weapons test site. The DPRK claims it now has a hydrogen bomb capable of mounting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. Hours after the test, two defectors attempt to cross the border at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean soldiers fire at the defectors. In the chaos, a round strikes a US Army soldier and severely wounds him. A brief exchange of gunfire over the border takes place before a tense standoff occurs. For three hours, the situation remains a tense one as the defectors and American soldier are rushed to a hospital. Five hours after the initial exchange of gunfire, a third defector attempts to cross into the South, and is mortally wounded by North Korean troops firing at him. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula skyrocket and President Trump orders an aircraft carrier strike group sent to the Peninsula. In tweets that evening, the President warns Kim Jong-un of an impending wave of destruction should any further hostilities against American troops take place.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|Five snow leopards are arrested after attempting to sabotage the upcoming launch of Shenzhou 12 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. After intense interrogation, Chinese officials announce to the world that the saboteurs are not terrestrial leopards and that they are part of an operation intentionally tampering with affairs on Earth, specifically, Terran spaceflight programs. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. The men are convicted and sentenced to execution by China while an intense global effort is launched to find anyone else suspected of being associated with the program. Propaganda appears almost overnight across the globe: ''"Beware the Otonichi scourge!"''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|30 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *As news spreads across Earth of the existence of the Otonichi and their attempts to sabotage Terran space activities and interfere in global affairs, leaders of various Hoomiku communities on Earth try to distance themselves from possible association with the Otonichi. Several attacks on both Hoomiku and random snow leopards take place around the world.<br /> *The Otonichi Intelligence Service receives alarming reports from their agents on Terra. A decision is made to inform the monarch about the situation and to bring her up to speed on the status of attempts to intervene on Terra. Cora Jeskalt is made aware of the full extent of the project and orders a halt to all intervention on Terra and an immediate withdrawal of Otonichi agents from the planet. The damage, however, has been done.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|31 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|An intergovernmental task force is created to find and capture any and all Otonichi on Earth. Amidst a global panic and outrage, 6 elderly Hoomiku reveal the full scope of their species' dealings with the Otonichi to the world in graphic detail, and vow to work with the governments of the world in an effort to enact revenge not only for the crimes dealt to them by the Otonichi, but for the interference the Otonichi have caused on Earth. A new project is started at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory to use a time machine as a matter teleportation device. A project is also started at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland to develop a biological weapon tailored for use against the Otonichi.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2019||align=center|15 March||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2019||align=center rowspan="2"|December||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2020s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 9||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 30||style="background:#d3edff;"|With units of the Montana Army National Guard surrounding the mine and additional military assets being mobilized for a strike on the fortified mine serving as their base of operations, final preparations are made to send Lindsey Waldroup into the past in an attempt to alter the timeline and prevent disaster. Realizing he cannot go with Lindsey due to his appearance and the limited capacity of the time machine's power source, Zachary Calliden attempts a last-ditch maneuver to save his own life. Using information recorded in a journal by his maternal grandmother, he uploads his consciousness into Lindsey's mind while she sleeps, unaware that there is no way for him to escape once he does so. Fractal Calliden and Melor Oliver discover Zachary's still living body shortly thereafter and hide it from Lindsey, fearing that her resolve to attempt the mission will falter if she realizes what has happened. After rapid calculations, an incredibly remote possibility of retrieving the Hoomiku's body from their timeline is found, and instructions for the process are hidden on Lindsey's phone, addressed to their alternate selves. Data on the history of the world is also gathered and placed on storage devices. Zachary, in a persistent vegetative state, is placed on an intravenous drip and given oxygen.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2020||align=center rowspan="2"|October 31||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|'''NOTE:''' ''End of Looking Glass Land timeline.''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|November 7||Following delays due to higher than usual numbers of mail-in ballots, [[Matthew Connors]] is elected 46th President of the United States, defeating incumbent President Arlen Hawking.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==List of time travel events==</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* 1990s */</p> <hr /> <div><center>'''<u>ISA SECURE DATABASE</u>'''<br /> </br><br /> '''"LOOKING GLASS LAND" — SUMMARY'''<br /> </br><br /> '''TOP SECRET//LG/SAR-HG//ORCON/NOFORN'''</center><br /> <br /> ==Introduction==<br /> ==Timeline==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |+ Timeline color key<br /> |- style="text-align:center;" <br /> | style="width:96px;" |Prime<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#d3edff;"|Looking Glass Land<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#edffd3;"|Both<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1800s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1859||align=center rowspan="3"|1-2 September||style="background:#edffd3;"|The Carrington Event occurs. One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, a major coronal mass ejection occurs at around noon on September 1 and impacts the Earth less than a day later, causing auroras bright enough to read newspapers at night in some areas, and visible as far south as the Caribbean. Telegraph operators around the world report receiving electric shocks and being able to transmit with their power supplies turned off, when systems aren't disrupted by the storm.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Arrive1"<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. Due to the damage to the pod's shielding, the pod suffers a catastrophic failure on reentry and disintegrates over the English Channel, killing everyone aboard. The remaining 2 members of the crew, the station's commander and executive officer, enter a final escape pod after verifying the station is on the proper course for disposal and land successfully near the first 4 in England.<br /> |-<br /> |A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. As this pod leaves the station, a team from Project Hourglass, arriving from [[#HG-Station-Leave1|2014]] in the modified Otonichi infiltration ship ISV ''Opened Item'', trigger a proximity alert and are hailed by the station commander, who asks them to effect a rescue. The Hourglass team docks with the damaged pod and incapacitate the injured Hoomiku with knockout gas before securing them. After verifying that the data recorder they are looking for is not aboard, the pod is left to burn up in the atmosphere. The Hourglass team then board the station and move it into a stable orbit around the Earth before prepping it for a jump to the Asteroid Belt. After an initial confrontation, a truce is reached between the commander, his executive officer and the Hourglass team, and the 5 rescued Hoomiku from the damaged escape pod are treated for radiation sickness. The 4 Hoomiku in England are left on Earth to avoid interference in the timeline.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Past-Arrive"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1868||align=center rowspan="2"|July 1||Lindsey Waldroup arrives from [[#Lindsey-Jump-Start|2020]] and steals the data recorder from the Hoomiku crew who landed on Earth in 1859. As she is attempting to leave, she is robbed by an unidentified assailant. The robber manages to steal the data recorder from her as she attempts an emergency jump forward to escape. Due to a miscalculation, the device she uses to escape sends her to Waxahachie, Texas on [[#Lindsey-Jump-2014|September 30, 2014]]. The data recorder is eventually sold multiple times until it lands in the possession of Jordan Thorpe, a small-scale artifact dealer who books passage to America on the maiden voyage of the RMS ''Titanic''.<br /> |-<br /> |'''NOTE:''' The above event has been identified as the point of divergence between the Prime timeline and the alternate timeline known as "Looking Glass Land". According to data acquired by Project Hourglass/Bootstrap, all information currently points to Lindsey Waldroup's actions being the catalyst for the events that followed in the Prime timeline, rippling backwards to 1859 due to the presence of Hourglass personnel at the arrival of the Hoomiku space station. The Prime timeline, in effect, is a paradox created the moment Ms. Waldroup entered the past.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1910s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1912||align=center rowspan="2"|10 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' departs Southampton on her maiden voyage, bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sail"<br /> |The members of Project Hourglass arrive in Southampton from [[#HG-Titanic-Leave|2013]] and board the ''Titanic'' in order to secure an artifact that is clearly of Hoomiku manufacture from the ship prior to its sinking. They are booked in Cabins B-51, 53 and 55 for the voyage under names which appear on the official manifest in the future.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sink"<br /> |align=center|1912||align=center|14-15 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later, killing more than 1,500 people. News of the disaster shocks the world and leads to the establishment of new safety standards on the seas.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1920s===<br /> <br /> ===1930s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))<br /> Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates a 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.<br /> |- id="ReskontMission"<br /> |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1940s===<br /> <br /> ===1950s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- id="Sandra-CastleBravo"<br /> |align=center|1954||align=center|1 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Castle Bravo, the first test of a solid-fueled thermonuclear weapon by the United States, is conducted at Bikini Atoll. The bomb exceeds its intended blast yield by nearly 2.5 times, generating a yield of 15 megatons. The test is the largest weapon ever detonated by the United States and causes a large amount of fallout. The radioactive debris contaminates nearby islands, their inhabitants and the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel ''[[Wikipedia:Daigo Fukuryū Maru|Daigo Fukuryū Maru]]'' ("Lucky Dragon No. 5").<br /> *Members of Project Bootstrap have speculated about (but have not yet confirmed) the possibility of time travelers at this event due to indications of possible temporal abnormalities on this date. However, this situation is still under investigation and no conclusive proof has been found.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|1955||align=center|5 November||style="background:#edffd3;"|Acting on a tip, the Otonichi Intelligence Service discovers the location of a rogue Hoomiku research and mining installation. The information they receive leads OIS to believe that experiments in time travel are being carried out by the facility. King Zalkyo Jeskalt orders an immediate strike to neutralize the base. An intense firefight ensues, and as the situation appears to be reaching a climax, the severely damaged station disappears without a trace. The station crew, in an act of desperation, activate their time machine using their dwindling power supply and travel to the Sol system. Due to the emergency nature of the jump and damage to the time machine’s computing cluster, they jump a significant amount of time in the past, arriving near Earth on [[#Station-Jump-Arrive1|September 2, 1859]]. Despite an exhaustive search, no clues can be found by the Otonichi as to the whereabouts of the base.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1960s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|26 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy meets with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) and confides that he believes an invasion of Cuba is the only way to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from the island. He is persuaded to wait and continue with diplomatic and military pressure. The situation is at an effective stalemate.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo Jeskalt to discuss the situation on Terra. Two schools of thought exist within the College: a first advocates for immediate intervention in order to resolve the crisis or shape the situation to one beneficial for the Otonichi while the second advises that doing nothing is the only possible option, due to the possibility of the crisis either resolving itself (peacefully or otherwise) or of the mere presence of an outside force defusing the situation in a way that would be undesirable to the empire. At an emergency meeting of the royal Cabinet, a lone researcher for the College convinces the king to allow the crisis on Terra to continue until it reaches its inevitable conclusion, with Terra running headlong into the Great Filter through nuclear war. The king agrees and orders no intervention be carried out. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|27 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cuban Missile Crisis: As tensions reach a boiling point between the United States, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Soviet submarine ''B-59'' is surrounded by a group of American ships, which begin to drop depth charges in an attempt to force the submarine to surface. Unsure whether war has already broken out, Captain Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky and political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agree to use a nuclear-tipped torpedo. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, whose vote is required in order to authorize the launch, disagrees and denies the launch, averting what could have been the opening shot of World War III. The submarine eventually surfaces and leaves the area. This day, later known as "Black Saturday", is one of the closest moments in Terran history to possible Armageddon.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1966||align=center|14 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, dies following an operation. The loss of the lead designer and driving force behind the Soviet Union's success in the Space Race deals a devastating blow to Soviet plans for spaceflight.<br /> *The possibility of Otonichi agents murdering Korolev was investigated by members of Project Bootstap, but cannot be conclusively determined. This is considered unlikely, however, in view of his numerous health issues. Copies of Otonichi Intelligence Service records from the time period do suggest plans to eliminate Korolev and Wernher von Braun by agents on Terra, however no serious attempts appear to have been made against either.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1967||align=center|27 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *During a dress rehearsal for the launch of Apollo 1, a cabin fire ignites and kills Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Major changes to the design of the capsule and to procedures are implemented in the aftermath of the disaster. The cause of the fire is never conclusively determined.<br /> *Decades later, investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the direct cause of the accident was sabotage of the cabin electronics by elements of the Otonichi Intelligence Service working to sabotage Terran spaceflight activity. Apollo 1 is their first major attempt, and while it results in a temporary setback of the Apollo Program, their efforts do not work as intended. They regroup and formulate new plans.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|3 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *The second launch attempt of the Soviet N1 rocket ends disastrously just 23 seconds after liftoff. A damaged engine causes the automatic shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines just 15 seconds into the flight, and the fully fueled lunar rocket crashes back onto the pad in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the history of the planet. The explosion completely destroys the launch pad, and subsequent United States satellite imagery confirms that the Soviets are building a rocket capable of reaching the Moon. The cause of the disaster is eventually traced to the liquid oxygen tubopump of the #8 engine on the first stage exploding due to ingestion of a foreign object, most likely a loose bolt. Fuel filters are added to future missions. The pad requires more than 18 months of reconstruction.<br /> *A subsequent investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the ultimate cause of the accident was Otonichi tampering. It has subsequently been concluded that the Otonichi attempts to sabotage the Soviet lunar program were a direct attempt to avoid the possibility of a Soviet lunar landing being used as motivation for a NASA mission to Mars and future Solar System exploration. Their work was greatly assisted by a badly underfunded Soviet space program which featured numerous competing design bureaus attempting to court state favor and the death of Sergei Korolev.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|20 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Apollo 11 lunar module ''Eagle'' lands on Earth's Moon, and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on its surface. This moment is, effectively, the end of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union and fulfills President Kennedy's 1961 promise to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo to discuss the implications of the landing. It is universally agreed that Terran spaceflight activities, if continued at their current pace, will lead to the eventual discovery of the Otonichi. A small number of researchers suggest peaceful revelation of the existence of the Otonichi to the people of Terra. Their proposal is rejected and the King authorizes further covert attempts to interfere with possible Terran discovery of the Otonichi by tampering with radio astronomy investigation programs and further attempts to sabotage Terran spaceflight activities.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1970s===<br /> <br /> ===1980s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|14 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|Fractal Sinclair is born in Roswell, New Mexico.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|12 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cora and Halni Jeskalt are born in Alkonost, on the planet Ishonko. As Cora is born first, she becomes next in line to the throne of the Otonichi civilization.<br /> |- id="HG-86-Arrive"<br /> |align=center|1986||align=center|27 January||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1986||align=center rowspan="3"|28 January||Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes on the launchpad during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1986||align=center rowspan="2"|9 June||The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be a failure of the O-rings in the right Solid Rocket Booster due to the cold conditions at launch, which led to the escape of super heated gasses and the subsequent breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after launch. The report also notes a number of contributing causes to the accident and criticizes NASA management decisions that led to the accident.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be the unauthorized activation of the range safety system onboard the Shuttle at the moment of booster ignition, destroying the Shuttle, the launch pad and killing several ground personnel and spectators. The report concludes that a valid command was sent to the system to arm and activate it at liftoff, but records from Patrick Air Force Base and testimony from the Range Safety Officers indicate conclusively that no command was sent from them. The failure is attributed to a serious fault or outside tampering, but the exact cause is never determined with certainty.<br /> *The report includes testimony from Morton-Thiokol engineer [[Wikipedia:Roger Boisjoly|Roger Boisjoly]], noting the possibility of a failure of the Solid Rocket Booster O-rings during launches on days with very low temperatures. Initially seen as a possible cause for the accident, investigators cannot conclusively find evidence for this as a cause for the disaster and the subsequent discovery of the range safety system activation leads to a lack of further investigation into this possibility. It is included as a mere footnote in the report.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1989||align=center|24 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|''The New York Times'' publishes classified documents obtained by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell which contain numerous details on projects involving the Hoomiku performed by both the United States and Soviet Union. The story becomes a media sensation overnight and Thornwell is arrested within hours of publication.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1990s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 5 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|29 January||style="background:#d3edff;"|At the 1991 State of the Union Address, President George H. W. Bush announces the cancellation of America's manned space program and shifts NASA's priorities to the cause of robotic exploration of the Solar System. The three remaining Space Shuttles are decommissioned and placed on display in museums, with Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' placed on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|4 December||style="background:#d3edff;"|Pan American World Airways ceases operations, with PAA Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami, Florida being the last flight in the 64 year history of the company.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|21 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The House of Representatives narrowly votes to approve funds to continue the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas. The project, roughly 1/5th of the way to completion, faces increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill due to reports of project mismanagement and skyrocketing costs. Over the next few months, a staff shakeup leads to lower cost projections and a revised timeline for completion, with the massive particle accelerator due for activation before the end of the year 2000.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|27 October||The House of Representatives votes 283 to 143 to reject a Conference Committee report with continuing funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is officially terminated. Access shafts to the 14 miles of completed tunnels are filled in and over the next year, the project is officially wound down and abandoned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1995||align=center|August||A private expedition to the wreck of the ''Titanic'' is carried out by a group of French treasure-hunters. After contracting the Russians in order to use the R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' and its MIR submersibles, a number of artifacts are recovered from the wreck. INTERPOL, acting on a tip, arrests the men and confiscates the artifacts, a number of which corrode due to improper cleaning and handling. The artifacts are eventually sold to Magnolia Parks and Entertainment, for use in a future museum devoted to the ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1997||align=center|15 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|The ''Cassini-Huygens'' mission to Saturn launches on a Titan IV-B booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The $3.2 billion Flagship-class mission promises to unlock untold scientific discoveries of Saturn and its moons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|24 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|NASA announces that it plans to launch a Mars sample-return mission before 2010, and planning begins for a tentative launch in 2008.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|DOS-8, the core module of the ''Mir-2'' space station, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Federal Space Agency finalizes plans with the Chinese government for cooperation on space station construction. The European Space Agency expresses interest, but doesn't commit to the project in full.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2000s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|9 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The first particle beam collision, at an unprecedented energy of 40 TeV, occurs at Superconducting Super Collider. The event is hailed as a monumental moment in physics and science and scientists from around the world anticipate new discoveries, chief among them the Higgs boson, the long sought particle thought to imbue mass and a critical missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. CERN announces it will suspend operation of the Large Electron-Positron Collider by 2001, and several European countries push for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in an attempt to foster new scientific innovations while America probes new frontiers of particle physics.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|12 December||style="background:#edffd3;"|Following a lengthy and contentious recount of votes in Florida, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling on ''Bush v. Gore'', ending the recounts in a 5-4 decision and, as a result, George W. Bush is elected 43rd President of the United States, defeating Vice President Al Gore.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|18 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|Zachary Calliden is born in Waxahachie, Texas.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#edffd3;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|26 August||The Columbia Accident Investigation Board issues its report. The immediate cause of the accident is revealed to be a breach in one of the reinforced carbon-carbon composite panels on the left wing of the Space Shuttle, caused by foam from the External Tank striking the panel at supersonic speeds. During reentry, plasma entered the wing and compromised its structure, leading to the eventual destruction of the vehicle due to loss of attitude control. The report also indicates a large number of faults with NASA decision making policy and risk assessment procedures, as well as a culture where deviations from design criteria were regularly accepted so long as mission success was not compromised. The report makes numerous recommendations for future spaceflight operations. The International Space Agency's fleet of Orbiters, recently approved for construction, begin to undergo design modifications to allow for higher crew safety standards.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|10 November||The International Space Agency's governing body, the International Council on Spaceflight Activities, gives authorization to proceed with the Phoenix Program. The program's goal is to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the 2010s and establish a permanent research outpost at the lunar south pole. In a separate vote, the Council gives tentative approval for a project to use components from the lunar program for use in a possible mission to Mars before 2020.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 59 of the Chelsea Piers, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||[[Edward Marshall]] is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Barack Obama is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-7 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 59. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is traced back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.<br /> |- id="HG-Titanic-Leave"<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|25 November||Members of Project Hourglass travel to [[#Titanic-Sail|April 10, 1912]].<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2014||align=center|22 May||After several months of quiet negotiations, the Department of Energy gives approval for [[TCI Research]] to begin construction on the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The company purchases the remains of the various facilities from the government and begins the process of drilling new access shafts to the abandoned 14 miles of tunnels to determine their condition. Construction is estimated to take a bare minimum of 6 years. In an effort to speed up the process while negotiations are made to acquire land needed for the project, seven tunnel boring machines are ordered and one of the largest civil engineering projects in United States history begins to take shape. Opposition in Congress is immediate, most notably from Idaho Senator Arlen Hawking, who criticizes the project as a handout to the home state of President Marshall, a gross expenditure of money that could better be spent elsewhere and a possible threat to humanity.<br /> |- id="ZachBodyRecover"<br /> |align=center|2015||align=center|22 June||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|8 July||A week and a half before the Republican National Convention, presumptive nominee Donald Trump announces that he is suspending his campaign, throwing the race for the Republican nomination into chaos. At a press conference announcing the event, Trump implies that he is withdrawing from the race against his will due to coercion by outside forces and hints of a "witch hunt" against him. He does not, despite repeated questioning, establish what forces he is referring to.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|19 July||On the fifth round of voting, Senator [[Arlen Hawking]] of Idaho wins the nomination for President, defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In his speech to the convention, Hawking pledges to unify the party and begin the process of making the nation prosperous once more.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|21 July||Ares 1's Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) ''Mayflower'' lands at Eberswalde Crater, becoming the first mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars. Hours later, Harold Hamilton becomes the first person to set foot on the Martian surface, followed by David Sanders, Vasili Petrov, Karri Litmanen, Liu Junlong and Kan Yamakawa. The crew begins a 550 day mission on the surface.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2016||align=center rowspan="2"|8 November||Arlen Hawking is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of Energy [[Elizabeth Gaines]].<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|25 December||A surprise attack is launched on critical orbital infrastructure around Ishonko. At least six large civilian ships fitted with advanced Terran FTL drives acquired on the black market are filled with explosives and rammed into the main civilian spaceport, Otonichi Imperial Fleet headquarters and a large orbital repair dock over the planet. Numerous civilian and military ships docked to the stations suffer severe damage and thousands are injured, killed or missing. Multiple daring rescue missions are made as Kessler syndrome begins to occur in Ishonkan orbit. Within hours, the Otonichi deorbit the remains of their primary military command center and civilian spaceport and mobilize their fleet in a defensive posture. The Otonichi fleet is given full access and use of a ship repair facility under construction by Looking Glass in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Ishonko goes into full planetary ground stop for the first time since the bombing of Reskont.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|15 March||Princess Regent Cora Jeskalt gives royal assent to the 3rd Monarchy Act, becoming sovereign of the Otonichi Imperial Empire. The act includes numerous provisions seen as an overt power grab by Parliament. Among the provisions included in the law is a clause which states that the monarchy shall be declared dissolved on the death of Cora Jeskalt provided she has not produced an heir. Hours after signing the document, HM Jeskalt travels to New Orleans on Terra for undisclosed reasons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flies over Hokkaido, Japan before crashing into the Pacific. With tensions on the Korean Peninsula reaching a dangerous tipping point, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss options. President Trump states that "all options are on the table" and threatens to retaliate with "force unlike anything they've ever seen" should any further provocation occur.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|3 September||style="background:#d3edff;"|The United States Geological Survey detects a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of North Korea's principal nuclear weapons test site. The DPRK claims it now has a hydrogen bomb capable of mounting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. Hours after the test, two defectors attempt to cross the border at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean soldiers fire at the defectors. In the chaos, a round strikes a US Army soldier and severely wounds him. A brief exchange of gunfire over the border takes place before a tense standoff occurs. For three hours, the situation remains a tense one as the defectors and American soldier are rushed to a hospital. Five hours after the initial exchange of gunfire, a third defector attempts to cross into the South, and is mortally wounded by North Korean troops firing at him. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula skyrocket and President Trump orders an aircraft carrier strike group sent to the Peninsula. In tweets that evening, the President warns Kim Jong-un of an impending wave of destruction should any further hostilities against American troops take place.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|Five snow leopards are arrested after attempting to sabotage the upcoming launch of Shenzhou 12 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. After intense interrogation, Chinese officials announce to the world that the saboteurs are not terrestrial leopards and that they are part of an operation intentionally tampering with affairs on Earth, specifically, Terran spaceflight programs. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. The men are convicted and sentenced to execution by China while an intense global effort is launched to find anyone else suspected of being associated with the program. Propaganda appears almost overnight across the globe: ''"Beware the Otonichi scourge!"''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|30 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *As news spreads across Earth of the existence of the Otonichi and their attempts to sabotage Terran space activities and interfere in global affairs, leaders of various Hoomiku communities on Earth try to distance themselves from possible association with the Otonichi. Several attacks on both Hoomiku and random snow leopards take place around the world.<br /> *The Otonichi Intelligence Service receives alarming reports from their agents on Terra. A decision is made to inform the monarch about the situation and to bring her up to speed on the status of attempts to intervene on Terra. Cora Jeskalt is made aware of the full extent of the project and orders a halt to all intervention on Terra and an immediate withdrawal of Otonichi agents from the planet. The damage, however, has been done.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|31 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|An intergovernmental task force is created to find and capture any and all Otonichi on Earth. Amidst a global panic and outrage, 6 elderly Hoomiku reveal the full scope of their species' dealings with the Otonichi to the world in graphic detail, and vow to work with the governments of the world in an effort to enact revenge not only for the crimes dealt to them by the Otonichi, but for the interference the Otonichi have caused on Earth. A new project is started at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory to use a time machine as a matter teleportation device. A project is also started at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland to develop a biological weapon tailored for use against the Otonichi.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2019||align=center|15 March||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2019||align=center rowspan="2"|December||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2020s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 9||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 30||style="background:#d3edff;"|With units of the Montana Army National Guard surrounding the mine and additional military assets being mobilized for a strike on the fortified mine serving as their base of operations, final preparations are made to send Lindsey Waldroup into the past in an attempt to alter the timeline and prevent disaster. Realizing he cannot go with Lindsey due to his appearance and the limited capacity of the time machine's power source, Zachary Calliden attempts a last-ditch maneuver to save his own life. Using information recorded in a journal by his maternal grandmother, he uploads his consciousness into Lindsey's mind while she sleeps, unaware that there is no way for him to escape once he does so. Fractal Calliden and Melor Oliver discover Zachary's still living body shortly thereafter and hide it from Lindsey, fearing that her resolve to attempt the mission will falter if she realizes what has happened. After rapid calculations, an incredibly remote possibility of retrieving the Hoomiku's body from their timeline is found, and instructions for the process are hidden on Lindsey's phone, addressed to their alternate selves. Data on the history of the world is also gathered and placed on storage devices. Zachary, in a persistent vegetative state, is placed on an intravenous drip and given oxygen.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2020||align=center rowspan="2"|October 31||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|'''NOTE:''' ''End of Looking Glass Land timeline.''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|November 7||Following delays due to higher than usual numbers of mail-in ballots, [[Matthew Connors]] is elected 46th President of the United States, defeating incumbent President Arlen Hawking.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==List of time travel events==</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* 2000s */</p> <hr /> <div><center>'''<u>ISA SECURE DATABASE</u>'''<br /> </br><br /> '''"LOOKING GLASS LAND" — SUMMARY'''<br /> </br><br /> '''TOP SECRET//LG/SAR-HG//ORCON/NOFORN'''</center><br /> <br /> ==Introduction==<br /> ==Timeline==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |+ Timeline color key<br /> |- style="text-align:center;" <br /> | style="width:96px;" |Prime<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#d3edff;"|Looking Glass Land<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#edffd3;"|Both<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1800s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1859||align=center rowspan="3"|1-2 September||style="background:#edffd3;"|The Carrington Event occurs. One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, a major coronal mass ejection occurs at around noon on September 1 and impacts the Earth less than a day later, causing auroras bright enough to read newspapers at night in some areas, and visible as far south as the Caribbean. Telegraph operators around the world report receiving electric shocks and being able to transmit with their power supplies turned off, when systems aren't disrupted by the storm.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Arrive1"<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. Due to the damage to the pod's shielding, the pod suffers a catastrophic failure on reentry and disintegrates over the English Channel, killing everyone aboard. The remaining 2 members of the crew, the station's commander and executive officer, enter a final escape pod after verifying the station is on the proper course for disposal and land successfully near the first 4 in England.<br /> |-<br /> |A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. As this pod leaves the station, a team from Project Hourglass, arriving from [[#HG-Station-Leave1|2014]] in the modified Otonichi infiltration ship ISV ''Opened Item'', trigger a proximity alert and are hailed by the station commander, who asks them to effect a rescue. The Hourglass team docks with the damaged pod and incapacitate the injured Hoomiku with knockout gas before securing them. After verifying that the data recorder they are looking for is not aboard, the pod is left to burn up in the atmosphere. The Hourglass team then board the station and move it into a stable orbit around the Earth before prepping it for a jump to the Asteroid Belt. After an initial confrontation, a truce is reached between the commander, his executive officer and the Hourglass team, and the 5 rescued Hoomiku from the damaged escape pod are treated for radiation sickness. The 4 Hoomiku in England are left on Earth to avoid interference in the timeline.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Past-Arrive"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1868||align=center rowspan="2"|July 1||Lindsey Waldroup arrives from [[#Lindsey-Jump-Start|2020]] and steals the data recorder from the Hoomiku crew who landed on Earth in 1859. As she is attempting to leave, she is robbed by an unidentified assailant. The robber manages to steal the data recorder from her as she attempts an emergency jump forward to escape. Due to a miscalculation, the device she uses to escape sends her to Waxahachie, Texas on [[#Lindsey-Jump-2014|September 30, 2014]]. The data recorder is eventually sold multiple times until it lands in the possession of Jordan Thorpe, a small-scale artifact dealer who books passage to America on the maiden voyage of the RMS ''Titanic''.<br /> |-<br /> |'''NOTE:''' The above event has been identified as the point of divergence between the Prime timeline and the alternate timeline known as "Looking Glass Land". According to data acquired by Project Hourglass/Bootstrap, all information currently points to Lindsey Waldroup's actions being the catalyst for the events that followed in the Prime timeline, rippling backwards to 1859 due to the presence of Hourglass personnel at the arrival of the Hoomiku space station. The Prime timeline, in effect, is a paradox created the moment Ms. Waldroup entered the past.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1910s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1912||align=center rowspan="2"|10 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' departs Southampton on her maiden voyage, bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sail"<br /> |The members of Project Hourglass arrive in Southampton from [[#HG-Titanic-Leave|2013]] and board the ''Titanic'' in order to secure an artifact that is clearly of Hoomiku manufacture from the ship prior to its sinking. They are booked in Cabins B-51, 53 and 55 for the voyage under names which appear on the official manifest in the future.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sink"<br /> |align=center|1912||align=center|14-15 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later, killing more than 1,500 people. News of the disaster shocks the world and leads to the establishment of new safety standards on the seas.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1920s===<br /> <br /> ===1930s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))<br /> Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates a 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.<br /> |- id="ReskontMission"<br /> |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1940s===<br /> <br /> ===1950s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- id="Sandra-CastleBravo"<br /> |align=center|1954||align=center|1 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Castle Bravo, the first test of a solid-fueled thermonuclear weapon by the United States, is conducted at Bikini Atoll. The bomb exceeds its intended blast yield by nearly 2.5 times, generating a yield of 15 megatons. The test is the largest weapon ever detonated by the United States and causes a large amount of fallout. The radioactive debris contaminates nearby islands, their inhabitants and the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel ''[[Wikipedia:Daigo Fukuryū Maru|Daigo Fukuryū Maru]]'' ("Lucky Dragon No. 5").<br /> *Members of Project Bootstrap have speculated about (but have not yet confirmed) the possibility of time travelers at this event due to indications of possible temporal abnormalities on this date. However, this situation is still under investigation and no conclusive proof has been found.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|1955||align=center|5 November||style="background:#edffd3;"|Acting on a tip, the Otonichi Intelligence Service discovers the location of a rogue Hoomiku research and mining installation. The information they receive leads OIS to believe that experiments in time travel are being carried out by the facility. King Zalkyo Jeskalt orders an immediate strike to neutralize the base. An intense firefight ensues, and as the situation appears to be reaching a climax, the severely damaged station disappears without a trace. The station crew, in an act of desperation, activate their time machine using their dwindling power supply and travel to the Sol system. Due to the emergency nature of the jump and damage to the time machine’s computing cluster, they jump a significant amount of time in the past, arriving near Earth on [[#Station-Jump-Arrive1|September 2, 1859]]. Despite an exhaustive search, no clues can be found by the Otonichi as to the whereabouts of the base.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1960s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|26 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy meets with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) and confides that he believes an invasion of Cuba is the only way to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from the island. He is persuaded to wait and continue with diplomatic and military pressure. The situation is at an effective stalemate.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo Jeskalt to discuss the situation on Terra. Two schools of thought exist within the College: a first advocates for immediate intervention in order to resolve the crisis or shape the situation to one beneficial for the Otonichi while the second advises that doing nothing is the only possible option, due to the possibility of the crisis either resolving itself (peacefully or otherwise) or of the mere presence of an outside force defusing the situation in a way that would be undesirable to the empire. At an emergency meeting of the royal Cabinet, a lone researcher for the College convinces the king to allow the crisis on Terra to continue until it reaches its inevitable conclusion, with Terra running headlong into the Great Filter through nuclear war. The king agrees and orders no intervention be carried out. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|27 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cuban Missile Crisis: As tensions reach a boiling point between the United States, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Soviet submarine ''B-59'' is surrounded by a group of American ships, which begin to drop depth charges in an attempt to force the submarine to surface. Unsure whether war has already broken out, Captain Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky and political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agree to use a nuclear-tipped torpedo. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, whose vote is required in order to authorize the launch, disagrees and denies the launch, averting what could have been the opening shot of World War III. The submarine eventually surfaces and leaves the area. This day, later known as "Black Saturday", is one of the closest moments in Terran history to possible Armageddon.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1966||align=center|14 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, dies following an operation. The loss of the lead designer and driving force behind the Soviet Union's success in the Space Race deals a devastating blow to Soviet plans for spaceflight.<br /> *The possibility of Otonichi agents murdering Korolev was investigated by members of Project Bootstap, but cannot be conclusively determined. This is considered unlikely, however, in view of his numerous health issues. Copies of Otonichi Intelligence Service records from the time period do suggest plans to eliminate Korolev and Wernher von Braun by agents on Terra, however no serious attempts appear to have been made against either.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1967||align=center|27 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *During a dress rehearsal for the launch of Apollo 1, a cabin fire ignites and kills Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Major changes to the design of the capsule and to procedures are implemented in the aftermath of the disaster. The cause of the fire is never conclusively determined.<br /> *Decades later, investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the direct cause of the accident was sabotage of the cabin electronics by elements of the Otonichi Intelligence Service working to sabotage Terran spaceflight activity. Apollo 1 is their first major attempt, and while it results in a temporary setback of the Apollo Program, their efforts do not work as intended. They regroup and formulate new plans.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|3 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *The second launch attempt of the Soviet N1 rocket ends disastrously just 23 seconds after liftoff. A damaged engine causes the automatic shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines just 15 seconds into the flight, and the fully fueled lunar rocket crashes back onto the pad in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the history of the planet. The explosion completely destroys the launch pad, and subsequent United States satellite imagery confirms that the Soviets are building a rocket capable of reaching the Moon. The cause of the disaster is eventually traced to the liquid oxygen tubopump of the #8 engine on the first stage exploding due to ingestion of a foreign object, most likely a loose bolt. Fuel filters are added to future missions. The pad requires more than 18 months of reconstruction.<br /> *A subsequent investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the ultimate cause of the accident was Otonichi tampering. It has subsequently been concluded that the Otonichi attempts to sabotage the Soviet lunar program were a direct attempt to avoid the possibility of a Soviet lunar landing being used as motivation for a NASA mission to Mars and future Solar System exploration. Their work was greatly assisted by a badly underfunded Soviet space program which featured numerous competing design bureaus attempting to court state favor and the death of Sergei Korolev.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|20 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Apollo 11 lunar module ''Eagle'' lands on Earth's Moon, and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on its surface. This moment is, effectively, the end of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union and fulfills President Kennedy's 1961 promise to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo to discuss the implications of the landing. It is universally agreed that Terran spaceflight activities, if continued at their current pace, will lead to the eventual discovery of the Otonichi. A small number of researchers suggest peaceful revelation of the existence of the Otonichi to the people of Terra. Their proposal is rejected and the King authorizes further covert attempts to interfere with possible Terran discovery of the Otonichi by tampering with radio astronomy investigation programs and further attempts to sabotage Terran spaceflight activities.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1970s===<br /> <br /> ===1980s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|14 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|Fractal Sinclair is born in Roswell, New Mexico.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|12 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cora and Halni Jeskalt are born in Alkonost, on the planet Ishonko. As Cora is born first, she becomes next in line to the throne of the Otonichi civilization.<br /> |- id="HG-86-Arrive"<br /> |align=center|1986||align=center|27 January||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1986||align=center rowspan="3"|28 January||Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes on the launchpad during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1986||align=center rowspan="2"|9 June||The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be a failure of the O-rings in the right Solid Rocket Booster due to the cold conditions at launch, which led to the escape of super heated gasses and the subsequent breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after launch. The report also notes a number of contributing causes to the accident and criticizes NASA management decisions that led to the accident.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be the unauthorized activation of the range safety system onboard the Shuttle at the moment of booster ignition, destroying the Shuttle, the launch pad and killing several ground personnel and spectators. The report concludes that a valid command was sent to the system to arm and activate it at liftoff, but records from Patrick Air Force Base and testimony from the Range Safety Officers indicate conclusively that no command was sent from them. The failure is attributed to a serious fault or outside tampering, but the exact cause is never determined with certainty.<br /> *The report includes testimony from Morton-Thiokol engineer [[Wikipedia:Roger Boisjoly|Roger Boisjoly]], noting the possibility of a failure of the Solid Rocket Booster O-rings during launches on days with very low temperatures. Initially seen as a possible cause for the accident, investigators cannot conclusively find evidence for this as a cause for the disaster and the subsequent discovery of the range safety system activation leads to a lack of further investigation into this possibility. It is included as a mere footnote in the report.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1989||align=center|24 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|''The New York Times'' publishes classified documents obtained by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell which contain numerous details on projects involving the Hoomiku performed by both the United States and Soviet Union. The story becomes a media sensation overnight and Thornwell is arrested within hours of publication.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1990s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 7 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|29 January||style="background:#d3edff;"|At the 1991 State of the Union Address, President George H. W. Bush announces the cancellation of America's manned space program and shifts NASA's priorities to the cause of robotic exploration of the Solar System. The three remaining Space Shuttles are decommissioned and placed on display in museums, with Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' placed on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|4 December||style="background:#d3edff;"|Pan American World Airways ceases operations, with PAA Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami, Florida being the last flight in the 64 year history of the company.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|21 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The House of Representatives narrowly votes to approve funds to continue the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas. The project, roughly 1/5th of the way to completion, faces increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill due to reports of project mismanagement and skyrocketing costs. Over the next few months, a staff shakeup leads to lower cost projections and a revised timeline for completion, with the massive particle accelerator due for activation before the end of the year 2000.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|27 October||The House of Representatives votes 283 to 143 to reject a Conference Committee report with continuing funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is officially terminated. Access shafts to the 14 miles of completed tunnels are filled in and over the next year, the project is officially wound down and abandoned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1995||align=center|August||A private expedition to the wreck of the ''Titanic'' is carried out by a group of French treasure-hunters. After contracting the Russians in order to use the R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' and its MIR submersibles, a number of artifacts are recovered from the wreck. INTERPOL, acting on a tip, arrests the men and confiscates the artifacts, a number of which corrode due to improper cleaning and handling. The artifacts are eventually sold to Magnolia Parks and Entertainment, for use in a future museum devoted to the ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1997||align=center|15 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|The ''Cassini-Huygens'' mission to Saturn launches on a Titan IV-B booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The $3.2 billion Flagship-class mission promises to unlock untold scientific discoveries of Saturn and its moons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|24 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|NASA announces that it plans to launch a Mars sample-return mission before 2010, and planning begins for a tentative launch in 2008.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|DOS-8, the core module of the ''Mir-2'' space station, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Federal Space Agency finalizes plans with the Chinese government for cooperation on space station construction. The European Space Agency expresses interest, but doesn't commit to the project in full.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2000s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|9 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The first particle beam collision, at an unprecedented energy of 40 TeV, occurs at Superconducting Super Collider. The event is hailed as a monumental moment in physics and science and scientists from around the world anticipate new discoveries, chief among them the Higgs boson, the long sought particle thought to imbue mass and a critical missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. CERN announces it will suspend operation of the Large Electron-Positron Collider by 2001, and several European countries push for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in an attempt to foster new scientific innovations while America probes new frontiers of particle physics.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|12 December||style="background:#edffd3;"|Following a lengthy and contentious recount of votes in Florida, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling on ''Bush v. Gore'', ending the recounts in a 5-4 decision and, as a result, George W. Bush is elected 43rd President of the United States, defeating Vice President Al Gore.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|18 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|Zachary Calliden is born in Waxahachie, Texas.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#edffd3;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|26 August||The Columbia Accident Investigation Board issues its report. The immediate cause of the accident is revealed to be a breach in one of the reinforced carbon-carbon composite panels on the left wing of the Space Shuttle, caused by foam from the External Tank striking the panel at supersonic speeds. During reentry, plasma entered the wing and compromised its structure, leading to the eventual destruction of the vehicle due to loss of attitude control. The report also indicates a large number of faults with NASA decision making policy and risk assessment procedures, as well as a culture where deviations from design criteria were regularly accepted so long as mission success was not compromised. The report makes numerous recommendations for future spaceflight operations. The International Space Agency's fleet of Orbiters, recently approved for construction, begin to undergo design modifications to allow for higher crew safety standards.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|10 November||The International Space Agency's governing body, the International Council on Spaceflight Activities, gives authorization to proceed with the Phoenix Program. The program's goal is to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the 2010s and establish a permanent research outpost at the lunar south pole. In a separate vote, the Council gives tentative approval for a project to use components from the lunar program for use in a possible mission to Mars before 2020.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 59 of the Chelsea Piers, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||[[Edward Marshall]] is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Barack Obama is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-7 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 59. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is traced back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.<br /> |- id="HG-Titanic-Leave"<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|25 November||Members of Project Hourglass travel to [[#Titanic-Sail|April 10, 1912]].<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2014||align=center|22 May||After several months of quiet negotiations, the Department of Energy gives approval for [[TCI Research]] to begin construction on the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The company purchases the remains of the various facilities from the government and begins the process of drilling new access shafts to the abandoned 14 miles of tunnels to determine their condition. Construction is estimated to take a bare minimum of 6 years. In an effort to speed up the process while negotiations are made to acquire land needed for the project, seven tunnel boring machines are ordered and one of the largest civil engineering projects in United States history begins to take shape. Opposition in Congress is immediate, most notably from Idaho Senator Arlen Hawking, who criticizes the project as a handout to the home state of President Marshall, a gross expenditure of money that could better be spent elsewhere and a possible threat to humanity.<br /> |- id="ZachBodyRecover"<br /> |align=center|2015||align=center|22 June||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|8 July||A week and a half before the Republican National Convention, presumptive nominee Donald Trump announces that he is suspending his campaign, throwing the race for the Republican nomination into chaos. At a press conference announcing the event, Trump implies that he is withdrawing from the race against his will due to coercion by outside forces and hints of a "witch hunt" against him. He does not, despite repeated questioning, establish what forces he is referring to.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|19 July||On the fifth round of voting, Senator [[Arlen Hawking]] of Idaho wins the nomination for President, defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In his speech to the convention, Hawking pledges to unify the party and begin the process of making the nation prosperous once more.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|21 July||Ares 1's Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) ''Mayflower'' lands at Eberswalde Crater, becoming the first mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars. Hours later, Harold Hamilton becomes the first person to set foot on the Martian surface, followed by David Sanders, Vasili Petrov, Karri Litmanen, Liu Junlong and Kan Yamakawa. The crew begins a 550 day mission on the surface.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2016||align=center rowspan="2"|8 November||Arlen Hawking is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of Energy [[Elizabeth Gaines]].<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|25 December||A surprise attack is launched on critical orbital infrastructure around Ishonko. At least six large civilian ships fitted with advanced Terran FTL drives acquired on the black market are filled with explosives and rammed into the main civilian spaceport, Otonichi Imperial Fleet headquarters and a large orbital repair dock over the planet. Numerous civilian and military ships docked to the stations suffer severe damage and thousands are injured, killed or missing. Multiple daring rescue missions are made as Kessler syndrome begins to occur in Ishonkan orbit. Within hours, the Otonichi deorbit the remains of their primary military command center and civilian spaceport and mobilize their fleet in a defensive posture. The Otonichi fleet is given full access and use of a ship repair facility under construction by Looking Glass in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Ishonko goes into full planetary ground stop for the first time since the bombing of Reskont.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|15 March||Princess Regent Cora Jeskalt gives royal assent to the 3rd Monarchy Act, becoming sovereign of the Otonichi Imperial Empire. The act includes numerous provisions seen as an overt power grab by Parliament. Among the provisions included in the law is a clause which states that the monarchy shall be declared dissolved on the death of Cora Jeskalt provided she has not produced an heir. Hours after signing the document, HM Jeskalt travels to New Orleans on Terra for undisclosed reasons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flies over Hokkaido, Japan before crashing into the Pacific. With tensions on the Korean Peninsula reaching a dangerous tipping point, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss options. President Trump states that "all options are on the table" and threatens to retaliate with "force unlike anything they've ever seen" should any further provocation occur.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|3 September||style="background:#d3edff;"|The United States Geological Survey detects a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of North Korea's principal nuclear weapons test site. The DPRK claims it now has a hydrogen bomb capable of mounting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. Hours after the test, two defectors attempt to cross the border at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean soldiers fire at the defectors. In the chaos, a round strikes a US Army soldier and severely wounds him. A brief exchange of gunfire over the border takes place before a tense standoff occurs. For three hours, the situation remains a tense one as the defectors and American soldier are rushed to a hospital. Five hours after the initial exchange of gunfire, a third defector attempts to cross into the South, and is mortally wounded by North Korean troops firing at him. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula skyrocket and President Trump orders an aircraft carrier strike group sent to the Peninsula. In tweets that evening, the President warns Kim Jong-un of an impending wave of destruction should any further hostilities against American troops take place.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|Five snow leopards are arrested after attempting to sabotage the upcoming launch of Shenzhou 12 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. After intense interrogation, Chinese officials announce to the world that the saboteurs are not terrestrial leopards and that they are part of an operation intentionally tampering with affairs on Earth, specifically, Terran spaceflight programs. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. The men are convicted and sentenced to execution by China while an intense global effort is launched to find anyone else suspected of being associated with the program. Propaganda appears almost overnight across the globe: ''"Beware the Otonichi scourge!"''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|30 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *As news spreads across Earth of the existence of the Otonichi and their attempts to sabotage Terran space activities and interfere in global affairs, leaders of various Hoomiku communities on Earth try to distance themselves from possible association with the Otonichi. Several attacks on both Hoomiku and random snow leopards take place around the world.<br /> *The Otonichi Intelligence Service receives alarming reports from their agents on Terra. A decision is made to inform the monarch about the situation and to bring her up to speed on the status of attempts to intervene on Terra. Cora Jeskalt is made aware of the full extent of the project and orders a halt to all intervention on Terra and an immediate withdrawal of Otonichi agents from the planet. The damage, however, has been done.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|31 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|An intergovernmental task force is created to find and capture any and all Otonichi on Earth. Amidst a global panic and outrage, 6 elderly Hoomiku reveal the full scope of their species' dealings with the Otonichi to the world in graphic detail, and vow to work with the governments of the world in an effort to enact revenge not only for the crimes dealt to them by the Otonichi, but for the interference the Otonichi have caused on Earth. A new project is started at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory to use a time machine as a matter teleportation device. A project is also started at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland to develop a biological weapon tailored for use against the Otonichi.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2019||align=center|15 March||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2019||align=center rowspan="2"|December||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2020s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 9||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 30||style="background:#d3edff;"|With units of the Montana Army National Guard surrounding the mine and additional military assets being mobilized for a strike on the fortified mine serving as their base of operations, final preparations are made to send Lindsey Waldroup into the past in an attempt to alter the timeline and prevent disaster. Realizing he cannot go with Lindsey due to his appearance and the limited capacity of the time machine's power source, Zachary Calliden attempts a last-ditch maneuver to save his own life. Using information recorded in a journal by his maternal grandmother, he uploads his consciousness into Lindsey's mind while she sleeps, unaware that there is no way for him to escape once he does so. Fractal Calliden and Melor Oliver discover Zachary's still living body shortly thereafter and hide it from Lindsey, fearing that her resolve to attempt the mission will falter if she realizes what has happened. After rapid calculations, an incredibly remote possibility of retrieving the Hoomiku's body from their timeline is found, and instructions for the process are hidden on Lindsey's phone, addressed to their alternate selves. Data on the history of the world is also gathered and placed on storage devices. Zachary, in a persistent vegetative state, is placed on an intravenous drip and given oxygen.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2020||align=center rowspan="2"|October 31||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|'''NOTE:''' ''End of Looking Glass Land timeline.''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|November 7||Following delays due to higher than usual numbers of mail-in ballots, [[Matthew Connors]] is elected 46th President of the United States, defeating incumbent President Arlen Hawking.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==List of time travel events==</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* 2000s */</p> <hr /> <div><center>'''<u>ISA SECURE DATABASE</u>'''<br /> </br><br /> '''"LOOKING GLASS LAND" — SUMMARY'''<br /> </br><br /> '''TOP SECRET//LG/SAR-HG//ORCON/NOFORN'''</center><br /> <br /> ==Introduction==<br /> ==Timeline==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |+ Timeline color key<br /> |- style="text-align:center;" <br /> | style="width:96px;" |Prime<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#d3edff;"|Looking Glass Land<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#edffd3;"|Both<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1800s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1859||align=center rowspan="3"|1-2 September||style="background:#edffd3;"|The Carrington Event occurs. One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, a major coronal mass ejection occurs at around noon on September 1 and impacts the Earth less than a day later, causing auroras bright enough to read newspapers at night in some areas, and visible as far south as the Caribbean. Telegraph operators around the world report receiving electric shocks and being able to transmit with their power supplies turned off, when systems aren't disrupted by the storm.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Arrive1"<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. Due to the damage to the pod's shielding, the pod suffers a catastrophic failure on reentry and disintegrates over the English Channel, killing everyone aboard. The remaining 2 members of the crew, the station's commander and executive officer, enter a final escape pod after verifying the station is on the proper course for disposal and land successfully near the first 4 in England.<br /> |-<br /> |A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. As this pod leaves the station, a team from Project Hourglass, arriving from [[#HG-Station-Leave1|2014]] in the modified Otonichi infiltration ship ISV ''Opened Item'', trigger a proximity alert and are hailed by the station commander, who asks them to effect a rescue. The Hourglass team docks with the damaged pod and incapacitate the injured Hoomiku with knockout gas before securing them. After verifying that the data recorder they are looking for is not aboard, the pod is left to burn up in the atmosphere. The Hourglass team then board the station and move it into a stable orbit around the Earth before prepping it for a jump to the Asteroid Belt. After an initial confrontation, a truce is reached between the commander, his executive officer and the Hourglass team, and the 5 rescued Hoomiku from the damaged escape pod are treated for radiation sickness. The 4 Hoomiku in England are left on Earth to avoid interference in the timeline.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Past-Arrive"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1868||align=center rowspan="2"|July 1||Lindsey Waldroup arrives from [[#Lindsey-Jump-Start|2020]] and steals the data recorder from the Hoomiku crew who landed on Earth in 1859. As she is attempting to leave, she is robbed by an unidentified assailant. The robber manages to steal the data recorder from her as she attempts an emergency jump forward to escape. Due to a miscalculation, the device she uses to escape sends her to Waxahachie, Texas on [[#Lindsey-Jump-2014|September 30, 2014]]. The data recorder is eventually sold multiple times until it lands in the possession of Jordan Thorpe, a small-scale artifact dealer who books passage to America on the maiden voyage of the RMS ''Titanic''.<br /> |-<br /> |'''NOTE:''' The above event has been identified as the point of divergence between the Prime timeline and the alternate timeline known as "Looking Glass Land". According to data acquired by Project Hourglass/Bootstrap, all information currently points to Lindsey Waldroup's actions being the catalyst for the events that followed in the Prime timeline, rippling backwards to 1859 due to the presence of Hourglass personnel at the arrival of the Hoomiku space station. The Prime timeline, in effect, is a paradox created the moment Ms. Waldroup entered the past.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1910s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1912||align=center rowspan="2"|10 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' departs Southampton on her maiden voyage, bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sail"<br /> |The members of Project Hourglass arrive in Southampton from [[#HG-Titanic-Leave|2013]] and board the ''Titanic'' in order to secure an artifact that is clearly of Hoomiku manufacture from the ship prior to its sinking. They are booked in Cabins B-51, 53 and 55 for the voyage under names which appear on the official manifest in the future.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sink"<br /> |align=center|1912||align=center|14-15 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later, killing more than 1,500 people. News of the disaster shocks the world and leads to the establishment of new safety standards on the seas.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1920s===<br /> <br /> ===1930s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))<br /> Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates a 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.<br /> |- id="ReskontMission"<br /> |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1940s===<br /> <br /> ===1950s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- id="Sandra-CastleBravo"<br /> |align=center|1954||align=center|1 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Castle Bravo, the first test of a solid-fueled thermonuclear weapon by the United States, is conducted at Bikini Atoll. The bomb exceeds its intended blast yield by nearly 2.5 times, generating a yield of 15 megatons. The test is the largest weapon ever detonated by the United States and causes a large amount of fallout. The radioactive debris contaminates nearby islands, their inhabitants and the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel ''[[Wikipedia:Daigo Fukuryū Maru|Daigo Fukuryū Maru]]'' ("Lucky Dragon No. 5").<br /> *Members of Project Bootstrap have speculated about (but have not yet confirmed) the possibility of time travelers at this event due to indications of possible temporal abnormalities on this date. However, this situation is still under investigation and no conclusive proof has been found.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|1955||align=center|5 November||style="background:#edffd3;"|Acting on a tip, the Otonichi Intelligence Service discovers the location of a rogue Hoomiku research and mining installation. The information they receive leads OIS to believe that experiments in time travel are being carried out by the facility. King Zalkyo Jeskalt orders an immediate strike to neutralize the base. An intense firefight ensues, and as the situation appears to be reaching a climax, the severely damaged station disappears without a trace. The station crew, in an act of desperation, activate their time machine using their dwindling power supply and travel to the Sol system. Due to the emergency nature of the jump and damage to the time machine’s computing cluster, they jump a significant amount of time in the past, arriving near Earth on [[#Station-Jump-Arrive1|September 2, 1859]]. Despite an exhaustive search, no clues can be found by the Otonichi as to the whereabouts of the base.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1960s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|26 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy meets with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) and confides that he believes an invasion of Cuba is the only way to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from the island. He is persuaded to wait and continue with diplomatic and military pressure. The situation is at an effective stalemate.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo Jeskalt to discuss the situation on Terra. Two schools of thought exist within the College: a first advocates for immediate intervention in order to resolve the crisis or shape the situation to one beneficial for the Otonichi while the second advises that doing nothing is the only possible option, due to the possibility of the crisis either resolving itself (peacefully or otherwise) or of the mere presence of an outside force defusing the situation in a way that would be undesirable to the empire. At an emergency meeting of the royal Cabinet, a lone researcher for the College convinces the king to allow the crisis on Terra to continue until it reaches its inevitable conclusion, with Terra running headlong into the Great Filter through nuclear war. The king agrees and orders no intervention be carried out. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|27 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cuban Missile Crisis: As tensions reach a boiling point between the United States, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Soviet submarine ''B-59'' is surrounded by a group of American ships, which begin to drop depth charges in an attempt to force the submarine to surface. Unsure whether war has already broken out, Captain Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky and political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agree to use a nuclear-tipped torpedo. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, whose vote is required in order to authorize the launch, disagrees and denies the launch, averting what could have been the opening shot of World War III. The submarine eventually surfaces and leaves the area. This day, later known as "Black Saturday", is one of the closest moments in Terran history to possible Armageddon.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1966||align=center|14 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, dies following an operation. The loss of the lead designer and driving force behind the Soviet Union's success in the Space Race deals a devastating blow to Soviet plans for spaceflight.<br /> *The possibility of Otonichi agents murdering Korolev was investigated by members of Project Bootstap, but cannot be conclusively determined. This is considered unlikely, however, in view of his numerous health issues. Copies of Otonichi Intelligence Service records from the time period do suggest plans to eliminate Korolev and Wernher von Braun by agents on Terra, however no serious attempts appear to have been made against either.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1967||align=center|27 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *During a dress rehearsal for the launch of Apollo 1, a cabin fire ignites and kills Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Major changes to the design of the capsule and to procedures are implemented in the aftermath of the disaster. The cause of the fire is never conclusively determined.<br /> *Decades later, investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the direct cause of the accident was sabotage of the cabin electronics by elements of the Otonichi Intelligence Service working to sabotage Terran spaceflight activity. Apollo 1 is their first major attempt, and while it results in a temporary setback of the Apollo Program, their efforts do not work as intended. They regroup and formulate new plans.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|3 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *The second launch attempt of the Soviet N1 rocket ends disastrously just 23 seconds after liftoff. A damaged engine causes the automatic shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines just 15 seconds into the flight, and the fully fueled lunar rocket crashes back onto the pad in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the history of the planet. The explosion completely destroys the launch pad, and subsequent United States satellite imagery confirms that the Soviets are building a rocket capable of reaching the Moon. The cause of the disaster is eventually traced to the liquid oxygen tubopump of the #8 engine on the first stage exploding due to ingestion of a foreign object, most likely a loose bolt. Fuel filters are added to future missions. The pad requires more than 18 months of reconstruction.<br /> *A subsequent investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the ultimate cause of the accident was Otonichi tampering. It has subsequently been concluded that the Otonichi attempts to sabotage the Soviet lunar program were a direct attempt to avoid the possibility of a Soviet lunar landing being used as motivation for a NASA mission to Mars and future Solar System exploration. Their work was greatly assisted by a badly underfunded Soviet space program which featured numerous competing design bureaus attempting to court state favor and the death of Sergei Korolev.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|20 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Apollo 11 lunar module ''Eagle'' lands on Earth's Moon, and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on its surface. This moment is, effectively, the end of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union and fulfills President Kennedy's 1961 promise to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo to discuss the implications of the landing. It is universally agreed that Terran spaceflight activities, if continued at their current pace, will lead to the eventual discovery of the Otonichi. A small number of researchers suggest peaceful revelation of the existence of the Otonichi to the people of Terra. Their proposal is rejected and the King authorizes further covert attempts to interfere with possible Terran discovery of the Otonichi by tampering with radio astronomy investigation programs and further attempts to sabotage Terran spaceflight activities.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1970s===<br /> <br /> ===1980s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|14 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|Fractal Sinclair is born in Roswell, New Mexico.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|12 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cora and Halni Jeskalt are born in Alkonost, on the planet Ishonko. As Cora is born first, she becomes next in line to the throne of the Otonichi civilization.<br /> |- id="HG-86-Arrive"<br /> |align=center|1986||align=center|27 January||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1986||align=center rowspan="3"|28 January||Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes on the launchpad during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1986||align=center rowspan="2"|9 June||The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be a failure of the O-rings in the right Solid Rocket Booster due to the cold conditions at launch, which led to the escape of super heated gasses and the subsequent breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after launch. The report also notes a number of contributing causes to the accident and criticizes NASA management decisions that led to the accident.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be the unauthorized activation of the range safety system onboard the Shuttle at the moment of booster ignition, destroying the Shuttle, the launch pad and killing several ground personnel and spectators. The report concludes that a valid command was sent to the system to arm and activate it at liftoff, but records from Patrick Air Force Base and testimony from the Range Safety Officers indicate conclusively that no command was sent from them. The failure is attributed to a serious fault or outside tampering, but the exact cause is never determined with certainty.<br /> *The report includes testimony from Morton-Thiokol engineer [[Wikipedia:Roger Boisjoly|Roger Boisjoly]], noting the possibility of a failure of the Solid Rocket Booster O-rings during launches on days with very low temperatures. Initially seen as a possible cause for the accident, investigators cannot conclusively find evidence for this as a cause for the disaster and the subsequent discovery of the range safety system activation leads to a lack of further investigation into this possibility. It is included as a mere footnote in the report.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1989||align=center|24 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|''The New York Times'' publishes classified documents obtained by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell which contain numerous details on projects involving the Hoomiku performed by both the United States and Soviet Union. The story becomes a media sensation overnight and Thornwell is arrested within hours of publication.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1990s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 7 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|29 January||style="background:#d3edff;"|At the 1991 State of the Union Address, President George H. W. Bush announces the cancellation of America's manned space program and shifts NASA's priorities to the cause of robotic exploration of the Solar System. The three remaining Space Shuttles are decommissioned and placed on display in museums, with Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' placed on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|4 December||style="background:#d3edff;"|Pan American World Airways ceases operations, with PAA Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami, Florida being the last flight in the 64 year history of the company.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|21 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The House of Representatives narrowly votes to approve funds to continue the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas. The project, roughly 1/5th of the way to completion, faces increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill due to reports of project mismanagement and skyrocketing costs. Over the next few months, a staff shakeup leads to lower cost projections and a revised timeline for completion, with the massive particle accelerator due for activation before the end of the year 2000.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|27 October||The House of Representatives votes 283 to 143 to reject a Conference Committee report with continuing funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is officially terminated. Access shafts to the 14 miles of completed tunnels are filled in and over the next year, the project is officially wound down and abandoned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1995||align=center|August||A private expedition to the wreck of the ''Titanic'' is carried out by a group of French treasure-hunters. After contracting the Russians in order to use the R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' and its MIR submersibles, a number of artifacts are recovered from the wreck. INTERPOL, acting on a tip, arrests the men and confiscates the artifacts, a number of which corrode due to improper cleaning and handling. The artifacts are eventually sold to Magnolia Parks and Entertainment, for use in a future museum devoted to the ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1997||align=center|15 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|The ''Cassini-Huygens'' mission to Saturn launches on a Titan IV-B booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The $3.2 billion Flagship-class mission promises to unlock untold scientific discoveries of Saturn and its moons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|24 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|NASA announces that it plans to launch a Mars sample-return mission before 2010, and planning begins for a tentative launch in 2008.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|DOS-8, the core module of the ''Mir-2'' space station, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Federal Space Agency finalizes plans with the Chinese government for cooperation on space station construction. The European Space Agency expresses interest, but doesn't commit to the project in full.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2000s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|9 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The first particle beam collision, at an unprecedented energy of 40 TeV, occurs at Superconducting Super Collider. The event is hailed as a monumental moment in physics and science and scientists from around the world anticipate new discoveries, chief among them the Higgs boson, the long sought particle thought to imbue mass and a critical missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. CERN announces it will suspend operation of the Large Electron-Positron Collider by 2001, and several European countries push for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in an attempt to foster new scientific innovations while America probes new frontiers of particle physics.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|12 December||style="background:#edffd3;"|Following a lengthy and contentious recount of votes in Florida, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling on ''Bush v. Gore'', ending the recounts in a 5-4 decision and, as a result, George W. Bush is elected 43rd President of the United States, defeating Vice President Al Gore.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|18 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|Zachary Calliden is born in Waxahachie, Texas.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#edffd3;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|26 August||The Columbia Accident Investigation Board issues its report. The immediate cause of the accident is revealed to be a breach in one of the reinforced carbon-carbon composite panels on the left wing of the Space Shuttle, caused by foam from the External Tank striking the panel at supersonic speeds. During reentry, plasma entered the wing and compromised its structure, leading to the eventual destruction of the vehicle due to loss of attitude control. The report also indicates a large number of faults with NASA decision making policy and risk assessment procedures, as well as a culture where deviations from design criteria were regularly accepted so long as mission success was not compromised. The report makes numerous recommendations for future spaceflight operations. The International Space Agency's fleet of Orbiters, recently approved for construction, begin to undergo design modifications to allow for higher crew safety standards.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|10 November||The International Space Agency's governing body, the International Council on Spaceflight Activities, gives authorization to proceed with the Phoenix Program. The program's goal is to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the 2010s and establish a permanent research outpost at the lunar south pole. In a separate vote, the Council gives tentative approval for a project to use components from the lunar program for use in a possible mission to Mars before 2020.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 59, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||[[Edward Marshall]] is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Barack Obama is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-7 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 59. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is traced back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.<br /> |- id="HG-Titanic-Leave"<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|25 November||Members of Project Hourglass travel to [[#Titanic-Sail|April 10, 1912]].<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2014||align=center|22 May||After several months of quiet negotiations, the Department of Energy gives approval for [[TCI Research]] to begin construction on the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The company purchases the remains of the various facilities from the government and begins the process of drilling new access shafts to the abandoned 14 miles of tunnels to determine their condition. Construction is estimated to take a bare minimum of 6 years. In an effort to speed up the process while negotiations are made to acquire land needed for the project, seven tunnel boring machines are ordered and one of the largest civil engineering projects in United States history begins to take shape. Opposition in Congress is immediate, most notably from Idaho Senator Arlen Hawking, who criticizes the project as a handout to the home state of President Marshall, a gross expenditure of money that could better be spent elsewhere and a possible threat to humanity.<br /> |- id="ZachBodyRecover"<br /> |align=center|2015||align=center|22 June||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|8 July||A week and a half before the Republican National Convention, presumptive nominee Donald Trump announces that he is suspending his campaign, throwing the race for the Republican nomination into chaos. At a press conference announcing the event, Trump implies that he is withdrawing from the race against his will due to coercion by outside forces and hints of a "witch hunt" against him. He does not, despite repeated questioning, establish what forces he is referring to.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|19 July||On the fifth round of voting, Senator [[Arlen Hawking]] of Idaho wins the nomination for President, defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In his speech to the convention, Hawking pledges to unify the party and begin the process of making the nation prosperous once more.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|21 July||Ares 1's Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) ''Mayflower'' lands at Eberswalde Crater, becoming the first mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars. Hours later, Harold Hamilton becomes the first person to set foot on the Martian surface, followed by David Sanders, Vasili Petrov, Karri Litmanen, Liu Junlong and Kan Yamakawa. The crew begins a 550 day mission on the surface.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2016||align=center rowspan="2"|8 November||Arlen Hawking is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of Energy [[Elizabeth Gaines]].<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|25 December||A surprise attack is launched on critical orbital infrastructure around Ishonko. At least six large civilian ships fitted with advanced Terran FTL drives acquired on the black market are filled with explosives and rammed into the main civilian spaceport, Otonichi Imperial Fleet headquarters and a large orbital repair dock over the planet. Numerous civilian and military ships docked to the stations suffer severe damage and thousands are injured, killed or missing. Multiple daring rescue missions are made as Kessler syndrome begins to occur in Ishonkan orbit. Within hours, the Otonichi deorbit the remains of their primary military command center and civilian spaceport and mobilize their fleet in a defensive posture. The Otonichi fleet is given full access and use of a ship repair facility under construction by Looking Glass in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Ishonko goes into full planetary ground stop for the first time since the bombing of Reskont.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|15 March||Princess Regent Cora Jeskalt gives royal assent to the 3rd Monarchy Act, becoming sovereign of the Otonichi Imperial Empire. The act includes numerous provisions seen as an overt power grab by Parliament. Among the provisions included in the law is a clause which states that the monarchy shall be declared dissolved on the death of Cora Jeskalt provided she has not produced an heir. Hours after signing the document, HM Jeskalt travels to New Orleans on Terra for undisclosed reasons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flies over Hokkaido, Japan before crashing into the Pacific. With tensions on the Korean Peninsula reaching a dangerous tipping point, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss options. President Trump states that "all options are on the table" and threatens to retaliate with "force unlike anything they've ever seen" should any further provocation occur.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|3 September||style="background:#d3edff;"|The United States Geological Survey detects a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of North Korea's principal nuclear weapons test site. The DPRK claims it now has a hydrogen bomb capable of mounting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. Hours after the test, two defectors attempt to cross the border at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean soldiers fire at the defectors. In the chaos, a round strikes a US Army soldier and severely wounds him. A brief exchange of gunfire over the border takes place before a tense standoff occurs. For three hours, the situation remains a tense one as the defectors and American soldier are rushed to a hospital. Five hours after the initial exchange of gunfire, a third defector attempts to cross into the South, and is mortally wounded by North Korean troops firing at him. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula skyrocket and President Trump orders an aircraft carrier strike group sent to the Peninsula. In tweets that evening, the President warns Kim Jong-un of an impending wave of destruction should any further hostilities against American troops take place.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|Five snow leopards are arrested after attempting to sabotage the upcoming launch of Shenzhou 12 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. After intense interrogation, Chinese officials announce to the world that the saboteurs are not terrestrial leopards and that they are part of an operation intentionally tampering with affairs on Earth, specifically, Terran spaceflight programs. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. The men are convicted and sentenced to execution by China while an intense global effort is launched to find anyone else suspected of being associated with the program. Propaganda appears almost overnight across the globe: ''"Beware the Otonichi scourge!"''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|30 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *As news spreads across Earth of the existence of the Otonichi and their attempts to sabotage Terran space activities and interfere in global affairs, leaders of various Hoomiku communities on Earth try to distance themselves from possible association with the Otonichi. Several attacks on both Hoomiku and random snow leopards take place around the world.<br /> *The Otonichi Intelligence Service receives alarming reports from their agents on Terra. A decision is made to inform the monarch about the situation and to bring her up to speed on the status of attempts to intervene on Terra. Cora Jeskalt is made aware of the full extent of the project and orders a halt to all intervention on Terra and an immediate withdrawal of Otonichi agents from the planet. The damage, however, has been done.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|31 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|An intergovernmental task force is created to find and capture any and all Otonichi on Earth. Amidst a global panic and outrage, 6 elderly Hoomiku reveal the full scope of their species' dealings with the Otonichi to the world in graphic detail, and vow to work with the governments of the world in an effort to enact revenge not only for the crimes dealt to them by the Otonichi, but for the interference the Otonichi have caused on Earth. A new project is started at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory to use a time machine as a matter teleportation device. A project is also started at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland to develop a biological weapon tailored for use against the Otonichi.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2019||align=center|15 March||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2019||align=center rowspan="2"|December||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2020s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 9||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 30||style="background:#d3edff;"|With units of the Montana Army National Guard surrounding the mine and additional military assets being mobilized for a strike on the fortified mine serving as their base of operations, final preparations are made to send Lindsey Waldroup into the past in an attempt to alter the timeline and prevent disaster. Realizing he cannot go with Lindsey due to his appearance and the limited capacity of the time machine's power source, Zachary Calliden attempts a last-ditch maneuver to save his own life. Using information recorded in a journal by his maternal grandmother, he uploads his consciousness into Lindsey's mind while she sleeps, unaware that there is no way for him to escape once he does so. Fractal Calliden and Melor Oliver discover Zachary's still living body shortly thereafter and hide it from Lindsey, fearing that her resolve to attempt the mission will falter if she realizes what has happened. After rapid calculations, an incredibly remote possibility of retrieving the Hoomiku's body from their timeline is found, and instructions for the process are hidden on Lindsey's phone, addressed to their alternate selves. Data on the history of the world is also gathered and placed on storage devices. Zachary, in a persistent vegetative state, is placed on an intravenous drip and given oxygen.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2020||align=center rowspan="2"|October 31||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|'''NOTE:''' ''End of Looking Glass Land timeline.''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|November 7||Following delays due to higher than usual numbers of mail-in ballots, [[Matthew Connors]] is elected 46th President of the United States, defeating incumbent President Arlen Hawking.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==List of time travel events==</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* 2010s */ Pier 54 was Cunard's and where Carpathia arrived at. Pier 59 was White Star's dock for Titanic.</p> <hr /> <div><center>'''<u>ISA SECURE DATABASE</u>'''<br /> </br><br /> '''"LOOKING GLASS LAND" — SUMMARY'''<br /> </br><br /> '''TOP SECRET//LG/SAR-HG//ORCON/NOFORN'''</center><br /> <br /> ==Introduction==<br /> ==Timeline==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |+ Timeline color key<br /> |- style="text-align:center;" <br /> | style="width:96px;" |Prime<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#d3edff;"|Looking Glass Land<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#edffd3;"|Both<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1800s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1859||align=center rowspan="3"|1-2 September||style="background:#edffd3;"|The Carrington Event occurs. One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, a major coronal mass ejection occurs at around noon on September 1 and impacts the Earth less than a day later, causing auroras bright enough to read newspapers at night in some areas, and visible as far south as the Caribbean. Telegraph operators around the world report receiving electric shocks and being able to transmit with their power supplies turned off, when systems aren't disrupted by the storm.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Arrive1"<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. Due to the damage to the pod's shielding, the pod suffers a catastrophic failure on reentry and disintegrates over the English Channel, killing everyone aboard. The remaining 2 members of the crew, the station's commander and executive officer, enter a final escape pod after verifying the station is on the proper course for disposal and land successfully near the first 4 in England.<br /> |-<br /> |A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. As this pod leaves the station, a team from Project Hourglass, arriving from [[#HG-Station-Leave1|2014]] in the modified Otonichi infiltration ship ISV ''Opened Item'', trigger a proximity alert and are hailed by the station commander, who asks them to effect a rescue. The Hourglass team docks with the damaged pod and incapacitate the injured Hoomiku with knockout gas before securing them. After verifying that the data recorder they are looking for is not aboard, the pod is left to burn up in the atmosphere. The Hourglass team then board the station and move it into a stable orbit around the Earth before prepping it for a jump to the Asteroid Belt. After an initial confrontation, a truce is reached between the commander, his executive officer and the Hourglass team, and the 5 rescued Hoomiku from the damaged escape pod are treated for radiation sickness. The 4 Hoomiku in England are left on Earth to avoid interference in the timeline.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Past-Arrive"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1868||align=center rowspan="2"|July 1||Lindsey Waldroup arrives from [[#Lindsey-Jump-Start|2020]] and steals the data recorder from the Hoomiku crew who landed on Earth in 1859. As she is attempting to leave, she is robbed by an unidentified assailant. The robber manages to steal the data recorder from her as she attempts an emergency jump forward to escape. Due to a miscalculation, the device she uses to escape sends her to Waxahachie, Texas on [[#Lindsey-Jump-2014|September 30, 2014]]. The data recorder is eventually sold multiple times until it lands in the possession of Jordan Thorpe, a small-scale artifact dealer who books passage to America on the maiden voyage of the RMS ''Titanic''.<br /> |-<br /> |'''NOTE:''' The above event has been identified as the point of divergence between the Prime timeline and the alternate timeline known as "Looking Glass Land". According to data acquired by Project Hourglass/Bootstrap, all information currently points to Lindsey Waldroup's actions being the catalyst for the events that followed in the Prime timeline, rippling backwards to 1859 due to the presence of Hourglass personnel at the arrival of the Hoomiku space station. The Prime timeline, in effect, is a paradox created the moment Ms. Waldroup entered the past.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1910s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1912||align=center rowspan="2"|10 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' departs Southampton on her maiden voyage, bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sail"<br /> |The members of Project Hourglass arrive in Southampton from [[#HG-Titanic-Leave|2013]] and board the ''Titanic'' in order to secure an artifact that is clearly of Hoomiku manufacture from the ship prior to its sinking. They are booked in Cabins B-51, 53 and 55 for the voyage under names which appear on the official manifest in the future.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sink"<br /> |align=center|1912||align=center|14-15 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later, killing more than 1,500 people. News of the disaster shocks the world and leads to the establishment of new safety standards on the seas.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1920s===<br /> <br /> ===1930s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))<br /> Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates a 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.<br /> |- id="ReskontMission"<br /> |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1940s===<br /> <br /> ===1950s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- id="Sandra-CastleBravo"<br /> |align=center|1954||align=center|1 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Castle Bravo, the first test of a solid-fueled thermonuclear weapon by the United States, is conducted at Bikini Atoll. The bomb exceeds its intended blast yield by nearly 2.5 times, generating a yield of 15 megatons. The test is the largest weapon ever detonated by the United States and causes a large amount of fallout. The radioactive debris contaminates nearby islands, their inhabitants and the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel ''[[Wikipedia:Daigo Fukuryū Maru|Daigo Fukuryū Maru]]'' ("Lucky Dragon No. 5").<br /> *Members of Project Bootstrap have speculated about (but have not yet confirmed) the possibility of time travelers at this event due to indications of possible temporal abnormalities on this date. However, this situation is still under investigation and no conclusive proof has been found.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|1955||align=center|5 November||style="background:#edffd3;"|Acting on a tip, the Otonichi Intelligence Service discovers the location of a rogue Hoomiku research and mining installation. The information they receive leads OIS to believe that experiments in time travel are being carried out by the facility. King Zalkyo Jeskalt orders an immediate strike to neutralize the base. An intense firefight ensues, and as the situation appears to be reaching a climax, the severely damaged station disappears without a trace. The station crew, in an act of desperation, activate their time machine using their dwindling power supply and travel to the Sol system. Due to the emergency nature of the jump and damage to the time machine’s computing cluster, they jump a significant amount of time in the past, arriving near Earth on [[#Station-Jump-Arrive1|September 2, 1859]]. Despite an exhaustive search, no clues can be found by the Otonichi as to the whereabouts of the base.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1960s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|26 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy meets with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) and confides that he believes an invasion of Cuba is the only way to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from the island. He is persuaded to wait and continue with diplomatic and military pressure. The situation is at an effective stalemate.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo Jeskalt to discuss the situation on Terra. Two schools of thought exist within the College: a first advocates for immediate intervention in order to resolve the crisis or shape the situation to one beneficial for the Otonichi while the second advises that doing nothing is the only possible option, due to the possibility of the crisis either resolving itself (peacefully or otherwise) or of the mere presence of an outside force defusing the situation in a way that would be undesirable to the empire. At an emergency meeting of the royal Cabinet, a lone researcher for the College convinces the king to allow the crisis on Terra to continue until it reaches its inevitable conclusion, with Terra running headlong into the Great Filter through nuclear war. The king agrees and orders no intervention be carried out. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|27 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cuban Missile Crisis: As tensions reach a boiling point between the United States, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Soviet submarine ''B-59'' is surrounded by a group of American ships, which begin to drop depth charges in an attempt to force the submarine to surface. Unsure whether war has already broken out, Captain Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky and political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agree to use a nuclear-tipped torpedo. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, whose vote is required in order to authorize the launch, disagrees and denies the launch, averting what could have been the opening shot of World War III. The submarine eventually surfaces and leaves the area. This day, later known as "Black Saturday", is one of the closest moments in Terran history to possible Armageddon.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1966||align=center|14 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, dies following an operation. The loss of the lead designer and driving force behind the Soviet Union's success in the Space Race deals a devastating blow to Soviet plans for spaceflight.<br /> *The possibility of Otonichi agents murdering Korolev was investigated by members of Project Bootstap, but cannot be conclusively determined. This is considered unlikely, however, in view of his numerous health issues. Copies of Otonichi Intelligence Service records from the time period do suggest plans to eliminate Korolev and Wernher von Braun by agents on Terra, however no serious attempts appear to have been made against either.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1967||align=center|27 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *During a dress rehearsal for the launch of Apollo 1, a cabin fire ignites and kills Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Major changes to the design of the capsule and to procedures are implemented in the aftermath of the disaster. The cause of the fire is never conclusively determined.<br /> *Decades later, investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the direct cause of the accident was sabotage of the cabin electronics by elements of the Otonichi Intelligence Service working to sabotage Terran spaceflight activity. Apollo 1 is their first major attempt, and while it results in a temporary setback of the Apollo Program, their efforts do not work as intended. They regroup and formulate new plans.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|3 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *The second launch attempt of the Soviet N1 rocket ends disastrously just 23 seconds after liftoff. A damaged engine causes the automatic shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines just 15 seconds into the flight, and the fully fueled lunar rocket crashes back onto the pad in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the history of the planet. The explosion completely destroys the launch pad, and subsequent United States satellite imagery confirms that the Soviets are building a rocket capable of reaching the Moon. The cause of the disaster is eventually traced to the liquid oxygen tubopump of the #8 engine on the first stage exploding due to ingestion of a foreign object, most likely a loose bolt. Fuel filters are added to future missions. The pad requires more than 18 months of reconstruction.<br /> *A subsequent investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the ultimate cause of the accident was Otonichi tampering. It has subsequently been concluded that the Otonichi attempts to sabotage the Soviet lunar program were a direct attempt to avoid the possibility of a Soviet lunar landing being used as motivation for a NASA mission to Mars and future Solar System exploration. Their work was greatly assisted by a badly underfunded Soviet space program which featured numerous competing design bureaus attempting to court state favor and the death of Sergei Korolev.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|20 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Apollo 11 lunar module ''Eagle'' lands on Earth's Moon, and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on its surface. This moment is, effectively, the end of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union and fulfills President Kennedy's 1961 promise to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo to discuss the implications of the landing. It is universally agreed that Terran spaceflight activities, if continued at their current pace, will lead to the eventual discovery of the Otonichi. A small number of researchers suggest peaceful revelation of the existence of the Otonichi to the people of Terra. Their proposal is rejected and the King authorizes further covert attempts to interfere with possible Terran discovery of the Otonichi by tampering with radio astronomy investigation programs and further attempts to sabotage Terran spaceflight activities.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1970s===<br /> <br /> ===1980s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|14 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|Fractal Sinclair is born in Roswell, New Mexico.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|12 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cora and Halni Jeskalt are born in Alkonost, on the planet Ishonko. As Cora is born first, she becomes next in line to the throne of the Otonichi civilization.<br /> |- id="HG-86-Arrive"<br /> |align=center|1986||align=center|27 January||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1986||align=center rowspan="3"|28 January||Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes on the launchpad during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1986||align=center rowspan="2"|9 June||The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be a failure of the O-rings in the right Solid Rocket Booster due to the cold conditions at launch, which led to the escape of super heated gasses and the subsequent breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after launch. The report also notes a number of contributing causes to the accident and criticizes NASA management decisions that led to the accident.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be the unauthorized activation of the range safety system onboard the Shuttle at the moment of booster ignition, destroying the Shuttle, the launch pad and killing several ground personnel and spectators. The report concludes that a valid command was sent to the system to arm and activate it at liftoff, but records from Patrick Air Force Base and testimony from the Range Safety Officers indicate conclusively that no command was sent from them. The failure is attributed to a serious fault or outside tampering, but the exact cause is never determined with certainty.<br /> *The report includes testimony from Morton-Thiokol engineer [[Wikipedia:Roger Boisjoly|Roger Boisjoly]], noting the possibility of a failure of the Solid Rocket Booster O-rings during launches on days with very low temperatures. Initially seen as a possible cause for the accident, investigators cannot conclusively find evidence for this as a cause for the disaster and the subsequent discovery of the range safety system activation leads to a lack of further investigation into this possibility. It is included as a mere footnote in the report.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1989||align=center|24 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|''The New York Times'' publishes classified documents obtained by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell which contain numerous details on projects involving the Hoomiku performed by both the United States and Soviet Union. The story becomes a media sensation overnight and Thornwell is arrested within hours of publication.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1990s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 7 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|29 January||style="background:#d3edff;"|At the 1991 State of the Union Address, President George H. W. Bush announces the cancellation of America's manned space program and shifts NASA's priorities to the cause of robotic exploration of the Solar System. The three remaining Space Shuttles are decommissioned and placed on display in museums, with Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' placed on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|4 December||style="background:#d3edff;"|Pan American World Airways ceases operations, with PAA Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami, Florida being the last flight in the 64 year history of the company.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|21 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The House of Representatives narrowly votes to approve funds to continue the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas. The project, roughly 1/5th of the way to completion, faces increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill due to reports of project mismanagement and skyrocketing costs. Over the next few months, a staff shakeup leads to lower cost projections and a revised timeline for completion, with the massive particle accelerator due for activation before the end of the year 2000.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|27 October||The House of Representatives votes 283 to 143 to reject a Conference Committee report with continuing funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is officially terminated. Access shafts to the 14 miles of completed tunnels are filled in and over the next year, the project is officially wound down and abandoned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1995||align=center|August||A private expedition to the wreck of the ''Titanic'' is carried out by a group of French treasure-hunters. After contracting the Russians in order to use the R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' and its MIR submersibles, a number of artifacts are recovered from the wreck. INTERPOL, acting on a tip, arrests the men and confiscates the artifacts, a number of which corrode due to improper cleaning and handling. The artifacts are eventually sold to Magnolia Parks and Entertainment, for use in a future museum devoted to the ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1997||align=center|15 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|The ''Cassini-Huygens'' mission to Saturn launches on a Titan IV-B booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The $3.2 billion Flagship-class mission promises to unlock untold scientific discoveries of Saturn and its moons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|24 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|NASA announces that it plans to launch a Mars sample-return mission before 2010, and planning begins for a tentative launch in 2008.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|DOS-8, the core module of the ''Mir-2'' space station, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Federal Space Agency finalizes plans with the Chinese government for cooperation on space station construction. The European Space Agency expresses interest, but doesn't commit to the project in full.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2000s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|9 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The first particle beam collision, at an unprecedented energy of 40 TeV, occurs at Superconducting Super Collider. The event is hailed as a monumental moment in physics and science and scientists from around the world anticipate new discoveries, chief among them the Higgs boson, the long sought particle thought to imbue mass and a critical missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. CERN announces it will suspend operation of the Large Electron-Positron Collider by 2001, and several European countries push for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in an attempt to foster new scientific innovations while America probes new frontiers of particle physics.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|12 December||style="background:#edffd3;"|Following a lengthy and contentious recount of votes in Florida, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling on ''Bush v. Gore'', ending the recounts in a 5-4 decision and, as a result, George W. Bush is elected 43rd President of the United States, defeating Vice President Al Gore.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|18 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|Zachary Calliden is born in Waxahachie, Texas.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#edffd3;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|26 August||The Columbia Accident Investigation Board issues its report. The immediate cause of the accident is revealed to be a breach in one of the reinforced carbon-carbon composite panels on the left wing of the Space Shuttle, caused by foam from the External Tank striking the panel at supersonic speeds. During reentry, plasma entered the wing and compromised its structure, leading to the eventual destruction of the vehicle due to loss of attitude control. The report also indicates a large number of faults with NASA decision making policy and risk assessment procedures, as well as a culture where deviations from design criteria were regularly accepted so long as mission success was not compromised. The report makes numerous recommendations for future spaceflight operations. The International Space Agency's fleet of Orbiters, recently approved for construction, begin to undergo design modifications to allow for higher crew safety standards.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|10 November||The International Space Agency's governing body, the International Council on Spaceflight Activities, gives authorization to proceed with the Phoenix Program. The program's goal is to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the 2010s and establish a permanent research outpost at the lunar south pole. In a separate vote, the Council gives tentative approval for a project to use components from the lunar program for use in a possible mission to Mars before 2020.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 54, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||[[Edward Marshall]] is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Barack Obama is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-7 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 59. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is traced back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.<br /> |- id="HG-Titanic-Leave"<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|25 November||Members of Project Hourglass travel to [[#Titanic-Sail|April 10, 1912]].<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2014||align=center|22 May||After several months of quiet negotiations, the Department of Energy gives approval for [[TCI Research]] to begin construction on the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The company purchases the remains of the various facilities from the government and begins the process of drilling new access shafts to the abandoned 14 miles of tunnels to determine their condition. Construction is estimated to take a bare minimum of 6 years. In an effort to speed up the process while negotiations are made to acquire land needed for the project, seven tunnel boring machines are ordered and one of the largest civil engineering projects in United States history begins to take shape. Opposition in Congress is immediate, most notably from Idaho Senator Arlen Hawking, who criticizes the project as a handout to the home state of President Marshall, a gross expenditure of money that could better be spent elsewhere and a possible threat to humanity.<br /> |- id="ZachBodyRecover"<br /> |align=center|2015||align=center|22 June||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|8 July||A week and a half before the Republican National Convention, presumptive nominee Donald Trump announces that he is suspending his campaign, throwing the race for the Republican nomination into chaos. At a press conference announcing the event, Trump implies that he is withdrawing from the race against his will due to coercion by outside forces and hints of a "witch hunt" against him. He does not, despite repeated questioning, establish what forces he is referring to.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|19 July||On the fifth round of voting, Senator [[Arlen Hawking]] of Idaho wins the nomination for President, defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In his speech to the convention, Hawking pledges to unify the party and begin the process of making the nation prosperous once more.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|21 July||Ares 1's Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) ''Mayflower'' lands at Eberswalde Crater, becoming the first mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars. Hours later, Harold Hamilton becomes the first person to set foot on the Martian surface, followed by David Sanders, Vasili Petrov, Karri Litmanen, Liu Junlong and Kan Yamakawa. The crew begins a 550 day mission on the surface.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2016||align=center rowspan="2"|8 November||Arlen Hawking is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of Energy [[Elizabeth Gaines]].<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|25 December||A surprise attack is launched on critical orbital infrastructure around Ishonko. At least six large civilian ships fitted with advanced Terran FTL drives acquired on the black market are filled with explosives and rammed into the main civilian spaceport, Otonichi Imperial Fleet headquarters and a large orbital repair dock over the planet. Numerous civilian and military ships docked to the stations suffer severe damage and thousands are injured, killed or missing. Multiple daring rescue missions are made as Kessler syndrome begins to occur in Ishonkan orbit. Within hours, the Otonichi deorbit the remains of their primary military command center and civilian spaceport and mobilize their fleet in a defensive posture. The Otonichi fleet is given full access and use of a ship repair facility under construction by Looking Glass in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Ishonko goes into full planetary ground stop for the first time since the bombing of Reskont.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|15 March||Princess Regent Cora Jeskalt gives royal assent to the 3rd Monarchy Act, becoming sovereign of the Otonichi Imperial Empire. The act includes numerous provisions seen as an overt power grab by Parliament. Among the provisions included in the law is a clause which states that the monarchy shall be declared dissolved on the death of Cora Jeskalt provided she has not produced an heir. Hours after signing the document, HM Jeskalt travels to New Orleans on Terra for undisclosed reasons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flies over Hokkaido, Japan before crashing into the Pacific. With tensions on the Korean Peninsula reaching a dangerous tipping point, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss options. President Trump states that "all options are on the table" and threatens to retaliate with "force unlike anything they've ever seen" should any further provocation occur.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|3 September||style="background:#d3edff;"|The United States Geological Survey detects a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of North Korea's principal nuclear weapons test site. The DPRK claims it now has a hydrogen bomb capable of mounting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. Hours after the test, two defectors attempt to cross the border at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean soldiers fire at the defectors. In the chaos, a round strikes a US Army soldier and severely wounds him. A brief exchange of gunfire over the border takes place before a tense standoff occurs. For three hours, the situation remains a tense one as the defectors and American soldier are rushed to a hospital. Five hours after the initial exchange of gunfire, a third defector attempts to cross into the South, and is mortally wounded by North Korean troops firing at him. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula skyrocket and President Trump orders an aircraft carrier strike group sent to the Peninsula. In tweets that evening, the President warns Kim Jong-un of an impending wave of destruction should any further hostilities against American troops take place.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|Five snow leopards are arrested after attempting to sabotage the upcoming launch of Shenzhou 12 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. After intense interrogation, Chinese officials announce to the world that the saboteurs are not terrestrial leopards and that they are part of an operation intentionally tampering with affairs on Earth, specifically, Terran spaceflight programs. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. The men are convicted and sentenced to execution by China while an intense global effort is launched to find anyone else suspected of being associated with the program. Propaganda appears almost overnight across the globe: ''"Beware the Otonichi scourge!"''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|30 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *As news spreads across Earth of the existence of the Otonichi and their attempts to sabotage Terran space activities and interfere in global affairs, leaders of various Hoomiku communities on Earth try to distance themselves from possible association with the Otonichi. Several attacks on both Hoomiku and random snow leopards take place around the world.<br /> *The Otonichi Intelligence Service receives alarming reports from their agents on Terra. A decision is made to inform the monarch about the situation and to bring her up to speed on the status of attempts to intervene on Terra. Cora Jeskalt is made aware of the full extent of the project and orders a halt to all intervention on Terra and an immediate withdrawal of Otonichi agents from the planet. The damage, however, has been done.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|31 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|An intergovernmental task force is created to find and capture any and all Otonichi on Earth. Amidst a global panic and outrage, 6 elderly Hoomiku reveal the full scope of their species' dealings with the Otonichi to the world in graphic detail, and vow to work with the governments of the world in an effort to enact revenge not only for the crimes dealt to them by the Otonichi, but for the interference the Otonichi have caused on Earth. A new project is started at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory to use a time machine as a matter teleportation device. A project is also started at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland to develop a biological weapon tailored for use against the Otonichi.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2019||align=center|15 March||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2019||align=center rowspan="2"|December||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2020s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 9||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 30||style="background:#d3edff;"|With units of the Montana Army National Guard surrounding the mine and additional military assets being mobilized for a strike on the fortified mine serving as their base of operations, final preparations are made to send Lindsey Waldroup into the past in an attempt to alter the timeline and prevent disaster. Realizing he cannot go with Lindsey due to his appearance and the limited capacity of the time machine's power source, Zachary Calliden attempts a last-ditch maneuver to save his own life. Using information recorded in a journal by his maternal grandmother, he uploads his consciousness into Lindsey's mind while she sleeps, unaware that there is no way for him to escape once he does so. Fractal Calliden and Melor Oliver discover Zachary's still living body shortly thereafter and hide it from Lindsey, fearing that her resolve to attempt the mission will falter if she realizes what has happened. After rapid calculations, an incredibly remote possibility of retrieving the Hoomiku's body from their timeline is found, and instructions for the process are hidden on Lindsey's phone, addressed to their alternate selves. Data on the history of the world is also gathered and placed on storage devices. Zachary, in a persistent vegetative state, is placed on an intravenous drip and given oxygen.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2020||align=center rowspan="2"|October 31||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|'''NOTE:''' ''End of Looking Glass Land timeline.''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|November 7||Following delays due to higher than usual numbers of mail-in ballots, [[Matthew Connors]] is elected 46th President of the United States, defeating incumbent President Arlen Hawking.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==List of time travel events==</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: Created page with "==Overview== ==Aircraft== ===T-38 Talon=== 2 engine, 2 seat supersonic jet trainer; built by Northrop. Used by NASA and the International Space Agency for astronaut jet trai..."</p> <hr /> <div>==Overview==<br /> <br /> ==Aircraft==<br /> ===T-38 Talon===<br /> 2 engine, 2 seat supersonic jet trainer; built by Northrop.<br /> <br /> Used by NASA and the International Space Agency for astronaut jet training and for chase aircraft duty. NASA fleet was based out of Ellington Field in Houston, TX. ISA fleet was based at Lafayette Intercontinental Airport near Magnolia Bend, LA. For astronaut training, NASA and the ISA operated several reserved "blocks" of airspace over the Gulf of Mexico for crew training. Refueling was commonly performed at Acadiana Regional Airport in New Iberia, LA as an FBO with a government refueling contract operated there. By 2022, due to their much larger compliment of astronauts, the ISA maintained a fleet of roughly 42 aircraft.<br /> <br /> ===Shuttle Carrier Aircraft===<br /> Modified Boeing 747 aircraft designed to transport NASA and ISA Space Shuttle orbiters to Florida; 6 aircraft total, with two originally modified by NASA and 3 remaining modified by the International Space Agency in 2006 ahead of their Space Shuttle assembly and a 4th partly modified. <br /> <br /> All of the aircraft are identified by their tail numbers. The first aircraft (N905NA) was a former American Airlines 747-100 model acquired by NASA in 1974 for testing at Dryden Flight Research Center before being modified in 1976 for use as a Space Shuttle transport aircraft. Mounting struts were installed, additional vertical stabilizers were added and upgrades were made to the onboard avionics and engines. In 1988, NASA acquired a 747-100SR from Japan Airlines (N911NA) and this aircraft was first used in 1991 to ferry Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'' from its assembly facility in Palmdale, California to Florida. During their operating life, both aircraft were functionally available to the ISA if the agency required them, however no ISA Space Shuttle ever flew on NASA's SCA aircraft. <br /> <br /> In 2008, the ISA acquired 4 747-400 aircraft from directly from Boeing; the aircraft had been originally manufactured for Saguaro Logistics Services, however the company was forced to cancel its order during assembly due to financial issues. The aircraft were purchased outright by the ISA and were converted at Lafayette Intercontinental Airport in Louisiana. 3 aircraft were fully converted to SCA configuration with the 4th being partially converted and kept in reserve for spare parts, training and as an emergency replacement. The first (N924SX) was primarily used to transport Space Shuttles back and forth from Louisiana to California to support operations from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The second (N925SX) was further converted from the standard SCA configuration to allow for midair refueling similar to the Boeing E-4B "Nightwatch" Advanced Airborne Command Post aircraft. This option was deemed necessary in preparation for missions out of Vandenberg Air Force Base but was never used in practice beyond a single test flight to Easter Island. The third aircraft (N926SX) was converted to a standard SCA configuration. The fourth aircraft (N927SX) remains at a hangar at Lafayette Intercontinental Airport.<br /> <br /> Following NASA's retirement of its fleet of Space Shuttle orbiters in 2011, NASA's SCA aircraft were used to transport Space Shuttles ''Discovery'' and ''Endeavour'' to Virginia and California, respectively. They were then retired, with N905NA being placed on display at Space Center Houston in Texas and N911NA being placed on display in Palmdale and serving as spare parts for the SOFIA airborne observatory.<br /> <br /> ===Antonov An-225===<br /> Extremely large 6 engine airplane designed to transport ''Buran'' and ''Baikal'' orbiters and additional Russian space shuttle program hardware to Baikonur Cosmodrome. <br /> <br /> The International Space Agency funded construction of the unfinished second airframe in late 2003; Antonov delivered the aircraft in very early 2009. Later that year, the new An-225 was used to recover Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'' from Easter Island following its abort there following launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base on STS-1V, as the aircraft had just enough range to travel from Easter Island to Santiago with a Space Shuttle on its back. <br /> <br /> Following cancellation of Baikal orbiter missions by Russia, the second An-225 was retained by the ISA for use as an emergency Space Shuttle transport aircraft but was also used for heavy lift cargo operations and loaned to Antonov when not in use by the space agency.<br /> <br /> Both aircraft were destroyed in February 2022 during the Battle of Antonov Airport, as the ISA's aircraft was undergoing planned upgrades and repairs at the airport prior to the start of hostilities.<br /> <br /> ===WR-91 Aurora===<br /> Specially modified version of the SR-91 Aurora spy plane; originally built by the Blackjack division of Rubin Design Defense. <br /> <br /> Designed to fly in excess of Mach 10 and at altitudes in excess of 135,000 feet. The aircraft's exact top speed and maximum altitude were heavily classified. The aircraft was equipped with extremely sophisticated hypersonic scramjet engines; the aircraft would accelerate to slightly beyond Mach 3 on conventional afterburning turbofan engines before transitioning to scramjet for higher speeds. 4 airframes were modified to ''WR'' (Weather Reconnaissance) variants which removed several DOD specific modifications to the airframe and added on new hardware designed for weather and atmospheric research. 2 aircraft were used by the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in coordination with NOAA for hurricane hunter duty with the remaining 2 aircraft used by the ISA for weather research, eclipse observation missions and for tracking spacecraft during reentry. <br /> <br /> In 2017, a pair of aircraft were used by NOAA and the ISA to perform a transcontinental chase of the total solar eclipse over the United States, with specially installed optics aimed upwards and the aircraft staying in totality for the duration of the mission. In 2020, a WR-91 was used to track the reentry of STS-238 from Mach 9 to landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, with extremely powerful optics onboard the plane used to monitor the Shuttle's reentry.<br /> <br /> ==Surface vehicles==<br /> ===NASA/ISA recovery ship===<br /> Earth based oceangoing vessels used for Solid Rocket Booster recovery operations; operated on behalf of NASA and the ISA by United Space Alliance. 4 built, with 2 originally built for NASA and 2 newer vessels built for the ISA. <br /> <br /> The first 2 vessels, MV ''Liberty Star'' and MV ''Freedom Star'', were acquired by NASA shortly before the start of the Space Shuttle program to recover spent Solid Rocket Boosters from the Atlantic Ocean following separation and splashdown. Each vessel was capable of towing approximately 60,000 pounds (27,000 kg) and contained significant onboard radar tracking capabilities to track the boosters during reentry and to monitor marine traffic. Divers onboard each vessel would attach recovery hardware to the SRBs after splashdown to fill the boosters with pressurized air and enable them to float for towing back to Florida for refurbishment. Beginning in 1998, the ships began to tow the Pegasus barge used to transport External Tanks from Louisiana to Florida during breaks in recovery operations. <br /> <br /> To support increases in Space Shuttle launches, the ISA purchased an additional pair of ships in 2008, MV ''Union Star'' and MV ''Horizon Star''. As Space Shuttle launches from California were expected to be less frequent than missions launching from Florida, no recovery ships were based on the West Coast and both Solid Rocket Boosters and experimental Liquid Rocket Boosters from these missions were expended and sank in the Pacific following separation. In 2011, following the retirement of NASA's fleet of Space Shuttles, NASA transferred both ''Liberty Star'' and ''Freedom Star'' to the ISA.<br /> <br /> ===Autonomous spaceport drone ship===<br /> Earth based oceangoing vessel derived from a barge and fitted with autonomous controls, station-keeping abilities and a large landing platform; designed for and operated by SpaceX. 5 built, with 1 retired from service. Used by SpaceX to recover the first stages of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles. Named after ships from the Culture series of novels by Iain M. Banks. <br /> <br /> The original ASDS, ''Just Read the Instructions'' (''JRTI''), entered service in January 2015 but was retired from operational use and scrapped following the landing failure of the first stage booster on the SpaceX CRS-6 mission. The second ASDS, ''Of Course I Still Love You'' (''OCISLY''), first entered service in mid-2015. On April 8, 2016, the first stage used to launch the SpaceX CRS-8 mission successfully landed on ''OCISLY'', marking the first ever successful drone ship landing. In 2021, ''OCISLY'' was moved to California to support launches from Vandenberg. The third ASDS, also named ''Just Read the Instructions'', was based out of California to support launches from Vandenberg beginning in 2016. In late 2019, it was moved to the Atlantic to support missions from Florida. The fourth ASDS, ''A Shortfall of Gravitas'' (''ASOG''), entered service in mid-2021 following a number of delays in construction. The fifth ASDS, ''Don't Try This At Home'' (''DTTAH''), entered service in mid-2022 and was first used to recover Falcon 9 booster B1095 on the [[Pegasus 1]] mission to the External Tank Laboratory on August 20, 2022.<br /> <br /> ===Space Exploration Vehicle===<br /> Pressurized rovers used on the Moon and Mars.<br /> <br /> ==Atmospheric vehicles==<br /> ===Daedalus Development Vehicle ''Piccard-Jones''===<br /> Earth atmospheric test of HAVOC/Daedalus program hardware. Large balloon system supporting hardware based on modifications of Breitling Orbiter 3 gondola to account for improvements to life support, battery and internal hardware. Planned 30, then 45 day duration on separate missions.<br /> <br /> ===Venus Exploration Balloon ''Steve Fossett''===<br /> Preliminary robotic mission to Venus; expected duration: 150 days. Carried a large suite of scientific instruments, drop probes and smaller probes deployed during atmospheric flight.<br /> <br /> ===Venus Atmospheric Vehicle ''Virgil''===<br /> Named for the poet that leads Dante through Hell and out up the mountain of Purgatory.<br /> <br /> ==Spacecraft==<br /> ===Altair===<br /> Workhorse American lunar lander; built by Northrop Grumman in Phoenix, AZ for use by the ISA. Heavily based on designs proposed near the end of the Constellation program before elements were reworked to meet the requirements of the Phoenix program. <br /> <br /> Block 1 versions of the lander were directly based on final versions of Constellation program hardware. <br /> <br /> Block 2 featured a number of system improvements and featured significant capability to remove elements of the descent stage for use at the lunar base (removable descent stage tanks and enhanced recyclability of components). <br /> <br /> Block 3 continued adding additional system improvements and reduced weight while increasing engine thrust. This version also introduced systems tested during the Ares program to mitigate propellant boiloff; cryocoolers in the propellant tanks were designed to limit boiloff, with standardized plumbing and electrical connections to enable the tanks to be used on the Moon as fuel storage. An error with a software update caused a failure during landing on Phoenix 35 where the Altair failed to stop pitching over during landing and nearly impacted into the wall of Shackleton crater; the landers were grounded during an investigation before the software was fixed. <br /> <br /> Block 4 landers switched from a modified hydrogen-oxygen RL10 based descent stage engine and a hypergolic AJ10 ascent stage engine to a methane-oxygen RS-90 Cutlass based descent stage engine and a methane-oxygen based RS-18 ascent stage engine. The Block 4 landers were designed explicitly from the outset to be reusable to reduce spent descent stages piling up around Shackleton Base. The RS-90 was originally developed for the Ares program to power the Mars Ascent Vehicle and was designed by Masten Space Systems in collaboration with Rocketdyne. The engines were repurposed for use on the reusable version of the Altair as direct replacements for the RL10, as they have nearly identical power and could be directly dropped in. <br /> <br /> As designs were finalized for Block 4 landers, Masten and Rocketdyne developed the RS-90B which provided a sufficient thrust improvement to allow the Altair to be fully reusable. The lander descent stage would be carried into orbit on these missions, with fuel produced by an ISRU plant located at the lunar base. The ascent stage of the lander would only be used in the event of a critical abort during a landing. In order to support additional "sortie" class exploration missions, an expendable version of the Block 4 landers (designated internally as Block 4E) was produced to reduce costs for these missions. This version of the Altair featured all the relevant weight savings and cost reduction efforts of Block 4, but certain reusability features were removed, and the Altair descent stage was left on the lunar surface as in previous versions of the lander. During production, Block 4 and 4E landers were functionally interchangeable and components were designed to be swappable to allow for conversion from one type to another to ease processing in Florida.<br /> <br /> Cargo versions of the lander have an integrated crane and winch to lower payloads to lunar surface and ramps to let vehicles down, if required. A version of the lander was designed as a lunar surface to orbit tanker and was in development at the introduction of the Block 4 landers.<br /> <br /> ===Lunar Orbit Observation Module===<br /> Highly modified version of Altair designed solely for use in lunar orbit. <br /> <br /> Originally designed for a possible lunar-orbit only mission which was never flown. The ascent stage engine and landing gear were deleted and additional space for crew habitation and experiments were included. A standard Altair descent stage engine was used for lunar orbit insertion and TEI burn. LOOM jettisoned prior to Orion SM jettison and targeted for disposal in Pacific north of Hawaii or at Point Nemo for splashdown in the Pacific or landing at Edwards. Used on Phoenix 36 for a lunar tourism flight; the mission had two spaceflight participants, a commander and a pilot. As the tourists were not landing, the mission entered lunar polar orbit for two weeks and carried extremely high-resolution cameras to allow for photography of permanently shadowed and less explored regions of the Moon.<br /> <br /> ===Altair Fuel Delivery Vehicle===<br /> Heavily modified version of standard low-Earth orbit space tug. Developed as a contingency in the event that an Altair lander needed to be prepositioned in lunar orbit and needed to loiter long enough for propellant boiloff to be a problem. Designed to be launched on (ideally) a Jupiter rocket or a Falcon Heavy, with the latter being available at nearly any time provided SpaceX could turn around the vehicle and LC-39A availability. Used during Artemis 1 to top off Altair lander ''Fontella Bass'', as it was launched 3 months ahead of Artemis 1 due to issues with SLS. With the introduction of the OTV, the AFDV became largely obsolete, but two production versions of the vehicle were kept on standby in Florida in the event an emergency developed that required its use.<br /> <br /> ===Orbital Transfer Vehicle===<br /> Primarily space-based vehicle designed to transfer payloads from low-earth orbit to GEO/GTO, high inclination orbits, and to/from lunar orbit; built by Lockheed Martin in collaboration with Northrop Grumman. Based on mid to late 1980s proposals by NASA for a vehicle designed to be used in conjunction with the Space Shuttle and Space Station ''Freedom'' to extend the Space Shuttle's baseline capabilities. <br /> <br /> Derived from Martin Marietta documents, the OTV was a three-engine vehicle with cylindrical fuel tanks that would be launched to orbit in an Aft Cargo Carrier mounted to the bottom of a Space Shuttle External Tank. Once in space, the OTV would extend a conical heat shield at its base, with the outer edges being flexible materials and the interior portion being a composite and graphite based hard material. In the center, a door was positioned in the heatshield through which the engines would extend for operation before retracting to allow for aerobraking in Earth's atmosphere when returning from higher orbit missions. This enabled the OTV to use significantly less fuel than purely thrust based deceleration. To allow for maximum payload flexibility, the vehicles were designed with a standardized docking system above the fuel tanks so that payload and crew modules could be swapped as needed for missions. <br /> <br /> The first 6 OTVs were named after the capsules used during Project Mercury (OTV-1 ''Freedom'', OTV-2 ''Liberty Bell'', OTV-3 ''Friendship'', OTV-4 ''Aurora'', OTV-5 ''Sigma'', OTV-6 ''Faith'') with ''Freedom'' designated for initial automated test missions. After initial validation in low-Earth orbit following assembly at the External Tank Laboratory, ''Freedom'' underwent a rigorous series of trials involving plane change maneuvers and altitude changes, an initial aerobraking test from geostationary orbit and finally culminating with a completely automated mission to deliver a payload supply module to lunar orbit. It rendezvoused with the ''Awilix'' space station, refueled and returned to Earth, aerobraking successfully before returning to the ETL. A crew module was permanently installed to it, which consisted of a modified space station module containing life support, berthing, food preparation and hygiene facilities. On the outside of the module, four solar arrays and the spacecraft radiators and communications equipment were installed. Above this, a Mission Module containing the navigation systems, crew couches and the main docking point was attached, allowing a crew of up to 8 astronauts to transit between Earth orbit and lunar orbit in four days. In order to provide protection against solar storms and to mitigate crew radiation exposure outside of the Van Allen belts, both modules were also lined with blankets of RadBlock 4, a radiation absorbing material based on HDPE developed by Chatterton Technologies of Lake Charles, LA. <br /> <br /> As the OTV was designed to dock to a space station between missions (while it was designed to fly independently, it required periodic servicing and refurbishment by a crew at a space station), crews could fly to Earth orbit on commercial space capsules or via the Space Shuttle if necessary and fly to the Moon without requiring a dedicated Jupiter rocket launch. Similarly, with the introduction of the Block 4 Altair lander and the placement of the ''Awilix'' space station in lunar orbit, crews could board an OTV in Earth orbit, fly to lunar orbit, dock with a space station and transfer to a lander already waiting for them. This dramatically reduced mission costs when compared to the initial decade of Phoenix missions and dramatically reduced strain on resources in Florida and Louisiana, as production lines for Jupiter rocket, Orion capsules and the required space within the Vehicle Assembly Building began to hit critical constraints due to increasing mission demands towards the middle of 2023.<br /> <br /> ===MMSEV===<br /> Orbital version of the surface based SEV. Developed by NASA for deep space applications, primarily an asteroid only mission. Modified SEV pressurized cabin configured with a pair of manipulator arms and thrusters. One flight worthy prototype built and flown to the ETL on STS-218 in 2017 for testing on the space station.<br /> <br /> ===Mars Transfer Vehicle ''Leif Erickson''===<br /> 3 bimodal nuclear-thermal engines, with inflatable crew habitat at the front. Sent to heliocentric disposal orbit following Earth orbit return of crew after Ares 1. Vehicle's engines and primary propulsion elements used as the basis of Nuclear Transfer Vehicle series of space tugs for work in cislunar space.<br /> <br /> ===Mars Descent Vehicle ''Mayflower''===<br /> ===Mars Ascent Vehicle ''Rodrigo de Triana''===<br /> <br /> ===Venus Transfer Vehicle ''Pegasus''===<br /> <br /> ===Venus Ascent Vehicle ''Beatrice''===<br /> Named for character in the ''Divine Comedy''; she leads Dante from the mountain of Purgatory up to Heaven and represents beatific love. <br /> <br /> A highly modified version of a commercial launch vehicle similar to the air-launched proposals for Falcon 9. LOX/RP-1 engine powered first stage with LOX/RP-1 fueled second stage; cryogenics other than liquid oxygen were rejected outright due to thermal management issues, as the baseline mission requirements necessitated a 30 day mission to 50 kilometer Venus atmospheric altitudes where temperatures were expected to be between 27 °C (80.6 °F) and 75 °C (167 °F). The launcher hung under the primary airship envelope of the Venus Atmospheric Vehicle and sat behind the crew gondola. At the end of the crewed atmospheric mission, the crew would enter the crew capsule of the VAV, which would drop from the airship and ignite its first stage engine a few seconds later. The crew capsule would rendezvous with the Transit Habitat before being jettisoned after crew and cargo transfer.<br /> <br /> ==Launch vehicles==<br /> ===Space Shuttle===<br /> Orbital spaceplane externally identical to NASA's vehicles; built by Rubin Design Aerospace with minor modifications from Rockwell/Boeing orbiter designs. <br /> <br /> Authorized for construction in 2003, with eight orbiters authorized for construction. Beginning with the second airframe, the new vehicles were designed to have remote control capability; this was subsequently added on to the first of the RDA built orbiters during its first major modification period. Seven vehicles ultimately completed, with eighth airframe partially completed. <br /> <br /> In addition to remote control capability, the orbiters featured a stiff layer of insulation and aerogel material behind the wing leading edges in an attempt to mitigate issues found during the ''Columbia'' accident. Additionally, the first three vehicles were designed to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for polar orbit missions and were thus built with additional radiation protection. All vehicles were designed to fly with special liquid payload containers for fueling the propulsion system on the External Tank Laboratory and required special plumbing installed in the payload bay to allow for pre-launch fueling of the payloads and for emergency dumping in the event of an abort. Larger consumable tanks were built into the new fleet of orbiters, allowing for missions of up to 15 days in orbit independent of the Extended Duration Orbiter pallet and/or docking at a space station. Additional modifications included LED lighting, better onboard computers and data networks and various quality of life improvements developed over the life of the Space Shuttle program. <br /> <br /> In addition to internal orbiter modifications, liquid rocket boosters to replace the existing Space Shuttle SRBs were developed and tested, with each using a pair of F-1B engines. Despite success in production and a test launch, the LRBs failed to produce desired increases to performance required for their full adoption and were retired shortly after their introduction. <br /> <br /> Beginning in late 2021, all Space Shuttle missions began to fly on 5-segment versions of the Space Shuttle Reusable Solid Rocket Boosters developed for use on Jupiter rocket launches. This change produced an immediate performance increase on all Shuttle missions and eliminated the need for RTLS and TAL/ECAL abort modes, providing direct abort-to-orbit capability from the pad for all missions. Finally, with the introduction of the 5-segment SRBs, polar orbit mission capability became available from KSC, with STS-251 being the first such mission to fly in November 2021.<br /> <br /> {| class="wikitable"<br /> ! colspan="2" | Orbiter vehicles<br /> |-<br /> ! Designation<br /> ! Vehicle<br /> |-<br /> ! OV-107<br /> | ''Terra Nova''<br /> |-<br /> ! OV-108<br /> | ''Constitution''<br /> |-<br /> ! OV-109<br /> | ''Patriot''<br /> |-<br /> ! OV-110<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> |-<br /> ! OV-111<br /> | ''Intrepid''<br /> |-<br /> ! OV-112<br /> | ''Horizon''<br /> |-<br /> ! OV-113<br /> | ''Endurance''<br /> |-<br /> ! OV-114<br /> | <s>''Union''</s><span id="ISAShipsNote1top"><sup>[[List of ISA spacecraft and vehicles#ISAShipsNote1|[1]]]</sup></span><br /> |-<br /> | colspan="2" |<span id="ISAShipsNote1">1. '''[[List of ISA spacecraft and vehicles#ISAShipsNote1top|^]]''' Vehicle cancelled during construction; vehicle was externally completed and put on display with name ''Union'' assigned;</br> ISA records showed that the names ''Beagle'' and ''Calypso'' were on the final list of candidate names if the vehicle had entered service.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ====Aft Cargo Carrier====<br /> Support structure and an aerodynamic shroud located at the bottom of the Space Shuttle External Tank. <br /> <br /> A 27.5 foot wide by 31.9 foot long aerodynamic cover provided thermal and aerodynamic protection for outsized payloads that could not fit inside of the orbiter payload bay. The "cover" section was jettisoned as soon as possible during ascent to reduce payload penalties and the payload support truss and External Tank were carried to circularization by the Space Shuttle. The External Tanks would either be collected for future use in orbit (moved by a specialized satellite boost tug carried with the ACC or left in orbit by an earlier mission) or deorbited by small onboard thrusters. <br /> <br /> The initial operational use of the ACC was to carry the docking and life support module element permanently connected to the bottom of STS-14W's External Tank, which was converted in space to become the External Tank Laboratory. Beginning in 2021, the ISA announced the permanent inclusion of the ACC on all future Space Shuttle missions bound for low-inclination orbits and on certain ISS bound missions. By including additional rideshare payloads, the cost of each tank and ACC combo were reduced, and in 2022 following a series of tests, recovery hardware was added to the ACC shroud to recover it after separation. The ACC shroud would splashdown in the Atlantic and be recovered by an SRB recovery vessel for refurbishment and use on future Space Shuttle missions.<br /> <br /> ===Shuttle-C===<br /> '''OOC Note:''' This section needs a version of the OPAM from "Boldly Going" AH; 3 SSMEs, 2 OMS engines and the Shuttle avionics systems tucked into a recoverable element that parachutes back down at Edwards or White Sands. This pushed the Shuttle-C Cargo Element and ET into orbit and then disposes of the CE before adjusting trajectory to land. They'll receive orbital vehicle designations starting with OV-201. They need suitable names, but not ones from the AH.<br /> <br /> ===Jupiter family===<br /> Shuttle-derived launch vehicle family developed for the ISA for use in the Phoenix program; authorized for development on November 10, 2003 as part of Phoenix program authorization vote. As originally envisioned, the Jupiter rocket family consisted of two variants, named Jupiter 130 and Jupiter 246. The three-digit numerical identification referred to, in order, the number of stages on the vehicle, the number of engines on the first stage and finally the number of engines on the upper stage, if equipped. This system rapidly fell by the wayside, with the vehicles receiving designations of 100, 200 and 300 respectively to indicate increasing numbers of stages on the launcher.<br /> <br /> Originally, the Jupiter rocket was intended to have its core stage engines arranged in a single line perpendicular to the SRBs, but this was changed to a triangular (for the 130/100 variant) or square (for the 246/200 variant) arrangement. The launcher used a modified version of the Space Shuttle External Tank with 3 or 4 expendable RS-25 Space Shuttle Main Engines mounted to the bottom of the tank. Two standard Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters would be attached to the vehicle. For the Jupiter 130/100, a payload adapter and aerodynamic shroud were then placed directly above the core stage, with an Orion crew capsule and service module above this. The launcher would be capable of delivering a payload and crew to the International Space Station. The 246/200 variant featured a large cryogenic upper stage above the core stage with 6 RL10 engines powering this stage. As the existing tank was only designed to support 3 engines rather than the 4 needed to power this larger vehicle, the upper stage would need to be partially fueled in order to deliver the maximum payload to orbit. A second Jupiter 246 would then launch with no payload, but with a fully fueled upper stage, which the mission would rendezvous with and use for the Earth departure burn. As it became clear that the ISA's mission requirements would render this option unworkable, a redesigned version, known as the ''Jupiter 246-B'' began to be developed.<br /> <br /> The Jupiter 246-B featured a lengthened core stage and 4 5-segment versions of the Space Shuttle SRBs. These provided an enormous payload improvement and allowed for a fully fueled upper stage to perform the Earth departure burn using only a single launcher. As development continued, a small cryogenic third stage was proposed and developed. On standard Phoenix missions the Altair descent stage would perform the lunar orbit insertion burn and needed plane changes, as the AJ10 engine used on the Orion capsule was not powerful enough to perform the necessary maneuvers. The new third stage (the ''Jupiter Tertiary Stage'') featured a single RL10 engine and would subsequently handle the braking burn to place the Orion and Altair stack in lunar orbit before being deorbited to impact the Moon. In order to fit height constraints within the VAB, this stage was designed to be as compact as possible to fit between the Jupiter Upper Stage and Altair lander. This version became known internally as the ''Jupiter 246-B Block 2'' before being redesignated the Jupiter 300, with the Jupiter 200 being the 'stretched' version of the original Jupiter 246 and the Jupiter 100 being the redesignated version of the Jupiter 130.<br /> <br /> The Jupiter 100 variant's future was called into question while it was still in development in 2009 as shifting spaceflight priorities rendered its role redundant. With the ISA's continuing use of the Space Shuttle for orbital assembly and space station servicing missions and with increasing Shuttle safety improvements, it became increasingly difficult to justify the expenditure of Orion capsules for orbital crew rotation missions. Additionally, at the direction of the incoming Marshall administration, NASA was urged to choose commercial providers for crew rotation missions to the International Space Station. The International Space Agency also began providing funding to SpaceX to develop a crew variant of its then in development Dragon spacecraft. The Jupiter 100 was subsequently dropped from further development to focus on the 200 and 300 variants of the launcher.<br /> <br /> In December 2009, the first core stage of a Jupiter rocket successfully ran for 500 seconds at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi before being shipped to Florida for final assembly and checkout. Phoenix 1-X, the Jupiter 246-B's first mission, launched on August 25, 2010 and proceeded nominally until 98 seconds into the flight, at which point the vehicle exploded. A second and third Jupiter 246-B already undergoing final checks at the VAB were closely inspected before it was determined that an unexpected computer fault led to the accidental activation of the rocket's range safety system when a command to shut down one of the core stage's engines was mishandled. After verifying that the error had been patched and after a review of the code used on the rocket, Phoenix 1-Y launched successfully on November 12, 2010.<br /> ====Jupiter 100====<br /> ====Jupiter 200====<br /> ====Jupiter 300====<br /> <br /> ===Falcon 9===<br /> ===SpaceX Dragon 1===<br /> ====Cargo====<br /> ===="Dragon Rider"====<br /> ===SpaceX Dragon 2===<br /> ===Falcon Heavy===<br /> <br /> ==Space stations==<br /> ===International Space Station===<br /> ===External Tank Laboratory===<br /> Large modular space station built in low-Earth orbit by the International Space Agency.<br /> <br /> The initial component of the station was a modified Space Shuttle external tank, which was converted in orbit into a wet workshop.<br /> <br /> ===''Awilix''===<br /> ===External Tank Torus===</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Bonnie Krueger */</p> <hr /> <div>==General==<br /> ===[[Ian Rubin]]===<br /> *'''Born''': February 23, 1980; Lafayette, LA<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-8, [[STS-10W]], Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Fractal Rubin===<br /> *'''Born''': March 14, 1980 (Pi Day), Los Alamos, NM<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Parents''': Rena Sinclair (mother), Ardan Sinclair (father)<br /> *'''Maiden name''': Fractal Sinclair<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Ian Rubin (husband: '''12-23-07''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''': Fractal's parents arrived on Earth in 1947 and eventually found employment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a top secret division overseen by the CIA. They worked on both physics research and development of new nuclear weapon designs. Fractal grew up with other Hoomiku and was cared for by her parents as much as was physically possible. In 1986, her parents were killed following accidental exposure to fatal radiation levels during an experiment ordered by the CIA to research telepathy blocking techniques. Both died in front of Fractal, who refused to leave their side in the infirmary. She was placed in the care of foster parents following the accident. While she never considered them her new parents, she did return their affection and was polite, but continued to be deeply wounded by the loss of her parents.</p><p>In 1989, ''The New York Times'' publishes classified information leaked by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell regarding the extent and details of projects involving the Hoomiku held by the United States. The Thornwell leak is considered the defining moment when rumors of aliens form into fact, as he divulged major details about the Hoomiku, including crimes committed by the United States and Soviet Union towards them. President George H. W. Bush eventually acknowledges the species in 1990 under growing pressure from both Congress and the press, a move followed shortly by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The United Nations General Assembly drafts Resolution 45/77, defining both the rights of Hoomiku to basic laws and defining the security and privacy of thought as a basic human right. Given that a breeding population exists on Earth, they are not in danger of dying out. The public is shocked, but no massive social upheaval occurs. Several hate crimes do occur, however, and prompt legislation with regards to both the use of telepathy in certain situations and locations and providing the basis for a lawsuit filed by several hundred Hoomiku against the United States. The suit is ruled in favor of the Hoomiku and as a result, Fractal is entitled to a free college education, a house, and $40,000 on her 18th birthday. She attends New Mexico Tech and briefly works as a DJ at a local radio station. Eventually, she transferred to New Mexico University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in both botany and physics.</p><p>Following graduation, she began to work at a start-up in Albuquerque studying new techniques for indoor crop growth. In 2006, she traveled to Russia for research into aeroponic farming techniques studied by the Russian Federal Space Agency. There she met Ian Rubin in Star City, and the two hit it off and began dating until Ian's flight to the International Space Station on September 18, 2006. The two resumed their relationship following the flight and in December, Fractal moved to Louisiana. The two were married on December 23, 2007.</p><br /> <br /> ===[[Sandra Harris]]===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Gregory Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[International Space Agency]]<br /> *'''Items''': Sandra's most cherished possession is a badly scuffed, space certified [[Wikipedia:Omega Speedmaster|Omega Speedmaster]] (Ref. 3570.50.00) with a black Velcro strap that has permanently been stained a grayish color. The watch was given to her by the International Space Agency for use on the Moon, and she subsequently purchased the watch for retail price from the space agency. She almost never parts with it and would do almost anything (within reason) to recover it if it is lost or stolen. While the sapphire crystal has been replaced due to severe scratching, she has not asked the jeweler to repair the case scratches. The watch is kept in top condition and keeps accurate time, and contains strontium aluminate lume on the dial and hands. In early 2020, Sandra purchased a new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch (Ref. 311.30.42.30.01.005) to replace her original, which is now kept in a display case at her home along with other objects from her career as an astronaut. This watch also features strontium aluminate lume, and Sandra tends to wear the watch with either an orange or 6 stripe rainbow polyamide NATO strap when wearing it daily. Sandra has publicly stated that she intends to bring both with her on her next lunar mission, and wore the newer of the two watches during her spacewalks on STS-250.<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Phoenix 9]], [[STS-217]], [[STS-250]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Gregory James Harris===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Died''': November 9, 2008<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Stats''': <br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Sandra Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Items''': <br /> *'''Abilities''':<br /> ** Gregory is always able to pull a refrigerated 355 ml (12 fl oz) or half-liter glass bottle of [[Wikipedia:Fresca#Versions|Fresca]] soda from Mexico out of thin air at will. The bottle is constantly full, and drinking from it doesn't reduce the amount in the bottle. Pouring it fills a glass up to the amount that the bottle actually contains and empties the bottle in the process, at which point it becomes full again when done pouring as though nothing was drained from it. Anyone other than Greg or another ghost is apparently unable to do this with the bottle. (You can't fill a swimming pool up this way, in other words.)<br /> ** Greg is able to pull a gilded metal key from his pocket at will, which he can use to produce a door out of thin air. When used, it is manifested as Greg inserting the key into the air, at which point it disappears as though inserted into an invisible lock. At this point, Greg can push open a door in the air, which is apparently made out of Lucite or acrylic. Greg (and by extension anyone else) can then step through the door to the location connected to the door, which can either be freestanding on the other end or an actual door. The chosen location can be to anywhere in the universe (for example, a door leading from an alley to a location across a city) or to a location in another plane of existence (for example, from an alley in a city in the Caribbean to a recreation of a bar in the afterlife). In this way, the door acts as a wormhole similar to the doors from the Pixar film ''[[Wikipedia:Monsters, Inc.|Monsters, Inc.]]''. Anyone viewing these doors from the side would see the location of the door as an incredibly thin line of smoky, solid air, and viewed from the rear, the area where the door is would appear as a square of a similar smoky, solid area of air that can be stepped through with no ill effect other than a sensation best describe as having stepped through a cold air curtain.<br /> *'''Afterlife description''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Julia Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Thomas Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Whittington===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Rough collie<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Jackie Cormier===<br /> *'''Born''': April 15, 1988; Seattle, WA<br /> *'''Species''': Catahoula Cur (Predominantely blue and white fur with black splotches and spots. Has heterochromia: left eye blue, right eye hazel.) <br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Related to''': David Cormier (brother)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Nickname''': ''Split-eyes'', ''Splits'', ''Blue dog''<br /> *'''Rank''': Petty Officer 2nd Class, Aviation Survival Technician (Rescue swimmer)<br /> *'''History''': Moved to Louisiana at six years of age from Seattle after her father was laid off from Boeing. Joined the Coast Guard and is one of only four female swimmers. Currently resides in Canon Shoals, OR. Originally stationed at [[Wikipedia:Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles|CGAS Port Angeles]], WA until her entire crew was transferred to Canon Shoals following [REDACTED] in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.<br /> <br /> ===#===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Sports related==<br /> ===Wesley D. Romero===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Long-tailed weasel<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Team''': Bangor Tides (Furry Basketball Association)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Carlos Coronado===<br /> *'''Born''': Merida, Yucatan, MX<br /> *'''Species''': Jaguar<br /> *'''Nationality''': Mexican<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Abbey Crandall (girlfriend: '''Sochi Winter Olympics''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Team''': Louisiana IceGators (National Hockey League)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Astronauts==<br /> ===Harold Hamilton===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Gray wolf<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-109|STS-109]], [[Wikipedia:STS-117|STS-117]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Sanders===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': White Siberian tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-113|STS-113]], [[Wikipedia:STS-120|STS-120]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Derek Ozark===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': River dragon (Blue, no wings)<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Ixy Comeaux===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Looking Glass related==<br /> ===Cora Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Halni Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Vargi===<br /> *'''First activated''':<br /> *'''Species''': Artificial intelligence <br /> **'''Primary avatar''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> ===Carla Maxwell===<br /> *'''Born''': October 8, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': River otter<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (''maître d'île'', Phoenix Cay)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bruce Anderson===<br /> *'''Born''': April 17, 1978; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<br /> *'''Species''': Bengal Tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''': Australian<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (pilot)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Frederick Hollande===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Dhole<br /> *'''Nationality''': French<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[TCI Research]] (Director, [[Ellis National Laboratory]], Superconducting Super Collider) <br /> **'''Former employer''': [[Wikipedia:CERN|CERN]] (various roles relating to the [[Wikipedia:Large Hadron Collider|Large Hadron Collider]])<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universes==<br /> ===X===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': Prime/''Wonderland''/''Looking Glass Land'' <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Zachary Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': April 18, 2002; Waxahachie, TX <br /> **'''Date/place of birth listed on current ID''': April 18, 1996; Waxahachie, TX. <br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': Fractal S. Calliden, Roger Calliden<br /> *'''Friends with''': Lindsey Waldroup <br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''[[Looking Glass Land]]'', 2020<br /> *'''History''': Personality and higher brain functions implanted within brain of Lindsey Waldroup. Eventually removed and placed into a high capacity AI core on 2-1-2015. Body restored on: 6-22-2015. Taken in by Ian and Fractal, with official story being that parents died in car accident and Fractal was only living relative. Moved in with them from home in Honolulu.<br /> <br /> ===Roger Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': October 4, 1978; Rachel, NV<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Spouse''': Fractal S. Calliden<br /> *'''Employed by''': Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (researcher, SDC detector)<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''Looking Glass Land'', 2020<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bonnie Krueger===<br /> *'''Born''': ????, ????; Goldfern Station (Sometime in the future in a space related setting; Current age is 23)<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Stats''': 5'8", 137 lbs, green eyes. Possibly missing a small notch from one ear following a bad deal she failed to complete.<br /> *'''Clothing''': Blue jeans, black combat boots, white t-shirt, torn black leather jacket with a VERY faded logo of an old Earth space program on the back. <br /> *'''Items''': Brown leather holster, 2 year old laser pistol or plasma pistol plus battery pack for the above. Carries a beaten up rucksack or backpack containing her worldly goods.<br /> *'''Backpack contents'''<br /> ** Captain's license (''Goldfern Station'' - issuer)<br /> ** Phone (Most likely the newest thing she owns)<br /> ** Slightly beat up, but high end VR headset.<br /> ** One pair of welding goggles modified to be sunglasses with a HUD inside of the lenses. Goggles are the type with two round lenses, as opposed to a single square pane of glass.<br /> ** Roll-up solar panel/charger<br /> ** Treasured book from mother about a rare lost item<br /> ** 1 bottle of a rare alcoholic drink<br /> ** 1 change of clothes (no shoes)<br /> ** 1 memento of Earth<br /> ** 1 journal<br /> ** 1 MRE<br /> ** 1 bottle of water (1 liter)<br /> ** 1 30 minute air bottle with mask.<br /> ** 1 towel, somewhat bland but still fluffy and serviceable. Still clean enough to dry off with.<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ????<br /> *'''History (Revised for forum RP)''': Only child raised by her mother. Dad's rarely mentioned and Mom insinuates (read: ''adamantly maintains'') he's dead and spaced. No proof of it, though. Regardless, Bonnie has grown up in the light of the renaissance of renewed interest in Earth on Goldfern Station, brought up by a mother who worked far too hard for far too little money, but who genuinely loved her and filled her with wonderful stories of adventure, space and wonder for the "Pale Blue Dot". Tales of great explorers, the heady early days of space travel, the men and women who fought to break out of gravity wells to visit worlds in the same system. Tales of outlaws, as well: her namesake, Bonnie Parker, of pirates and Capone... of their fates and of the music and culture of a place lost to time and space. Filled with dreams, she fought hard to get her captain's license... only to discover that dreams have prices... as well as interest rates and late fees. Striking out on her own and saddled with a few old debts but no ship to pay them, she takes out one last loan: to buy a ticket to another star, another world. One where a ship awaits, she hopes, along with jobs, wealth and maybe, just maybe... Earth and eternal glory.<br /> *'''First intro''': Arrives at Helios Station with just enough to pay the docking fee, but her ship is repossessed within 10 minutes of her getting there. Stranded and pissed off, she decides to blow some of her meager savings at a bar, where a ''highly'' drunk tiger sits next to her and, in the middle of trying to tell him off, he reveals something highly crucial to her quest. She decides to ply the rest out of him with a few more drinks. She gets the info, but stripes decides to try to get into her pants right there in the middle of the room. She cracks a bottle of booze over his head and knocks him out cold, and grabs a few mysterious coins he's dropped while getting out of there. As "Timber" by Pitbull starts to play, she races away from station security as fast as her legs will carry her, shoving aside anything in her way and doing a good attempt at parkour... until she runs into her new best friend...<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universe/timeline descriptions==<br /> ===Looking Glass Land===<br /> *'''"Short" version:''' Otonichi (alien sneps) and Hoomiku (other alien felines with big ears) evolve on a planet around the star Tau Ceti named Ishonko. They eventually master space travel. Sometime in the 1930's, war were declared. King Zalkyo Jeskalt, of the Otonichi, is a murderous fuckwit. He hates hoomiku and the war grinds to a stalemate up to the moment when a couple of hoomiku terrorists blow up a city where the body of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in Otonichi history, resided in a glass sarcophagus. Zalkyo decides "These people are DEAD" and goes on a genocidal bender. Most hoomiku are dead, and the few who aren't flee to Earth towards the end of World War II. A few rogue hoomiku hide out in an asteroid mining base somewhere in space and tinker with time travel. They get discovered by the Otonichi in the 1950's and press the magic button to GTFO. They end up around earth in 1859 in the middle of the worst recorded solar storm in history. They escape to Earth. We'll come back to them in a bit, because THIS part is also complicated. Time keeps moving into the future. Someone comes to Zalkyo during the Cuban Missle Crisis with the suggestion that "Look, these people are going to blow each other up. If they DON'T, they could be a problem. Fuck with enough of their space program, and they'll stay on the ground." He signs off on this, and a few teams go covert on Earth to do that, since they look like snow leopards. They screw around with the Russian lunar rocket, kill the Apollo 1 crew in the fire, and POSSIBLY do something to Apollo 13. They then lie back until 1986, when the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' launches with a teacher on board. ''ENTER DIVERGENCE POINT BETWEEN LOOKING GLASS LAND AND REGULAR LAND '''HERE'''.'' Now, in 'Looking Glass Land', they activate the range safety system on the Space Shuttle right at SRB ignition and it blows up on the launch pad, killing the crew, destroying the pad and possibly killing a few people watching. The nation's devastated, but things go on and they're not caught. In 1990, they destroy Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' during STS-31 and blow it up in the air, killing the crew, destroying the Shuttle '''and''' the Hubble Space Telescope. This, coming four years after ''Challenger'', ends America's manned space program at the 1991 State of the Union. With no Space Shuttle to work on the ISS, and no ISS to speak of, the Superconducting Super Collider, a large atom smasher in Texas, is completed by 2000 rather than being cancelled in 1994. It discovers the Higgs boson in 2002... and lead researcher for the SDC collaboration Fractal Calliden, who married her college sweetheart Roger and has a son named Zach, announces the news. The Russians and Chinese, meanwhile, stubbornly carry forth with space. Around 2012, Melor Oliver, a big ol' wolf, is discovered to be using time travel to send stock information two minutes into the past to himself to make money. The SEC is annoyed and tries to pin him for something, but no luck. They do, however, Shanghai him into a secret project to research this. In 2017, the Otonichi try to screw with a Shenzhou launch from Jiquan. That's when they fuck up and the Chinese catch them. The world is now made aware of what's going on and that there's aliens screwing with our space programs. China hauls them out in a big show trial, then kills them for treason.</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Bonnie Krueger */</p> <hr /> <div>==General==<br /> ===[[Ian Rubin]]===<br /> *'''Born''': February 23, 1980; Lafayette, LA<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-8, [[STS-10W]], Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Fractal Rubin===<br /> *'''Born''': March 14, 1980 (Pi Day), Los Alamos, NM<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Parents''': Rena Sinclair (mother), Ardan Sinclair (father)<br /> *'''Maiden name''': Fractal Sinclair<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Ian Rubin (husband: '''12-23-07''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''': Fractal's parents arrived on Earth in 1947 and eventually found employment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a top secret division overseen by the CIA. They worked on both physics research and development of new nuclear weapon designs. Fractal grew up with other Hoomiku and was cared for by her parents as much as was physically possible. In 1986, her parents were killed following accidental exposure to fatal radiation levels during an experiment ordered by the CIA to research telepathy blocking techniques. Both died in front of Fractal, who refused to leave their side in the infirmary. She was placed in the care of foster parents following the accident. While she never considered them her new parents, she did return their affection and was polite, but continued to be deeply wounded by the loss of her parents.</p><p>In 1989, ''The New York Times'' publishes classified information leaked by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell regarding the extent and details of projects involving the Hoomiku held by the United States. The Thornwell leak is considered the defining moment when rumors of aliens form into fact, as he divulged major details about the Hoomiku, including crimes committed by the United States and Soviet Union towards them. President George H. W. Bush eventually acknowledges the species in 1990 under growing pressure from both Congress and the press, a move followed shortly by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The United Nations General Assembly drafts Resolution 45/77, defining both the rights of Hoomiku to basic laws and defining the security and privacy of thought as a basic human right. Given that a breeding population exists on Earth, they are not in danger of dying out. The public is shocked, but no massive social upheaval occurs. Several hate crimes do occur, however, and prompt legislation with regards to both the use of telepathy in certain situations and locations and providing the basis for a lawsuit filed by several hundred Hoomiku against the United States. The suit is ruled in favor of the Hoomiku and as a result, Fractal is entitled to a free college education, a house, and $40,000 on her 18th birthday. She attends New Mexico Tech and briefly works as a DJ at a local radio station. Eventually, she transferred to New Mexico University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in both botany and physics.</p><p>Following graduation, she began to work at a start-up in Albuquerque studying new techniques for indoor crop growth. In 2006, she traveled to Russia for research into aeroponic farming techniques studied by the Russian Federal Space Agency. There she met Ian Rubin in Star City, and the two hit it off and began dating until Ian's flight to the International Space Station on September 18, 2006. The two resumed their relationship following the flight and in December, Fractal moved to Louisiana. The two were married on December 23, 2007.</p><br /> <br /> ===[[Sandra Harris]]===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Gregory Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[International Space Agency]]<br /> *'''Items''': Sandra's most cherished possession is a badly scuffed, space certified [[Wikipedia:Omega Speedmaster|Omega Speedmaster]] (Ref. 3570.50.00) with a black Velcro strap that has permanently been stained a grayish color. The watch was given to her by the International Space Agency for use on the Moon, and she subsequently purchased the watch for retail price from the space agency. She almost never parts with it and would do almost anything (within reason) to recover it if it is lost or stolen. While the sapphire crystal has been replaced due to severe scratching, she has not asked the jeweler to repair the case scratches. The watch is kept in top condition and keeps accurate time, and contains strontium aluminate lume on the dial and hands. In early 2020, Sandra purchased a new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch (Ref. 311.30.42.30.01.005) to replace her original, which is now kept in a display case at her home along with other objects from her career as an astronaut. This watch also features strontium aluminate lume, and Sandra tends to wear the watch with either an orange or 6 stripe rainbow polyamide NATO strap when wearing it daily. Sandra has publicly stated that she intends to bring both with her on her next lunar mission, and wore the newer of the two watches during her spacewalks on STS-250.<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Phoenix 9]], [[STS-217]], [[STS-250]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Gregory James Harris===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Died''': November 9, 2008<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Stats''': <br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Sandra Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Items''': <br /> *'''Abilities''':<br /> ** Gregory is always able to pull a refrigerated 355 ml (12 fl oz) or half-liter glass bottle of [[Wikipedia:Fresca#Versions|Fresca]] soda from Mexico out of thin air at will. The bottle is constantly full, and drinking from it doesn't reduce the amount in the bottle. Pouring it fills a glass up to the amount that the bottle actually contains and empties the bottle in the process, at which point it becomes full again when done pouring as though nothing was drained from it. Anyone other than Greg or another ghost is apparently unable to do this with the bottle. (You can't fill a swimming pool up this way, in other words.)<br /> ** Greg is able to pull a gilded metal key from his pocket at will, which he can use to produce a door out of thin air. When used, it is manifested as Greg inserting the key into the air, at which point it disappears as though inserted into an invisible lock. At this point, Greg can push open a door in the air, which is apparently made out of Lucite or acrylic. Greg (and by extension anyone else) can then step through the door to the location connected to the door, which can either be freestanding on the other end or an actual door. The chosen location can be to anywhere in the universe (for example, a door leading from an alley to a location across a city) or to a location in another plane of existence (for example, from an alley in a city in the Caribbean to a recreation of a bar in the afterlife). In this way, the door acts as a wormhole similar to the doors from the Pixar film ''[[Wikipedia:Monsters, Inc.|Monsters, Inc.]]''. Anyone viewing these doors from the side would see the location of the door as an incredibly thin line of smoky, solid air, and viewed from the rear, the area where the door is would appear as a square of a similar smoky, solid area of air that can be stepped through with no ill effect other than a sensation best describe as having stepped through a cold air curtain.<br /> *'''Afterlife description''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Julia Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Thomas Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Whittington===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Rough collie<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Jackie Cormier===<br /> *'''Born''': April 15, 1988; Seattle, WA<br /> *'''Species''': Catahoula Cur (Predominantely blue and white fur with black splotches and spots. Has heterochromia: left eye blue, right eye hazel.) <br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Related to''': David Cormier (brother)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Nickname''': ''Split-eyes'', ''Splits'', ''Blue dog''<br /> *'''Rank''': Petty Officer 2nd Class, Aviation Survival Technician (Rescue swimmer)<br /> *'''History''': Moved to Louisiana at six years of age from Seattle after her father was laid off from Boeing. Joined the Coast Guard and is one of only four female swimmers. Currently resides in Canon Shoals, OR. Originally stationed at [[Wikipedia:Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles|CGAS Port Angeles]], WA until her entire crew was transferred to Canon Shoals following [REDACTED] in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.<br /> <br /> ===#===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Sports related==<br /> ===Wesley D. Romero===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Long-tailed weasel<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Team''': Bangor Tides (Furry Basketball Association)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Carlos Coronado===<br /> *'''Born''': Merida, Yucatan, MX<br /> *'''Species''': Jaguar<br /> *'''Nationality''': Mexican<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Abbey Crandall (girlfriend: '''Sochi Winter Olympics''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Team''': Louisiana IceGators (National Hockey League)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Astronauts==<br /> ===Harold Hamilton===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Gray wolf<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-109|STS-109]], [[Wikipedia:STS-117|STS-117]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Sanders===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': White Siberian tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-113|STS-113]], [[Wikipedia:STS-120|STS-120]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Derek Ozark===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': River dragon (Blue, no wings)<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Ixy Comeaux===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Looking Glass related==<br /> ===Cora Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Halni Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Vargi===<br /> *'''First activated''':<br /> *'''Species''': Artificial intelligence <br /> **'''Primary avatar''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> ===Carla Maxwell===<br /> *'''Born''': October 8, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': River otter<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (''maître d'île'', Phoenix Cay)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bruce Anderson===<br /> *'''Born''': April 17, 1978; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<br /> *'''Species''': Bengal Tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''': Australian<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (pilot)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Frederick Hollande===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Dhole<br /> *'''Nationality''': French<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[TCI Research]] (Director, [[Ellis National Laboratory]], Superconducting Super Collider) <br /> **'''Former employer''': [[Wikipedia:CERN|CERN]] (various roles relating to the [[Wikipedia:Large Hadron Collider|Large Hadron Collider]])<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universes==<br /> ===X===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': Prime/''Wonderland''/''Looking Glass Land'' <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Zachary Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': April 18, 2002; Waxahachie, TX <br /> **'''Date/place of birth listed on current ID''': April 18, 1996; Waxahachie, TX. <br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': Fractal S. Calliden, Roger Calliden<br /> *'''Friends with''': Lindsey Waldroup <br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''[[Looking Glass Land]]'', 2020<br /> *'''History''': Personality and higher brain functions implanted within brain of Lindsey Waldroup. Eventually removed and placed into a high capacity AI core on 2-1-2015. Body restored on: 6-22-2015. Taken in by Ian and Fractal, with official story being that parents died in car accident and Fractal was only living relative. Moved in with them from home in Honolulu.<br /> <br /> ===Roger Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': October 4, 1978; Rachel, NV<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Spouse''': Fractal S. Calliden<br /> *'''Employed by''': Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (researcher, SDC detector)<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''Looking Glass Land'', 2020<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bonnie Krueger===<br /> *'''Born''': ????, ????; Goldfern Station (Sometime in the future in a space related setting; Current age is 23)<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Stats''': 5'8", 137 lbs, green eyes. Possibly missing a small notch from one ear following a bad deal she failed to complete.<br /> *'''Clothing''': Blue jeans, black combat boots, white t-shirt, torn black leather jacket with a VERY faded logo of an old Earth space program on the back. <br /> *'''Items''': Brown leather holster, 2 year old laser pistol or plasma pistol plus battery pack for the above. Carries a beaten up rucksack or backpack containing her worldly goods.<br /> *'''Backpack contents'''<br /> ** Captain's license (''Goldfern Station'' - issuer)<br /> ** Phone (Most likely the newest thing she owns)<br /> ** Slightly beat up, but high end VR headset.<br /> ** One pair of welding goggles modified to be sunglasses with a HUD inside of the lenses. Goggles are the type with two round lenses, as opposed to a single square pane of glass.<br /> ** Roll-up solar panel/charger<br /> ** Treasured book from mother about a rare lost item.<br /> ** 1 bottle of a rare alcoholic drink<br /> ** 1 change of clothes (no shoes)<br /> ** 1 memento of Earth<br /> ** 1 journal<br /> ** 1 MRE<br /> ** 1 bottle of water (1 liter)<br /> ** 1 30 minute air bottle with mask.<br /> ** 1 towel, somewhat bland but still fluffy and serviceable. Still clean enough to dry off with.<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ????<br /> *'''History (Revised for forum RP)''': Only child raised by her mother. Dad's rarely mentioned and Mom insinuates (read: ''adamantly maintains'') he's dead and spaced. No proof of it, though. Regardless, Bonnie has grown up in the light of the renaissance of renewed interest in Earth on Goldfern Station, brought up by a mother who worked far too hard for far too little money, but who genuinely loved her and filled her with wonderful stories of adventure, space and wonder for the "Pale Blue Dot". Tales of great explorers, the heady early days of space travel, the men and women who fought to break out of gravity wells to visit worlds in the same system. Tales of outlaws, as well: her namesake, Bonnie Parker, of pirates and Capone... of their fates and of the music and culture of a place lost to time and space. Filled with dreams, she fought hard to get her captain's license... only to discover that dreams have prices... as well as interest rates and late fees. Striking out on her own and saddled with a few old debts but no ship to pay them, she takes out one last loan: to buy a ticket to another star, another world. One where a ship awaits, she hopes, along with jobs, wealth and maybe, just maybe... Earth and eternal glory.<br /> *'''First intro''': Arrives at Helios Station with just enough to pay the docking fee, but her ship is repossessed within 10 minutes of her getting there. Stranded and pissed off, she decides to blow some of her meager savings at a bar, where a ''highly'' drunk tiger sits next to her and, in the middle of trying to tell him off, he reveals something highly crucial to her quest. She decides to ply the rest out of him with a few more drinks. She gets the info, but stripes decides to try to get into her pants right there in the middle of the room. She cracks a bottle of booze over his head and knocks him out cold, and grabs a few mysterious coins he's dropped while getting out of there. As "Timber" by Pitbull starts to play, she races away from station security as fast as her legs will carry her, shoving aside anything in her way and doing a good attempt at parkour... until she runs into her new best friend...<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universe/timeline descriptions==<br /> ===Looking Glass Land===<br /> *'''"Short" version:''' Otonichi (alien sneps) and Hoomiku (other alien felines with big ears) evolve on a planet around the star Tau Ceti named Ishonko. They eventually master space travel. Sometime in the 1930's, war were declared. King Zalkyo Jeskalt, of the Otonichi, is a murderous fuckwit. He hates hoomiku and the war grinds to a stalemate up to the moment when a couple of hoomiku terrorists blow up a city where the body of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in Otonichi history, resided in a glass sarcophagus. Zalkyo decides "These people are DEAD" and goes on a genocidal bender. Most hoomiku are dead, and the few who aren't flee to Earth towards the end of World War II. A few rogue hoomiku hide out in an asteroid mining base somewhere in space and tinker with time travel. They get discovered by the Otonichi in the 1950's and press the magic button to GTFO. They end up around earth in 1859 in the middle of the worst recorded solar storm in history. They escape to Earth. We'll come back to them in a bit, because THIS part is also complicated. Time keeps moving into the future. Someone comes to Zalkyo during the Cuban Missle Crisis with the suggestion that "Look, these people are going to blow each other up. If they DON'T, they could be a problem. Fuck with enough of their space program, and they'll stay on the ground." He signs off on this, and a few teams go covert on Earth to do that, since they look like snow leopards. They screw around with the Russian lunar rocket, kill the Apollo 1 crew in the fire, and POSSIBLY do something to Apollo 13. They then lie back until 1986, when the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' launches with a teacher on board. ''ENTER DIVERGENCE POINT BETWEEN LOOKING GLASS LAND AND REGULAR LAND '''HERE'''.'' Now, in 'Looking Glass Land', they activate the range safety system on the Space Shuttle right at SRB ignition and it blows up on the launch pad, killing the crew, destroying the pad and possibly killing a few people watching. The nation's devastated, but things go on and they're not caught. In 1990, they destroy Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' during STS-31 and blow it up in the air, killing the crew, destroying the Shuttle '''and''' the Hubble Space Telescope. This, coming four years after ''Challenger'', ends America's manned space program at the 1991 State of the Union. With no Space Shuttle to work on the ISS, and no ISS to speak of, the Superconducting Super Collider, a large atom smasher in Texas, is completed by 2000 rather than being cancelled in 1994. It discovers the Higgs boson in 2002... and lead researcher for the SDC collaboration Fractal Calliden, who married her college sweetheart Roger and has a son named Zach, announces the news. The Russians and Chinese, meanwhile, stubbornly carry forth with space. Around 2012, Melor Oliver, a big ol' wolf, is discovered to be using time travel to send stock information two minutes into the past to himself to make money. The SEC is annoyed and tries to pin him for something, but no luck. They do, however, Shanghai him into a secret project to research this. In 2017, the Otonichi try to screw with a Shenzhou launch from Jiquan. That's when they fuck up and the Chinese catch them. The world is now made aware of what's going on and that there's aliens screwing with our space programs. China hauls them out in a big show trial, then kills them for treason.</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Gregory James Harris */</p> <hr /> <div>==General==<br /> ===[[Ian Rubin]]===<br /> *'''Born''': February 23, 1980; Lafayette, LA<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-8, [[STS-10W]], Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Fractal Rubin===<br /> *'''Born''': March 14, 1980 (Pi Day), Los Alamos, NM<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Parents''': Rena Sinclair (mother), Ardan Sinclair (father)<br /> *'''Maiden name''': Fractal Sinclair<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Ian Rubin (husband: '''12-23-07''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''': Fractal's parents arrived on Earth in 1947 and eventually found employment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a top secret division overseen by the CIA. They worked on both physics research and development of new nuclear weapon designs. Fractal grew up with other Hoomiku and was cared for by her parents as much as was physically possible. In 1986, her parents were killed following accidental exposure to fatal radiation levels during an experiment ordered by the CIA to research telepathy blocking techniques. Both died in front of Fractal, who refused to leave their side in the infirmary. She was placed in the care of foster parents following the accident. While she never considered them her new parents, she did return their affection and was polite, but continued to be deeply wounded by the loss of her parents.</p><p>In 1989, ''The New York Times'' publishes classified information leaked by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell regarding the extent and details of projects involving the Hoomiku held by the United States. The Thornwell leak is considered the defining moment when rumors of aliens form into fact, as he divulged major details about the Hoomiku, including crimes committed by the United States and Soviet Union towards them. President George H. W. Bush eventually acknowledges the species in 1990 under growing pressure from both Congress and the press, a move followed shortly by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The United Nations General Assembly drafts Resolution 45/77, defining both the rights of Hoomiku to basic laws and defining the security and privacy of thought as a basic human right. Given that a breeding population exists on Earth, they are not in danger of dying out. The public is shocked, but no massive social upheaval occurs. Several hate crimes do occur, however, and prompt legislation with regards to both the use of telepathy in certain situations and locations and providing the basis for a lawsuit filed by several hundred Hoomiku against the United States. The suit is ruled in favor of the Hoomiku and as a result, Fractal is entitled to a free college education, a house, and $40,000 on her 18th birthday. She attends New Mexico Tech and briefly works as a DJ at a local radio station. Eventually, she transferred to New Mexico University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in both botany and physics.</p><p>Following graduation, she began to work at a start-up in Albuquerque studying new techniques for indoor crop growth. In 2006, she traveled to Russia for research into aeroponic farming techniques studied by the Russian Federal Space Agency. There she met Ian Rubin in Star City, and the two hit it off and began dating until Ian's flight to the International Space Station on September 18, 2006. The two resumed their relationship following the flight and in December, Fractal moved to Louisiana. The two were married on December 23, 2007.</p><br /> <br /> ===[[Sandra Harris]]===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Gregory Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[International Space Agency]]<br /> *'''Items''': Sandra's most cherished possession is a badly scuffed, space certified [[Wikipedia:Omega Speedmaster|Omega Speedmaster]] (Ref. 3570.50.00) with a black Velcro strap that has permanently been stained a grayish color. The watch was given to her by the International Space Agency for use on the Moon, and she subsequently purchased the watch for retail price from the space agency. She almost never parts with it and would do almost anything (within reason) to recover it if it is lost or stolen. While the sapphire crystal has been replaced due to severe scratching, she has not asked the jeweler to repair the case scratches. The watch is kept in top condition and keeps accurate time, and contains strontium aluminate lume on the dial and hands. In early 2020, Sandra purchased a new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch (Ref. 311.30.42.30.01.005) to replace her original, which is now kept in a display case at her home along with other objects from her career as an astronaut. This watch also features strontium aluminate lume, and Sandra tends to wear the watch with either an orange or 6 stripe rainbow polyamide NATO strap when wearing it daily. Sandra has publicly stated that she intends to bring both with her on her next lunar mission, and wore the newer of the two watches during her spacewalks on STS-250.<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Phoenix 9]], [[STS-217]], [[STS-250]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Gregory James Harris===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Died''': November 9, 2008<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Stats''': <br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Sandra Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Items''': <br /> *'''Abilities''':<br /> ** Gregory is always able to pull a refrigerated 355 ml (12 fl oz) or half-liter glass bottle of [[Wikipedia:Fresca#Versions|Fresca]] soda from Mexico out of thin air at will. The bottle is constantly full, and drinking from it doesn't reduce the amount in the bottle. Pouring it fills a glass up to the amount that the bottle actually contains and empties the bottle in the process, at which point it becomes full again when done pouring as though nothing was drained from it. Anyone other than Greg or another ghost is apparently unable to do this with the bottle. (You can't fill a swimming pool up this way, in other words.)<br /> ** Greg is able to pull a gilded metal key from his pocket at will, which he can use to produce a door out of thin air. When used, it is manifested as Greg inserting the key into the air, at which point it disappears as though inserted into an invisible lock. At this point, Greg can push open a door in the air, which is apparently made out of Lucite or acrylic. Greg (and by extension anyone else) can then step through the door to the location connected to the door, which can either be freestanding on the other end or an actual door. The chosen location can be to anywhere in the universe (for example, a door leading from an alley to a location across a city) or to a location in another plane of existence (for example, from an alley in a city in the Caribbean to a recreation of a bar in the afterlife). In this way, the door acts as a wormhole similar to the doors from the Pixar film ''[[Wikipedia:Monsters, Inc.|Monsters, Inc.]]''. Anyone viewing these doors from the side would see the location of the door as an incredibly thin line of smoky, solid air, and viewed from the rear, the area where the door is would appear as a square of a similar smoky, solid area of air that can be stepped through with no ill effect other than a sensation best describe as having stepped through a cold air curtain.<br /> *'''Afterlife description''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Julia Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Thomas Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Whittington===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Rough collie<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Jackie Cormier===<br /> *'''Born''': April 15, 1988; Seattle, WA<br /> *'''Species''': Catahoula Cur (Predominantely blue and white fur with black splotches and spots. Has heterochromia: left eye blue, right eye hazel.) <br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Related to''': David Cormier (brother)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Nickname''': ''Split-eyes'', ''Splits'', ''Blue dog''<br /> *'''Rank''': Petty Officer 2nd Class, Aviation Survival Technician (Rescue swimmer)<br /> *'''History''': Moved to Louisiana at six years of age from Seattle after her father was laid off from Boeing. Joined the Coast Guard and is one of only four female swimmers. Currently resides in Canon Shoals, OR. Originally stationed at [[Wikipedia:Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles|CGAS Port Angeles]], WA until her entire crew was transferred to Canon Shoals following [REDACTED] in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.<br /> <br /> ===#===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Sports related==<br /> ===Wesley D. Romero===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Long-tailed weasel<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Team''': Bangor Tides (Furry Basketball Association)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Carlos Coronado===<br /> *'''Born''': Merida, Yucatan, MX<br /> *'''Species''': Jaguar<br /> *'''Nationality''': Mexican<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Abbey Crandall (girlfriend: '''Sochi Winter Olympics''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Team''': Louisiana IceGators (National Hockey League)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Astronauts==<br /> ===Harold Hamilton===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Gray wolf<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-109|STS-109]], [[Wikipedia:STS-117|STS-117]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Sanders===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': White Siberian tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-113|STS-113]], [[Wikipedia:STS-120|STS-120]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Derek Ozark===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': River dragon (Blue, no wings)<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Ixy Comeaux===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Looking Glass related==<br /> ===Cora Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Halni Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Vargi===<br /> *'''First activated''':<br /> *'''Species''': Artificial intelligence <br /> **'''Primary avatar''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> ===Carla Maxwell===<br /> *'''Born''': October 8, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': River otter<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (''maître d'île'', Phoenix Cay)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bruce Anderson===<br /> *'''Born''': April 17, 1978; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<br /> *'''Species''': Bengal Tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''': Australian<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (pilot)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Frederick Hollande===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Dhole<br /> *'''Nationality''': French<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[TCI Research]] (Director, [[Ellis National Laboratory]], Superconducting Super Collider) <br /> **'''Former employer''': [[Wikipedia:CERN|CERN]] (various roles relating to the [[Wikipedia:Large Hadron Collider|Large Hadron Collider]])<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universes==<br /> ===X===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': Prime/''Wonderland''/''Looking Glass Land'' <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Zachary Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': April 18, 2002; Waxahachie, TX <br /> **'''Date/place of birth listed on current ID''': April 18, 1996; Waxahachie, TX. <br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': Fractal S. Calliden, Roger Calliden<br /> *'''Friends with''': Lindsey Waldroup <br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''[[Looking Glass Land]]'', 2020<br /> *'''History''': Personality and higher brain functions implanted within brain of Lindsey Waldroup. Eventually removed and placed into a high capacity AI core on 2-1-2015. Body restored on: 6-22-2015. Taken in by Ian and Fractal, with official story being that parents died in car accident and Fractal was only living relative. Moved in with them from home in Honolulu.<br /> <br /> ===Roger Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': October 4, 1978; Rachel, NV<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Spouse''': Fractal S. Calliden<br /> *'''Employed by''': Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (researcher, SDC detector)<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''Looking Glass Land'', 2020<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bonnie Krueger===<br /> *'''Born''': ????, ????; Goldfern Station (Sometime in the future in a space related setting; Current age is 23)<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Stats''': 5'8", 137 lbs, green eyes. Possibly missing a small notch from one ear following a bad deal she failed to complete.<br /> *'''Clothing''': Blue jeans, black combat boots, white t-shirt, torn black leather jacket with a VERY faded logo of an old Earth space program on the back. <br /> *'''Items''': Brown leather holster, 2 year old laser pistol or plasma pistol plus battery pack for the above. Carries a beaten up rucksack or backpack containing her worldly goods.<br /> *'''Backpack contents'''<br /> ** Captain's license (''Goldfern Station'' - issuer)<br /> ** Phone (Most likely the newest thing she owns)<br /> ** Slightly beat up, but high end VR headset.<br /> ** One pair of welding goggles modified to be sunglasses with a HUD inside of the lenses. Goggles are the type with two round lenses, as opposed to a single square pane of glass.<br /> ** Roll-up solar panel/charger<br /> ** Treasured book from mother about item central to plot.<br /> ** 1 bottle of a rare alcoholic drink<br /> ** 1 change of clothes (no shoes)<br /> ** 1 memento of Earth<br /> ** 1 journal<br /> ** 1 MRE<br /> ** 1 bottle of water (1 liter)<br /> ** 1 30 minute air bottle with mask.<br /> ** 1 towel, somewhat bland but still fluffy and serviceable. Still clean enough to dry off with.<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ????<br /> *'''History (Revised for forum RP)''': Only child raised by her mother. Dad's rarely mentioned and Mom insinuates (read: ''adamantly maintains'') he's dead and spaced. No proof of it, though. Regardless, Bonnie has grown up in the light of the renaissance of renewed interest in Earth on Goldfern Station, brought up by a mother who worked far too hard for far too little money, but who genuinely loved her and filled her with wonderful stories of adventure, space and wonder for the "Pale Blue Dot". Tales of great explorers, the heady early days of space travel, the men and women who fought to break out of gravity wells to visit worlds in the same system. Tales of outlaws, as well: her namesake, Bonnie Parker, of pirates and Capone... of their fates and of the music and culture of a place lost to time and space. Filled with dreams, she fought hard to get her captain's license... only to discover that dreams have prices... as well as interest rates and late fees. Striking out on her own and saddled with a few old debts but no ship to pay them, she takes out one last loan: to buy a ticket to another star, another world. One where a ship awaits, she hopes, along with jobs, wealth and maybe, just maybe... Earth and eternal glory.<br /> *'''First intro''': Arrives at Helios Station with just enough to pay the docking fee, but her ship is repossessed within 10 minutes of her getting there. Stranded and pissed off, she decides to blow some of her meager savings at a bar, where a ''highly'' drunk tiger sits next to her and, in the middle of trying to tell him off, he reveals something highly crucial to her quest. She decides to ply the rest out of him with a few more drinks. She gets the info, but stripes decides to try to get into her pants right there in the middle of the room. She cracks a bottle of booze over his head and knocks him out cold, and grabs a few mysterious coins he's dropped while getting out of there. As "Timber" by Pitbull starts to play, she races away from station security as fast as her legs will carry her, shoving aside anything in her way and doing a good attempt at parkour... until she runs into her new best friend...<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universe/timeline descriptions==<br /> ===Looking Glass Land===<br /> *'''"Short" version:''' Otonichi (alien sneps) and Hoomiku (other alien felines with big ears) evolve on a planet around the star Tau Ceti named Ishonko. They eventually master space travel. Sometime in the 1930's, war were declared. King Zalkyo Jeskalt, of the Otonichi, is a murderous fuckwit. He hates hoomiku and the war grinds to a stalemate up to the moment when a couple of hoomiku terrorists blow up a city where the body of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in Otonichi history, resided in a glass sarcophagus. Zalkyo decides "These people are DEAD" and goes on a genocidal bender. Most hoomiku are dead, and the few who aren't flee to Earth towards the end of World War II. A few rogue hoomiku hide out in an asteroid mining base somewhere in space and tinker with time travel. They get discovered by the Otonichi in the 1950's and press the magic button to GTFO. They end up around earth in 1859 in the middle of the worst recorded solar storm in history. They escape to Earth. We'll come back to them in a bit, because THIS part is also complicated. Time keeps moving into the future. Someone comes to Zalkyo during the Cuban Missle Crisis with the suggestion that "Look, these people are going to blow each other up. If they DON'T, they could be a problem. Fuck with enough of their space program, and they'll stay on the ground." He signs off on this, and a few teams go covert on Earth to do that, since they look like snow leopards. They screw around with the Russian lunar rocket, kill the Apollo 1 crew in the fire, and POSSIBLY do something to Apollo 13. They then lie back until 1986, when the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' launches with a teacher on board. ''ENTER DIVERGENCE POINT BETWEEN LOOKING GLASS LAND AND REGULAR LAND '''HERE'''.'' Now, in 'Looking Glass Land', they activate the range safety system on the Space Shuttle right at SRB ignition and it blows up on the launch pad, killing the crew, destroying the pad and possibly killing a few people watching. The nation's devastated, but things go on and they're not caught. In 1990, they destroy Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' during STS-31 and blow it up in the air, killing the crew, destroying the Shuttle '''and''' the Hubble Space Telescope. This, coming four years after ''Challenger'', ends America's manned space program at the 1991 State of the Union. With no Space Shuttle to work on the ISS, and no ISS to speak of, the Superconducting Super Collider, a large atom smasher in Texas, is completed by 2000 rather than being cancelled in 1994. It discovers the Higgs boson in 2002... and lead researcher for the SDC collaboration Fractal Calliden, who married her college sweetheart Roger and has a son named Zach, announces the news. The Russians and Chinese, meanwhile, stubbornly carry forth with space. Around 2012, Melor Oliver, a big ol' wolf, is discovered to be using time travel to send stock information two minutes into the past to himself to make money. The SEC is annoyed and tries to pin him for something, but no luck. They do, however, Shanghai him into a secret project to research this. In 2017, the Otonichi try to screw with a Shenzhou launch from Jiquan. That's when they fuck up and the Chinese catch them. The world is now made aware of what's going on and that there's aliens screwing with our space programs. China hauls them out in a big show trial, then kills them for treason.</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Gregory James Harris */</p> <hr /> <div>==General==<br /> ===[[Ian Rubin]]===<br /> *'''Born''': February 23, 1980; Lafayette, LA<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-8, [[STS-10W]], Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Fractal Rubin===<br /> *'''Born''': March 14, 1980 (Pi Day), Los Alamos, NM<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Parents''': Rena Sinclair (mother), Ardan Sinclair (father)<br /> *'''Maiden name''': Fractal Sinclair<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Ian Rubin (husband: '''12-23-07''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''': Fractal's parents arrived on Earth in 1947 and eventually found employment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a top secret division overseen by the CIA. They worked on both physics research and development of new nuclear weapon designs. Fractal grew up with other Hoomiku and was cared for by her parents as much as was physically possible. In 1986, her parents were killed following accidental exposure to fatal radiation levels during an experiment ordered by the CIA to research telepathy blocking techniques. Both died in front of Fractal, who refused to leave their side in the infirmary. She was placed in the care of foster parents following the accident. While she never considered them her new parents, she did return their affection and was polite, but continued to be deeply wounded by the loss of her parents.</p><p>In 1989, ''The New York Times'' publishes classified information leaked by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell regarding the extent and details of projects involving the Hoomiku held by the United States. The Thornwell leak is considered the defining moment when rumors of aliens form into fact, as he divulged major details about the Hoomiku, including crimes committed by the United States and Soviet Union towards them. President George H. W. Bush eventually acknowledges the species in 1990 under growing pressure from both Congress and the press, a move followed shortly by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The United Nations General Assembly drafts Resolution 45/77, defining both the rights of Hoomiku to basic laws and defining the security and privacy of thought as a basic human right. Given that a breeding population exists on Earth, they are not in danger of dying out. The public is shocked, but no massive social upheaval occurs. Several hate crimes do occur, however, and prompt legislation with regards to both the use of telepathy in certain situations and locations and providing the basis for a lawsuit filed by several hundred Hoomiku against the United States. The suit is ruled in favor of the Hoomiku and as a result, Fractal is entitled to a free college education, a house, and $40,000 on her 18th birthday. She attends New Mexico Tech and briefly works as a DJ at a local radio station. Eventually, she transferred to New Mexico University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in both botany and physics.</p><p>Following graduation, she began to work at a start-up in Albuquerque studying new techniques for indoor crop growth. In 2006, she traveled to Russia for research into aeroponic farming techniques studied by the Russian Federal Space Agency. There she met Ian Rubin in Star City, and the two hit it off and began dating until Ian's flight to the International Space Station on September 18, 2006. The two resumed their relationship following the flight and in December, Fractal moved to Louisiana. The two were married on December 23, 2007.</p><br /> <br /> ===[[Sandra Harris]]===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Gregory Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[International Space Agency]]<br /> *'''Items''': Sandra's most cherished possession is a badly scuffed, space certified [[Wikipedia:Omega Speedmaster|Omega Speedmaster]] (Ref. 3570.50.00) with a black Velcro strap that has permanently been stained a grayish color. The watch was given to her by the International Space Agency for use on the Moon, and she subsequently purchased the watch for retail price from the space agency. She almost never parts with it and would do almost anything (within reason) to recover it if it is lost or stolen. While the sapphire crystal has been replaced due to severe scratching, she has not asked the jeweler to repair the case scratches. The watch is kept in top condition and keeps accurate time, and contains strontium aluminate lume on the dial and hands. In early 2020, Sandra purchased a new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch (Ref. 311.30.42.30.01.005) to replace her original, which is now kept in a display case at her home along with other objects from her career as an astronaut. This watch also features strontium aluminate lume, and Sandra tends to wear the watch with either an orange or 6 stripe rainbow polyamide NATO strap when wearing it daily. Sandra has publicly stated that she intends to bring both with her on her next lunar mission, and wore the newer of the two watches during her spacewalks on STS-250.<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Phoenix 9]], [[STS-217]], [[STS-250]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Gregory James Harris===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Died''': November 9, 2008<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Stats''': <br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''': Sandra Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Items''': <br /> *'''Abilities''':<br /> ** Gregory is always able to pull a refrigerated 355 ml (12 fl oz) or half-liter glass bottle of [[Wikipedia:Fresca#Versions|Fresca]] soda from Mexico out of thin air at will. The bottle is constantly full, and drinking from it doesn't reduce the amount in the bottle. Pouring it fills a glass up to the amount that the bottle actually contains and empties the bottle in the process, at which point it becomes full again when done pouring as though nothing was drained from it. Anyone other than Greg or another ghost is apparently unable to do this with the bottle. (You can't fill a swimming pool up this way, in other words.)<br /> ** Greg is able to pull a gilded metal key from his pocket at will, which he can use to produce a door out of thin air. When used, it is manifested as Greg inserting the key into the air, at which point it disappears as though inserted into an invisible lock. At this point, Greg can push open a door in the air, which is apparently made out of Lucite or acrylic. Greg (and by extension anyone else) can then step through the door to the location connected to the door, which can either be freestanding on the other end or an actual door. The chosen location can be to anywhere in the universe (for example, a door leading from an alley to a location across a city) or to a location in another plane of existence (for example, from an alley in a city in the Caribbean to a recreation of a bar in the afterlife). In this way, the door acts as a wormhole similar to the doors from the Pixar film ''[[Wikipedia:Monsters, Inc.|Monsters, Inc.]]''. Anyone viewing these doors from the side would see the location of the door as an incredibly thin line of smoky, solid air, and viewed from the rear, the area where the door is would appear as a square of a similar smoky, solid area of air that can be stepped through with no ill effect other than a sensation best describe as having stepped through a cold air curtain.<br /> *'''Afterlife description''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Julia Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Thomas Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Whittington===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Rough collie<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Jackie Cormier===<br /> *'''Born''': April 15, 1988; Seattle, WA<br /> *'''Species''': Catahoula Cur (Predominantely blue and white fur with black splotches and spots. Has heterochromia: left eye blue, right eye hazel.) <br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Related to''': David Cormier (brother)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Nickname''': ''Split-eyes'', ''Splits'', ''Blue dog''<br /> *'''Rank''': Petty Officer 2nd Class, Aviation Survival Technician (Rescue swimmer)<br /> *'''History''': Moved to Louisiana at six years of age from Seattle after her father was laid off from Boeing. Joined the Coast Guard and is one of only four female swimmers. Currently resides in Canon Shoals, OR. Originally stationed at [[Wikipedia:Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles|CGAS Port Angeles]], WA until her entire crew was transferred to Canon Shoals following [REDACTED] in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.<br /> <br /> ===#===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Sports related==<br /> ===Wesley D. Romero===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Long-tailed weasel<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Team''': Bangor Tides (Furry Basketball Association)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Carlos Coronado===<br /> *'''Born''': Merida, Yucatan, MX<br /> *'''Species''': Jaguar<br /> *'''Nationality''': Mexican<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Abbey Crandall (girlfriend: '''Sochi Winter Olympics''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Team''': Louisiana IceGators (National Hockey League)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Astronauts==<br /> ===Harold Hamilton===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Gray wolf<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-109|STS-109]], [[Wikipedia:STS-117|STS-117]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Sanders===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': White Siberian tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-113|STS-113]], [[Wikipedia:STS-120|STS-120]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Derek Ozark===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': River dragon (Blue, no wings)<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Ixy Comeaux===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Looking Glass related==<br /> ===Cora Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Halni Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Vargi===<br /> *'''First activated''':<br /> *'''Species''': Artificial intelligence <br /> **'''Primary avatar''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> ===Carla Maxwell===<br /> *'''Born''': October 8, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': River otter<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (''maître d'île'', Phoenix Cay)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bruce Anderson===<br /> *'''Born''': April 17, 1978; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<br /> *'''Species''': Bengal Tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''': Australian<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (pilot)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Frederick Hollande===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Dhole<br /> *'''Nationality''': French<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[TCI Research]] (Director, [[Ellis National Laboratory]], Superconducting Super Collider) <br /> **'''Former employer''': [[Wikipedia:CERN|CERN]] (various roles relating to the [[Wikipedia:Large Hadron Collider|Large Hadron Collider]])<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universes==<br /> ===X===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': Prime/''Wonderland''/''Looking Glass Land'' <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Zachary Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': April 18, 2002; Waxahachie, TX <br /> **'''Date/place of birth listed on current ID''': April 18, 1996; Waxahachie, TX. <br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': Fractal S. Calliden, Roger Calliden<br /> *'''Friends with''': Lindsey Waldroup <br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''[[Looking Glass Land]]'', 2020<br /> *'''History''': Personality and higher brain functions implanted within brain of Lindsey Waldroup. Eventually removed and placed into a high capacity AI core on 2-1-2015. Body restored on: 6-22-2015. Taken in by Ian and Fractal, with official story being that parents died in car accident and Fractal was only living relative. Moved in with them from home in Honolulu.<br /> <br /> ===Roger Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': October 4, 1978; Rachel, NV<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Spouse''': Fractal S. Calliden<br /> *'''Employed by''': Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (researcher, SDC detector)<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''Looking Glass Land'', 2020<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bonnie Krueger===<br /> *'''Born''': ????, ????; Goldfern Station (Sometime in the future in a space related setting; Current age is 23)<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Stats''': 5'8", 137 lbs, green eyes. Possibly missing a small notch from one ear following a bad deal she failed to complete.<br /> *'''Clothing''': Blue jeans, black combat boots, white t-shirt, torn black leather jacket with a VERY faded logo of an old Earth space program on the back. <br /> *'''Items''': Brown leather holster, 2 year old laser pistol or plasma pistol plus battery pack for the above. Carries a beaten up rucksack or backpack containing her worldly goods.<br /> *'''Backpack contents'''<br /> ** Captain's license (''Goldfern Station'' - issuer)<br /> ** Phone (Most likely the newest thing she owns)<br /> ** Slightly beat up, but high end VR headset.<br /> ** One pair of welding goggles modified to be sunglasses with a HUD inside of the lenses. Goggles are the type with two round lenses, as opposed to a single square pane of glass.<br /> ** Roll-up solar panel/charger<br /> ** Treasured book from mother about item central to plot.<br /> ** 1 bottle of a rare alcoholic drink<br /> ** 1 change of clothes (no shoes)<br /> ** 1 memento of Earth<br /> ** 1 journal<br /> ** 1 MRE<br /> ** 1 bottle of water (1 liter)<br /> ** 1 30 minute air bottle with mask.<br /> ** 1 towel, somewhat bland but still fluffy and serviceable. Still clean enough to dry off with.<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ????<br /> *'''History (Revised for forum RP)''': Only child raised by her mother. Dad's rarely mentioned and Mom insinuates (read: ''adamantly maintains'') he's dead and spaced. No proof of it, though. Regardless, Bonnie has grown up in the light of the renaissance of renewed interest in Earth on Goldfern Station, brought up by a mother who worked far too hard for far too little money, but who genuinely loved her and filled her with wonderful stories of adventure, space and wonder for the "Pale Blue Dot". Tales of great explorers, the heady early days of space travel, the men and women who fought to break out of gravity wells to visit worlds in the same system. Tales of outlaws, as well: her namesake, Bonnie Parker, of pirates and Capone... of their fates and of the music and culture of a place lost to time and space. Filled with dreams, she fought hard to get her captain's license... only to discover that dreams have prices... as well as interest rates and late fees. Striking out on her own and saddled with a few old debts but no ship to pay them, she takes out one last loan: to buy a ticket to another star, another world. One where a ship awaits, she hopes, along with jobs, wealth and maybe, just maybe... Earth and eternal glory.<br /> *'''First intro''': Arrives at Helios Station with just enough to pay the docking fee, but her ship is repossessed within 10 minutes of her getting there. Stranded and pissed off, she decides to blow some of her meager savings at a bar, where a ''highly'' drunk tiger sits next to her and, in the middle of trying to tell him off, he reveals something highly crucial to her quest. She decides to ply the rest out of him with a few more drinks. She gets the info, but stripes decides to try to get into her pants right there in the middle of the room. She cracks a bottle of booze over his head and knocks him out cold, and grabs a few mysterious coins he's dropped while getting out of there. As "Timber" by Pitbull starts to play, she races away from station security as fast as her legs will carry her, shoving aside anything in her way and doing a good attempt at parkour... until she runs into her new best friend...<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universe/timeline descriptions==<br /> ===Looking Glass Land===<br /> *'''"Short" version:''' Otonichi (alien sneps) and Hoomiku (other alien felines with big ears) evolve on a planet around the star Tau Ceti named Ishonko. They eventually master space travel. Sometime in the 1930's, war were declared. King Zalkyo Jeskalt, of the Otonichi, is a murderous fuckwit. He hates hoomiku and the war grinds to a stalemate up to the moment when a couple of hoomiku terrorists blow up a city where the body of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in Otonichi history, resided in a glass sarcophagus. Zalkyo decides "These people are DEAD" and goes on a genocidal bender. Most hoomiku are dead, and the few who aren't flee to Earth towards the end of World War II. A few rogue hoomiku hide out in an asteroid mining base somewhere in space and tinker with time travel. They get discovered by the Otonichi in the 1950's and press the magic button to GTFO. They end up around earth in 1859 in the middle of the worst recorded solar storm in history. They escape to Earth. We'll come back to them in a bit, because THIS part is also complicated. Time keeps moving into the future. Someone comes to Zalkyo during the Cuban Missle Crisis with the suggestion that "Look, these people are going to blow each other up. If they DON'T, they could be a problem. Fuck with enough of their space program, and they'll stay on the ground." He signs off on this, and a few teams go covert on Earth to do that, since they look like snow leopards. They screw around with the Russian lunar rocket, kill the Apollo 1 crew in the fire, and POSSIBLY do something to Apollo 13. They then lie back until 1986, when the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' launches with a teacher on board. ''ENTER DIVERGENCE POINT BETWEEN LOOKING GLASS LAND AND REGULAR LAND '''HERE'''.'' Now, in 'Looking Glass Land', they activate the range safety system on the Space Shuttle right at SRB ignition and it blows up on the launch pad, killing the crew, destroying the pad and possibly killing a few people watching. The nation's devastated, but things go on and they're not caught. In 1990, they destroy Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' during STS-31 and blow it up in the air, killing the crew, destroying the Shuttle '''and''' the Hubble Space Telescope. This, coming four years after ''Challenger'', ends America's manned space program at the 1991 State of the Union. With no Space Shuttle to work on the ISS, and no ISS to speak of, the Superconducting Super Collider, a large atom smasher in Texas, is completed by 2000 rather than being cancelled in 1994. It discovers the Higgs boson in 2002... and lead researcher for the SDC collaboration Fractal Calliden, who married her college sweetheart Roger and has a son named Zach, announces the news. The Russians and Chinese, meanwhile, stubbornly carry forth with space. Around 2012, Melor Oliver, a big ol' wolf, is discovered to be using time travel to send stock information two minutes into the past to himself to make money. The SEC is annoyed and tries to pin him for something, but no luck. They do, however, Shanghai him into a secret project to research this. In 2017, the Otonichi try to screw with a Shenzhou launch from Jiquan. That's when they fuck up and the Chinese catch them. The world is now made aware of what's going on and that there's aliens screwing with our space programs. China hauls them out in a big show trial, then kills them for treason.</div>

Lafayette1 https://lafayetteinc.com/index.php?title=ISA_Astronaut_Corps&diff=3508 ISA Astronaut Corps 2023-04-10T03:22:32Z

<p>Lafayette1: /* Selection groups */</p> <hr /> <div>==Selection groups==<br /> *1976 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 1]] – "Thorton's Three"<br /> *1978 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 2]] – "The Winged Wonders"<br /> *1980 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 3]] – "Harry's Heroes"<br /> *1981 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 4]] – "The Snow Globes"<br /> *1983 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 5]] – ''No official nickname''<br /> *1985 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 6]] – ''No official nickname''<br /> *1988 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 7]] – "The Phoenixes"<br /> *1990 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 8]] – "The Pirates"<br /> *1992 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 9]] – "The Delta Drivers"<br /> *1994 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 10]] – "The Plumbers"<br /> *1996 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 11]] – ''No official nickname''<br /> *1998 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 12]] – "The Blockbusters"<br /> *2000 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 13]] – "The Black Cats"<br /> *2002 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 14]] – "The Roly-Polies" <br /> *2005 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 15]] – "The Surges"<br /> *2007 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 16]] – "The Rougarous"<br /> *2009 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 17]] – "The Coconuts"<br /> *2011 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 18]] – "The Flying Toasters"<br /> *2013 [[ISA Astronaut Group 19|Group 19]] – "The Supersonic Seagulls"<br /> *2015 [[ISA Astronaut Group 20|Group 20]] – "The Hypersonic Hornets"<br /> *2017 [[ISA Astronaut Group 21|Group 21]] – "The Aces"<br /> *2019 [[ISA Astronaut Group 22|Group 22]] – "The Ballistic Boffins"<br /> *2021 [[ISA Astronaut Group 23|Group 23]] – "The Cosmic Kahunas"<br /> *2023 [[ISA Astronaut Group 24|Group 24]] – "The Knights of Something"</div>

Lafayette1 https://lafayetteinc.com/index.php?title=Character_cheat_sheet&diff=3507 Character cheat sheet 2022-05-27T14:21:44Z

<p>Lafayette1: /* Bonnie Krueger */</p> <hr /> <div>==General==<br /> ===[[Ian Rubin]]===<br /> *'''Born''': February 23, 1980; Lafayette, LA<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-8, [[STS-10W]], Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Fractal Rubin===<br /> *'''Born''': March 14, 1980 (Pi Day), Los Alamos, NM<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Parents''': Rena Sinclair (mother), Ardan Sinclair (father)<br /> *'''Maiden name''': Fractal Sinclair<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Ian Rubin (husband: '''12-23-07''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''': Fractal's parents arrived on Earth in 1947 and eventually found employment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a top secret division overseen by the CIA. They worked on both physics research and development of new nuclear weapon designs. Fractal grew up with other Hoomiku and was cared for by her parents as much as was physically possible. In 1986, her parents were killed following accidental exposure to fatal radiation levels during an experiment ordered by the CIA to research telepathy blocking techniques. Both died in front of Fractal, who refused to leave their side in the infirmary. She was placed in the care of foster parents following the accident. While she never considered them her new parents, she did return their affection and was polite, but continued to be deeply wounded by the loss of her parents.</p><p>In 1989, ''The New York Times'' publishes classified information leaked by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell regarding the extent and details of projects involving the Hoomiku held by the United States. The Thornwell leak is considered the defining moment when rumors of aliens form into fact, as he divulged major details about the Hoomiku, including crimes committed by the United States and Soviet Union towards them. President George H. W. Bush eventually acknowledges the species in 1990 under growing pressure from both Congress and the press, a move followed shortly by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The United Nations General Assembly drafts Resolution 45/77, defining both the rights of Hoomiku to basic laws and defining the security and privacy of thought as a basic human right. Given that a breeding population exists on Earth, they are not in danger of dying out. The public is shocked, but no massive social upheaval occurs. Several hate crimes do occur, however, and prompt legislation with regards to both the use of telepathy in certain situations and locations and providing the basis for a lawsuit filed by several hundred Hoomiku against the United States. The suit is ruled in favor of the Hoomiku and as a result, Fractal is entitled to a free college education, a house, and $40,000 on her 18th birthday. She attends New Mexico Tech and briefly works as a DJ at a local radio station. Eventually, she transferred to New Mexico University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in both botany and physics.</p><p>Following graduation, she began to work at a start-up in Albuquerque studying new techniques for indoor crop growth. In 2006, she traveled to Russia for research into aeroponic farming techniques studied by the Russian Federal Space Agency. There she met Ian Rubin in Star City, and the two hit it off and began dating until Ian's flight to the International Space Station on September 18, 2006. The two resumed their relationship following the flight and in December, Fractal moved to Louisiana. The two were married on December 23, 2007.</p><br /> <br /> ===[[Sandra Harris]]===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Gregory Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[International Space Agency]]<br /> *'''Items''': Sandra's most cherished possession is a badly scuffed, space certified [[Wikipedia:Omega Speedmaster|Omega Speedmaster]] (Ref. 3570.50.00) with a black Velcro strap that has permanently been stained a grayish color. The watch was given to her by the International Space Agency for use on the Moon, and she subsequently purchased the watch for retail price from the space agency. She almost never parts with it and would do almost anything (within reason) to recover it if it is lost or stolen. While the sapphire crystal has been replaced due to severe scratching, she has not asked the jeweler to repair the case scratches. The watch is kept in top condition and keeps accurate time, and contains strontium aluminate lume on the dial and hands. In early 2020, Sandra purchased a new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch (Ref. 311.30.42.30.01.005) to replace her original, which is now kept in a display case at her home along with other objects from her career as an astronaut. This watch also features strontium aluminate lume, and Sandra tends to wear the watch with either an orange or 6 stripe rainbow polyamide NATO strap when wearing it daily. Sandra has publicly stated that she intends to bring both with her on her next lunar mission, and wore the newer of the two watches during her spacewalks on STS-250.<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Phoenix 9]], [[STS-217]], [[STS-250]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Gregory James Harris===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Died''': November 9, 2008<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Stats''': <br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Items''': <br /> *'''Abilities''':<br /> ** Gregory is always able to pull a refrigerated 355 ml (12 fl oz) or half-liter glass bottle of [[Wikipedia:Fresca#Versions|Fresca]] soda from Mexico out of thin air at will. The bottle is constantly full, and drinking from it doesn't reduce the amount in the bottle. Pouring it fills a glass up to the amount that the bottle actually contains and empties the bottle in the process, at which point it becomes full again when done pouring as though nothing was drained from it. Anyone other than Greg or another ghost is apparently unable to do this with the bottle. (You can't fill a swimming pool up this way, in other words.)<br /> ** Greg is able to pull a gilded metal key from his pocket at will, which he can use to produce a door out of thin air. When used, it is manifested as Greg inserting the key into the air, at which point it disappears as though inserted into an invisible lock. At this point, Greg can push open a door in the air, which is apparently made out of Lucite or acrylic. Greg (and by extension anyone else) can then step through the door to the location connected to the door, which can either be freestanding on the other end or an actual door. The chosen location can be to anywhere in the universe (for example, a door leading from an alley to a location across a city) or to a location in another plane of existence (for example, from an alley in a city in the Caribbean to a recreation of a bar in the afterlife). In this way, the door acts as a wormhole similar to the doors from the Pixar film ''[[Wikipedia:Monsters, Inc.|Monsters, Inc.]]''. Anyone viewing these doors from the side would see the location of the door as an incredibly thin line of smoky, solid air, and viewed from the rear, the area where the door is would appear as a square of a similar smoky, solid area of air that can be stepped through with no ill effect other than a sensation best describe as having stepped through a cold air curtain.<br /> *'''Afterlife description''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Julia Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Thomas Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Whittington===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Rough collie<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Jackie Cormier===<br /> *'''Born''': April 15, 1988; Seattle, WA<br /> *'''Species''': Catahoula Cur (Predominantely blue and white fur with black splotches and spots. Has heterochromia: left eye blue, right eye hazel.) <br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Related to''': David Cormier (brother)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Nickname''': ''Split-eyes'', ''Splits'', ''Blue dog''<br /> *'''Rank''': Petty Officer 2nd Class, Aviation Survival Technician (Rescue swimmer)<br /> *'''History''': Moved to Louisiana at six years of age from Seattle after her father was laid off from Boeing. Joined the Coast Guard and is one of only four female swimmers. Currently resides in Canon Shoals, OR. Originally stationed at [[Wikipedia:Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles|CGAS Port Angeles]], WA until her entire crew was transferred to Canon Shoals following [REDACTED] in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.<br /> <br /> ===#===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Sports related==<br /> ===Wesley D. Romero===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Long-tailed weasel<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Team''': Bangor Tides (Furry Basketball Association)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Carlos Coronado===<br /> *'''Born''': Merida, Yucatan, MX<br /> *'''Species''': Jaguar<br /> *'''Nationality''': Mexican<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Abbey Crandall (girlfriend: '''Sochi Winter Olympics''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Team''': Louisiana IceGators (National Hockey League)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Astronauts==<br /> ===Harold Hamilton===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Gray wolf<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-109|STS-109]], [[Wikipedia:STS-117|STS-117]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Sanders===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': White Siberian tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-113|STS-113]], [[Wikipedia:STS-120|STS-120]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Derek Ozark===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': River dragon (Blue, no wings)<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Ixy Comeaux===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Looking Glass related==<br /> ===Cora Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Halni Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Vargi===<br /> *'''First activated''':<br /> *'''Species''': Artificial intelligence <br /> **'''Primary avatar''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> ===Carla Maxwell===<br /> *'''Born''': October 8, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': River otter<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (''maître d'île'', Phoenix Cay)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bruce Anderson===<br /> *'''Born''': April 17, 1978; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<br /> *'''Species''': Bengal Tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''': Australian<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (pilot)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Frederick Hollande===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Dhole<br /> *'''Nationality''': French<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[TCI Research]] (Director, [[Ellis National Laboratory]], Superconducting Super Collider) <br /> **'''Former employer''': [[Wikipedia:CERN|CERN]] (various roles relating to the [[Wikipedia:Large Hadron Collider|Large Hadron Collider]])<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universes==<br /> ===X===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': Prime/''Wonderland''/''Looking Glass Land'' <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Zachary Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': April 18, 2002; Waxahachie, TX <br /> **'''Date/place of birth listed on current ID''': April 18, 1996; Waxahachie, TX. <br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': Fractal S. Calliden, Roger Calliden<br /> *'''Friends with''': Lindsey Waldroup <br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''[[Looking Glass Land]]'', 2020<br /> *'''History''': Personality and higher brain functions implanted within brain of Lindsey Waldroup. Eventually removed and placed into a high capacity AI core on 2-1-2015. Body restored on: 6-22-2015. Taken in by Ian and Fractal, with official story being that parents died in car accident and Fractal was only living relative. Moved in with them from home in Honolulu.<br /> <br /> ===Roger Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': October 4, 1978; Rachel, NV<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Spouse''': Fractal S. Calliden<br /> *'''Employed by''': Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (researcher, SDC detector)<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''Looking Glass Land'', 2020<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bonnie Krueger===<br /> *'''Born''': ????, ????; Goldfern Station (Sometime in the future in a space related setting; Current age is 23)<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Stats''': 5'8", 137 lbs, green eyes. Possibly missing a small notch from one ear following a bad deal she failed to complete.<br /> *'''Clothing''': Blue jeans, black combat boots, white t-shirt, torn black leather jacket with a VERY faded logo of an old Earth space program on the back. <br /> *'''Items''': Brown leather holster, 2 year old laser pistol or plasma pistol plus battery pack for the above. Carries a beaten up rucksack or backpack containing her worldly goods.<br /> *'''Backpack contents'''<br /> ** Captain's license (''Goldfern Station'' - issuer)<br /> ** Phone (Most likely the newest thing she owns)<br /> ** Slightly beat up, but high end VR headset.<br /> ** One pair of welding goggles modified to be sunglasses with a HUD inside of the lenses. Goggles are the type with two round lenses, as opposed to a single square pane of glass.<br /> ** Roll-up solar panel/charger<br /> ** Treasured book from mother about item central to plot.<br /> ** 1 bottle of a rare alcoholic drink<br /> ** 1 change of clothes (no shoes)<br /> ** 1 memento of Earth<br /> ** 1 journal<br /> ** 1 MRE<br /> ** 1 bottle of water (1 liter)<br /> ** 1 30 minute air bottle with mask.<br /> ** 1 towel, somewhat bland but still fluffy and serviceable. Still clean enough to dry off with.<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ????<br /> *'''History (Revised for forum RP)''': Only child raised by her mother. Dad's rarely mentioned and Mom insinuates (read: ''adamantly maintains'') he's dead and spaced. No proof of it, though. Regardless, Bonnie has grown up in the light of the renaissance of renewed interest in Earth on Goldfern Station, brought up by a mother who worked far too hard for far too little money, but who genuinely loved her and filled her with wonderful stories of adventure, space and wonder for the "Pale Blue Dot". Tales of great explorers, the heady early days of space travel, the men and women who fought to break out of gravity wells to visit worlds in the same system. Tales of outlaws, as well: her namesake, Bonnie Parker, of pirates and Capone... of their fates and of the music and culture of a place lost to time and space. Filled with dreams, she fought hard to get her captain's license... only to discover that dreams have prices... as well as interest rates and late fees. Striking out on her own and saddled with a few old debts but no ship to pay them, she takes out one last loan: to buy a ticket to another star, another world. One where a ship awaits, she hopes, along with jobs, wealth and maybe, just maybe... Earth and eternal glory.<br /> *'''First intro''': Arrives at Helios Station with just enough to pay the docking fee, but her ship is repossessed within 10 minutes of her getting there. Stranded and pissed off, she decides to blow some of her meager savings at a bar, where a ''highly'' drunk tiger sits next to her and, in the middle of trying to tell him off, he reveals something highly crucial to her quest. She decides to ply the rest out of him with a few more drinks. She gets the info, but stripes decides to try to get into her pants right there in the middle of the room. She cracks a bottle of booze over his head and knocks him out cold, and grabs a few mysterious coins he's dropped while getting out of there. As "Timber" by Pitbull starts to play, she races away from station security as fast as her legs will carry her, shoving aside anything in her way and doing a good attempt at parkour... until she runs into her new best friend...<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universe/timeline descriptions==<br /> ===Looking Glass Land===<br /> *'''"Short" version:''' Otonichi (alien sneps) and Hoomiku (other alien felines with big ears) evolve on a planet around the star Tau Ceti named Ishonko. They eventually master space travel. Sometime in the 1930's, war were declared. King Zalkyo Jeskalt, of the Otonichi, is a murderous fuckwit. He hates hoomiku and the war grinds to a stalemate up to the moment when a couple of hoomiku terrorists blow up a city where the body of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in Otonichi history, resided in a glass sarcophagus. Zalkyo decides "These people are DEAD" and goes on a genocidal bender. Most hoomiku are dead, and the few who aren't flee to Earth towards the end of World War II. A few rogue hoomiku hide out in an asteroid mining base somewhere in space and tinker with time travel. They get discovered by the Otonichi in the 1950's and press the magic button to GTFO. They end up around earth in 1859 in the middle of the worst recorded solar storm in history. They escape to Earth. We'll come back to them in a bit, because THIS part is also complicated. Time keeps moving into the future. Someone comes to Zalkyo during the Cuban Missle Crisis with the suggestion that "Look, these people are going to blow each other up. If they DON'T, they could be a problem. Fuck with enough of their space program, and they'll stay on the ground." He signs off on this, and a few teams go covert on Earth to do that, since they look like snow leopards. They screw around with the Russian lunar rocket, kill the Apollo 1 crew in the fire, and POSSIBLY do something to Apollo 13. They then lie back until 1986, when the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' launches with a teacher on board. ''ENTER DIVERGENCE POINT BETWEEN LOOKING GLASS LAND AND REGULAR LAND '''HERE'''.'' Now, in 'Looking Glass Land', they activate the range safety system on the Space Shuttle right at SRB ignition and it blows up on the launch pad, killing the crew, destroying the pad and possibly killing a few people watching. The nation's devastated, but things go on and they're not caught. In 1990, they destroy Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' during STS-31 and blow it up in the air, killing the crew, destroying the Shuttle '''and''' the Hubble Space Telescope. This, coming four years after ''Challenger'', ends America's manned space program at the 1991 State of the Union. With no Space Shuttle to work on the ISS, and no ISS to speak of, the Superconducting Super Collider, a large atom smasher in Texas, is completed by 2000 rather than being cancelled in 1994. It discovers the Higgs boson in 2002... and lead researcher for the SDC collaboration Fractal Calliden, who married her college sweetheart Roger and has a son named Zach, announces the news. The Russians and Chinese, meanwhile, stubbornly carry forth with space. Around 2012, Melor Oliver, a big ol' wolf, is discovered to be using time travel to send stock information two minutes into the past to himself to make money. The SEC is annoyed and tries to pin him for something, but no luck. They do, however, Shanghai him into a secret project to research this. In 2017, the Otonichi try to screw with a Shenzhou launch from Jiquan. That's when they fuck up and the Chinese catch them. The world is now made aware of what's going on and that there's aliens screwing with our space programs. China hauls them out in a big show trial, then kills them for treason.</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Bonnie Krueger */</p> <hr /> <div>==General==<br /> ===[[Ian Rubin]]===<br /> *'''Born''': February 23, 1980; Lafayette, LA<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-8, [[STS-10W]], Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Fractal Rubin===<br /> *'''Born''': March 14, 1980 (Pi Day), Los Alamos, NM<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Parents''': Rena Sinclair (mother), Ardan Sinclair (father)<br /> *'''Maiden name''': Fractal Sinclair<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Ian Rubin (husband: '''12-23-07''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''': Fractal's parents arrived on Earth in 1947 and eventually found employment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a top secret division overseen by the CIA. They worked on both physics research and development of new nuclear weapon designs. Fractal grew up with other Hoomiku and was cared for by her parents as much as was physically possible. In 1986, her parents were killed following accidental exposure to fatal radiation levels during an experiment ordered by the CIA to research telepathy blocking techniques. Both died in front of Fractal, who refused to leave their side in the infirmary. She was placed in the care of foster parents following the accident. While she never considered them her new parents, she did return their affection and was polite, but continued to be deeply wounded by the loss of her parents.</p><p>In 1989, ''The New York Times'' publishes classified information leaked by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell regarding the extent and details of projects involving the Hoomiku held by the United States. The Thornwell leak is considered the defining moment when rumors of aliens form into fact, as he divulged major details about the Hoomiku, including crimes committed by the United States and Soviet Union towards them. President George H. W. Bush eventually acknowledges the species in 1990 under growing pressure from both Congress and the press, a move followed shortly by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The United Nations General Assembly drafts Resolution 45/77, defining both the rights of Hoomiku to basic laws and defining the security and privacy of thought as a basic human right. Given that a breeding population exists on Earth, they are not in danger of dying out. The public is shocked, but no massive social upheaval occurs. Several hate crimes do occur, however, and prompt legislation with regards to both the use of telepathy in certain situations and locations and providing the basis for a lawsuit filed by several hundred Hoomiku against the United States. The suit is ruled in favor of the Hoomiku and as a result, Fractal is entitled to a free college education, a house, and $40,000 on her 18th birthday. She attends New Mexico Tech and briefly works as a DJ at a local radio station. Eventually, she transferred to New Mexico University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in both botany and physics.</p><p>Following graduation, she began to work at a start-up in Albuquerque studying new techniques for indoor crop growth. In 2006, she traveled to Russia for research into aeroponic farming techniques studied by the Russian Federal Space Agency. There she met Ian Rubin in Star City, and the two hit it off and began dating until Ian's flight to the International Space Station on September 18, 2006. The two resumed their relationship following the flight and in December, Fractal moved to Louisiana. The two were married on December 23, 2007.</p><br /> <br /> ===[[Sandra Harris]]===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Gregory Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[International Space Agency]]<br /> *'''Items''': Sandra's most cherished possession is a badly scuffed, space certified [[Wikipedia:Omega Speedmaster|Omega Speedmaster]] (Ref. 3570.50.00) with a black Velcro strap that has permanently been stained a grayish color. The watch was given to her by the International Space Agency for use on the Moon, and she subsequently purchased the watch for retail price from the space agency. She almost never parts with it and would do almost anything (within reason) to recover it if it is lost or stolen. While the sapphire crystal has been replaced due to severe scratching, she has not asked the jeweler to repair the case scratches. The watch is kept in top condition and keeps accurate time, and contains strontium aluminate lume on the dial and hands. In early 2020, Sandra purchased a new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch (Ref. 311.30.42.30.01.005) to replace her original, which is now kept in a display case at her home along with other objects from her career as an astronaut. This watch also features strontium aluminate lume, and Sandra tends to wear the watch with either an orange or 6 stripe rainbow polyamide NATO strap when wearing it daily. Sandra has publicly stated that she intends to bring both with her on her next lunar mission, and wore the newer of the two watches during her spacewalks on STS-250.<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Phoenix 9]], [[STS-217]], [[STS-250]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Gregory James Harris===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Died''': November 9, 2008<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Stats''': <br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Items''': <br /> *'''Abilities''':<br /> ** Gregory is always able to pull a refrigerated 355 ml (12 fl oz) or half-liter glass bottle of [[Wikipedia:Fresca#Versions|Fresca]] soda from Mexico out of thin air at will. The bottle is constantly full, and drinking from it doesn't reduce the amount in the bottle. Pouring it fills a glass up to the amount that the bottle actually contains and empties the bottle in the process, at which point it becomes full again when done pouring as though nothing was drained from it. Anyone other than Greg or another ghost is apparently unable to do this with the bottle. (You can't fill a swimming pool up this way, in other words.)<br /> ** Greg is able to pull a gilded metal key from his pocket at will, which he can use to produce a door out of thin air. When used, it is manifested as Greg inserting the key into the air, at which point it disappears as though inserted into an invisible lock. At this point, Greg can push open a door in the air, which is apparently made out of Lucite or acrylic. Greg (and by extension anyone else) can then step through the door to the location connected to the door, which can either be freestanding on the other end or an actual door. The chosen location can be to anywhere in the universe (for example, a door leading from an alley to a location across a city) or to a location in another plane of existence (for example, from an alley in a city in the Caribbean to a recreation of a bar in the afterlife). In this way, the door acts as a wormhole similar to the doors from the Pixar film ''[[Wikipedia:Monsters, Inc.|Monsters, Inc.]]''. Anyone viewing these doors from the side would see the location of the door as an incredibly thin line of smoky, solid air, and viewed from the rear, the area where the door is would appear as a square of a similar smoky, solid area of air that can be stepped through with no ill effect other than a sensation best describe as having stepped through a cold air curtain.<br /> *'''Afterlife description''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Julia Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Thomas Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Whittington===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Rough collie<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Jackie Cormier===<br /> *'''Born''': April 15, 1988; Seattle, WA<br /> *'''Species''': Catahoula Cur (Predominantely blue and white fur with black splotches and spots. Has heterochromia: left eye blue, right eye hazel.) <br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Related to''': David Cormier (brother)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Nickname''': ''Split-eyes'', ''Splits'', ''Blue dog''<br /> *'''Rank''': Petty Officer 2nd Class, Aviation Survival Technician (Rescue swimmer)<br /> *'''History''': Moved to Louisiana at six years of age from Seattle after her father was laid off from Boeing. Joined the Coast Guard and is one of only four female swimmers. Currently resides in Canon Shoals, OR. Originally stationed at [[Wikipedia:Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles|CGAS Port Angeles]], WA until her entire crew was transferred to Canon Shoals following [REDACTED] in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.<br /> <br /> ===#===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Sports related==<br /> ===Wesley D. Romero===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Long-tailed weasel<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Team''': Bangor Tides (Furry Basketball Association)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Carlos Coronado===<br /> *'''Born''': Merida, Yucatan, MX<br /> *'''Species''': Jaguar<br /> *'''Nationality''': Mexican<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Abbey Crandall (girlfriend: '''Sochi Winter Olympics''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Team''': Louisiana IceGators (National Hockey League)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Astronauts==<br /> ===Harold Hamilton===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Gray wolf<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-109|STS-109]], [[Wikipedia:STS-117|STS-117]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Sanders===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': White Siberian tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-113|STS-113]], [[Wikipedia:STS-120|STS-120]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Derek Ozark===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': River dragon (Blue, no wings)<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Ixy Comeaux===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Looking Glass related==<br /> ===Cora Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Halni Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Vargi===<br /> *'''First activated''':<br /> *'''Species''': Artificial intelligence <br /> **'''Primary avatar''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> ===Carla Maxwell===<br /> *'''Born''': October 8, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': River otter<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (''maître d'île'', Phoenix Cay)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bruce Anderson===<br /> *'''Born''': April 17, 1978; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<br /> *'''Species''': Bengal Tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''': Australian<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (pilot)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Frederick Hollande===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Dhole<br /> *'''Nationality''': French<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[TCI Research]] (Director, [[Ellis National Laboratory]], Superconducting Super Collider) <br /> **'''Former employer''': [[Wikipedia:CERN|CERN]] (various roles relating to the [[Wikipedia:Large Hadron Collider|Large Hadron Collider]])<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universes==<br /> ===X===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': Prime/''Wonderland''/''Looking Glass Land'' <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Zachary Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': April 18, 2002; Waxahachie, TX <br /> **'''Date/place of birth listed on current ID''': April 18, 1996; Waxahachie, TX. <br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': Fractal S. Calliden, Roger Calliden<br /> *'''Friends with''': Lindsey Waldroup <br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''[[Looking Glass Land]]'', 2020<br /> *'''History''': Personality and higher brain functions implanted within brain of Lindsey Waldroup. Eventually removed and placed into a high capacity AI core on 2-1-2015. Body restored on: 6-22-2015. Taken in by Ian and Fractal, with official story being that parents died in car accident and Fractal was only living relative. Moved in with them from home in Honolulu.<br /> <br /> ===Roger Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': October 4, 1978; Rachel, NV<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Spouse''': Fractal S. Calliden<br /> *'''Employed by''': Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (researcher, SDC detector)<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''Looking Glass Land'', 2020<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bonnie Krueger===<br /> *'''Born''': ????, ????; Goldfern Station (Sometime in the future in a space related setting; Current age is 23)<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Stats''': 5'8", 137 lbs, green eyes. Possibly missing a small notch from one ear following a bad deal she failed to complete.<br /> *'''Clothing''': Blue jeans, black combat boots, white t-shirt, torn black leather jacket with a VERY faded logo for an old Earth space program on the back. <br /> *'''Items''': Brown leather holster, 2 year old laser pistol or plasma pistol plus battery pack for the above. Carries a beaten up rucksack or backpack containing her worldly goods.<br /> *'''Backpack contents'''<br /> ** Captain's license (''Goldfern Station'' - issuer)<br /> ** Phone (Most likely the newest thing she owns)<br /> ** Slightly beat up, but high end VR headset.<br /> ** One pair of welding goggles modified to be sunglasses with a HUD inside of the lenses. Goggles are the type with two round lenses, as opposed to a single square pane of glass.<br /> ** Roll-up solar panel/charger<br /> ** Treasured book from mother about item central to plot.<br /> ** 1 bottle of a rare alcoholic drink<br /> ** 1 change of clothes (no shoes)<br /> ** 1 memento of Earth<br /> ** 1 journal<br /> ** 1 MRE<br /> ** 1 bottle of water (1 liter)<br /> ** 1 30 minute air bottle with mask.<br /> ** 1 towel, somewhat bland but still fluffy and serviceable. Still clean enough to dry off with.<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ????<br /> *'''History (Revised for forum RP)''': Only child raised by her mother. Dad's rarely mentioned and Mom insinuates (read: ''adamantly maintains'') he's dead and spaced. No proof of it, though. Regardless, Bonnie has grown up in the light of the renaissance of renewed interest in Earth on Goldfern Station, brought up by a mother who worked far too hard for far too little money, but who genuinely loved her and filled her with wonderful stories of adventure, space and wonder for the "Pale Blue Dot". Tales of great explorers, the heady early days of space travel, the men and women who fought to break out of gravity wells to visit worlds in the same system. Tales of outlaws, as well: her namesake, Bonnie Parker, of pirates and Capone... of their fates and of the music and culture of a place lost to time and space. Filled with dreams, she fought hard to get her captain's license... only to discover that dreams have prices... as well as interest rates and late fees. Striking out on her own and saddled with a few old debts but no ship to pay them, she takes out one last loan: to buy a ticket to another star, another world. One where a ship awaits, she hopes, along with jobs, wealth and maybe, just maybe... Earth and eternal glory.<br /> *'''First intro''': Arrives at Helios Station with just enough to pay the docking fee, but her ship is repossessed within 10 minutes of her getting there. Stranded and pissed off, she decides to blow some of her meager savings at a bar, where a ''highly'' drunk tiger sits next to her and, in the middle of trying to tell him off, he reveals something highly crucial to her quest. She decides to ply the rest out of him with a few more drinks. She gets the info, but stripes decides to try to get into her pants right there in the middle of the room. She cracks a bottle of booze over his head and knocks him out cold, and grabs a few mysterious coins he's dropped while getting out of there. As "Timber" by Pitbull starts to play, she races away from station security as fast as her legs will carry her, shoving aside anything in her way and doing a good attempt at parkour... until she runs into her new best friend...<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universe/timeline descriptions==<br /> ===Looking Glass Land===<br /> *'''"Short" version:''' Otonichi (alien sneps) and Hoomiku (other alien felines with big ears) evolve on a planet around the star Tau Ceti named Ishonko. They eventually master space travel. Sometime in the 1930's, war were declared. King Zalkyo Jeskalt, of the Otonichi, is a murderous fuckwit. He hates hoomiku and the war grinds to a stalemate up to the moment when a couple of hoomiku terrorists blow up a city where the body of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in Otonichi history, resided in a glass sarcophagus. Zalkyo decides "These people are DEAD" and goes on a genocidal bender. Most hoomiku are dead, and the few who aren't flee to Earth towards the end of World War II. A few rogue hoomiku hide out in an asteroid mining base somewhere in space and tinker with time travel. They get discovered by the Otonichi in the 1950's and press the magic button to GTFO. They end up around earth in 1859 in the middle of the worst recorded solar storm in history. They escape to Earth. We'll come back to them in a bit, because THIS part is also complicated. Time keeps moving into the future. Someone comes to Zalkyo during the Cuban Missle Crisis with the suggestion that "Look, these people are going to blow each other up. If they DON'T, they could be a problem. Fuck with enough of their space program, and they'll stay on the ground." He signs off on this, and a few teams go covert on Earth to do that, since they look like snow leopards. They screw around with the Russian lunar rocket, kill the Apollo 1 crew in the fire, and POSSIBLY do something to Apollo 13. They then lie back until 1986, when the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' launches with a teacher on board. ''ENTER DIVERGENCE POINT BETWEEN LOOKING GLASS LAND AND REGULAR LAND '''HERE'''.'' Now, in 'Looking Glass Land', they activate the range safety system on the Space Shuttle right at SRB ignition and it blows up on the launch pad, killing the crew, destroying the pad and possibly killing a few people watching. The nation's devastated, but things go on and they're not caught. In 1990, they destroy Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' during STS-31 and blow it up in the air, killing the crew, destroying the Shuttle '''and''' the Hubble Space Telescope. This, coming four years after ''Challenger'', ends America's manned space program at the 1991 State of the Union. With no Space Shuttle to work on the ISS, and no ISS to speak of, the Superconducting Super Collider, a large atom smasher in Texas, is completed by 2000 rather than being cancelled in 1994. It discovers the Higgs boson in 2002... and lead researcher for the SDC collaboration Fractal Calliden, who married her college sweetheart Roger and has a son named Zach, announces the news. The Russians and Chinese, meanwhile, stubbornly carry forth with space. Around 2012, Melor Oliver, a big ol' wolf, is discovered to be using time travel to send stock information two minutes into the past to himself to make money. The SEC is annoyed and tries to pin him for something, but no luck. They do, however, Shanghai him into a secret project to research this. In 2017, the Otonichi try to screw with a Shenzhou launch from Jiquan. That's when they fuck up and the Chinese catch them. The world is now made aware of what's going on and that there's aliens screwing with our space programs. China hauls them out in a big show trial, then kills them for treason.</div>

Lafayette1 https://lafayetteinc.com/index.php?title=Phoenix_Cheat_Sheet&diff=3505 Phoenix Cheat Sheet 2022-01-28T06:10:15Z

<p>Lafayette1: /* Phoenix 35 */</p> <hr /> <div>'''CM''' indicates Orion capsule and service module. '''LM''' indicates Altair lunar lander.<br /> <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 1-X ===<br /> 8-25-10. Unmanned. First test of Jupiter 246-B with four SRBs, and Orion capsule.<br /> *'''<font color="Red">Failure</font>''' - Launch proceeded normally until 98 seconds into the flight, at which point the vehicle exploded. The cause of the accident was determined to be a computer fault which led to an accidental firing of the range safety system after a command to shut down an engine due to fuel issues was misinterpreted. The launch escape system was activated and successfully pulled the unmanned Orion away from the launcher.<br /> <br /> === Phoenix 1-Y ===<br /> 11-12-10. Unmanned. Test of Jupiter 246-B with four SRBs, and Orion capsule. <br /> *'''<font color="Green">Success</font>''' - First successful launch of Jupiter 246-B. Jupiter Upper Stage successfully boosted the Orion capsule to a 100,000 mile elliptical orbit for high speed atmospheric reentry testing.<br /> <br /> === Phoenix 1-Z ===<br /> 12-7-10. Unmanned. Test of Jupiter 246-B with four SRBs, Orion capsule, and Altair lander.<br /> *'''<font color="Green">Success</font>''' - All-up test of complete lunar flight. Unmanned launch, followed by automated transposition and docking in Earth orbit, Earth departure, and lunar orbit insertion. Altair lander, nicknamed "''Explorer''" by controllers, successfully performed an unmanned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility on December 11, collected samples of lunar soil and activated a small robotic rover, and lifted off. The ascent stage lifted off and docked with the orbiting Orion, transferred samples, and was discarded. The capsule landed at Edwards Air Force Base on December 16.<br /> <br /> === PJ-204 ===<br /> 6-20-11. Phoenix-Jupiter 204. Unmanned. Lunar landing. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]]. Assorted building materials and tools for the [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Neil A. Armstrong Lunar Outpost]]. Primary payload will be robotic construction equipment which will prepare main base location and which will begin construction of the base. Secondary payload will be robotic rover competing in [[Wikipedia:Google Lunar X Prize|Google Lunar X Prize]].<br /> <br /> === Phoenix 2 (CM: ''Draco'', LM: ''Voyager'') ===<br /> 7-4-11. Manned. First manned Jupiter 246-B with four SRBs. Orion capsule and Altair lander.<br /> *American - '''Logan Wilson''' ''(Bengal tiger)'' <br /> *American - '''Luke Buchanan''' ''(Dragon)'' <br /> *American - '''Kane Blackwell''' ''(Coyote)'' <br /> *American (NASA) - '''Alexander Bishop''' ''(Panther)'' <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 3 (CM: ''Discovery'', LM: ''Serenity'') ===<br /> 9-30-11. Manned. Lunar orbital mission. Survey of landing site and test of docking/un-docking techniques procedures in lunar orbit. Possible lunar orbit EVA. First manned flight to leave Low Earth Orbit since 1972. <br /> *American - '''Frank Rosewood''' ''(Snow leopard)'' <br /> *American - '''Patrick Tucker''' ''(Wolf)'' <br /> *American - '''Daniel Baxter''' ''(Mountain lion)'' <br /> *ESA (England) - '''Riley A. Harris''' ''(Arctic wolf)'' <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 4 (CM: ''Aurora'', LM: ''Enterprise'') ===<br /> 12-19-11 to 1-4-12. Manned. Lunar landing. First landing since Apollo 17. Planned landing at [[Wikipedia:Schroter's Valley|Vallis Schröteri]]. First lunar rover since Apollo 17. Mission expected to be one week sortie.<br /> *American - '''Harold Hamilton''' ''(Wolf)'' <br /> *American - '''David Sanders''' ''(Siberian tiger)'' <br /> *ESA (Finland) - '''Karri Litmanen''' ''(Finnish Lapphund)'' <br /> *Russian - '''Vasili Petrov''' ''(Wolf)'' <br /> <br /> === PJ-208 ===<br /> 1-16-12. Phoenix-Jupiter 208. Unmanned. Lunar landing. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]]. Assorted building materials and tools for the [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Neil A. Armstrong Lunar Outpost]].<br /> <br /> === Phoenix 5 (CM: ''Wallace'', LM: ''Gromit'') ===<br /> 3-12-12. Manned. Lunar landing. Planned landing at [[Wikipedia:Hyginus (crater)|Hyginus]] in [[Wikipedia:Sinus Medii|Sinus Medii]]. Lunar rover. Geology and general science mission. Mission expected to be one week sortie.<br /> *American - '''Frank Benford''' ''(Jaguar)'' <br /> *American - '''Jack Ashcroft''' ''(German Shepherd)'' <br /> *ESA (England) - '''Sandra Cunningham''' ''(Border Collie)'' <br /> *JAXA - '''Ikumi Tahara''' ''(Red panda)''<br /> <br /> === Phoenix 6 (CM: ''Constitution'', LM: ''Endeavour'') ===<br /> 7-4-12. Manned. Lunar landing. Planned landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]]. Possible rover. Begin survey of site for the [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Neil A. Armstrong Lunar Outpost]]. Primary goal will be to study hydrogen levels and attempt to find water. Mission expected to be 14 day "extended sortie". Small inflatable habitat will be attached to lander for crew use.<br /> *American - '''Chris Sonnier''' ''(Alligator)'' <br /> *American - '''Arthur Cohen''' ''(Lion)'' <br /> *American (NASA) - '''Guillermo Valdez''' ''(Mexican wolf)'' <br /> *Callentine - '''Ellen Prothero''' ''(Snow leopard)'' <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 7-A ===<br /> Unmanned. Lunar landing. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]]. Assorted building materials and tools for the [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Neil A. Armstrong Lunar Outpost]]. Primary payload will be temporary inflatable habitat and greenhouses for construction crews.<br /> <br /> === Phoenix 7-B ===<br /> Unmanned. Lunar landing. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]]. Assorted building materials and tools for the [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Neil A. Armstrong Lunar Outpost]]. Primary payload will be robotic construction equipment which will prepare main base location and which will begin construction of the base.<br /> <br /> === Phoenix 7-C ===<br /> Unmanned. Lunar landing. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]]. Assorted building materials and tools for the [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Neil A. Armstrong Lunar Outpost]]. Primary payload will be primary inflatable base habitat. Scheduled to launch shortly after Phoenix 8 crew arrives. May also contain base components for later installation.<br /> <br /> === Phoenix 8 (CM: ''Atlantis'', LM: ''Discovery'') ===<br /> 11-14-12. Manned. Lunar landing. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]]. Rover and associated building material. Continue construction of the [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Neil A. Armstrong Lunar Outpost]].<br /> *American - '''Harold Hamilton''' ''(Wolf)'' <br /> *American - '''David Sanders''' ''(Siberian tiger)'' <br /> *American - '''[[Ian Rubin]]''' ''(Fox)'' <br /> *American - '''[[Character cheat sheet#Fractal Rubin|Fractal Rubin]]''' ''(Hoomiku)'' <br /> **Crew was nicknamed ''"the All-Americans"'' by ground controllers.<br /> <br /> === [[Phoenix 9]] (CM: ''Columbia'', LM: ''Challenger'') ===<br /> 1-17-13. Manned. Lunar landing. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]]. Associated building material. Continue construction of the [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Neil A. Armstrong Lunar Outpost]].<br /> *American - '''David Hawthorne''' ''(Leopard)'' <br /> *American - '''Matthew Ozark''' ''(Lion)'' <br /> *Canadian - '''Gloria Rogers''' ''(Dalmatian)'' <br /> *American - '''[[Sandra Harris]]''' ''(Melanistic black-backed jackal)'' <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 10 (CM: ''Pioneer'', LM: ''Sojourner'') ===<br /> 3-10-13. Manned. First lunar far-side mission. Planned landing at [[Wikipedia:Tsiolkovskiy (crater)|Tsiolkovskiy]]. Lunar rover. Geology and general science mission. Mission expected to be one to two week sortie. Communications relayed via Luna-Com satellite network.<br /> *American - '''Mark Collins''' ''(German Shepherd)'' <br /> *American - '''Jessica Dempsey''' ''(Raccoon)'' <br /> *Russian - '''Ivan Abramoff''' ''(Fox)'' <br /> *Russian - '''Sergey Zubarev''' ''(West Siberian Laika)'' <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 11 (CM: ''Blue Jay'', LM: ''Cardinal'') ===<br /> 4-18-13. Manned. [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Lunar base]] crew rotation. Assorted building materials. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]]. <br /> *Canadian - '''Robert Carter''' ''(Canada lynx)'' <br /> *American (NASA) - '''Thomas Daniels''' ''(Fox)'' <br /> *Russian - '''Tatiana Bocharova''' ''(Amur Leopard)'' <br /> *Chinese - '''Ming Ko''' ''(Red panda)'' <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 12 (CM: ''Beagle'', LM: ''Calypso'') ===<br /> 6-16-13. Manned. First lunar north pole mission. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Peary (crater)|Peary crater]]. Lunar rover. Geology and general science mission. Two week sortie. Possible survey for future base location.<br /> *American (NASA) - '''Benjamin Burke''' ''(German Shepherd)'' <br /> *American - '''Donald Hurley''' ''(Labrador Retriever)'' <br /> *ESA (Italy) - '''Alighiero Moretti''' ''(Rabbit)'' <br /> *JAXA - '''Noboru Akiyama''' ''(Bengal tiger)'' <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 13 (CM: ''Pelican'', LM: ''Hawk'') ===<br /> 9-10-13. Manned. [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Lunar base]] crew rotation. Assorted building materials. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]].<br /> *American - '''Matthias Keller''' ''(Border collie)'' <br /> *American - '''Ross Gutierrez''' ''(Jaguar)'' <br /> *ESA (Germany) - '''Wolfgang Roth''' ''(Skunk)'' <br /> *ESA (Italy) - '''Domenico Lombardi''' ''(Genet)'' <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 14 (CM: ''Yin'', LM: ''Yang'') ===<br /> 1-4-14. Manned. [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Lunar base]] crew rotation. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]].<br /> *American - '''Kenneth Wilkinson''' ''(Stoat)'' <br /> *Russian - '''Tamara Tokareva''' ''(Laika)'' <br /> *Emirati - '''Houd Wajid Toma''' ''(Golden jackal)'' <br /> *Chinese - '''Yul Chao''' ''(Panda)'' <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 15 (CM: ''Bogey'', LM: ''Birdie'') ===<br /> 2-8-14. Manned. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Tycho (crater)|Tycho crater]]. Lunar rover. Geology and general science mission. Two week sortie. <br /> *American - '''Edward Ibarra''' ''(German Shepherd)'' <br /> *American - '''Herb Simmons''' ''(Dalmatian)'' <br /> *American (NASA) - '''Kenneth Rogers''' ''(Tiger)'' <br /> *American (NASA) - '''Junior 'Kid' Cruz''' ''(Black-footed ferret)'' <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 16 (CM: ''Siegfried'', LM: ''Brunhilde'') ===<br /> 6-10-14. Manned. [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Lunar base]] crew rotation. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]].<br /> *ESA (Germany) - '''Matthias Kortig''' ''(Wolf)'' <br /> *American - '''Eric Dunbar''' ''(Golden jackal)'' <br /> *China - '''Dewei Hsiung''' ''(Panda)'' <br /> *JAXA - '''Isato Tanikawa''' ''(Red panda)'' <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 17 (CM: ''Arrow'', LM: ''Grand Slam'') ===<br /> 10-5-14. Manned. [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Lunar base]] crew rotation. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]].<br /> *American - '''Judy Douglas''' ''(Leopard)'' <br /> *Canadian - '''Troy Woodruff''' ''(Arctic fox)'' <br /> *ESA (Spain) - '''Eduardo Fuentes''' ''(Iberian lynx)'' <br /> *South Korean - '''Myeong Song''' ''(Snow leopard)'' <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 18 (CM: ''Danube'', LM: ''Mystic'') ===<br /> 11-19-14. Manned. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Tycho (crater)|Tycho crater]], targeting [[Wikipedia:Surveyor 7|Surveyor 7]] site. Lunar rover. Geology and general science mission. Two week sortie.<br /> *American - '''Terry Mitchel''' ''(Border collie)'' <br /> *American - '''Arthur Davenport''' ''(Caracal)'' <br /> *ESA (France) - '''Jacques Girard''' ''(Beech marten)'' <br /> *Canadian - '''Charles "Bugs" Jones''' ''(Snowshoe hare)'' <br /> **'''<font color="Red">Failure</font>''' - Launch proceeded normally until 64 seconds into the flight, at which point the vehicle exploded. Failure was caused by a manufacturing fault in the liquid oxygen tubopump feeding engine 1 on the first stage of the Jupiter launcher. The defect caused a failure and subsequent explosion of the turbopump, which led to damage to other components, triggering an automatic abort. The launch escape system successfully pulled the Orion MPCV from the booster and the crew landed in the Atlantic suffering only acceleration injuries. This marks the second ever manned use of a launch escape system in flight, the second failure of a Jupiter launcher and the first failure involving a crew. Program placed on hold while investigation was in progress, however, launches resumed when other turbopumps were replaced and cleared for flight following improved safety checks. Crew reassigned to Phoenix 22.<br /> <br /> === Phoenix 19 (CM: ''Quartz'', LM: ''Gold'') ===<br /> 3-6-15. Manned. [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Lunar base]] crew rotation. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]].<br /> *American - '''Sebastian Brock''' ''(Dhole)'' <br /> *American - '''Jarod Spearing''' ''(Wolf)'' <br /> *Australian - '''Daniel Wyman''' ''(Kangaroo)'' <br /> *Emirati - '''Ikraam Mohammed''' ''(Fennec)'' <br /> ** One day prior to Phoenix 20's landing date, Jarod Spearing was diagnosed with appendicitis. Dr. Samir Mankar, with assistance from the flight surgeon in Louisiana communicating via video, successfully removed Spearing's appendix. This is the first instance of surgery ever performed in space. Mission was extended by a month beyond the original planned surface liftoff date to allow Spearing time to recover.<br /> <br /> === Phoenix 20 (CM: ''Union'', LM: ''Dawn'') ===<br /> 8-8-15. Manned. [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Lunar base]] crew rotation. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]].<br /> *American - '''Lamar Crouppen''' ''(Binturong)'' <br /> *American (NASA) - '''Eddie Caruso''' ''(Clouded leopard)''  <br /> *South Korean - '''Dong Moon''' ''(Amur leopard)'' <br /> *ISRO - '''Samir Mankar''' ''(Macaque)'' <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 21 ===<br /> 1-15-16. Manned. [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Lunar base]] crew rotation. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]].<br /> *American - '''Brad Mellen''' ''(Golden retriever)'' <br /> *RKA (Kazakhstan) - '''Anatoly Vladimirovich Zamolodchikov''' ''(Corsac fox)'' <br /> *ESA (Norway) - '''Odd Andreassen''' ''(Polar bear)'' <br /> *Brazil - '''Gonçalo Radamanto''' ''(Iguana)'' <br /> **Starting with this flight, separate names for the Orion capsule and Altair lander on each mission were ended.<br /> <br /> === Phoenix 22 ===<br /> 3-15-16. Manned. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Tycho (crater)|Tycho crater]], targeting [[Wikipedia:Surveyor 7|Surveyor 7]] site. Lunar rover. Geology and general science mission. Two week sortie. Mission re-launch of Phoenix 18, due to launch abort.<br /> *American - '''Terry Mitchel''' ''(Border collie)'' <br /> *American - '''Arthur Davenport''' ''(Caracal)'' <br /> *ESA (France) - '''Jacques Girard''' ''(Beech marten)'' <br /> *Canadian - '''Charles "Bugs" Jones''' ''(Snowshoe hare)'' <br /> **This mission is the only time other than [[Wikipedia:STS-94|STS-94]] where two missions with more than one crewmember had exactly the same crew. Following this flight, normal Phoenix Program sortie flights resumed following hiatus caused by Ares Program launches.<br /> <br /> === Phoenix 23 ===<br /> 6-13-16. Manned. [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Lunar base]] crew rotation. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]]. Launch originally scheduled for 6-7-16; delayed due to Tropical Storm Colin.<br /> *ESA (Austria) - '''Hans Landrut''' ''(Bloodhound)'' <br /> *American - '''Ripley Leach''' ''(Bobcat)'' <br /> *Russian - '''Vlasi Orlov''' ''(Siberian tiger)'' <br /> *Canadian - '''Cavan Fournier''' ''(Grizzly bear)'' <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 24 ===<br /> 11-14-16. Manned. [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Lunar base]] crew rotation. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]].<br /> *American - '''Samantha "Sammy" Fleming''' ''(Rabbit)'' <br /> *American - '''Mike Horowitz''' ''(Bengal tiger)'' <br /> *ESA (Germany) - '''Lisa Weiss''' ''(Stoat)'' <br /> *Emirati - '''Mahir Karim''' ''(Honey badger)'' <br /> **Lisa Weiss is the first female German astronaut. Oliver Karlsson (ESA - Sweden) was originally selected as MS1, but suffered a broken leg in a mountain climbing accident in Colorado 6 months before the mission.<br /> <br /> === Phoenix 25 ===<br /> 2-8-17. Manned. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Peary (crater)|Peary crater]], targeting Phoenix 12 landing site. Geology and general science mission. Two week sortie. Mission will attempt to reuse Phoenix 12's lunar rover by replacing batteries and electronics if needed.<br /> *American - '''Donald Hurley''' ''(Labrador Retriever)'' <br /> *American - '''Herb Simmons''' ''(Dalmatian)'' <br /> *Russian - '''Sergey Zubarev''' ''(West Siberian Laika)'' <br /> *JAXA - '''Noboru Akiyama''' ''(Bengal tiger)'' <br /> **This mission is the first completely "veteran" lunar crew, with all crew members having flown on at least one Phoenix mission. It is also the first mission in which two crew members (Hurley and Akiyama) have landed at the same location as a mission to which they were earlier assigned. Finally, it is the first lunar sortie mission to land at the same location as a prior mission, as missions to Tycho targeted different areas of the crater.<br /> <br /> === Phoenix 26 ===<br /> 5-2-17. Manned. [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Lunar base]] crew rotation. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]].<br /> *American - '''Mark Collins''' ''(German Shepherd)'' <br /> *ESA (England) - '''Max Blackburn''' ''(Welsh polecat)'' <br /> *American (NASA) - '''Kenneth Rogers''' ''(Tiger)'' <br /> *ESA (Italy) - '''Carla Scordato''' ''(Red squirrel)'' <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 27 ===<br /> 10-28-17. Manned. [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Lunar base]] crew rotation. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]].<br /> *American - '''Jessica Dempsey''' ''(Raccoon)'' <br /> *American - '''Arthur Cohen''' ''(Lion)'' <br /> *Russian - '''Ivan Abramoff''' ''(Fox)'' <br /> *ESA (Ireland) - '''Archie Spalding''' ''(Fell pony)'' <br /> **Archie Spalding is both the first equine and Irish astronaut.<br /> <br /> === Phoenix 28 ===<br /> 1-15-18. Manned. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Alphonsus (crater)|Alphonsus]]. Lunar rover. Geology and general science mission. Two week sortie.<br /> *American - '''David Hawthorne''' ''(Leopard)'' <br /> *American (NASA) - '''Ren Garfield''' ''(Tigon)'' <br /> *Canadian - '''Gloria Rogers''' ''(Dalmatian)'' <br /> *American - '''Adam Reeves''' ''(Eastern chipmunk)'' <br /> **Adam Reeves was originally slated to be MS2 on Phoenix 25, but was replaced by Noboru Akiyama due to appendicitis 1 month before launch.<br /> <br /> === Phoenix 29 ===<br /> 3-7-18. Manned. [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Lunar base]] crew rotation. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]].<br /> *American - '''Kenneth Wilkinson''' ''(Stoat)'' <br /> *American - '''Charlie Daigle''' ''(Opossum)'' <br /> *ESA (Germany) - '''Alex Fuchs''' ''(Leonberger)'' <br /> *American - '''Judy McNeil''' ''(River otter)'' <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 30 ===<br /> X-X-18. Manned. [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Lunar base]] crew rotation. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]].<br /> *Russian - '''Tatiana Bocharova''' ''(Amur Leopard)'' <br /> *X - '''X''' ''(Husky)'' <br /> *American (NASA) - '''Luke Richland''' ''(Coyote)'' <br /> *American - '''X. McGregor''' ''(Cheetah)'' <br /> <br /> === Phoenix 35 ===<br /> 3-13-20. Manned. [[Wikipedia:Lunar outpost (NASA)|Lunar base]] crew rotation. Landing at [[Wikipedia:Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]].<br /> *American - '''Sherman Payton''' ''(Belgian Malinois)'' <br /> *Russian - '''Vsevolod Krivokrasov'''  ''(Siberian tiger)'' <br /> *American (NASA) - '''Jacob Jasper''' ''(Ring-tailed lemur)'' <br /> *JAXA - '''Naomi Sugiyama''' ''(Sika deer)'' <br /> **'''<font color="Red">Failure</font>''' - During powered descent to land at the lunar base, the Altair module began to pitch over normally, however it did not stop pitching over and continued to pitch forward. CDR Payton initiated an abort as the vehicle passed 59 degrees from vertical. The ascent module then began to roll and entered into phugoid oscillations for approximately 6 seconds before the abort software successfully pulled the spacecraft onto the proper trajectory for a rendezvous with the Orion MPCV. The descent module impacted the floor of Shackleton Crater approximately 7 kilometers from the lunar base. The crew returned to Earth safely. Lunar landing missions were placed on hold during an internal investigation and a complete review of the Altair's software was ordered. The problem was eventually traced to a modification in the radar system and a change to the landing profile intended for use on the Block 3 Altair which caused an unexpected error on descent. Phoenix 34 was extended during the investigation, eventually returning to Earth after a 13 month mission to the lunar base.</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Gregory James Harris */</p> <hr /> <div>==General==<br /> ===[[Ian Rubin]]===<br /> *'''Born''': February 23, 1980; Lafayette, LA<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-8, [[STS-10W]], Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Fractal Rubin===<br /> *'''Born''': March 14, 1980 (Pi Day), Los Alamos, NM<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Parents''': Rena Sinclair (mother), Ardan Sinclair (father)<br /> *'''Maiden name''': Fractal Sinclair<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Ian Rubin (husband: '''12-23-07''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''': Fractal's parents arrived on Earth in 1947 and eventually found employment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a top secret division overseen by the CIA. They worked on both physics research and development of new nuclear weapon designs. Fractal grew up with other Hoomiku and was cared for by her parents as much as was physically possible. In 1986, her parents were killed following accidental exposure to fatal radiation levels during an experiment ordered by the CIA to research telepathy blocking techniques. Both died in front of Fractal, who refused to leave their side in the infirmary. She was placed in the care of foster parents following the accident. While she never considered them her new parents, she did return their affection and was polite, but continued to be deeply wounded by the loss of her parents.</p><p>In 1989, ''The New York Times'' publishes classified information leaked by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell regarding the extent and details of projects involving the Hoomiku held by the United States. The Thornwell leak is considered the defining moment when rumors of aliens form into fact, as he divulged major details about the Hoomiku, including crimes committed by the United States and Soviet Union towards them. President George H. W. Bush eventually acknowledges the species in 1990 under growing pressure from both Congress and the press, a move followed shortly by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The United Nations General Assembly drafts Resolution 45/77, defining both the rights of Hoomiku to basic laws and defining the security and privacy of thought as a basic human right. Given that a breeding population exists on Earth, they are not in danger of dying out. The public is shocked, but no massive social upheaval occurs. Several hate crimes do occur, however, and prompt legislation with regards to both the use of telepathy in certain situations and locations and providing the basis for a lawsuit filed by several hundred Hoomiku against the United States. The suit is ruled in favor of the Hoomiku and as a result, Fractal is entitled to a free college education, a house, and $40,000 on her 18th birthday. She attends New Mexico Tech and briefly works as a DJ at a local radio station. Eventually, she transferred to New Mexico University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in both botany and physics.</p><p>Following graduation, she began to work at a start-up in Albuquerque studying new techniques for indoor crop growth. In 2006, she traveled to Russia for research into aeroponic farming techniques studied by the Russian Federal Space Agency. There she met Ian Rubin in Star City, and the two hit it off and began dating until Ian's flight to the International Space Station on September 18, 2006. The two resumed their relationship following the flight and in December, Fractal moved to Louisiana. The two were married on December 23, 2007.</p><br /> <br /> ===[[Sandra Harris]]===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Gregory Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[International Space Agency]]<br /> *'''Items''': Sandra's most cherished possession is a badly scuffed, space certified [[Wikipedia:Omega Speedmaster|Omega Speedmaster]] (Ref. 3570.50.00) with a black Velcro strap that has permanently been stained a grayish color. The watch was given to her by the International Space Agency for use on the Moon, and she subsequently purchased the watch for retail price from the space agency. She almost never parts with it and would do almost anything (within reason) to recover it if it is lost or stolen. While the sapphire crystal has been replaced due to severe scratching, she has not asked the jeweler to repair the case scratches. The watch is kept in top condition and keeps accurate time, and contains strontium aluminate lume on the dial and hands. In early 2020, Sandra purchased a new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch (Ref. 311.30.42.30.01.005) to replace her original, which is now kept in a display case at her home along with other objects from her career as an astronaut. This watch also features strontium aluminate lume, and Sandra tends to wear the watch with either an orange or 6 stripe rainbow polyamide NATO strap when wearing it daily. Sandra has publicly stated that she intends to bring both with her on her next lunar mission, and wore the newer of the two watches during her spacewalks on STS-250.<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Phoenix 9]], [[STS-217]], [[STS-250]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Gregory James Harris===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Died''': November 9, 2008<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Stats''': <br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Items''': <br /> *'''Abilities''':<br /> ** Gregory is always able to pull a refrigerated 355 ml (12 fl oz) or half-liter glass bottle of [[Wikipedia:Fresca#Versions|Fresca]] soda from Mexico out of thin air at will. The bottle is constantly full, and drinking from it doesn't reduce the amount in the bottle. Pouring it fills a glass up to the amount that the bottle actually contains and empties the bottle in the process, at which point it becomes full again when done pouring as though nothing was drained from it. Anyone other than Greg or another ghost is apparently unable to do this with the bottle. (You can't fill a swimming pool up this way, in other words.)<br /> ** Greg is able to pull a gilded metal key from his pocket at will, which he can use to produce a door out of thin air. When used, it is manifested as Greg inserting the key into the air, at which point it disappears as though inserted into an invisible lock. At this point, Greg can push open a door in the air, which is apparently made out of Lucite or acrylic. Greg (and by extension anyone else) can then step through the door to the location connected to the door, which can either be freestanding on the other end or an actual door. The chosen location can be to anywhere in the universe (for example, a door leading from an alley to a location across a city) or to a location in another plane of existence (for example, from an alley in a city in the Caribbean to a recreation of a bar in the afterlife). In this way, the door acts as a wormhole similar to the doors from the Pixar film ''[[Wikipedia:Monsters, Inc.|Monsters, Inc.]]''. Anyone viewing these doors from the side would see the location of the door as an incredibly thin line of smoky, solid air, and viewed from the rear, the area where the door is would appear as a square of a similar smoky, solid area of air that can be stepped through with no ill effect other than a sensation best describe as having stepped through a cold air curtain.<br /> *'''Afterlife description''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Julia Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Thomas Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Whittington===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Rough collie<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Jackie Cormier===<br /> *'''Born''': April 15, 1988; Seattle, WA<br /> *'''Species''': Catahoula Cur (Predominantely blue and white fur with black splotches and spots. Has heterochromia: left eye blue, right eye hazel.) <br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Related to''': David Cormier (brother)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Nickname''': ''Split-eyes'', ''Splits'', ''Blue dog''<br /> *'''Rank''': Petty Officer 2nd Class, Aviation Survival Technician (Rescue swimmer)<br /> *'''History''': Moved to Louisiana at six years of age from Seattle after her father was laid off from Boeing. Joined the Coast Guard and is one of only four female swimmers. Currently resides in Canon Shoals, OR. Originally stationed at [[Wikipedia:Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles|CGAS Port Angeles]], WA until her entire crew was transferred to Canon Shoals following [REDACTED] in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.<br /> <br /> ===#===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Sports related==<br /> ===Wesley D. Romero===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Long-tailed weasel<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Team''': Bangor Tides (Furry Basketball Association)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Carlos Coronado===<br /> *'''Born''': Merida, Yucatan, MX<br /> *'''Species''': Jaguar<br /> *'''Nationality''': Mexican<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Abbey Crandall (girlfriend: '''Sochi Winter Olympics''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Team''': Louisiana IceGators (National Hockey League)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Astronauts==<br /> ===Harold Hamilton===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Gray wolf<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-109|STS-109]], [[Wikipedia:STS-117|STS-117]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Sanders===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': White Siberian tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-113|STS-113]], [[Wikipedia:STS-120|STS-120]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Derek Ozark===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': River dragon (Blue, no wings)<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Ixy Comeaux===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Looking Glass related==<br /> ===Cora Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Halni Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Vargi===<br /> *'''First activated''':<br /> *'''Species''': Artificial intelligence <br /> **'''Primary avatar''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> ===Carla Maxwell===<br /> *'''Born''': October 8, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': River otter<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (''maître d'île'', Phoenix Cay)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bruce Anderson===<br /> *'''Born''': April 17, 1978; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<br /> *'''Species''': Bengal Tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''': Australian<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (pilot)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Frederick Hollande===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Dhole<br /> *'''Nationality''': French<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[TCI Research]] (Director, [[Ellis National Laboratory]], Superconducting Super Collider) <br /> **'''Former employer''': [[Wikipedia:CERN|CERN]] (various roles relating to the [[Wikipedia:Large Hadron Collider|Large Hadron Collider]])<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universes==<br /> ===X===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': Prime/''Wonderland''/''Looking Glass Land'' <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Zachary Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': April 18, 2002; Waxahachie, TX <br /> **'''Date/place of birth listed on current ID''': April 18, 1996; Waxahachie, TX. <br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': Fractal S. Calliden, Roger Calliden<br /> *'''Friends with''': Lindsey Waldroup <br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''[[Looking Glass Land]]'', 2020<br /> *'''History''': Personality and higher brain functions implanted within brain of Lindsey Waldroup. Eventually removed and placed into a high capacity AI core on 2-1-2015. Body restored on: 6-22-2015. Taken in by Ian and Fractal, with official story being that parents died in car accident and Fractal was only living relative. Moved in with them from home in Honolulu.<br /> <br /> ===Roger Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': October 4, 1978; Rachel, NV<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Spouse''': Fractal S. Calliden<br /> *'''Employed by''': Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (researcher, SDC detector)<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''Looking Glass Land'', 2020<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bonnie Krueger===<br /> *'''Born''': ????, ????; Goldfern Station (Sometime in the future in a space related setting; Current age is 23)<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Stats''': 5'8", 137 lbs, green eyes. Possibly missing a small notch from one ear following a bad deal she failed to complete.<br /> *'''Clothing''': Blue jeans, black combat boots, white t-shirt, torn black leather jacket with a VERY faded logo for an old Earth space program on the back. <br /> *'''Items''': Brown leather holster, 2 year old laser pistol or plasma pistol plus battery pack for the above. Carries a beaten up rucksack or backpack containing her worldly goods.<br /> *'''Backpack contents'''<br /> ** Captain's license (''Goldfern Station'' - issuer)<br /> ** Phone (Most likely the newest thing she owns)<br /> ** Slightly beat up, but high end VR headset.<br /> ** One pair of welding goggles modified to be sunglasses with a HUD inside of the lenses. Goggles are the type with two round lenses, as opposed to a single square pane of glass.<br /> ** Roll-up solar panel/charger<br /> ** Treasured book from mother about item central to plot.<br /> ** 1 bottle of a rare alcoholic drink<br /> ** 1 change of clothes (no shoes)<br /> ** 1 memento of Earth<br /> ** 1 journal<br /> ** 1 MRE<br /> ** 1 bottle of water (1 liter)<br /> ** 1 30 minute air bottle with mask.<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ????<br /> *'''History (Revised for forum RP)''': Only child raised by her mother. Dad's rarely mentioned and Mom insinuates (read: ''adamantly maintains'') he's dead and spaced. No proof of it, though. Regardless, Bonnie has grown up in the light of the renaissance of renewed interest in Earth on Goldfern Station, brought up by a mother who worked far too hard for far too little money, but who genuinely loved her and filled her with wonderful stories of adventure, space and wonder for the "Pale Blue Dot". Tales of great explorers, the heady early days of space travel, the men and women who fought to break out of gravity wells to visit worlds in the same system. Tales of outlaws, as well: her namesake, Bonnie Parker, of pirates and Capone... of their fates and of the music and culture of a place lost to time and space. Filled with dreams, she fought hard to get her captain's license... only to discover that dreams have prices... as well as interest rates and late fees. Striking out on her own and saddled with a few old debts but no ship to pay them, she takes out one last loan: to buy a ticket to another star, another world. One where a ship awaits, she hopes, along with jobs, wealth and maybe, just maybe... Earth and eternal glory.<br /> *'''First intro''': Arrives at Helios Station with just enough to pay the docking fee, but her ship is repossessed within 10 minutes of her getting there. Stranded and pissed off, she decides to blow some of her meager savings at a bar, where a ''highly'' drunk tiger sits next to her and, in the middle of trying to tell him off, he reveals something highly crucial to her quest. She decides to ply the rest out of him with a few more drinks. She gets the info, but stripes decides to try to get into her pants right there in the middle of the room. She cracks a bottle of booze over his head and knocks him out cold, and grabs a few mysterious coins he's dropped while getting out of there. As "Timber" by Pitbull starts to play, she races away from station security as fast as her legs will carry her, shoving aside anything in her way and doing a good attempt at parkour... until she runs into her new best friend...<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universe/timeline descriptions==<br /> ===Looking Glass Land===<br /> *'''"Short" version:''' Otonichi (alien sneps) and Hoomiku (other alien felines with big ears) evolve on a planet around the star Tau Ceti named Ishonko. They eventually master space travel. Sometime in the 1930's, war were declared. King Zalkyo Jeskalt, of the Otonichi, is a murderous fuckwit. He hates hoomiku and the war grinds to a stalemate up to the moment when a couple of hoomiku terrorists blow up a city where the body of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in Otonichi history, resided in a glass sarcophagus. Zalkyo decides "These people are DEAD" and goes on a genocidal bender. Most hoomiku are dead, and the few who aren't flee to Earth towards the end of World War II. A few rogue hoomiku hide out in an asteroid mining base somewhere in space and tinker with time travel. They get discovered by the Otonichi in the 1950's and press the magic button to GTFO. They end up around earth in 1859 in the middle of the worst recorded solar storm in history. They escape to Earth. We'll come back to them in a bit, because THIS part is also complicated. Time keeps moving into the future. Someone comes to Zalkyo during the Cuban Missle Crisis with the suggestion that "Look, these people are going to blow each other up. If they DON'T, they could be a problem. Fuck with enough of their space program, and they'll stay on the ground." He signs off on this, and a few teams go covert on Earth to do that, since they look like snow leopards. They screw around with the Russian lunar rocket, kill the Apollo 1 crew in the fire, and POSSIBLY do something to Apollo 13. They then lie back until 1986, when the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' launches with a teacher on board. ''ENTER DIVERGENCE POINT BETWEEN LOOKING GLASS LAND AND REGULAR LAND '''HERE'''.'' Now, in 'Looking Glass Land', they activate the range safety system on the Space Shuttle right at SRB ignition and it blows up on the launch pad, killing the crew, destroying the pad and possibly killing a few people watching. The nation's devastated, but things go on and they're not caught. In 1990, they destroy Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' during STS-31 and blow it up in the air, killing the crew, destroying the Shuttle '''and''' the Hubble Space Telescope. This, coming four years after ''Challenger'', ends America's manned space program at the 1991 State of the Union. With no Space Shuttle to work on the ISS, and no ISS to speak of, the Superconducting Super Collider, a large atom smasher in Texas, is completed by 2000 rather than being cancelled in 1994. It discovers the Higgs boson in 2002... and lead researcher for the SDC collaboration Fractal Calliden, who married her college sweetheart Roger and has a son named Zach, announces the news. The Russians and Chinese, meanwhile, stubbornly carry forth with space. Around 2012, Melor Oliver, a big ol' wolf, is discovered to be using time travel to send stock information two minutes into the past to himself to make money. The SEC is annoyed and tries to pin him for something, but no luck. They do, however, Shanghai him into a secret project to research this. In 2017, the Otonichi try to screw with a Shenzhou launch from Jiquan. That's when they fuck up and the Chinese catch them. The world is now made aware of what's going on and that there's aliens screwing with our space programs. China hauls them out in a big show trial, then kills them for treason.</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* 2000s */</p> <hr /> <div><center>'''<u>ISA SECURE DATABASE</u>'''<br /> </br><br /> '''"LOOKING GLASS LAND" — SUMMARY'''<br /> </br><br /> '''TOP SECRET//LG/SAR-HG//ORCON/NOFORN'''</center><br /> <br /> ==Introduction==<br /> ==Timeline==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |+ Timeline color key<br /> |- style="text-align:center;" <br /> | style="width:96px;" |Prime<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#d3edff;"|Looking Glass Land<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#edffd3;"|Both<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1800s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1859||align=center rowspan="3"|1-2 September||style="background:#edffd3;"|The Carrington Event occurs. One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, a major coronal mass ejection occurs at around noon on September 1 and impacts the Earth less than a day later, causing auroras bright enough to read newspapers at night in some areas, and visible as far south as the Caribbean. Telegraph operators around the world report receiving electric shocks and being able to transmit with their power supplies turned off, when systems aren't disrupted by the storm.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Arrive1"<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. Due to the damage to the pod's shielding, the pod suffers a catastrophic failure on reentry and disintegrates over the English Channel, killing everyone aboard. The remaining 2 members of the crew, the station's commander and executive officer, enter a final escape pod after verifying the station is on the proper course for disposal and land successfully near the first 4 in England.<br /> |-<br /> |A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. As this pod leaves the station, a team from Project Hourglass, arriving from [[#HG-Station-Leave1|2014]] in the modified Otonichi infiltration ship ISV ''Opened Item'', trigger a proximity alert and are hailed by the station commander, who asks them to effect a rescue. The Hourglass team docks with the damaged pod and incapacitate the injured Hoomiku with knockout gas before securing them. After verifying that the data recorder they are looking for is not aboard, the pod is left to burn up in the atmosphere. The Hourglass team then board the station and move it into a stable orbit around the Earth before prepping it for a jump to the Asteroid Belt. After an initial confrontation, a truce is reached between the commander, his executive officer and the Hourglass team, and the 5 rescued Hoomiku from the damaged escape pod are treated for radiation sickness. The 4 Hoomiku in England are left on Earth to avoid interference in the timeline.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Past-Arrive"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1868||align=center rowspan="2"|July 1||Lindsey Waldroup arrives from [[#Lindsey-Jump-Start|2020]] and steals the data recorder from the Hoomiku crew who landed on Earth in 1859. As she is attempting to leave, she is robbed by an unidentified assailant. The robber manages to steal the data recorder from her as she attempts an emergency jump forward to escape. Due to a miscalculation, the device she uses to escape sends her to Waxahachie, Texas on [[#Lindsey-Jump-2014|September 30, 2014]]. The data recorder is eventually sold multiple times until it lands in the possession of Jordan Thorpe, a small-scale artifact dealer who books passage to America on the maiden voyage of the RMS ''Titanic''.<br /> |-<br /> |'''NOTE:''' The above event has been identified as the point of divergence between the Prime timeline and the alternate timeline known as "Looking Glass Land". According to data acquired by Project Hourglass/Bootstrap, all information currently points to Lindsey Waldroup's actions being the catalyst for the events that followed in the Prime timeline, rippling backwards to 1859 due to the presence of Hourglass personnel at the arrival of the Hoomiku space station. The Prime timeline, in effect, is a paradox created the moment Ms. Waldroup entered the past.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1910s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1912||align=center rowspan="2"|10 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' departs Southampton on her maiden voyage, bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sail"<br /> |The members of Project Hourglass arrive in Southampton from [[#HG-Titanic-Leave|2013]] and board the ''Titanic'' in order to secure an artifact that is clearly of Hoomiku manufacture from the ship prior to its sinking. They are booked in Cabins B-51, 53 and 55 for the voyage under names which appear on the official manifest in the future.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sink"<br /> |align=center|1912||align=center|14-15 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later, killing more than 1,500 people. News of the disaster shocks the world and leads to the establishment of new safety standards on the seas.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1920s===<br /> <br /> ===1930s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))<br /> Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates a 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.<br /> |- id="ReskontMission"<br /> |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1940s===<br /> <br /> ===1950s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- id="Sandra-CastleBravo"<br /> |align=center|1954||align=center|1 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Castle Bravo, the first test of a solid-fueled thermonuclear weapon by the United States, is conducted at Bikini Atoll. The bomb exceeds its intended blast yield by nearly 2.5 times, generating a yield of 15 megatons. The test is the largest weapon ever detonated by the United States and causes a large amount of fallout. The radioactive debris contaminates nearby islands, their inhabitants and the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel ''[[Wikipedia:Daigo Fukuryū Maru|Daigo Fukuryū Maru]]'' ("Lucky Dragon No. 5").<br /> *Members of Project Bootstrap have speculated about (but have not yet confirmed) the possibility of time travelers at this event due to indications of possible temporal abnormalities on this date. However, this situation is still under investigation and no conclusive proof has been found.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|1955||align=center|5 November||style="background:#edffd3;"|Acting on a tip, the Otonichi Intelligence Service discovers the location of a rogue Hoomiku research and mining installation. The information they receive leads OIS to believe that experiments in time travel are being carried out by the facility. King Zalkyo Jeskalt orders an immediate strike to neutralize the base. An intense firefight ensues, and as the situation appears to be reaching a climax, the severely damaged station disappears without a trace. The station crew, in an act of desperation, activate their time machine using their dwindling power supply and travel to the Sol system. Due to the emergency nature of the jump and damage to the time machine’s computing cluster, they jump a significant amount of time in the past, arriving near Earth on [[#Station-Jump-Arrive1|September 2, 1859]]. Despite an exhaustive search, no clues can be found by the Otonichi as to the whereabouts of the base.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1960s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|26 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy meets with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) and confides that he believes an invasion of Cuba is the only way to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from the island. He is persuaded to wait and continue with diplomatic and military pressure. The situation is at an effective stalemate.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo Jeskalt to discuss the situation on Terra. Two schools of thought exist within the College: a first advocates for immediate intervention in order to resolve the crisis or shape the situation to one beneficial for the Otonichi while the second advises that doing nothing is the only possible option, due to the possibility of the crisis either resolving itself (peacefully or otherwise) or of the mere presence of an outside force defusing the situation in a way that would be undesirable to the empire. At an emergency meeting of the royal Cabinet, a lone researcher for the College convinces the king to allow the crisis on Terra to continue until it reaches its inevitable conclusion, with Terra running headlong into the Great Filter through nuclear war. The king agrees and orders no intervention be carried out. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|27 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cuban Missile Crisis: As tensions reach a boiling point between the United States, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Soviet submarine ''B-59'' is surrounded by a group of American ships, which begin to drop depth charges in an attempt to force the submarine to surface. Unsure whether war has already broken out, Captain Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky and political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agree to use a nuclear-tipped torpedo. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, whose vote is required in order to authorize the launch, disagrees and denies the launch, averting what could have been the opening shot of World War III. The submarine eventually surfaces and leaves the area. This day, later known as "Black Saturday", is one of the closest moments in Terran history to possible Armageddon.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1966||align=center|14 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, dies following an operation. The loss of the lead designer and driving force behind the Soviet Union's success in the Space Race deals a devastating blow to Soviet plans for spaceflight.<br /> *The possibility of Otonichi agents murdering Korolev was investigated by members of Project Bootstap, but cannot be conclusively determined. This is considered unlikely, however, in view of his numerous health issues. Copies of Otonichi Intelligence Service records from the time period do suggest plans to eliminate Korolev and Wernher von Braun by agents on Terra, however no serious attempts appear to have been made against either.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1967||align=center|27 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *During a dress rehearsal for the launch of Apollo 1, a cabin fire ignites and kills Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Major changes to the design of the capsule and to procedures are implemented in the aftermath of the disaster. The cause of the fire is never conclusively determined.<br /> *Decades later, investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the direct cause of the accident was sabotage of the cabin electronics by elements of the Otonichi Intelligence Service working to sabotage Terran spaceflight activity. Apollo 1 is their first major attempt, and while it results in a temporary setback of the Apollo Program, their efforts do not work as intended. They regroup and formulate new plans.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|3 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *The second launch attempt of the Soviet N1 rocket ends disastrously just 23 seconds after liftoff. A damaged engine causes the automatic shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines just 15 seconds into the flight, and the fully fueled lunar rocket crashes back onto the pad in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the history of the planet. The explosion completely destroys the launch pad, and subsequent United States satellite imagery confirms that the Soviets are building a rocket capable of reaching the Moon. The cause of the disaster is eventually traced to the liquid oxygen tubopump of the #8 engine on the first stage exploding due to ingestion of a foreign object, most likely a loose bolt. Fuel filters are added to future missions. The pad requires more than 18 months of reconstruction.<br /> *A subsequent investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the ultimate cause of the accident was Otonichi tampering. It has subsequently been concluded that the Otonichi attempts to sabotage the Soviet lunar program were a direct attempt to avoid the possibility of a Soviet lunar landing being used as motivation for a NASA mission to Mars and future Solar System exploration. Their work was greatly assisted by a badly underfunded Soviet space program which featured numerous competing design bureaus attempting to court state favor and the death of Sergei Korolev.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|20 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Apollo 11 lunar module ''Eagle'' lands on Earth's Moon, and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on its surface. This moment is, effectively, the end of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union and fulfills President Kennedy's 1961 promise to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo to discuss the implications of the landing. It is universally agreed that Terran spaceflight activities, if continued at their current pace, will lead to the eventual discovery of the Otonichi. A small number of researchers suggest peaceful revelation of the existence of the Otonichi to the people of Terra. Their proposal is rejected and the King authorizes further covert attempts to interfere with possible Terran discovery of the Otonichi by tampering with radio astronomy investigation programs and further attempts to sabotage Terran spaceflight activities.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1970s===<br /> <br /> ===1980s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|14 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|Fractal Sinclair is born in Roswell, New Mexico.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|12 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cora and Halni Jeskalt are born in Alkonost, on the planet Ishonko. As Cora is born first, she becomes next in line to the throne of the Otonichi civilization.<br /> |- id="HG-86-Arrive"<br /> |align=center|1986||align=center|27 January||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1986||align=center rowspan="3"|28 January||Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes on the launchpad during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1986||align=center rowspan="2"|9 June||The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be a failure of the O-rings in the right Solid Rocket Booster due to the cold conditions at launch, which led to the escape of super heated gasses and the subsequent breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after launch. The report also notes a number of contributing causes to the accident and criticizes NASA management decisions that led to the accident.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be the unauthorized activation of the range safety system onboard the Shuttle at the moment of booster ignition, destroying the Shuttle, the launch pad and killing several ground personnel and spectators. The report concludes that a valid command was sent to the system to arm and activate it at liftoff, but records from Patrick Air Force Base and testimony from the Range Safety Officers indicate conclusively that no command was sent from them. The failure is attributed to a serious fault or outside tampering, but the exact cause is never determined with certainty.<br /> *The report includes testimony from Morton-Thiokol engineer [[Wikipedia:Roger Boisjoly|Roger Boisjoly]], noting the possibility of a failure of the Solid Rocket Booster O-rings during launches on days with very low temperatures. Initially seen as a possible cause for the accident, investigators cannot conclusively find evidence for this as a cause for the disaster and the subsequent discovery of the range safety system activation leads to a lack of further investigation into this possibility. It is included as a mere footnote in the report.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1989||align=center|24 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|''The New York Times'' publishes classified documents obtained by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell which contain numerous details on projects involving the Hoomiku performed by both the United States and Soviet Union. The story becomes a media sensation overnight and Thornwell is arrested within hours of publication.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1990s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 7 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|29 January||style="background:#d3edff;"|At the 1991 State of the Union Address, President George H. W. Bush announces the cancellation of America's manned space program and shifts NASA's priorities to the cause of robotic exploration of the Solar System. The three remaining Space Shuttles are decommissioned and placed on display in museums, with Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' placed on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|4 December||style="background:#d3edff;"|Pan American World Airways ceases operations, with PAA Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami, Florida being the last flight in the 64 year history of the company.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|21 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The House of Representatives narrowly votes to approve funds to continue the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas. The project, roughly 1/5th of the way to completion, faces increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill due to reports of project mismanagement and skyrocketing costs. Over the next few months, a staff shakeup leads to lower cost projections and a revised timeline for completion, with the massive particle accelerator due for activation before the end of the year 2000.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|27 October||The House of Representatives votes 283 to 143 to reject a Conference Committee report with continuing funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is officially terminated. Access shafts to the 14 miles of completed tunnels are filled in and over the next year, the project is officially wound down and abandoned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1995||align=center|August||A private expedition to the wreck of the ''Titanic'' is carried out by a group of French treasure-hunters. After contracting the Russians in order to use the R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' and its MIR submersibles, a number of artifacts are recovered from the wreck. INTERPOL, acting on a tip, arrests the men and confiscates the artifacts, a number of which corrode due to improper cleaning and handling. The artifacts are eventually sold to Magnolia Parks and Entertainment, for use in a future museum devoted to the ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1997||align=center|15 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|The ''Cassini-Huygens'' mission to Saturn launches on a Titan IV-B booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The $3.2 billion Flagship-class mission promises to unlock untold scientific discoveries of Saturn and its moons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|24 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|NASA announces that it plans to launch a Mars sample-return mission before 2010, and planning begins for a tentative launch in 2008.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|DOS-8, the core module of the ''Mir-2'' space station, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Federal Space Agency finalizes plans with the Chinese government for cooperation on space station construction. The European Space Agency expresses interest, but doesn't commit to the project in full.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2000s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|9 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The first particle beam collision, at an unprecedented energy of 40 TeV, occurs at Superconducting Super Collider. The event is hailed as a monumental moment in physics and science and scientists from around the world anticipate new discoveries, chief among them the Higgs boson, the long sought particle thought to imbue mass and a critical missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. CERN announces it will suspend operation of the Large Electron-Positron Collider by 2001, and several European countries push for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in an attempt to foster new scientific innovations while America probes new frontiers of particle physics.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|12 December||style="background:#edffd3;"|Following a lengthy and contentious recount of votes in Florida, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling on ''Bush v. Gore'', ending the recounts in a 5-4 decision and, as a result, George W. Bush is elected 43rd President of the United States, defeating Vice President Al Gore.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|18 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|Zachary Calliden is born in Waxahachie, Texas.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#edffd3;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|26 August||The Columbia Accident Investigation Board issues its report. The immediate cause of the accident is revealed to be a breach in one of the reinforced carbon-carbon composite panels on the left wing of the Space Shuttle, caused by foam from the External Tank striking the panel at supersonic speeds. During reentry, plasma entered the wing and compromised its structure, leading to the eventual destruction of the vehicle due to loss of attitude control. The report also indicates a large number of faults with NASA decision making policy and risk assessment procedures, as well as a culture where deviations from design criteria were regularly accepted so long as mission success was not compromised. The report makes numerous recommendations for future spaceflight operations. The International Space Agency's fleet of Orbiters, recently approved for construction, begin to undergo design modifications to allow for higher crew safety standards.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|10 November||The International Space Agency's governing body, the International Council on Spaceflight Activities, gives authorization to proceed with the Phoenix Program. The program's goal is to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the 2010s and establish a permanent research outpost at the lunar south pole. In a separate vote, the Council gives tentative approval for a project to use components from the lunar program for use in a possible mission to Mars before 2020.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 54, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||[[Edward Marshall]] is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Barack Obama is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-7 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 54. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is traced back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.<br /> |- id="HG-Titanic-Leave"<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|25 November||Members of Project Hourglass travel to [[#Titanic-Sail|April 10, 1912]].<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2014||align=center|22 May||After several months of quiet negotiations, the Department of Energy gives approval for [[TCI Research]] to begin construction on the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The company purchases the remains of the various facilities from the government and begins the process of drilling new access shafts to the abandoned 14 miles of tunnels to determine their condition. Construction is estimated to take a bare minimum of 6 years. In an effort to speed up the process while negotiations are made to acquire land needed for the project, seven tunnel boring machines are ordered and one of the largest civil engineering projects in United States history begins to take shape. Opposition in Congress is immediate, most notably from Idaho Senator Arlen Hawking, who criticizes the project as a handout to the home state of President Marshall, a gross expenditure of money that could better be spent elsewhere and a possible threat to humanity.<br /> |- id="ZachBodyRecover"<br /> |align=center|2015||align=center|22 June||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|8 July||A week and a half before the Republican National Convention, presumptive nominee Donald Trump announces that he is suspending his campaign, throwing the race for the Republican nomination into chaos. At a press conference announcing the event, Trump implies that he is withdrawing from the race against his will due to coercion by outside forces and hints of a "witch hunt" against him. He does not, despite repeated questioning, establish what forces he is referring to.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|19 July||On the fifth round of voting, Senator [[Arlen Hawking]] of Idaho wins the nomination for President, defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In his speech to the convention, Hawking pledges to unify the party and begin the process of making the nation prosperous once more.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|21 July||Ares 1's Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) ''Mayflower'' lands at Eberswalde Crater, becoming the first mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars. Hours later, Harold Hamilton becomes the first person to set foot on the Martian surface, followed by David Sanders, Vasili Petrov, Karri Litmanen, Liu Junlong and Kan Yamakawa. The crew begins a 550 day mission on the surface.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2016||align=center rowspan="2"|8 November||Arlen Hawking is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of Energy [[Elizabeth Gaines]].<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|25 December||A surprise attack is launched on critical orbital infrastructure around Ishonko. At least six large civilian ships fitted with advanced Terran FTL drives acquired on the black market are filled with explosives and rammed into the main civilian spaceport, Otonichi Imperial Fleet headquarters and a large orbital repair dock over the planet. Numerous civilian and military ships docked to the stations suffer severe damage and thousands are injured, killed or missing. Multiple daring rescue missions are made as Kessler syndrome begins to occur in Ishonkan orbit. Within hours, the Otonichi deorbit the remains of their primary military command center and civilian spaceport and mobilize their fleet in a defensive posture. The Otonichi fleet is given full access and use of a ship repair facility under construction by Looking Glass in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Ishonko goes into full planetary ground stop for the first time since the bombing of Reskont.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|15 March||Princess Regent Cora Jeskalt gives royal assent to the 3rd Monarchy Act, becoming sovereign of the Otonichi Imperial Empire. The act includes numerous provisions seen as an overt power grab by Parliament. Among the provisions included in the law is a clause which states that the monarchy shall be declared dissolved on the death of Cora Jeskalt provided she has not produced an heir. Hours after signing the document, HM Jeskalt travels to New Orleans on Terra for undisclosed reasons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flies over Hokkaido, Japan before crashing into the Pacific. With tensions on the Korean Peninsula reaching a dangerous tipping point, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss options. President Trump states that "all options are on the table" and threatens to retaliate with "force unlike anything they've ever seen" should any further provocation occur.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|3 September||style="background:#d3edff;"|The United States Geological Survey detects a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of North Korea's principal nuclear weapons test site. The DPRK claims it now has a hydrogen bomb capable of mounting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. Hours after the test, two defectors attempt to cross the border at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean soldiers fire at the defectors. In the chaos, a round strikes a US Army soldier and severely wounds him. A brief exchange of gunfire over the border takes place before a tense standoff occurs. For three hours, the situation remains a tense one as the defectors and American soldier are rushed to a hospital. Five hours after the initial exchange of gunfire, a third defector attempts to cross into the South, and is mortally wounded by North Korean troops firing at him. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula skyrocket and President Trump orders an aircraft carrier strike group sent to the Peninsula. In tweets that evening, the President warns Kim Jong-un of an impending wave of destruction should any further hostilities against American troops take place.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|Five snow leopards are arrested after attempting to sabotage the upcoming launch of Shenzhou 12 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. After intense interrogation, Chinese officials announce to the world that the saboteurs are not terrestrial leopards and that they are part of an operation intentionally tampering with affairs on Earth, specifically, Terran spaceflight programs. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. The men are convicted and sentenced to execution by China while an intense global effort is launched to find anyone else suspected of being associated with the program. Propaganda appears almost overnight across the globe: ''"Beware the Otonichi scourge!"''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|30 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *As news spreads across Earth of the existence of the Otonichi and their attempts to sabotage Terran space activities and interfere in global affairs, leaders of various Hoomiku communities on Earth try to distance themselves from possible association with the Otonichi. Several attacks on both Hoomiku and random snow leopards take place around the world.<br /> *The Otonichi Intelligence Service receives alarming reports from their agents on Terra. A decision is made to inform the monarch about the situation and to bring her up to speed on the status of attempts to intervene on Terra. Cora Jeskalt is made aware of the full extent of the project and orders a halt to all intervention on Terra and an immediate withdrawal of Otonichi agents from the planet. The damage, however, has been done.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|31 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|An intergovernmental task force is created to find and capture any and all Otonichi on Earth. Amidst a global panic and outrage, 6 elderly Hoomiku reveal the full scope of their species' dealings with the Otonichi to the world in graphic detail, and vow to work with the governments of the world in an effort to enact revenge not only for the crimes dealt to them by the Otonichi, but for the interference the Otonichi have caused on Earth. A new project is started at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory to use a time machine as a matter teleportation device. A project is also started at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland to develop a biological weapon tailored for use against the Otonichi.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2019||align=center|15 March||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2019||align=center rowspan="2"|December||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2020s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 9||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 30||style="background:#d3edff;"|With units of the Montana Army National Guard surrounding the mine and additional military assets being mobilized for a strike on the fortified mine serving as their base of operations, final preparations are made to send Lindsey Waldroup into the past in an attempt to alter the timeline and prevent disaster. Realizing he cannot go with Lindsey due to his appearance and the limited capacity of the time machine's power source, Zachary Calliden attempts a last-ditch maneuver to save his own life. Using information recorded in a journal by his maternal grandmother, he uploads his consciousness into Lindsey's mind while she sleeps, unaware that there is no way for him to escape once he does so. Fractal Calliden and Melor Oliver discover Zachary's still living body shortly thereafter and hide it from Lindsey, fearing that her resolve to attempt the mission will falter if she realizes what has happened. After rapid calculations, an incredibly remote possibility of retrieving the Hoomiku's body from their timeline is found, and instructions for the process are hidden on Lindsey's phone, addressed to their alternate selves. Data on the history of the world is also gathered and placed on storage devices. Zachary, in a persistent vegetative state, is placed on an intravenous drip and given oxygen.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2020||align=center rowspan="2"|October 31||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|'''NOTE:''' ''End of Looking Glass Land timeline.''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|November 7||Following delays due to higher than usual numbers of mail-in ballots, [[Matthew Connors]] is elected 46th President of the United States, defeating incumbent President Arlen Hawking.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==List of time travel events==</div>

Lafayette1 https://lafayetteinc.com/index.php?title=List_of_Phoenix_missions&diff=3500 List of Phoenix missions 2021-07-30T02:09:22Z

<p>Lafayette1: /* Crewed Phoenix missions */</p> <hr /> <div>{{about1|[[International Space Agency]]'s [[Phoenix program]] missions|[[Wikipedia:NASA|NASA]]'s [[Wikipedia:Apollo program|Apollo program]]|[[Wikipedia:List of Apollo missions|List of Apollo missions]]}}<br /> ==Crewed Phoenix missions==<br /> <br /> {| class="wikitable sortable"<br /> |-<br /> ! scope="col" width="60"|Mission<br /> ! scope="col" width="120"|Launch date<br /> ! scope="col" style="width: 130px;" class="unsortable" | Crew<br /> ! scope="col" | Launch Vehicle<br /> ! scope="col" | Orion MPCV Name<br /> ! scope="col" | Altair Name<br /> ! scope="col" | Duration<br /> ! scope="col" class="unsortable" |Notes<br /> |-<br /> ! scope="row" data-sort-value="02"|[[Phoenix 2]]<br /> |4 July 2011<br /> [[Wikipedia:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|Launch Complex 39B]]<br /> |<br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Logan Wilson<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Luke Buchanan<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Kane Blackwell<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Alexander Bishop (NASA)<br /> |[[Jupiter 246-B]]<br />(PJ-206)<br /> |style="text-align: center" | ''Draco''<br /> |style="text-align: center" | ''Voyager''<br /> |style="text-align: center" | 8d 18h<br /> | First manned Jupiter 246-B; Test flight of Orion capsule and Altair lander in Earth orbit.<br /> |-<br /> ! scope="row" data-sort-value="03"|[[Phoenix 3]]<br /> |30 September 2011<br /> [[Wikipedia:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|Launch Complex 39B]]<br /> |<br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Frank Rosewood<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Patrick Tucker<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Daniel Baxter<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|border|23px|United Kingdom]] Riley A. Harris (ESA)<br /> |[[Jupiter 246-B]]<br />(PJ-207)<br /> |style="text-align: center" | ''Discovery''<br /> |style="text-align: center" | ''Serenity''<br /> |12d 20h<br /> |Lunar orbital mission; survey of landing sites and test of docking/un-docking techniques procedures in lunar orbit. Deep space EVA. First crewed flight to leave Low Earth Orbit since 1972.<br /> |-<br /> ! scope="row" data-sort-value="04"|[[Phoenix 4]]<br /> |19 December 2011<br /> [[Wikipedia:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|Launch Complex 39B]]<br /> |<br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Harold Hamilton<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] David Sanders<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of Finland.svg|border|23px|Finland]] Karri Litmanen (ESA)<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of Russia.svg|border|23px|Russia]] Vasili Petrov (Roscosmos)<br /> |[[Jupiter 246-B]]<br />(PJ-208)<br /> |style="text-align: center" | ''Aurora''<br /> |style="text-align: center" | ''Enterprise''<br /> |16d 14h<br /> |Landing at [[Wikipedia:Schroter's Valley|Vallis Schröteri]]. First lunar landing and lunar rover since Apollo 17. First Phoenix program sortie mission<br /> |-<br /> ! scope="row" data-sort-value="05"|[[Phoenix 5]]<br /> |30 September 2011<br /> [[Wikipedia:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|Launch Complex 39B]]<br /> |<br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Frank Rosewood<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Patrick Tucker<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Daniel Baxter<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|border|23px|United Kingdom]] Riley A. Harris (ESA)<br /> |[[Jupiter 246-B]]<br />(PJ-210)<br /> |style="text-align: center" | ''Discovery''<br /> |style="text-align: center" | ''Serenity''<br /> |12d 20h<br /> |Lunar orbital mission; survey of landing sites and test of docking/un-docking techniques procedures in lunar orbit. Deep space EVA. First crewed flight to leave Low Earth Orbit since 1972.<br /> |-<br /> ! scope="row" data-sort-value="08"|[[Apollo 8]]<br /> |21 December 1968<br>12:51 GMT<br /> |[[Frank Borman]]<br>[[Jim Lovell|James Lovell]]<br>[[William Anders]]<br /> |[[Jupiter 246-B]]<br>(PJ-207)<br /> |style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="0" | N/A<br /> |style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="0" | N/A<br /> |06d 03h<br>00m 42s<br /> |Circumlunar flight of CSM; first manned flight of Saturn V. Ten lunar orbits in 20 hours.<br /> |}</div>

Lafayette1 https://lafayetteinc.com/index.php?title=List_of_Phoenix_missions&diff=3499 List of Phoenix missions 2021-07-30T02:08:54Z

<p>Lafayette1: /* Crewed Phoenix missions */</p> <hr /> <div>{{about1|[[International Space Agency]]'s [[Phoenix program]] missions|[[Wikipedia:NASA|NASA]]'s [[Wikipedia:Apollo program|Apollo program]]|[[Wikipedia:List of Apollo missions|List of Apollo missions]]}}<br /> ==Crewed Phoenix missions==<br /> <br /> {| class="wikitable sortable"<br /> |-<br /> ! scope="col" width="60"|Mission<br /> ! scope="col" width="120"|Launch date<br /> ! scope="col" style="width: 130px;" class="unsortable" | Crew<br /> ! scope="col" | Launch Vehicle<br /> ! scope="col" | Orion MPCV Name<br /> ! scope="col" | Altair Name<br /> ! scope="col" | Duration<br /> ! scope="col" class="unsortable" |Notes<br /> |-<br /> ! scope="row" data-sort-value="02"|[[Phoenix 2]]<br /> |4 July 2011<br /> [[Wikipedia:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|Launch Complex 39B]]<br /> |<br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Logan Wilson<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Luke Buchanan<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Kane Blackwell<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Alexander Bishop (NASA)<br /> |[[Jupiter 246-B]]<br />(PJ-206)<br /> |style="text-align: center" | ''Draco''<br /> |style="text-align: center" | ''Voyager''<br /> |style="text-align: center" | 8d 18h<br /> | First manned Jupiter 246-B; Test flight of Orion capsule and Altair lander in Earth orbit.<br /> |-<br /> ! scope="row" data-sort-value="03"|[[Phoenix 3]]<br /> |30 September 2011<br /> [[Wikipedia:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|Launch Complex 39B]]<br /> |<br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Frank Rosewood<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Patrick Tucker<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Daniel Baxter<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|border|23px|United Kingdom]] Riley A. Harris (ESA)<br /> |[[Jupiter 246-B]]<br />(PJ-207)<br /> |style="text-align: center" | ''Discovery''<br /> |style="text-align: center" | ''Serenity''<br /> |12d 20h<br /> |Lunar orbital mission; survey of landing sites and test of docking/un-docking techniques procedures in lunar orbit. Deep space EVA. First manned flight to leave Low Earth Orbit since 1972.<br /> |-<br /> ! scope="row" data-sort-value="04"|[[Phoenix 4]]<br /> |19 December 2011<br /> [[Wikipedia:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|Launch Complex 39B]]<br /> |<br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Harold Hamilton<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] David Sanders<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of Finland.svg|border|23px|Finland]] Karri Litmanen (ESA)<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of Russia.svg|border|23px|Russia]] Vasili Petrov (Roscosmos)<br /> |[[Jupiter 246-B]]<br />(PJ-208)<br /> |style="text-align: center" | ''Aurora''<br /> |style="text-align: center" | ''Enterprise''<br /> |16d 14h<br /> |Landing at [[Wikipedia:Schroter's Valley|Vallis Schröteri]]. First lunar landing and lunar rover since Apollo 17. First Phoenix program sortie mission<br /> |-<br /> ! scope="row" data-sort-value="05"|[[Phoenix 5]]<br /> |30 September 2011<br /> [[Wikipedia:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|Launch Complex 39B]]<br /> |<br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Frank Rosewood<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Patrick Tucker<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Daniel Baxter<br><br /> [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|border|23px|United Kingdom]] Riley A. Harris (ESA)<br /> |[[Jupiter 246-B]]<br />(PJ-210)<br /> |style="text-align: center" | ''Discovery''<br /> |style="text-align: center" | ''Serenity''<br /> |12d 20h<br /> |Lunar orbital mission; survey of landing sites and test of docking/un-docking techniques procedures in lunar orbit. Deep space EVA. First crewed flight to leave Low Earth Orbit since 1972.<br /> |-<br /> ! scope="row" data-sort-value="08"|[[Apollo 8]]<br /> |21 December 1968<br>12:51 GMT<br /> |[[Frank Borman]]<br>[[Jim Lovell|James Lovell]]<br>[[William Anders]]<br /> |[[Jupiter 246-B]]<br>(PJ-207)<br /> |style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="0" | N/A<br /> |style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="0" | N/A<br /> |06d 03h<br>00m 42s<br /> |Circumlunar flight of CSM; first manned flight of Saturn V. Ten lunar orbits in 20 hours.<br /> |}</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Gregory James Harris */</p> <hr /> <div>==General==<br /> ===[[Ian Rubin]]===<br /> *'''Born''': February 23, 1980; Lafayette, LA<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-8, [[STS-10W]], Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Fractal Rubin===<br /> *'''Born''': March 14, 1980 (Pi Day), Los Alamos, NM<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Parents''': Rena Sinclair (mother), Ardan Sinclair (father)<br /> *'''Maiden name''': Fractal Sinclair<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Ian Rubin (husband: '''12-23-07''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''': Fractal's parents arrived on Earth in 1947 and eventually found employment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a top secret division overseen by the CIA. They worked on both physics research and development of new nuclear weapon designs. Fractal grew up with other Hoomiku and was cared for by her parents as much as was physically possible. In 1986, her parents were killed following accidental exposure to fatal radiation levels during an experiment ordered by the CIA to research telepathy blocking techniques. Both died in front of Fractal, who refused to leave their side in the infirmary. She was placed in the care of foster parents following the accident. While she never considered them her new parents, she did return their affection and was polite, but continued to be deeply wounded by the loss of her parents.</p><p>In 1989, ''The New York Times'' publishes classified information leaked by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell regarding the extent and details of projects involving the Hoomiku held by the United States. The Thornwell leak is considered the defining moment when rumors of aliens form into fact, as he divulged major details about the Hoomiku, including crimes committed by the United States and Soviet Union towards them. President George H. W. Bush eventually acknowledges the species in 1990 under growing pressure from both Congress and the press, a move followed shortly by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The United Nations General Assembly drafts Resolution 45/77, defining both the rights of Hoomiku to basic laws and defining the security and privacy of thought as a basic human right. Given that a breeding population exists on Earth, they are not in danger of dying out. The public is shocked, but no massive social upheaval occurs. Several hate crimes do occur, however, and prompt legislation with regards to both the use of telepathy in certain situations and locations and providing the basis for a lawsuit filed by several hundred Hoomiku against the United States. The suit is ruled in favor of the Hoomiku and as a result, Fractal is entitled to a free college education, a house, and $40,000 on her 18th birthday. She attends New Mexico Tech and briefly works as a DJ at a local radio station. Eventually, she transferred to New Mexico University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in both botany and physics.</p><p>Following graduation, she began to work at a start-up in Albuquerque studying new techniques for indoor crop growth. In 2006, she traveled to Russia for research into aeroponic farming techniques studied by the Russian Federal Space Agency. There she met Ian Rubin in Star City, and the two hit it off and began dating until Ian's flight to the International Space Station on September 18, 2006. The two resumed their relationship following the flight and in December, Fractal moved to Louisiana. The two were married on December 23, 2007.</p><br /> <br /> ===[[Sandra Harris]]===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Gregory Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[International Space Agency]]<br /> *'''Items''': Sandra's most cherished possession is a badly scuffed, space certified [[Wikipedia:Omega Speedmaster|Omega Speedmaster]] (Ref. 3570.50.00) with a black Velcro strap that has permanently been stained a grayish color. The watch was given to her by the International Space Agency for use on the Moon, and she subsequently purchased the watch for retail price from the space agency. She almost never parts with it and would do almost anything (within reason) to recover it if it is lost or stolen. While the sapphire crystal has been replaced due to severe scratching, she has not asked the jeweler to repair the case scratches. The watch is kept in top condition and keeps accurate time, and contains strontium aluminate lume on the dial and hands. In early 2020, Sandra purchased a new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch (Ref. 311.30.42.30.01.005) to replace her original, which is now kept in a display case at her home along with other objects from her career as an astronaut. This watch also features strontium aluminate lume, and Sandra tends to wear the watch with either an orange or 6 stripe rainbow polyamide NATO strap when wearing it daily. Sandra has publicly stated that she intends to bring both with her on her next lunar mission, and wore the newer of the two watches during her spacewalks on STS-250.<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Phoenix 9]], [[STS-217]], [[STS-250]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Gregory James Harris===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Died''': November 9, 2008<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Stats''': <br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Items''': <br /> *'''Abilities''':<br /> ** Gregory is always able to pull a refrigerated 355 ml (12 fl oz) or half-liter glass bottle of [[Wikipedia:Fresca#Versions|Fresca]] soda from Mexico out of thin air at will. The bottle is constantly full, and drinking from it doesn't reduce the amount in the bottle. Pouring it fills a glass up to the amount that the bottle actually contains and empties the bottle in the process, at which point it becomes full again when done pouring as though nothing was drained from it. Anyone other than Greg or another ghost is apparently unable to do this with the bottle. (You can't fill a swimming pool up this way, in other words.)<br /> ** Greg is able to pull a gilded metal key from his pocket at will, which he can use to produce a door out of thin air. When used, it is manifested as Greg inserting the key into the air, at which point it disappears as though inserted into an invisible lock. At this point, Greg can push open a door in the air, which is apparently made out of Lucite or acrylic. Greg (and by extension anyone else) can then step through the door to the location connected to the door, which can either be freestanding on the other end or an actual door. The chosen location can be to anywhere in the universe (for example, a door leading from an alley to a location across a city) or to a location in another plane of existence (for example, from an alley in a city in the Caribbean to a recreation of a bar in the afterlife). In this way, the door acts as a wormhole similar to the doors from the Pixar film ''[[Wikipedia:Monsters, Inc.|Monsters, Inc.]]''. Anyone viewing these doors from the side would see the location of the door as an incredibly thin line of smoky, solid air, and viewed from the rear, the area where the door is would appear as a square as a similar smoky, solid are of air that can be stepped through with no ill effect other than a sensation best describe as having stepped through a cold air curtain.<br /> *'''Afterlife description''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Julia Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Thomas Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Whittington===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Rough collie<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Jackie Cormier===<br /> *'''Born''': April 15, 1988; Seattle, WA<br /> *'''Species''': Catahoula Cur (Predominantely blue and white fur with black splotches and spots. Has heterochromia: left eye blue, right eye hazel.) <br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Related to''': David Cormier (brother)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Nickname''': ''Split-eyes'', ''Splits'', ''Blue dog''<br /> *'''Rank''': Petty Officer 2nd Class, Aviation Survival Technician (Rescue swimmer)<br /> *'''History''': Moved to Louisiana at six years of age from Seattle after her father was laid off from Boeing. Joined the Coast Guard and is one of only four female swimmers. Currently resides in Canon Shoals, OR. Originally stationed at [[Wikipedia:Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles|CGAS Port Angeles]], WA until her entire crew was transferred to Canon Shoals following [REDACTED] in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.<br /> <br /> ===#===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Sports related==<br /> ===Wesley D. Romero===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Long-tailed weasel<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Team''': Bangor Tides (Furry Basketball Association)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Carlos Coronado===<br /> *'''Born''': Merida, Yucatan, MX<br /> *'''Species''': Jaguar<br /> *'''Nationality''': Mexican<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Abbey Crandall (girlfriend: '''Sochi Winter Olympics''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Team''': Louisiana IceGators (National Hockey League)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Astronauts==<br /> ===Harold Hamilton===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Gray wolf<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-109|STS-109]], [[Wikipedia:STS-117|STS-117]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Sanders===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': White Siberian tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-113|STS-113]], [[Wikipedia:STS-120|STS-120]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Derek Ozark===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': River dragon (Blue, no wings)<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Ixy Comeaux===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Looking Glass related==<br /> ===Cora Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Halni Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Vargi===<br /> *'''First activated''':<br /> *'''Species''': Artificial intelligence <br /> **'''Primary avatar''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> ===Carla Maxwell===<br /> *'''Born''': October 8, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': River otter<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (''maître d'île'', Phoenix Cay)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bruce Anderson===<br /> *'''Born''': April 17, 1978; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<br /> *'''Species''': Bengal Tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''': Australian<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (pilot)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Frederick Hollande===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Dhole<br /> *'''Nationality''': French<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[TCI Research]] (Director, [[Ellis National Laboratory]], Superconducting Super Collider) <br /> **'''Former employer''': [[Wikipedia:CERN|CERN]] (various roles relating to the [[Wikipedia:Large Hadron Collider|Large Hadron Collider]])<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universes==<br /> ===X===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': Prime/''Wonderland''/''Looking Glass Land'' <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Zachary Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': April 18, 2002; Waxahachie, TX <br /> **'''Date/place of birth listed on current ID''': April 18, 1996; Waxahachie, TX. <br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': Fractal S. Calliden, Roger Calliden<br /> *'''Friends with''': Lindsey Waldroup <br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''[[Looking Glass Land]]'', 2020<br /> *'''History''': Personality and higher brain functions implanted within brain of Lindsey Waldroup. Eventually removed and placed into a high capacity AI core on 2-1-2015. Body restored on: 6-22-2015. Taken in by Ian and Fractal, with official story being that parents died in car accident and Fractal was only living relative. Moved in with them from home in Honolulu.<br /> <br /> ===Roger Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': October 4, 1978; Rachel, NV<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Spouse''': Fractal S. Calliden<br /> *'''Employed by''': Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (researcher, SDC detector)<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''Looking Glass Land'', 2020<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bonnie Krueger===<br /> *'''Born''': ????, ????; Goldfern Station (Sometime in the future in a space related setting; Current age is 23)<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Stats''': 5'8", 137 lbs, green eyes. Possibly missing a small notch from one ear following a bad deal she failed to complete.<br /> *'''Clothing''': Blue jeans, black combat boots, white t-shirt, torn black leather jacket with a VERY faded logo for an old Earth space program on the back. <br /> *'''Items''': Brown leather holster, 2 year old laser pistol or plasma pistol plus battery pack for the above. Carries a beaten up rucksack or backpack containing her worldly goods.<br /> *'''Backpack contents'''<br /> ** Captain's license (''Goldfern Station'' - issuer)<br /> ** Phone (Most likely the newest thing she owns)<br /> ** Slightly beat up, but high end VR headset.<br /> ** One pair of welding goggles modified to be sunglasses with a HUD inside of the lenses. Goggles are the type with two round lenses, as opposed to a single square pane of glass.<br /> ** Roll-up solar panel/charger<br /> ** Treasured book from mother about item central to plot.<br /> ** 1 bottle of a rare alcoholic drink<br /> ** 1 change of clothes (no shoes)<br /> ** 1 memento of Earth<br /> ** 1 journal<br /> ** 1 MRE<br /> ** 1 bottle of water (1 liter)<br /> ** 1 30 minute air bottle with mask.<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ????<br /> *'''History (Revised for forum RP)''': Only child raised by her mother. Dad's rarely mentioned and Mom insinuates (read: ''adamantly maintains'') he's dead and spaced. No proof of it, though. Regardless, Bonnie has grown up in the light of the renaissance of renewed interest in Earth on Goldfern Station, brought up by a mother who worked far too hard for far too little money, but who genuinely loved her and filled her with wonderful stories of adventure, space and wonder for the "Pale Blue Dot". Tales of great explorers, the heady early days of space travel, the men and women who fought to break out of gravity wells to visit worlds in the same system. Tales of outlaws, as well: her namesake, Bonnie Parker, of pirates and Capone... of their fates and of the music and culture of a place lost to time and space. Filled with dreams, she fought hard to get her captain's license... only to discover that dreams have prices... as well as interest rates and late fees. Striking out on her own and saddled with a few old debts but no ship to pay them, she takes out one last loan: to buy a ticket to another star, another world. One where a ship awaits, she hopes, along with jobs, wealth and maybe, just maybe... Earth and eternal glory.<br /> *'''First intro''': Arrives at Helios Station with just enough to pay the docking fee, but her ship is repossessed within 10 minutes of her getting there. Stranded and pissed off, she decides to blow some of her meager savings at a bar, where a ''highly'' drunk tiger sits next to her and, in the middle of trying to tell him off, he reveals something highly crucial to her quest. She decides to ply the rest out of him with a few more drinks. She gets the info, but stripes decides to try to get into her pants right there in the middle of the room. She cracks a bottle of booze over his head and knocks him out cold, and grabs a few mysterious coins he's dropped while getting out of there. As "Timber" by Pitbull starts to play, she races away from station security as fast as her legs will carry her, shoving aside anything in her way and doing a good attempt at parkour... until she runs into her new best friend...<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universe/timeline descriptions==<br /> ===Looking Glass Land===<br /> *'''"Short" version:''' Otonichi (alien sneps) and Hoomiku (other alien felines with big ears) evolve on a planet around the star Tau Ceti named Ishonko. They eventually master space travel. Sometime in the 1930's, war were declared. King Zalkyo Jeskalt, of the Otonichi, is a murderous fuckwit. He hates hoomiku and the war grinds to a stalemate up to the moment when a couple of hoomiku terrorists blow up a city where the body of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in Otonichi history, resided in a glass sarcophagus. Zalkyo decides "These people are DEAD" and goes on a genocidal bender. Most hoomiku are dead, and the few who aren't flee to Earth towards the end of World War II. A few rogue hoomiku hide out in an asteroid mining base somewhere in space and tinker with time travel. They get discovered by the Otonichi in the 1950's and press the magic button to GTFO. They end up around earth in 1859 in the middle of the worst recorded solar storm in history. They escape to Earth. We'll come back to them in a bit, because THIS part is also complicated. Time keeps moving into the future. Someone comes to Zalkyo during the Cuban Missle Crisis with the suggestion that "Look, these people are going to blow each other up. If they DON'T, they could be a problem. Fuck with enough of their space program, and they'll stay on the ground." He signs off on this, and a few teams go covert on Earth to do that, since they look like snow leopards. They screw around with the Russian lunar rocket, kill the Apollo 1 crew in the fire, and POSSIBLY do something to Apollo 13. They then lie back until 1986, when the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' launches with a teacher on board. ''ENTER DIVERGENCE POINT BETWEEN LOOKING GLASS LAND AND REGULAR LAND '''HERE'''.'' Now, in 'Looking Glass Land', they activate the range safety system on the Space Shuttle right at SRB ignition and it blows up on the launch pad, killing the crew, destroying the pad and possibly killing a few people watching. The nation's devastated, but things go on and they're not caught. In 1990, they destroy Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' during STS-31 and blow it up in the air, killing the crew, destroying the Shuttle '''and''' the Hubble Space Telescope. This, coming four years after ''Challenger'', ends America's manned space program at the 1991 State of the Union. With no Space Shuttle to work on the ISS, and no ISS to speak of, the Superconducting Super Collider, a large atom smasher in Texas, is completed by 2000 rather than being cancelled in 1994. It discovers the Higgs boson in 2002... and lead researcher for the SDC collaboration Fractal Calliden, who married her college sweetheart Roger and has a son named Zach, announces the news. The Russians and Chinese, meanwhile, stubbornly carry forth with space. Around 2012, Melor Oliver, a big ol' wolf, is discovered to be using time travel to send stock information two minutes into the past to himself to make money. The SEC is annoyed and tries to pin him for something, but no luck. They do, however, Shanghai him into a secret project to research this. In 2017, the Otonichi try to screw with a Shenzhou launch from Jiquan. That's when they fuck up and the Chinese catch them. The world is now made aware of what's going on and that there's aliens screwing with our space programs. China hauls them out in a big show trial, then kills them for treason.</div>

Lafayette1 https://lafayetteinc.com/index.php?title=Character_cheat_sheet&diff=3497 Character cheat sheet 2021-06-28T10:34:51Z

<p>Lafayette1: /* Gregory James Harris */</p> <hr /> <div>==General==<br /> ===[[Ian Rubin]]===<br /> *'''Born''': February 23, 1980; Lafayette, LA<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-8, [[STS-10W]], Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Fractal Rubin===<br /> *'''Born''': March 14, 1980 (Pi Day), Los Alamos, NM<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Parents''': Rena Sinclair (mother), Ardan Sinclair (father)<br /> *'''Maiden name''': Fractal Sinclair<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Ian Rubin (husband: '''12-23-07''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''': Fractal's parents arrived on Earth in 1947 and eventually found employment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a top secret division overseen by the CIA. They worked on both physics research and development of new nuclear weapon designs. Fractal grew up with other Hoomiku and was cared for by her parents as much as was physically possible. In 1986, her parents were killed following accidental exposure to fatal radiation levels during an experiment ordered by the CIA to research telepathy blocking techniques. Both died in front of Fractal, who refused to leave their side in the infirmary. She was placed in the care of foster parents following the accident. While she never considered them her new parents, she did return their affection and was polite, but continued to be deeply wounded by the loss of her parents.</p><p>In 1989, ''The New York Times'' publishes classified information leaked by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell regarding the extent and details of projects involving the Hoomiku held by the United States. The Thornwell leak is considered the defining moment when rumors of aliens form into fact, as he divulged major details about the Hoomiku, including crimes committed by the United States and Soviet Union towards them. President George H. W. Bush eventually acknowledges the species in 1990 under growing pressure from both Congress and the press, a move followed shortly by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The United Nations General Assembly drafts Resolution 45/77, defining both the rights of Hoomiku to basic laws and defining the security and privacy of thought as a basic human right. Given that a breeding population exists on Earth, they are not in danger of dying out. The public is shocked, but no massive social upheaval occurs. Several hate crimes do occur, however, and prompt legislation with regards to both the use of telepathy in certain situations and locations and providing the basis for a lawsuit filed by several hundred Hoomiku against the United States. The suit is ruled in favor of the Hoomiku and as a result, Fractal is entitled to a free college education, a house, and $40,000 on her 18th birthday. She attends New Mexico Tech and briefly works as a DJ at a local radio station. Eventually, she transferred to New Mexico University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in both botany and physics.</p><p>Following graduation, she began to work at a start-up in Albuquerque studying new techniques for indoor crop growth. In 2006, she traveled to Russia for research into aeroponic farming techniques studied by the Russian Federal Space Agency. There she met Ian Rubin in Star City, and the two hit it off and began dating until Ian's flight to the International Space Station on September 18, 2006. The two resumed their relationship following the flight and in December, Fractal moved to Louisiana. The two were married on December 23, 2007.</p><br /> <br /> ===[[Sandra Harris]]===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Gregory Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[International Space Agency]]<br /> *'''Items''': Sandra's most cherished possession is a badly scuffed, space certified [[Wikipedia:Omega Speedmaster|Omega Speedmaster]] (Ref. 3570.50.00) with a black Velcro strap that has permanently been stained a grayish color. The watch was given to her by the International Space Agency for use on the Moon, and she subsequently purchased the watch for retail price from the space agency. She almost never parts with it and would do almost anything (within reason) to recover it if it is lost or stolen. While the sapphire crystal has been replaced due to severe scratching, she has not asked the jeweler to repair the case scratches. The watch is kept in top condition and keeps accurate time, and contains strontium aluminate lume on the dial and hands. In early 2020, Sandra purchased a new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch (Ref. 311.30.42.30.01.005) to replace her original, which is now kept in a display case at her home along with other objects from her career as an astronaut. This watch also features strontium aluminate lume, and Sandra tends to wear the watch with either an orange or 6 stripe rainbow polyamide NATO strap when wearing it daily. Sandra has publicly stated that she intends to bring both with her on her next lunar mission, and wore the newer of the two watches during her spacewalks on STS-250.<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Phoenix 9]], [[STS-217]], [[STS-250]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Gregory James Harris===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Died''': November 9, 2008<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Stats''': <br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Items''': <br /> *'''Abilities''':<br /> ** Gregory is always able to pull a refrigerated 355 ml (12 fl oz) or half-liter glass bottle of [[Wikipedia:Fresca#Versions|Fresca]] soda from Mexico out of thin air at will. The bottle is constantly full, and drinking from it doesn't reduce the amount in the bottle. Pouring it fills a glass up to the amount that the bottle actually contains and empties the bottle in the process, at which point it becomes full again when done pouring as though nothing was drained from it. Anyone other than Greg or another ghost is apparently unable to do this with the bottle. (You can't fill a swimming pool up this way, in other words.)<br /> ** Greg is able to pull a gilded metal key from his pocket at will, which he can use to produce a door out of thin air. When used, it is manifested as Greg inserting the key into the air, at which point it disappears as though inserted into an invisible lock. At this point, Greg can push open a door in the air, which is apparently made out of Lucite or acrylic. Greg (and by extension anyone else) can then step through the door to the location connected to the door, which can either be freestanding on the other end or an actual door. The chosen location can be to anywhere in the universe (for example, a door leading from an alley to a location across a city) or to a location in another plane of existence (for example, from an alley in a city in the Caribbean to a recreation of a bar in the afterlife). In this way, the door acts as a wormhole similar to the doors from the Pixar film ''[[Wikipedia:Monsters, Inc.|Monsters, Inc.]]'' Anyone viewing these doors from the side would see the location of the door as an incredibly thin line of smoky, solid air, and viewed from the rear, the area where the door is would appear as a square as a similar smoky, solid are of air that can be stepped through with no ill effect other than a sensation best describe as having stepped through a cold air curtain.<br /> *'''Afterlife description''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Julia Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Thomas Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Whittington===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Rough collie<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Jackie Cormier===<br /> *'''Born''': April 15, 1988; Seattle, WA<br /> *'''Species''': Catahoula Cur (Predominantely blue and white fur with black splotches and spots. Has heterochromia: left eye blue, right eye hazel.) <br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Related to''': David Cormier (brother)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Nickname''': ''Split-eyes'', ''Splits'', ''Blue dog''<br /> *'''Rank''': Petty Officer 2nd Class, Aviation Survival Technician (Rescue swimmer)<br /> *'''History''': Moved to Louisiana at six years of age from Seattle after her father was laid off from Boeing. Joined the Coast Guard and is one of only four female swimmers. Currently resides in Canon Shoals, OR. Originally stationed at [[Wikipedia:Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles|CGAS Port Angeles]], WA until her entire crew was transferred to Canon Shoals following [REDACTED] in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.<br /> <br /> ===#===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Sports related==<br /> ===Wesley D. Romero===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Long-tailed weasel<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Team''': Bangor Tides (Furry Basketball Association)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Carlos Coronado===<br /> *'''Born''': Merida, Yucatan, MX<br /> *'''Species''': Jaguar<br /> *'''Nationality''': Mexican<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Abbey Crandall (girlfriend: '''Sochi Winter Olympics''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Team''': Louisiana IceGators (National Hockey League)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Astronauts==<br /> ===Harold Hamilton===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Gray wolf<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-109|STS-109]], [[Wikipedia:STS-117|STS-117]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Sanders===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': White Siberian tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-113|STS-113]], [[Wikipedia:STS-120|STS-120]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Derek Ozark===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': River dragon (Blue, no wings)<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Ixy Comeaux===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Looking Glass related==<br /> ===Cora Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Halni Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Vargi===<br /> *'''First activated''':<br /> *'''Species''': Artificial intelligence <br /> **'''Primary avatar''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> ===Carla Maxwell===<br /> *'''Born''': October 8, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': River otter<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (''maître d'île'', Phoenix Cay)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bruce Anderson===<br /> *'''Born''': April 17, 1978; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<br /> *'''Species''': Bengal Tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''': Australian<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (pilot)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Frederick Hollande===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Dhole<br /> *'''Nationality''': French<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[TCI Research]] (Director, [[Ellis National Laboratory]], Superconducting Super Collider) <br /> **'''Former employer''': [[Wikipedia:CERN|CERN]] (various roles relating to the [[Wikipedia:Large Hadron Collider|Large Hadron Collider]])<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universes==<br /> ===X===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': Prime/''Wonderland''/''Looking Glass Land'' <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Zachary Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': April 18, 2002; Waxahachie, TX <br /> **'''Date/place of birth listed on current ID''': April 18, 1996; Waxahachie, TX. <br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': Fractal S. Calliden, Roger Calliden<br /> *'''Friends with''': Lindsey Waldroup <br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''[[Looking Glass Land]]'', 2020<br /> *'''History''': Personality and higher brain functions implanted within brain of Lindsey Waldroup. Eventually removed and placed into a high capacity AI core on 2-1-2015. Body restored on: 6-22-2015. Taken in by Ian and Fractal, with official story being that parents died in car accident and Fractal was only living relative. Moved in with them from home in Honolulu.<br /> <br /> ===Roger Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': October 4, 1978; Rachel, NV<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Spouse''': Fractal S. Calliden<br /> *'''Employed by''': Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (researcher, SDC detector)<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''Looking Glass Land'', 2020<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bonnie Krueger===<br /> *'''Born''': ????, ????; Goldfern Station (Sometime in the future in a space related setting; Current age is 23)<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Stats''': 5'8", 137 lbs, green eyes. Possibly missing a small notch from one ear following a bad deal she failed to complete.<br /> *'''Clothing''': Blue jeans, black combat boots, white t-shirt, torn black leather jacket with a VERY faded logo for an old Earth space program on the back. <br /> *'''Items''': Brown leather holster, 2 year old laser pistol or plasma pistol plus battery pack for the above. Carries a beaten up rucksack or backpack containing her worldly goods.<br /> *'''Backpack contents'''<br /> ** Captain's license (''Goldfern Station'' - issuer)<br /> ** Phone (Most likely the newest thing she owns)<br /> ** Slightly beat up, but high end VR headset.<br /> ** One pair of welding goggles modified to be sunglasses with a HUD inside of the lenses. Goggles are the type with two round lenses, as opposed to a single square pane of glass.<br /> ** Roll-up solar panel/charger<br /> ** Treasured book from mother about item central to plot.<br /> ** 1 bottle of a rare alcoholic drink<br /> ** 1 change of clothes (no shoes)<br /> ** 1 memento of Earth<br /> ** 1 journal<br /> ** 1 MRE<br /> ** 1 bottle of water (1 liter)<br /> ** 1 30 minute air bottle with mask.<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ????<br /> *'''History (Revised for forum RP)''': Only child raised by her mother. Dad's rarely mentioned and Mom insinuates (read: ''adamantly maintains'') he's dead and spaced. No proof of it, though. Regardless, Bonnie has grown up in the light of the renaissance of renewed interest in Earth on Goldfern Station, brought up by a mother who worked far too hard for far too little money, but who genuinely loved her and filled her with wonderful stories of adventure, space and wonder for the "Pale Blue Dot". Tales of great explorers, the heady early days of space travel, the men and women who fought to break out of gravity wells to visit worlds in the same system. Tales of outlaws, as well: her namesake, Bonnie Parker, of pirates and Capone... of their fates and of the music and culture of a place lost to time and space. Filled with dreams, she fought hard to get her captain's license... only to discover that dreams have prices... as well as interest rates and late fees. Striking out on her own and saddled with a few old debts but no ship to pay them, she takes out one last loan: to buy a ticket to another star, another world. One where a ship awaits, she hopes, along with jobs, wealth and maybe, just maybe... Earth and eternal glory.<br /> *'''First intro''': Arrives at Helios Station with just enough to pay the docking fee, but her ship is repossessed within 10 minutes of her getting there. Stranded and pissed off, she decides to blow some of her meager savings at a bar, where a ''highly'' drunk tiger sits next to her and, in the middle of trying to tell him off, he reveals something highly crucial to her quest. She decides to ply the rest out of him with a few more drinks. She gets the info, but stripes decides to try to get into her pants right there in the middle of the room. She cracks a bottle of booze over his head and knocks him out cold, and grabs a few mysterious coins he's dropped while getting out of there. As "Timber" by Pitbull starts to play, she races away from station security as fast as her legs will carry her, shoving aside anything in her way and doing a good attempt at parkour... until she runs into her new best friend...<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universe/timeline descriptions==<br /> ===Looking Glass Land===<br /> *'''"Short" version:''' Otonichi (alien sneps) and Hoomiku (other alien felines with big ears) evolve on a planet around the star Tau Ceti named Ishonko. They eventually master space travel. Sometime in the 1930's, war were declared. King Zalkyo Jeskalt, of the Otonichi, is a murderous fuckwit. He hates hoomiku and the war grinds to a stalemate up to the moment when a couple of hoomiku terrorists blow up a city where the body of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in Otonichi history, resided in a glass sarcophagus. Zalkyo decides "These people are DEAD" and goes on a genocidal bender. Most hoomiku are dead, and the few who aren't flee to Earth towards the end of World War II. A few rogue hoomiku hide out in an asteroid mining base somewhere in space and tinker with time travel. They get discovered by the Otonichi in the 1950's and press the magic button to GTFO. They end up around earth in 1859 in the middle of the worst recorded solar storm in history. They escape to Earth. We'll come back to them in a bit, because THIS part is also complicated. Time keeps moving into the future. Someone comes to Zalkyo during the Cuban Missle Crisis with the suggestion that "Look, these people are going to blow each other up. If they DON'T, they could be a problem. Fuck with enough of their space program, and they'll stay on the ground." He signs off on this, and a few teams go covert on Earth to do that, since they look like snow leopards. They screw around with the Russian lunar rocket, kill the Apollo 1 crew in the fire, and POSSIBLY do something to Apollo 13. They then lie back until 1986, when the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' launches with a teacher on board. ''ENTER DIVERGENCE POINT BETWEEN LOOKING GLASS LAND AND REGULAR LAND '''HERE'''.'' Now, in 'Looking Glass Land', they activate the range safety system on the Space Shuttle right at SRB ignition and it blows up on the launch pad, killing the crew, destroying the pad and possibly killing a few people watching. The nation's devastated, but things go on and they're not caught. In 1990, they destroy Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' during STS-31 and blow it up in the air, killing the crew, destroying the Shuttle '''and''' the Hubble Space Telescope. This, coming four years after ''Challenger'', ends America's manned space program at the 1991 State of the Union. With no Space Shuttle to work on the ISS, and no ISS to speak of, the Superconducting Super Collider, a large atom smasher in Texas, is completed by 2000 rather than being cancelled in 1994. It discovers the Higgs boson in 2002... and lead researcher for the SDC collaboration Fractal Calliden, who married her college sweetheart Roger and has a son named Zach, announces the news. The Russians and Chinese, meanwhile, stubbornly carry forth with space. Around 2012, Melor Oliver, a big ol' wolf, is discovered to be using time travel to send stock information two minutes into the past to himself to make money. The SEC is annoyed and tries to pin him for something, but no luck. They do, however, Shanghai him into a secret project to research this. In 2017, the Otonichi try to screw with a Shenzhou launch from Jiquan. That's when they fuck up and the Chinese catch them. The world is now made aware of what's going on and that there's aliens screwing with our space programs. China hauls them out in a big show trial, then kills them for treason.</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Gregory James Harris */</p> <hr /> <div>==General==<br /> ===[[Ian Rubin]]===<br /> *'''Born''': February 23, 1980; Lafayette, LA<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-8, [[STS-10W]], Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Fractal Rubin===<br /> *'''Born''': March 14, 1980 (Pi Day), Los Alamos, NM<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Parents''': Rena Sinclair (mother), Ardan Sinclair (father)<br /> *'''Maiden name''': Fractal Sinclair<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Ian Rubin (husband: '''12-23-07''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''': Fractal's parents arrived on Earth in 1947 and eventually found employment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a top secret division overseen by the CIA. They worked on both physics research and development of new nuclear weapon designs. Fractal grew up with other Hoomiku and was cared for by her parents as much as was physically possible. In 1986, her parents were killed following accidental exposure to fatal radiation levels during an experiment ordered by the CIA to research telepathy blocking techniques. Both died in front of Fractal, who refused to leave their side in the infirmary. She was placed in the care of foster parents following the accident. While she never considered them her new parents, she did return their affection and was polite, but continued to be deeply wounded by the loss of her parents.</p><p>In 1989, ''The New York Times'' publishes classified information leaked by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell regarding the extent and details of projects involving the Hoomiku held by the United States. The Thornwell leak is considered the defining moment when rumors of aliens form into fact, as he divulged major details about the Hoomiku, including crimes committed by the United States and Soviet Union towards them. President George H. W. Bush eventually acknowledges the species in 1990 under growing pressure from both Congress and the press, a move followed shortly by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The United Nations General Assembly drafts Resolution 45/77, defining both the rights of Hoomiku to basic laws and defining the security and privacy of thought as a basic human right. Given that a breeding population exists on Earth, they are not in danger of dying out. The public is shocked, but no massive social upheaval occurs. Several hate crimes do occur, however, and prompt legislation with regards to both the use of telepathy in certain situations and locations and providing the basis for a lawsuit filed by several hundred Hoomiku against the United States. The suit is ruled in favor of the Hoomiku and as a result, Fractal is entitled to a free college education, a house, and $40,000 on her 18th birthday. She attends New Mexico Tech and briefly works as a DJ at a local radio station. Eventually, she transferred to New Mexico University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in both botany and physics.</p><p>Following graduation, she began to work at a start-up in Albuquerque studying new techniques for indoor crop growth. In 2006, she traveled to Russia for research into aeroponic farming techniques studied by the Russian Federal Space Agency. There she met Ian Rubin in Star City, and the two hit it off and began dating until Ian's flight to the International Space Station on September 18, 2006. The two resumed their relationship following the flight and in December, Fractal moved to Louisiana. The two were married on December 23, 2007.</p><br /> <br /> ===[[Sandra Harris]]===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Gregory Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[International Space Agency]]<br /> *'''Items''': Sandra's most cherished possession is a badly scuffed, space certified [[Wikipedia:Omega Speedmaster|Omega Speedmaster]] (Ref. 3570.50.00) with a black Velcro strap that has permanently been stained a grayish color. The watch was given to her by the International Space Agency for use on the Moon, and she subsequently purchased the watch for retail price from the space agency. She almost never parts with it and would do almost anything (within reason) to recover it if it is lost or stolen. While the sapphire crystal has been replaced due to severe scratching, she has not asked the jeweler to repair the case scratches. The watch is kept in top condition and keeps accurate time, and contains strontium aluminate lume on the dial and hands. In early 2020, Sandra purchased a new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch (Ref. 311.30.42.30.01.005) to replace her original, which is now kept in a display case at her home along with other objects from her career as an astronaut. This watch also features strontium aluminate lume, and Sandra tends to wear the watch with either an orange or 6 stripe rainbow polyamide NATO strap when wearing it daily. Sandra has publicly stated that she intends to bring both with her on her next lunar mission, and wore the newer of the two watches during her spacewalks on STS-250.<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Phoenix 9]], [[STS-217]], [[STS-250]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Gregory James Harris===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Died''': November 9, 2008<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Stats''': <br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Items''': <br /> *'''Abilities''':<br /> ** Gregory is always able to pull a refrigerated 355 ml (12 fl oz) or half-liter glass bottle of [[Wikipedia:Fresca#Versions|Fresca]] soda from Mexico out of thin air at will. The bottle is constantly full, and drinking from it doesn't reduce the amount in the bottle. Pouring it fills a glass up to the amount that the bottle actually contains and empties the bottle in the process, at which point it becomes full again when done pouring as though nothing was drained from it. Anyone other than Greg or another ghost is apparently unable to do this with the bottle. (You can't fill a swimming pool up this way, in other words.)<br /> * <br /> *'''Afterlife description''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Julia Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Thomas Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Whittington===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Rough collie<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Jackie Cormier===<br /> *'''Born''': April 15, 1988; Seattle, WA<br /> *'''Species''': Catahoula Cur (Predominantely blue and white fur with black splotches and spots. Has heterochromia: left eye blue, right eye hazel.) <br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Related to''': David Cormier (brother)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Nickname''': ''Split-eyes'', ''Splits'', ''Blue dog''<br /> *'''Rank''': Petty Officer 2nd Class, Aviation Survival Technician (Rescue swimmer)<br /> *'''History''': Moved to Louisiana at six years of age from Seattle after her father was laid off from Boeing. Joined the Coast Guard and is one of only four female swimmers. Currently resides in Canon Shoals, OR. Originally stationed at [[Wikipedia:Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles|CGAS Port Angeles]], WA until her entire crew was transferred to Canon Shoals following [REDACTED] in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.<br /> <br /> ===#===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Sports related==<br /> ===Wesley D. Romero===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Long-tailed weasel<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Team''': Bangor Tides (Furry Basketball Association)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Carlos Coronado===<br /> *'''Born''': Merida, Yucatan, MX<br /> *'''Species''': Jaguar<br /> *'''Nationality''': Mexican<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Abbey Crandall (girlfriend: '''Sochi Winter Olympics''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Team''': Louisiana IceGators (National Hockey League)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Astronauts==<br /> ===Harold Hamilton===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Gray wolf<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-109|STS-109]], [[Wikipedia:STS-117|STS-117]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Sanders===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': White Siberian tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-113|STS-113]], [[Wikipedia:STS-120|STS-120]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Derek Ozark===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': River dragon (Blue, no wings)<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Ixy Comeaux===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Looking Glass related==<br /> ===Cora Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Halni Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Vargi===<br /> *'''First activated''':<br /> *'''Species''': Artificial intelligence <br /> **'''Primary avatar''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> ===Carla Maxwell===<br /> *'''Born''': October 8, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': River otter<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (''maître d'île'', Phoenix Cay)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bruce Anderson===<br /> *'''Born''': April 17, 1978; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<br /> *'''Species''': Bengal Tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''': Australian<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (pilot)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Frederick Hollande===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Dhole<br /> *'''Nationality''': French<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[TCI Research]] (Director, [[Ellis National Laboratory]], Superconducting Super Collider) <br /> **'''Former employer''': [[Wikipedia:CERN|CERN]] (various roles relating to the [[Wikipedia:Large Hadron Collider|Large Hadron Collider]])<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universes==<br /> ===X===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': Prime/''Wonderland''/''Looking Glass Land'' <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Zachary Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': April 18, 2002; Waxahachie, TX <br /> **'''Date/place of birth listed on current ID''': April 18, 1996; Waxahachie, TX. <br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': Fractal S. Calliden, Roger Calliden<br /> *'''Friends with''': Lindsey Waldroup <br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''[[Looking Glass Land]]'', 2020<br /> *'''History''': Personality and higher brain functions implanted within brain of Lindsey Waldroup. Eventually removed and placed into a high capacity AI core on 2-1-2015. Body restored on: 6-22-2015. Taken in by Ian and Fractal, with official story being that parents died in car accident and Fractal was only living relative. Moved in with them from home in Honolulu.<br /> <br /> ===Roger Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': October 4, 1978; Rachel, NV<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Spouse''': Fractal S. Calliden<br /> *'''Employed by''': Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (researcher, SDC detector)<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''Looking Glass Land'', 2020<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bonnie Krueger===<br /> *'''Born''': ????, ????; Goldfern Station (Sometime in the future in a space related setting; Current age is 23)<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Stats''': 5'8", 137 lbs, green eyes. Possibly missing a small notch from one ear following a bad deal she failed to complete.<br /> *'''Clothing''': Blue jeans, black combat boots, white t-shirt, torn black leather jacket with a VERY faded logo for an old Earth space program on the back. <br /> *'''Items''': Brown leather holster, 2 year old laser pistol or plasma pistol plus battery pack for the above. Carries a beaten up rucksack or backpack containing her worldly goods.<br /> *'''Backpack contents'''<br /> ** Captain's license (''Goldfern Station'' - issuer)<br /> ** Phone (Most likely the newest thing she owns)<br /> ** Slightly beat up, but high end VR headset.<br /> ** One pair of welding goggles modified to be sunglasses with a HUD inside of the lenses. Goggles are the type with two round lenses, as opposed to a single square pane of glass.<br /> ** Roll-up solar panel/charger<br /> ** Treasured book from mother about item central to plot.<br /> ** 1 bottle of a rare alcoholic drink<br /> ** 1 change of clothes (no shoes)<br /> ** 1 memento of Earth<br /> ** 1 journal<br /> ** 1 MRE<br /> ** 1 bottle of water (1 liter)<br /> ** 1 30 minute air bottle with mask.<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ????<br /> *'''History (Revised for forum RP)''': Only child raised by her mother. Dad's rarely mentioned and Mom insinuates (read: ''adamantly maintains'') he's dead and spaced. No proof of it, though. Regardless, Bonnie has grown up in the light of the renaissance of renewed interest in Earth on Goldfern Station, brought up by a mother who worked far too hard for far too little money, but who genuinely loved her and filled her with wonderful stories of adventure, space and wonder for the "Pale Blue Dot". Tales of great explorers, the heady early days of space travel, the men and women who fought to break out of gravity wells to visit worlds in the same system. Tales of outlaws, as well: her namesake, Bonnie Parker, of pirates and Capone... of their fates and of the music and culture of a place lost to time and space. Filled with dreams, she fought hard to get her captain's license... only to discover that dreams have prices... as well as interest rates and late fees. Striking out on her own and saddled with a few old debts but no ship to pay them, she takes out one last loan: to buy a ticket to another star, another world. One where a ship awaits, she hopes, along with jobs, wealth and maybe, just maybe... Earth and eternal glory.<br /> *'''First intro''': Arrives at Helios Station with just enough to pay the docking fee, but her ship is repossessed within 10 minutes of her getting there. Stranded and pissed off, she decides to blow some of her meager savings at a bar, where a ''highly'' drunk tiger sits next to her and, in the middle of trying to tell him off, he reveals something highly crucial to her quest. She decides to ply the rest out of him with a few more drinks. She gets the info, but stripes decides to try to get into her pants right there in the middle of the room. She cracks a bottle of booze over his head and knocks him out cold, and grabs a few mysterious coins he's dropped while getting out of there. As "Timber" by Pitbull starts to play, she races away from station security as fast as her legs will carry her, shoving aside anything in her way and doing a good attempt at parkour... until she runs into her new best friend...<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universe/timeline descriptions==<br /> ===Looking Glass Land===<br /> *'''"Short" version:''' Otonichi (alien sneps) and Hoomiku (other alien felines with big ears) evolve on a planet around the star Tau Ceti named Ishonko. They eventually master space travel. Sometime in the 1930's, war were declared. King Zalkyo Jeskalt, of the Otonichi, is a murderous fuckwit. He hates hoomiku and the war grinds to a stalemate up to the moment when a couple of hoomiku terrorists blow up a city where the body of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in Otonichi history, resided in a glass sarcophagus. Zalkyo decides "These people are DEAD" and goes on a genocidal bender. Most hoomiku are dead, and the few who aren't flee to Earth towards the end of World War II. A few rogue hoomiku hide out in an asteroid mining base somewhere in space and tinker with time travel. They get discovered by the Otonichi in the 1950's and press the magic button to GTFO. They end up around earth in 1859 in the middle of the worst recorded solar storm in history. They escape to Earth. We'll come back to them in a bit, because THIS part is also complicated. Time keeps moving into the future. Someone comes to Zalkyo during the Cuban Missle Crisis with the suggestion that "Look, these people are going to blow each other up. If they DON'T, they could be a problem. Fuck with enough of their space program, and they'll stay on the ground." He signs off on this, and a few teams go covert on Earth to do that, since they look like snow leopards. They screw around with the Russian lunar rocket, kill the Apollo 1 crew in the fire, and POSSIBLY do something to Apollo 13. They then lie back until 1986, when the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' launches with a teacher on board. ''ENTER DIVERGENCE POINT BETWEEN LOOKING GLASS LAND AND REGULAR LAND '''HERE'''.'' Now, in 'Looking Glass Land', they activate the range safety system on the Space Shuttle right at SRB ignition and it blows up on the launch pad, killing the crew, destroying the pad and possibly killing a few people watching. The nation's devastated, but things go on and they're not caught. In 1990, they destroy Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' during STS-31 and blow it up in the air, killing the crew, destroying the Shuttle '''and''' the Hubble Space Telescope. This, coming four years after ''Challenger'', ends America's manned space program at the 1991 State of the Union. With no Space Shuttle to work on the ISS, and no ISS to speak of, the Superconducting Super Collider, a large atom smasher in Texas, is completed by 2000 rather than being cancelled in 1994. It discovers the Higgs boson in 2002... and lead researcher for the SDC collaboration Fractal Calliden, who married her college sweetheart Roger and has a son named Zach, announces the news. The Russians and Chinese, meanwhile, stubbornly carry forth with space. Around 2012, Melor Oliver, a big ol' wolf, is discovered to be using time travel to send stock information two minutes into the past to himself to make money. The SEC is annoyed and tries to pin him for something, but no luck. They do, however, Shanghai him into a secret project to research this. In 2017, the Otonichi try to screw with a Shenzhou launch from Jiquan. That's when they fuck up and the Chinese catch them. The world is now made aware of what's going on and that there's aliens screwing with our space programs. China hauls them out in a big show trial, then kills them for treason.</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Gregory James Harris */</p> <hr /> <div>==General==<br /> ===[[Ian Rubin]]===<br /> *'''Born''': February 23, 1980; Lafayette, LA<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-8, [[STS-10W]], Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Fractal Rubin===<br /> *'''Born''': March 14, 1980 (Pi Day), Los Alamos, NM<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Parents''': Rena Sinclair (mother), Ardan Sinclair (father)<br /> *'''Maiden name''': Fractal Sinclair<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Ian Rubin (husband: '''12-23-07''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''': Fractal's parents arrived on Earth in 1947 and eventually found employment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a top secret division overseen by the CIA. They worked on both physics research and development of new nuclear weapon designs. Fractal grew up with other Hoomiku and was cared for by her parents as much as was physically possible. In 1986, her parents were killed following accidental exposure to fatal radiation levels during an experiment ordered by the CIA to research telepathy blocking techniques. Both died in front of Fractal, who refused to leave their side in the infirmary. She was placed in the care of foster parents following the accident. While she never considered them her new parents, she did return their affection and was polite, but continued to be deeply wounded by the loss of her parents.</p><p>In 1989, ''The New York Times'' publishes classified information leaked by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell regarding the extent and details of projects involving the Hoomiku held by the United States. The Thornwell leak is considered the defining moment when rumors of aliens form into fact, as he divulged major details about the Hoomiku, including crimes committed by the United States and Soviet Union towards them. President George H. W. Bush eventually acknowledges the species in 1990 under growing pressure from both Congress and the press, a move followed shortly by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The United Nations General Assembly drafts Resolution 45/77, defining both the rights of Hoomiku to basic laws and defining the security and privacy of thought as a basic human right. Given that a breeding population exists on Earth, they are not in danger of dying out. The public is shocked, but no massive social upheaval occurs. Several hate crimes do occur, however, and prompt legislation with regards to both the use of telepathy in certain situations and locations and providing the basis for a lawsuit filed by several hundred Hoomiku against the United States. The suit is ruled in favor of the Hoomiku and as a result, Fractal is entitled to a free college education, a house, and $40,000 on her 18th birthday. She attends New Mexico Tech and briefly works as a DJ at a local radio station. Eventually, she transferred to New Mexico University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in both botany and physics.</p><p>Following graduation, she began to work at a start-up in Albuquerque studying new techniques for indoor crop growth. In 2006, she traveled to Russia for research into aeroponic farming techniques studied by the Russian Federal Space Agency. There she met Ian Rubin in Star City, and the two hit it off and began dating until Ian's flight to the International Space Station on September 18, 2006. The two resumed their relationship following the flight and in December, Fractal moved to Louisiana. The two were married on December 23, 2007.</p><br /> <br /> ===[[Sandra Harris]]===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Gregory Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[International Space Agency]]<br /> *'''Items''': Sandra's most cherished possession is a badly scuffed, space certified [[Wikipedia:Omega Speedmaster|Omega Speedmaster]] (Ref. 3570.50.00) with a black Velcro strap that has permanently been stained a grayish color. The watch was given to her by the International Space Agency for use on the Moon, and she subsequently purchased the watch for retail price from the space agency. She almost never parts with it and would do almost anything (within reason) to recover it if it is lost or stolen. While the sapphire crystal has been replaced due to severe scratching, she has not asked the jeweler to repair the case scratches. The watch is kept in top condition and keeps accurate time, and contains strontium aluminate lume on the dial and hands. In early 2020, Sandra purchased a new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch (Ref. 311.30.42.30.01.005) to replace her original, which is now kept in a display case at her home along with other objects from her career as an astronaut. This watch also features strontium aluminate lume, and Sandra tends to wear the watch with either an orange or 6 stripe rainbow polyamide NATO strap when wearing it daily. Sandra has publicly stated that she intends to bring both with her on her next lunar mission, and wore the newer of the two watches during her spacewalks on STS-250.<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Phoenix 9]], [[STS-217]], [[STS-250]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Gregory James Harris===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Died''': November 9, 2008<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Stats''': <br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Items''': Gregory is always able to pull a refrigerated 355 ml (12 fl oz) or half-liter glass bottle of [[Wikipedia:Fresca#Versions|Fresca]] soda from Mexico out of thin air at will. The bottle is constantly full, and drinking from it doesn't reduce the amount in the bottle. Pouring it fills a glass up to the amount that the bottle actually contains and empties the bottle in the process, at which point it becomes full again when done pouring as though nothing was drained from it. Anyone other than Greg or another ghost is apparently unable to do this with the bottle. (You can't fill a swimming pool up this way, in other words.)<br /> *'''Abilities''':<br /> *'''Afterlife description''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Julia Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Thomas Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Whittington===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Rough collie<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Jackie Cormier===<br /> *'''Born''': April 15, 1988; Seattle, WA<br /> *'''Species''': Catahoula Cur (Predominantely blue and white fur with black splotches and spots. Has heterochromia: left eye blue, right eye hazel.) <br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Related to''': David Cormier (brother)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Nickname''': ''Split-eyes'', ''Splits'', ''Blue dog''<br /> *'''Rank''': Petty Officer 2nd Class, Aviation Survival Technician (Rescue swimmer)<br /> *'''History''': Moved to Louisiana at six years of age from Seattle after her father was laid off from Boeing. Joined the Coast Guard and is one of only four female swimmers. Currently resides in Canon Shoals, OR. Originally stationed at [[Wikipedia:Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles|CGAS Port Angeles]], WA until her entire crew was transferred to Canon Shoals following [REDACTED] in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.<br /> <br /> ===#===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Sports related==<br /> ===Wesley D. Romero===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Long-tailed weasel<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Team''': Bangor Tides (Furry Basketball Association)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Carlos Coronado===<br /> *'''Born''': Merida, Yucatan, MX<br /> *'''Species''': Jaguar<br /> *'''Nationality''': Mexican<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Abbey Crandall (girlfriend: '''Sochi Winter Olympics''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Team''': Louisiana IceGators (National Hockey League)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Astronauts==<br /> ===Harold Hamilton===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Gray wolf<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-109|STS-109]], [[Wikipedia:STS-117|STS-117]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Sanders===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': White Siberian tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-113|STS-113]], [[Wikipedia:STS-120|STS-120]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Derek Ozark===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': River dragon (Blue, no wings)<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Ixy Comeaux===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Looking Glass related==<br /> ===Cora Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Halni Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Vargi===<br /> *'''First activated''':<br /> *'''Species''': Artificial intelligence <br /> **'''Primary avatar''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> ===Carla Maxwell===<br /> *'''Born''': October 8, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': River otter<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (''maître d'île'', Phoenix Cay)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bruce Anderson===<br /> *'''Born''': April 17, 1978; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<br /> *'''Species''': Bengal Tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''': Australian<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (pilot)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Frederick Hollande===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Dhole<br /> *'''Nationality''': French<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[TCI Research]] (Director, [[Ellis National Laboratory]], Superconducting Super Collider) <br /> **'''Former employer''': [[Wikipedia:CERN|CERN]] (various roles relating to the [[Wikipedia:Large Hadron Collider|Large Hadron Collider]])<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universes==<br /> ===X===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': Prime/''Wonderland''/''Looking Glass Land'' <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Zachary Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': April 18, 2002; Waxahachie, TX <br /> **'''Date/place of birth listed on current ID''': April 18, 1996; Waxahachie, TX. <br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': Fractal S. Calliden, Roger Calliden<br /> *'''Friends with''': Lindsey Waldroup <br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''[[Looking Glass Land]]'', 2020<br /> *'''History''': Personality and higher brain functions implanted within brain of Lindsey Waldroup. Eventually removed and placed into a high capacity AI core on 2-1-2015. Body restored on: 6-22-2015. Taken in by Ian and Fractal, with official story being that parents died in car accident and Fractal was only living relative. Moved in with them from home in Honolulu.<br /> <br /> ===Roger Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': October 4, 1978; Rachel, NV<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Spouse''': Fractal S. Calliden<br /> *'''Employed by''': Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (researcher, SDC detector)<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''Looking Glass Land'', 2020<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bonnie Krueger===<br /> *'''Born''': ????, ????; Goldfern Station (Sometime in the future in a space related setting; Current age is 23)<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Stats''': 5'8", 137 lbs, green eyes. Possibly missing a small notch from one ear following a bad deal she failed to complete.<br /> *'''Clothing''': Blue jeans, black combat boots, white t-shirt, torn black leather jacket with a VERY faded logo for an old Earth space program on the back. <br /> *'''Items''': Brown leather holster, 2 year old laser pistol or plasma pistol plus battery pack for the above. Carries a beaten up rucksack or backpack containing her worldly goods.<br /> *'''Backpack contents'''<br /> ** Captain's license (''Goldfern Station'' - issuer)<br /> ** Phone (Most likely the newest thing she owns)<br /> ** Slightly beat up, but high end VR headset.<br /> ** One pair of welding goggles modified to be sunglasses with a HUD inside of the lenses. Goggles are the type with two round lenses, as opposed to a single square pane of glass.<br /> ** Roll-up solar panel/charger<br /> ** Treasured book from mother about item central to plot.<br /> ** 1 bottle of a rare alcoholic drink<br /> ** 1 change of clothes (no shoes)<br /> ** 1 memento of Earth<br /> ** 1 journal<br /> ** 1 MRE<br /> ** 1 bottle of water (1 liter)<br /> ** 1 30 minute air bottle with mask.<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ????<br /> *'''History (Revised for forum RP)''': Only child raised by her mother. Dad's rarely mentioned and Mom insinuates (read: ''adamantly maintains'') he's dead and spaced. No proof of it, though. Regardless, Bonnie has grown up in the light of the renaissance of renewed interest in Earth on Goldfern Station, brought up by a mother who worked far too hard for far too little money, but who genuinely loved her and filled her with wonderful stories of adventure, space and wonder for the "Pale Blue Dot". Tales of great explorers, the heady early days of space travel, the men and women who fought to break out of gravity wells to visit worlds in the same system. Tales of outlaws, as well: her namesake, Bonnie Parker, of pirates and Capone... of their fates and of the music and culture of a place lost to time and space. Filled with dreams, she fought hard to get her captain's license... only to discover that dreams have prices... as well as interest rates and late fees. Striking out on her own and saddled with a few old debts but no ship to pay them, she takes out one last loan: to buy a ticket to another star, another world. One where a ship awaits, she hopes, along with jobs, wealth and maybe, just maybe... Earth and eternal glory.<br /> *'''First intro''': Arrives at Helios Station with just enough to pay the docking fee, but her ship is repossessed within 10 minutes of her getting there. Stranded and pissed off, she decides to blow some of her meager savings at a bar, where a ''highly'' drunk tiger sits next to her and, in the middle of trying to tell him off, he reveals something highly crucial to her quest. She decides to ply the rest out of him with a few more drinks. She gets the info, but stripes decides to try to get into her pants right there in the middle of the room. She cracks a bottle of booze over his head and knocks him out cold, and grabs a few mysterious coins he's dropped while getting out of there. As "Timber" by Pitbull starts to play, she races away from station security as fast as her legs will carry her, shoving aside anything in her way and doing a good attempt at parkour... until she runs into her new best friend...<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universe/timeline descriptions==<br /> ===Looking Glass Land===<br /> *'''"Short" version:''' Otonichi (alien sneps) and Hoomiku (other alien felines with big ears) evolve on a planet around the star Tau Ceti named Ishonko. They eventually master space travel. Sometime in the 1930's, war were declared. King Zalkyo Jeskalt, of the Otonichi, is a murderous fuckwit. He hates hoomiku and the war grinds to a stalemate up to the moment when a couple of hoomiku terrorists blow up a city where the body of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in Otonichi history, resided in a glass sarcophagus. Zalkyo decides "These people are DEAD" and goes on a genocidal bender. Most hoomiku are dead, and the few who aren't flee to Earth towards the end of World War II. A few rogue hoomiku hide out in an asteroid mining base somewhere in space and tinker with time travel. They get discovered by the Otonichi in the 1950's and press the magic button to GTFO. They end up around earth in 1859 in the middle of the worst recorded solar storm in history. They escape to Earth. We'll come back to them in a bit, because THIS part is also complicated. Time keeps moving into the future. Someone comes to Zalkyo during the Cuban Missle Crisis with the suggestion that "Look, these people are going to blow each other up. If they DON'T, they could be a problem. Fuck with enough of their space program, and they'll stay on the ground." He signs off on this, and a few teams go covert on Earth to do that, since they look like snow leopards. They screw around with the Russian lunar rocket, kill the Apollo 1 crew in the fire, and POSSIBLY do something to Apollo 13. They then lie back until 1986, when the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' launches with a teacher on board. ''ENTER DIVERGENCE POINT BETWEEN LOOKING GLASS LAND AND REGULAR LAND '''HERE'''.'' Now, in 'Looking Glass Land', they activate the range safety system on the Space Shuttle right at SRB ignition and it blows up on the launch pad, killing the crew, destroying the pad and possibly killing a few people watching. The nation's devastated, but things go on and they're not caught. In 1990, they destroy Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' during STS-31 and blow it up in the air, killing the crew, destroying the Shuttle '''and''' the Hubble Space Telescope. This, coming four years after ''Challenger'', ends America's manned space program at the 1991 State of the Union. With no Space Shuttle to work on the ISS, and no ISS to speak of, the Superconducting Super Collider, a large atom smasher in Texas, is completed by 2000 rather than being cancelled in 1994. It discovers the Higgs boson in 2002... and lead researcher for the SDC collaboration Fractal Calliden, who married her college sweetheart Roger and has a son named Zach, announces the news. The Russians and Chinese, meanwhile, stubbornly carry forth with space. Around 2012, Melor Oliver, a big ol' wolf, is discovered to be using time travel to send stock information two minutes into the past to himself to make money. The SEC is annoyed and tries to pin him for something, but no luck. They do, however, Shanghai him into a secret project to research this. In 2017, the Otonichi try to screw with a Shenzhou launch from Jiquan. That's when they fuck up and the Chinese catch them. The world is now made aware of what's going on and that there's aliens screwing with our space programs. China hauls them out in a big show trial, then kills them for treason.</div>

Lafayette1 https://lafayetteinc.com/index.php?title=Character_cheat_sheet&diff=3494 Character cheat sheet 2021-06-27T08:07:50Z

<p>Lafayette1: /* Sandra Harris */</p> <hr /> <div>==General==<br /> ===[[Ian Rubin]]===<br /> *'''Born''': February 23, 1980; Lafayette, LA<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-8, [[STS-10W]], Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Fractal Rubin===<br /> *'''Born''': March 14, 1980 (Pi Day), Los Alamos, NM<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Parents''': Rena Sinclair (mother), Ardan Sinclair (father)<br /> *'''Maiden name''': Fractal Sinclair<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Ian Rubin (husband: '''12-23-07''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''': Fractal's parents arrived on Earth in 1947 and eventually found employment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a top secret division overseen by the CIA. They worked on both physics research and development of new nuclear weapon designs. Fractal grew up with other Hoomiku and was cared for by her parents as much as was physically possible. In 1986, her parents were killed following accidental exposure to fatal radiation levels during an experiment ordered by the CIA to research telepathy blocking techniques. Both died in front of Fractal, who refused to leave their side in the infirmary. She was placed in the care of foster parents following the accident. While she never considered them her new parents, she did return their affection and was polite, but continued to be deeply wounded by the loss of her parents.</p><p>In 1989, ''The New York Times'' publishes classified information leaked by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell regarding the extent and details of projects involving the Hoomiku held by the United States. The Thornwell leak is considered the defining moment when rumors of aliens form into fact, as he divulged major details about the Hoomiku, including crimes committed by the United States and Soviet Union towards them. President George H. W. Bush eventually acknowledges the species in 1990 under growing pressure from both Congress and the press, a move followed shortly by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The United Nations General Assembly drafts Resolution 45/77, defining both the rights of Hoomiku to basic laws and defining the security and privacy of thought as a basic human right. Given that a breeding population exists on Earth, they are not in danger of dying out. The public is shocked, but no massive social upheaval occurs. Several hate crimes do occur, however, and prompt legislation with regards to both the use of telepathy in certain situations and locations and providing the basis for a lawsuit filed by several hundred Hoomiku against the United States. The suit is ruled in favor of the Hoomiku and as a result, Fractal is entitled to a free college education, a house, and $40,000 on her 18th birthday. She attends New Mexico Tech and briefly works as a DJ at a local radio station. Eventually, she transferred to New Mexico University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in both botany and physics.</p><p>Following graduation, she began to work at a start-up in Albuquerque studying new techniques for indoor crop growth. In 2006, she traveled to Russia for research into aeroponic farming techniques studied by the Russian Federal Space Agency. There she met Ian Rubin in Star City, and the two hit it off and began dating until Ian's flight to the International Space Station on September 18, 2006. The two resumed their relationship following the flight and in December, Fractal moved to Louisiana. The two were married on December 23, 2007.</p><br /> <br /> ===[[Sandra Harris]]===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Gregory Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[International Space Agency]]<br /> *'''Items''': Sandra's most cherished possession is a badly scuffed, space certified [[Wikipedia:Omega Speedmaster|Omega Speedmaster]] (Ref. 3570.50.00) with a black Velcro strap that has permanently been stained a grayish color. The watch was given to her by the International Space Agency for use on the Moon, and she subsequently purchased the watch for retail price from the space agency. She almost never parts with it and would do almost anything (within reason) to recover it if it is lost or stolen. While the sapphire crystal has been replaced due to severe scratching, she has not asked the jeweler to repair the case scratches. The watch is kept in top condition and keeps accurate time, and contains strontium aluminate lume on the dial and hands. In early 2020, Sandra purchased a new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch (Ref. 311.30.42.30.01.005) to replace her original, which is now kept in a display case at her home along with other objects from her career as an astronaut. This watch also features strontium aluminate lume, and Sandra tends to wear the watch with either an orange or 6 stripe rainbow polyamide NATO strap when wearing it daily. Sandra has publicly stated that she intends to bring both with her on her next lunar mission, and wore the newer of the two watches during her spacewalks on STS-250.<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Phoenix 9]], [[STS-217]], [[STS-250]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Gregory James Harris===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Died''': November 9, 2008<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Stats''': <br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Items''': Gregory is always able to pull a refrigerated 355 ml (12 fl oz) or half-liter glass bottle of [[Wikipedia:Fresca#Versions|Fresca]] from Mexico out of thin air at will. The bottle is constantly full, and drinking from it doesn't reduce the amount in the bottle. Pouring it fills a glass up to the amount that the bottle actually contains and empties the bottle in the process, at which point it becomes full again when done pouring as though nothing was drained from it. Anyone other than Greg or another ghost is apparently unable to do this with the bottle. (You can't fill a swimming pool up this way, in other words.)<br /> *'''Abilities''':<br /> *'''Afterlife description''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Julia Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Thomas Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Whittington===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Rough collie<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Jackie Cormier===<br /> *'''Born''': April 15, 1988; Seattle, WA<br /> *'''Species''': Catahoula Cur (Predominantely blue and white fur with black splotches and spots. Has heterochromia: left eye blue, right eye hazel.) <br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Related to''': David Cormier (brother)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Nickname''': ''Split-eyes'', ''Splits'', ''Blue dog''<br /> *'''Rank''': Petty Officer 2nd Class, Aviation Survival Technician (Rescue swimmer)<br /> *'''History''': Moved to Louisiana at six years of age from Seattle after her father was laid off from Boeing. Joined the Coast Guard and is one of only four female swimmers. Currently resides in Canon Shoals, OR. Originally stationed at [[Wikipedia:Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles|CGAS Port Angeles]], WA until her entire crew was transferred to Canon Shoals following [REDACTED] in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.<br /> <br /> ===#===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Sports related==<br /> ===Wesley D. Romero===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Long-tailed weasel<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Team''': Bangor Tides (Furry Basketball Association)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Carlos Coronado===<br /> *'''Born''': Merida, Yucatan, MX<br /> *'''Species''': Jaguar<br /> *'''Nationality''': Mexican<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Abbey Crandall (girlfriend: '''Sochi Winter Olympics''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Team''': Louisiana IceGators (National Hockey League)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Astronauts==<br /> ===Harold Hamilton===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Gray wolf<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-109|STS-109]], [[Wikipedia:STS-117|STS-117]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Sanders===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': White Siberian tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-113|STS-113]], [[Wikipedia:STS-120|STS-120]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Derek Ozark===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': River dragon (Blue, no wings)<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Ixy Comeaux===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Looking Glass related==<br /> ===Cora Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Halni Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Vargi===<br /> *'''First activated''':<br /> *'''Species''': Artificial intelligence <br /> **'''Primary avatar''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> ===Carla Maxwell===<br /> *'''Born''': October 8, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': River otter<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (''maître d'île'', Phoenix Cay)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bruce Anderson===<br /> *'''Born''': April 17, 1978; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<br /> *'''Species''': Bengal Tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''': Australian<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (pilot)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Frederick Hollande===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Dhole<br /> *'''Nationality''': French<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[TCI Research]] (Director, [[Ellis National Laboratory]], Superconducting Super Collider) <br /> **'''Former employer''': [[Wikipedia:CERN|CERN]] (various roles relating to the [[Wikipedia:Large Hadron Collider|Large Hadron Collider]])<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universes==<br /> ===X===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': Prime/''Wonderland''/''Looking Glass Land'' <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Zachary Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': April 18, 2002; Waxahachie, TX <br /> **'''Date/place of birth listed on current ID''': April 18, 1996; Waxahachie, TX. <br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': Fractal S. Calliden, Roger Calliden<br /> *'''Friends with''': Lindsey Waldroup <br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''[[Looking Glass Land]]'', 2020<br /> *'''History''': Personality and higher brain functions implanted within brain of Lindsey Waldroup. Eventually removed and placed into a high capacity AI core on 2-1-2015. Body restored on: 6-22-2015. Taken in by Ian and Fractal, with official story being that parents died in car accident and Fractal was only living relative. Moved in with them from home in Honolulu.<br /> <br /> ===Roger Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': October 4, 1978; Rachel, NV<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Spouse''': Fractal S. Calliden<br /> *'''Employed by''': Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (researcher, SDC detector)<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''Looking Glass Land'', 2020<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bonnie Krueger===<br /> *'''Born''': ????, ????; Goldfern Station (Sometime in the future in a space related setting; Current age is 23)<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Stats''': 5'8", 137 lbs, green eyes. Possibly missing a small notch from one ear following a bad deal she failed to complete.<br /> *'''Clothing''': Blue jeans, black combat boots, white t-shirt, torn black leather jacket with a VERY faded logo for an old Earth space program on the back. <br /> *'''Items''': Brown leather holster, 2 year old laser pistol or plasma pistol plus battery pack for the above. Carries a beaten up rucksack or backpack containing her worldly goods.<br /> *'''Backpack contents'''<br /> ** Captain's license (''Goldfern Station'' - issuer)<br /> ** Phone (Most likely the newest thing she owns)<br /> ** Slightly beat up, but high end VR headset.<br /> ** One pair of welding goggles modified to be sunglasses with a HUD inside of the lenses. Goggles are the type with two round lenses, as opposed to a single square pane of glass.<br /> ** Roll-up solar panel/charger<br /> ** Treasured book from mother about item central to plot.<br /> ** 1 bottle of a rare alcoholic drink<br /> ** 1 change of clothes (no shoes)<br /> ** 1 memento of Earth<br /> ** 1 journal<br /> ** 1 MRE<br /> ** 1 bottle of water (1 liter)<br /> ** 1 30 minute air bottle with mask.<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ????<br /> *'''History (Revised for forum RP)''': Only child raised by her mother. Dad's rarely mentioned and Mom insinuates (read: ''adamantly maintains'') he's dead and spaced. No proof of it, though. Regardless, Bonnie has grown up in the light of the renaissance of renewed interest in Earth on Goldfern Station, brought up by a mother who worked far too hard for far too little money, but who genuinely loved her and filled her with wonderful stories of adventure, space and wonder for the "Pale Blue Dot". Tales of great explorers, the heady early days of space travel, the men and women who fought to break out of gravity wells to visit worlds in the same system. Tales of outlaws, as well: her namesake, Bonnie Parker, of pirates and Capone... of their fates and of the music and culture of a place lost to time and space. Filled with dreams, she fought hard to get her captain's license... only to discover that dreams have prices... as well as interest rates and late fees. Striking out on her own and saddled with a few old debts but no ship to pay them, she takes out one last loan: to buy a ticket to another star, another world. One where a ship awaits, she hopes, along with jobs, wealth and maybe, just maybe... Earth and eternal glory.<br /> *'''First intro''': Arrives at Helios Station with just enough to pay the docking fee, but her ship is repossessed within 10 minutes of her getting there. Stranded and pissed off, she decides to blow some of her meager savings at a bar, where a ''highly'' drunk tiger sits next to her and, in the middle of trying to tell him off, he reveals something highly crucial to her quest. She decides to ply the rest out of him with a few more drinks. She gets the info, but stripes decides to try to get into her pants right there in the middle of the room. She cracks a bottle of booze over his head and knocks him out cold, and grabs a few mysterious coins he's dropped while getting out of there. As "Timber" by Pitbull starts to play, she races away from station security as fast as her legs will carry her, shoving aside anything in her way and doing a good attempt at parkour... until she runs into her new best friend...<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universe/timeline descriptions==<br /> ===Looking Glass Land===<br /> *'''"Short" version:''' Otonichi (alien sneps) and Hoomiku (other alien felines with big ears) evolve on a planet around the star Tau Ceti named Ishonko. They eventually master space travel. Sometime in the 1930's, war were declared. King Zalkyo Jeskalt, of the Otonichi, is a murderous fuckwit. He hates hoomiku and the war grinds to a stalemate up to the moment when a couple of hoomiku terrorists blow up a city where the body of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in Otonichi history, resided in a glass sarcophagus. Zalkyo decides "These people are DEAD" and goes on a genocidal bender. Most hoomiku are dead, and the few who aren't flee to Earth towards the end of World War II. A few rogue hoomiku hide out in an asteroid mining base somewhere in space and tinker with time travel. They get discovered by the Otonichi in the 1950's and press the magic button to GTFO. They end up around earth in 1859 in the middle of the worst recorded solar storm in history. They escape to Earth. We'll come back to them in a bit, because THIS part is also complicated. Time keeps moving into the future. Someone comes to Zalkyo during the Cuban Missle Crisis with the suggestion that "Look, these people are going to blow each other up. If they DON'T, they could be a problem. Fuck with enough of their space program, and they'll stay on the ground." He signs off on this, and a few teams go covert on Earth to do that, since they look like snow leopards. They screw around with the Russian lunar rocket, kill the Apollo 1 crew in the fire, and POSSIBLY do something to Apollo 13. They then lie back until 1986, when the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' launches with a teacher on board. ''ENTER DIVERGENCE POINT BETWEEN LOOKING GLASS LAND AND REGULAR LAND '''HERE'''.'' Now, in 'Looking Glass Land', they activate the range safety system on the Space Shuttle right at SRB ignition and it blows up on the launch pad, killing the crew, destroying the pad and possibly killing a few people watching. The nation's devastated, but things go on and they're not caught. In 1990, they destroy Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' during STS-31 and blow it up in the air, killing the crew, destroying the Shuttle '''and''' the Hubble Space Telescope. This, coming four years after ''Challenger'', ends America's manned space program at the 1991 State of the Union. With no Space Shuttle to work on the ISS, and no ISS to speak of, the Superconducting Super Collider, a large atom smasher in Texas, is completed by 2000 rather than being cancelled in 1994. It discovers the Higgs boson in 2002... and lead researcher for the SDC collaboration Fractal Calliden, who married her college sweetheart Roger and has a son named Zach, announces the news. The Russians and Chinese, meanwhile, stubbornly carry forth with space. Around 2012, Melor Oliver, a big ol' wolf, is discovered to be using time travel to send stock information two minutes into the past to himself to make money. The SEC is annoyed and tries to pin him for something, but no luck. They do, however, Shanghai him into a secret project to research this. In 2017, the Otonichi try to screw with a Shenzhou launch from Jiquan. That's when they fuck up and the Chinese catch them. The world is now made aware of what's going on and that there's aliens screwing with our space programs. China hauls them out in a big show trial, then kills them for treason.</div>

Lafayette1 https://lafayetteinc.com/index.php?title=List_of_space_shuttle_missions&diff=3493 List of space shuttle missions 2021-06-09T00:15:37Z

<p>Lafayette1: /* 2021 */</p> <hr /> <div>{{about1|[[International Space Agency]] space shuttle missions|[[Wikipedia:NASA|NASA]] space shuttle flights|[[Wikipedia:List of Space Shuttle missions|List of NASA shuttle flights]]}}<br /> ==Flight numbering==<br /> ===Contingency missions===<br /> <br /> <br /> ==List of American shuttle flights by year==<br /> ===2009===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"<br /> ! No.<br /> ! width="125"|Launch Date<br /> ! width="60"|Mission<br /> ! Shuttle<br /> ! Crew<br /> ! Duration<br /> ! Rendezvous<br> with<br /> ! Landing Site<br /> ! Notes<br /> |-<br /> | 1<br /> | February 5, 2009<br /> | {{center|[[STS-92-A|STS-1V]]}}<br /> | ''[[Wikipedia:Space Shuttle Endeavour|Endeavour]]''<br /> | 4<br /> | 00d 00h 31m 05s<br /> |<br /> | [[Wikipedia:Mataveri International Airport|Mataveri Airport]]<br /> | First space shuttle launch from [[Wikipedia:Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg Air Force Base]]; planned joint [[ISA]] and [[Wikipedia:NASA|NASA]] [[Wikipedia:Astrotech Corporation|SPACEHAB]] life science mission; [[Wikipedia:Space Shuttle abort modes#Transoceanic Abort Landing (TAL)|launch failure and emergency landing]].<br /> |-<br /> | 2<br /> | March 4, 2009<br /> | {{center|[[STS-2V]]}}<br /> | ''Terra Nova''<br /> | 2<br /> | 02d 16h <br /> |<br /> | Vandenberg<br /> | Shuttle test flight; first flight of ''Terra Nova''; first shuttle landing at Vandenberg AFB; first manned [[Wikipedia:polar orbit|polar orbit]] mission.<br /> |-<br /> | 3<br /> | June 30, 2009<br /> | {{center|[[STS-3V]]}}<br /> | ''Constitution''<br /> | 0<br /> | 00d 04h 30m 45s<br /> |<br /> | Vandenberg<br /> | Shuttle test flight; first flight of ''Constitution''; first fully automated American shuttle mission.<br /> |-<br /> | 4<br /> | July 29, 2009<br /> | {{center|[[STS-4V]]}}<br /> | ''Terra Nova''<br /> | 5<br /> | 13d 01h<br /> |<br /> | Vandenberg<br /> | [[Wikipedia:Astrotech Corporation|SPACEHAB]]; test of 2nd generation [[Wikipedia:Manned Maneuvering Unit|Manned Maneuvering Unit]]; first spacewalk in polar orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | 5<br /> | September 15, 2009<br /> | {{center|[[STS-5V]]}}<br /> | ''Constitution''<br /> | 0<br /> | 02d 01h<br /> |<br /> | Vandenberg <br /> | Shuttle test flight; flight development test of Liquid Rocket Boosters (LRBs) and new External Tank design.<br /> |-<br /> | 6<br /> | October 7, 2009<br /> | {{center|[[STS-93-J|STS-6W]]}}<br /> | ''Patriot''<br /> | 5<br /> | 09d 20h<br /> | ISS<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | First flight of ''Patriot''. ISS supply. First [[International Space Agency|ISA]] space station flight.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"<br /> ! No.<br /> ! width="125"|Launch Date<br /> ! width="60"|Mission<br /> ! Shuttle<br /> ! Crew<br /> ! Duration<br /> ! Rendezvous<br> with<br /> ! Landing Site<br /> ! Notes<br /> |-<br /> | 7<br /> | January 12, 2010<br /> | {{center|[[STS-7W]]}}<br /> | ''Constitution''<br /> | 5<br /> | 05d 05h<br /> |<br /> | Vandenberg<br /> | First [[Wikipedia:Classified information in the United States|classified]] [[Wikipedia:United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] (DoD) mission carried out by the [[International Space Agency|ISA]]; unknown [[Wikipedia:Spy satellite|reconnaissance]] satellite launch.<br /> |-<br /> | 8<br /> | February 12, 2010<br /> | {{center|[[Orbital Contingency Test Flight|STS-8W]]}}<br /> | ''Terra Nova''<br /> | 5/0<br /> | 09d 01h<br /> |<br /> | Vandenberg<br /> | [[Orbital Contingency Test Flight]]; [[Wikipedia:Tracking and Data Relay Satellite|TDRS-K]]/[[Wikipedia:Inertial Upper Stage|IUS]] launch. Test of shuttle contingency and in-orbit repair procedures. Complete crew transfer to ''Constitution'', followed by automated landing.<br /> |-<br /> | 9<br /> | February 17, 2010<br /> | {{center|[[Orbital Contingency Test Flight|STS-509]]}}<br /> | ''Constitution''<br /> | 3/8<br /> | 05d 05h<br /> | ''Terra Nova''<br /> | Vandenberg<br /> | [[Orbital Contingency Test Flight]]; Test of shuttle contingency procedures. Tested [[Wikipedia:Columbia Accident Investigation Board|CAIB]] recommended procedures for crew recovery and shuttle-to-shuttle crew transfer. Landed crew of ''Terra Nova''.<br /> |-<br /> | 10<br /> | March 15, 2010<br /> | {{center|[[STS-10W]]}}<br /> | ''Patriot''<br /> | 6<br /> | 13d 01h<br /> | ISS<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ISS supply. First space shuttle mission to carry a [[Wikipedia:Space tourism|spaceflight participant]]. Successful in-orbit repair of damaged thermal tiles.<br /> |-<br /> | 11<br /> | April 9, 2010<br /> | {{center|[[STS-11W]]}}<br /> | ''Terra Nova''<br /> | 0<br /> | 00d 00h 46m 17s<br /> | <br /> | Kennedy<br /> | Shuttle test flight; [[Wikipedia:Space Shuttle abort modes#Return To Launch Site (RTLS)|Return To Launch Site abort]] test.<br /> |-<br /> | 12<br /> | May 10, 2010<br /> | {{center|[[STS-12W]]}}<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> | 7<br /> | 23d 01h<br /> | [[External Tank Laboratory|ETL]]<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | First flight of ''Liberty'', [[External Tank Laboratory|''Echo'']] construction flight ECF-1: External Tank Workshop, Aft Cargo Carrier, solar panels and radiators, Astrotech module.<br /> |-<br /> | 13<br /> | June 15, 2010<br /> | {{center|[[STS-13W]]}}<br /> | ''Patriot''<br /> | 5<br /> | 13d 01h<br /> | ISS<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ISS supply.<br /> |-<br /> | 14<br /> | July 4, 2010<br /> | {{center|[[STS-14W]]}}<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> | 7<br /> | 26d 01h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-3: additional interior outfitting supplies, solar panels and initial truss elements.<br /> |-<br /> | 15<br /> | July 15, 2010<br /> | {{center|[[STS-15W]]}}<br /> | ''Constitution''<br /> | 7<br /> | 07d 03h<br /> | <br /> | Vandenberg<br /> | Callentine Climate Orbiter/IUS launch.<br /> |-<br /> | 16<br /> | August 5, 2010<br /> | {{center|[[STS-16W]]}}<br /> | ''Intrepid''<br /> | 7<br /> | 14d 06h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | First flight of ''Intrepid''. ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-4: additional interior outfitting supplies, solar panels and truss components.<br /> |-<br /> | 17<br /> | August 26, 2010<br /> | {{center|[[STS-17W]]}}<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> | 7<br /> | 19d 08h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-5: Node 1 and Cupola.<br /> |-<br /> | 18<br /> | September 8, 2010<br /> | {{center|[[STS-18W]]}}<br /> | ''Terra Nova''<br /> | 6<br /> | 08d 04h<br /> | <br /> | Vandenberg<br /> | Classified DoD mission; unknown reconnaissance satellite launch.<br /> |-<br /> | 19<br /> | October 7, 2010<br /> | {{center|[[STS-19W]]}}<br /> | ''Patriot''<br /> | 7<br /> | 14d 06h<br /> | ISS<br /> | Edwards<br /> | ISS supply.<br /> |-<br /> | 20<br /> | October 25, 2010<br /> | {{center|[[STS-20W]]}}<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> | 7<br /> | 24d 03h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-6: ''Venture'' airlock, additional interior outfitting supplies.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2011===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"<br /> ! No.<br /> ! width="125"|Launch Date<br /> ! width="60"|Mission<br /> ! Shuttle<br /> ! Crew<br /> ! Duration<br /> ! Rendezvous<br> with<br /> ! Landing Site<br /> ! Notes<br /> |-<br /> | 21<br /> | January 3, 2011<br /> | {{center|[[STS-21W]]}}<br /> | ''Constitution''<br /> | 6<br /> | 08d 01h<br /> | <br /> | Vandenberg<br /> | Classified DoD mission; Suspected [[TRAPEZOID (satellite)|TRAPEZOID]] launch.<br /> |-<br /> | 22<br /> | January 12, 2011<br /> | {{center|[[STS-22W]]}}<br /> | ''Patriot''<br /> | 7<br /> | 22d 01h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-8: Node 2, additional interior outfitting supplies.<br /> |-<br /> | 23<br /> | February 7, 2011<br /> | {{center|[[STS-23W]]}}<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> | 7<br /> | 20d 01h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-10: additional interior outfitting supplies, solar panels and truss components.<br /> |-<br /> | 24<br /> | March 14, 2011<br /> | {{center|[[STS-24W]]}}<br /> | ''Intrepid''<br /> | 7<br /> | 15d 06h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-11: Centrifuge Accommodations Module.<br /> |-<br /> | 25<br /> | April 12, 2011<br /> | {{center|[[STS-25W]]}}<br /> | ''Horizon''<br /> | 7<br /> | 16d 04h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Edwards<br /> | First flight of ''Horizon'', ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-12: Pressurized Multipurpose Module ''Raffaello''. <br /> |-<br /> | 26<br /> | May 16, 2011<br /> | {{center|[[STS-26W]]}}<br /> | ''Patriot''<br /> | 7<br /> | 17d 01h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-13: ''Borlaug'' hydroponics lab.<br /> |-<br /> | 27<br /> | June 7, 2011<br /> | {{center|[[STS-27W]]}}<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> | 7<br /> | 14d 09h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-14: ''BioLab'' US Physiology Lab.<br /> |-<br /> | 28<br /> | June 14, 2011<br /> | {{center|[[STS-163]]}}<br /> | ''Terra Nova''<br /> | 7<br /> | 8d 10h<br /> | <br /> | Vandeberg<br /> | Final space shuttle launch from Vandenberg AFB. Classified DoD mission.<br /> |-<br /> | 29<br /> | July 12, 2011<br /> | {{center|[[STS-164]]}}<br /> | ''Intrepid''<br /> | 7<br /> | 16d 04h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-15: ''NeuroLab'' International Neurology Lab.<br /> |-<br /> | 30<br /> | August 20, 2011<br /> | {{center|[[STS-165]]}}<br /> | ''Horizon''<br /> | 7<br /> | 15d 06h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-16: Node 4.<br /> |-<br /> | 31<br /> | September 12, 2011<br /> | {{center|[[STS-166]]}}<br /> | ''Patriot''<br /> | 7<br /> | 15d 03h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Edwards<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-17: Node 5. Educator Astronaut [[Linda Sherebrooke]].<br /> |-<br /> | 32<br /> | December 2, 2011<br /> | {{center|[[STS-167]]}}<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> | 7<br /> | 14d 10h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-18: Propulsion and Guidance Module.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2012===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"<br /> ! No.<br /> ! width="125"|Launch Date<br /> ! width="60"|Mission<br /> ! Shuttle<br /> ! Crew<br /> ! Duration<br /> ! Rendezvous<br> with<br /> ! Landing Site<br /> ! Notes<br /> |-<br /> | 33<br /> | January 8, 2012<br /> | {{center|[[STS-168]]}}<br /> | ''Horizon''<br /> | 7<br /> | 15d 06h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-19: ''Enterprise'' Commercial Experiment Module.<br /> |-<br /> | 34<br /> | February 20, 2012<br /> | {{center|[[STS-169]]}}<br /> | ''Intrepid''<br /> | 7<br /> | 15d 3h<br /> | ISS<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ISS supply.<br /> |-<br /> | 35<br /> | March 26, 2012<br /> | {{center|[[STS-170]]}}<br /> | ''Patriot''<br /> | 5<br /> | 5d 15h<br /> | DSCS-III 15<br /> | [[Lafayette Intercontinental Airport|KLFX]]<br /> | Retrieval of malfunctioning military communications satellite. <br /> |-<br /> | 36<br /> | May 3, 2012<br /> | {{center|[[STS-171]]}}<br /> | ''Constitution''<br /> | 7<br /> | 21d 4h<br /> | <br /> | [[Lafayette Intercontinental Airport|KLFX]]<br /> | Earth and life science research flight. Astrotech Research Double Module and dual [[Wikipedia:Extended Duration Orbiter|Extended Duration Orbiter]] pallets.<br /> |-<br /> | 37<br /> | June 12, 2012<br /> | {{center|[[STS-172]]}}<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> | 7<br /> | 18d 3h<br /> | <br /> | Edwards<br /> | Classified DoD earth science mission. Astrotech Research Double Module and dual [[Wikipedia:Extended Duration Orbiter|Extended Duration Orbiter]] pallets.<br /> |-<br /> | 38<br /> | July 9, 2012<br /> | {{center|[[STS-173]]}}<br /> | ''Endurance''<br /> | 7/7<br /> | 17d 7h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Edwards<br /> | First flight of ''Endurance''. ETL supply and crew rotation. <br /> |-<br /> | 39<br /> | August 13, 2012<br /> | {{center|[[STS-174]]}}<br /> | ''Horizon''<br /> | 7<br /> | 15d 11h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-20: ''Enterprise'' CEM Exposed Facility and Logistics Module.<br /> |-<br /> | 40<br /> | September 14, 2012<br /> | {{center|[[STS-175]]}}<br /> | ''Terra Nova''<br /> | 7<br /> | 15d 6h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-21: Enhanced Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-03).<br /> |-<br /> | 41<br /> | October 10, 2012<br /> | {{center|[[STS-176]]}}<br /> | ''Constitution''<br /> | 8<br /> | 14d 14h<br /> | <br /> | Edwards<br /> | Earth and life science research flight. Astrotech Research Double Module and dual [[Wikipedia:Extended Duration Orbiter|Extended Duration Orbiter]] pallets.<br /> |-<br /> | 42<br /> | November 7, 2012<br /> | {{center|[[STS-177]]}}<br /> | ''Intrepid''<br /> | 6<br /> | 14d 12h<br /> | <br /> | Kennedy<br /> | [[Wikipedia:Shuttle Radar Topography Mission|Enhanced Shuttle Radar Topography Mission]].<br /> |-<br /> | 43<br /> | December 12, 2012<br /> | {{center|[[STS-178]]}}<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> | 7/7<br /> | 14d 7h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ETL supply and crew rotation.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2013===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"<br /> ! No.<br /> ! width="125"|Launch Date<br /> ! width="60"|Mission<br /> ! Shuttle<br /> ! Crew<br /> ! Duration<br /> ! Rendezvous<br> with<br /> ! Landing Site<br /> ! Notes<br /> |-<br /> | 44<br /> | January 10, 2013<br /> | {{center|[[STS-179]]}}<br /> | ''Endurance''<br /> | 7<br /> | 15d 18h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ETL supply and reboost.<br /> |-<br /> | 45<br /> | February 13, 2013<br /> | {{center|[[STS-180]]}}<br /> | ''Horizon''<br /> | 7<br /> | 14d 20h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Edwards<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-22: ETW LOX tank docking module and [[Wikipedia:Pressurized Mating Adapter|Pressurized Mating Adapter]] 5.<br /> |-<br /> | 46<br /> | March 20, 2013<br /> | {{center|[[STS-181]]}}<br /> | ''Terra Nova''<br /> | 7<br /> | 15d 3h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ETL supply and reboost.<br /> |-<br /> | 47<br /> | May 12, 2013<br /> | {{center|[[STS-182]]}}<br /> | ''Patriot''<br /> | 7<br /> | 16d 6h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ETL resupply, reboost and PGM propellant resupply. Original launch delayed due to accident on pad which caused the death of a contractor.<br /> |-<br /> | 48<br /> | June 12, 2013<br /> | {{center|[[STS-183]]}}<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> | 7<br /> | 11d 3h<br /> | <br /> | Kennedy<br /> | Commercial satellite launch.<br /> |-<br /> | 49<br /> | July 9, 2013<br /> | {{center|[[STS-184]]}}<br /> | ''Intrepid''<br /> | 7<br /> | 15d 7h<br /> | ISS<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ISS supply.<br /> |-<br /> | 50<br /> | September 12, 2013<br /> | {{center|[[STS-185]]}}<br /> | ''Endurance''<br /> | 7<br /> | 16d 10h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ETL supply and reboost.<br /> |-<br /> | 51<br /> | October 14, 2013<br /> | {{center|[[STS-186]]}}<br /> | ''Constitution''<br /> | 7<br /> | 18d 3h<br /> | <br /> | Edwards<br /> | Earth and life science research flight. Astrotech Research Double Module and dual Extended Duration Orbiter pallets.<br /> |-<br /> | 52<br /> | November 18, 2013<br /> | {{center|[[STS-187]]}}<br /> | ''Terra Nova''<br /> | 7<br /> | 13d 7h<br /> | <br /> | Edwards<br /> | [[Landsat 9]] launch.<br /> |-<br /> | 53<br /> | December 10, 2013<br /> | {{center|[[STS-188]]}}<br /> | ''Horizon''<br /> | 7<br /> | 14d 7h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ETL supply and reboost.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2014===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"<br /> ! No.<br /> ! width="125"|Launch Date<br /> ! width="60"|Mission<br /> ! Shuttle<br /> ! Crew<br /> ! Duration<br /> ! Rendezvous<br> with<br /> ! Landing Site<br /> ! Notes<br /> |-<br /> | 54<br /> | January 12, 2014<br /> | {{center|[[STS-189]]}}<br /> | ''Intrepid''<br /> | 7<br /> | 19d 7h<br /> | <br /> | Kennedy<br /> | Life science research flight. Astrotech Research Double Module and dual Extended Duration Orbiter pallets.<br /> |-<br /> | 55<br /> | February 11, 2014<br /> | {{center|[[STS-190]]}}<br /> | ''Patriot''<br /> | 7<br /> | 15d 6h<br /> | ISS<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ISS supply.<br /> |-<br /> | 56<br /> | March 20, 2014<br /> | {{center|[[STS-191]]}}<br /> | ''Terra Nova''<br /> | 0<br /> | 8d 10h<br /> | <br /> | Edwards<br /> | Shuttle test flight; remote satellite deployment and research payload prototype.<br /> |-<br /> | 57<br /> | July 12, 2014<br /> | {{center|[[STS-192]]}}<br /> | ''Constitution''<br /> | 7/7<br /> | 14d 7h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ETL crew rotation and PGM resupply. Fleet service inspection performed following this flight.<br /> |-<br /> | 58<br /> | October 4, 2014<br /> | {{center|[[STS-193]]}}<br /> | ''Patriot''<br /> | 7<br /> | 16d 9h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ETL supply and reboost.<br /> |-<br /> | 59<br /> | November 9, 2014<br /> | {{center|[[STS-194]]}}<br /> | ''Intrepid''<br /> | 8<br /> | 15d 12h<br /> | <br /> | Edwards<br /> | Earth and life science research flight. Astrotech Research Double Module and Extended Duration Orbiter pallet.<br /> |-<br /> | 60<br /> | December 7, 2014<br /> | {{center|[[STS-196]]}}<br /> | ''Constitution''<br /> | 0<br /> | 16d 3h<br /> | <br /> | Kennedy<br /> | Dual [[Wikipedia:Getaway Special|Getaway Special]] [[Wikipedia:Hitchhiker Program#Hitchhiker carrier system|Bridges]] and Extended Duration Orbiter pallet. STS-195 and STS-196 launch dates were switched due to explosion of [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet#Phoenix 18 (CM: Danube, LM: Mystic)|Phoenix 18's]] Jupiter rocket. Mission managers ordered an unmanned launch be conducted to validate re-certified engine turbopumps were safe for use on the Shuttle.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2015===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"<br /> ! No.<br /> ! width="125"|Launch Date<br /> ! width="60"|Mission<br /> ! Shuttle<br /> ! Crew<br /> ! Duration<br /> ! Rendezvous<br> with<br /> ! Landing Site<br /> ! Notes<br /> |-<br /> | 61<br /> | January 2, 2015<br /> | {{center|[[STS-195]]}}<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> | 6<br /> | 10d 12h<br /> | <br /> | Kennedy<br /> | [[Ibiscom 2]] communications satellite launch. [[Wikipedia:Getaway Special|Getaway Special]] [[Wikipedia:Hitchhiker Program#Hitchhiker carrier system|Bridge]].<br /> |-<br /> | 62<br /> | February 7, 2015<br /> | {{center|[[STS-197]]}}<br /> | ''Endurance''<br /> | 7<br /> | 15d 8h<br /> | ISS<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ISS supply and reboost due to failure of [[Wikipedia:Cygnus CRS Orb-3|Cygnus CRS Orb-3]] mission. Originally planned to be an ETL supply and reboost flight.<br /> |-<br /> | 63<br /> | March 1, 2015<br /> | {{center|[[STS-198]]}}<br /> | ''Terra Nova''<br /> | 0<br /> | 20d 3h<br /> | <br /> | Kennedy<br /> | 4 [[Wikipedia:Getaway Special|Getaway Special]] [[Wikipedia:Hitchhiker Program#Hitchhiker carrier system|Bridges]] and dual Extended Duration Orbiter pallets.<br /> |-<br /> | 64<br /> | April 12, 2015<br /> | {{center|[[STS-199]]}}<br /> | ''Horizon''<br /> | 7<br /> | 16d 7h<br /> | <br /> | Edwards<br /> | Earth and life science research flight. Astrotech Research Double Module and Extended Duration Orbiter pallet.<br /> |-<br /> | 65<br /> | May 7, 2015<br /> | {{center|[[STS-200]]}}<br /> | ''Patriot''<br /> | 7/7<br /> | 13d 9h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ETL crew rotation and PGM resupply.<br /> |-<br /> | 66<br /> | June 20, 2015<br /> | {{center|[[STS-201]]}}<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> | 6<br /> | 13d 16h<br /> | <br /> | Kennedy<br /> | Space tug research flight. FerrySat 1 launch.<br /> |-<br /> | 67<br /> | August 6, 2015<br /> | {{center|[[STS-202]]}}<br /> | ''Intrepid''<br /> | 7<br /> | 14d 12h<br /> | [[Ares 1]] mission stack<br /> | Edwards<br /> | [[Ares Program|Ares]] construction flight ACF-5: [[Wikipedia:Bigelow Aerospace|Bigelow]] Inflatable Habitat Module. Mission's External Tank mated to port side of the Ares mission stack as a drop tank.<br /> |-<br /> | 68<br /> | September 10, 2015<br /> | {{center|[[STS-203]]}}<br /> | ''Horizon''<br /> | 7<br /> | 16d 9h<br /> | Ares 1 mission stack<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | Ares construction flight ACF-6: Inflatable module outfitting supplies. External Tank mated to starboard side of Ares mission stack as a drop tank. <br /> |-<br /> | 69<br /> | October 10, 2015<br /> | {{center|[[STS-204]]}}<br /> | ''Endurance''<br /> | 7<br /> | 14d 4h<br /> | Ares 1 mission stack<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | Ares construction flight ACF-7: Contingency Consumables Module and additional outfitting supplies.<br /> |-<br /> | 70<br /> | November 11, 2015<br /> | {{center|[[STS-205]]}}<br /> | ''Patriot''<br /> | 7<br /> | 17d 6h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ETL supply and reboost.<br /> |-<br /> | 71<br /> | December 14, 2015<br /> | {{center|[[STS-206]]}}<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> | 7<br /> | 13d 12h<br /> | Ares 1 mission stack<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | Ares construction flight ACF-8: Additional outfitting supplies. Final inflatable module and cargo check.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2016===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"<br /> ! No.<br /> ! width="125"|Launch Date<br /> ! width="60"|Mission<br /> ! Shuttle<br /> ! Crew<br /> ! Duration<br /> ! Rendezvous<br> with<br /> ! Landing Site<br /> ! Notes<br /> |-<br /> | 72<br /> | January 4, 2016<br /> | {{center|[[STS-207]]}}<br /> | ''Constitution''<br /> | 0<br /> | 16d 7h<br /> | <br /> | Kennedy<br /> | 3 [[Wikipedia:Getaway Special|Getaway Special]] [[Wikipedia:Hitchhiker Program#Hitchhiker carrier system|Bridges]] and dual Extended Duration Orbiter pallets.<br /> |-<br /> | 73<br /> | March 7, 2016<br /> | {{center|[[STS-208]]}}<br /> | ''Intrepid''<br /> | 7<br /> | 10d 14h<br /> | ISS<br /> | Edwards<br /> | ISS supply and reboost.<br /> |-<br /> | 74<br /> | April 20, 2016<br /> | {{center|[[STS-209]]}}<br /> | ''Horizon''<br /> | 7<br /> | 16d 7h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-23: ETL Laser Communications Test System.<br /> |-<br /> | 75<br /> | June 12, 2016<br /> | {{center|[[STS-210]]}}<br /> | ''Endurance''<br /> | 8<br /> | 16d 11h<br /> | <br /> | Edwards<br /> | Earth and life science research flight. Astrotech Research Double Module and Extended Duration Orbiter pallet.<br /> |-<br /> | 76<br /> | August 7, 2016<br /> | {{center|[[STS-211]]}}<br /> | ''Terra Nova''<br /> | 0<br /> | 17d 14h<br /> | <br /> | Kennedy<br /> | 3 [[Wikipedia:Getaway Special|Getaway Special]] [[Wikipedia:Hitchhiker Program#Hitchhiker carrier system|Bridges]] and dual Extended Duration Orbiter pallets.<br /> |-<br /> | 77<br /> | September 18, 2016 <br /> | {{center|[[STS-212]]}}<br /> | ''Patriot''<br /> | 7<br /> | 14d 6h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Edwards<br /> | ETL supply and reboost. <br /> |-<br /> | 78<br /> | November 7, 2016<br /> | {{center|[[STS-213]]}}<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> | 6<br /> | 8d 8h<br /> | <br /> | Edwards<br /> | Classified DoD mission; USA-268 launch. [[Wikipedia:List of NRO launches|NROL-72]]. <br /> |-<br /> | 79<br /> | December 16, 2016<br /> | {{center|[[STS-214]]}}<br /> | ''Intrepid''<br /> | 7<br /> | 10d 5h<br /> | HST<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | [[Wikipedia:Hubble Space Telescope|Hubble]] Remote Reboost Mission: FerrySat 2 space tug. HST altitude raised from 347 mi (558.4 km) to 375 mi (603.5 km).<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2017===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"<br /> ! No.<br /> ! width="125"|Launch Date<br /> ! width="60"|Mission<br /> ! Shuttle<br /> ! Crew<br /> ! Duration<br /> ! Rendezvous<br> with<br /> ! Landing Site<br /> ! Notes<br /> |-<br /> | 80<br /> | January 10, 2017<br /> | {{center|[[STS-215]]}}<br /> | ''Constitution''<br /> | 0<br /> | 21d 8h<br /> | <br /> | Kennedy<br /> | 3 [[Wikipedia:Getaway Special|Getaway Special]] [[Wikipedia:Hitchhiker Program#Hitchhiker carrier system|Bridges]] and dual Extended Duration Orbiter pallets.<br /> |-<br /> | 81<br /> | February 14, 2017<br /> | {{center|[[STS-216]]}}<br /> | ''Endurance''<br /> | 8/7<br /> | 14d 7h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ETL crew rotation and PGM resupply.<br /> |-<br /> | 82<br /> | April 24, 2017<br /> | {{center|[[STS-217]]}}<br /> | ''Horizon''<br /> | 7<br /> | 15d 10h<br /> | HST<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | [[Wikipedia:Hubble Space Telescope|Hubble]] Servicing Mission 5. Replaced the [[Wikipedia:Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer|NICMOS]] and [[Wikipedia:Advanced Camera for Surveys|ACS]] instruments with Advanced Multi-Object Spectrometer (AMOS) and Advanced Camera for Surveys 2 (ACS2). Also replaced Hubble's main computer, a Fine Guidance Sensor and several gyroscopes.<br /> |-<br /> | colspan=9 | A fleetwide '''Orbiter Maintenance Down Period''' was ordered after STS-217 to implement improved systems on all Orbiters and to carry out full airframe inspection and repairs.<br /> |-<br /> | 83<br /> | August 14, 2017<br /> | {{center|[[STS-218]]}}<br /> | ''Patriot''<br /> | 7<br /> | 14d 12h<br /> | ISS<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ISS supply and reboost.<br /> |-<br /> | 84<br /> | November 7, 2017<br /> | {{center|[[STS-219]]}}<br /> | ''Intrepid''<br /> | 6<br /> | 10d 8h<br /> | <br /> | Edwards<br /> | Microwave Beamed Power Experiment launch.<br /> |-<br /> | 85<br /> | December 10, 2017<br /> | {{center|[[STS-220]]}}<br /> | ''Terra Nova''<br /> | 0<br /> | 21d 16h<br /> | <br /> | Kennedy<br /> | 3 [[Wikipedia:Getaway Special|Getaway Special]] [[Wikipedia:Hitchhiker Program#Hitchhiker carrier system|Bridges]] and dual Extended Duration Orbiter pallets.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2018===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"<br /> ! No.<br /> ! width="125"|Launch Date<br /> ! width="60"|Mission<br /> ! Shuttle<br /> ! Crew<br /> ! Duration<br /> ! Rendezvous<br> with<br /> ! Landing Site<br /> ! Notes<br /> |-<br /> | 86<br /> | February 12, 2018<br /> | {{center|[[STS-221]]}}<br /> | ''Horizon''<br /> | 7/7<br /> | 14d 16h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ETL crew rotation, supply and reboost.<br /> |-<br /> | 87<br /> | March 18, 2018<br /> | {{center|[[STS-222]]}}<br /> | ''Endurance''<br /> | 7<br /> | 7d 5h<br /> | <br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ''Harding'' (formerly ''Juno Explorer'') probe/IUS launch. <br /> |-<br /> | 88<br /> | June 10, 2018<br /> | {{center|[[STS-223]]}}<br /> | ''Patriot''<br /> | 7<br /> | 14d 3h<br /> | ISS<br /> | Edwards<br /> | ISS supply and reboost.<br /> |-<br /> | 89<br /> | July 17, 2018<br /> | {{center|[[STS-224]]}}<br /> | ''Constitution''<br /> | 0<br /> | 30d 18h<br /> |<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | 3 [[Wikipedia:Getaway Special|Getaway Special]] [[Wikipedia:Hitchhiker Program#Hitchhiker carrier system|Bridges]] and dual Extended Duration Orbiter pallets.<br /> |-<br /> | 90<br /> | September 22, 2018<br /> | {{center|[[STS-225]]}}<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> | 7<br /> | 13d 12h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ETL resupply and Primary Radiator Loop repair.<br /> |-<br /> | 91<br /> | November 10, 2018<br /> | {{center|[[STS-226]]}}<br /> | ''Intrepid''<br /> | 8<br /> | 15d 3h<br /> | <br /> | Edwards<br /> | Earth and life science research flight. Astrotech Research Double Module and Extended Duration Orbiter pallet.<br /> |-<br /> | 92<br /> | December 1, 2018<br /> | {{center|[[STS-227]]}}<br /> | ''Terra Nova''<br /> | 8<br /> | 30d 17h<br /> | <br /> | Edwards<br /> | 3 [[Wikipedia:Getaway Special|Getaway Special]] [[Wikipedia:Hitchhiker Program#Hitchhiker carrier system|Bridges]] and dual Extended Duration Orbiter pallets.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==2019==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"<br /> ! No.<br /> ! width="125"|Launch Date<br /> ! width="60"|Mission<br /> ! Shuttle<br /> ! Crew<br /> ! Duration<br /> ! Rendezvous<br> with<br /> ! Landing Site<br /> ! Notes<br /> |-<br /> | 93<br /> | January 10, 2019<br /> | {{center|[[STS-228]]}}<br /> | ''Horizon''<br /> | 7/7<br /> | 13d 18h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ETL crew rotation, supply and reboost.<br /> |-<br /> | 94<br /> | March 4, 2018<br /> | {{center|[[STS-229]]}}<br /> | ''Endurance''<br /> | 8<br /> | 15d 8h<br /> | <br /> | Kennedy<br /> | Life science and biomedical research flight. Astrotech Research Double Module and Extended Duration Orbiter pallet.<br /> |-<br /> | 95<br /> | April 17, 2019<br /> | {{center|[[STS-230]]}}<br /> | ''Horizon''<br /> | 6<br /> | 10d 5h<br /> | <br /> | Edwards<br /> | Classified DoD mission. Mission was launched into an extremely high inclination from KSC.<br /> |-<br /> | 92<br /> | May 4, 2019<br /> | {{center|[[STS-231]]}}<br /> | ''Constitution''<br /> | 0<br /> | 31d 1h<br /> | <br /> | Kennedy<br /> | 3 [[Wikipedia:Getaway Special|Getaway Special]] [[Wikipedia:Hitchhiker Program#Hitchhiker carrier system|Bridges]] and dual Extended Duration Orbiter pallets.<br /> |-<br /> | 93<br /> | July 17, 2019<br /> | {{center|[[STS-232]]}}<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> | 7<br /> | 13d 5h<br /> | ISS<br /> | Edwards<br /> | ISS supply and reboost.<br /> |-<br /> | colspan=9 | Launches delayed due to the effects of Hurricanes [[Wikipedia:Hurricane Dorian|Dorian]] and [[Wikipedia:Hurricane Humberto (2019)|Humberto]].<br /> |-<br /> | 94<br /> | October 5, 2019<br /> | {{center|[[STS-233]]}}<br /> | ''Liberty''<br /> | 7<br /> | 15d 11h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ETL crew rotation, supply and reboost.<br /> |-<br /> | 95<br /> | November 7, 2019<br /> | {{center|[[STS-234]]}}<br /> | ''Intrepid''<br /> | 7<br /> | 14d 6h<br /> | ETL<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | ''Echo'' construction flight ECF-24: Centrifuge Hub Module.<br /> |-<br /> | 96<br /> | December 2, 2019<br /> | {{center|[[STS-235]]}}<br /> | ''Terra Nova''<br /> | 0<br /> | 28d 7h<br /> | <br /> | Kennedy<br /> | 3 [[Wikipedia:Getaway Special|Getaway Special]] [[Wikipedia:Hitchhiker Program#Hitchhiker carrier system|Bridges]] and dual Extended Duration Orbiter pallets. 5 CubeSats deployed.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==2020==<br /> ==2021==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"<br /> ! No.<br /> ! width="125"|Launch Date<br /> ! width="60"|Mission<br /> ! Shuttle<br /> ! Crew<br /> ! Duration<br /> ! Rendezvous<br> with<br /> ! Landing Site<br /> ! Notes<br /> |-<br /> | <br /> | OIctober 5, 2021<br /> | {{center|[[STS-250]]}}<br /> | ''Horizon'' or ''Endurance''<br /> | 7<br /> | 14d 16h<br /> | Hubble<br /> | Kennedy<br /> | [[Wikipedia:Hubble Space Telescope|Hubble]] Servicing Mission 6. Replaced the [[Wikipedia:Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph|STIS]], [[Wikipedia:Cosmic Origins Spectrograph|COS]] and [[Wikipedia:Wide Field Camera 3|WFC3]] instruments with Advanced Space Telescope Spectrograph (ASTS), Cosmic Origins Spectrograph 2 (COS2) and Wide Field Camera 4 (WFC4). Final HST servicing mission.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==2022==<br /> <br /> ==List of Russian shuttle flights==<br /> {|class="sortable wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"<br /> ! Order<br /> ! width="85"|Day<br /> ! Year<br /> ! Mission<br /> ! Shuttle<br /> ! Crew<br /> ! Duration<br /> ! Landing Site<br /> ! Notes<br /> |-<br /> | B1<br /> | {{sort|1210|December 10}}<br /> | 2009<br /> | [[Baikal 1|1L1]]<br /> | ''Baikal''<br /> | 0<br /> | 00d 04h 31m<br /> | [[Wikipedia:Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonour]]<br /> | Unmanned test flight; first flight of ''Baikal''.<br /> |-<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==Cancelled and shortened missions==<br /> ==OOC Notes==<br /> ===Standard orbiter launch rotation===<br /> *''Constitution'' or ''Terra Nova''<br /> *''Patriot''<br /> *''Liberty''<br /> *''Intrepid''<br /> *''Horizon''<br /> *''Endurance''<br /> <br /> ===KSC launch pads===<br /> *'''LC-39A:''' SpaceX (Falcon 9/Heavy)<br /> *'''LC-39B:''' ISA (Jupiter 100/200/300)<br /> *'''LC-39C:''' ISA (Jupiter 100/200)<br /> **''Originally built for unmanned Space Shuttles, but switched over to allow for multiple Jupiter launches.<br /> *'''LC-39D:''' ISA (Space Shuttle)<br /> *'''LC-39E:''' ISA (Space Shuttle)<br /> LC-39D and E serviced by ISA Vehicle Integration Building. 39B and C serviced by NASA Vehicle Assembly Building. 39A serviced by SpaceX Horizontal Integration Facility.</div>

Lafayette1 https://lafayetteinc.com/index.php?title=ISA_Astronaut_Corps&diff=3492 ISA Astronaut Corps 2021-05-25T08:43:04Z

<p>Lafayette1: /* Selection groups */</p> <hr /> <div>==Selection groups==<br /> *1976 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 1]] – "Thorton's Three"<br /> *1978 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 2]] – "The Winged Wonders"<br /> *1980 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 3]] – "Harry's Heroes"<br /> *1981 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 4]] – "The Snow Globes"<br /> *1983 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 5]] – ''No official nickname''<br /> *1985 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 6]] – ''No official nickname''<br /> *1988 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 7]] – "The Phoenixes"<br /> *1990 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 8]] – "The Pirates"<br /> *1992 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 9]] – "The Delta Drivers"<br /> *1994 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 10]] – "The Plumbers"<br /> *1996 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 11]] – ''No official nickname''<br /> *1998 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 12]] – "The Blockbusters"<br /> *2000 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 13]] – "The Black Cats"<br /> *2002 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 14]] – "The Roly-Polies" <br /> *2005 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 15]] – "The Surges"<br /> *2007 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 16]] – "The Rougarous"<br /> *2009 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 17]] – "The Coconuts"<br /> *2011 [[ISA Astronaut Group 18|Group 18]] – "The Flying Toasters"<br /> *2013 [[ISA Astronaut Group 19|Group 19]] – "The Supersonic Seagulls"<br /> *2015 [[ISA Astronaut Group 20|Group 20]] – "The Hypersonic Hornets"<br /> *2017 [[ISA Astronaut Group 21|Group 21]] – "The Aces"<br /> *2019 [[ISA Astronaut Group 22|Group 22]] – "The Ballistic Boffins"<br /> *2021 [[ISA Astronaut Group 23|Group 23]] – "The Cosmic Kahunas"<br /> *2023 [[ISA Astronaut Group 24|Group 24]] – "The Knights"</div>

Lafayette1 https://lafayetteinc.com/index.php?title=Looking_Glass_Land&diff=3491 Looking Glass Land 2021-04-12T20:14:01Z

<p>Lafayette1: /* 1930s */</p> <hr /> <div><center>'''<u>ISA SECURE DATABASE</u>'''<br /> </br><br /> '''"LOOKING GLASS LAND" — SUMMARY'''<br /> </br><br /> '''TOP SECRET//LG/SAR-HG//ORCON/NOFORN'''</center><br /> <br /> ==Introduction==<br /> ==Timeline==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |+ Timeline color key<br /> |- style="text-align:center;" <br /> | style="width:96px;" |Prime<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#d3edff;"|Looking Glass Land<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#edffd3;"|Both<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1800s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1859||align=center rowspan="3"|1-2 September||style="background:#edffd3;"|The Carrington Event occurs. One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, a major coronal mass ejection occurs at around noon on September 1 and impacts the Earth less than a day later, causing auroras bright enough to read newspapers at night in some areas, and visible as far south as the Caribbean. Telegraph operators around the world report receiving electric shocks and being able to transmit with their power supplies turned off, when systems aren't disrupted by the storm.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Arrive1"<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. Due to the damage to the pod's shielding, the pod suffers a catastrophic failure on reentry and disintegrates over the English Channel, killing everyone aboard. The remaining 2 members of the crew, the station's commander and executive officer, enter a final escape pod after verifying the station is on the proper course for disposal and land successfully near the first 4 in England.<br /> |-<br /> |A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. As this pod leaves the station, a team from Project Hourglass, arriving from [[#HG-Station-Leave1|2014]] in the modified Otonichi infiltration ship ISV ''Opened Item'', trigger a proximity alert and are hailed by the station commander, who asks them to effect a rescue. The Hourglass team docks with the damaged pod and incapacitate the injured Hoomiku with knockout gas before securing them. After verifying that the data recorder they are looking for is not aboard, the pod is left to burn up in the atmosphere. The Hourglass team then board the station and move it into a stable orbit around the Earth before prepping it for a jump to the Asteroid Belt. After an initial confrontation, a truce is reached between the commander, his executive officer and the Hourglass team, and the 5 rescued Hoomiku from the damaged escape pod are treated for radiation sickness. The 4 Hoomiku in England are left on Earth to avoid interference in the timeline.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Past-Arrive"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1868||align=center rowspan="2"|July 1||Lindsey Waldroup arrives from [[#Lindsey-Jump-Start|2020]] and steals the data recorder from the Hoomiku crew who landed on Earth in 1859. As she is attempting to leave, she is robbed by an unidentified assailant. The robber manages to steal the data recorder from her as she attempts an emergency jump forward to escape. Due to a miscalculation, the device she uses to escape sends her to Waxahachie, Texas on [[#Lindsey-Jump-2014|September 30, 2014]]. The data recorder is eventually sold multiple times until it lands in the possession of Jordan Thorpe, a small-scale artifact dealer who books passage to America on the maiden voyage of the RMS ''Titanic''.<br /> |-<br /> |'''NOTE:''' The above event has been identified as the point of divergence between the Prime timeline and the alternate timeline known as "Looking Glass Land". According to data acquired by Project Hourglass/Bootstrap, all information currently points to Lindsey Waldroup's actions being the catalyst for the events that followed in the Prime timeline, rippling backwards to 1859 due to the presence of Hourglass personnel at the arrival of the Hoomiku space station. The Prime timeline, in effect, is a paradox created the moment Ms. Waldroup entered the past.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1910s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1912||align=center rowspan="2"|10 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' departs Southampton on her maiden voyage, bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sail"<br /> |The members of Project Hourglass arrive in Southampton from [[#HG-Titanic-Leave|2013]] and board the ''Titanic'' in order to secure an artifact that is clearly of Hoomiku manufacture from the ship prior to its sinking. They are booked in Cabins B-51, 53 and 55 for the voyage under names which appear on the official manifest in the future.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sink"<br /> |align=center|1912||align=center|14-15 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later, killing more than 1,500 people. News of the disaster shocks the world and leads to the establishment of new safety standards on the seas.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1920s===<br /> <br /> ===1930s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))<br /> Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates a 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.<br /> |- id="ReskontMission"<br /> |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1940s===<br /> <br /> ===1950s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- id="Sandra-CastleBravo"<br /> |align=center|1954||align=center|1 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Castle Bravo, the first test of a solid-fueled thermonuclear weapon by the United States, is conducted at Bikini Atoll. The bomb exceeds its intended blast yield by nearly 2.5 times, generating a yield of 15 megatons. The test is the largest weapon ever detonated by the United States and causes a large amount of fallout. The radioactive debris contaminates nearby islands, their inhabitants and the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel ''[[Wikipedia:Daigo Fukuryū Maru|Daigo Fukuryū Maru]]'' ("Lucky Dragon No. 5").<br /> *Members of Project Bootstrap have speculated about (but have not yet confirmed) the possibility of time travelers at this event due to indications of possible temporal abnormalities on this date. However, this situation is still under investigation and no conclusive proof has been found.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|1955||align=center|5 November||style="background:#edffd3;"|Acting on a tip, the Otonichi Intelligence Service discovers the location of a rogue Hoomiku research and mining installation. The information they receive leads OIS to believe that experiments in time travel are being carried out by the facility. King Zalkyo Jeskalt orders an immediate strike to neutralize the base. An intense firefight ensues, and as the situation appears to be reaching a climax, the severely damaged station disappears without a trace. The station crew, in an act of desperation, activate their time machine using their dwindling power supply and travel to the Sol system. Due to the emergency nature of the jump and damage to the time machine’s computing cluster, they jump a significant amount of time in the past, arriving near Earth on [[#Station-Jump-Arrive1|September 2, 1859]]. Despite an exhaustive search, no clues can be found by the Otonichi as to the whereabouts of the base.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1960s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|26 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy meets with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) and confides that he believes an invasion of Cuba is the only way to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from the island. He is persuaded to wait and continue with diplomatic and military pressure. The situation is at an effective stalemate.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo Jeskalt to discuss the situation on Terra. Two schools of thought exist within the College: a first advocates for immediate intervention in order to resolve the crisis or shape the situation to one beneficial for the Otonichi while the second advises that doing nothing is the only possible option, due to the possibility of the crisis either resolving itself (peacefully or otherwise) or of the mere presence of an outside force defusing the situation in a way that would be undesirable to the empire. At an emergency meeting of the royal Cabinet, a lone researcher for the College convinces the king to allow the crisis on Terra to continue until it reaches its inevitable conclusion, with Terra running headlong into the Great Filter through nuclear war. The king agrees and orders no intervention be carried out. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|27 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cuban Missile Crisis: As tensions reach a boiling point between the United States, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Soviet submarine ''B-59'' is surrounded by a group of American ships, which begin to drop depth charges in an attempt to force the submarine to surface. Unsure whether war has already broken out, Captain Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky and political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agree to use a nuclear-tipped torpedo. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, whose vote is required in order to authorize the launch, disagrees and denies the launch, averting what could have been the opening shot of World War III. The submarine eventually surfaces and leaves the area. This day, later known as "Black Saturday", is one of the closest moments in Terran history to possible Armageddon.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1966||align=center|14 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, dies following an operation. The loss of the lead designer and driving force behind the Soviet Union's success in the Space Race deals a devastating blow to Soviet plans for spaceflight.<br /> *The possibility of Otonichi agents murdering Korolev was investigated by members of Project Bootstap, but cannot be conclusively determined. This is considered unlikely, however, in view of his numerous health issues. Copies of Otonichi Intelligence Service records from the time period do suggest plans to eliminate Korolev and Wernher von Braun by agents on Terra, however no serious attempts appear to have been made against either.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1967||align=center|27 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *During a dress rehearsal for the launch of Apollo 1, a cabin fire ignites and kills Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Major changes to the design of the capsule and to procedures are implemented in the aftermath of the disaster. The cause of the fire is never conclusively determined.<br /> *Decades later, investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the direct cause of the accident was sabotage of the cabin electronics by elements of the Otonichi Intelligence Service working to sabotage Terran spaceflight activity. Apollo 1 is their first major attempt, and while it results in a temporary setback of the Apollo Program, their efforts do not work as intended. They regroup and formulate new plans.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|3 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *The second launch attempt of the Soviet N1 rocket ends disastrously just 23 seconds after liftoff. A damaged engine causes the automatic shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines just 15 seconds into the flight, and the fully fueled lunar rocket crashes back onto the pad in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the history of the planet. The explosion completely destroys the launch pad, and subsequent United States satellite imagery confirms that the Soviets are building a rocket capable of reaching the Moon. The cause of the disaster is eventually traced to the liquid oxygen tubopump of the #8 engine on the first stage exploding due to ingestion of a foreign object, most likely a loose bolt. Fuel filters are added to future missions. The pad requires more than 18 months of reconstruction.<br /> *A subsequent investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the ultimate cause of the accident was Otonichi tampering. It has subsequently been concluded that the Otonichi attempts to sabotage the Soviet lunar program were a direct attempt to avoid the possibility of a Soviet lunar landing being used as motivation for a NASA mission to Mars and future Solar System exploration. Their work was greatly assisted by a badly underfunded Soviet space program which featured numerous competing design bureaus attempting to court state favor and the death of Sergei Korolev.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|20 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Apollo 11 lunar module ''Eagle'' lands on Earth's Moon, and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on its surface. This moment is, effectively, the end of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union and fulfills President Kennedy's 1961 promise to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo to discuss the implications of the landing. It is universally agreed that Terran spaceflight activities, if continued at their current pace, will lead to the eventual discovery of the Otonichi. A small number of researchers suggest peaceful revelation of the existence of the Otonichi to the people of Terra. Their proposal is rejected and the King authorizes further covert attempts to interfere with possible Terran discovery of the Otonichi by tampering with radio astronomy investigation programs and further attempts to sabotage Terran spaceflight activities.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1970s===<br /> <br /> ===1980s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|14 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|Fractal Sinclair is born in Roswell, New Mexico.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|12 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cora and Halni Jeskalt are born in Alkonost, on the planet Ishonko. As Cora is born first, she becomes next in line to the throne of the Otonichi civilization.<br /> |- id="HG-86-Arrive"<br /> |align=center|1986||align=center|27 January||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1986||align=center rowspan="3"|28 January||Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes on the launchpad during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1986||align=center rowspan="2"|9 June||The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be a failure of the O-rings in the right Solid Rocket Booster due to the cold conditions at launch, which led to the escape of super heated gasses and the subsequent breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after launch. The report also notes a number of contributing causes to the accident and criticizes NASA management decisions that led to the accident.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be the unauthorized activation of the range safety system onboard the Shuttle at the moment of booster ignition, destroying the Shuttle, the launch pad and killing several ground personnel and spectators. The report concludes that a valid command was sent to the system to arm and activate it at liftoff, but records from Patrick Air Force Base and testimony from the Range Safety Officers indicate conclusively that no command was sent from them. The failure is attributed to a serious fault or outside tampering, but the exact cause is never determined with certainty.<br /> *The report includes testimony from Morton-Thiokol engineer [[Wikipedia:Roger Boisjoly|Roger Boisjoly]], noting the possibility of a failure of the Solid Rocket Booster O-rings during launches on days with very low temperatures. Initially seen as a possible cause for the accident, investigators cannot conclusively find evidence for this as a cause for the disaster and the subsequent discovery of the range safety system activation leads to a lack of further investigation into this possibility. It is included as a mere footnote in the report.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1989||align=center|24 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|''The New York Times'' publishes classified documents obtained by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell which contain numerous details on projects involving the Hoomiku performed by both the United States and Soviet Union. The story becomes a media sensation overnight and Thornwell is arrested within hours of publication.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1990s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 7 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|29 January||style="background:#d3edff;"|At the 1991 State of the Union Address, President George H. W. Bush announces the cancellation of America's manned space program and shifts NASA's priorities to the cause of robotic exploration of the Solar System. The three remaining Space Shuttles are decommissioned and placed on display in museums, with Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' placed on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|4 December||style="background:#d3edff;"|Pan American World Airways ceases operations, with PAA Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami, Florida being the last flight in the 64 year history of the company.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|21 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The House of Representatives narrowly votes to approve funds to continue the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas. The project, roughly 1/5th of the way to completion, faces increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill due to reports of project mismanagement and skyrocketing costs. Over the next few months, a staff shakeup leads to lower cost projections and a revised timeline for completion, with the massive particle accelerator due for activation before the end of the year 2000.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|27 October||The House of Representatives votes 283 to 143 to reject a Conference Committee report with continuing funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is officially terminated. Access shafts to the 14 miles of completed tunnels are filled in and over the next year, the project is officially wound down and abandoned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1995||align=center|August||A private expedition to the wreck of the ''Titanic'' is carried out by a group of French treasure-hunters. After contracting the Russians in order to use the R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' and its MIR submersibles, a number of artifacts are recovered from the wreck. INTERPOL, acting on a tip, arrests the men and confiscates the artifacts, a number of which corrode due to improper cleaning and handling. The artifacts are eventually sold to Magnolia Parks and Entertainment, for use in a future museum devoted to the ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1997||align=center|15 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|The ''Cassini-Huygens'' mission to Saturn launches on a Titan IV-B booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The $3.2 billion Flagship-class mission promises to unlock untold scientific discoveries of Saturn and its moons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|24 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|NASA announces that it plans to launch a Mars sample-return mission before 2010, and planning begins for a tentative launch in 2008.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|DOS-8, the core module of the ''Mir-2'' space station, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Federal Space Agency finalizes plans with the Chinese government for cooperation on space station construction. The European Space Agency expresses interest, but doesn't commit to the project in full.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2000s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|9 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The first particle beam collision, at an unprecedented energy of 40 TeV, occurs at Superconducting Super Collider. The event is hailed as a monumental moment in physics and science and scientists from around the world anticipate new discoveries, chief among them the Higgs boson, the long sought particle thought to imbue mass and a critical missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. CERN announces it will suspend operation of the Large Electron-Positron Collider by 2001, and several European countries push for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in an attempt to foster new scientific innovations while America probes new frontiers of particle physics.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|12 December||style="background:#edffd3;"|Following a lengthy and contentious recount of votes in Florida, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling on ''Bush v. Gore'', ending the recounts in a 5-4 decision and, as a result, George W. Bush is elected 43rd President of the United States, defeating Vice President Al Gore.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|18 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|Zachary Calliden is born in Waxahachie, Texas.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#d3edff;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|26 August||The Columbia Accident Investigation Board issues its report. The immediate cause of the accident is revealed to be a breach in one of the reinforced carbon-carbon composite panels on the left wing of the Space Shuttle, caused by foam from the External Tank striking the panel at supersonic speeds. During reentry, plasma entered the wing and compromised its structure, leading to the eventual destruction of the vehicle due to loss of attitude control. The report also indicates a large number of faults with NASA decision making policy and risk assessment procedures, as well as a culture where deviations from design criteria were regularly accepted so long as mission success was not compromised. The report makes numerous recommendations for future spaceflight operations. The International Space Agency's fleet of Orbiters, recently approved for construction, begin to undergo design modifications to allow for higher crew safety standards.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|10 November||The International Space Agency's governing body, the International Council on Spaceflight Activities, gives authorization to proceed with the Phoenix Program. The program's goal is to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the 2010s and establish a permanent research outpost at the lunar south pole. In a separate vote, the Council gives tentative approval for a project to use components from the lunar program for use in a possible mission to Mars before 2020.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 54, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||[[Edward Marshall]] is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Barack Obama is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-7 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 54. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is traced back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.<br /> |- id="HG-Titanic-Leave"<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|25 November||Members of Project Hourglass travel to [[#Titanic-Sail|April 10, 1912]].<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2014||align=center|22 May||After several months of quiet negotiations, the Department of Energy gives approval for [[TCI Research]] to begin construction on the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The company purchases the remains of the various facilities from the government and begins the process of drilling new access shafts to the abandoned 14 miles of tunnels to determine their condition. Construction is estimated to take a bare minimum of 6 years. In an effort to speed up the process while negotiations are made to acquire land needed for the project, seven tunnel boring machines are ordered and one of the largest civil engineering projects in United States history begins to take shape. Opposition in Congress is immediate, most notably from Idaho Senator Arlen Hawking, who criticizes the project as a handout to the home state of President Marshall, a gross expenditure of money that could better be spent elsewhere and a possible threat to humanity.<br /> |- id="ZachBodyRecover"<br /> |align=center|2015||align=center|22 June||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|8 July||A week and a half before the Republican National Convention, presumptive nominee Donald Trump announces that he is suspending his campaign, throwing the race for the Republican nomination into chaos. At a press conference announcing the event, Trump implies that he is withdrawing from the race against his will due to coercion by outside forces and hints of a "witch hunt" against him. He does not, despite repeated questioning, establish what forces he is referring to.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|19 July||On the fifth round of voting, Senator [[Arlen Hawking]] of Idaho wins the nomination for President, defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In his speech to the convention, Hawking pledges to unify the party and begin the process of making the nation prosperous once more.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|21 July||Ares 1's Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) ''Mayflower'' lands at Eberswalde Crater, becoming the first mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars. Hours later, Harold Hamilton becomes the first person to set foot on the Martian surface, followed by David Sanders, Vasili Petrov, Karri Litmanen, Liu Junlong and Kan Yamakawa. The crew begins a 550 day mission on the surface.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2016||align=center rowspan="2"|8 November||Arlen Hawking is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of Energy [[Elizabeth Gaines]].<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|25 December||A surprise attack is launched on critical orbital infrastructure around Ishonko. At least six large civilian ships fitted with advanced Terran FTL drives acquired on the black market are filled with explosives and rammed into the main civilian spaceport, Otonichi Imperial Fleet headquarters and a large orbital repair dock over the planet. Numerous civilian and military ships docked to the stations suffer severe damage and thousands are injured, killed or missing. Multiple daring rescue missions are made as Kessler syndrome begins to occur in Ishonkan orbit. Within hours, the Otonichi deorbit the remains of their primary military command center and civilian spaceport and mobilize their fleet in a defensive posture. The Otonichi fleet is given full access and use of a ship repair facility under construction by Looking Glass in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Ishonko goes into full planetary ground stop for the first time since the bombing of Reskont.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|15 March||Princess Regent Cora Jeskalt gives royal assent to the 3rd Monarchy Act, becoming sovereign of the Otonichi Imperial Empire. The act includes numerous provisions seen as an overt power grab by Parliament. Among the provisions included in the law is a clause which states that the monarchy shall be declared dissolved on the death of Cora Jeskalt provided she has not produced an heir. Hours after signing the document, HM Jeskalt travels to New Orleans on Terra for undisclosed reasons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flies over Hokkaido, Japan before crashing into the Pacific. With tensions on the Korean Peninsula reaching a dangerous tipping point, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss options. President Trump states that "all options are on the table" and threatens to retaliate with "force unlike anything they've ever seen" should any further provocation occur.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|3 September||style="background:#d3edff;"|The United States Geological Survey detects a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of North Korea's principal nuclear weapons test site. The DPRK claims it now has a hydrogen bomb capable of mounting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. Hours after the test, two defectors attempt to cross the border at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean soldiers fire at the defectors. In the chaos, a round strikes a US Army soldier and severely wounds him. A brief exchange of gunfire over the border takes place before a tense standoff occurs. For three hours, the situation remains a tense one as the defectors and American soldier are rushed to a hospital. Five hours after the initial exchange of gunfire, a third defector attempts to cross into the South, and is mortally wounded by North Korean troops firing at him. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula skyrocket and President Trump orders an aircraft carrier strike group sent to the Peninsula. In tweets that evening, the President warns Kim Jong-un of an impending wave of destruction should any further hostilities against American troops take place.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|Five snow leopards are arrested after attempting to sabotage the upcoming launch of Shenzhou 12 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. After intense interrogation, Chinese officials announce to the world that the saboteurs are not terrestrial leopards and that they are part of an operation intentionally tampering with affairs on Earth, specifically, Terran spaceflight programs. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. The men are convicted and sentenced to execution by China while an intense global effort is launched to find anyone else suspected of being associated with the program. Propaganda appears almost overnight across the globe: ''"Beware the Otonichi scourge!"''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|30 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *As news spreads across Earth of the existence of the Otonichi and their attempts to sabotage Terran space activities and interfere in global affairs, leaders of various Hoomiku communities on Earth try to distance themselves from possible association with the Otonichi. Several attacks on both Hoomiku and random snow leopards take place around the world.<br /> *The Otonichi Intelligence Service receives alarming reports from their agents on Terra. A decision is made to inform the monarch about the situation and to bring her up to speed on the status of attempts to intervene on Terra. Cora Jeskalt is made aware of the full extent of the project and orders a halt to all intervention on Terra and an immediate withdrawal of Otonichi agents from the planet. The damage, however, has been done.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|31 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|An intergovernmental task force is created to find and capture any and all Otonichi on Earth. Amidst a global panic and outrage, 6 elderly Hoomiku reveal the full scope of their species' dealings with the Otonichi to the world in graphic detail, and vow to work with the governments of the world in an effort to enact revenge not only for the crimes dealt to them by the Otonichi, but for the interference the Otonichi have caused on Earth. A new project is started at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory to use a time machine as a matter teleportation device. A project is also started at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland to develop a biological weapon tailored for use against the Otonichi.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2019||align=center|15 March||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2019||align=center rowspan="2"|December||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2020s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 9||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 30||style="background:#d3edff;"|With units of the Montana Army National Guard surrounding the mine and additional military assets being mobilized for a strike on the fortified mine serving as their base of operations, final preparations are made to send Lindsey Waldroup into the past in an attempt to alter the timeline and prevent disaster. Realizing he cannot go with Lindsey due to his appearance and the limited capacity of the time machine's power source, Zachary Calliden attempts a last-ditch maneuver to save his own life. Using information recorded in a journal by his maternal grandmother, he uploads his consciousness into Lindsey's mind while she sleeps, unaware that there is no way for him to escape once he does so. Fractal Calliden and Melor Oliver discover Zachary's still living body shortly thereafter and hide it from Lindsey, fearing that her resolve to attempt the mission will falter if she realizes what has happened. After rapid calculations, an incredibly remote possibility of retrieving the Hoomiku's body from their timeline is found, and instructions for the process are hidden on Lindsey's phone, addressed to their alternate selves. Data on the history of the world is also gathered and placed on storage devices. Zachary, in a persistent vegetative state, is placed on an intravenous drip and given oxygen.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2020||align=center rowspan="2"|October 31||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|'''NOTE:''' ''End of Looking Glass Land timeline.''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|November 7||Following delays due to higher than usual numbers of mail-in ballots, [[Matthew Connors]] is elected 46th President of the United States, defeating incumbent President Arlen Hawking.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==List of time travel events==</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* 2010s */</p> <hr /> <div><center>'''<u>ISA SECURE DATABASE</u>'''<br /> </br><br /> '''"LOOKING GLASS LAND" — SUMMARY'''<br /> </br><br /> '''TOP SECRET//LG/SAR-HG//ORCON/NOFORN'''</center><br /> <br /> ==Introduction==<br /> ==Timeline==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |+ Timeline color key<br /> |- style="text-align:center;" <br /> | style="width:96px;" |Prime<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#d3edff;"|Looking Glass Land<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#edffd3;"|Both<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1800s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1859||align=center rowspan="3"|1-2 September||style="background:#edffd3;"|The Carrington Event occurs. One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, a major coronal mass ejection occurs at around noon on September 1 and impacts the Earth less than a day later, causing auroras bright enough to read newspapers at night in some areas, and visible as far south as the Caribbean. Telegraph operators around the world report receiving electric shocks and being able to transmit with their power supplies turned off, when systems aren't disrupted by the storm.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Arrive1"<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. Due to the damage to the pod's shielding, the pod suffers a catastrophic failure on reentry and disintegrates over the English Channel, killing everyone aboard. The remaining 2 members of the crew, the station's commander and executive officer, enter a final escape pod after verifying the station is on the proper course for disposal and land successfully near the first 4 in England.<br /> |-<br /> |A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. As this pod leaves the station, a team from Project Hourglass, arriving from [[#HG-Station-Leave1|2014]] in the modified Otonichi infiltration ship ISV ''Opened Item'', trigger a proximity alert and are hailed by the station commander, who asks them to effect a rescue. The Hourglass team docks with the damaged pod and incapacitate the injured Hoomiku with knockout gas before securing them. After verifying that the data recorder they are looking for is not aboard, the pod is left to burn up in the atmosphere. The Hourglass team then board the station and move it into a stable orbit around the Earth before prepping it for a jump to the Asteroid Belt. After an initial confrontation, a truce is reached between the commander, his executive officer and the Hourglass team, and the 5 rescued Hoomiku from the damaged escape pod are treated for radiation sickness. The 4 Hoomiku in England are left on Earth to avoid interference in the timeline.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Past-Arrive"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1868||align=center rowspan="2"|July 1||Lindsey Waldroup arrives from [[#Lindsey-Jump-Start|2020]] and steals the data recorder from the Hoomiku crew who landed on Earth in 1859. As she is attempting to leave, she is robbed by an unidentified assailant. The robber manages to steal the data recorder from her as she attempts an emergency jump forward to escape. Due to a miscalculation, the device she uses to escape sends her to Waxahachie, Texas on [[#Lindsey-Jump-2014|September 30, 2014]]. The data recorder is eventually sold multiple times until it lands in the possession of Jordan Thorpe, a small-scale artifact dealer who books passage to America on the maiden voyage of the RMS ''Titanic''.<br /> |-<br /> |'''NOTE:''' The above event has been identified as the point of divergence between the Prime timeline and the alternate timeline known as "Looking Glass Land". According to data acquired by Project Hourglass/Bootstrap, all information currently points to Lindsey Waldroup's actions being the catalyst for the events that followed in the Prime timeline, rippling backwards to 1859 due to the presence of Hourglass personnel at the arrival of the Hoomiku space station. The Prime timeline, in effect, is a paradox created the moment Ms. Waldroup entered the past.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1910s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1912||align=center rowspan="2"|10 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' departs Southampton on her maiden voyage, bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sail"<br /> |The members of Project Hourglass arrive in Southampton from [[#HG-Titanic-Leave|2013]] and board the ''Titanic'' in order to secure an artifact that is clearly of Hoomiku manufacture from the ship prior to its sinking. They are booked in Cabins B-51, 53 and 55 for the voyage under names which appear on the official manifest in the future.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sink"<br /> |align=center|1912||align=center|14-15 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later, killing more than 1,500 people. News of the disaster shocks the world and leads to the establishment of new safety standards on the seas.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1920s===<br /> <br /> ===1930s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))<br /> Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates at 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.<br /> |- id="ReskontMission"<br /> |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1940s===<br /> <br /> ===1950s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- id="Sandra-CastleBravo"<br /> |align=center|1954||align=center|1 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Castle Bravo, the first test of a solid-fueled thermonuclear weapon by the United States, is conducted at Bikini Atoll. The bomb exceeds its intended blast yield by nearly 2.5 times, generating a yield of 15 megatons. The test is the largest weapon ever detonated by the United States and causes a large amount of fallout. The radioactive debris contaminates nearby islands, their inhabitants and the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel ''[[Wikipedia:Daigo Fukuryū Maru|Daigo Fukuryū Maru]]'' ("Lucky Dragon No. 5").<br /> *Members of Project Bootstrap have speculated about (but have not yet confirmed) the possibility of time travelers at this event due to indications of possible temporal abnormalities on this date. However, this situation is still under investigation and no conclusive proof has been found.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|1955||align=center|5 November||style="background:#edffd3;"|Acting on a tip, the Otonichi Intelligence Service discovers the location of a rogue Hoomiku research and mining installation. The information they receive leads OIS to believe that experiments in time travel are being carried out by the facility. King Zalkyo Jeskalt orders an immediate strike to neutralize the base. An intense firefight ensues, and as the situation appears to be reaching a climax, the severely damaged station disappears without a trace. The station crew, in an act of desperation, activate their time machine using their dwindling power supply and travel to the Sol system. Due to the emergency nature of the jump and damage to the time machine’s computing cluster, they jump a significant amount of time in the past, arriving near Earth on [[#Station-Jump-Arrive1|September 2, 1859]]. Despite an exhaustive search, no clues can be found by the Otonichi as to the whereabouts of the base.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1960s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|26 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy meets with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) and confides that he believes an invasion of Cuba is the only way to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from the island. He is persuaded to wait and continue with diplomatic and military pressure. The situation is at an effective stalemate.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo Jeskalt to discuss the situation on Terra. Two schools of thought exist within the College: a first advocates for immediate intervention in order to resolve the crisis or shape the situation to one beneficial for the Otonichi while the second advises that doing nothing is the only possible option, due to the possibility of the crisis either resolving itself (peacefully or otherwise) or of the mere presence of an outside force defusing the situation in a way that would be undesirable to the empire. At an emergency meeting of the royal Cabinet, a lone researcher for the College convinces the king to allow the crisis on Terra to continue until it reaches its inevitable conclusion, with Terra running headlong into the Great Filter through nuclear war. The king agrees and orders no intervention be carried out. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|27 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cuban Missile Crisis: As tensions reach a boiling point between the United States, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Soviet submarine ''B-59'' is surrounded by a group of American ships, which begin to drop depth charges in an attempt to force the submarine to surface. Unsure whether war has already broken out, Captain Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky and political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agree to use a nuclear-tipped torpedo. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, whose vote is required in order to authorize the launch, disagrees and denies the launch, averting what could have been the opening shot of World War III. The submarine eventually surfaces and leaves the area. This day, later known as "Black Saturday", is one of the closest moments in Terran history to possible Armageddon.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1966||align=center|14 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, dies following an operation. The loss of the lead designer and driving force behind the Soviet Union's success in the Space Race deals a devastating blow to Soviet plans for spaceflight.<br /> *The possibility of Otonichi agents murdering Korolev was investigated by members of Project Bootstap, but cannot be conclusively determined. This is considered unlikely, however, in view of his numerous health issues. Copies of Otonichi Intelligence Service records from the time period do suggest plans to eliminate Korolev and Wernher von Braun by agents on Terra, however no serious attempts appear to have been made against either.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1967||align=center|27 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *During a dress rehearsal for the launch of Apollo 1, a cabin fire ignites and kills Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Major changes to the design of the capsule and to procedures are implemented in the aftermath of the disaster. The cause of the fire is never conclusively determined.<br /> *Decades later, investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the direct cause of the accident was sabotage of the cabin electronics by elements of the Otonichi Intelligence Service working to sabotage Terran spaceflight activity. Apollo 1 is their first major attempt, and while it results in a temporary setback of the Apollo Program, their efforts do not work as intended. They regroup and formulate new plans.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|3 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *The second launch attempt of the Soviet N1 rocket ends disastrously just 23 seconds after liftoff. A damaged engine causes the automatic shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines just 15 seconds into the flight, and the fully fueled lunar rocket crashes back onto the pad in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the history of the planet. The explosion completely destroys the launch pad, and subsequent United States satellite imagery confirms that the Soviets are building a rocket capable of reaching the Moon. The cause of the disaster is eventually traced to the liquid oxygen tubopump of the #8 engine on the first stage exploding due to ingestion of a foreign object, most likely a loose bolt. Fuel filters are added to future missions. The pad requires more than 18 months of reconstruction.<br /> *A subsequent investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the ultimate cause of the accident was Otonichi tampering. It has subsequently been concluded that the Otonichi attempts to sabotage the Soviet lunar program were a direct attempt to avoid the possibility of a Soviet lunar landing being used as motivation for a NASA mission to Mars and future Solar System exploration. Their work was greatly assisted by a badly underfunded Soviet space program which featured numerous competing design bureaus attempting to court state favor and the death of Sergei Korolev.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|20 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Apollo 11 lunar module ''Eagle'' lands on Earth's Moon, and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on its surface. This moment is, effectively, the end of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union and fulfills President Kennedy's 1961 promise to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo to discuss the implications of the landing. It is universally agreed that Terran spaceflight activities, if continued at their current pace, will lead to the eventual discovery of the Otonichi. A small number of researchers suggest peaceful revelation of the existence of the Otonichi to the people of Terra. Their proposal is rejected and the King authorizes further covert attempts to interfere with possible Terran discovery of the Otonichi by tampering with radio astronomy investigation programs and further attempts to sabotage Terran spaceflight activities.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1970s===<br /> <br /> ===1980s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|14 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|Fractal Sinclair is born in Roswell, New Mexico.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|12 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cora and Halni Jeskalt are born in Alkonost, on the planet Ishonko. As Cora is born first, she becomes next in line to the throne of the Otonichi civilization.<br /> |- id="HG-86-Arrive"<br /> |align=center|1986||align=center|27 January||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1986||align=center rowspan="3"|28 January||Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes on the launchpad during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1986||align=center rowspan="2"|9 June||The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be a failure of the O-rings in the right Solid Rocket Booster due to the cold conditions at launch, which led to the escape of super heated gasses and the subsequent breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after launch. The report also notes a number of contributing causes to the accident and criticizes NASA management decisions that led to the accident.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be the unauthorized activation of the range safety system onboard the Shuttle at the moment of booster ignition, destroying the Shuttle, the launch pad and killing several ground personnel and spectators. The report concludes that a valid command was sent to the system to arm and activate it at liftoff, but records from Patrick Air Force Base and testimony from the Range Safety Officers indicate conclusively that no command was sent from them. The failure is attributed to a serious fault or outside tampering, but the exact cause is never determined with certainty.<br /> *The report includes testimony from Morton-Thiokol engineer [[Wikipedia:Roger Boisjoly|Roger Boisjoly]], noting the possibility of a failure of the Solid Rocket Booster O-rings during launches on days with very low temperatures. Initially seen as a possible cause for the accident, investigators cannot conclusively find evidence for this as a cause for the disaster and the subsequent discovery of the range safety system activation leads to a lack of further investigation into this possibility. It is included as a mere footnote in the report.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1989||align=center|24 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|''The New York Times'' publishes classified documents obtained by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell which contain numerous details on projects involving the Hoomiku performed by both the United States and Soviet Union. The story becomes a media sensation overnight and Thornwell is arrested within hours of publication.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1990s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 7 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|29 January||style="background:#d3edff;"|At the 1991 State of the Union Address, President George H. W. Bush announces the cancellation of America's manned space program and shifts NASA's priorities to the cause of robotic exploration of the Solar System. The three remaining Space Shuttles are decommissioned and placed on display in museums, with Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' placed on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|4 December||style="background:#d3edff;"|Pan American World Airways ceases operations, with PAA Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami, Florida being the last flight in the 64 year history of the company.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|21 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The House of Representatives narrowly votes to approve funds to continue the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas. The project, roughly 1/5th of the way to completion, faces increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill due to reports of project mismanagement and skyrocketing costs. Over the next few months, a staff shakeup leads to lower cost projections and a revised timeline for completion, with the massive particle accelerator due for activation before the end of the year 2000.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|27 October||The House of Representatives votes 283 to 143 to reject a Conference Committee report with continuing funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is officially terminated. Access shafts to the 14 miles of completed tunnels are filled in and over the next year, the project is officially wound down and abandoned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1995||align=center|August||A private expedition to the wreck of the ''Titanic'' is carried out by a group of French treasure-hunters. After contracting the Russians in order to use the R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' and its MIR submersibles, a number of artifacts are recovered from the wreck. INTERPOL, acting on a tip, arrests the men and confiscates the artifacts, a number of which corrode due to improper cleaning and handling. The artifacts are eventually sold to Magnolia Parks and Entertainment, for use in a future museum devoted to the ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1997||align=center|15 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|The ''Cassini-Huygens'' mission to Saturn launches on a Titan IV-B booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The $3.2 billion Flagship-class mission promises to unlock untold scientific discoveries of Saturn and its moons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|24 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|NASA announces that it plans to launch a Mars sample-return mission before 2010, and planning begins for a tentative launch in 2008.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|DOS-8, the core module of the ''Mir-2'' space station, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Federal Space Agency finalizes plans with the Chinese government for cooperation on space station construction. The European Space Agency expresses interest, but doesn't commit to the project in full.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2000s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|9 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The first particle beam collision, at an unprecedented energy of 40 TeV, occurs at Superconducting Super Collider. The event is hailed as a monumental moment in physics and science and scientists from around the world anticipate new discoveries, chief among them the Higgs boson, the long sought particle thought to imbue mass and a critical missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. CERN announces it will suspend operation of the Large Electron-Positron Collider by 2001, and several European countries push for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in an attempt to foster new scientific innovations while America probes new frontiers of particle physics.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|12 December||style="background:#edffd3;"|Following a lengthy and contentious recount of votes in Florida, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling on ''Bush v. Gore'', ending the recounts in a 5-4 decision and, as a result, George W. Bush is elected 43rd President of the United States, defeating Vice President Al Gore.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|18 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|Zachary Calliden is born in Waxahachie, Texas.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#d3edff;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|26 August||The Columbia Accident Investigation Board issues its report. The immediate cause of the accident is revealed to be a breach in one of the reinforced carbon-carbon composite panels on the left wing of the Space Shuttle, caused by foam from the External Tank striking the panel at supersonic speeds. During reentry, plasma entered the wing and compromised its structure, leading to the eventual destruction of the vehicle due to loss of attitude control. The report also indicates a large number of faults with NASA decision making policy and risk assessment procedures, as well as a culture where deviations from design criteria were regularly accepted so long as mission success was not compromised. The report makes numerous recommendations for future spaceflight operations. The International Space Agency's fleet of Orbiters, recently approved for construction, begin to undergo design modifications to allow for higher crew safety standards.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|10 November||The International Space Agency's governing body, the International Council on Spaceflight Activities, gives authorization to proceed with the Phoenix Program. The program's goal is to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the 2010s and establish a permanent research outpost at the lunar south pole. In a separate vote, the Council gives tentative approval for a project to use components from the lunar program for use in a possible mission to Mars before 2020.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 54, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||[[Edward Marshall]] is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Barack Obama is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-7 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 54. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is traced back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.<br /> |- id="HG-Titanic-Leave"<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|25 November||Members of Project Hourglass travel to [[#Titanic-Sail|April 10, 1912]].<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2014||align=center|22 May||After several months of quiet negotiations, the Department of Energy gives approval for [[TCI Research]] to begin construction on the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The company purchases the remains of the various facilities from the government and begins the process of drilling new access shafts to the abandoned 14 miles of tunnels to determine their condition. Construction is estimated to take a bare minimum of 6 years. In an effort to speed up the process while negotiations are made to acquire land needed for the project, seven tunnel boring machines are ordered and one of the largest civil engineering projects in United States history begins to take shape. Opposition in Congress is immediate, most notably from Idaho Senator Arlen Hawking, who criticizes the project as a handout to the home state of President Marshall, a gross expenditure of money that could better be spent elsewhere and a possible threat to humanity.<br /> |- id="ZachBodyRecover"<br /> |align=center|2015||align=center|22 June||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|8 July||A week and a half before the Republican National Convention, presumptive nominee Donald Trump announces that he is suspending his campaign, throwing the race for the Republican nomination into chaos. At a press conference announcing the event, Trump implies that he is withdrawing from the race against his will due to coercion by outside forces and hints of a "witch hunt" against him. He does not, despite repeated questioning, establish what forces he is referring to.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|19 July||On the fifth round of voting, Senator [[Arlen Hawking]] of Idaho wins the nomination for President, defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In his speech to the convention, Hawking pledges to unify the party and begin the process of making the nation prosperous once more.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|21 July||Ares 1's Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) ''Mayflower'' lands at Eberswalde Crater, becoming the first mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars. Hours later, Harold Hamilton becomes the first person to set foot on the Martian surface, followed by David Sanders, Vasili Petrov, Karri Litmanen, Liu Junlong and Kan Yamakawa. The crew begins a 550 day mission on the surface.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2016||align=center rowspan="2"|8 November||Arlen Hawking is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of Energy [[Elizabeth Gaines]].<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|25 December||A surprise attack is launched on critical orbital infrastructure around Ishonko. At least six large civilian ships fitted with advanced Terran FTL drives acquired on the black market are filled with explosives and rammed into the main civilian spaceport, Otonichi Imperial Fleet headquarters and a large orbital repair dock over the planet. Numerous civilian and military ships docked to the stations suffer severe damage and thousands are injured, killed or missing. Multiple daring rescue missions are made as Kessler syndrome begins to occur in Ishonkan orbit. Within hours, the Otonichi deorbit the remains of their primary military command center and civilian spaceport and mobilize their fleet in a defensive posture. The Otonichi fleet is given full access and use of a ship repair facility under construction by Looking Glass in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Ishonko goes into full planetary ground stop for the first time since the bombing of Reskont.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|15 March||Princess Regent Cora Jeskalt gives royal assent to the 3rd Monarchy Act, becoming sovereign of the Otonichi Imperial Empire. The act includes numerous provisions seen as an overt power grab by Parliament. Among the provisions included in the law is a clause which states that the monarchy shall be declared dissolved on the death of Cora Jeskalt provided she has not produced an heir. Hours after signing the document, HM Jeskalt travels to New Orleans on Terra for undisclosed reasons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flies over Hokkaido, Japan before crashing into the Pacific. With tensions on the Korean Peninsula reaching a dangerous tipping point, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss options. President Trump states that "all options are on the table" and threatens to retaliate with "force unlike anything they've ever seen" should any further provocation occur.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|3 September||style="background:#d3edff;"|The United States Geological Survey detects a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of North Korea's principal nuclear weapons test site. The DPRK claims it now has a hydrogen bomb capable of mounting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. Hours after the test, two defectors attempt to cross the border at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean soldiers fire at the defectors. In the chaos, a round strikes a US Army soldier and severely wounds him. A brief exchange of gunfire over the border takes place before a tense standoff occurs. For three hours, the situation remains a tense one as the defectors and American soldier are rushed to a hospital. Five hours after the initial exchange of gunfire, a third defector attempts to cross into the South, and is mortally wounded by North Korean troops firing at him. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula skyrocket and President Trump orders an aircraft carrier strike group sent to the Peninsula. In tweets that evening, the President warns Kim Jong-un of an impending wave of destruction should any further hostilities against American troops take place.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|Five snow leopards are arrested after attempting to sabotage the upcoming launch of Shenzhou 12 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. After intense interrogation, Chinese officials announce to the world that the saboteurs are not terrestrial leopards and that they are part of an operation intentionally tampering with affairs on Earth, specifically, Terran spaceflight programs. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. The men are convicted and sentenced to execution by China while an intense global effort is launched to find anyone else suspected of being associated with the program. Propaganda appears almost overnight across the globe: ''"Beware the Otonichi scourge!"''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|30 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *As news spreads across Earth of the existence of the Otonichi and their attempts to sabotage Terran space activities and interfere in global affairs, leaders of various Hoomiku communities on Earth try to distance themselves from possible association with the Otonichi. Several attacks on both Hoomiku and random snow leopards take place around the world.<br /> *The Otonichi Intelligence Service receives alarming reports from their agents on Terra. A decision is made to inform the monarch about the situation and to bring her up to speed on the status of attempts to intervene on Terra. Cora Jeskalt is made aware of the full extent of the project and orders a halt to all intervention on Terra and an immediate withdrawal of Otonichi agents from the planet. The damage, however, has been done.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|31 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|An intergovernmental task force is created to find and capture any and all Otonichi on Earth. Amidst a global panic and outrage, 6 elderly Hoomiku reveal the full scope of their species' dealings with the Otonichi to the world in graphic detail, and vow to work with the governments of the world in an effort to enact revenge not only for the crimes dealt to them by the Otonichi, but for the interference the Otonichi have caused on Earth. A new project is started at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory to use a time machine as a matter teleportation device. A project is also started at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland to develop a biological weapon tailored for use against the Otonichi.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2019||align=center|15 March||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2019||align=center rowspan="2"|December||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2020s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 9||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 30||style="background:#d3edff;"|With units of the Montana Army National Guard surrounding the mine and additional military assets being mobilized for a strike on the fortified mine serving as their base of operations, final preparations are made to send Lindsey Waldroup into the past in an attempt to alter the timeline and prevent disaster. Realizing he cannot go with Lindsey due to his appearance and the limited capacity of the time machine's power source, Zachary Calliden attempts a last-ditch maneuver to save his own life. Using information recorded in a journal by his maternal grandmother, he uploads his consciousness into Lindsey's mind while she sleeps, unaware that there is no way for him to escape once he does so. Fractal Calliden and Melor Oliver discover Zachary's still living body shortly thereafter and hide it from Lindsey, fearing that her resolve to attempt the mission will falter if she realizes what has happened. After rapid calculations, an incredibly remote possibility of retrieving the Hoomiku's body from their timeline is found, and instructions for the process are hidden on Lindsey's phone, addressed to their alternate selves. Data on the history of the world is also gathered and placed on storage devices. Zachary, in a persistent vegetative state, is placed on an intravenous drip and given oxygen.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2020||align=center rowspan="2"|October 31||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|'''NOTE:''' ''End of Looking Glass Land timeline.''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|November 7||Following delays due to higher than usual numbers of mail-in ballots, [[Matthew Connors]] is elected 46th President of the United States, defeating incumbent President Arlen Hawking.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==List of time travel events==</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Gregory James Harris */</p> <hr /> <div>==General==<br /> ===[[Ian Rubin]]===<br /> *'''Born''': February 23, 1980; Lafayette, LA<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-8, [[STS-10W]], Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Fractal Rubin===<br /> *'''Born''': March 14, 1980 (Pi Day), Los Alamos, NM<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Parents''': Rena Sinclair (mother), Ardan Sinclair (father)<br /> *'''Maiden name''': Fractal Sinclair<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Ian Rubin (husband: '''12-23-07''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''': Fractal's parents arrived on Earth in 1947 and eventually found employment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a top secret division overseen by the CIA. They worked on both physics research and development of new nuclear weapon designs. Fractal grew up with other Hoomiku and was cared for by her parents as much as was physically possible. In 1986, her parents were killed following accidental exposure to fatal radiation levels during an experiment ordered by the CIA to research telepathy blocking techniques. Both died in front of Fractal, who refused to leave their side in the infirmary. She was placed in the care of foster parents following the accident. While she never considered them her new parents, she did return their affection and was polite, but continued to be deeply wounded by the loss of her parents.</p><p>In 1989, ''The New York Times'' publishes classified information leaked by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell regarding the extent and details of projects involving the Hoomiku held by the United States. The Thornwell leak is considered the defining moment when rumors of aliens form into fact, as he divulged major details about the Hoomiku, including crimes committed by the United States and Soviet Union towards them. President George H. W. Bush eventually acknowledges the species in 1990 under growing pressure from both Congress and the press, a move followed shortly by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The United Nations General Assembly drafts Resolution 45/77, defining both the rights of Hoomiku to basic laws and defining the security and privacy of thought as a basic human right. Given that a breeding population exists on Earth, they are not in danger of dying out. The public is shocked, but no massive social upheaval occurs. Several hate crimes do occur, however, and prompt legislation with regards to both the use of telepathy in certain situations and locations and providing the basis for a lawsuit filed by several hundred Hoomiku against the United States. The suit is ruled in favor of the Hoomiku and as a result, Fractal is entitled to a free college education, a house, and $40,000 on her 18th birthday. She attends New Mexico Tech and briefly works as a DJ at a local radio station. Eventually, she transferred to New Mexico University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in both botany and physics.</p><p>Following graduation, she began to work at a start-up in Albuquerque studying new techniques for indoor crop growth. In 2006, she traveled to Russia for research into aeroponic farming techniques studied by the Russian Federal Space Agency. There she met Ian Rubin in Star City, and the two hit it off and began dating until Ian's flight to the International Space Station on September 18, 2006. The two resumed their relationship following the flight and in December, Fractal moved to Louisiana. The two were married on December 23, 2007.</p><br /> <br /> ===[[Sandra Harris]]===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Gregory Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[International Space Agency]]<br /> *'''Items''': Sandra's most cherished possession is a badly scuffed, space certified [[Wikipedia:Omega Speedmaster|Omega Speedmaster]] (Ref. 3570.50.00) with a black Velcro strap that has permanently been stained a grayish color. The watch was given to her by the International Space Agency for use on the Moon, and she subsequently purchased the watch for retail price from the space agency. She almost never parts with it and would do almost anything (within reason) to recover it if it is lost or stolen. While the sapphire crystal has been replaced due to severe scratching, she has not asked the jeweler to repair the case scratches. The watch is kept in top condition and keeps accurate time, and contains strontium aluminate lume on the dial and hands. In early 2020, Sandra purchased a new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch (Ref. 311.30.42.30.01.005) to replace her original, which is now kept in a case at her home. This watch also features strontium aluminate lume, and Sandra tends to wear the watch with either an orange or 6 stripe rainbow polyamide NATO strap when wearing it daily. Sandra has publicly stated that she intends to bring both with her on her next lunar mission, and wore the newer of the two watches during her spacewalks on STS-250.<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Phoenix 9]], [[STS-217]], [[STS-250]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Gregory James Harris===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Died''': November 9, 2008<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Stats''': <br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Items''': Gregory is always able to pull a refrigerated 355 ml (12 fl oz) or half-liter glass bottle of [[Wikipedia:Fresca#Versions|Fresca]] from Mexico out of thin air at will. The bottle is constantly full, and drinking from it doesn't reduce the amount in the bottle. Pouring it fills a glass up to the amount that the bottle actually contains and empties the bottle in the process, at which point it becomes full again when done pouring as though nothing was drained from it. Anyone other than Greg or another ghost is apparently unable to do this with the bottle. (You can't fill a swimming pool up this way, in other words.)<br /> *'''Abilities''':<br /> *'''Afterlife description''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Julia Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Thomas Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Whittington===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Rough collie<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Jackie Cormier===<br /> *'''Born''': April 15, 1988; Seattle, WA<br /> *'''Species''': Catahoula Cur (Predominantely blue and white fur with black splotches and spots. Has heterochromia: left eye blue, right eye hazel.) <br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Related to''': David Cormier (brother)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Nickname''': ''Split-eyes'', ''Splits'', ''Blue dog''<br /> *'''Rank''': Petty Officer 2nd Class, Aviation Survival Technician (Rescue swimmer)<br /> *'''History''': Moved to Louisiana at six years of age from Seattle after her father was laid off from Boeing. Joined the Coast Guard and is one of only four female swimmers. Currently resides in Canon Shoals, OR. Originally stationed at [[Wikipedia:Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles|CGAS Port Angeles]], WA until her entire crew was transferred to Canon Shoals following [REDACTED] in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.<br /> <br /> ===#===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Sports related==<br /> ===Wesley D. Romero===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Long-tailed weasel<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Team''': Bangor Tides (Furry Basketball Association)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Carlos Coronado===<br /> *'''Born''': Merida, Yucatan, MX<br /> *'''Species''': Jaguar<br /> *'''Nationality''': Mexican<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Abbey Crandall (girlfriend: '''Sochi Winter Olympics''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Team''': Louisiana IceGators (National Hockey League)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Astronauts==<br /> ===Harold Hamilton===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Gray wolf<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-109|STS-109]], [[Wikipedia:STS-117|STS-117]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Sanders===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': White Siberian tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-113|STS-113]], [[Wikipedia:STS-120|STS-120]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Derek Ozark===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': River dragon (Blue, no wings)<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Ixy Comeaux===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Looking Glass related==<br /> ===Cora Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Halni Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Vargi===<br /> *'''First activated''':<br /> *'''Species''': Artificial intelligence <br /> **'''Primary avatar''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> ===Carla Maxwell===<br /> *'''Born''': October 8, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': River otter<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (''maître d'île'', Phoenix Cay)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bruce Anderson===<br /> *'''Born''': April 17, 1978; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<br /> *'''Species''': Bengal Tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''': Australian<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (pilot)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Frederick Hollande===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Dhole<br /> *'''Nationality''': French<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[TCI Research]] (Director, [[Ellis National Laboratory]], Superconducting Super Collider) <br /> **'''Former employer''': [[Wikipedia:CERN|CERN]] (various roles relating to the [[Wikipedia:Large Hadron Collider|Large Hadron Collider]])<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universes==<br /> ===X===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': Prime/''Wonderland''/''Looking Glass Land'' <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Zachary Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': April 18, 2002; Waxahachie, TX <br /> **'''Date/place of birth listed on current ID''': April 18, 1996; Waxahachie, TX. <br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': Fractal S. Calliden, Roger Calliden<br /> *'''Friends with''': Lindsey Waldroup <br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''[[Looking Glass Land]]'', 2020<br /> *'''History''': Personality and higher brain functions implanted within brain of Lindsey Waldroup. Eventually removed and placed into a high capacity AI core on 2-1-2015. Body restored on: 6-22-2015. Taken in by Ian and Fractal, with official story being that parents died in car accident and Fractal was only living relative. Moved in with them from home in Honolulu.<br /> <br /> ===Roger Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': October 4, 1978; Rachel, NV<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Spouse''': Fractal S. Calliden<br /> *'''Employed by''': Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (researcher, SDC detector)<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''Looking Glass Land'', 2020<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bonnie Krueger===<br /> *'''Born''': ????, ????; Goldfern Station (Sometime in the future in a space related setting; Current age is 23)<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Stats''': 5'8", 137 lbs, green eyes. Possibly missing a small notch from one ear following a bad deal she failed to complete.<br /> *'''Clothing''': Blue jeans, black combat boots, white t-shirt, torn black leather jacket with a VERY faded logo for an old Earth space program on the back. <br /> *'''Items''': Brown leather holster, 2 year old laser pistol or plasma pistol plus battery pack for the above. Carries a beaten up rucksack or backpack containing her worldly goods.<br /> *'''Backpack contents'''<br /> ** Captain's license (''Goldfern Station'' - issuer)<br /> ** Phone (Most likely the newest thing she owns)<br /> ** Slightly beat up, but high end VR headset.<br /> ** One pair of welding goggles modified to be sunglasses with a HUD inside of the lenses. Goggles are the type with two round lenses, as opposed to a single square pane of glass.<br /> ** Roll-up solar panel/charger<br /> ** Treasured book from mother about item central to plot.<br /> ** 1 bottle of a rare alcoholic drink<br /> ** 1 change of clothes (no shoes)<br /> ** 1 memento of Earth<br /> ** 1 journal<br /> ** 1 MRE<br /> ** 1 bottle of water (1 liter)<br /> ** 1 30 minute air bottle with mask.<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ????<br /> *'''History (Revised for forum RP)''': Only child raised by her mother. Dad's rarely mentioned and Mom insinuates (read: ''adamantly maintains'') he's dead and spaced. No proof of it, though. Regardless, Bonnie has grown up in the light of the renaissance of renewed interest in Earth on Goldfern Station, brought up by a mother who worked far too hard for far too little money, but who genuinely loved her and filled her with wonderful stories of adventure, space and wonder for the "Pale Blue Dot". Tales of great explorers, the heady early days of space travel, the men and women who fought to break out of gravity wells to visit worlds in the same system. Tales of outlaws, as well: her namesake, Bonnie Parker, of pirates and Capone... of their fates and of the music and culture of a place lost to time and space. Filled with dreams, she fought hard to get her captain's license... only to discover that dreams have prices... as well as interest rates and late fees. Striking out on her own and saddled with a few old debts but no ship to pay them, she takes out one last loan: to buy a ticket to another star, another world. One where a ship awaits, she hopes, along with jobs, wealth and maybe, just maybe... Earth and eternal glory.<br /> *'''First intro''': Arrives at Helios Station with just enough to pay the docking fee, but her ship is repossessed within 10 minutes of her getting there. Stranded and pissed off, she decides to blow some of her meager savings at a bar, where a ''highly'' drunk tiger sits next to her and, in the middle of trying to tell him off, he reveals something highly crucial to her quest. She decides to ply the rest out of him with a few more drinks. She gets the info, but stripes decides to try to get into her pants right there in the middle of the room. She cracks a bottle of booze over his head and knocks him out cold, and grabs a few mysterious coins he's dropped while getting out of there. As "Timber" by Pitbull starts to play, she races away from station security as fast as her legs will carry her, shoving aside anything in her way and doing a good attempt at parkour... until she runs into her new best friend...<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universe/timeline descriptions==<br /> ===Looking Glass Land===<br /> *'''"Short" version:''' Otonichi (alien sneps) and Hoomiku (other alien felines with big ears) evolve on a planet around the star Tau Ceti named Ishonko. They eventually master space travel. Sometime in the 1930's, war were declared. King Zalkyo Jeskalt, of the Otonichi, is a murderous fuckwit. He hates hoomiku and the war grinds to a stalemate up to the moment when a couple of hoomiku terrorists blow up a city where the body of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in Otonichi history, resided in a glass sarcophagus. Zalkyo decides "These people are DEAD" and goes on a genocidal bender. Most hoomiku are dead, and the few who aren't flee to Earth towards the end of World War II. A few rogue hoomiku hide out in an asteroid mining base somewhere in space and tinker with time travel. They get discovered by the Otonichi in the 1950's and press the magic button to GTFO. They end up around earth in 1859 in the middle of the worst recorded solar storm in history. They escape to Earth. We'll come back to them in a bit, because THIS part is also complicated. Time keeps moving into the future. Someone comes to Zalkyo during the Cuban Missle Crisis with the suggestion that "Look, these people are going to blow each other up. If they DON'T, they could be a problem. Fuck with enough of their space program, and they'll stay on the ground." He signs off on this, and a few teams go covert on Earth to do that, since they look like snow leopards. They screw around with the Russian lunar rocket, kill the Apollo 1 crew in the fire, and POSSIBLY do something to Apollo 13. They then lie back until 1986, when the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' launches with a teacher on board. ''ENTER DIVERGENCE POINT BETWEEN LOOKING GLASS LAND AND REGULAR LAND '''HERE'''.'' Now, in 'Looking Glass Land', they activate the range safety system on the Space Shuttle right at SRB ignition and it blows up on the launch pad, killing the crew, destroying the pad and possibly killing a few people watching. The nation's devastated, but things go on and they're not caught. In 1990, they destroy Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' during STS-31 and blow it up in the air, killing the crew, destroying the Shuttle '''and''' the Hubble Space Telescope. This, coming four years after ''Challenger'', ends America's manned space program at the 1991 State of the Union. With no Space Shuttle to work on the ISS, and no ISS to speak of, the Superconducting Super Collider, a large atom smasher in Texas, is completed by 2000 rather than being cancelled in 1994. It discovers the Higgs boson in 2002... and lead researcher for the SDC collaboration Fractal Calliden, who married her college sweetheart Roger and has a son named Zach, announces the news. The Russians and Chinese, meanwhile, stubbornly carry forth with space. Around 2012, Melor Oliver, a big ol' wolf, is discovered to be using time travel to send stock information two minutes into the past to himself to make money. The SEC is annoyed and tries to pin him for something, but no luck. They do, however, Shanghai him into a secret project to research this. In 2017, the Otonichi try to screw with a Shenzhou launch from Jiquan. That's when they fuck up and the Chinese catch them. The world is now made aware of what's going on and that there's aliens screwing with our space programs. China hauls them out in a big show trial, then kills them for treason.</div>

Lafayette1 https://lafayetteinc.com/index.php?title=Character_cheat_sheet&diff=3488 Character cheat sheet 2021-04-04T11:31:36Z

<p>Lafayette1: /* Sandra Harris */</p> <hr /> <div>==General==<br /> ===[[Ian Rubin]]===<br /> *'''Born''': February 23, 1980; Lafayette, LA<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-8, [[STS-10W]], Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Fractal Rubin===<br /> *'''Born''': March 14, 1980 (Pi Day), Los Alamos, NM<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Parents''': Rena Sinclair (mother), Ardan Sinclair (father)<br /> *'''Maiden name''': Fractal Sinclair<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Ian Rubin (husband: '''12-23-07''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''': Fractal's parents arrived on Earth in 1947 and eventually found employment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a top secret division overseen by the CIA. They worked on both physics research and development of new nuclear weapon designs. Fractal grew up with other Hoomiku and was cared for by her parents as much as was physically possible. In 1986, her parents were killed following accidental exposure to fatal radiation levels during an experiment ordered by the CIA to research telepathy blocking techniques. Both died in front of Fractal, who refused to leave their side in the infirmary. She was placed in the care of foster parents following the accident. While she never considered them her new parents, she did return their affection and was polite, but continued to be deeply wounded by the loss of her parents.</p><p>In 1989, ''The New York Times'' publishes classified information leaked by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell regarding the extent and details of projects involving the Hoomiku held by the United States. The Thornwell leak is considered the defining moment when rumors of aliens form into fact, as he divulged major details about the Hoomiku, including crimes committed by the United States and Soviet Union towards them. President George H. W. Bush eventually acknowledges the species in 1990 under growing pressure from both Congress and the press, a move followed shortly by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The United Nations General Assembly drafts Resolution 45/77, defining both the rights of Hoomiku to basic laws and defining the security and privacy of thought as a basic human right. Given that a breeding population exists on Earth, they are not in danger of dying out. The public is shocked, but no massive social upheaval occurs. Several hate crimes do occur, however, and prompt legislation with regards to both the use of telepathy in certain situations and locations and providing the basis for a lawsuit filed by several hundred Hoomiku against the United States. The suit is ruled in favor of the Hoomiku and as a result, Fractal is entitled to a free college education, a house, and $40,000 on her 18th birthday. She attends New Mexico Tech and briefly works as a DJ at a local radio station. Eventually, she transferred to New Mexico University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in both botany and physics.</p><p>Following graduation, she began to work at a start-up in Albuquerque studying new techniques for indoor crop growth. In 2006, she traveled to Russia for research into aeroponic farming techniques studied by the Russian Federal Space Agency. There she met Ian Rubin in Star City, and the two hit it off and began dating until Ian's flight to the International Space Station on September 18, 2006. The two resumed their relationship following the flight and in December, Fractal moved to Louisiana. The two were married on December 23, 2007.</p><br /> <br /> ===[[Sandra Harris]]===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Gregory Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[International Space Agency]]<br /> *'''Items''': Sandra's most cherished possession is a badly scuffed, space certified [[Wikipedia:Omega Speedmaster|Omega Speedmaster]] (Ref. 3570.50.00) with a black Velcro strap that has permanently been stained a grayish color. The watch was given to her by the International Space Agency for use on the Moon, and she subsequently purchased the watch for retail price from the space agency. She almost never parts with it and would do almost anything (within reason) to recover it if it is lost or stolen. While the sapphire crystal has been replaced due to severe scratching, she has not asked the jeweler to repair the case scratches. The watch is kept in top condition and keeps accurate time, and contains strontium aluminate lume on the dial and hands. In early 2020, Sandra purchased a new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch (Ref. 311.30.42.30.01.005) to replace her original, which is now kept in a case at her home. This watch also features strontium aluminate lume, and Sandra tends to wear the watch with either an orange or 6 stripe rainbow polyamide NATO strap when wearing it daily. Sandra has publicly stated that she intends to bring both with her on her next lunar mission, and wore the newer of the two watches during her spacewalks on STS-250.<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Phoenix 9]], [[STS-217]], [[STS-250]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Gregory James Harris===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Died''': November 9, 2008<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Stats''': <br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Items''': Gregory is always able to pull a refrigerated 355 ml (12 fl oz) or half-liter glass bottle of [[Wikipedia:Fresca#Versions|Fresca]] from Mexico out of thin air at will. Bottle is constantly full, and drinking from it doesn't reduce the amount in the bottle. Pouring it fills a glass up to the amount that the bottle actually contains and empties the bottle in the process, at which point it becomes full again when done pouring as though nothing was drained from it. Anyone other than Greg or another ghost is apparently unable to do this with the bottle. (You can't fill a swimming pool up this way, in other words.)<br /> *'''Abilities''':<br /> *'''Afterlife description''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Julia Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Thomas Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Whittington===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Rough collie<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Jackie Cormier===<br /> *'''Born''': April 15, 1988; Seattle, WA<br /> *'''Species''': Catahoula Cur (Predominantely blue and white fur with black splotches and spots. Has heterochromia: left eye blue, right eye hazel.) <br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Related to''': David Cormier (brother)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Nickname''': ''Split-eyes'', ''Splits'', ''Blue dog''<br /> *'''Rank''': Petty Officer 2nd Class, Aviation Survival Technician (Rescue swimmer)<br /> *'''History''': Moved to Louisiana at six years of age from Seattle after her father was laid off from Boeing. Joined the Coast Guard and is one of only four female swimmers. Currently resides in Canon Shoals, OR. Originally stationed at [[Wikipedia:Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles|CGAS Port Angeles]], WA until her entire crew was transferred to Canon Shoals following [REDACTED] in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.<br /> <br /> ===#===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Sports related==<br /> ===Wesley D. Romero===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Long-tailed weasel<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Team''': Bangor Tides (Furry Basketball Association)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Carlos Coronado===<br /> *'''Born''': Merida, Yucatan, MX<br /> *'''Species''': Jaguar<br /> *'''Nationality''': Mexican<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Abbey Crandall (girlfriend: '''Sochi Winter Olympics''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Team''': Louisiana IceGators (National Hockey League)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Astronauts==<br /> ===Harold Hamilton===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Gray wolf<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-109|STS-109]], [[Wikipedia:STS-117|STS-117]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Sanders===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': White Siberian tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-113|STS-113]], [[Wikipedia:STS-120|STS-120]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Derek Ozark===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': River dragon (Blue, no wings)<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Ixy Comeaux===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Looking Glass related==<br /> ===Cora Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Halni Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Vargi===<br /> *'''First activated''':<br /> *'''Species''': Artificial intelligence <br /> **'''Primary avatar''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> ===Carla Maxwell===<br /> *'''Born''': October 8, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': River otter<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (''maître d'île'', Phoenix Cay)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bruce Anderson===<br /> *'''Born''': April 17, 1978; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<br /> *'''Species''': Bengal Tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''': Australian<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (pilot)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Frederick Hollande===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Dhole<br /> *'''Nationality''': French<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[TCI Research]] (Director, [[Ellis National Laboratory]], Superconducting Super Collider) <br /> **'''Former employer''': [[Wikipedia:CERN|CERN]] (various roles relating to the [[Wikipedia:Large Hadron Collider|Large Hadron Collider]])<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universes==<br /> ===X===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': Prime/''Wonderland''/''Looking Glass Land'' <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Zachary Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': April 18, 2002; Waxahachie, TX <br /> **'''Date/place of birth listed on current ID''': April 18, 1996; Waxahachie, TX. <br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': Fractal S. Calliden, Roger Calliden<br /> *'''Friends with''': Lindsey Waldroup <br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''[[Looking Glass Land]]'', 2020<br /> *'''History''': Personality and higher brain functions implanted within brain of Lindsey Waldroup. Eventually removed and placed into a high capacity AI core on 2-1-2015. Body restored on: 6-22-2015. Taken in by Ian and Fractal, with official story being that parents died in car accident and Fractal was only living relative. Moved in with them from home in Honolulu.<br /> <br /> ===Roger Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': October 4, 1978; Rachel, NV<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Spouse''': Fractal S. Calliden<br /> *'''Employed by''': Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (researcher, SDC detector)<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''Looking Glass Land'', 2020<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bonnie Krueger===<br /> *'''Born''': ????, ????; Goldfern Station (Sometime in the future in a space related setting; Current age is 23)<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Stats''': 5'8", 137 lbs, green eyes. Possibly missing a small notch from one ear following a bad deal she failed to complete.<br /> *'''Clothing''': Blue jeans, black combat boots, white t-shirt, torn black leather jacket with a VERY faded logo for an old Earth space program on the back. <br /> *'''Items''': Brown leather holster, 2 year old laser pistol or plasma pistol plus battery pack for the above. Carries a beaten up rucksack or backpack containing her worldly goods.<br /> *'''Backpack contents'''<br /> ** Captain's license (''Goldfern Station'' - issuer)<br /> ** Phone (Most likely the newest thing she owns)<br /> ** Slightly beat up, but high end VR headset.<br /> ** One pair of welding goggles modified to be sunglasses with a HUD inside of the lenses. Goggles are the type with two round lenses, as opposed to a single square pane of glass.<br /> ** Roll-up solar panel/charger<br /> ** Treasured book from mother about item central to plot.<br /> ** 1 bottle of a rare alcoholic drink<br /> ** 1 change of clothes (no shoes)<br /> ** 1 memento of Earth<br /> ** 1 journal<br /> ** 1 MRE<br /> ** 1 bottle of water (1 liter)<br /> ** 1 30 minute air bottle with mask.<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ????<br /> *'''History (Revised for forum RP)''': Only child raised by her mother. Dad's rarely mentioned and Mom insinuates (read: ''adamantly maintains'') he's dead and spaced. No proof of it, though. Regardless, Bonnie has grown up in the light of the renaissance of renewed interest in Earth on Goldfern Station, brought up by a mother who worked far too hard for far too little money, but who genuinely loved her and filled her with wonderful stories of adventure, space and wonder for the "Pale Blue Dot". Tales of great explorers, the heady early days of space travel, the men and women who fought to break out of gravity wells to visit worlds in the same system. Tales of outlaws, as well: her namesake, Bonnie Parker, of pirates and Capone... of their fates and of the music and culture of a place lost to time and space. Filled with dreams, she fought hard to get her captain's license... only to discover that dreams have prices... as well as interest rates and late fees. Striking out on her own and saddled with a few old debts but no ship to pay them, she takes out one last loan: to buy a ticket to another star, another world. One where a ship awaits, she hopes, along with jobs, wealth and maybe, just maybe... Earth and eternal glory.<br /> *'''First intro''': Arrives at Helios Station with just enough to pay the docking fee, but her ship is repossessed within 10 minutes of her getting there. Stranded and pissed off, she decides to blow some of her meager savings at a bar, where a ''highly'' drunk tiger sits next to her and, in the middle of trying to tell him off, he reveals something highly crucial to her quest. She decides to ply the rest out of him with a few more drinks. She gets the info, but stripes decides to try to get into her pants right there in the middle of the room. She cracks a bottle of booze over his head and knocks him out cold, and grabs a few mysterious coins he's dropped while getting out of there. As "Timber" by Pitbull starts to play, she races away from station security as fast as her legs will carry her, shoving aside anything in her way and doing a good attempt at parkour... until she runs into her new best friend...<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universe/timeline descriptions==<br /> ===Looking Glass Land===<br /> *'''"Short" version:''' Otonichi (alien sneps) and Hoomiku (other alien felines with big ears) evolve on a planet around the star Tau Ceti named Ishonko. They eventually master space travel. Sometime in the 1930's, war were declared. King Zalkyo Jeskalt, of the Otonichi, is a murderous fuckwit. He hates hoomiku and the war grinds to a stalemate up to the moment when a couple of hoomiku terrorists blow up a city where the body of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in Otonichi history, resided in a glass sarcophagus. Zalkyo decides "These people are DEAD" and goes on a genocidal bender. Most hoomiku are dead, and the few who aren't flee to Earth towards the end of World War II. A few rogue hoomiku hide out in an asteroid mining base somewhere in space and tinker with time travel. They get discovered by the Otonichi in the 1950's and press the magic button to GTFO. They end up around earth in 1859 in the middle of the worst recorded solar storm in history. They escape to Earth. We'll come back to them in a bit, because THIS part is also complicated. Time keeps moving into the future. Someone comes to Zalkyo during the Cuban Missle Crisis with the suggestion that "Look, these people are going to blow each other up. If they DON'T, they could be a problem. Fuck with enough of their space program, and they'll stay on the ground." He signs off on this, and a few teams go covert on Earth to do that, since they look like snow leopards. They screw around with the Russian lunar rocket, kill the Apollo 1 crew in the fire, and POSSIBLY do something to Apollo 13. They then lie back until 1986, when the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' launches with a teacher on board. ''ENTER DIVERGENCE POINT BETWEEN LOOKING GLASS LAND AND REGULAR LAND '''HERE'''.'' Now, in 'Looking Glass Land', they activate the range safety system on the Space Shuttle right at SRB ignition and it blows up on the launch pad, killing the crew, destroying the pad and possibly killing a few people watching. The nation's devastated, but things go on and they're not caught. In 1990, they destroy Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' during STS-31 and blow it up in the air, killing the crew, destroying the Shuttle '''and''' the Hubble Space Telescope. This, coming four years after ''Challenger'', ends America's manned space program at the 1991 State of the Union. With no Space Shuttle to work on the ISS, and no ISS to speak of, the Superconducting Super Collider, a large atom smasher in Texas, is completed by 2000 rather than being cancelled in 1994. It discovers the Higgs boson in 2002... and lead researcher for the SDC collaboration Fractal Calliden, who married her college sweetheart Roger and has a son named Zach, announces the news. The Russians and Chinese, meanwhile, stubbornly carry forth with space. Around 2012, Melor Oliver, a big ol' wolf, is discovered to be using time travel to send stock information two minutes into the past to himself to make money. The SEC is annoyed and tries to pin him for something, but no luck. They do, however, Shanghai him into a secret project to research this. In 2017, the Otonichi try to screw with a Shenzhou launch from Jiquan. That's when they fuck up and the Chinese catch them. The world is now made aware of what's going on and that there's aliens screwing with our space programs. China hauls them out in a big show trial, then kills them for treason.</div>

Lafayette1 https://lafayetteinc.com/index.php?title=STS-250&diff=3487 STS-250 2021-02-24T11:57:39Z

<p>Lafayette1: /* Crew */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Infobox Space mission <br /> | mission_name = STS-250<br /> | insignia = STS-250.png<br /> | shuttle = Horizon<br /> | launch_pad = [[Wikipedia:Kennedy Space Center|Kennedy]] [[Wikipedia:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39D]]<br /> | launch = 25 April, 2017<br /> | landing = 9 May, 2017 <br /> | landing_site = [[Wikipedia:Edwards Air Force Base|Edwards]] Runway 22L<br /> | duration = <br /> | altitude = 600 kilometers (373 miles)<br /> | inclination = 28.5°<br /> | period = 97 min<br /> | orbits = <br /> | distance = <br /> | crew_photo = <br /> | crew_caption = <br /> | previous = [[List of space shuttle missions|STS-249]] [[Image:Shuttle Patch.svg |35px|STS-249]]<br /> | next = [[List of space shuttle missions|STS-251]] [[Image:Shuttle Patch.svg |35px|STS-251]]<br /> }}<br /> '''STS-250''', or '''HST-SM6''' ('''Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 6'''), was the seventh space shuttle servicing mission to the [[Wikipedia:Hubble Space Telescope|Hubble Space Telescope]] (HST) which was flown by [[Space Shuttle Horizon|Space Shuttle ''Horizon'']]. Launch occurred on ['''INSERT DAY/MONTH'''], 2021 at 11:03 am EDT. Landing occurred successfully on ['''INSERT DAY/MONTH'''], 2021/22 at 8:38 am PDT.<br /> <br /> The mission carried two new instruments to the Hubble Space Telescope, the [[Advanced Multi-Object Spectrometer]] and the [[Advanced Camera for Surveys 2]]. The mission also replaced the telescope's main computer, a [[Wikipedia:Fine Guidance Sensor|Fine Guidance Sensor]], four gyroscopes and two battery unit modules. The crew also installed new thermal insulation panels.<br /> ==Crew==<br /> {| class="wikitable"<br /> |-<br /> !width=150|Position<br /> !width=220|Astronaut<br /> |-<br /> !Commander<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Melvin Hobbes<br />''(Jaguar)''<br />Fourth spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Pilot<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg|border|23px|United Arab Emirates]] Ramlah al-Hashim, [[Wikipedia:United Arab Emirates Space Agency|UAESA]]<br />''(Asiatic cheetah)'' <br /> First spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 1<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] [[Sandra Harris]]<br />''(Melanistic black-backed jackal)''<br />Third spaceflight<br />Lead spacewalker, EV1<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 2<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|border|23px|Canada]] Elaine Jennings, [[Wikipedia:Canadian Space Agency|CSA]]<br />''(Snow leopard)''<br />First spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 3<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Ricky Wilson<br />''(Leopard)''<br />Second spaceflight<br />EV2<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 4<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Gene Cahill<br />''(Wolverine)''<br />Third spaceflight<br />EV3<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 5<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|22px|United States]] Anthony Jimenez, [[Wikipedia:NASA|NASA]]<br />''(Coyote)''<br />First spaceflight<br />EV4<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==Mission history==</div>

Lafayette1 https://lafayetteinc.com/index.php?title=Looking_Glass_Land&diff=3486 Looking Glass Land 2020-11-14T21:22:50Z

<p>Lafayette1: /* 2010s */</p> <hr /> <div><center>'''<u>ISA SECURE DATABASE</u>'''<br /> </br><br /> '''"LOOKING GLASS LAND" — SUMMARY'''<br /> </br><br /> '''TOP SECRET//LG/SAR-HG//ORCON/NOFORN'''</center><br /> <br /> ==Introduction==<br /> ==Timeline==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |+ Timeline color key<br /> |- style="text-align:center;" <br /> | style="width:96px;" |Prime<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#d3edff;"|Looking Glass Land<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#edffd3;"|Both<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1800s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1859||align=center rowspan="3"|1-2 September||style="background:#edffd3;"|The Carrington Event occurs. One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, a major coronal mass ejection occurs at around noon on September 1 and impacts the Earth less than a day later, causing auroras bright enough to read newspapers at night in some areas, and visible as far south as the Caribbean. Telegraph operators around the world report receiving electric shocks and being able to transmit with their power supplies turned off, when systems aren't disrupted by the storm.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Arrive1"<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. Due to the damage to the pod's shielding, the pod suffers a catastrophic failure on reentry and disintegrates over the English Channel, killing everyone aboard. The remaining 2 members of the crew, the station's commander and executive officer, enter a final escape pod after verifying the station is on the proper course for disposal and land successfully near the first 4 in England.<br /> |-<br /> |A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. As this pod leaves the station, a team from Project Hourglass, arriving from [[#HG-Station-Leave1|2014]] in the modified Otonichi infiltration ship ISV ''Opened Item'', trigger a proximity alert and are hailed by the station commander, who asks them to effect a rescue. The Hourglass team docks with the damaged pod and incapacitate the injured Hoomiku with knockout gas before securing them. After verifying that the data recorder they are looking for is not aboard, the pod is left to burn up in the atmosphere. The Hourglass team then board the station and move it into a stable orbit around the Earth before prepping it for a jump to the Asteroid Belt. After an initial confrontation, a truce is reached between the commander, his executive officer and the Hourglass team, and the 5 rescued Hoomiku from the damaged escape pod are treated for radiation sickness. The 4 Hoomiku in England are left on Earth to avoid interference in the timeline.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Past-Arrive"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1868||align=center rowspan="2"|July 1||Lindsey Waldroup arrives from [[#Lindsey-Jump-Start|2020]] and steals the data recorder from the Hoomiku crew who landed on Earth in 1859. As she is attempting to leave, she is robbed by an unidentified assailant. The robber manages to steal the data recorder from her as she attempts an emergency jump forward to escape. Due to a miscalculation, the device she uses to escape sends her to Waxahachie, Texas on [[#Lindsey-Jump-2014|September 30, 2014]]. The data recorder is eventually sold multiple times until it lands in the possession of Jordan Thorpe, a small-scale artifact dealer who books passage to America on the maiden voyage of the RMS ''Titanic''.<br /> |-<br /> |'''NOTE:''' The above event has been identified as the point of divergence between the Prime timeline and the alternate timeline known as "Looking Glass Land". According to data acquired by Project Hourglass/Bootstrap, all information currently points to Lindsey Waldroup's actions being the catalyst for the events that followed in the Prime timeline, rippling backwards to 1859 due to the presence of Hourglass personnel at the arrival of the Hoomiku space station. The Prime timeline, in effect, is a paradox created the moment Ms. Waldroup entered the past.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1910s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1912||align=center rowspan="2"|10 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' departs Southampton on her maiden voyage, bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sail"<br /> |The members of Project Hourglass arrive in Southampton from [[#HG-Titanic-Leave|2013]] and board the ''Titanic'' in order to secure an artifact that is clearly of Hoomiku manufacture from the ship prior to its sinking. They are booked in Cabins B-51, 53 and 55 for the voyage under names which appear on the official manifest in the future.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sink"<br /> |align=center|1912||align=center|14-15 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later, killing more than 1,500 people. News of the disaster shocks the world and leads to the establishment of new safety standards on the seas.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1920s===<br /> <br /> ===1930s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))<br /> Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates at 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.<br /> |- id="ReskontMission"<br /> |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1940s===<br /> <br /> ===1950s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- id="Sandra-CastleBravo"<br /> |align=center|1954||align=center|1 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Castle Bravo, the first test of a solid-fueled thermonuclear weapon by the United States, is conducted at Bikini Atoll. The bomb exceeds its intended blast yield by nearly 2.5 times, generating a yield of 15 megatons. The test is the largest weapon ever detonated by the United States and causes a large amount of fallout. The radioactive debris contaminates nearby islands, their inhabitants and the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel ''[[Wikipedia:Daigo Fukuryū Maru|Daigo Fukuryū Maru]]'' ("Lucky Dragon No. 5").<br /> *Members of Project Bootstrap have speculated about (but have not yet confirmed) the possibility of time travelers at this event due to indications of possible temporal abnormalities on this date. However, this situation is still under investigation and no conclusive proof has been found.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|1955||align=center|5 November||style="background:#edffd3;"|Acting on a tip, the Otonichi Intelligence Service discovers the location of a rogue Hoomiku research and mining installation. The information they receive leads OIS to believe that experiments in time travel are being carried out by the facility. King Zalkyo Jeskalt orders an immediate strike to neutralize the base. An intense firefight ensues, and as the situation appears to be reaching a climax, the severely damaged station disappears without a trace. The station crew, in an act of desperation, activate their time machine using their dwindling power supply and travel to the Sol system. Due to the emergency nature of the jump and damage to the time machine’s computing cluster, they jump a significant amount of time in the past, arriving near Earth on [[#Station-Jump-Arrive1|September 2, 1859]]. Despite an exhaustive search, no clues can be found by the Otonichi as to the whereabouts of the base.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1960s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|26 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy meets with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) and confides that he believes an invasion of Cuba is the only way to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from the island. He is persuaded to wait and continue with diplomatic and military pressure. The situation is at an effective stalemate.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo Jeskalt to discuss the situation on Terra. Two schools of thought exist within the College: a first advocates for immediate intervention in order to resolve the crisis or shape the situation to one beneficial for the Otonichi while the second advises that doing nothing is the only possible option, due to the possibility of the crisis either resolving itself (peacefully or otherwise) or of the mere presence of an outside force defusing the situation in a way that would be undesirable to the empire. At an emergency meeting of the royal Cabinet, a lone researcher for the College convinces the king to allow the crisis on Terra to continue until it reaches its inevitable conclusion, with Terra running headlong into the Great Filter through nuclear war. The king agrees and orders no intervention be carried out. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|27 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cuban Missile Crisis: As tensions reach a boiling point between the United States, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Soviet submarine ''B-59'' is surrounded by a group of American ships, which begin to drop depth charges in an attempt to force the submarine to surface. Unsure whether war has already broken out, Captain Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky and political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agree to use a nuclear-tipped torpedo. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, whose vote is required in order to authorize the launch, disagrees and denies the launch, averting what could have been the opening shot of World War III. The submarine eventually surfaces and leaves the area. This day, later known as "Black Saturday", is one of the closest moments in Terran history to possible Armageddon.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1966||align=center|14 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, dies following an operation. The loss of the lead designer and driving force behind the Soviet Union's success in the Space Race deals a devastating blow to Soviet plans for spaceflight.<br /> *The possibility of Otonichi agents murdering Korolev was investigated by members of Project Bootstap, but cannot be conclusively determined. This is considered unlikely, however, in view of his numerous health issues. Copies of Otonichi Intelligence Service records from the time period do suggest plans to eliminate Korolev and Wernher von Braun by agents on Terra, however no serious attempts appear to have been made against either.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1967||align=center|27 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *During a dress rehearsal for the launch of Apollo 1, a cabin fire ignites and kills Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Major changes to the design of the capsule and to procedures are implemented in the aftermath of the disaster. The cause of the fire is never conclusively determined.<br /> *Decades later, investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the direct cause of the accident was sabotage of the cabin electronics by elements of the Otonichi Intelligence Service working to sabotage Terran spaceflight activity. Apollo 1 is their first major attempt, and while it results in a temporary setback of the Apollo Program, their efforts do not work as intended. They regroup and formulate new plans.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|3 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *The second launch attempt of the Soviet N1 rocket ends disastrously just 23 seconds after liftoff. A damaged engine causes the automatic shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines just 15 seconds into the flight, and the fully fueled lunar rocket crashes back onto the pad in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the history of the planet. The explosion completely destroys the launch pad, and subsequent United States satellite imagery confirms that the Soviets are building a rocket capable of reaching the Moon. The cause of the disaster is eventually traced to the liquid oxygen tubopump of the #8 engine on the first stage exploding due to ingestion of a foreign object, most likely a loose bolt. Fuel filters are added to future missions. The pad requires more than 18 months of reconstruction.<br /> *A subsequent investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the ultimate cause of the accident was Otonichi tampering. It has subsequently been concluded that the Otonichi attempts to sabotage the Soviet lunar program were a direct attempt to avoid the possibility of a Soviet lunar landing being used as motivation for a NASA mission to Mars and future Solar System exploration. Their work was greatly assisted by a badly underfunded Soviet space program which featured numerous competing design bureaus attempting to court state favor and the death of Sergei Korolev.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|20 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Apollo 11 lunar module ''Eagle'' lands on Earth's Moon, and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on its surface. This moment is, effectively, the end of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union and fulfills President Kennedy's 1961 promise to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo to discuss the implications of the landing. It is universally agreed that Terran spaceflight activities, if continued at their current pace, will lead to the eventual discovery of the Otonichi. A small number of researchers suggest peaceful revelation of the existence of the Otonichi to the people of Terra. Their proposal is rejected and the King authorizes further covert attempts to interfere with possible Terran discovery of the Otonichi by tampering with radio astronomy investigation programs and further attempts to sabotage Terran spaceflight activities.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1970s===<br /> <br /> ===1980s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|14 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|Fractal Sinclair is born in Roswell, New Mexico.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|12 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cora and Halni Jeskalt are born in Alkonost, on the planet Ishonko. As Cora is born first, she becomes next in line to the throne of the Otonichi civilization.<br /> |- id="HG-86-Arrive"<br /> |align=center|1986||align=center|27 January||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1986||align=center rowspan="3"|28 January||Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes on the launchpad during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1986||align=center rowspan="2"|9 June||The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be a failure of the O-rings in the right Solid Rocket Booster due to the cold conditions at launch, which led to the escape of super heated gasses and the subsequent breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after launch. The report also notes a number of contributing causes to the accident and criticizes NASA management decisions that led to the accident.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be the unauthorized activation of the range safety system onboard the Shuttle at the moment of booster ignition, destroying the Shuttle, the launch pad and killing several ground personnel and spectators. The report concludes that a valid command was sent to the system to arm and activate it at liftoff, but records from Patrick Air Force Base and testimony from the Range Safety Officers indicate conclusively that no command was sent from them. The failure is attributed to a serious fault or outside tampering, but the exact cause is never determined with certainty.<br /> *The report includes testimony from Morton-Thiokol engineer [[Wikipedia:Roger Boisjoly|Roger Boisjoly]], noting the possibility of a failure of the Solid Rocket Booster O-rings during launches on days with very low temperatures. Initially seen as a possible cause for the accident, investigators cannot conclusively find evidence for this as a cause for the disaster and the subsequent discovery of the range safety system activation leads to a lack of further investigation into this possibility. It is included as a mere footnote in the report.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1989||align=center|24 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|''The New York Times'' publishes classified documents obtained by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell which contain numerous details on projects involving the Hoomiku performed by both the United States and Soviet Union. The story becomes a media sensation overnight and Thornwell is arrested within hours of publication.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1990s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 7 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|29 January||style="background:#d3edff;"|At the 1991 State of the Union Address, President George H. W. Bush announces the cancellation of America's manned space program and shifts NASA's priorities to the cause of robotic exploration of the Solar System. The three remaining Space Shuttles are decommissioned and placed on display in museums, with Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' placed on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|4 December||style="background:#d3edff;"|Pan American World Airways ceases operations, with PAA Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami, Florida being the last flight in the 64 year history of the company.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|21 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The House of Representatives narrowly votes to approve funds to continue the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas. The project, roughly 1/5th of the way to completion, faces increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill due to reports of project mismanagement and skyrocketing costs. Over the next few months, a staff shakeup leads to lower cost projections and a revised timeline for completion, with the massive particle accelerator due for activation before the end of the year 2000.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|27 October||The House of Representatives votes 283 to 143 to reject a Conference Committee report with continuing funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is officially terminated. Access shafts to the 14 miles of completed tunnels are filled in and over the next year, the project is officially wound down and abandoned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1995||align=center|August||A private expedition to the wreck of the ''Titanic'' is carried out by a group of French treasure-hunters. After contracting the Russians in order to use the R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' and its MIR submersibles, a number of artifacts are recovered from the wreck. INTERPOL, acting on a tip, arrests the men and confiscates the artifacts, a number of which corrode due to improper cleaning and handling. The artifacts are eventually sold to Magnolia Parks and Entertainment, for use in a future museum devoted to the ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1997||align=center|15 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|The ''Cassini-Huygens'' mission to Saturn launches on a Titan IV-B booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The $3.2 billion Flagship-class mission promises to unlock untold scientific discoveries of Saturn and its moons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|24 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|NASA announces that it plans to launch a Mars sample-return mission before 2010, and planning begins for a tentative launch in 2008.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|DOS-8, the core module of the ''Mir-2'' space station, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Federal Space Agency finalizes plans with the Chinese government for cooperation on space station construction. The European Space Agency expresses interest, but doesn't commit to the project in full.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2000s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|9 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The first particle beam collision, at an unprecedented energy of 40 TeV, occurs at Superconducting Super Collider. The event is hailed as a monumental moment in physics and science and scientists from around the world anticipate new discoveries, chief among them the Higgs boson, the long sought particle thought to imbue mass and a critical missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. CERN announces it will suspend operation of the Large Electron-Positron Collider by 2001, and several European countries push for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in an attempt to foster new scientific innovations while America probes new frontiers of particle physics.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|12 December||style="background:#edffd3;"|Following a lengthy and contentious recount of votes in Florida, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling on ''Bush v. Gore'', ending the recounts in a 5-4 decision and, as a result, George W. Bush is elected 43rd President of the United States, defeating Vice President Al Gore.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|18 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|Zachary Calliden is born in Waxahachie, Texas.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#d3edff;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|26 August||The Columbia Accident Investigation Board issues its report. The immediate cause of the accident is revealed to be a breach in one of the reinforced carbon-carbon composite panels on the left wing of the Space Shuttle, caused by foam from the External Tank striking the panel at supersonic speeds. During reentry, plasma entered the wing and compromised its structure, leading to the eventual destruction of the vehicle due to loss of attitude control. The report also indicates a large number of faults with NASA decision making policy and risk assessment procedures, as well as a culture where deviations from design criteria were regularly accepted so long as mission success was not compromised. The report makes numerous recommendations for future spaceflight operations. The International Space Agency's fleet of Orbiters, recently approved for construction, begin to undergo design modifications to allow for higher crew safety standards.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|10 November||The International Space Agency's governing body, the International Council on Spaceflight Activities, gives authorization to proceed with the Phoenix Program. The program's goal is to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the 2010s and establish a permanent research outpost at the lunar south pole. In a separate vote, the Council gives tentative approval for a project to use components from the lunar program for use in a possible mission to Mars before 2020.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 54, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||[[Edward Marshall]] is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Barack Obama is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-7 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 54. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is trace back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.<br /> |- id="HG-Titanic-Leave"<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|25 November||Members of Project Hourglass travel to [[#Titanic-Sail|April 10, 1912]].<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2014||align=center|22 May||After several months of quiet negotiations, the Department of Energy gives approval for [[TCI Research]] to begin construction on the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The company purchases the remains of the various facilities from the government and begins the process of drilling new access shafts to the abandoned 14 miles of tunnels to determine their condition. Construction is estimated to take a bare minimum of 6 years. In an effort to speed up the process while negotiations are made to acquire land needed for the project, seven tunnel boring machines are ordered and one of the largest civil engineering projects in United States history begins to take shape. Opposition in Congress is immediate, most notably from Idaho Senator Arlen Hawking, who criticizes the project as a handout to the home state of President Marshall, a gross expenditure of money that could better be spent elsewhere and a possible threat to humanity.<br /> |- id="ZachBodyRecover"<br /> |align=center|2015||align=center|22 June||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|8 July||A week and a half before the Republican National Convention, presumptive nominee Donald Trump announces that he is suspending his campaign, throwing the race for the Republican nomination into chaos. At a press conference announcing the event, Trump implies that he is withdrawing from the race against his will due to coercion by outside forces and hints of a "witch hunt" against him. He does not, despite repeated questioning, establish what forces he is referring to.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|19 July||On the fifth round of voting, Senator [[Arlen Hawking]] of Idaho wins the nomination for President, defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In his speech to the convention, Hawking pledges to unify the party and begin the process of making the nation prosperous once more.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|21 July||Ares 1's Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) ''Mayflower'' lands at Eberswalde Crater, becoming the first mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars. Hours later, Harold Hamilton becomes the first person to set foot on the Martian surface, followed by David Sanders, Vasili Petrov, Karri Litmanen, Liu Junlong and Kan Yamakawa. The crew begins a 550 day mission on the surface.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2016||align=center rowspan="2"|8 November||Arlen Hawking is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of Energy [[Elizabeth Gaines]].<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|25 December||A surprise attack is launched on critical orbital infrastructure around Ishonko. At least six large civilian ships fitted with advanced Terran FTL drives acquired on the black market are filled with explosives and rammed into the main civilian spaceport, Otonichi Imperial Fleet headquarters and a large orbital repair dock over the planet. Numerous civilian and military ships docked to the stations suffer severe damage and thousands are injured, killed or missing. Multiple daring rescue missions are made as Kessler syndrome begins to occur in Ishonkan orbit. Within hours, the Otonichi deorbit the remains of their primary military command center and civilian spaceport and mobilize their fleet in a defensive posture. The Otonichi fleet is given full access and use of a ship repair facility under construction by Looking Glass in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Ishonko goes into full planetary ground stop for the first time since the bombing of Reskont.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|15 March||Princess Regent Cora Jeskalt gives royal assent to the 3rd Monarchy Act, becoming sovereign of the Otonichi Imperial Empire. The act includes numerous provisions seen as an overt power grab by Parliament. Among the provisions included in the law is a clause which states that the monarchy shall be declared dissolved on the death of Cora Jeskalt provided she has not produced an heir. Hours after signing the document, HM Jeskalt travels to New Orleans on Terra for undisclosed reasons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flies over Hokkaido, Japan before crashing into the Pacific. With tensions on the Korean Peninsula reaching a dangerous tipping point, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss options. President Trump states that "all options are on the table" and threatens to retaliate with "force unlike anything they've ever seen" should any further provocation occur.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|3 September||style="background:#d3edff;"|The United States Geological Survey detects a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of North Korea's principal nuclear weapons test site. The DPRK claims it now has a hydrogen bomb capable of mounting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. Hours after the test, two defectors attempt to cross the border at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean soldiers fire at the defectors. In the chaos, a round strikes a US Army soldier and severely wounds him. A brief exchange of gunfire over the border takes place before a tense standoff occurs. For three hours, the situation remains a tense one as the defectors and American soldier are rushed to a hospital. Five hours after the initial exchange of gunfire, a third defector attempts to cross into the South, and is mortally wounded by North Korean troops firing at him. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula skyrocket and President Trump orders an aircraft carrier strike group sent to the Peninsula. In tweets that evening, the President warns Kim Jong-un of an impending wave of destruction should any further hostilities against American troops take place.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|Five snow leopards are arrested after attempting to sabotage the upcoming launch of Shenzhou 12 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. After intense interrogation, Chinese officials announce to the world that the saboteurs are not terrestrial leopards and that they are part of an operation intentionally tampering with affairs on Earth, specifically, Terran spaceflight programs. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. The men are convicted and sentenced to execution by China while an intense global effort is launched to find anyone else suspected of being associated with the program. Propaganda appears almost overnight across the globe: ''"Beware the Otonichi scourge!"''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|30 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *As news spreads across Earth of the existence of the Otonichi and their attempts to sabotage Terran space activities and interfere in global affairs, leaders of various Hoomiku communities on Earth try to distance themselves from possible association with the Otonichi. Several attacks on both Hoomiku and random snow leopards take place around the world.<br /> *The Otonichi Intelligence Service receives alarming reports from their agents on Terra. A decision is made to inform the monarch about the situation and to bring her up to speed on the status of attempts to intervene on Terra. Cora Jeskalt is made aware of the full extent of the project and orders a halt to all intervention on Terra and an immediate withdrawal of Otonichi agents from the planet. The damage, however, has been done.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|31 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|An intergovernmental task force is created to find and capture any and all Otonichi on Earth. Amidst a global panic and outrage, 6 elderly Hoomiku reveal the full scope of their species' dealings with the Otonichi to the world in graphic detail, and vow to work with the governments of the world in an effort to enact revenge not only for the crimes dealt to them by the Otonichi, but for the interference the Otonichi have caused on Earth. A new project is started at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory to use a time machine as a matter teleportation device. A project is also started at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland to develop a biological weapon tailored for use against the Otonichi.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2019||align=center|15 March||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2019||align=center rowspan="2"|December||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2020s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 9||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 30||style="background:#d3edff;"|With units of the Montana Army National Guard surrounding the mine and additional military assets being mobilized for a strike on the fortified mine serving as their base of operations, final preparations are made to send Lindsey Waldroup into the past in an attempt to alter the timeline and prevent disaster. Realizing he cannot go with Lindsey due to his appearance and the limited capacity of the time machine's power source, Zachary Calliden attempts a last-ditch maneuver to save his own life. Using information recorded in a journal by his maternal grandmother, he uploads his consciousness into Lindsey's mind while she sleeps, unaware that there is no way for him to escape once he does so. Fractal Calliden and Melor Oliver discover Zachary's still living body shortly thereafter and hide it from Lindsey, fearing that her resolve to attempt the mission will falter if she realizes what has happened. After rapid calculations, an incredibly remote possibility of retrieving the Hoomiku's body from their timeline is found, and instructions for the process are hidden on Lindsey's phone, addressed to their alternate selves. Data on the history of the world is also gathered and placed on storage devices. Zachary, in a persistent vegetative state, is placed on an intravenous drip and given oxygen.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2020||align=center rowspan="2"|October 31||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|'''NOTE:''' ''End of Looking Glass Land timeline.''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|November 7||Following delays due to higher than usual numbers of mail-in ballots, [[Matthew Connors]] is elected 46th President of the United States, defeating incumbent President Arlen Hawking.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==List of time travel events==</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* 2020s */</p> <hr /> <div><center>'''<u>ISA SECURE DATABASE</u>'''<br /> </br><br /> '''"LOOKING GLASS LAND" — SUMMARY'''<br /> </br><br /> '''TOP SECRET//LG/SAR-HG//ORCON/NOFORN'''</center><br /> <br /> ==Introduction==<br /> ==Timeline==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |+ Timeline color key<br /> |- style="text-align:center;" <br /> | style="width:96px;" |Prime<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#d3edff;"|Looking Glass Land<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#edffd3;"|Both<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1800s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1859||align=center rowspan="3"|1-2 September||style="background:#edffd3;"|The Carrington Event occurs. One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, a major coronal mass ejection occurs at around noon on September 1 and impacts the Earth less than a day later, causing auroras bright enough to read newspapers at night in some areas, and visible as far south as the Caribbean. Telegraph operators around the world report receiving electric shocks and being able to transmit with their power supplies turned off, when systems aren't disrupted by the storm.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Arrive1"<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. Due to the damage to the pod's shielding, the pod suffers a catastrophic failure on reentry and disintegrates over the English Channel, killing everyone aboard. The remaining 2 members of the crew, the station's commander and executive officer, enter a final escape pod after verifying the station is on the proper course for disposal and land successfully near the first 4 in England.<br /> |-<br /> |A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. As this pod leaves the station, a team from Project Hourglass, arriving from [[#HG-Station-Leave1|2014]] in the modified Otonichi infiltration ship ISV ''Opened Item'', trigger a proximity alert and are hailed by the station commander, who asks them to effect a rescue. The Hourglass team docks with the damaged pod and incapacitate the injured Hoomiku with knockout gas before securing them. After verifying that the data recorder they are looking for is not aboard, the pod is left to burn up in the atmosphere. The Hourglass team then board the station and move it into a stable orbit around the Earth before prepping it for a jump to the Asteroid Belt. After an initial confrontation, a truce is reached between the commander, his executive officer and the Hourglass team, and the 5 rescued Hoomiku from the damaged escape pod are treated for radiation sickness. The 4 Hoomiku in England are left on Earth to avoid interference in the timeline.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Past-Arrive"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1868||align=center rowspan="2"|July 1||Lindsey Waldroup arrives from [[#Lindsey-Jump-Start|2020]] and steals the data recorder from the Hoomiku crew who landed on Earth in 1859. As she is attempting to leave, she is robbed by an unidentified assailant. The robber manages to steal the data recorder from her as she attempts an emergency jump forward to escape. Due to a miscalculation, the device she uses to escape sends her to Waxahachie, Texas on [[#Lindsey-Jump-2014|September 30, 2014]]. The data recorder is eventually sold multiple times until it lands in the possession of Jordan Thorpe, a small-scale artifact dealer who books passage to America on the maiden voyage of the RMS ''Titanic''.<br /> |-<br /> |'''NOTE:''' The above event has been identified as the point of divergence between the Prime timeline and the alternate timeline known as "Looking Glass Land". According to data acquired by Project Hourglass/Bootstrap, all information currently points to Lindsey Waldroup's actions being the catalyst for the events that followed in the Prime timeline, rippling backwards to 1859 due to the presence of Hourglass personnel at the arrival of the Hoomiku space station. The Prime timeline, in effect, is a paradox created the moment Ms. Waldroup entered the past.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1910s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1912||align=center rowspan="2"|10 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' departs Southampton on her maiden voyage, bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sail"<br /> |The members of Project Hourglass arrive in Southampton from [[#HG-Titanic-Leave|2013]] and board the ''Titanic'' in order to secure an artifact that is clearly of Hoomiku manufacture from the ship prior to its sinking. They are booked in Cabins B-51, 53 and 55 for the voyage under names which appear on the official manifest in the future.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sink"<br /> |align=center|1912||align=center|14-15 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later, killing more than 1,500 people. News of the disaster shocks the world and leads to the establishment of new safety standards on the seas.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1920s===<br /> <br /> ===1930s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))<br /> Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates at 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.<br /> |- id="ReskontMission"<br /> |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1940s===<br /> <br /> ===1950s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- id="Sandra-CastleBravo"<br /> |align=center|1954||align=center|1 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Castle Bravo, the first test of a solid-fueled thermonuclear weapon by the United States, is conducted at Bikini Atoll. The bomb exceeds its intended blast yield by nearly 2.5 times, generating a yield of 15 megatons. The test is the largest weapon ever detonated by the United States and causes a large amount of fallout. The radioactive debris contaminates nearby islands, their inhabitants and the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel ''[[Wikipedia:Daigo Fukuryū Maru|Daigo Fukuryū Maru]]'' ("Lucky Dragon No. 5").<br /> *Members of Project Bootstrap have speculated about (but have not yet confirmed) the possibility of time travelers at this event due to indications of possible temporal abnormalities on this date. However, this situation is still under investigation and no conclusive proof has been found.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|1955||align=center|5 November||style="background:#edffd3;"|Acting on a tip, the Otonichi Intelligence Service discovers the location of a rogue Hoomiku research and mining installation. The information they receive leads OIS to believe that experiments in time travel are being carried out by the facility. King Zalkyo Jeskalt orders an immediate strike to neutralize the base. An intense firefight ensues, and as the situation appears to be reaching a climax, the severely damaged station disappears without a trace. The station crew, in an act of desperation, activate their time machine using their dwindling power supply and travel to the Sol system. Due to the emergency nature of the jump and damage to the time machine’s computing cluster, they jump a significant amount of time in the past, arriving near Earth on [[#Station-Jump-Arrive1|September 2, 1859]]. Despite an exhaustive search, no clues can be found by the Otonichi as to the whereabouts of the base.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1960s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|26 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy meets with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) and confides that he believes an invasion of Cuba is the only way to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from the island. He is persuaded to wait and continue with diplomatic and military pressure. The situation is at an effective stalemate.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo Jeskalt to discuss the situation on Terra. Two schools of thought exist within the College: a first advocates for immediate intervention in order to resolve the crisis or shape the situation to one beneficial for the Otonichi while the second advises that doing nothing is the only possible option, due to the possibility of the crisis either resolving itself (peacefully or otherwise) or of the mere presence of an outside force defusing the situation in a way that would be undesirable to the empire. At an emergency meeting of the royal Cabinet, a lone researcher for the College convinces the king to allow the crisis on Terra to continue until it reaches its inevitable conclusion, with Terra running headlong into the Great Filter through nuclear war. The king agrees and orders no intervention be carried out. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|27 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cuban Missile Crisis: As tensions reach a boiling point between the United States, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Soviet submarine ''B-59'' is surrounded by a group of American ships, which begin to drop depth charges in an attempt to force the submarine to surface. Unsure whether war has already broken out, Captain Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky and political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agree to use a nuclear-tipped torpedo. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, whose vote is required in order to authorize the launch, disagrees and denies the launch, averting what could have been the opening shot of World War III. The submarine eventually surfaces and leaves the area. This day, later known as "Black Saturday", is one of the closest moments in Terran history to possible Armageddon.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1966||align=center|14 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, dies following an operation. The loss of the lead designer and driving force behind the Soviet Union's success in the Space Race deals a devastating blow to Soviet plans for spaceflight.<br /> *The possibility of Otonichi agents murdering Korolev was investigated by members of Project Bootstap, but cannot be conclusively determined. This is considered unlikely, however, in view of his numerous health issues. Copies of Otonichi Intelligence Service records from the time period do suggest plans to eliminate Korolev and Wernher von Braun by agents on Terra, however no serious attempts appear to have been made against either.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1967||align=center|27 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *During a dress rehearsal for the launch of Apollo 1, a cabin fire ignites and kills Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Major changes to the design of the capsule and to procedures are implemented in the aftermath of the disaster. The cause of the fire is never conclusively determined.<br /> *Decades later, investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the direct cause of the accident was sabotage of the cabin electronics by elements of the Otonichi Intelligence Service working to sabotage Terran spaceflight activity. Apollo 1 is their first major attempt, and while it results in a temporary setback of the Apollo Program, their efforts do not work as intended. They regroup and formulate new plans.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|3 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *The second launch attempt of the Soviet N1 rocket ends disastrously just 23 seconds after liftoff. A damaged engine causes the automatic shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines just 15 seconds into the flight, and the fully fueled lunar rocket crashes back onto the pad in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the history of the planet. The explosion completely destroys the launch pad, and subsequent United States satellite imagery confirms that the Soviets are building a rocket capable of reaching the Moon. The cause of the disaster is eventually traced to the liquid oxygen tubopump of the #8 engine on the first stage exploding due to ingestion of a foreign object, most likely a loose bolt. Fuel filters are added to future missions. The pad requires more than 18 months of reconstruction.<br /> *A subsequent investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the ultimate cause of the accident was Otonichi tampering. It has subsequently been concluded that the Otonichi attempts to sabotage the Soviet lunar program were a direct attempt to avoid the possibility of a Soviet lunar landing being used as motivation for a NASA mission to Mars and future Solar System exploration. Their work was greatly assisted by a badly underfunded Soviet space program which featured numerous competing design bureaus attempting to court state favor and the death of Sergei Korolev.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|20 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Apollo 11 lunar module ''Eagle'' lands on Earth's Moon, and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on its surface. This moment is, effectively, the end of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union and fulfills President Kennedy's 1961 promise to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo to discuss the implications of the landing. It is universally agreed that Terran spaceflight activities, if continued at their current pace, will lead to the eventual discovery of the Otonichi. A small number of researchers suggest peaceful revelation of the existence of the Otonichi to the people of Terra. Their proposal is rejected and the King authorizes further covert attempts to interfere with possible Terran discovery of the Otonichi by tampering with radio astronomy investigation programs and further attempts to sabotage Terran spaceflight activities.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1970s===<br /> <br /> ===1980s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|14 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|Fractal Sinclair is born in Roswell, New Mexico.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|12 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cora and Halni Jeskalt are born in Alkonost, on the planet Ishonko. As Cora is born first, she becomes next in line to the throne of the Otonichi civilization.<br /> |- id="HG-86-Arrive"<br /> |align=center|1986||align=center|27 January||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1986||align=center rowspan="3"|28 January||Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes on the launchpad during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1986||align=center rowspan="2"|9 June||The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be a failure of the O-rings in the right Solid Rocket Booster due to the cold conditions at launch, which led to the escape of super heated gasses and the subsequent breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after launch. The report also notes a number of contributing causes to the accident and criticizes NASA management decisions that led to the accident.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be the unauthorized activation of the range safety system onboard the Shuttle at the moment of booster ignition, destroying the Shuttle, the launch pad and killing several ground personnel and spectators. The report concludes that a valid command was sent to the system to arm and activate it at liftoff, but records from Patrick Air Force Base and testimony from the Range Safety Officers indicate conclusively that no command was sent from them. The failure is attributed to a serious fault or outside tampering, but the exact cause is never determined with certainty.<br /> *The report includes testimony from Morton-Thiokol engineer [[Wikipedia:Roger Boisjoly|Roger Boisjoly]], noting the possibility of a failure of the Solid Rocket Booster O-rings during launches on days with very low temperatures. Initially seen as a possible cause for the accident, investigators cannot conclusively find evidence for this as a cause for the disaster and the subsequent discovery of the range safety system activation leads to a lack of further investigation into this possibility. It is included as a mere footnote in the report.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1989||align=center|24 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|''The New York Times'' publishes classified documents obtained by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell which contain numerous details on projects involving the Hoomiku performed by both the United States and Soviet Union. The story becomes a media sensation overnight and Thornwell is arrested within hours of publication.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1990s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 7 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|29 January||style="background:#d3edff;"|At the 1991 State of the Union Address, President George H. W. Bush announces the cancellation of America's manned space program and shifts NASA's priorities to the cause of robotic exploration of the Solar System. The three remaining Space Shuttles are decommissioned and placed on display in museums, with Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' placed on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|4 December||style="background:#d3edff;"|Pan American World Airways ceases operations, with PAA Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami, Florida being the last flight in the 64 year history of the company.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|21 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The House of Representatives narrowly votes to approve funds to continue the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas. The project, roughly 1/5th of the way to completion, faces increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill due to reports of project mismanagement and skyrocketing costs. Over the next few months, a staff shakeup leads to lower cost projections and a revised timeline for completion, with the massive particle accelerator due for activation before the end of the year 2000.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|27 October||The House of Representatives votes 283 to 143 to reject a Conference Committee report with continuing funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is officially terminated. Access shafts to the 14 miles of completed tunnels are filled in and over the next year, the project is officially wound down and abandoned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1995||align=center|August||A private expedition to the wreck of the ''Titanic'' is carried out by a group of French treasure-hunters. After contracting the Russians in order to use the R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' and its MIR submersibles, a number of artifacts are recovered from the wreck. INTERPOL, acting on a tip, arrests the men and confiscates the artifacts, a number of which corrode due to improper cleaning and handling. The artifacts are eventually sold to Magnolia Parks and Entertainment, for use in a future museum devoted to the ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1997||align=center|15 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|The ''Cassini-Huygens'' mission to Saturn launches on a Titan IV-B booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The $3.2 billion Flagship-class mission promises to unlock untold scientific discoveries of Saturn and its moons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|24 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|NASA announces that it plans to launch a Mars sample-return mission before 2010, and planning begins for a tentative launch in 2008.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|DOS-8, the core module of the ''Mir-2'' space station, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Federal Space Agency finalizes plans with the Chinese government for cooperation on space station construction. The European Space Agency expresses interest, but doesn't commit to the project in full.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2000s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|9 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The first particle beam collision, at an unprecedented energy of 40 TeV, occurs at Superconducting Super Collider. The event is hailed as a monumental moment in physics and science and scientists from around the world anticipate new discoveries, chief among them the Higgs boson, the long sought particle thought to imbue mass and a critical missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. CERN announces it will suspend operation of the Large Electron-Positron Collider by 2001, and several European countries push for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in an attempt to foster new scientific innovations while America probes new frontiers of particle physics.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|12 December||style="background:#edffd3;"|Following a lengthy and contentious recount of votes in Florida, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling on ''Bush v. Gore'', ending the recounts in a 5-4 decision and, as a result, George W. Bush is elected 43rd President of the United States, defeating Vice President Al Gore.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|18 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|Zachary Calliden is born in Waxahachie, Texas.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#d3edff;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|26 August||The Columbia Accident Investigation Board issues its report. The immediate cause of the accident is revealed to be a breach in one of the reinforced carbon-carbon composite panels on the left wing of the Space Shuttle, caused by foam from the External Tank striking the panel at supersonic speeds. During reentry, plasma entered the wing and compromised its structure, leading to the eventual destruction of the vehicle due to loss of attitude control. The report also indicates a large number of faults with NASA decision making policy and risk assessment procedures, as well as a culture where deviations from design criteria were regularly accepted so long as mission success was not compromised. The report makes numerous recommendations for future spaceflight operations. The International Space Agency's fleet of Orbiters, recently approved for construction, begin to undergo design modifications to allow for higher crew safety standards.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|10 November||The International Space Agency's governing body, the International Council on Spaceflight Activities, gives authorization to proceed with the Phoenix Program. The program's goal is to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the 2010s and establish a permanent research outpost at the lunar south pole. In a separate vote, the Council gives tentative approval for a project to use components from the lunar program for use in a possible mission to Mars before 2020.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 54, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||[[Edward Marshall]] is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Barack Obama is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-7 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 54. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is trace back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.<br /> |- id="HG-Titanic-Leave"<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|25 November||Members of Project Hourglass travel to [[#Titanic-Sail|April 10, 1912]].<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2014||align=center|22 May||After several months of quiet negotiations, the Department of Energy gives approval for [[TCI Research]] to begin construction on the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The company purchases the remains of the various facilities from the government and begins the process of drilling new access shafts to the abandoned 14 miles of tunnels to determine their condition. Construction is estimated to take a bare minimum of 6 years. In an effort to speed up the process while negotiations are made to acquire land needed for the project, seven tunnel boring machines are ordered and one of the largest civil engineering projects in United States history begins to take shape. Opposition in Congress is immediate, most notably from Idaho Senator Arlen Hawking, who criticizes the project as a handout to the home state of President Marshall, a gross expenditure of money that could better be spent elsewhere and a possible threat to humanity.<br /> |- id="ZachBodyRecover"<br /> |align=center|2015||align=center|22 June||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|8 July||A week and a half before the Republican National Convention, presumptive nominee Donald Trump announces that he is suspending his campaign, throwing the race for the Republican nomination into chaos. At a press conference announcing the event, Trump implies that he is withdrawing from the race against his will due to coercion by outside forces and hints of a "witch hunt" against him. He does not, despite repeated questioning, establish what forces he is referring to.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|19 July||On the fifth round of voting, Senator [[Arlen Hawking]] of Idaho wins the nomination for President, defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In his speech to the convention, Hawking pledges to unify the party and begin the process of making the nation prosperous once more.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|21 July||Ares 1's Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) ''Mayflower'' lands at Eberswalde Crater, becoming the first mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars. Hours later, Harold Hamilton becomes the first person to set foot on the Martian surface, followed by David Sanders, Vasili Petrov, Karri Litmanen, Liu Junlong and Kan Yamakawa. The crew begins a 550 day mission on the surface.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2016||align=center rowspan="2"|8 November||Arlen Hawking is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of Energy [[Elizabeth Gaines]].<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|25 December||A surprise attack is launched on critical orbital infrastructure around Ishonko. At least six large civilian ships fitted with advanced Terran FTL drives acquired on the black market are filled with explosives and rammed into the main civilian spaceport, Otonichi Imperial Fleet headquarters and a large orbital repair dock over the planet. Numerous civilian and military ships docked to the stations suffer severe damage and thousands are injured, killed or missing. Multiple daring rescue missions are made as Kessler syndrome begins to occur in Ishonkan orbit. Within hours, the Otonichi deorbit the remains of their primary military command center and civilian spaceport and mobilize their fleet in a defensive posture. The Otonichi fleet is given full access and use of a ship repair facility under construction by Looking Glass in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Ishonko goes into full planetary ground stop for the first time since the bombing of Reskont.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|15 March||Princess Regent Cora Jeskalt gives royal assent to the 3rd Monarchy Act, becoming sovereign of the Otonichi Imperial Empire. The act includes numerous provisions seen as an overt power grab by Parliament. Among the provisions included in the law is a clause which states that the monarchy shall be declared dissolved on the death of Cora Jeskalt provided she has not produced an heir. Hours after signing the document, HM Jeskalt travels to New Orleans on Terra for undisclosed reasons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flies over Hokkaido, Japan before crashing into the Pacific. With tensions on the Korean Peninsula reaching a dangerous tipping point, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss options. President Trump states that "all options are on the table" and threatens to retaliate with "force unlike anything they've ever seen" should any further provocation occur.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|3 September||style="background:#d3edff;"|The United States Geological Survey detects a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of North Korea's principal nuclear weapons test site. The DPRK claims it now has a hydrogen bomb capable of mounting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. Hours after the test, two defectors attempt to cross the border at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean soldiers fire at the defectors. In the chaos, a round strikes a US Army soldier and severely wounds him. A brief exchange of gunfire over the border takes place before a tense standoff occurs. For three hours, the situation remains a tense one as the defectors and American soldier are rushed to a hospital. Five hours after the initial exchange of gunfire, a third defector attempts to cross into the South, and is mortally wounded by North Korean troops firing at him. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula skyrocket and President Trump orders an aircraft carrier strike group sent to the Peninsula. In tweets that evening, the President warns Kim Jong-un of an impending wave of destruction should any further hostilities against American troops take place.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|Five snow leopards are arrested after attempting to sabotage the upcoming launch of Shenzhou 12 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. After intense interrogation, Chinese officials announce to the world that the saboteurs are not terrestrial leopards and that they are part of an operation intentionally tampering with affairs on Earth, specifically, Terran spaceflight programs. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. The men are convicted and sentenced to execution by China while an intense global effort is launched to find anyone else suspected of being associated with the program. Propaganda appears almost overnight across the globe: ''"Beware the Otonichi scourge!"''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|30 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *As news spreads across Earth of the existence of the Otonichi and their attempts to sabotage Terran space activities and interfere in global affairs, leaders of various Hoomiku communities on Earth try to distance themselves from possible association with the Otonichi. Several attacks on both Hoomiku and random snow leopards take place around the world.<br /> *The Otonichi Intelligence Service receives alarming reports from their agents on Terra. A decision is made to inform the monarch about the situation and to bring her up to speed on the status of attempts to intervene on Terra. Cora Jeskalt is made aware of the full extent of the project and orders a halt to all intervention on Terra and an immediate withdrawal of Otonichi agents from the planet. The damage, however, has been done.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|31 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|An intergovernmental task force is created to find and capture any and all Otonichi on Earth. Amidst a global panic and outrage, 6 elderly Hoomiku reveal the full scope of their species' dealings with the Otonichi to the world in graphic detail, and vow to work with the governments of the world in an effort to enact revenge not only for the crimes dealt to them by the Otonichi, but for the interference the Otonichi have caused on Earth. A new project is started at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory to use a time machine as a matter teleportation device. A project is also started at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland to develop a biological weapon tailored for use against the Otonichi.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2019||align=center|15 March||<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2020s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 9||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 30||style="background:#d3edff;"|With units of the Montana Army National Guard surrounding the mine and additional military assets being mobilized for a strike on the fortified mine serving as their base of operations, final preparations are made to send Lindsey Waldroup into the past in an attempt to alter the timeline and prevent disaster. Realizing he cannot go with Lindsey due to his appearance and the limited capacity of the time machine's power source, Zachary Calliden attempts a last-ditch maneuver to save his own life. Using information recorded in a journal by his maternal grandmother, he uploads his consciousness into Lindsey's mind while she sleeps, unaware that there is no way for him to escape once he does so. Fractal Calliden and Melor Oliver discover Zachary's still living body shortly thereafter and hide it from Lindsey, fearing that her resolve to attempt the mission will falter if she realizes what has happened. After rapid calculations, an incredibly remote possibility of retrieving the Hoomiku's body from their timeline is found, and instructions for the process are hidden on Lindsey's phone, addressed to their alternate selves. Data on the history of the world is also gathered and placed on storage devices. Zachary, in a persistent vegetative state, is placed on an intravenous drip and given oxygen.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2020||align=center rowspan="2"|October 31||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|'''NOTE:''' ''End of Looking Glass Land timeline.''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|November 7||Following delays due to higher than usual numbers of mail-in ballots, [[Matthew Connors]] is elected 46th President of the United States, defeating incumbent President Arlen Hawking.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==List of time travel events==</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* 2020s */</p> <hr /> <div><center>'''<u>ISA SECURE DATABASE</u>'''<br /> </br><br /> '''"LOOKING GLASS LAND" — SUMMARY'''<br /> </br><br /> '''TOP SECRET//LG/SAR-HG//ORCON/NOFORN'''</center><br /> <br /> ==Introduction==<br /> ==Timeline==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |+ Timeline color key<br /> |- style="text-align:center;" <br /> | style="width:96px;" |Prime<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#d3edff;"|Looking Glass Land<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#edffd3;"|Both<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1800s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1859||align=center rowspan="3"|1-2 September||style="background:#edffd3;"|The Carrington Event occurs. One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, a major coronal mass ejection occurs at around noon on September 1 and impacts the Earth less than a day later, causing auroras bright enough to read newspapers at night in some areas, and visible as far south as the Caribbean. Telegraph operators around the world report receiving electric shocks and being able to transmit with their power supplies turned off, when systems aren't disrupted by the storm.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Arrive1"<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. Due to the damage to the pod's shielding, the pod suffers a catastrophic failure on reentry and disintegrates over the English Channel, killing everyone aboard. The remaining 2 members of the crew, the station's commander and executive officer, enter a final escape pod after verifying the station is on the proper course for disposal and land successfully near the first 4 in England.<br /> |-<br /> |A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. As this pod leaves the station, a team from Project Hourglass, arriving from [[#HG-Station-Leave1|2014]] in the modified Otonichi infiltration ship ISV ''Opened Item'', trigger a proximity alert and are hailed by the station commander, who asks them to effect a rescue. The Hourglass team docks with the damaged pod and incapacitate the injured Hoomiku with knockout gas before securing them. After verifying that the data recorder they are looking for is not aboard, the pod is left to burn up in the atmosphere. The Hourglass team then board the station and move it into a stable orbit around the Earth before prepping it for a jump to the Asteroid Belt. After an initial confrontation, a truce is reached between the commander, his executive officer and the Hourglass team, and the 5 rescued Hoomiku from the damaged escape pod are treated for radiation sickness. The 4 Hoomiku in England are left on Earth to avoid interference in the timeline.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Past-Arrive"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1868||align=center rowspan="2"|July 1||Lindsey Waldroup arrives from [[#Lindsey-Jump-Start|2020]] and steals the data recorder from the Hoomiku crew who landed on Earth in 1859. As she is attempting to leave, she is robbed by an unidentified assailant. The robber manages to steal the data recorder from her as she attempts an emergency jump forward to escape. Due to a miscalculation, the device she uses to escape sends her to Waxahachie, Texas on [[#Lindsey-Jump-2014|September 30, 2014]]. The data recorder is eventually sold multiple times until it lands in the possession of Jordan Thorpe, a small-scale artifact dealer who books passage to America on the maiden voyage of the RMS ''Titanic''.<br /> |-<br /> |'''NOTE:''' The above event has been identified as the point of divergence between the Prime timeline and the alternate timeline known as "Looking Glass Land". According to data acquired by Project Hourglass/Bootstrap, all information currently points to Lindsey Waldroup's actions being the catalyst for the events that followed in the Prime timeline, rippling backwards to 1859 due to the presence of Hourglass personnel at the arrival of the Hoomiku space station. The Prime timeline, in effect, is a paradox created the moment Ms. Waldroup entered the past.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1910s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1912||align=center rowspan="2"|10 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' departs Southampton on her maiden voyage, bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sail"<br /> |The members of Project Hourglass arrive in Southampton from [[#HG-Titanic-Leave|2013]] and board the ''Titanic'' in order to secure an artifact that is clearly of Hoomiku manufacture from the ship prior to its sinking. They are booked in Cabins B-51, 53 and 55 for the voyage under names which appear on the official manifest in the future.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sink"<br /> |align=center|1912||align=center|14-15 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later, killing more than 1,500 people. News of the disaster shocks the world and leads to the establishment of new safety standards on the seas.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1920s===<br /> <br /> ===1930s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))<br /> Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates at 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.<br /> |- id="ReskontMission"<br /> |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1940s===<br /> <br /> ===1950s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- id="Sandra-CastleBravo"<br /> |align=center|1954||align=center|1 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Castle Bravo, the first test of a solid-fueled thermonuclear weapon by the United States, is conducted at Bikini Atoll. The bomb exceeds its intended blast yield by nearly 2.5 times, generating a yield of 15 megatons. The test is the largest weapon ever detonated by the United States and causes a large amount of fallout. The radioactive debris contaminates nearby islands, their inhabitants and the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel ''[[Wikipedia:Daigo Fukuryū Maru|Daigo Fukuryū Maru]]'' ("Lucky Dragon No. 5").<br /> *Members of Project Bootstrap have speculated about (but have not yet confirmed) the possibility of time travelers at this event due to indications of possible temporal abnormalities on this date. However, this situation is still under investigation and no conclusive proof has been found.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|1955||align=center|5 November||style="background:#edffd3;"|Acting on a tip, the Otonichi Intelligence Service discovers the location of a rogue Hoomiku research and mining installation. The information they receive leads OIS to believe that experiments in time travel are being carried out by the facility. King Zalkyo Jeskalt orders an immediate strike to neutralize the base. An intense firefight ensues, and as the situation appears to be reaching a climax, the severely damaged station disappears without a trace. The station crew, in an act of desperation, activate their time machine using their dwindling power supply and travel to the Sol system. Due to the emergency nature of the jump and damage to the time machine’s computing cluster, they jump a significant amount of time in the past, arriving near Earth on [[#Station-Jump-Arrive1|September 2, 1859]]. Despite an exhaustive search, no clues can be found by the Otonichi as to the whereabouts of the base.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1960s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|26 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy meets with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) and confides that he believes an invasion of Cuba is the only way to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from the island. He is persuaded to wait and continue with diplomatic and military pressure. The situation is at an effective stalemate.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo Jeskalt to discuss the situation on Terra. Two schools of thought exist within the College: a first advocates for immediate intervention in order to resolve the crisis or shape the situation to one beneficial for the Otonichi while the second advises that doing nothing is the only possible option, due to the possibility of the crisis either resolving itself (peacefully or otherwise) or of the mere presence of an outside force defusing the situation in a way that would be undesirable to the empire. At an emergency meeting of the royal Cabinet, a lone researcher for the College convinces the king to allow the crisis on Terra to continue until it reaches its inevitable conclusion, with Terra running headlong into the Great Filter through nuclear war. The king agrees and orders no intervention be carried out. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|27 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cuban Missile Crisis: As tensions reach a boiling point between the United States, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Soviet submarine ''B-59'' is surrounded by a group of American ships, which begin to drop depth charges in an attempt to force the submarine to surface. Unsure whether war has already broken out, Captain Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky and political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agree to use a nuclear-tipped torpedo. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, whose vote is required in order to authorize the launch, disagrees and denies the launch, averting what could have been the opening shot of World War III. The submarine eventually surfaces and leaves the area. This day, later known as "Black Saturday", is one of the closest moments in Terran history to possible Armageddon.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1966||align=center|14 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, dies following an operation. The loss of the lead designer and driving force behind the Soviet Union's success in the Space Race deals a devastating blow to Soviet plans for spaceflight.<br /> *The possibility of Otonichi agents murdering Korolev was investigated by members of Project Bootstap, but cannot be conclusively determined. This is considered unlikely, however, in view of his numerous health issues. Copies of Otonichi Intelligence Service records from the time period do suggest plans to eliminate Korolev and Wernher von Braun by agents on Terra, however no serious attempts appear to have been made against either.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1967||align=center|27 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *During a dress rehearsal for the launch of Apollo 1, a cabin fire ignites and kills Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Major changes to the design of the capsule and to procedures are implemented in the aftermath of the disaster. The cause of the fire is never conclusively determined.<br /> *Decades later, investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the direct cause of the accident was sabotage of the cabin electronics by elements of the Otonichi Intelligence Service working to sabotage Terran spaceflight activity. Apollo 1 is their first major attempt, and while it results in a temporary setback of the Apollo Program, their efforts do not work as intended. They regroup and formulate new plans.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|3 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *The second launch attempt of the Soviet N1 rocket ends disastrously just 23 seconds after liftoff. A damaged engine causes the automatic shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines just 15 seconds into the flight, and the fully fueled lunar rocket crashes back onto the pad in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the history of the planet. The explosion completely destroys the launch pad, and subsequent United States satellite imagery confirms that the Soviets are building a rocket capable of reaching the Moon. The cause of the disaster is eventually traced to the liquid oxygen tubopump of the #8 engine on the first stage exploding due to ingestion of a foreign object, most likely a loose bolt. Fuel filters are added to future missions. The pad requires more than 18 months of reconstruction.<br /> *A subsequent investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the ultimate cause of the accident was Otonichi tampering. It has subsequently been concluded that the Otonichi attempts to sabotage the Soviet lunar program were a direct attempt to avoid the possibility of a Soviet lunar landing being used as motivation for a NASA mission to Mars and future Solar System exploration. Their work was greatly assisted by a badly underfunded Soviet space program which featured numerous competing design bureaus attempting to court state favor and the death of Sergei Korolev.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|20 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Apollo 11 lunar module ''Eagle'' lands on Earth's Moon, and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on its surface. This moment is, effectively, the end of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union and fulfills President Kennedy's 1961 promise to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo to discuss the implications of the landing. It is universally agreed that Terran spaceflight activities, if continued at their current pace, will lead to the eventual discovery of the Otonichi. A small number of researchers suggest peaceful revelation of the existence of the Otonichi to the people of Terra. Their proposal is rejected and the King authorizes further covert attempts to interfere with possible Terran discovery of the Otonichi by tampering with radio astronomy investigation programs and further attempts to sabotage Terran spaceflight activities.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1970s===<br /> <br /> ===1980s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|14 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|Fractal Sinclair is born in Roswell, New Mexico.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|12 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cora and Halni Jeskalt are born in Alkonost, on the planet Ishonko. As Cora is born first, she becomes next in line to the throne of the Otonichi civilization.<br /> |- id="HG-86-Arrive"<br /> |align=center|1986||align=center|27 January||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1986||align=center rowspan="3"|28 January||Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes on the launchpad during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1986||align=center rowspan="2"|9 June||The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be a failure of the O-rings in the right Solid Rocket Booster due to the cold conditions at launch, which led to the escape of super heated gasses and the subsequent breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after launch. The report also notes a number of contributing causes to the accident and criticizes NASA management decisions that led to the accident.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be the unauthorized activation of the range safety system onboard the Shuttle at the moment of booster ignition, destroying the Shuttle, the launch pad and killing several ground personnel and spectators. The report concludes that a valid command was sent to the system to arm and activate it at liftoff, but records from Patrick Air Force Base and testimony from the Range Safety Officers indicate conclusively that no command was sent from them. The failure is attributed to a serious fault or outside tampering, but the exact cause is never determined with certainty.<br /> *The report includes testimony from Morton-Thiokol engineer [[Wikipedia:Roger Boisjoly|Roger Boisjoly]], noting the possibility of a failure of the Solid Rocket Booster O-rings during launches on days with very low temperatures. Initially seen as a possible cause for the accident, investigators cannot conclusively find evidence for this as a cause for the disaster and the subsequent discovery of the range safety system activation leads to a lack of further investigation into this possibility. It is included as a mere footnote in the report.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1989||align=center|24 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|''The New York Times'' publishes classified documents obtained by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell which contain numerous details on projects involving the Hoomiku performed by both the United States and Soviet Union. The story becomes a media sensation overnight and Thornwell is arrested within hours of publication.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1990s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 7 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|29 January||style="background:#d3edff;"|At the 1991 State of the Union Address, President George H. W. Bush announces the cancellation of America's manned space program and shifts NASA's priorities to the cause of robotic exploration of the Solar System. The three remaining Space Shuttles are decommissioned and placed on display in museums, with Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' placed on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|4 December||style="background:#d3edff;"|Pan American World Airways ceases operations, with PAA Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami, Florida being the last flight in the 64 year history of the company.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|21 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The House of Representatives narrowly votes to approve funds to continue the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas. The project, roughly 1/5th of the way to completion, faces increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill due to reports of project mismanagement and skyrocketing costs. Over the next few months, a staff shakeup leads to lower cost projections and a revised timeline for completion, with the massive particle accelerator due for activation before the end of the year 2000.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|27 October||The House of Representatives votes 283 to 143 to reject a Conference Committee report with continuing funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is officially terminated. Access shafts to the 14 miles of completed tunnels are filled in and over the next year, the project is officially wound down and abandoned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1995||align=center|August||A private expedition to the wreck of the ''Titanic'' is carried out by a group of French treasure-hunters. After contracting the Russians in order to use the R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' and its MIR submersibles, a number of artifacts are recovered from the wreck. INTERPOL, acting on a tip, arrests the men and confiscates the artifacts, a number of which corrode due to improper cleaning and handling. The artifacts are eventually sold to Magnolia Parks and Entertainment, for use in a future museum devoted to the ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1997||align=center|15 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|The ''Cassini-Huygens'' mission to Saturn launches on a Titan IV-B booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The $3.2 billion Flagship-class mission promises to unlock untold scientific discoveries of Saturn and its moons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|24 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|NASA announces that it plans to launch a Mars sample-return mission before 2010, and planning begins for a tentative launch in 2008.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|DOS-8, the core module of the ''Mir-2'' space station, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Federal Space Agency finalizes plans with the Chinese government for cooperation on space station construction. The European Space Agency expresses interest, but doesn't commit to the project in full.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2000s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|9 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The first particle beam collision, at an unprecedented energy of 40 TeV, occurs at Superconducting Super Collider. The event is hailed as a monumental moment in physics and science and scientists from around the world anticipate new discoveries, chief among them the Higgs boson, the long sought particle thought to imbue mass and a critical missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. CERN announces it will suspend operation of the Large Electron-Positron Collider by 2001, and several European countries push for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in an attempt to foster new scientific innovations while America probes new frontiers of particle physics.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|12 December||style="background:#edffd3;"|Following a lengthy and contentious recount of votes in Florida, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling on ''Bush v. Gore'', ending the recounts in a 5-4 decision and, as a result, George W. Bush is elected 43rd President of the United States, defeating Vice President Al Gore.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|18 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|Zachary Calliden is born in Waxahachie, Texas.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#d3edff;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|26 August||The Columbia Accident Investigation Board issues its report. The immediate cause of the accident is revealed to be a breach in one of the reinforced carbon-carbon composite panels on the left wing of the Space Shuttle, caused by foam from the External Tank striking the panel at supersonic speeds. During reentry, plasma entered the wing and compromised its structure, leading to the eventual destruction of the vehicle due to loss of attitude control. The report also indicates a large number of faults with NASA decision making policy and risk assessment procedures, as well as a culture where deviations from design criteria were regularly accepted so long as mission success was not compromised. The report makes numerous recommendations for future spaceflight operations. The International Space Agency's fleet of Orbiters, recently approved for construction, begin to undergo design modifications to allow for higher crew safety standards.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|10 November||The International Space Agency's governing body, the International Council on Spaceflight Activities, gives authorization to proceed with the Phoenix Program. The program's goal is to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the 2010s and establish a permanent research outpost at the lunar south pole. In a separate vote, the Council gives tentative approval for a project to use components from the lunar program for use in a possible mission to Mars before 2020.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 54, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||[[Edward Marshall]] is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Barack Obama is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-7 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 54. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is trace back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.<br /> |- id="HG-Titanic-Leave"<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|25 November||Members of Project Hourglass travel to [[#Titanic-Sail|April 10, 1912]].<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2014||align=center|22 May||After several months of quiet negotiations, the Department of Energy gives approval for [[TCI Research]] to begin construction on the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The company purchases the remains of the various facilities from the government and begins the process of drilling new access shafts to the abandoned 14 miles of tunnels to determine their condition. Construction is estimated to take a bare minimum of 6 years. In an effort to speed up the process while negotiations are made to acquire land needed for the project, seven tunnel boring machines are ordered and one of the largest civil engineering projects in United States history begins to take shape. Opposition in Congress is immediate, most notably from Idaho Senator Arlen Hawking, who criticizes the project as a handout to the home state of President Marshall, a gross expenditure of money that could better be spent elsewhere and a possible threat to humanity.<br /> |- id="ZachBodyRecover"<br /> |align=center|2015||align=center|22 June||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|8 July||A week and a half before the Republican National Convention, presumptive nominee Donald Trump announces that he is suspending his campaign, throwing the race for the Republican nomination into chaos. At a press conference announcing the event, Trump implies that he is withdrawing from the race against his will due to coercion by outside forces and hints of a "witch hunt" against him. He does not, despite repeated questioning, establish what forces he is referring to.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|19 July||On the fifth round of voting, Senator [[Arlen Hawking]] of Idaho wins the nomination for President, defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In his speech to the convention, Hawking pledges to unify the party and begin the process of making the nation prosperous once more.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|21 July||Ares 1's Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) ''Mayflower'' lands at Eberswalde Crater, becoming the first mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars. Hours later, Harold Hamilton becomes the first person to set foot on the Martian surface, followed by David Sanders, Vasili Petrov, Karri Litmanen, Liu Junlong and Kan Yamakawa. The crew begins a 550 day mission on the surface.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2016||align=center rowspan="2"|8 November||Arlen Hawking is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of Energy [[Elizabeth Gaines]].<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|25 December||A surprise attack is launched on critical orbital infrastructure around Ishonko. At least six large civilian ships fitted with advanced Terran FTL drives acquired on the black market are filled with explosives and rammed into the main civilian spaceport, Otonichi Imperial Fleet headquarters and a large orbital repair dock over the planet. Numerous civilian and military ships docked to the stations suffer severe damage and thousands are injured, killed or missing. Multiple daring rescue missions are made as Kessler syndrome begins to occur in Ishonkan orbit. Within hours, the Otonichi deorbit the remains of their primary military command center and civilian spaceport and mobilize their fleet in a defensive posture. The Otonichi fleet is given full access and use of a ship repair facility under construction by Looking Glass in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Ishonko goes into full planetary ground stop for the first time since the bombing of Reskont.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|15 March||Princess Regent Cora Jeskalt gives royal assent to the 3rd Monarchy Act, becoming sovereign of the Otonichi Imperial Empire. The act includes numerous provisions seen as an overt power grab by Parliament. Among the provisions included in the law is a clause which states that the monarchy shall be declared dissolved on the death of Cora Jeskalt provided she has not produced an heir. Hours after signing the document, HM Jeskalt travels to New Orleans on Terra for undisclosed reasons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flies over Hokkaido, Japan before crashing into the Pacific. With tensions on the Korean Peninsula reaching a dangerous tipping point, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss options. President Trump states that "all options are on the table" and threatens to retaliate with "force unlike anything they've ever seen" should any further provocation occur.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|3 September||style="background:#d3edff;"|The United States Geological Survey detects a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of North Korea's principal nuclear weapons test site. The DPRK claims it now has a hydrogen bomb capable of mounting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. Hours after the test, two defectors attempt to cross the border at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean soldiers fire at the defectors. In the chaos, a round strikes a US Army soldier and severely wounds him. A brief exchange of gunfire over the border takes place before a tense standoff occurs. For three hours, the situation remains a tense one as the defectors and American soldier are rushed to a hospital. Five hours after the initial exchange of gunfire, a third defector attempts to cross into the South, and is mortally wounded by North Korean troops firing at him. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula skyrocket and President Trump orders an aircraft carrier strike group sent to the Peninsula. In tweets that evening, the President warns Kim Jong-un of an impending wave of destruction should any further hostilities against American troops take place.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|Five snow leopards are arrested after attempting to sabotage the upcoming launch of Shenzhou 12 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. After intense interrogation, Chinese officials announce to the world that the saboteurs are not terrestrial leopards and that they are part of an operation intentionally tampering with affairs on Earth, specifically, Terran spaceflight programs. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. The men are convicted and sentenced to execution by China while an intense global effort is launched to find anyone else suspected of being associated with the program. Propaganda appears almost overnight across the globe: ''"Beware the Otonichi scourge!"''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|30 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *As news spreads across Earth of the existence of the Otonichi and their attempts to sabotage Terran space activities and interfere in global affairs, leaders of various Hoomiku communities on Earth try to distance themselves from possible association with the Otonichi. Several attacks on both Hoomiku and random snow leopards take place around the world.<br /> *The Otonichi Intelligence Service receives alarming reports from their agents on Terra. A decision is made to inform the monarch about the situation and to bring her up to speed on the status of attempts to intervene on Terra. Cora Jeskalt is made aware of the full extent of the project and orders a halt to all intervention on Terra and an immediate withdrawal of Otonichi agents from the planet. The damage, however, has been done.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|31 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|An intergovernmental task force is created to find and capture any and all Otonichi on Earth. Amidst a global panic and outrage, 6 elderly Hoomiku reveal the full scope of their species' dealings with the Otonichi to the world in graphic detail, and vow to work with the governments of the world in an effort to enact revenge not only for the crimes dealt to them by the Otonichi, but for the interference the Otonichi have caused on Earth. A new project is started at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory to use a time machine as a matter teleportation device. A project is also started at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland to develop a biological weapon tailored for use against the Otonichi.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2019||align=center|15 March||<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2020s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2019||align=center rowspan="2"|December||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 9||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 30||style="background:#d3edff;"|With units of the Montana Army National Guard surrounding the mine and additional military assets being mobilized for a strike on the fortified mine serving as their base of operations, final preparations are made to send Lindsey Waldroup into the past in an attempt to alter the timeline and prevent disaster. Realizing he cannot go with Lindsey due to his appearance and the limited capacity of the time machine's power source, Zachary Calliden attempts a last-ditch maneuver to save his own life. Using information recorded in a journal by his maternal grandmother, he uploads his consciousness into Lindsey's mind while she sleeps, unaware that there is no way for him to escape once he does so. Fractal Calliden and Melor Oliver discover Zachary's still living body shortly thereafter and hide it from Lindsey, fearing that her resolve to attempt the mission will falter if she realizes what has happened. After rapid calculations, an incredibly remote possibility of retrieving the Hoomiku's body from their timeline is found, and instructions for the process are hidden on Lindsey's phone, addressed to their alternate selves. Data on the history of the world is also gathered and placed on storage devices. Zachary, in a persistent vegetative state, is placed on an intravenous drip and given oxygen.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2020||align=center rowspan="2"|October 31||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|'''NOTE:''' ''End of Looking Glass Land timeline.''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|November 7||Following delays due to higher than usual numbers of mail-in ballots, [[Matthew Connors]] is elected 46th President of the United States, defeating incumbent President Arlen Hawking.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==List of time travel events==</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* 2020s */</p> <hr /> <div><center>'''<u>ISA SECURE DATABASE</u>'''<br /> </br><br /> '''"LOOKING GLASS LAND" — SUMMARY'''<br /> </br><br /> '''TOP SECRET//LG/SAR-HG//ORCON/NOFORN'''</center><br /> <br /> ==Introduction==<br /> ==Timeline==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |+ Timeline color key<br /> |- style="text-align:center;" <br /> | style="width:96px;" |Prime<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#d3edff;"|Looking Glass Land<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#edffd3;"|Both<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1800s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1859||align=center rowspan="3"|1-2 September||style="background:#edffd3;"|The Carrington Event occurs. One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, a major coronal mass ejection occurs at around noon on September 1 and impacts the Earth less than a day later, causing auroras bright enough to read newspapers at night in some areas, and visible as far south as the Caribbean. Telegraph operators around the world report receiving electric shocks and being able to transmit with their power supplies turned off, when systems aren't disrupted by the storm.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Arrive1"<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. Due to the damage to the pod's shielding, the pod suffers a catastrophic failure on reentry and disintegrates over the English Channel, killing everyone aboard. The remaining 2 members of the crew, the station's commander and executive officer, enter a final escape pod after verifying the station is on the proper course for disposal and land successfully near the first 4 in England.<br /> |-<br /> |A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. As this pod leaves the station, a team from Project Hourglass, arriving from [[#HG-Station-Leave1|2014]] in the modified Otonichi infiltration ship ISV ''Opened Item'', trigger a proximity alert and are hailed by the station commander, who asks them to effect a rescue. The Hourglass team docks with the damaged pod and incapacitate the injured Hoomiku with knockout gas before securing them. After verifying that the data recorder they are looking for is not aboard, the pod is left to burn up in the atmosphere. The Hourglass team then board the station and move it into a stable orbit around the Earth before prepping it for a jump to the Asteroid Belt. After an initial confrontation, a truce is reached between the commander, his executive officer and the Hourglass team, and the 5 rescued Hoomiku from the damaged escape pod are treated for radiation sickness. The 4 Hoomiku in England are left on Earth to avoid interference in the timeline.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Past-Arrive"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1868||align=center rowspan="2"|July 1||Lindsey Waldroup arrives from [[#Lindsey-Jump-Start|2020]] and steals the data recorder from the Hoomiku crew who landed on Earth in 1859. As she is attempting to leave, she is robbed by an unidentified assailant. The robber manages to steal the data recorder from her as she attempts an emergency jump forward to escape. Due to a miscalculation, the device she uses to escape sends her to Waxahachie, Texas on [[#Lindsey-Jump-2014|September 30, 2014]]. The data recorder is eventually sold multiple times until it lands in the possession of Jordan Thorpe, a small-scale artifact dealer who books passage to America on the maiden voyage of the RMS ''Titanic''.<br /> |-<br /> |'''NOTE:''' The above event has been identified as the point of divergence between the Prime timeline and the alternate timeline known as "Looking Glass Land". According to data acquired by Project Hourglass/Bootstrap, all information currently points to Lindsey Waldroup's actions being the catalyst for the events that followed in the Prime timeline, rippling backwards to 1859 due to the presence of Hourglass personnel at the arrival of the Hoomiku space station. The Prime timeline, in effect, is a paradox created the moment Ms. Waldroup entered the past.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1910s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1912||align=center rowspan="2"|10 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' departs Southampton on her maiden voyage, bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sail"<br /> |The members of Project Hourglass arrive in Southampton from [[#HG-Titanic-Leave|2013]] and board the ''Titanic'' in order to secure an artifact that is clearly of Hoomiku manufacture from the ship prior to its sinking. They are booked in Cabins B-51, 53 and 55 for the voyage under names which appear on the official manifest in the future.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sink"<br /> |align=center|1912||align=center|14-15 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later, killing more than 1,500 people. News of the disaster shocks the world and leads to the establishment of new safety standards on the seas.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1920s===<br /> <br /> ===1930s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))<br /> Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates at 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.<br /> |- id="ReskontMission"<br /> |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1940s===<br /> <br /> ===1950s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- id="Sandra-CastleBravo"<br /> |align=center|1954||align=center|1 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Castle Bravo, the first test of a solid-fueled thermonuclear weapon by the United States, is conducted at Bikini Atoll. The bomb exceeds its intended blast yield by nearly 2.5 times, generating a yield of 15 megatons. The test is the largest weapon ever detonated by the United States and causes a large amount of fallout. The radioactive debris contaminates nearby islands, their inhabitants and the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel ''[[Wikipedia:Daigo Fukuryū Maru|Daigo Fukuryū Maru]]'' ("Lucky Dragon No. 5").<br /> *Members of Project Bootstrap have speculated about (but have not yet confirmed) the possibility of time travelers at this event due to indications of possible temporal abnormalities on this date. However, this situation is still under investigation and no conclusive proof has been found.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|1955||align=center|5 November||style="background:#edffd3;"|Acting on a tip, the Otonichi Intelligence Service discovers the location of a rogue Hoomiku research and mining installation. The information they receive leads OIS to believe that experiments in time travel are being carried out by the facility. King Zalkyo Jeskalt orders an immediate strike to neutralize the base. An intense firefight ensues, and as the situation appears to be reaching a climax, the severely damaged station disappears without a trace. The station crew, in an act of desperation, activate their time machine using their dwindling power supply and travel to the Sol system. Due to the emergency nature of the jump and damage to the time machine’s computing cluster, they jump a significant amount of time in the past, arriving near Earth on [[#Station-Jump-Arrive1|September 2, 1859]]. Despite an exhaustive search, no clues can be found by the Otonichi as to the whereabouts of the base.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1960s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|26 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy meets with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) and confides that he believes an invasion of Cuba is the only way to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from the island. He is persuaded to wait and continue with diplomatic and military pressure. The situation is at an effective stalemate.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo Jeskalt to discuss the situation on Terra. Two schools of thought exist within the College: a first advocates for immediate intervention in order to resolve the crisis or shape the situation to one beneficial for the Otonichi while the second advises that doing nothing is the only possible option, due to the possibility of the crisis either resolving itself (peacefully or otherwise) or of the mere presence of an outside force defusing the situation in a way that would be undesirable to the empire. At an emergency meeting of the royal Cabinet, a lone researcher for the College convinces the king to allow the crisis on Terra to continue until it reaches its inevitable conclusion, with Terra running headlong into the Great Filter through nuclear war. The king agrees and orders no intervention be carried out. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|27 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cuban Missile Crisis: As tensions reach a boiling point between the United States, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Soviet submarine ''B-59'' is surrounded by a group of American ships, which begin to drop depth charges in an attempt to force the submarine to surface. Unsure whether war has already broken out, Captain Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky and political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agree to use a nuclear-tipped torpedo. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, whose vote is required in order to authorize the launch, disagrees and denies the launch, averting what could have been the opening shot of World War III. The submarine eventually surfaces and leaves the area. This day, later known as "Black Saturday", is one of the closest moments in Terran history to possible Armageddon.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1966||align=center|14 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, dies following an operation. The loss of the lead designer and driving force behind the Soviet Union's success in the Space Race deals a devastating blow to Soviet plans for spaceflight.<br /> *The possibility of Otonichi agents murdering Korolev was investigated by members of Project Bootstap, but cannot be conclusively determined. This is considered unlikely, however, in view of his numerous health issues. Copies of Otonichi Intelligence Service records from the time period do suggest plans to eliminate Korolev and Wernher von Braun by agents on Terra, however no serious attempts appear to have been made against either.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1967||align=center|27 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *During a dress rehearsal for the launch of Apollo 1, a cabin fire ignites and kills Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Major changes to the design of the capsule and to procedures are implemented in the aftermath of the disaster. The cause of the fire is never conclusively determined.<br /> *Decades later, investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the direct cause of the accident was sabotage of the cabin electronics by elements of the Otonichi Intelligence Service working to sabotage Terran spaceflight activity. Apollo 1 is their first major attempt, and while it results in a temporary setback of the Apollo Program, their efforts do not work as intended. They regroup and formulate new plans.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|3 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *The second launch attempt of the Soviet N1 rocket ends disastrously just 23 seconds after liftoff. A damaged engine causes the automatic shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines just 15 seconds into the flight, and the fully fueled lunar rocket crashes back onto the pad in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the history of the planet. The explosion completely destroys the launch pad, and subsequent United States satellite imagery confirms that the Soviets are building a rocket capable of reaching the Moon. The cause of the disaster is eventually traced to the liquid oxygen tubopump of the #8 engine on the first stage exploding due to ingestion of a foreign object, most likely a loose bolt. Fuel filters are added to future missions. The pad requires more than 18 months of reconstruction.<br /> *A subsequent investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the ultimate cause of the accident was Otonichi tampering. It has subsequently been concluded that the Otonichi attempts to sabotage the Soviet lunar program were a direct attempt to avoid the possibility of a Soviet lunar landing being used as motivation for a NASA mission to Mars and future Solar System exploration. Their work was greatly assisted by a badly underfunded Soviet space program which featured numerous competing design bureaus attempting to court state favor and the death of Sergei Korolev.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|20 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Apollo 11 lunar module ''Eagle'' lands on Earth's Moon, and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on its surface. This moment is, effectively, the end of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union and fulfills President Kennedy's 1961 promise to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo to discuss the implications of the landing. It is universally agreed that Terran spaceflight activities, if continued at their current pace, will lead to the eventual discovery of the Otonichi. A small number of researchers suggest peaceful revelation of the existence of the Otonichi to the people of Terra. Their proposal is rejected and the King authorizes further covert attempts to interfere with possible Terran discovery of the Otonichi by tampering with radio astronomy investigation programs and further attempts to sabotage Terran spaceflight activities.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1970s===<br /> <br /> ===1980s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|14 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|Fractal Sinclair is born in Roswell, New Mexico.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|12 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cora and Halni Jeskalt are born in Alkonost, on the planet Ishonko. As Cora is born first, she becomes next in line to the throne of the Otonichi civilization.<br /> |- id="HG-86-Arrive"<br /> |align=center|1986||align=center|27 January||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1986||align=center rowspan="3"|28 January||Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes on the launchpad during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1986||align=center rowspan="2"|9 June||The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be a failure of the O-rings in the right Solid Rocket Booster due to the cold conditions at launch, which led to the escape of super heated gasses and the subsequent breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after launch. The report also notes a number of contributing causes to the accident and criticizes NASA management decisions that led to the accident.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be the unauthorized activation of the range safety system onboard the Shuttle at the moment of booster ignition, destroying the Shuttle, the launch pad and killing several ground personnel and spectators. The report concludes that a valid command was sent to the system to arm and activate it at liftoff, but records from Patrick Air Force Base and testimony from the Range Safety Officers indicate conclusively that no command was sent from them. The failure is attributed to a serious fault or outside tampering, but the exact cause is never determined with certainty.<br /> *The report includes testimony from Morton-Thiokol engineer [[Wikipedia:Roger Boisjoly|Roger Boisjoly]], noting the possibility of a failure of the Solid Rocket Booster O-rings during launches on days with very low temperatures. Initially seen as a possible cause for the accident, investigators cannot conclusively find evidence for this as a cause for the disaster and the subsequent discovery of the range safety system activation leads to a lack of further investigation into this possibility. It is included as a mere footnote in the report.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1989||align=center|24 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|''The New York Times'' publishes classified documents obtained by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell which contain numerous details on projects involving the Hoomiku performed by both the United States and Soviet Union. The story becomes a media sensation overnight and Thornwell is arrested within hours of publication.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1990s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 7 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|29 January||style="background:#d3edff;"|At the 1991 State of the Union Address, President George H. W. Bush announces the cancellation of America's manned space program and shifts NASA's priorities to the cause of robotic exploration of the Solar System. The three remaining Space Shuttles are decommissioned and placed on display in museums, with Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' placed on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|4 December||style="background:#d3edff;"|Pan American World Airways ceases operations, with PAA Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami, Florida being the last flight in the 64 year history of the company.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|21 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The House of Representatives narrowly votes to approve funds to continue the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas. The project, roughly 1/5th of the way to completion, faces increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill due to reports of project mismanagement and skyrocketing costs. Over the next few months, a staff shakeup leads to lower cost projections and a revised timeline for completion, with the massive particle accelerator due for activation before the end of the year 2000.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|27 October||The House of Representatives votes 283 to 143 to reject a Conference Committee report with continuing funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is officially terminated. Access shafts to the 14 miles of completed tunnels are filled in and over the next year, the project is officially wound down and abandoned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1995||align=center|August||A private expedition to the wreck of the ''Titanic'' is carried out by a group of French treasure-hunters. After contracting the Russians in order to use the R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' and its MIR submersibles, a number of artifacts are recovered from the wreck. INTERPOL, acting on a tip, arrests the men and confiscates the artifacts, a number of which corrode due to improper cleaning and handling. The artifacts are eventually sold to Magnolia Parks and Entertainment, for use in a future museum devoted to the ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1997||align=center|15 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|The ''Cassini-Huygens'' mission to Saturn launches on a Titan IV-B booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The $3.2 billion Flagship-class mission promises to unlock untold scientific discoveries of Saturn and its moons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|24 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|NASA announces that it plans to launch a Mars sample-return mission before 2010, and planning begins for a tentative launch in 2008.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|DOS-8, the core module of the ''Mir-2'' space station, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Federal Space Agency finalizes plans with the Chinese government for cooperation on space station construction. The European Space Agency expresses interest, but doesn't commit to the project in full.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2000s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|9 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The first particle beam collision, at an unprecedented energy of 40 TeV, occurs at Superconducting Super Collider. The event is hailed as a monumental moment in physics and science and scientists from around the world anticipate new discoveries, chief among them the Higgs boson, the long sought particle thought to imbue mass and a critical missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. CERN announces it will suspend operation of the Large Electron-Positron Collider by 2001, and several European countries push for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in an attempt to foster new scientific innovations while America probes new frontiers of particle physics.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|12 December||style="background:#edffd3;"|Following a lengthy and contentious recount of votes in Florida, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling on ''Bush v. Gore'', ending the recounts in a 5-4 decision and, as a result, George W. Bush is elected 43rd President of the United States, defeating Vice President Al Gore.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|18 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|Zachary Calliden is born in Waxahachie, Texas.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#d3edff;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|26 August||The Columbia Accident Investigation Board issues its report. The immediate cause of the accident is revealed to be a breach in one of the reinforced carbon-carbon composite panels on the left wing of the Space Shuttle, caused by foam from the External Tank striking the panel at supersonic speeds. During reentry, plasma entered the wing and compromised its structure, leading to the eventual destruction of the vehicle due to loss of attitude control. The report also indicates a large number of faults with NASA decision making policy and risk assessment procedures, as well as a culture where deviations from design criteria were regularly accepted so long as mission success was not compromised. The report makes numerous recommendations for future spaceflight operations. The International Space Agency's fleet of Orbiters, recently approved for construction, begin to undergo design modifications to allow for higher crew safety standards.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|10 November||The International Space Agency's governing body, the International Council on Spaceflight Activities, gives authorization to proceed with the Phoenix Program. The program's goal is to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the 2010s and establish a permanent research outpost at the lunar south pole. In a separate vote, the Council gives tentative approval for a project to use components from the lunar program for use in a possible mission to Mars before 2020.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 54, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||[[Edward Marshall]] is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Barack Obama is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-7 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 54. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is trace back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.<br /> |- id="HG-Titanic-Leave"<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|25 November||Members of Project Hourglass travel to [[#Titanic-Sail|April 10, 1912]].<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2014||align=center|22 May||After several months of quiet negotiations, the Department of Energy gives approval for [[TCI Research]] to begin construction on the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The company purchases the remains of the various facilities from the government and begins the process of drilling new access shafts to the abandoned 14 miles of tunnels to determine their condition. Construction is estimated to take a bare minimum of 6 years. In an effort to speed up the process while negotiations are made to acquire land needed for the project, seven tunnel boring machines are ordered and one of the largest civil engineering projects in United States history begins to take shape. Opposition in Congress is immediate, most notably from Idaho Senator Arlen Hawking, who criticizes the project as a handout to the home state of President Marshall, a gross expenditure of money that could better be spent elsewhere and a possible threat to humanity.<br /> |- id="ZachBodyRecover"<br /> |align=center|2015||align=center|22 June||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|8 July||A week and a half before the Republican National Convention, presumptive nominee Donald Trump announces that he is suspending his campaign, throwing the race for the Republican nomination into chaos. At a press conference announcing the event, Trump implies that he is withdrawing from the race against his will due to coercion by outside forces and hints of a "witch hunt" against him. He does not, despite repeated questioning, establish what forces he is referring to.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|19 July||On the fifth round of voting, Senator [[Arlen Hawking]] of Idaho wins the nomination for President, defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In his speech to the convention, Hawking pledges to unify the party and begin the process of making the nation prosperous once more.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|21 July||Ares 1's Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) ''Mayflower'' lands at Eberswalde Crater, becoming the first mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars. Hours later, Harold Hamilton becomes the first person to set foot on the Martian surface, followed by David Sanders, Vasili Petrov, Karri Litmanen, Liu Junlong and Kan Yamakawa. The crew begins a 550 day mission on the surface.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2016||align=center rowspan="2"|8 November||Arlen Hawking is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of Energy [[Elizabeth Gaines]].<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|25 December||A surprise attack is launched on critical orbital infrastructure around Ishonko. At least six large civilian ships fitted with advanced Terran FTL drives acquired on the black market are filled with explosives and rammed into the main civilian spaceport, Otonichi Imperial Fleet headquarters and a large orbital repair dock over the planet. Numerous civilian and military ships docked to the stations suffer severe damage and thousands are injured, killed or missing. Multiple daring rescue missions are made as Kessler syndrome begins to occur in Ishonkan orbit. Within hours, the Otonichi deorbit the remains of their primary military command center and civilian spaceport and mobilize their fleet in a defensive posture. The Otonichi fleet is given full access and use of a ship repair facility under construction by Looking Glass in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Ishonko goes into full planetary ground stop for the first time since the bombing of Reskont.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|15 March||Princess Regent Cora Jeskalt gives royal assent to the 3rd Monarchy Act, becoming sovereign of the Otonichi Imperial Empire. The act includes numerous provisions seen as an overt power grab by Parliament. Among the provisions included in the law is a clause which states that the monarchy shall be declared dissolved on the death of Cora Jeskalt provided she has not produced an heir. Hours after signing the document, HM Jeskalt travels to New Orleans on Terra for undisclosed reasons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flies over Hokkaido, Japan before crashing into the Pacific. With tensions on the Korean Peninsula reaching a dangerous tipping point, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss options. President Trump states that "all options are on the table" and threatens to retaliate with "force unlike anything they've ever seen" should any further provocation occur.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|3 September||style="background:#d3edff;"|The United States Geological Survey detects a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of North Korea's principal nuclear weapons test site. The DPRK claims it now has a hydrogen bomb capable of mounting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. Hours after the test, two defectors attempt to cross the border at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean soldiers fire at the defectors. In the chaos, a round strikes a US Army soldier and severely wounds him. A brief exchange of gunfire over the border takes place before a tense standoff occurs. For three hours, the situation remains a tense one as the defectors and American soldier are rushed to a hospital. Five hours after the initial exchange of gunfire, a third defector attempts to cross into the South, and is mortally wounded by North Korean troops firing at him. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula skyrocket and President Trump orders an aircraft carrier strike group sent to the Peninsula. In tweets that evening, the President warns Kim Jong-un of an impending wave of destruction should any further hostilities against American troops take place.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|Five snow leopards are arrested after attempting to sabotage the upcoming launch of Shenzhou 12 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. After intense interrogation, Chinese officials announce to the world that the saboteurs are not terrestrial leopards and that they are part of an operation intentionally tampering with affairs on Earth, specifically, Terran spaceflight programs. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. The men are convicted and sentenced to execution by China while an intense global effort is launched to find anyone else suspected of being associated with the program. Propaganda appears almost overnight across the globe: ''"Beware the Otonichi scourge!"''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|30 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *As news spreads across Earth of the existence of the Otonichi and their attempts to sabotage Terran space activities and interfere in global affairs, leaders of various Hoomiku communities on Earth try to distance themselves from possible association with the Otonichi. Several attacks on both Hoomiku and random snow leopards take place around the world.<br /> *The Otonichi Intelligence Service receives alarming reports from their agents on Terra. A decision is made to inform the monarch about the situation and to bring her up to speed on the status of attempts to intervene on Terra. Cora Jeskalt is made aware of the full extent of the project and orders a halt to all intervention on Terra and an immediate withdrawal of Otonichi agents from the planet. The damage, however, has been done.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|31 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|An intergovernmental task force is created to find and capture any and all Otonichi on Earth. Amidst a global panic and outrage, 6 elderly Hoomiku reveal the full scope of their species' dealings with the Otonichi to the world in graphic detail, and vow to work with the governments of the world in an effort to enact revenge not only for the crimes dealt to them by the Otonichi, but for the interference the Otonichi have caused on Earth. A new project is started at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory to use a time machine as a matter teleportation device. A project is also started at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland to develop a biological weapon tailored for use against the Otonichi.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2019||align=center|15 March||<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2020s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2019||align=center rowspan="2"|December||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 9||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 30||style="background:#d3edff;"|With units of the Montana Army National Guard surrounding the mine and additional military assets being mobilized for a strike on the fortified mine serving as their base of operations, final preparations are made to send Lindsey Waldroup into the past in an attempt to alter the timeline and prevent disaster. Realizing he cannot go with Lindsey due to his appearance and the limited capacity of the time machine's power source, Zachary Calliden attempts a last-ditch maneuver to save his own life. Using information recorded in a journal by his maternal grandmother, he uploads his consciousness into Lindsey's mind while she sleeps, unaware that there is no way for him to escape once he does so. Fractal Calliden and Melor Oliver discover Zachary's still living body shortly thereafter and hide it from Lindsey, fearing that her resolve to attempt the mission will falter if she realizes what has happened. After rapid calculations, an incredibly remote possibility of retrieving the Hoomiku's body from their timeline is found, and instructions for the process are hidden on Lindsey's phone, addressed to their alternate selves. Data on the history of the world is also gathered and placed on storage devices. Zachary, in a persistent vegetative state, is placed on an intravenous drip and given oxygen.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 31||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|November 7||Following delays due to higher than usual numbers of mail-in ballots, [[Matthew Connors]] is elected 46th President of the United States, defeating incumbent President Arlen Hawking.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==List of time travel events==</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* 2020s */</p> <hr /> <div><center>'''<u>ISA SECURE DATABASE</u>'''<br /> </br><br /> '''"LOOKING GLASS LAND" — SUMMARY'''<br /> </br><br /> '''TOP SECRET//LG/SAR-HG//ORCON/NOFORN'''</center><br /> <br /> ==Introduction==<br /> ==Timeline==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |+ Timeline color key<br /> |- style="text-align:center;" <br /> | style="width:96px;" |Prime<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#d3edff;"|Looking Glass Land<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#edffd3;"|Both<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1800s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1859||align=center rowspan="3"|1-2 September||style="background:#edffd3;"|The Carrington Event occurs. One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, a major coronal mass ejection occurs at around noon on September 1 and impacts the Earth less than a day later, causing auroras bright enough to read newspapers at night in some areas, and visible as far south as the Caribbean. Telegraph operators around the world report receiving electric shocks and being able to transmit with their power supplies turned off, when systems aren't disrupted by the storm.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Arrive1"<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. Due to the damage to the pod's shielding, the pod suffers a catastrophic failure on reentry and disintegrates over the English Channel, killing everyone aboard. The remaining 2 members of the crew, the station's commander and executive officer, enter a final escape pod after verifying the station is on the proper course for disposal and land successfully near the first 4 in England.<br /> |-<br /> |A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. As this pod leaves the station, a team from Project Hourglass, arriving from [[#HG-Station-Leave1|2014]] in the modified Otonichi infiltration ship ISV ''Opened Item'', trigger a proximity alert and are hailed by the station commander, who asks them to effect a rescue. The Hourglass team docks with the damaged pod and incapacitate the injured Hoomiku with knockout gas before securing them. After verifying that the data recorder they are looking for is not aboard, the pod is left to burn up in the atmosphere. The Hourglass team then board the station and move it into a stable orbit around the Earth before prepping it for a jump to the Asteroid Belt. After an initial confrontation, a truce is reached between the commander, his executive officer and the Hourglass team, and the 5 rescued Hoomiku from the damaged escape pod are treated for radiation sickness. The 4 Hoomiku in England are left on Earth to avoid interference in the timeline.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Past-Arrive"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1868||align=center rowspan="2"|July 1||Lindsey Waldroup arrives from [[#Lindsey-Jump-Start|2020]] and steals the data recorder from the Hoomiku crew who landed on Earth in 1859. As she is attempting to leave, she is robbed by an unidentified assailant. The robber manages to steal the data recorder from her as she attempts an emergency jump forward to escape. Due to a miscalculation, the device she uses to escape sends her to Waxahachie, Texas on [[#Lindsey-Jump-2014|September 30, 2014]]. The data recorder is eventually sold multiple times until it lands in the possession of Jordan Thorpe, a small-scale artifact dealer who books passage to America on the maiden voyage of the RMS ''Titanic''.<br /> |-<br /> |'''NOTE:''' The above event has been identified as the point of divergence between the Prime timeline and the alternate timeline known as "Looking Glass Land". According to data acquired by Project Hourglass/Bootstrap, all information currently points to Lindsey Waldroup's actions being the catalyst for the events that followed in the Prime timeline, rippling backwards to 1859 due to the presence of Hourglass personnel at the arrival of the Hoomiku space station. The Prime timeline, in effect, is a paradox created the moment Ms. Waldroup entered the past.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1910s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1912||align=center rowspan="2"|10 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' departs Southampton on her maiden voyage, bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sail"<br /> |The members of Project Hourglass arrive in Southampton from [[#HG-Titanic-Leave|2013]] and board the ''Titanic'' in order to secure an artifact that is clearly of Hoomiku manufacture from the ship prior to its sinking. They are booked in Cabins B-51, 53 and 55 for the voyage under names which appear on the official manifest in the future.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sink"<br /> |align=center|1912||align=center|14-15 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later, killing more than 1,500 people. News of the disaster shocks the world and leads to the establishment of new safety standards on the seas.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1920s===<br /> <br /> ===1930s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))<br /> Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates at 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.<br /> |- id="ReskontMission"<br /> |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1940s===<br /> <br /> ===1950s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- id="Sandra-CastleBravo"<br /> |align=center|1954||align=center|1 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Castle Bravo, the first test of a solid-fueled thermonuclear weapon by the United States, is conducted at Bikini Atoll. The bomb exceeds its intended blast yield by nearly 2.5 times, generating a yield of 15 megatons. The test is the largest weapon ever detonated by the United States and causes a large amount of fallout. The radioactive debris contaminates nearby islands, their inhabitants and the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel ''[[Wikipedia:Daigo Fukuryū Maru|Daigo Fukuryū Maru]]'' ("Lucky Dragon No. 5").<br /> *Members of Project Bootstrap have speculated about (but have not yet confirmed) the possibility of time travelers at this event due to indications of possible temporal abnormalities on this date. However, this situation is still under investigation and no conclusive proof has been found.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|1955||align=center|5 November||style="background:#edffd3;"|Acting on a tip, the Otonichi Intelligence Service discovers the location of a rogue Hoomiku research and mining installation. The information they receive leads OIS to believe that experiments in time travel are being carried out by the facility. King Zalkyo Jeskalt orders an immediate strike to neutralize the base. An intense firefight ensues, and as the situation appears to be reaching a climax, the severely damaged station disappears without a trace. The station crew, in an act of desperation, activate their time machine using their dwindling power supply and travel to the Sol system. Due to the emergency nature of the jump and damage to the time machine’s computing cluster, they jump a significant amount of time in the past, arriving near Earth on [[#Station-Jump-Arrive1|September 2, 1859]]. Despite an exhaustive search, no clues can be found by the Otonichi as to the whereabouts of the base.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1960s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|26 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy meets with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) and confides that he believes an invasion of Cuba is the only way to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from the island. He is persuaded to wait and continue with diplomatic and military pressure. The situation is at an effective stalemate.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo Jeskalt to discuss the situation on Terra. Two schools of thought exist within the College: a first advocates for immediate intervention in order to resolve the crisis or shape the situation to one beneficial for the Otonichi while the second advises that doing nothing is the only possible option, due to the possibility of the crisis either resolving itself (peacefully or otherwise) or of the mere presence of an outside force defusing the situation in a way that would be undesirable to the empire. At an emergency meeting of the royal Cabinet, a lone researcher for the College convinces the king to allow the crisis on Terra to continue until it reaches its inevitable conclusion, with Terra running headlong into the Great Filter through nuclear war. The king agrees and orders no intervention be carried out. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|27 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cuban Missile Crisis: As tensions reach a boiling point between the United States, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Soviet submarine ''B-59'' is surrounded by a group of American ships, which begin to drop depth charges in an attempt to force the submarine to surface. Unsure whether war has already broken out, Captain Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky and political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agree to use a nuclear-tipped torpedo. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, whose vote is required in order to authorize the launch, disagrees and denies the launch, averting what could have been the opening shot of World War III. The submarine eventually surfaces and leaves the area. This day, later known as "Black Saturday", is one of the closest moments in Terran history to possible Armageddon.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1966||align=center|14 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, dies following an operation. The loss of the lead designer and driving force behind the Soviet Union's success in the Space Race deals a devastating blow to Soviet plans for spaceflight.<br /> *The possibility of Otonichi agents murdering Korolev was investigated by members of Project Bootstap, but cannot be conclusively determined. This is considered unlikely, however, in view of his numerous health issues. Copies of Otonichi Intelligence Service records from the time period do suggest plans to eliminate Korolev and Wernher von Braun by agents on Terra, however no serious attempts appear to have been made against either.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1967||align=center|27 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *During a dress rehearsal for the launch of Apollo 1, a cabin fire ignites and kills Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Major changes to the design of the capsule and to procedures are implemented in the aftermath of the disaster. The cause of the fire is never conclusively determined.<br /> *Decades later, investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the direct cause of the accident was sabotage of the cabin electronics by elements of the Otonichi Intelligence Service working to sabotage Terran spaceflight activity. Apollo 1 is their first major attempt, and while it results in a temporary setback of the Apollo Program, their efforts do not work as intended. They regroup and formulate new plans.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|3 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *The second launch attempt of the Soviet N1 rocket ends disastrously just 23 seconds after liftoff. A damaged engine causes the automatic shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines just 15 seconds into the flight, and the fully fueled lunar rocket crashes back onto the pad in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the history of the planet. The explosion completely destroys the launch pad, and subsequent United States satellite imagery confirms that the Soviets are building a rocket capable of reaching the Moon. The cause of the disaster is eventually traced to the liquid oxygen tubopump of the #8 engine on the first stage exploding due to ingestion of a foreign object, most likely a loose bolt. Fuel filters are added to future missions. The pad requires more than 18 months of reconstruction.<br /> *A subsequent investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the ultimate cause of the accident was Otonichi tampering. It has subsequently been concluded that the Otonichi attempts to sabotage the Soviet lunar program were a direct attempt to avoid the possibility of a Soviet lunar landing being used as motivation for a NASA mission to Mars and future Solar System exploration. Their work was greatly assisted by a badly underfunded Soviet space program which featured numerous competing design bureaus attempting to court state favor and the death of Sergei Korolev.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|20 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Apollo 11 lunar module ''Eagle'' lands on Earth's Moon, and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on its surface. This moment is, effectively, the end of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union and fulfills President Kennedy's 1961 promise to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo to discuss the implications of the landing. It is universally agreed that Terran spaceflight activities, if continued at their current pace, will lead to the eventual discovery of the Otonichi. A small number of researchers suggest peaceful revelation of the existence of the Otonichi to the people of Terra. Their proposal is rejected and the King authorizes further covert attempts to interfere with possible Terran discovery of the Otonichi by tampering with radio astronomy investigation programs and further attempts to sabotage Terran spaceflight activities.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1970s===<br /> <br /> ===1980s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|14 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|Fractal Sinclair is born in Roswell, New Mexico.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|12 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cora and Halni Jeskalt are born in Alkonost, on the planet Ishonko. As Cora is born first, she becomes next in line to the throne of the Otonichi civilization.<br /> |- id="HG-86-Arrive"<br /> |align=center|1986||align=center|27 January||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1986||align=center rowspan="3"|28 January||Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes on the launchpad during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1986||align=center rowspan="2"|9 June||The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be a failure of the O-rings in the right Solid Rocket Booster due to the cold conditions at launch, which led to the escape of super heated gasses and the subsequent breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after launch. The report also notes a number of contributing causes to the accident and criticizes NASA management decisions that led to the accident.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be the unauthorized activation of the range safety system onboard the Shuttle at the moment of booster ignition, destroying the Shuttle, the launch pad and killing several ground personnel and spectators. The report concludes that a valid command was sent to the system to arm and activate it at liftoff, but records from Patrick Air Force Base and testimony from the Range Safety Officers indicate conclusively that no command was sent from them. The failure is attributed to a serious fault or outside tampering, but the exact cause is never determined with certainty.<br /> *The report includes testimony from Morton-Thiokol engineer [[Wikipedia:Roger Boisjoly|Roger Boisjoly]], noting the possibility of a failure of the Solid Rocket Booster O-rings during launches on days with very low temperatures. Initially seen as a possible cause for the accident, investigators cannot conclusively find evidence for this as a cause for the disaster and the subsequent discovery of the range safety system activation leads to a lack of further investigation into this possibility. It is included as a mere footnote in the report.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1989||align=center|24 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|''The New York Times'' publishes classified documents obtained by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell which contain numerous details on projects involving the Hoomiku performed by both the United States and Soviet Union. The story becomes a media sensation overnight and Thornwell is arrested within hours of publication.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1990s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 7 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|29 January||style="background:#d3edff;"|At the 1991 State of the Union Address, President George H. W. Bush announces the cancellation of America's manned space program and shifts NASA's priorities to the cause of robotic exploration of the Solar System. The three remaining Space Shuttles are decommissioned and placed on display in museums, with Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' placed on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|4 December||style="background:#d3edff;"|Pan American World Airways ceases operations, with PAA Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami, Florida being the last flight in the 64 year history of the company.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|21 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The House of Representatives narrowly votes to approve funds to continue the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas. The project, roughly 1/5th of the way to completion, faces increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill due to reports of project mismanagement and skyrocketing costs. Over the next few months, a staff shakeup leads to lower cost projections and a revised timeline for completion, with the massive particle accelerator due for activation before the end of the year 2000.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|27 October||The House of Representatives votes 283 to 143 to reject a Conference Committee report with continuing funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is officially terminated. Access shafts to the 14 miles of completed tunnels are filled in and over the next year, the project is officially wound down and abandoned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1995||align=center|August||A private expedition to the wreck of the ''Titanic'' is carried out by a group of French treasure-hunters. After contracting the Russians in order to use the R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' and its MIR submersibles, a number of artifacts are recovered from the wreck. INTERPOL, acting on a tip, arrests the men and confiscates the artifacts, a number of which corrode due to improper cleaning and handling. The artifacts are eventually sold to Magnolia Parks and Entertainment, for use in a future museum devoted to the ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1997||align=center|15 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|The ''Cassini-Huygens'' mission to Saturn launches on a Titan IV-B booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The $3.2 billion Flagship-class mission promises to unlock untold scientific discoveries of Saturn and its moons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|24 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|NASA announces that it plans to launch a Mars sample-return mission before 2010, and planning begins for a tentative launch in 2008.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|DOS-8, the core module of the ''Mir-2'' space station, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Federal Space Agency finalizes plans with the Chinese government for cooperation on space station construction. The European Space Agency expresses interest, but doesn't commit to the project in full.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2000s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|9 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The first particle beam collision, at an unprecedented energy of 40 TeV, occurs at Superconducting Super Collider. The event is hailed as a monumental moment in physics and science and scientists from around the world anticipate new discoveries, chief among them the Higgs boson, the long sought particle thought to imbue mass and a critical missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. CERN announces it will suspend operation of the Large Electron-Positron Collider by 2001, and several European countries push for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in an attempt to foster new scientific innovations while America probes new frontiers of particle physics.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|12 December||style="background:#edffd3;"|Following a lengthy and contentious recount of votes in Florida, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling on ''Bush v. Gore'', ending the recounts in a 5-4 decision and, as a result, George W. Bush is elected 43rd President of the United States, defeating Vice President Al Gore.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|18 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|Zachary Calliden is born in Waxahachie, Texas.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#d3edff;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|26 August||The Columbia Accident Investigation Board issues its report. The immediate cause of the accident is revealed to be a breach in one of the reinforced carbon-carbon composite panels on the left wing of the Space Shuttle, caused by foam from the External Tank striking the panel at supersonic speeds. During reentry, plasma entered the wing and compromised its structure, leading to the eventual destruction of the vehicle due to loss of attitude control. The report also indicates a large number of faults with NASA decision making policy and risk assessment procedures, as well as a culture where deviations from design criteria were regularly accepted so long as mission success was not compromised. The report makes numerous recommendations for future spaceflight operations. The International Space Agency's fleet of Orbiters, recently approved for construction, begin to undergo design modifications to allow for higher crew safety standards.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|10 November||The International Space Agency's governing body, the International Council on Spaceflight Activities, gives authorization to proceed with the Phoenix Program. The program's goal is to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the 2010s and establish a permanent research outpost at the lunar south pole. In a separate vote, the Council gives tentative approval for a project to use components from the lunar program for use in a possible mission to Mars before 2020.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 54, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||[[Edward Marshall]] is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Barack Obama is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-7 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 54. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is trace back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.<br /> |- id="HG-Titanic-Leave"<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|25 November||Members of Project Hourglass travel to [[#Titanic-Sail|April 10, 1912]].<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2014||align=center|22 May||After several months of quiet negotiations, the Department of Energy gives approval for [[TCI Research]] to begin construction on the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The company purchases the remains of the various facilities from the government and begins the process of drilling new access shafts to the abandoned 14 miles of tunnels to determine their condition. Construction is estimated to take a bare minimum of 6 years. In an effort to speed up the process while negotiations are made to acquire land needed for the project, seven tunnel boring machines are ordered and one of the largest civil engineering projects in United States history begins to take shape. Opposition in Congress is immediate, most notably from Idaho Senator Arlen Hawking, who criticizes the project as a handout to the home state of President Marshall, a gross expenditure of money that could better be spent elsewhere and a possible threat to humanity.<br /> |- id="ZachBodyRecover"<br /> |align=center|2015||align=center|22 June||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|8 July||A week and a half before the Republican National Convention, presumptive nominee Donald Trump announces that he is suspending his campaign, throwing the race for the Republican nomination into chaos. At a press conference announcing the event, Trump implies that he is withdrawing from the race against his will due to coercion by outside forces and hints of a "witch hunt" against him. He does not, despite repeated questioning, establish what forces he is referring to.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|19 July||On the fifth round of voting, Senator [[Arlen Hawking]] of Idaho wins the nomination for President, defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In his speech to the convention, Hawking pledges to unify the party and begin the process of making the nation prosperous once more.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|21 July||Ares 1's Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) ''Mayflower'' lands at Eberswalde Crater, becoming the first mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars. Hours later, Harold Hamilton becomes the first person to set foot on the Martian surface, followed by David Sanders, Vasili Petrov, Karri Litmanen, Liu Junlong and Kan Yamakawa. The crew begins a 550 day mission on the surface.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2016||align=center rowspan="2"|8 November||Arlen Hawking is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of Energy [[Elizabeth Gaines]].<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|25 December||A surprise attack is launched on critical orbital infrastructure around Ishonko. At least six large civilian ships fitted with advanced Terran FTL drives acquired on the black market are filled with explosives and rammed into the main civilian spaceport, Otonichi Imperial Fleet headquarters and a large orbital repair dock over the planet. Numerous civilian and military ships docked to the stations suffer severe damage and thousands are injured, killed or missing. Multiple daring rescue missions are made as Kessler syndrome begins to occur in Ishonkan orbit. Within hours, the Otonichi deorbit the remains of their primary military command center and civilian spaceport and mobilize their fleet in a defensive posture. The Otonichi fleet is given full access and use of a ship repair facility under construction by Looking Glass in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Ishonko goes into full planetary ground stop for the first time since the bombing of Reskont.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|15 March||Princess Regent Cora Jeskalt gives royal assent to the 3rd Monarchy Act, becoming sovereign of the Otonichi Imperial Empire. The act includes numerous provisions seen as an overt power grab by Parliament. Among the provisions included in the law is a clause which states that the monarchy shall be declared dissolved on the death of Cora Jeskalt provided she has not produced an heir. Hours after signing the document, HM Jeskalt travels to New Orleans on Terra for undisclosed reasons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flies over Hokkaido, Japan before crashing into the Pacific. With tensions on the Korean Peninsula reaching a dangerous tipping point, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss options. President Trump states that "all options are on the table" and threatens to retaliate with "force unlike anything they've ever seen" should any further provocation occur.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|3 September||style="background:#d3edff;"|The United States Geological Survey detects a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of North Korea's principal nuclear weapons test site. The DPRK claims it now has a hydrogen bomb capable of mounting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. Hours after the test, two defectors attempt to cross the border at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean soldiers fire at the defectors. In the chaos, a round strikes a US Army soldier and severely wounds him. A brief exchange of gunfire over the border takes place before a tense standoff occurs. For three hours, the situation remains a tense one as the defectors and American soldier are rushed to a hospital. Five hours after the initial exchange of gunfire, a third defector attempts to cross into the South, and is mortally wounded by North Korean troops firing at him. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula skyrocket and President Trump orders an aircraft carrier strike group sent to the Peninsula. In tweets that evening, the President warns Kim Jong-un of an impending wave of destruction should any further hostilities against American troops take place.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|Five snow leopards are arrested after attempting to sabotage the upcoming launch of Shenzhou 12 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. After intense interrogation, Chinese officials announce to the world that the saboteurs are not terrestrial leopards and that they are part of an operation intentionally tampering with affairs on Earth, specifically, Terran spaceflight programs. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. The men are convicted and sentenced to execution by China while an intense global effort is launched to find anyone else suspected of being associated with the program. Propaganda appears almost overnight across the globe: ''"Beware the Otonichi scourge!"''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|30 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *As news spreads across Earth of the existence of the Otonichi and their attempts to sabotage Terran space activities and interfere in global affairs, leaders of various Hoomiku communities on Earth try to distance themselves from possible association with the Otonichi. Several attacks on both Hoomiku and random snow leopards take place around the world.<br /> *The Otonichi Intelligence Service receives alarming reports from their agents on Terra. A decision is made to inform the monarch about the situation and to bring her up to speed on the status of attempts to intervene on Terra. Cora Jeskalt is made aware of the full extent of the project and orders a halt to all intervention on Terra and an immediate withdrawal of Otonichi agents from the planet. The damage, however, has been done.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|31 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|An intergovernmental task force is created to find and capture any and all Otonichi on Earth. Amidst a global panic and outrage, 6 elderly Hoomiku reveal the full scope of their species' dealings with the Otonichi to the world in graphic detail, and vow to work with the governments of the world in an effort to enact revenge not only for the crimes dealt to them by the Otonichi, but for the interference the Otonichi have caused on Earth. A new project is started at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory to use a time machine as a matter teleportation device. A project is also started at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland to develop a biological weapon tailored for use against the Otonichi.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2019||align=center|15 March||<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2020s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 9||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 30||style="background:#d3edff;"|With units of the Montana Army National Guard surrounding the mine and additional military assets being mobilized for a strike on the fortified mine serving as their base of operations, final preparations are made to send Lindsey Waldroup into the past in an attempt to alter the timeline and prevent disaster. Realizing he cannot go with Lindsey due to his appearance and the limited capacity of the time machine's power source, Zachary Calliden attempts a last-ditch maneuver to save his own life. Using information recorded in a journal by his maternal grandmother, he uploads his consciousness into Lindsey's mind while she sleeps, unaware that there is no way for him to escape once he does so. Fractal Calliden and Melor Oliver discover Zachary's still living body shortly thereafter and hide it from Lindsey, fearing that her resolve to attempt the mission will falter if she realizes what has happened. After rapid calculations, an incredibly remote possibility of retrieving the Hoomiku's body from their timeline is found, and instructions for the process are hidden on Lindsey's phone, addressed to their alternate selves. Data on the history of the world is also gathered and placed on storage devices. Zachary, in a persistent vegetative state, is placed on an intravenous drip and given oxygen.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 31||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|November 7||Following delays due to higher than usual numbers of mail-in ballots, [[Matthew Connors]] is elected 46th President of the United States, defeating incumbent President Arlen Hawking.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==List of time travel events==</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* 2020s */</p> <hr /> <div><center>'''<u>ISA SECURE DATABASE</u>'''<br /> </br><br /> '''"LOOKING GLASS LAND" — SUMMARY'''<br /> </br><br /> '''TOP SECRET//LG/SAR-HG//ORCON/NOFORN'''</center><br /> <br /> ==Introduction==<br /> ==Timeline==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |+ Timeline color key<br /> |- style="text-align:center;" <br /> | style="width:96px;" |Prime<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#d3edff;"|Looking Glass Land<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#edffd3;"|Both<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1800s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1859||align=center rowspan="3"|1-2 September||style="background:#edffd3;"|The Carrington Event occurs. One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, a major coronal mass ejection occurs at around noon on September 1 and impacts the Earth less than a day later, causing auroras bright enough to read newspapers at night in some areas, and visible as far south as the Caribbean. Telegraph operators around the world report receiving electric shocks and being able to transmit with their power supplies turned off, when systems aren't disrupted by the storm.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Arrive1"<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. Due to the damage to the pod's shielding, the pod suffers a catastrophic failure on reentry and disintegrates over the English Channel, killing everyone aboard. The remaining 2 members of the crew, the station's commander and executive officer, enter a final escape pod after verifying the station is on the proper course for disposal and land successfully near the first 4 in England.<br /> |-<br /> |A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. As this pod leaves the station, a team from Project Hourglass, arriving from [[#HG-Station-Leave1|2014]] in the modified Otonichi infiltration ship ISV ''Opened Item'', trigger a proximity alert and are hailed by the station commander, who asks them to effect a rescue. The Hourglass team docks with the damaged pod and incapacitate the injured Hoomiku with knockout gas before securing them. After verifying that the data recorder they are looking for is not aboard, the pod is left to burn up in the atmosphere. The Hourglass team then board the station and move it into a stable orbit around the Earth before prepping it for a jump to the Asteroid Belt. After an initial confrontation, a truce is reached between the commander, his executive officer and the Hourglass team, and the 5 rescued Hoomiku from the damaged escape pod are treated for radiation sickness. The 4 Hoomiku in England are left on Earth to avoid interference in the timeline.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Past-Arrive"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1868||align=center rowspan="2"|July 1||Lindsey Waldroup arrives from [[#Lindsey-Jump-Start|2020]] and steals the data recorder from the Hoomiku crew who landed on Earth in 1859. As she is attempting to leave, she is robbed by an unidentified assailant. The robber manages to steal the data recorder from her as she attempts an emergency jump forward to escape. Due to a miscalculation, the device she uses to escape sends her to Waxahachie, Texas on [[#Lindsey-Jump-2014|September 30, 2014]]. The data recorder is eventually sold multiple times until it lands in the possession of Jordan Thorpe, a small-scale artifact dealer who books passage to America on the maiden voyage of the RMS ''Titanic''.<br /> |-<br /> |'''NOTE:''' The above event has been identified as the point of divergence between the Prime timeline and the alternate timeline known as "Looking Glass Land". According to data acquired by Project Hourglass/Bootstrap, all information currently points to Lindsey Waldroup's actions being the catalyst for the events that followed in the Prime timeline, rippling backwards to 1859 due to the presence of Hourglass personnel at the arrival of the Hoomiku space station. The Prime timeline, in effect, is a paradox created the moment Ms. Waldroup entered the past.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1910s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1912||align=center rowspan="2"|10 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' departs Southampton on her maiden voyage, bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sail"<br /> |The members of Project Hourglass arrive in Southampton from [[#HG-Titanic-Leave|2013]] and board the ''Titanic'' in order to secure an artifact that is clearly of Hoomiku manufacture from the ship prior to its sinking. They are booked in Cabins B-51, 53 and 55 for the voyage under names which appear on the official manifest in the future.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sink"<br /> |align=center|1912||align=center|14-15 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later, killing more than 1,500 people. News of the disaster shocks the world and leads to the establishment of new safety standards on the seas.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1920s===<br /> <br /> ===1930s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))<br /> Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates at 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.<br /> |- id="ReskontMission"<br /> |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1940s===<br /> <br /> ===1950s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- id="Sandra-CastleBravo"<br /> |align=center|1954||align=center|1 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Castle Bravo, the first test of a solid-fueled thermonuclear weapon by the United States, is conducted at Bikini Atoll. The bomb exceeds its intended blast yield by nearly 2.5 times, generating a yield of 15 megatons. The test is the largest weapon ever detonated by the United States and causes a large amount of fallout. The radioactive debris contaminates nearby islands, their inhabitants and the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel ''[[Wikipedia:Daigo Fukuryū Maru|Daigo Fukuryū Maru]]'' ("Lucky Dragon No. 5").<br /> *Members of Project Bootstrap have speculated about (but have not yet confirmed) the possibility of time travelers at this event due to indications of possible temporal abnormalities on this date. However, this situation is still under investigation and no conclusive proof has been found.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|1955||align=center|5 November||style="background:#edffd3;"|Acting on a tip, the Otonichi Intelligence Service discovers the location of a rogue Hoomiku research and mining installation. The information they receive leads OIS to believe that experiments in time travel are being carried out by the facility. King Zalkyo Jeskalt orders an immediate strike to neutralize the base. An intense firefight ensues, and as the situation appears to be reaching a climax, the severely damaged station disappears without a trace. The station crew, in an act of desperation, activate their time machine using their dwindling power supply and travel to the Sol system. Due to the emergency nature of the jump and damage to the time machine’s computing cluster, they jump a significant amount of time in the past, arriving near Earth on [[#Station-Jump-Arrive1|September 2, 1859]]. Despite an exhaustive search, no clues can be found by the Otonichi as to the whereabouts of the base.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1960s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|26 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy meets with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) and confides that he believes an invasion of Cuba is the only way to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from the island. He is persuaded to wait and continue with diplomatic and military pressure. The situation is at an effective stalemate.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo Jeskalt to discuss the situation on Terra. Two schools of thought exist within the College: a first advocates for immediate intervention in order to resolve the crisis or shape the situation to one beneficial for the Otonichi while the second advises that doing nothing is the only possible option, due to the possibility of the crisis either resolving itself (peacefully or otherwise) or of the mere presence of an outside force defusing the situation in a way that would be undesirable to the empire. At an emergency meeting of the royal Cabinet, a lone researcher for the College convinces the king to allow the crisis on Terra to continue until it reaches its inevitable conclusion, with Terra running headlong into the Great Filter through nuclear war. The king agrees and orders no intervention be carried out. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|27 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cuban Missile Crisis: As tensions reach a boiling point between the United States, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Soviet submarine ''B-59'' is surrounded by a group of American ships, which begin to drop depth charges in an attempt to force the submarine to surface. Unsure whether war has already broken out, Captain Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky and political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agree to use a nuclear-tipped torpedo. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, whose vote is required in order to authorize the launch, disagrees and denies the launch, averting what could have been the opening shot of World War III. The submarine eventually surfaces and leaves the area. This day, later known as "Black Saturday", is one of the closest moments in Terran history to possible Armageddon.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1966||align=center|14 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, dies following an operation. The loss of the lead designer and driving force behind the Soviet Union's success in the Space Race deals a devastating blow to Soviet plans for spaceflight.<br /> *The possibility of Otonichi agents murdering Korolev was investigated by members of Project Bootstap, but cannot be conclusively determined. This is considered unlikely, however, in view of his numerous health issues. Copies of Otonichi Intelligence Service records from the time period do suggest plans to eliminate Korolev and Wernher von Braun by agents on Terra, however no serious attempts appear to have been made against either.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1967||align=center|27 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *During a dress rehearsal for the launch of Apollo 1, a cabin fire ignites and kills Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Major changes to the design of the capsule and to procedures are implemented in the aftermath of the disaster. The cause of the fire is never conclusively determined.<br /> *Decades later, investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the direct cause of the accident was sabotage of the cabin electronics by elements of the Otonichi Intelligence Service working to sabotage Terran spaceflight activity. Apollo 1 is their first major attempt, and while it results in a temporary setback of the Apollo Program, their efforts do not work as intended. They regroup and formulate new plans.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|3 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *The second launch attempt of the Soviet N1 rocket ends disastrously just 23 seconds after liftoff. A damaged engine causes the automatic shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines just 15 seconds into the flight, and the fully fueled lunar rocket crashes back onto the pad in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the history of the planet. The explosion completely destroys the launch pad, and subsequent United States satellite imagery confirms that the Soviets are building a rocket capable of reaching the Moon. The cause of the disaster is eventually traced to the liquid oxygen tubopump of the #8 engine on the first stage exploding due to ingestion of a foreign object, most likely a loose bolt. Fuel filters are added to future missions. The pad requires more than 18 months of reconstruction.<br /> *A subsequent investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the ultimate cause of the accident was Otonichi tampering. It has subsequently been concluded that the Otonichi attempts to sabotage the Soviet lunar program were a direct attempt to avoid the possibility of a Soviet lunar landing being used as motivation for a NASA mission to Mars and future Solar System exploration. Their work was greatly assisted by a badly underfunded Soviet space program which featured numerous competing design bureaus attempting to court state favor and the death of Sergei Korolev.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|20 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Apollo 11 lunar module ''Eagle'' lands on Earth's Moon, and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on its surface. This moment is, effectively, the end of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union and fulfills President Kennedy's 1961 promise to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo to discuss the implications of the landing. It is universally agreed that Terran spaceflight activities, if continued at their current pace, will lead to the eventual discovery of the Otonichi. A small number of researchers suggest peaceful revelation of the existence of the Otonichi to the people of Terra. Their proposal is rejected and the King authorizes further covert attempts to interfere with possible Terran discovery of the Otonichi by tampering with radio astronomy investigation programs and further attempts to sabotage Terran spaceflight activities.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1970s===<br /> <br /> ===1980s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|14 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|Fractal Sinclair is born in Roswell, New Mexico.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|12 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cora and Halni Jeskalt are born in Alkonost, on the planet Ishonko. As Cora is born first, she becomes next in line to the throne of the Otonichi civilization.<br /> |- id="HG-86-Arrive"<br /> |align=center|1986||align=center|27 January||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1986||align=center rowspan="3"|28 January||Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes on the launchpad during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1986||align=center rowspan="2"|9 June||The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be a failure of the O-rings in the right Solid Rocket Booster due to the cold conditions at launch, which led to the escape of super heated gasses and the subsequent breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after launch. The report also notes a number of contributing causes to the accident and criticizes NASA management decisions that led to the accident.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be the unauthorized activation of the range safety system onboard the Shuttle at the moment of booster ignition, destroying the Shuttle, the launch pad and killing several ground personnel and spectators. The report concludes that a valid command was sent to the system to arm and activate it at liftoff, but records from Patrick Air Force Base and testimony from the Range Safety Officers indicate conclusively that no command was sent from them. The failure is attributed to a serious fault or outside tampering, but the exact cause is never determined with certainty.<br /> *The report includes testimony from Morton-Thiokol engineer [[Wikipedia:Roger Boisjoly|Roger Boisjoly]], noting the possibility of a failure of the Solid Rocket Booster O-rings during launches on days with very low temperatures. Initially seen as a possible cause for the accident, investigators cannot conclusively find evidence for this as a cause for the disaster and the subsequent discovery of the range safety system activation leads to a lack of further investigation into this possibility. It is included as a mere footnote in the report.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1989||align=center|24 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|''The New York Times'' publishes classified documents obtained by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell which contain numerous details on projects involving the Hoomiku performed by both the United States and Soviet Union. The story becomes a media sensation overnight and Thornwell is arrested within hours of publication.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1990s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 7 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|29 January||style="background:#d3edff;"|At the 1991 State of the Union Address, President George H. W. Bush announces the cancellation of America's manned space program and shifts NASA's priorities to the cause of robotic exploration of the Solar System. The three remaining Space Shuttles are decommissioned and placed on display in museums, with Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' placed on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|4 December||style="background:#d3edff;"|Pan American World Airways ceases operations, with PAA Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami, Florida being the last flight in the 64 year history of the company.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|21 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The House of Representatives narrowly votes to approve funds to continue the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas. The project, roughly 1/5th of the way to completion, faces increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill due to reports of project mismanagement and skyrocketing costs. Over the next few months, a staff shakeup leads to lower cost projections and a revised timeline for completion, with the massive particle accelerator due for activation before the end of the year 2000.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|27 October||The House of Representatives votes 283 to 143 to reject a Conference Committee report with continuing funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is officially terminated. Access shafts to the 14 miles of completed tunnels are filled in and over the next year, the project is officially wound down and abandoned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1995||align=center|August||A private expedition to the wreck of the ''Titanic'' is carried out by a group of French treasure-hunters. After contracting the Russians in order to use the R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' and its MIR submersibles, a number of artifacts are recovered from the wreck. INTERPOL, acting on a tip, arrests the men and confiscates the artifacts, a number of which corrode due to improper cleaning and handling. The artifacts are eventually sold to Magnolia Parks and Entertainment, for use in a future museum devoted to the ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1997||align=center|15 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|The ''Cassini-Huygens'' mission to Saturn launches on a Titan IV-B booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The $3.2 billion Flagship-class mission promises to unlock untold scientific discoveries of Saturn and its moons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|24 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|NASA announces that it plans to launch a Mars sample-return mission before 2010, and planning begins for a tentative launch in 2008.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|DOS-8, the core module of the ''Mir-2'' space station, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Federal Space Agency finalizes plans with the Chinese government for cooperation on space station construction. The European Space Agency expresses interest, but doesn't commit to the project in full.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2000s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|9 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The first particle beam collision, at an unprecedented energy of 40 TeV, occurs at Superconducting Super Collider. The event is hailed as a monumental moment in physics and science and scientists from around the world anticipate new discoveries, chief among them the Higgs boson, the long sought particle thought to imbue mass and a critical missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. CERN announces it will suspend operation of the Large Electron-Positron Collider by 2001, and several European countries push for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in an attempt to foster new scientific innovations while America probes new frontiers of particle physics.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|12 December||style="background:#edffd3;"|Following a lengthy and contentious recount of votes in Florida, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling on ''Bush v. Gore'', ending the recounts in a 5-4 decision and, as a result, George W. Bush is elected 43rd President of the United States, defeating Vice President Al Gore.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|18 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|Zachary Calliden is born in Waxahachie, Texas.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#d3edff;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|26 August||The Columbia Accident Investigation Board issues its report. The immediate cause of the accident is revealed to be a breach in one of the reinforced carbon-carbon composite panels on the left wing of the Space Shuttle, caused by foam from the External Tank striking the panel at supersonic speeds. During reentry, plasma entered the wing and compromised its structure, leading to the eventual destruction of the vehicle due to loss of attitude control. The report also indicates a large number of faults with NASA decision making policy and risk assessment procedures, as well as a culture where deviations from design criteria were regularly accepted so long as mission success was not compromised. The report makes numerous recommendations for future spaceflight operations. The International Space Agency's fleet of Orbiters, recently approved for construction, begin to undergo design modifications to allow for higher crew safety standards.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|10 November||The International Space Agency's governing body, the International Council on Spaceflight Activities, gives authorization to proceed with the Phoenix Program. The program's goal is to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the 2010s and establish a permanent research outpost at the lunar south pole. In a separate vote, the Council gives tentative approval for a project to use components from the lunar program for use in a possible mission to Mars before 2020.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 54, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||[[Edward Marshall]] is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Barack Obama is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-7 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 54. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is trace back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.<br /> |- id="HG-Titanic-Leave"<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|25 November||Members of Project Hourglass travel to [[#Titanic-Sail|April 10, 1912]].<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2014||align=center|22 May||After several months of quiet negotiations, the Department of Energy gives approval for [[TCI Research]] to begin construction on the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The company purchases the remains of the various facilities from the government and begins the process of drilling new access shafts to the abandoned 14 miles of tunnels to determine their condition. Construction is estimated to take a bare minimum of 6 years. In an effort to speed up the process while negotiations are made to acquire land needed for the project, seven tunnel boring machines are ordered and one of the largest civil engineering projects in United States history begins to take shape. Opposition in Congress is immediate, most notably from Idaho Senator Arlen Hawking, who criticizes the project as a handout to the home state of President Marshall, a gross expenditure of money that could better be spent elsewhere and a possible threat to humanity.<br /> |- id="ZachBodyRecover"<br /> |align=center|2015||align=center|22 June||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|8 July||A week and a half before the Republican National Convention, presumptive nominee Donald Trump announces that he is suspending his campaign, throwing the race for the Republican nomination into chaos. At a press conference announcing the event, Trump implies that he is withdrawing from the race against his will due to coercion by outside forces and hints of a "witch hunt" against him. He does not, despite repeated questioning, establish what forces he is referring to.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|19 July||On the fifth round of voting, Senator [[Arlen Hawking]] of Idaho wins the nomination for President, defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In his speech to the convention, Hawking pledges to unify the party and begin the process of making the nation prosperous once more.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|21 July||Ares 1's Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) ''Mayflower'' lands at Eberswalde Crater, becoming the first mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars. Hours later, Harold Hamilton becomes the first person to set foot on the Martian surface, followed by David Sanders, Vasili Petrov, Karri Litmanen, Liu Junlong and Kan Yamakawa. The crew begins a 550 day mission on the surface.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2016||align=center rowspan="2"|8 November||Arlen Hawking is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of Energy [[Elizabeth Gaines]].<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|25 December||A surprise attack is launched on critical orbital infrastructure around Ishonko. At least six large civilian ships fitted with advanced Terran FTL drives acquired on the black market are filled with explosives and rammed into the main civilian spaceport, Otonichi Imperial Fleet headquarters and a large orbital repair dock over the planet. Numerous civilian and military ships docked to the stations suffer severe damage and thousands are injured, killed or missing. Multiple daring rescue missions are made as Kessler syndrome begins to occur in Ishonkan orbit. Within hours, the Otonichi deorbit the remains of their primary military command center and civilian spaceport and mobilize their fleet in a defensive posture. The Otonichi fleet is given full access and use of a ship repair facility under construction by Looking Glass in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Ishonko goes into full planetary ground stop for the first time since the bombing of Reskont.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|15 March||Princess Regent Cora Jeskalt gives royal assent to the 3rd Monarchy Act, becoming sovereign of the Otonichi Imperial Empire. The act includes numerous provisions seen as an overt power grab by Parliament. Among the provisions included in the law is a clause which states that the monarchy shall be declared dissolved on the death of Cora Jeskalt provided she has not produced an heir. Hours after signing the document, HM Jeskalt travels to New Orleans on Terra for undisclosed reasons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flies over Hokkaido, Japan before crashing into the Pacific. With tensions on the Korean Peninsula reaching a dangerous tipping point, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss options. President Trump states that "all options are on the table" and threatens to retaliate with "force unlike anything they've ever seen" should any further provocation occur.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|3 September||style="background:#d3edff;"|The United States Geological Survey detects a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of North Korea's principal nuclear weapons test site. The DPRK claims it now has a hydrogen bomb capable of mounting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. Hours after the test, two defectors attempt to cross the border at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean soldiers fire at the defectors. In the chaos, a round strikes a US Army soldier and severely wounds him. A brief exchange of gunfire over the border takes place before a tense standoff occurs. For three hours, the situation remains a tense one as the defectors and American soldier are rushed to a hospital. Five hours after the initial exchange of gunfire, a third defector attempts to cross into the South, and is mortally wounded by North Korean troops firing at him. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula skyrocket and President Trump orders an aircraft carrier strike group sent to the Peninsula. In tweets that evening, the President warns Kim Jong-un of an impending wave of destruction should any further hostilities against American troops take place.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|Five snow leopards are arrested after attempting to sabotage the upcoming launch of Shenzhou 12 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. After intense interrogation, Chinese officials announce to the world that the saboteurs are not terrestrial leopards and that they are part of an operation intentionally tampering with affairs on Earth, specifically, Terran spaceflight programs. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. The men are convicted and sentenced to execution by China while an intense global effort is launched to find anyone else suspected of being associated with the program. Propaganda appears almost overnight across the globe: ''"Beware the Otonichi scourge!"''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|30 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *As news spreads across Earth of the existence of the Otonichi and their attempts to sabotage Terran space activities and interfere in global affairs, leaders of various Hoomiku communities on Earth try to distance themselves from possible association with the Otonichi. Several attacks on both Hoomiku and random snow leopards take place around the world.<br /> *The Otonichi Intelligence Service receives alarming reports from their agents on Terra. A decision is made to inform the monarch about the situation and to bring her up to speed on the status of attempts to intervene on Terra. Cora Jeskalt is made aware of the full extent of the project and orders a halt to all intervention on Terra and an immediate withdrawal of Otonichi agents from the planet. The damage, however, has been done.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|31 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|An intergovernmental task force is created to find and capture any and all Otonichi on Earth. Amidst a global panic and outrage, 6 elderly Hoomiku reveal the full scope of their species' dealings with the Otonichi to the world in graphic detail, and vow to work with the governments of the world in an effort to enact revenge not only for the crimes dealt to them by the Otonichi, but for the interference the Otonichi have caused on Earth. A new project is started at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory to use a time machine as a matter teleportation device. A project is also started at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland to develop a biological weapon tailored for use against the Otonichi.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2019||align=center|15 March||<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2020s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 9||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 30||style="background:#d3edff;"|With units of the Montana Army National Guard surrounding the mine and additional military assets being mobilized for a strike on the fortified mine serving as their base of operations, final preparations are made to send Lindsey Waldroup into the past in an attempt to alter the timeline and prevent disaster. Realizing he cannot go with Lindsey due to his appearance and the limited capacity of the time machine's power source, Zachary Calliden attempts a last-ditch maneuver to save his own life. Using information recorded in a journal by his maternal grandmother, he uploads his consciousness into Lindsey's mind while she sleeps, unaware that there is no way for him to escape once he does so. Fractal Calliden and Melor Oliver discover Zachary's still living body shortly thereafter and hide it from Lindsey, fearing that her resolve to attempt the mission will falter if she realizes what has happened. After rapid calculations, an incredibly remote possibility of retrieving the Hoomiku's body from their timeline is found, and instructions for the process are hidden on Lindsey's phone, addressed to their alternate selves. Data on the history of the world is also gathered and placed on storage devices. Zachary, in a persistent vegetative state, is placed on an intravenous drip and given oxygen.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 31||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|November 7||Following <br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==List of time travel events==</div>

Lafayette1 https://lafayetteinc.com/index.php?title=Edward_Marshall&diff=3480 Edward Marshall 2020-10-28T01:41:05Z

<p>Lafayette1: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Infobox President<br /> | image = <br /> | alt = Portrait of Edward Marshall<br /> | order = [[Wikipedia:List of Presidents of the United States|44th]]<br /> | office = President of the United States<br /> | term_start = January 20, 2009 <br /> | term_end = January 20, 2017<br /> | vicepresident = [[Matthew Connors]]<br /> | predecessor = [[Wikipedia:George W. Bush|George W. Bush]]<br /> | successor = [[Arlen Hawking]]<br /> | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1955|07|04}}<br /> | birth_place = Houston, Texas<br /> | birthname = Edward Thomas Marshall<br /> | nationality = American<br /> | party = [[Wikipedia:Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<br /> |species = Border Collie<br /> | spouse = Clarissa Marshall <small>(m. 1994)</small><br /> | children = Heather  <small>(b. 1998)</small><br /> | residence = [[Wikipedia:White House|The White House]] (official) Houston, Texas (private)<br /> | alma_mater = [[Wikipedia:Columbia University|Columbia University]] <small>([[Wikipedia:Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]])</small><br/>[[Wikipedia:Harvard Law School|Harvard Law School]] <small>([[Wikipedia:Juris Doctor|J.D.]])</small><br /> | occupation = Lawyer<br/>Author<br /> | religion = [[Wikipedia:Nondenominational Christianity|Nondenominational Christianity]]<br /> | signature = <br /> | signature_alt = Edward Marshall<br /> | website = [http://www.whitehouse.gov/ The White House]<br/>[http://www.lafayetteinc.com/ Edward Marshall]<br /> | footnotes = <br /> <br /> }}</div>

Lafayette1 https://lafayetteinc.com/index.php?title=Looking_Glass_Land&diff=3479 Looking Glass Land 2020-09-29T03:30:41Z

<p>Lafayette1: /* 2020s */</p> <hr /> <div><center>'''<u>ISA SECURE DATABASE</u>'''<br /> </br><br /> '''"LOOKING GLASS LAND" — SUMMARY'''<br /> </br><br /> '''TOP SECRET//LG/SAR-HG//ORCON/NOFORN'''</center><br /> <br /> ==Introduction==<br /> ==Timeline==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |+ Timeline color key<br /> |- style="text-align:center;" <br /> | style="width:96px;" |Prime<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#d3edff;"|Looking Glass Land<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#edffd3;"|Both<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1800s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1859||align=center rowspan="3"|1-2 September||style="background:#edffd3;"|The Carrington Event occurs. One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, a major coronal mass ejection occurs at around noon on September 1 and impacts the Earth less than a day later, causing auroras bright enough to read newspapers at night in some areas, and visible as far south as the Caribbean. Telegraph operators around the world report receiving electric shocks and being able to transmit with their power supplies turned off, when systems aren't disrupted by the storm.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Arrive1"<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. Due to the damage to the pod's shielding, the pod suffers a catastrophic failure on reentry and disintegrates over the English Channel, killing everyone aboard. The remaining 2 members of the crew, the station's commander and executive officer, enter a final escape pod after verifying the station is on the proper course for disposal and land successfully near the first 4 in England.<br /> |-<br /> |A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. As this pod leaves the station, a team from Project Hourglass, arriving from [[#HG-Station-Leave1|2014]] in the modified Otonichi infiltration ship ISV ''Opened Item'', trigger a proximity alert and are hailed by the station commander, who asks them to effect a rescue. The Hourglass team docks with the damaged pod and incapacitate the injured Hoomiku with knockout gas before securing them. After verifying that the data recorder they are looking for is not aboard, the pod is left to burn up in the atmosphere. The Hourglass team then board the station and move it into a stable orbit around the Earth before prepping it for a jump to the Asteroid Belt. After an initial confrontation, a truce is reached between the commander, his executive officer and the Hourglass team, and the 5 rescued Hoomiku from the damaged escape pod are treated for radiation sickness. The 4 Hoomiku in England are left on Earth to avoid interference in the timeline.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Past-Arrive"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1868||align=center rowspan="2"|July 1||Lindsey Waldroup arrives from [[#Lindsey-Jump-Start|2020]] and steals the data recorder from the Hoomiku crew who landed on Earth in 1859. As she is attempting to leave, she is robbed by an unidentified assailant. The robber manages to steal the data recorder from her as she attempts an emergency jump forward to escape. Due to a miscalculation, the device she uses to escape sends her to Waxahachie, Texas on [[#Lindsey-Jump-2014|September 30, 2014]]. The data recorder is eventually sold multiple times until it lands in the possession of Jordan Thorpe, a small-scale artifact dealer who books passage to America on the maiden voyage of the RMS ''Titanic''.<br /> |-<br /> |'''NOTE:''' The above event has been identified as the point of divergence between the Prime timeline and the alternate timeline known as "Looking Glass Land". According to data acquired by Project Hourglass/Bootstrap, all information currently points to Lindsey Waldroup's actions being the catalyst for the events that followed in the Prime timeline, rippling backwards to 1859 due to the presence of Hourglass personnel at the arrival of the Hoomiku space station. The Prime timeline, in effect, is a paradox created the moment Ms. Waldroup entered the past.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1910s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1912||align=center rowspan="2"|10 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' departs Southampton on her maiden voyage, bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sail"<br /> |The members of Project Hourglass arrive in Southampton from [[#HG-Titanic-Leave|2013]] and board the ''Titanic'' in order to secure an artifact that is clearly of Hoomiku manufacture from the ship prior to its sinking. They are booked in Cabins B-51, 53 and 55 for the voyage under names which appear on the official manifest in the future.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sink"<br /> |align=center|1912||align=center|14-15 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later, killing more than 1,500 people. News of the disaster shocks the world and leads to the establishment of new safety standards on the seas.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1920s===<br /> <br /> ===1930s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))<br /> Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates at 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.<br /> |- id="ReskontMission"<br /> |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1940s===<br /> <br /> ===1950s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- id="Sandra-CastleBravo"<br /> |align=center|1954||align=center|1 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Castle Bravo, the first test of a solid-fueled thermonuclear weapon by the United States, is conducted at Bikini Atoll. The bomb exceeds its intended blast yield by nearly 2.5 times, generating a yield of 15 megatons. The test is the largest weapon ever detonated by the United States and causes a large amount of fallout. The radioactive debris contaminates nearby islands, their inhabitants and the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel ''[[Wikipedia:Daigo Fukuryū Maru|Daigo Fukuryū Maru]]'' ("Lucky Dragon No. 5").<br /> *Members of Project Bootstrap have speculated about (but have not yet confirmed) the possibility of time travelers at this event due to indications of possible temporal abnormalities on this date. However, this situation is still under investigation and no conclusive proof has been found.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|1955||align=center|5 November||style="background:#edffd3;"|Acting on a tip, the Otonichi Intelligence Service discovers the location of a rogue Hoomiku research and mining installation. The information they receive leads OIS to believe that experiments in time travel are being carried out by the facility. King Zalkyo Jeskalt orders an immediate strike to neutralize the base. An intense firefight ensues, and as the situation appears to be reaching a climax, the severely damaged station disappears without a trace. The station crew, in an act of desperation, activate their time machine using their dwindling power supply and travel to the Sol system. Due to the emergency nature of the jump and damage to the time machine’s computing cluster, they jump a significant amount of time in the past, arriving near Earth on [[#Station-Jump-Arrive1|September 2, 1859]]. Despite an exhaustive search, no clues can be found by the Otonichi as to the whereabouts of the base.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1960s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|26 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy meets with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) and confides that he believes an invasion of Cuba is the only way to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from the island. He is persuaded to wait and continue with diplomatic and military pressure. The situation is at an effective stalemate.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo Jeskalt to discuss the situation on Terra. Two schools of thought exist within the College: a first advocates for immediate intervention in order to resolve the crisis or shape the situation to one beneficial for the Otonichi while the second advises that doing nothing is the only possible option, due to the possibility of the crisis either resolving itself (peacefully or otherwise) or of the mere presence of an outside force defusing the situation in a way that would be undesirable to the empire. At an emergency meeting of the royal Cabinet, a lone researcher for the College convinces the king to allow the crisis on Terra to continue until it reaches its inevitable conclusion, with Terra running headlong into the Great Filter through nuclear war. The king agrees and orders no intervention be carried out. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|27 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cuban Missile Crisis: As tensions reach a boiling point between the United States, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Soviet submarine ''B-59'' is surrounded by a group of American ships, which begin to drop depth charges in an attempt to force the submarine to surface. Unsure whether war has already broken out, Captain Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky and political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agree to use a nuclear-tipped torpedo. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, whose vote is required in order to authorize the launch, disagrees and denies the launch, averting what could have been the opening shot of World War III. The submarine eventually surfaces and leaves the area. This day, later known as "Black Saturday", is one of the closest moments in Terran history to possible Armageddon.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1966||align=center|14 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, dies following an operation. The loss of the lead designer and driving force behind the Soviet Union's success in the Space Race deals a devastating blow to Soviet plans for spaceflight.<br /> *The possibility of Otonichi agents murdering Korolev was investigated by members of Project Bootstap, but cannot be conclusively determined. This is considered unlikely, however, in view of his numerous health issues. Copies of Otonichi Intelligence Service records from the time period do suggest plans to eliminate Korolev and Wernher von Braun by agents on Terra, however no serious attempts appear to have been made against either.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1967||align=center|27 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *During a dress rehearsal for the launch of Apollo 1, a cabin fire ignites and kills Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Major changes to the design of the capsule and to procedures are implemented in the aftermath of the disaster. The cause of the fire is never conclusively determined.<br /> *Decades later, investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the direct cause of the accident was sabotage of the cabin electronics by elements of the Otonichi Intelligence Service working to sabotage Terran spaceflight activity. Apollo 1 is their first major attempt, and while it results in a temporary setback of the Apollo Program, their efforts do not work as intended. They regroup and formulate new plans.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|3 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *The second launch attempt of the Soviet N1 rocket ends disastrously just 23 seconds after liftoff. A damaged engine causes the automatic shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines just 15 seconds into the flight, and the fully fueled lunar rocket crashes back onto the pad in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the history of the planet. The explosion completely destroys the launch pad, and subsequent United States satellite imagery confirms that the Soviets are building a rocket capable of reaching the Moon. The cause of the disaster is eventually traced to the liquid oxygen tubopump of the #8 engine on the first stage exploding due to ingestion of a foreign object, most likely a loose bolt. Fuel filters are added to future missions. The pad requires more than 18 months of reconstruction.<br /> *A subsequent investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the ultimate cause of the accident was Otonichi tampering. It has subsequently been concluded that the Otonichi attempts to sabotage the Soviet lunar program were a direct attempt to avoid the possibility of a Soviet lunar landing being used as motivation for a NASA mission to Mars and future Solar System exploration. Their work was greatly assisted by a badly underfunded Soviet space program which featured numerous competing design bureaus attempting to court state favor and the death of Sergei Korolev.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|20 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Apollo 11 lunar module ''Eagle'' lands on Earth's Moon, and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on its surface. This moment is, effectively, the end of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union and fulfills President Kennedy's 1961 promise to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo to discuss the implications of the landing. It is universally agreed that Terran spaceflight activities, if continued at their current pace, will lead to the eventual discovery of the Otonichi. A small number of researchers suggest peaceful revelation of the existence of the Otonichi to the people of Terra. Their proposal is rejected and the King authorizes further covert attempts to interfere with possible Terran discovery of the Otonichi by tampering with radio astronomy investigation programs and further attempts to sabotage Terran spaceflight activities.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1970s===<br /> <br /> ===1980s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|14 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|Fractal Sinclair is born in Roswell, New Mexico.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|12 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cora and Halni Jeskalt are born in Alkonost, on the planet Ishonko. As Cora is born first, she becomes next in line to the throne of the Otonichi civilization.<br /> |- id="HG-86-Arrive"<br /> |align=center|1986||align=center|27 January||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1986||align=center rowspan="3"|28 January||Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes on the launchpad during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1986||align=center rowspan="2"|9 June||The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be a failure of the O-rings in the right Solid Rocket Booster due to the cold conditions at launch, which led to the escape of super heated gasses and the subsequent breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after launch. The report also notes a number of contributing causes to the accident and criticizes NASA management decisions that led to the accident.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be the unauthorized activation of the range safety system onboard the Shuttle at the moment of booster ignition, destroying the Shuttle, the launch pad and killing several ground personnel and spectators. The report concludes that a valid command was sent to the system to arm and activate it at liftoff, but records from Patrick Air Force Base and testimony from the Range Safety Officers indicate conclusively that no command was sent from them. The failure is attributed to a serious fault or outside tampering, but the exact cause is never determined with certainty.<br /> *The report includes testimony from Morton-Thiokol engineer [[Wikipedia:Roger Boisjoly|Roger Boisjoly]], noting the possibility of a failure of the Solid Rocket Booster O-rings during launches on days with very low temperatures. Initially seen as a possible cause for the accident, investigators cannot conclusively find evidence for this as a cause for the disaster and the subsequent discovery of the range safety system activation leads to a lack of further investigation into this possibility. It is included as a mere footnote in the report.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1989||align=center|24 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|''The New York Times'' publishes classified documents obtained by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell which contain numerous details on projects involving the Hoomiku performed by both the United States and Soviet Union. The story becomes a media sensation overnight and Thornwell is arrested within hours of publication.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1990s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 7 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|29 January||style="background:#d3edff;"|At the 1991 State of the Union Address, President George H. W. Bush announces the cancellation of America's manned space program and shifts NASA's priorities to the cause of robotic exploration of the Solar System. The three remaining Space Shuttles are decommissioned and placed on display in museums, with Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' placed on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|4 December||style="background:#d3edff;"|Pan American World Airways ceases operations, with PAA Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami, Florida being the last flight in the 64 year history of the company.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|21 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The House of Representatives narrowly votes to approve funds to continue the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas. The project, roughly 1/5th of the way to completion, faces increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill due to reports of project mismanagement and skyrocketing costs. Over the next few months, a staff shakeup leads to lower cost projections and a revised timeline for completion, with the massive particle accelerator due for activation before the end of the year 2000.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|27 October||The House of Representatives votes 283 to 143 to reject a Conference Committee report with continuing funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is officially terminated. Access shafts to the 14 miles of completed tunnels are filled in and over the next year, the project is officially wound down and abandoned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1995||align=center|August||A private expedition to the wreck of the ''Titanic'' is carried out by a group of French treasure-hunters. After contracting the Russians in order to use the R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' and its MIR submersibles, a number of artifacts are recovered from the wreck. INTERPOL, acting on a tip, arrests the men and confiscates the artifacts, a number of which corrode due to improper cleaning and handling. The artifacts are eventually sold to Magnolia Parks and Entertainment, for use in a future museum devoted to the ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1997||align=center|15 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|The ''Cassini-Huygens'' mission to Saturn launches on a Titan IV-B booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The $3.2 billion Flagship-class mission promises to unlock untold scientific discoveries of Saturn and its moons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|24 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|NASA announces that it plans to launch a Mars sample-return mission before 2010, and planning begins for a tentative launch in 2008.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|DOS-8, the core module of the ''Mir-2'' space station, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Federal Space Agency finalizes plans with the Chinese government for cooperation on space station construction. The European Space Agency expresses interest, but doesn't commit to the project in full.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2000s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|9 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The first particle beam collision, at an unprecedented energy of 40 TeV, occurs at Superconducting Super Collider. The event is hailed as a monumental moment in physics and science and scientists from around the world anticipate new discoveries, chief among them the Higgs boson, the long sought particle thought to imbue mass and a critical missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. CERN announces it will suspend operation of the Large Electron-Positron Collider by 2001, and several European countries push for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in an attempt to foster new scientific innovations while America probes new frontiers of particle physics.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|12 December||style="background:#edffd3;"|Following a lengthy and contentious recount of votes in Florida, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling on ''Bush v. Gore'', ending the recounts in a 5-4 decision and, as a result, George W. Bush is elected 43rd President of the United States, defeating Vice President Al Gore.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|18 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|Zachary Calliden is born in Waxahachie, Texas.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#d3edff;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|26 August||The Columbia Accident Investigation Board issues its report. The immediate cause of the accident is revealed to be a breach in one of the reinforced carbon-carbon composite panels on the left wing of the Space Shuttle, caused by foam from the External Tank striking the panel at supersonic speeds. During reentry, plasma entered the wing and compromised its structure, leading to the eventual destruction of the vehicle due to loss of attitude control. The report also indicates a large number of faults with NASA decision making policy and risk assessment procedures, as well as a culture where deviations from design criteria were regularly accepted so long as mission success was not compromised. The report makes numerous recommendations for future spaceflight operations. The International Space Agency's fleet of Orbiters, recently approved for construction, begin to undergo design modifications to allow for higher crew safety standards.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|10 November||The International Space Agency's governing body, the International Council on Spaceflight Activities, gives authorization to proceed with the Phoenix Program. The program's goal is to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the 2010s and establish a permanent research outpost at the lunar south pole. In a separate vote, the Council gives tentative approval for a project to use components from the lunar program for use in a possible mission to Mars before 2020.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 54, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||[[Edward Marshall]] is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Barack Obama is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-7 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 54. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is trace back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.<br /> |- id="HG-Titanic-Leave"<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|25 November||Members of Project Hourglass travel to [[#Titanic-Sail|April 10, 1912]].<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2014||align=center|22 May||After several months of quiet negotiations, the Department of Energy gives approval for [[TCI Research]] to begin construction on the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The company purchases the remains of the various facilities from the government and begins the process of drilling new access shafts to the abandoned 14 miles of tunnels to determine their condition. Construction is estimated to take a bare minimum of 6 years. In an effort to speed up the process while negotiations are made to acquire land needed for the project, seven tunnel boring machines are ordered and one of the largest civil engineering projects in United States history begins to take shape. Opposition in Congress is immediate, most notably from Idaho Senator Arlen Hawking, who criticizes the project as a handout to the home state of President Marshall, a gross expenditure of money that could better be spent elsewhere and a possible threat to humanity.<br /> |- id="ZachBodyRecover"<br /> |align=center|2015||align=center|22 June||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|8 July||A week and a half before the Republican National Convention, presumptive nominee Donald Trump announces that he is suspending his campaign, throwing the race for the Republican nomination into chaos. At a press conference announcing the event, Trump implies that he is withdrawing from the race against his will due to coercion by outside forces and hints of a "witch hunt" against him. He does not, despite repeated questioning, establish what forces he is referring to.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|19 July||On the fifth round of voting, Senator [[Arlen Hawking]] of Idaho wins the nomination for President, defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In his speech to the convention, Hawking pledges to unify the party and begin the process of making the nation prosperous once more.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|21 July||Ares 1's Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) ''Mayflower'' lands at Eberswalde Crater, becoming the first mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars. Hours later, Harold Hamilton becomes the first person to set foot on the Martian surface, followed by David Sanders, Vasili Petrov, Karri Litmanen, Liu Junlong and Kan Yamakawa. The crew begins a 550 day mission on the surface.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2016||align=center rowspan="2"|8 November||Arlen Hawking is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of Energy [[Elizabeth Gaines]].<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|25 December||A surprise attack is launched on critical orbital infrastructure around Ishonko. At least six large civilian ships fitted with advanced Terran FTL drives acquired on the black market are filled with explosives and rammed into the main civilian spaceport, Otonichi Imperial Fleet headquarters and a large orbital repair dock over the planet. Numerous civilian and military ships docked to the stations suffer severe damage and thousands are injured, killed or missing. Multiple daring rescue missions are made as Kessler syndrome begins to occur in Ishonkan orbit. Within hours, the Otonichi deorbit the remains of their primary military command center and civilian spaceport and mobilize their fleet in a defensive posture. The Otonichi fleet is given full access and use of a ship repair facility under construction by Looking Glass in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Ishonko goes into full planetary ground stop for the first time since the bombing of Reskont.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|15 March||Princess Regent Cora Jeskalt gives royal assent to the 3rd Monarchy Act, becoming sovereign of the Otonichi Imperial Empire. The act includes numerous provisions seen as an overt power grab by Parliament. Among the provisions included in the law is a clause which states that the monarchy shall be declared dissolved on the death of Cora Jeskalt provided she has not produced an heir. Hours after signing the document, HM Jeskalt travels to New Orleans on Terra for undisclosed reasons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flies over Hokkaido, Japan before crashing into the Pacific. With tensions on the Korean Peninsula reaching a dangerous tipping point, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss options. President Trump states that "all options are on the table" and threatens to retaliate with "force unlike anything they've ever seen" should any further provocation occur.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|3 September||style="background:#d3edff;"|The United States Geological Survey detects a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of North Korea's principal nuclear weapons test site. The DPRK claims it now has a hydrogen bomb capable of mounting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. Hours after the test, two defectors attempt to cross the border at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean soldiers fire at the defectors. In the chaos, a round strikes a US Army soldier and severely wounds him. A brief exchange of gunfire over the border takes place before a tense standoff occurs. For three hours, the situation remains a tense one as the defectors and American soldier are rushed to a hospital. Five hours after the initial exchange of gunfire, a third defector attempts to cross into the South, and is mortally wounded by North Korean troops firing at him. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula skyrocket and President Trump orders an aircraft carrier strike group sent to the Peninsula. In tweets that evening, the President warns Kim Jong-un of an impending wave of destruction should any further hostilities against American troops take place.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|Five snow leopards are arrested after attempting to sabotage the upcoming launch of Shenzhou 12 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. After intense interrogation, Chinese officials announce to the world that the saboteurs are not terrestrial leopards and that they are part of an operation intentionally tampering with affairs on Earth, specifically, Terran spaceflight programs. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. The men are convicted and sentenced to execution by China while an intense global effort is launched to find anyone else suspected of being associated with the program. Propaganda appears almost overnight across the globe: ''"Beware the Otonichi scourge!"''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|30 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *As news spreads across Earth of the existence of the Otonichi and their attempts to sabotage Terran space activities and interfere in global affairs, leaders of various Hoomiku communities on Earth try to distance themselves from possible association with the Otonichi. Several attacks on both Hoomiku and random snow leopards take place around the world.<br /> *The Otonichi Intelligence Service receives alarming reports from their agents on Terra. A decision is made to inform the monarch about the situation and to bring her up to speed on the status of attempts to intervene on Terra. Cora Jeskalt is made aware of the full extent of the project and orders a halt to all intervention on Terra and an immediate withdrawal of Otonichi agents from the planet. The damage, however, has been done.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|31 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|An intergovernmental task force is created to find and capture any and all Otonichi on Earth. Amidst a global panic and outrage, 6 elderly Hoomiku reveal the full scope of their species' dealings with the Otonichi to the world in graphic detail, and vow to work with the governments of the world in an effort to enact revenge not only for the crimes dealt to them by the Otonichi, but for the interference the Otonichi have caused on Earth. A new project is started at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory to use a time machine as a matter teleportation device. A project is also started at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland to develop a biological weapon tailored for use against the Otonichi.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2019||align=center|15 March||<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2020s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 9||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 30||style="background:#d3edff;"|With units of the Montana Army National Guard surrounding the mine and additional military assets being mobilized for a strike on the fortified mine serving as their base of operations, final preparations are made to send Lindsey Waldroup into the past in an attempt to alter the timeline and prevent disaster. Realizing he cannot go with Lindsey due to his appearance and the limited capacity of the time machine's power source, Zachary Calliden attempts a last-ditch maneuver to save his own life. Using information recorded in a journal by his maternal grandmother, he uploads his consciousness into Lindsey's mind while she sleeps, unaware that there is no way for him to escape once he does so. Fractal Calliden and Melor Oliver discover Zachary's still living body shortly thereafter and hide it from Lindsey, fearing that her resolve to attempt the mission will falter if she realizes what has happened. After rapid calculations, an incredibly remote possibility of retrieving the Hoomiku's body from their timeline is found, and instructions for the process are hidden on Lindsey's phone, addressed to their alternate selves. Data on the history of the world is also gathered and placed on storage devices. Zachary, in a persistent vegetative state, is placed on an intravenous drip and given oxygen.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 31||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==List of time travel events==</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* 2020s */</p> <hr /> <div><center>'''<u>ISA SECURE DATABASE</u>'''<br /> </br><br /> '''"LOOKING GLASS LAND" — SUMMARY'''<br /> </br><br /> '''TOP SECRET//LG/SAR-HG//ORCON/NOFORN'''</center><br /> <br /> ==Introduction==<br /> ==Timeline==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |+ Timeline color key<br /> |- style="text-align:center;" <br /> | style="width:96px;" |Prime<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#d3edff;"|Looking Glass Land<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#edffd3;"|Both<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1800s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1859||align=center rowspan="3"|1-2 September||style="background:#edffd3;"|The Carrington Event occurs. One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, a major coronal mass ejection occurs at around noon on September 1 and impacts the Earth less than a day later, causing auroras bright enough to read newspapers at night in some areas, and visible as far south as the Caribbean. Telegraph operators around the world report receiving electric shocks and being able to transmit with their power supplies turned off, when systems aren't disrupted by the storm.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Arrive1"<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. Due to the damage to the pod's shielding, the pod suffers a catastrophic failure on reentry and disintegrates over the English Channel, killing everyone aboard. The remaining 2 members of the crew, the station's commander and executive officer, enter a final escape pod after verifying the station is on the proper course for disposal and land successfully near the first 4 in England.<br /> |-<br /> |A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. As this pod leaves the station, a team from Project Hourglass, arriving from [[#HG-Station-Leave1|2014]] in the modified Otonichi infiltration ship ISV ''Opened Item'', trigger a proximity alert and are hailed by the station commander, who asks them to effect a rescue. The Hourglass team docks with the damaged pod and incapacitate the injured Hoomiku with knockout gas before securing them. After verifying that the data recorder they are looking for is not aboard, the pod is left to burn up in the atmosphere. The Hourglass team then board the station and move it into a stable orbit around the Earth before prepping it for a jump to the Asteroid Belt. After an initial confrontation, a truce is reached between the commander, his executive officer and the Hourglass team, and the 5 rescued Hoomiku from the damaged escape pod are treated for radiation sickness. The 4 Hoomiku in England are left on Earth to avoid interference in the timeline.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Past-Arrive"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1868||align=center rowspan="2"|July 1||Lindsey Waldroup arrives from [[#Lindsey-Jump-Start|2020]] and steals the data recorder from the Hoomiku crew who landed on Earth in 1859. As she is attempting to leave, she is robbed by an unidentified assailant. The robber manages to steal the data recorder from her as she attempts an emergency jump forward to escape. Due to a miscalculation, the device she uses to escape sends her to Waxahachie, Texas on [[#Lindsey-Jump-2014|September 30, 2014]]. The data recorder is eventually sold multiple times until it lands in the possession of Jordan Thorpe, a small-scale artifact dealer who books passage to America on the maiden voyage of the RMS ''Titanic''.<br /> |-<br /> |'''NOTE:''' The above event has been identified as the point of divergence between the Prime timeline and the alternate timeline known as "Looking Glass Land". According to data acquired by Project Hourglass/Bootstrap, all information currently points to Lindsey Waldroup's actions being the catalyst for the events that followed in the Prime timeline, rippling backwards to 1859 due to the presence of Hourglass personnel at the arrival of the Hoomiku space station. The Prime timeline, in effect, is a paradox created the moment Ms. Waldroup entered the past.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1910s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1912||align=center rowspan="2"|10 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' departs Southampton on her maiden voyage, bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sail"<br /> |The members of Project Hourglass arrive in Southampton from [[#HG-Titanic-Leave|2013]] and board the ''Titanic'' in order to secure an artifact that is clearly of Hoomiku manufacture from the ship prior to its sinking. They are booked in Cabins B-51, 53 and 55 for the voyage under names which appear on the official manifest in the future.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sink"<br /> |align=center|1912||align=center|14-15 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later, killing more than 1,500 people. News of the disaster shocks the world and leads to the establishment of new safety standards on the seas.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1920s===<br /> <br /> ===1930s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))<br /> Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates at 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.<br /> |- id="ReskontMission"<br /> |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1940s===<br /> <br /> ===1950s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- id="Sandra-CastleBravo"<br /> |align=center|1954||align=center|1 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Castle Bravo, the first test of a solid-fueled thermonuclear weapon by the United States, is conducted at Bikini Atoll. The bomb exceeds its intended blast yield by nearly 2.5 times, generating a yield of 15 megatons. The test is the largest weapon ever detonated by the United States and causes a large amount of fallout. The radioactive debris contaminates nearby islands, their inhabitants and the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel ''[[Wikipedia:Daigo Fukuryū Maru|Daigo Fukuryū Maru]]'' ("Lucky Dragon No. 5").<br /> *Members of Project Bootstrap have speculated about (but have not yet confirmed) the possibility of time travelers at this event due to indications of possible temporal abnormalities on this date. However, this situation is still under investigation and no conclusive proof has been found.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|1955||align=center|5 November||style="background:#edffd3;"|Acting on a tip, the Otonichi Intelligence Service discovers the location of a rogue Hoomiku research and mining installation. The information they receive leads OIS to believe that experiments in time travel are being carried out by the facility. King Zalkyo Jeskalt orders an immediate strike to neutralize the base. An intense firefight ensues, and as the situation appears to be reaching a climax, the severely damaged station disappears without a trace. The station crew, in an act of desperation, activate their time machine using their dwindling power supply and travel to the Sol system. Due to the emergency nature of the jump and damage to the time machine’s computing cluster, they jump a significant amount of time in the past, arriving near Earth on [[#Station-Jump-Arrive1|September 2, 1859]]. Despite an exhaustive search, no clues can be found by the Otonichi as to the whereabouts of the base.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1960s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|26 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy meets with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) and confides that he believes an invasion of Cuba is the only way to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from the island. He is persuaded to wait and continue with diplomatic and military pressure. The situation is at an effective stalemate.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo Jeskalt to discuss the situation on Terra. Two schools of thought exist within the College: a first advocates for immediate intervention in order to resolve the crisis or shape the situation to one beneficial for the Otonichi while the second advises that doing nothing is the only possible option, due to the possibility of the crisis either resolving itself (peacefully or otherwise) or of the mere presence of an outside force defusing the situation in a way that would be undesirable to the empire. At an emergency meeting of the royal Cabinet, a lone researcher for the College convinces the king to allow the crisis on Terra to continue until it reaches its inevitable conclusion, with Terra running headlong into the Great Filter through nuclear war. The king agrees and orders no intervention be carried out. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|27 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cuban Missile Crisis: As tensions reach a boiling point between the United States, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Soviet submarine ''B-59'' is surrounded by a group of American ships, which begin to drop depth charges in an attempt to force the submarine to surface. Unsure whether war has already broken out, Captain Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky and political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agree to use a nuclear-tipped torpedo. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, whose vote is required in order to authorize the launch, disagrees and denies the launch, averting what could have been the opening shot of World War III. The submarine eventually surfaces and leaves the area. This day, later known as "Black Saturday", is one of the closest moments in Terran history to possible Armageddon.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1966||align=center|14 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, dies following an operation. The loss of the lead designer and driving force behind the Soviet Union's success in the Space Race deals a devastating blow to Soviet plans for spaceflight.<br /> *The possibility of Otonichi agents murdering Korolev was investigated by members of Project Bootstap, but cannot be conclusively determined. This is considered unlikely, however, in view of his numerous health issues. Copies of Otonichi Intelligence Service records from the time period do suggest plans to eliminate Korolev and Wernher von Braun by agents on Terra, however no serious attempts appear to have been made against either.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1967||align=center|27 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *During a dress rehearsal for the launch of Apollo 1, a cabin fire ignites and kills Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Major changes to the design of the capsule and to procedures are implemented in the aftermath of the disaster. The cause of the fire is never conclusively determined.<br /> *Decades later, investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the direct cause of the accident was sabotage of the cabin electronics by elements of the Otonichi Intelligence Service working to sabotage Terran spaceflight activity. Apollo 1 is their first major attempt, and while it results in a temporary setback of the Apollo Program, their efforts do not work as intended. They regroup and formulate new plans.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|3 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *The second launch attempt of the Soviet N1 rocket ends disastrously just 23 seconds after liftoff. A damaged engine causes the automatic shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines just 15 seconds into the flight, and the fully fueled lunar rocket crashes back onto the pad in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the history of the planet. The explosion completely destroys the launch pad, and subsequent United States satellite imagery confirms that the Soviets are building a rocket capable of reaching the Moon. The cause of the disaster is eventually traced to the liquid oxygen tubopump of the #8 engine on the first stage exploding due to ingestion of a foreign object, most likely a loose bolt. Fuel filters are added to future missions. The pad requires more than 18 months of reconstruction.<br /> *A subsequent investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the ultimate cause of the accident was Otonichi tampering. It has subsequently been concluded that the Otonichi attempts to sabotage the Soviet lunar program were a direct attempt to avoid the possibility of a Soviet lunar landing being used as motivation for a NASA mission to Mars and future Solar System exploration. Their work was greatly assisted by a badly underfunded Soviet space program which featured numerous competing design bureaus attempting to court state favor and the death of Sergei Korolev.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|20 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Apollo 11 lunar module ''Eagle'' lands on Earth's Moon, and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on its surface. This moment is, effectively, the end of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union and fulfills President Kennedy's 1961 promise to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo to discuss the implications of the landing. It is universally agreed that Terran spaceflight activities, if continued at their current pace, will lead to the eventual discovery of the Otonichi. A small number of researchers suggest peaceful revelation of the existence of the Otonichi to the people of Terra. Their proposal is rejected and the King authorizes further covert attempts to interfere with possible Terran discovery of the Otonichi by tampering with radio astronomy investigation programs and further attempts to sabotage Terran spaceflight activities.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1970s===<br /> <br /> ===1980s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|14 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|Fractal Sinclair is born in Roswell, New Mexico.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|12 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cora and Halni Jeskalt are born in Alkonost, on the planet Ishonko. As Cora is born first, she becomes next in line to the throne of the Otonichi civilization.<br /> |- id="HG-86-Arrive"<br /> |align=center|1986||align=center|27 January||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1986||align=center rowspan="3"|28 January||Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes on the launchpad during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1986||align=center rowspan="2"|9 June||The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be a failure of the O-rings in the right Solid Rocket Booster due to the cold conditions at launch, which led to the escape of super heated gasses and the subsequent breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after launch. The report also notes a number of contributing causes to the accident and criticizes NASA management decisions that led to the accident.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be the unauthorized activation of the range safety system onboard the Shuttle at the moment of booster ignition, destroying the Shuttle, the launch pad and killing several ground personnel and spectators. The report concludes that a valid command was sent to the system to arm and activate it at liftoff, but records from Patrick Air Force Base and testimony from the Range Safety Officers indicate conclusively that no command was sent from them. The failure is attributed to a serious fault or outside tampering, but the exact cause is never determined with certainty.<br /> *The report includes testimony from Morton-Thiokol engineer [[Wikipedia:Roger Boisjoly|Roger Boisjoly]], noting the possibility of a failure of the Solid Rocket Booster O-rings during launches on days with very low temperatures. Initially seen as a possible cause for the accident, investigators cannot conclusively find evidence for this as a cause for the disaster and the subsequent discovery of the range safety system activation leads to a lack of further investigation into this possibility. It is included as a mere footnote in the report.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1989||align=center|24 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|''The New York Times'' publishes classified documents obtained by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell which contain numerous details on projects involving the Hoomiku performed by both the United States and Soviet Union. The story becomes a media sensation overnight and Thornwell is arrested within hours of publication.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1990s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 7 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|29 January||style="background:#d3edff;"|At the 1991 State of the Union Address, President George H. W. Bush announces the cancellation of America's manned space program and shifts NASA's priorities to the cause of robotic exploration of the Solar System. The three remaining Space Shuttles are decommissioned and placed on display in museums, with Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' placed on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|4 December||style="background:#d3edff;"|Pan American World Airways ceases operations, with PAA Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami, Florida being the last flight in the 64 year history of the company.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|21 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The House of Representatives narrowly votes to approve funds to continue the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas. The project, roughly 1/5th of the way to completion, faces increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill due to reports of project mismanagement and skyrocketing costs. Over the next few months, a staff shakeup leads to lower cost projections and a revised timeline for completion, with the massive particle accelerator due for activation before the end of the year 2000.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|27 October||The House of Representatives votes 283 to 143 to reject a Conference Committee report with continuing funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is officially terminated. Access shafts to the 14 miles of completed tunnels are filled in and over the next year, the project is officially wound down and abandoned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1995||align=center|August||A private expedition to the wreck of the ''Titanic'' is carried out by a group of French treasure-hunters. After contracting the Russians in order to use the R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' and its MIR submersibles, a number of artifacts are recovered from the wreck. INTERPOL, acting on a tip, arrests the men and confiscates the artifacts, a number of which corrode due to improper cleaning and handling. The artifacts are eventually sold to Magnolia Parks and Entertainment, for use in a future museum devoted to the ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1997||align=center|15 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|The ''Cassini-Huygens'' mission to Saturn launches on a Titan IV-B booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The $3.2 billion Flagship-class mission promises to unlock untold scientific discoveries of Saturn and its moons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|24 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|NASA announces that it plans to launch a Mars sample-return mission before 2010, and planning begins for a tentative launch in 2008.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|DOS-8, the core module of the ''Mir-2'' space station, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Federal Space Agency finalizes plans with the Chinese government for cooperation on space station construction. The European Space Agency expresses interest, but doesn't commit to the project in full.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2000s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|9 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The first particle beam collision, at an unprecedented energy of 40 TeV, occurs at Superconducting Super Collider. The event is hailed as a monumental moment in physics and science and scientists from around the world anticipate new discoveries, chief among them the Higgs boson, the long sought particle thought to imbue mass and a critical missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. CERN announces it will suspend operation of the Large Electron-Positron Collider by 2001, and several European countries push for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in an attempt to foster new scientific innovations while America probes new frontiers of particle physics.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|12 December||style="background:#edffd3;"|Following a lengthy and contentious recount of votes in Florida, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling on ''Bush v. Gore'', ending the recounts in a 5-4 decision and, as a result, George W. Bush is elected 43rd President of the United States, defeating Vice President Al Gore.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|18 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|Zachary Calliden is born in Waxahachie, Texas.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#d3edff;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|26 August||The Columbia Accident Investigation Board issues its report. The immediate cause of the accident is revealed to be a breach in one of the reinforced carbon-carbon composite panels on the left wing of the Space Shuttle, caused by foam from the External Tank striking the panel at supersonic speeds. During reentry, plasma entered the wing and compromised its structure, leading to the eventual destruction of the vehicle due to loss of attitude control. The report also indicates a large number of faults with NASA decision making policy and risk assessment procedures, as well as a culture where deviations from design criteria were regularly accepted so long as mission success was not compromised. The report makes numerous recommendations for future spaceflight operations. The International Space Agency's fleet of Orbiters, recently approved for construction, begin to undergo design modifications to allow for higher crew safety standards.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|10 November||The International Space Agency's governing body, the International Council on Spaceflight Activities, gives authorization to proceed with the Phoenix Program. The program's goal is to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the 2010s and establish a permanent research outpost at the lunar south pole. In a separate vote, the Council gives tentative approval for a project to use components from the lunar program for use in a possible mission to Mars before 2020.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 54, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||[[Edward Marshall]] is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Barack Obama is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-7 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 54. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is trace back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.<br /> |- id="HG-Titanic-Leave"<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|25 November||Members of Project Hourglass travel to [[#Titanic-Sail|April 10, 1912]].<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2014||align=center|22 May||After several months of quiet negotiations, the Department of Energy gives approval for [[TCI Research]] to begin construction on the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The company purchases the remains of the various facilities from the government and begins the process of drilling new access shafts to the abandoned 14 miles of tunnels to determine their condition. Construction is estimated to take a bare minimum of 6 years. In an effort to speed up the process while negotiations are made to acquire land needed for the project, seven tunnel boring machines are ordered and one of the largest civil engineering projects in United States history begins to take shape. Opposition in Congress is immediate, most notably from Idaho Senator Arlen Hawking, who criticizes the project as a handout to the home state of President Marshall, a gross expenditure of money that could better be spent elsewhere and a possible threat to humanity.<br /> |- id="ZachBodyRecover"<br /> |align=center|2015||align=center|22 June||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|8 July||A week and a half before the Republican National Convention, presumptive nominee Donald Trump announces that he is suspending his campaign, throwing the race for the Republican nomination into chaos. At a press conference announcing the event, Trump implies that he is withdrawing from the race against his will due to coercion by outside forces and hints of a "witch hunt" against him. He does not, despite repeated questioning, establish what forces he is referring to.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|19 July||On the fifth round of voting, Senator [[Arlen Hawking]] of Idaho wins the nomination for President, defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In his speech to the convention, Hawking pledges to unify the party and begin the process of making the nation prosperous once more.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|21 July||Ares 1's Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) ''Mayflower'' lands at Eberswalde Crater, becoming the first mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars. Hours later, Harold Hamilton becomes the first person to set foot on the Martian surface, followed by David Sanders, Vasili Petrov, Karri Litmanen, Liu Junlong and Kan Yamakawa. The crew begins a 550 day mission on the surface.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2016||align=center rowspan="2"|8 November||Arlen Hawking is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of Energy [[Elizabeth Gaines]].<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|25 December||A surprise attack is launched on critical orbital infrastructure around Ishonko. At least six large civilian ships fitted with advanced Terran FTL drives acquired on the black market are filled with explosives and rammed into the main civilian spaceport, Otonichi Imperial Fleet headquarters and a large orbital repair dock over the planet. Numerous civilian and military ships docked to the stations suffer severe damage and thousands are injured, killed or missing. Multiple daring rescue missions are made as Kessler syndrome begins to occur in Ishonkan orbit. Within hours, the Otonichi deorbit the remains of their primary military command center and civilian spaceport and mobilize their fleet in a defensive posture. The Otonichi fleet is given full access and use of a ship repair facility under construction by Looking Glass in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Ishonko goes into full planetary ground stop for the first time since the bombing of Reskont.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|15 March||Princess Regent Cora Jeskalt gives royal assent to the 3rd Monarchy Act, becoming sovereign of the Otonichi Imperial Empire. The act includes numerous provisions seen as an overt power grab by Parliament. Among the provisions included in the law is a clause which states that the monarchy shall be declared dissolved on the death of Cora Jeskalt provided she has not produced an heir. Hours after signing the document, HM Jeskalt travels to New Orleans on Terra for undisclosed reasons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flies over Hokkaido, Japan before crashing into the Pacific. With tensions on the Korean Peninsula reaching a dangerous tipping point, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss options. President Trump states that "all options are on the table" and threatens to retaliate with "force unlike anything they've ever seen" should any further provocation occur.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|3 September||style="background:#d3edff;"|The United States Geological Survey detects a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of North Korea's principal nuclear weapons test site. The DPRK claims it now has a hydrogen bomb capable of mounting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. Hours after the test, two defectors attempt to cross the border at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean soldiers fire at the defectors. In the chaos, a round strikes a US Army soldier and severely wounds him. A brief exchange of gunfire over the border takes place before a tense standoff occurs. For three hours, the situation remains a tense one as the defectors and American soldier are rushed to a hospital. Five hours after the initial exchange of gunfire, a third defector attempts to cross into the South, and is mortally wounded by North Korean troops firing at him. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula skyrocket and President Trump orders an aircraft carrier strike group sent to the Peninsula. In tweets that evening, the President warns Kim Jong-un of an impending wave of destruction should any further hostilities against American troops take place.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|Five snow leopards are arrested after attempting to sabotage the upcoming launch of Shenzhou 12 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. After intense interrogation, Chinese officials announce to the world that the saboteurs are not terrestrial leopards and that they are part of an operation intentionally tampering with affairs on Earth, specifically, Terran spaceflight programs. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. The men are convicted and sentenced to execution by China while an intense global effort is launched to find anyone else suspected of being associated with the program. Propaganda appears almost overnight across the globe: ''"Beware the Otonichi scourge!"''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|30 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *As news spreads across Earth of the existence of the Otonichi and their attempts to sabotage Terran space activities and interfere in global affairs, leaders of various Hoomiku communities on Earth try to distance themselves from possible association with the Otonichi. Several attacks on both Hoomiku and random snow leopards take place around the world.<br /> *The Otonichi Intelligence Service receives alarming reports from their agents on Terra. A decision is made to inform the monarch about the situation and to bring her up to speed on the status of attempts to intervene on Terra. Cora Jeskalt is made aware of the full extent of the project and orders a halt to all intervention on Terra and an immediate withdrawal of Otonichi agents from the planet. The damage, however, has been done.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|31 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|An intergovernmental task force is created to find and capture any and all Otonichi on Earth. Amidst a global panic and outrage, 6 elderly Hoomiku reveal the full scope of their species' dealings with the Otonichi to the world in graphic detail, and vow to work with the governments of the world in an effort to enact revenge not only for the crimes dealt to them by the Otonichi, but for the interference the Otonichi have caused on Earth. A new project is started at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory to use a time machine as a matter teleportation device. A project is also started at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland to develop a biological weapon tailored for use against the Otonichi.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2019||align=center|15 March||<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2020s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 30||style="background:#d3edff;"|With units of the Montana Army National Guard surrounding the mine and additional military assets being mobilized for a strike on the fortified mine serving as their base of operations, final preparations are made to send Lindsey Waldroup into the past in an attempt to alter the timeline and prevent disaster. Realizing he cannot go with Lindsey due to his appearance and the limited capacity of the time machine's power source, Zachary Calliden attempts a last-ditch maneuver to save his own life. Using information recorded in a journal by his maternal grandmother, he uploads his consciousness into Lindsey's mind while she sleeps, unaware that there is no way for him to escape once he does so. Fractal Calliden and Melor Oliver discover Zachary's still living body shortly thereafter and hide it from Lindsey, fearing that her resolve to attempt the mission will falter if she realizes what has happened. After rapid calculations, an incredibly remote possibility of retrieving the Hoomiku's body from their timeline is found, and instructions for the process are hidden on Lindsey's phone, addressed to their alternate selves. Data on the history of the world is also gathered and placed on storage devices. Zachary, in a persistent vegetative state, is placed on an intravenous drip and given oxygen.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 31||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==List of time travel events==</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Sandra Harris */</p> <hr /> <div>==General==<br /> ===[[Ian Rubin]]===<br /> *'''Born''': February 23, 1980; Lafayette, LA<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-8, [[STS-10W]], Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Fractal Rubin===<br /> *'''Born''': March 14, 1980 (Pi Day), Los Alamos, NM<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Parents''': Rena Sinclair (mother), Ardan Sinclair (father)<br /> *'''Maiden name''': Fractal Sinclair<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Ian Rubin (husband: '''12-23-07''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': Phoenix 8 (Sierra 1)<br /> *'''History''': Fractal's parents arrived on Earth in 1947 and eventually found employment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a top secret division overseen by the CIA. They worked on both physics research and development of new nuclear weapon designs. Fractal grew up with other Hoomiku and was cared for by her parents as much as was physically possible. In 1986, her parents were killed following accidental exposure to fatal radiation levels during an experiment ordered by the CIA to research telepathy blocking techniques. Both died in front of Fractal, who refused to leave their side in the infirmary. She was placed in the care of foster parents following the accident. While she never considered them her new parents, she did return their affection and was polite, but continued to be deeply wounded by the loss of her parents.</p><p>In 1989, ''The New York Times'' publishes classified information leaked by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell regarding the extent and details of projects involving the Hoomiku held by the United States. The Thornwell leak is considered the defining moment when rumors of aliens form into fact, as he divulged major details about the Hoomiku, including crimes committed by the United States and Soviet Union towards them. President George H. W. Bush eventually acknowledges the species in 1990 under growing pressure from both Congress and the press, a move followed shortly by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The United Nations General Assembly drafts Resolution 45/77, defining both the rights of Hoomiku to basic laws and defining the security and privacy of thought as a basic human right. Given that a breeding population exists on Earth, they are not in danger of dying out. The public is shocked, but no massive social upheaval occurs. Several hate crimes do occur, however, and prompt legislation with regards to both the use of telepathy in certain situations and locations and providing the basis for a lawsuit filed by several hundred Hoomiku against the United States. The suit is ruled in favor of the Hoomiku and as a result, Fractal is entitled to a free college education, a house, and $40,000 on her 18th birthday. She attends New Mexico Tech and briefly works as a DJ at a local radio station. Eventually, she transferred to New Mexico University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in both botany and physics.</p><p>Following graduation, she began to work at a start-up in Albuquerque studying new techniques for indoor crop growth. In 2006, she traveled to Russia for research into aeroponic farming techniques studied by the Russian Federal Space Agency. There she met Ian Rubin in Star City, and the two hit it off and began dating until Ian's flight to the International Space Station on September 18, 2006. The two resumed their relationship following the flight and in December, Fractal moved to Louisiana. The two were married on December 23, 2007.</p><br /> <br /> ===[[Sandra Harris]]===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''': Julia Harris, Thomas Harris<br /> *'''Related to''': Gregory Harris (twin)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[International Space Agency]]<br /> *'''Items''': Sandra's most cherished possession is a badly scuffed, space certified [[Wikipedia:Omega Speedmaster|Omega Speedmaster]] (Ref. 3570.50.00) with a black Velcro strap that has permanently been stained a grayish color. The watch was given to her by the International Space Agency for use on the Moon, and she subsequently purchased the watch for retail price from the space agency. She almost never parts with it and would do almost anything to recover it if it is lost or stolen. While the sapphire crystal has been replaced due to severe scratching, she has not asked the jeweler to repair the case scratches. The watch is kept in top condition and keeps accurate time, and contains strontium aluminate lume on the dial and hands. In early 2020, Sandra purchased a new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch (Ref. 311.30.42.30.01.005) to replace her original, which is now kept in a case at her home. This watch also features strontium aluminate lume, and Sandra tends to wear the watch with either an orange or 6 stripe rainbow polyamide NATO strap when wearing it daily. Sandra has publicly stated that she intends to bring both with her on her next lunar mission, and wore the newer of the two watches during her spacewalks on STS-250.<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Phoenix 9]], [[STS-217]], [[STS-250]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Gregory James Harris===<br /> *'''Born''': July 16, 1990 <br /> *'''Died''': November 9, 2008<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Stats''': <br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Items''': Gregory is always able to pull a refrigerated 355 ml (12 fl oz) or half-liter glass bottle of [[Wikipedia:Fresca#Versions|Fresca]] from Mexico out of thin air at will. Bottle is constantly full, and drinking from it doesn't reduce the amount in the bottle. Pouring it fills a glass up to the amount that the bottle actually contains and empties the bottle in the process, at which point it becomes full again when done pouring as though nothing was drained from it. Anyone other than Greg or another ghost is apparently unable to do this with the bottle. (You can't fill a swimming pool up this way, in other words.)<br /> *'''Abilities''':<br /> *'''Afterlife description''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Julia Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Thomas Harris===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Melanistic black-backed jackal<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Whittington===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Rough collie<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Jackie Cormier===<br /> *'''Born''': April 15, 1988; Seattle, WA<br /> *'''Species''': Catahoula Cur (Predominantely blue and white fur with black splotches and spots. Has heterochromia: left eye blue, right eye hazel.) <br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Related to''': David Cormier (brother)<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Nickname''': ''Split-eyes'', ''Splits'', ''Blue dog''<br /> *'''Rank''': Petty Officer 2nd Class, Aviation Survival Technician (Rescue swimmer)<br /> *'''History''': Moved to Louisiana at six years of age from Seattle after her father was laid off from Boeing. Joined the Coast Guard and is one of only four female swimmers. Currently resides in Canon Shoals, OR. Originally stationed at [[Wikipedia:Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles|CGAS Port Angeles]], WA until her entire crew was transferred to Canon Shoals following [REDACTED] in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.<br /> <br /> ===#===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Sports related==<br /> ===Wesley D. Romero===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Long-tailed weasel<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Team''': Bangor Tides (Furry Basketball Association)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Carlos Coronado===<br /> *'''Born''': Merida, Yucatan, MX<br /> *'''Species''': Jaguar<br /> *'''Nationality''': Mexican<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''': Abbey Crandall (girlfriend: '''Sochi Winter Olympics''' to '''current''')<br /> *'''Team''': Louisiana IceGators (National Hockey League)<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Astronauts==<br /> ===Harold Hamilton===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Gray wolf<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-109|STS-109]], [[Wikipedia:STS-117|STS-117]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===David Sanders===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': White Siberian tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': [[Wikipedia:STS-113|STS-113]], [[Wikipedia:STS-120|STS-120]], [[STS-2V]], [[STS-4V]], [[STS-10W]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 4]], [[Phoenix Cheat Sheet|Phoenix 8]], [[Ares 1]]<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Derek Ozark===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': River dragon (Blue, no wings)<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Ixy Comeaux===<br /> *'''Born''': Houston, TX<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Spaceflights/missions''': <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Looking Glass related==<br /> ===Cora Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Halni Jeskalt===<br /> *'''Born''': April 12, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Vargi===<br /> *'''First activated''':<br /> *'''Species''': Artificial intelligence <br /> **'''Primary avatar''': Otonichi (Snow leopard)<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> ===Carla Maxwell===<br /> *'''Born''': October 8, 1980<br /> *'''Species''': River otter<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (''maître d'île'', Phoenix Cay)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bruce Anderson===<br /> *'''Born''': April 17, 1978; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<br /> *'''Species''': Bengal Tiger<br /> *'''Nationality''': Australian<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[Ian Rubin]] (pilot)<br /> *'''Resides in''': [[Phoenix Cay]], Bahamas<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Frederick Hollande===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''': Dhole<br /> *'''Nationality''': French<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Employed by''': [[TCI Research]] (Director, [[Ellis National Laboratory]], Superconducting Super Collider) <br /> **'''Former employer''': [[Wikipedia:CERN|CERN]] (various roles relating to the [[Wikipedia:Large Hadron Collider|Large Hadron Collider]])<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universes==<br /> ===X===<br /> *'''Born''':<br /> *'''Species''':<br /> *'''Nationality''':<br /> *'''Parents''':<br /> *'''Related to''':<br /> *'''Maiden name''':<br /> *'''Spouses/romantic interests''':<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': Prime/''Wonderland''/''Looking Glass Land'' <br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Zachary Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': April 18, 2002; Waxahachie, TX <br /> **'''Date/place of birth listed on current ID''': April 18, 1996; Waxahachie, TX. <br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': Fractal S. Calliden, Roger Calliden<br /> *'''Friends with''': Lindsey Waldroup <br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''[[Looking Glass Land]]'', 2020<br /> *'''History''': Personality and higher brain functions implanted within brain of Lindsey Waldroup. Eventually removed and placed into a high capacity AI core on 2-1-2015. Body restored on: 6-22-2015. Taken in by Ian and Fractal, with official story being that parents died in car accident and Fractal was only living relative. Moved in with them from home in Honolulu.<br /> <br /> ===Roger Calliden===<br /> *'''Born''': October 4, 1978; Rachel, NV<br /> *'''Species''': Hoomiku<br /> *'''Nationality''': American<br /> *'''Parents''': <br /> *'''Spouse''': Fractal S. Calliden<br /> *'''Employed by''': Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (researcher, SDC detector)<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ''Looking Glass Land'', 2020<br /> *'''History''':<br /> <br /> ===Bonnie Krueger===<br /> *'''Born''': ????, ????; Goldfern Station (Sometime in the future in a space related setting; Current age is 23)<br /> *'''Species''': Red fox<br /> *'''Stats''': 5'8", 137 lbs, green eyes. Possibly missing a small notch from one ear following a bad deal she failed to complete.<br /> *'''Clothing''': Blue jeans, black combat boots, white t-shirt, torn black leather jacket with a VERY faded logo for an old Earth space program on the back. <br /> *'''Items''': Brown leather holster, 2 year old laser pistol or plasma pistol plus battery pack for the above. Carries a beaten up rucksack or backpack containing her worldly goods.<br /> *'''Backpack contents'''<br /> ** Captain's license (''Goldfern Station'' - issuer)<br /> ** Phone (Most likely the newest thing she owns)<br /> ** Slightly beat up, but high end VR headset.<br /> ** One pair of welding goggles modified to be sunglasses with a HUD inside of the lenses. Goggles are the type with two round lenses, as opposed to a single square pane of glass.<br /> ** Roll-up solar panel/charger<br /> ** Treasured book from mother about item central to plot.<br /> ** 1 bottle of a rare alcoholic drink<br /> ** 1 change of clothes (no shoes)<br /> ** 1 memento of Earth<br /> ** 1 journal<br /> ** 1 MRE<br /> ** 1 bottle of water (1 liter)<br /> ** 1 30 minute air bottle with mask.<br /> *'''Universe of origin''': ????<br /> *'''History (Revised for forum RP)''': Only child raised by her mother. Dad's rarely mentioned and Mom insinuates (read: ''adamantly maintains'') he's dead and spaced. No proof of it, though. Regardless, Bonnie has grown up in the light of the renaissance of renewed interest in Earth on Goldfern Station, brought up by a mother who worked far too hard for far too little money, but who genuinely loved her and filled her with wonderful stories of adventure, space and wonder for the "Pale Blue Dot". Tales of great explorers, the heady early days of space travel, the men and women who fought to break out of gravity wells to visit worlds in the same system. Tales of outlaws, as well: her namesake, Bonnie Parker, of pirates and Capone... of their fates and of the music and culture of a place lost to time and space. Filled with dreams, she fought hard to get her captain's license... only to discover that dreams have prices... as well as interest rates and late fees. Striking out on her own and saddled with a few old debts but no ship to pay them, she takes out one last loan: to buy a ticket to another star, another world. One where a ship awaits, she hopes, along with jobs, wealth and maybe, just maybe... Earth and eternal glory.<br /> *'''First intro''': Arrives at Helios Station with just enough to pay the docking fee, but her ship is repossessed within 10 minutes of her getting there. Stranded and pissed off, she decides to blow some of her meager savings at a bar, where a ''highly'' drunk tiger sits next to her and, in the middle of trying to tell him off, he reveals something highly crucial to her quest. She decides to ply the rest out of him with a few more drinks. She gets the info, but stripes decides to try to get into her pants right there in the middle of the room. She cracks a bottle of booze over his head and knocks him out cold, and grabs a few mysterious coins he's dropped while getting out of there. As "Timber" by Pitbull starts to play, she races away from station security as fast as her legs will carry her, shoving aside anything in her way and doing a good attempt at parkour... until she runs into her new best friend...<br /> <br /> ==Alternate universe/timeline descriptions==<br /> ===Looking Glass Land===<br /> *'''"Short" version:''' Otonichi (alien sneps) and Hoomiku (other alien felines with big ears) evolve on a planet around the star Tau Ceti named Ishonko. They eventually master space travel. Sometime in the 1930's, war were declared. King Zalkyo Jeskalt, of the Otonichi, is a murderous fuckwit. He hates hoomiku and the war grinds to a stalemate up to the moment when a couple of hoomiku terrorists blow up a city where the body of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in Otonichi history, resided in a glass sarcophagus. Zalkyo decides "These people are DEAD" and goes on a genocidal bender. Most hoomiku are dead, and the few who aren't flee to Earth towards the end of World War II. A few rogue hoomiku hide out in an asteroid mining base somewhere in space and tinker with time travel. They get discovered by the Otonichi in the 1950's and press the magic button to GTFO. They end up around earth in 1859 in the middle of the worst recorded solar storm in history. They escape to Earth. We'll come back to them in a bit, because THIS part is also complicated. Time keeps moving into the future. Someone comes to Zalkyo during the Cuban Missle Crisis with the suggestion that "Look, these people are going to blow each other up. If they DON'T, they could be a problem. Fuck with enough of their space program, and they'll stay on the ground." He signs off on this, and a few teams go covert on Earth to do that, since they look like snow leopards. They screw around with the Russian lunar rocket, kill the Apollo 1 crew in the fire, and POSSIBLY do something to Apollo 13. They then lie back until 1986, when the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' launches with a teacher on board. ''ENTER DIVERGENCE POINT BETWEEN LOOKING GLASS LAND AND REGULAR LAND '''HERE'''.'' Now, in 'Looking Glass Land', they activate the range safety system on the Space Shuttle right at SRB ignition and it blows up on the launch pad, killing the crew, destroying the pad and possibly killing a few people watching. The nation's devastated, but things go on and they're not caught. In 1990, they destroy Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' during STS-31 and blow it up in the air, killing the crew, destroying the Shuttle '''and''' the Hubble Space Telescope. This, coming four years after ''Challenger'', ends America's manned space program at the 1991 State of the Union. With no Space Shuttle to work on the ISS, and no ISS to speak of, the Superconducting Super Collider, a large atom smasher in Texas, is completed by 2000 rather than being cancelled in 1994. It discovers the Higgs boson in 2002... and lead researcher for the SDC collaboration Fractal Calliden, who married her college sweetheart Roger and has a son named Zach, announces the news. The Russians and Chinese, meanwhile, stubbornly carry forth with space. Around 2012, Melor Oliver, a big ol' wolf, is discovered to be using time travel to send stock information two minutes into the past to himself to make money. The SEC is annoyed and tries to pin him for something, but no luck. They do, however, Shanghai him into a secret project to research this. In 2017, the Otonichi try to screw with a Shenzhou launch from Jiquan. That's when they fuck up and the Chinese catch them. The world is now made aware of what's going on and that there's aliens screwing with our space programs. China hauls them out in a big show trial, then kills them for treason.</div>

Lafayette1 https://lafayetteinc.com/index.php?title=Echo_18&diff=3476 Echo 18 2020-04-17T22:16:23Z

<p>Lafayette1: /* Crew */</p> <hr /> <div>==Crew==<br /> {| class="wikitable"<br /> |-<br /> !Position<br /> !Astronaut<br /> |-<br /> !Commander<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Edgar Wilcox, [[International Space Agency|ISA]]<br /> ''(Long-tailed weasel)''<br />Third spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Flight Engineer 1 <br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|border|23px|Canada]] Bruce Cook, [[Wikipedia:Canadian Space Agency|CSA]]<br /> ''(Mountain lion)''<br />Third spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Flight Engineer 2<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Jason Fletcher, [[Wikipedia:NASA|NASA]]<br /> ''(Jaguar)''<br />Second spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Flight Engineer 3<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of South Korea.svg|border|23px|South Korea]] Seong-Ho Lee, [[International Space Agency|ISA]]<br /> ''(Amur leopard)''<br />First spaceflight <br /> |-<br /> !Commercial Astronaut 1<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Lester McCord, [[Main Page|Arkon Medical Services]]<br /> ''(Eastern gray squirrel)''<br />First spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Commercial Astronaut 2<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Kimberly Spangler, [[Main Page|Drummond Corp.]]<br /> ''(Coyote)''<br />First spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Commercial Astronaut 3<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Adam Hudson, [[Wikipedia:Loyola University New Orleans|Claiborne University]]<br /> ''(Raccoon)''<br />First spaceflight<br /> |}</div>

Lafayette1 https://lafayetteinc.com/index.php?title=Looking_Glass_Land&diff=3475 Looking Glass Land 2020-04-17T00:36:04Z

<p>Lafayette1: /* 2000s */</p> <hr /> <div><center>'''<u>ISA SECURE DATABASE</u>'''<br /> </br><br /> '''"LOOKING GLASS LAND" — SUMMARY'''<br /> </br><br /> '''TOP SECRET//LG/SAR-HG//ORCON/NOFORN'''</center><br /> <br /> ==Introduction==<br /> ==Timeline==<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |+ Timeline color key<br /> |- style="text-align:center;" <br /> | style="width:96px;" |Prime<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#d3edff;"|Looking Glass Land<br /> | style="width:96px; background:#edffd3;"|Both<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1800s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1859||align=center rowspan="3"|1-2 September||style="background:#edffd3;"|The Carrington Event occurs. One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, a major coronal mass ejection occurs at around noon on September 1 and impacts the Earth less than a day later, causing auroras bright enough to read newspapers at night in some areas, and visible as far south as the Caribbean. Telegraph operators around the world report receiving electric shocks and being able to transmit with their power supplies turned off, when systems aren't disrupted by the storm.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Arrive1"<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. Due to the damage to the pod's shielding, the pod suffers a catastrophic failure on reentry and disintegrates over the English Channel, killing everyone aboard. The remaining 2 members of the crew, the station's commander and executive officer, enter a final escape pod after verifying the station is on the proper course for disposal and land successfully near the first 4 in England.<br /> |-<br /> |A damaged Hoomiku space station arrives from [[#Station-Jump-Start|1955]] on a hyperbolic orbit around Earth. Due to the severe damage it received in a firefight with the Otonichi, the remaining crew abandon the station, with the commander planning to manually activate the station's thrusters to place it on an orbit for disposal into Sol. Of the 150 crew on the station prior to the firefight, only 11 remain. 4 of the crew enter an escape pod with no damage containing the backup recorder for the station's computers. This escape pod lands successfully in the English countryside outside of Farnborough. 5 others enter a damaged escape pod and are exposed to high levels of radiation from the geomagnetic storm. As this pod leaves the station, a team from Project Hourglass, arriving from [[#HG-Station-Leave1|2014]] in the modified Otonichi infiltration ship ISV ''Opened Item'', trigger a proximity alert and are hailed by the station commander, who asks them to effect a rescue. The Hourglass team docks with the damaged pod and incapacitate the injured Hoomiku with knockout gas before securing them. After verifying that the data recorder they are looking for is not aboard, the pod is left to burn up in the atmosphere. The Hourglass team then board the station and move it into a stable orbit around the Earth before prepping it for a jump to the Asteroid Belt. After an initial confrontation, a truce is reached between the commander, his executive officer and the Hourglass team, and the 5 rescued Hoomiku from the damaged escape pod are treated for radiation sickness. The 4 Hoomiku in England are left on Earth to avoid interference in the timeline.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Past-Arrive"<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1868||align=center rowspan="2"|July 1||Lindsey Waldroup arrives from [[#Lindsey-Jump-Start|2020]] and steals the data recorder from the Hoomiku crew who landed on Earth in 1859. As she is attempting to leave, she is robbed by an unidentified assailant. The robber manages to steal the data recorder from her as she attempts an emergency jump forward to escape. Due to a miscalculation, the device she uses to escape sends her to Waxahachie, Texas on [[#Lindsey-Jump-2014|September 30, 2014]]. The data recorder is eventually sold multiple times until it lands in the possession of Jordan Thorpe, a small-scale artifact dealer who books passage to America on the maiden voyage of the RMS ''Titanic''.<br /> |-<br /> |'''NOTE:''' The above event has been identified as the point of divergence between the Prime timeline and the alternate timeline known as "Looking Glass Land". According to data acquired by Project Hourglass/Bootstrap, all information currently points to Lindsey Waldroup's actions being the catalyst for the events that followed in the Prime timeline, rippling backwards to 1859 due to the presence of Hourglass personnel at the arrival of the Hoomiku space station. The Prime timeline, in effect, is a paradox created the moment Ms. Waldroup entered the past.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1910s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1912||align=center rowspan="2"|10 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' departs Southampton on her maiden voyage, bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sail"<br /> |The members of Project Hourglass arrive in Southampton from [[#HG-Titanic-Leave|2013]] and board the ''Titanic'' in order to secure an artifact that is clearly of Hoomiku manufacture from the ship prior to its sinking. They are booked in Cabins B-51, 53 and 55 for the voyage under names which appear on the official manifest in the future.<br /> |- id="Titanic-Sink"<br /> |align=center|1912||align=center|14-15 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later, killing more than 1,500 people. News of the disaster shocks the world and leads to the establishment of new safety standards on the seas.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1920s===<br /> <br /> ===1930s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- <br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))<br /> Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates at 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.<br /> |- id="ReskontMission"<br /> |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1940s===<br /> <br /> ===1950s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |- id="Sandra-CastleBravo"<br /> |align=center|1954||align=center|1 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Castle Bravo, the first test of a solid-fueled thermonuclear weapon by the United States, is conducted at Bikini Atoll. The bomb exceeds its intended blast yield by nearly 2.5 times, generating a yield of 15 megatons. The test is the largest weapon ever detonated by the United States and causes a large amount of fallout. The radioactive debris contaminates nearby islands, their inhabitants and the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel ''[[Wikipedia:Daigo Fukuryū Maru|Daigo Fukuryū Maru]]'' ("Lucky Dragon No. 5").<br /> *Members of Project Bootstrap have speculated about (but have not yet confirmed) the possibility of time travelers at this event due to indications of possible temporal abnormalities on this date. However, this situation is still under investigation and no conclusive proof has been found.<br /> |- id="Station-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|1955||align=center|5 November||style="background:#edffd3;"|Acting on a tip, the Otonichi Intelligence Service discovers the location of a rogue Hoomiku research and mining installation. The information they receive leads OIS to believe that experiments in time travel are being carried out by the facility. King Zalkyo Jeskalt orders an immediate strike to neutralize the base. An intense firefight ensues, and as the situation appears to be reaching a climax, the severely damaged station disappears without a trace. The station crew, in an act of desperation, activate their time machine using their dwindling power supply and travel to the Sol system. Due to the emergency nature of the jump and damage to the time machine’s computing cluster, they jump a significant amount of time in the past, arriving near Earth on [[#Station-Jump-Arrive1|September 2, 1859]]. Despite an exhaustive search, no clues can be found by the Otonichi as to the whereabouts of the base.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1960s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|26 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy meets with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) and confides that he believes an invasion of Cuba is the only way to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from the island. He is persuaded to wait and continue with diplomatic and military pressure. The situation is at an effective stalemate.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo Jeskalt to discuss the situation on Terra. Two schools of thought exist within the College: a first advocates for immediate intervention in order to resolve the crisis or shape the situation to one beneficial for the Otonichi while the second advises that doing nothing is the only possible option, due to the possibility of the crisis either resolving itself (peacefully or otherwise) or of the mere presence of an outside force defusing the situation in a way that would be undesirable to the empire. At an emergency meeting of the royal Cabinet, a lone researcher for the College convinces the king to allow the crisis on Terra to continue until it reaches its inevitable conclusion, with Terra running headlong into the Great Filter through nuclear war. The king agrees and orders no intervention be carried out. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1962||align=center|27 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cuban Missile Crisis: As tensions reach a boiling point between the United States, Cuba and the Soviet Union, Soviet submarine ''B-59'' is surrounded by a group of American ships, which begin to drop depth charges in an attempt to force the submarine to surface. Unsure whether war has already broken out, Captain Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky and political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agree to use a nuclear-tipped torpedo. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, whose vote is required in order to authorize the launch, disagrees and denies the launch, averting what could have been the opening shot of World War III. The submarine eventually surfaces and leaves the area. This day, later known as "Black Saturday", is one of the closest moments in Terran history to possible Armageddon.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1966||align=center|14 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, dies following an operation. The loss of the lead designer and driving force behind the Soviet Union's success in the Space Race deals a devastating blow to Soviet plans for spaceflight.<br /> *The possibility of Otonichi agents murdering Korolev was investigated by members of Project Bootstap, but cannot be conclusively determined. This is considered unlikely, however, in view of his numerous health issues. Copies of Otonichi Intelligence Service records from the time period do suggest plans to eliminate Korolev and Wernher von Braun by agents on Terra, however no serious attempts appear to have been made against either.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1967||align=center|27 January||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *During a dress rehearsal for the launch of Apollo 1, a cabin fire ignites and kills Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Major changes to the design of the capsule and to procedures are implemented in the aftermath of the disaster. The cause of the fire is never conclusively determined.<br /> *Decades later, investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the direct cause of the accident was sabotage of the cabin electronics by elements of the Otonichi Intelligence Service working to sabotage Terran spaceflight activity. Apollo 1 is their first major attempt, and while it results in a temporary setback of the Apollo Program, their efforts do not work as intended. They regroup and formulate new plans.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|3 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *The second launch attempt of the Soviet N1 rocket ends disastrously just 23 seconds after liftoff. A damaged engine causes the automatic shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines just 15 seconds into the flight, and the fully fueled lunar rocket crashes back onto the pad in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the history of the planet. The explosion completely destroys the launch pad, and subsequent United States satellite imagery confirms that the Soviets are building a rocket capable of reaching the Moon. The cause of the disaster is eventually traced to the liquid oxygen tubopump of the #8 engine on the first stage exploding due to ingestion of a foreign object, most likely a loose bolt. Fuel filters are added to future missions. The pad requires more than 18 months of reconstruction.<br /> *A subsequent investigation by members of Project Bootstrap reveals that the ultimate cause of the accident was Otonichi tampering. It has subsequently been concluded that the Otonichi attempts to sabotage the Soviet lunar program were a direct attempt to avoid the possibility of a Soviet lunar landing being used as motivation for a NASA mission to Mars and future Solar System exploration. Their work was greatly assisted by a badly underfunded Soviet space program which featured numerous competing design bureaus attempting to court state favor and the death of Sergei Korolev.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1969||align=center|20 July||style="background:#edffd3;"|<br /> *Apollo 11 lunar module ''Eagle'' lands on Earth's Moon, and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on its surface. This moment is, effectively, the end of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union and fulfills President Kennedy's 1961 promise to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.<br /> *On Ishonko, researchers from the Royal College of Alkonost meet with King Zalkyo to discuss the implications of the landing. It is universally agreed that Terran spaceflight activities, if continued at their current pace, will lead to the eventual discovery of the Otonichi. A small number of researchers suggest peaceful revelation of the existence of the Otonichi to the people of Terra. Their proposal is rejected and the King authorizes further covert attempts to interfere with possible Terran discovery of the Otonichi by tampering with radio astronomy investigation programs and further attempts to sabotage Terran spaceflight activities.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1970s===<br /> <br /> ===1980s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|14 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|Fractal Sinclair is born in Roswell, New Mexico.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1980||align=center|12 April||style="background:#edffd3;"|Cora and Halni Jeskalt are born in Alkonost, on the planet Ishonko. As Cora is born first, she becomes next in line to the throne of the Otonichi civilization.<br /> |- id="HG-86-Arrive"<br /> |align=center|1986||align=center|27 January||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="3"|1986||align=center rowspan="3"|28 January||Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' explodes on the launchpad during launch of STS-51-L, killing all 7 on board, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1986||align=center rowspan="2"|9 June||The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be a failure of the O-rings in the right Solid Rocket Booster due to the cold conditions at launch, which led to the escape of super heated gasses and the subsequent breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after launch. The report also notes a number of contributing causes to the accident and criticizes NASA management decisions that led to the accident.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President Ronald Reagan. The cause of the disaster is found to be the unauthorized activation of the range safety system onboard the Shuttle at the moment of booster ignition, destroying the Shuttle, the launch pad and killing several ground personnel and spectators. The report concludes that a valid command was sent to the system to arm and activate it at liftoff, but records from Patrick Air Force Base and testimony from the Range Safety Officers indicate conclusively that no command was sent from them. The failure is attributed to a serious fault or outside tampering, but the exact cause is never determined with certainty.<br /> *The report includes testimony from Morton-Thiokol engineer [[Wikipedia:Roger Boisjoly|Roger Boisjoly]], noting the possibility of a failure of the Solid Rocket Booster O-rings during launches on days with very low temperatures. Initially seen as a possible cause for the accident, investigators cannot conclusively find evidence for this as a cause for the disaster and the subsequent discovery of the range safety system activation leads to a lack of further investigation into this possibility. It is included as a mere footnote in the report.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1989||align=center|24 March||style="background:#edffd3;"|''The New York Times'' publishes classified documents obtained by CIA analyst Jack Thornwell which contain numerous details on projects involving the Hoomiku performed by both the United States and Soviet Union. The story becomes a media sensation overnight and Thornwell is arrested within hours of publication.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===1990s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 7 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|29 January||style="background:#d3edff;"|At the 1991 State of the Union Address, President George H. W. Bush announces the cancellation of America's manned space program and shifts NASA's priorities to the cause of robotic exploration of the Solar System. The three remaining Space Shuttles are decommissioned and placed on display in museums, with Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' placed on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1991||align=center|4 December||style="background:#d3edff;"|Pan American World Airways ceases operations, with PAA Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami, Florida being the last flight in the 64 year history of the company.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|21 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The House of Representatives narrowly votes to approve funds to continue the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas. The project, roughly 1/5th of the way to completion, faces increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill due to reports of project mismanagement and skyrocketing costs. Over the next few months, a staff shakeup leads to lower cost projections and a revised timeline for completion, with the massive particle accelerator due for activation before the end of the year 2000.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1993||align=center|27 October||The House of Representatives votes 283 to 143 to reject a Conference Committee report with continuing funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is officially terminated. Access shafts to the 14 miles of completed tunnels are filled in and over the next year, the project is officially wound down and abandoned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1995||align=center|August||A private expedition to the wreck of the ''Titanic'' is carried out by a group of French treasure-hunters. After contracting the Russians in order to use the R/V ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh'' and its MIR submersibles, a number of artifacts are recovered from the wreck. INTERPOL, acting on a tip, arrests the men and confiscates the artifacts, a number of which corrode due to improper cleaning and handling. The artifacts are eventually sold to Magnolia Parks and Entertainment, for use in a future museum devoted to the ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1997||align=center|15 October||style="background:#edffd3;"|The ''Cassini-Huygens'' mission to Saturn launches on a Titan IV-B booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The $3.2 billion Flagship-class mission promises to unlock untold scientific discoveries of Saturn and its moons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|24 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|NASA announces that it plans to launch a Mars sample-return mission before 2010, and planning begins for a tentative launch in 2008.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|1998||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|DOS-8, the core module of the ''Mir-2'' space station, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Federal Space Agency finalizes plans with the Chinese government for cooperation on space station construction. The European Space Agency expresses interest, but doesn't commit to the project in full.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2000s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|9 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|The first particle beam collision, at an unprecedented energy of 40 TeV, occurs at Superconducting Super Collider. The event is hailed as a monumental moment in physics and science and scientists from around the world anticipate new discoveries, chief among them the Higgs boson, the long sought particle thought to imbue mass and a critical missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. CERN announces it will suspend operation of the Large Electron-Positron Collider by 2001, and several European countries push for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in an attempt to foster new scientific innovations while America probes new frontiers of particle physics.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2000||align=center|12 December||style="background:#edffd3;"|Following a lengthy and contentious recount of votes in Florida, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling on ''Bush v. Gore'', ending the recounts in a 5-4 decision and, as a result, George W. Bush is elected 43rd President of the United States, defeating Vice President Al Gore.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|18 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|Zachary Calliden is born in Waxahachie, Texas.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph. <br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#d3edff;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|26 August||The Columbia Accident Investigation Board issues its report. The immediate cause of the accident is revealed to be a breach in one of the reinforced carbon-carbon composite panels on the left wing of the Space Shuttle, caused by foam from the External Tank striking the panel at supersonic speeds. During reentry, plasma entered the wing and compromised its structure, leading to the eventual destruction of the vehicle due to loss of attitude control. The report also indicates a large number of faults with NASA decision making policy and risk assessment procedures, as well as a culture where deviations from design criteria were regularly accepted so long as mission success was not compromised. The report makes numerous recommendations for future spaceflight operations. The International Space Agency's fleet of Orbiters, recently approved for construction, begin to undergo design modifications to allow for higher crew safety standards.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2003||align=center|10 November||The International Space Agency's governing body, the International Council on Spaceflight Activities, gives authorization to proceed with the Phoenix Program. The program's goal is to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the 2010s and establish a permanent research outpost at the lunar south pole. In a separate vote, the Council gives tentative approval for a project to use components from the lunar program for use in a possible mission to Mars before 2020.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 54, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||[[Edward Marshall]] is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |-<br /> | style="background:#d3edff;"|Barack Obama is elected 44th President of the United States, defeating Arizona Senator John McCain.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2010s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-7 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 54. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is trace back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.<br /> |- id="HG-Titanic-Leave"<br /> |align=center|2013||align=center|25 November||Members of Project Hourglass travel to [[#Titanic-Sail|April 10, 1912]].<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2014||align=center|22 May||After several months of quiet negotiations, the Department of Energy gives approval for [[TCI Research]] to begin construction on the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The company purchases the remains of the various facilities from the government and begins the process of drilling new access shafts to the abandoned 14 miles of tunnels to determine their condition. Construction is estimated to take a bare minimum of 6 years. In an effort to speed up the process while negotiations are made to acquire land needed for the project, seven tunnel boring machines are ordered and one of the largest civil engineering projects in United States history begins to take shape. Opposition in Congress is immediate, most notably from Idaho Senator Arlen Hawking, who criticizes the project as a handout to the home state of President Marshall, a gross expenditure of money that could better be spent elsewhere and a possible threat to humanity.<br /> |- id="ZachBodyRecover"<br /> |align=center|2015||align=center|22 June||<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|8 July||A week and a half before the Republican National Convention, presumptive nominee Donald Trump announces that he is suspending his campaign, throwing the race for the Republican nomination into chaos. At a press conference announcing the event, Trump implies that he is withdrawing from the race against his will due to coercion by outside forces and hints of a "witch hunt" against him. He does not, despite repeated questioning, establish what forces he is referring to.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|19 July||On the fifth round of voting, Senator [[Arlen Hawking]] of Idaho wins the nomination for President, defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In his speech to the convention, Hawking pledges to unify the party and begin the process of making the nation prosperous once more.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|21 July||Ares 1's Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) ''Mayflower'' lands at Eberswalde Crater, becoming the first mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars. Hours later, Harold Hamilton becomes the first person to set foot on the Martian surface, followed by David Sanders, Vasili Petrov, Karri Litmanen, Liu Junlong and Kan Yamakawa. The crew begins a 550 day mission on the surface.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2016||align=center rowspan="2"|8 November||Arlen Hawking is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of Energy [[Elizabeth Gaines]].<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2016||align=center|25 December||A surprise attack is launched on critical orbital infrastructure around Ishonko. At least six large civilian ships fitted with advanced Terran FTL drives acquired on the black market are filled with explosives and rammed into the main civilian spaceport, Otonichi Imperial Fleet headquarters and a large orbital repair dock over the planet. Numerous civilian and military ships docked to the stations suffer severe damage and thousands are injured, killed or missing. Multiple daring rescue missions are made as Kessler syndrome begins to occur in Ishonkan orbit. Within hours, the Otonichi deorbit the remains of their primary military command center and civilian spaceport and mobilize their fleet in a defensive posture. The Otonichi fleet is given full access and use of a ship repair facility under construction by Looking Glass in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Ishonko goes into full planetary ground stop for the first time since the bombing of Reskont.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|15 March||Princess Regent Cora Jeskalt gives royal assent to the 3rd Monarchy Act, becoming sovereign of the Otonichi Imperial Empire. The act includes numerous provisions seen as an overt power grab by Parliament. Among the provisions included in the law is a clause which states that the monarchy shall be declared dissolved on the death of Cora Jeskalt provided she has not produced an heir. Hours after signing the document, HM Jeskalt travels to New Orleans on Terra for undisclosed reasons.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 August||style="background:#d3edff;"|North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flies over Hokkaido, Japan before crashing into the Pacific. With tensions on the Korean Peninsula reaching a dangerous tipping point, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss options. President Trump states that "all options are on the table" and threatens to retaliate with "force unlike anything they've ever seen" should any further provocation occur.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|3 September||style="background:#d3edff;"|The United States Geological Survey detects a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of North Korea's principal nuclear weapons test site. The DPRK claims it now has a hydrogen bomb capable of mounting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. Hours after the test, two defectors attempt to cross the border at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean soldiers fire at the defectors. In the chaos, a round strikes a US Army soldier and severely wounds him. A brief exchange of gunfire over the border takes place before a tense standoff occurs. For three hours, the situation remains a tense one as the defectors and American soldier are rushed to a hospital. Five hours after the initial exchange of gunfire, a third defector attempts to cross into the South, and is mortally wounded by North Korean troops firing at him. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula skyrocket and President Trump orders an aircraft carrier strike group sent to the Peninsula. In tweets that evening, the President warns Kim Jong-un of an impending wave of destruction should any further hostilities against American troops take place.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|29 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|Five snow leopards are arrested after attempting to sabotage the upcoming launch of Shenzhou 12 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. After intense interrogation, Chinese officials announce to the world that the saboteurs are not terrestrial leopards and that they are part of an operation intentionally tampering with affairs on Earth, specifically, Terran spaceflight programs. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is called. The men are convicted and sentenced to execution by China while an intense global effort is launched to find anyone else suspected of being associated with the program. Propaganda appears almost overnight across the globe: ''"Beware the Otonichi scourge!"''<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|30 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> *As news spreads across Earth of the existence of the Otonichi and their attempts to sabotage Terran space activities and interfere in global affairs, leaders of various Hoomiku communities on Earth try to distance themselves from possible association with the Otonichi. Several attacks on both Hoomiku and random snow leopards take place around the world.<br /> *The Otonichi Intelligence Service receives alarming reports from their agents on Terra. A decision is made to inform the monarch about the situation and to bring her up to speed on the status of attempts to intervene on Terra. Cora Jeskalt is made aware of the full extent of the project and orders a halt to all intervention on Terra and an immediate withdrawal of Otonichi agents from the planet. The damage, however, has been done.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2017||align=center|31 October||style="background:#d3edff;"|An intergovernmental task force is created to find and capture any and all Otonichi on Earth. Amidst a global panic and outrage, 6 elderly Hoomiku reveal the full scope of their species' dealings with the Otonichi to the world in graphic detail, and vow to work with the governments of the world in an effort to enact revenge not only for the crimes dealt to them by the Otonichi, but for the interference the Otonichi have caused on Earth. A new project is started at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory to use a time machine as a matter teleportation device. A project is also started at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland to develop a biological weapon tailored for use against the Otonichi.<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2019||align=center|15 March||<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===2020s===<br /> {|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"<br /> |-<br /> !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event<br /> |-<br /> |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||<br /> |-<br /> |style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |-<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 28||style="background:#d3edff;"|With units of the Montana Army National Guard surrounding the mine and additional military assets being mobilized for a strike on the fortified mine serving as their base of operations, final preparations are made to send Lindsey Waldroup into the past in an attempt to alter the timeline and prevent disaster. Realizing he cannot go with Lindsey due to his appearance and the limited capacity of the time machine's power source, Zachary Calliden attempts a last-ditch maneuver to save his own life. Using information recorded in a journal by his maternal grandmother, he uploads his consciousness into Lindsey's mind while she sleeps, unaware that there is no way for him to escape once he does so. Fractal Calliden and Melor Oliver discover Zachary's still living body shortly thereafter and hide it from Lindsey, fearing that her resolve to attempt the mission will falter if she realizes what has happened. After rapid calculations, an incredibly remote possibility of retrieving the Hoomiku's body from their timeline is found, and instructions for the process are hidden on Lindsey's phone, addressed to their alternate selves. Data on the history of the world is also gathered and placed on storage devices. Zachary, in a persistent vegetative state, is placed on an intravenous drip and given oxygen.<br /> |- id="Lindsey-Jump-Start"<br /> |align=center|2020||align=center|October 29||style="background:#d3edff;"|<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==List of time travel events==</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Crew */</p> <hr /> <div>==Crew==<br /> {| class="wikitable"<br /> |-<br /> !width=150|Position<br /> !width=220|Astronaut<br /> |-<br /> !Commander<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Cora Edwards<br />''(Leopard)''<br />Fourth spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Pilot<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Russia.svg|border|23px|Russia]] Anatoly Volkov<br />''(Siberian tiger)'' <br />Third spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 1<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Thomas Kincaid<br />''(Meerkat)''<br />Fourth spaceflight<br />Lead spacewalker, EV1<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 2<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Audrey Harper<br />''(Red squirrel)''<br />Second spaceflight<br />EV2<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===Crew notes===<br /> Cora Edwards and Thomas Kincaid were both involved in the [[Orbital Contingency Test Flight]], flown to test [[Wikipedia:Columbia Accident Investigation Board|CAIB]] recommended procedures for on-orbit Space Shuttle contingency operations.</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Crew */</p> <hr /> <div>==Crew==<br /> {| class="wikitable"<br /> |-<br /> !width=150|Position<br /> !width=220|Astronaut<br /> |-<br /> !Commander<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Stanley Campbell<br />''(Gray wolf)''<br /> Third spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Pilot<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Neal Hastings<br />''(River otter)'' <br /> First spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 1<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Germany.svg|border|23px|Germany]] Felix Herman, [[Wikipedia:European Space Agency|ESA]]<br />''(European badger)''<br />Third spaceflight<br />EV1 <br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 2<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|border|23px|Canada]] Colden Rice, [[Wikipedia:Canadian Space Agency|CSA]]<br />''(Canada lynx)''<br />First spaceflight <br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 3<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Chile.svg|border|23px|Chile]] Manuel Méndez<br />''(Tayra)''<br />First spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 4<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|22px|United States]] Isaac Valdez, [[Wikipedia:NASA|NASA]]<br />''(Wistar rat)''<br />Second spaceflight<br />EV2<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 5<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|border|23px|Scotland]] Angus Neil, [[Wikipedia:European Space Agency|ESA]]<br />''(Mountain Hare)''<br />First spaceflight<br /> |}</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Crew */</p> <hr /> <div>==Crew==<br /> {| class="wikitable"<br /> |-<br /> !width=150|Position<br /> !width=220|Astronaut<br /> |-<br /> !Commander<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Stanley Campbell<br />''(Gray wolf)''<br /> Third spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Pilot<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Neal Hastings<br />''(River otter)'' <br /> First spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 1<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Germany.svg|border|23px|Germany]] Felix Herman, [[Wikipedia:European Space Agency|ESA]]<br />''(European badger)''<br />Third spaceflight<br />EV1 <br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 2<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|border|23px|Canada]] Colden Rice, [[Wikipedia:Canadian Space Agency|CSA]]<br />''(Canada lynx)''<br />First spaceflight <br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 3<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Chile.svg|border|23px|Chile]] Manuel Méndez<br />''(Tayra)''<br />First spaceflight<br />EV2 <br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 4<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|22px|United States]] Isaac Valdez, [[Wikipedia:NASA|NASA]]<br />''(Wistar rat)''<br />Second spaceflight<br />EV3<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 5<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|border|23px|Scotland]] Angus Neil, [[Wikipedia:European Space Agency|ESA]]<br />''(Mountain Hare)''<br />First spaceflight<br />EV4<br /> |}</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Crew */</p> <hr /> <div>==Crew==<br /> {| class="wikitable"<br /> |-<br /> !Position<br /> !Astronaut<br /> |-<br /> !Commander<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Edgar Wilcox, [[International Space Agency|ISA]]<br /> ''(Long-tailed weasel)''<br />Third spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Flight Engineer 1 <br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|border|23px|Canada]] Bruce Cook, [[Wikipedia:Canadian Space Agency|CSA]]<br /> ''(Mountain lion)''<br />Third spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Flight Engineer 2<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Jason Fletcher, [[Wikipedia:NASA|NASA]]<br /> ''(Jaguar)''<br />Second spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Flight Engineer 3<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of South Korea.svg|border|23px|Portugal]] Seong-Ho Lee, [[International Space Agency|ISA]]<br /> ''(Amur leopard)''<br />First spaceflight <br /> |-<br /> !Commercial Astronaut 1<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Lester McCord, [[Main Page|Arkon Medical Services]]<br /> ''(Eastern gray squirrel)''<br />First spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Commercial Astronaut 2<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Kimberly Spangler, [[Main Page|Drummond Corp.]]<br /> ''(Coyote)''<br />First spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Commercial Astronaut 3<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Adam Hudson, [[Wikipedia:Loyola University New Orleans|Claiborne University]]<br /> ''(Raccoon)''<br />First spaceflight<br /> |}</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Crew */</p> <hr /> <div>==Crew==<br /> {| class="wikitable"<br /> |-<br /> !width=150|Position<br /> !width=220|Astronaut<br /> |-<br /> !Commander<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Stanley Campbell<br />''(Gray wolf)''<br /> Third spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Pilot<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Neal Hastings<br />''(River otter)'' <br /> First spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 1<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Germany.svg|border|23px|Germany]] Felix Herman, [[Wikipedia:European Space Agency|ESA]]<br />''(European badger)''<br />Third spaceflight<br />EV1 <br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 2<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|border|23px|Canada]] Colden Rice, [[Wikipedia:Canadian Space Agency|CSA]]<br />''(Canada lynx)''<br />First spaceflight <br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 3<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Chile.svg|border|23px|Chile]] Manuel Méndez<br />''(Tayra)''<br />First spaceflight<br />EV2 <br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 4<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|22px|United States]] Isaac Valdez, [[Wikipedia:NASA|NASA]]<br />''(Wistar rat)''<br />Second spaceflight<br />EV3<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 5<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|border|23px|Scotland]] Angus Neil, [[Wikipedia:European Space Agency|ESA]]<br />''(Mountain Hare)''<br />First spaceflight<br />EV4<br /> |}</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Crew */</p> <hr /> <div>==Crew==<br /> {| class="wikitable"<br /> |-<br /> !width=150|Position<br /> !width=220|Astronaut<br /> |-<br /> !Commander<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] <br />''()''<br /> Third spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Pilot<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Neal Hastings<br />''(River otter)'' <br /> First spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 1<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Germany.svg|border|23px|Germany]] Felix Herman, [[Wikipedia:European Space Agency|ESA]]<br />''(European badger)''<br />Third spaceflight<br />EV1 <br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 2<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|border|23px|Canada]] Colden Rice, [[Wikipedia:Canadian Space Agency|CSA]]<br />''(Canada lynx)''<br />First spaceflight <br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 3<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Chile.svg|border|23px|Chile]] Manuel Méndez<br />''(Tayra)''<br />First spaceflight<br />EV2 <br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 4<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|22px|United States]] Isaac Valdez, [[Wikipedia:NASA|NASA]]<br />''(Wistar rat)''<br />Second spaceflight<br />EV3<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 5<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|border|23px|Scotland]] Angus Neil, [[Wikipedia:European Space Agency|ESA]]<br />''(Mountain Hare)''<br />First spaceflight<br />EV4<br /> |}</div>

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<p>Lafayette1: /* Crew */</p> <hr /> <div>==Crew==<br /> {| class="wikitable"<br /> |-<br /> !width=150|Position<br /> !width=220|Astronaut<br /> |-<br /> !Commander<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] <br />''()''<br /> Third spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Pilot<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|23px|United States]] Neal Hastings<br />''(River otter)'' <br /> First spaceflight<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 1<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Germany.svg|border|23px|Germany]] Felix Herman, [[Wikipedia:European Space Agency|ESA]]<br />''(European badger)''<br />Third spaceflight<br />EV1 <br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 2<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|border|23px|Canada]] Colden Rice, [[Wikipedia:Canadian Space Agency|CSA]]<br />''(Canada lynx)''<br />First spaceflight <br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 3<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of Chile.svg|border|23px|Chile]] <br />''(Tayra)''<br />First spaceflight<br />EV2 <br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 4<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|22px|United States]] Isaac Valdez, [[Wikipedia:NASA|NASA]]<br />''(Wistar rat)''<br />Second spaceflight<br />EV3<br /> |-<br /> !Mission Specialist 5<br /> |align=center|[[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|border|23px|Scotland]] Angus Neil, [[Wikipedia:European Space Agency|ESA]]<br />''(Mountain Hare)''<br />First spaceflight<br />EV4<br /> |}</div>

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