====== Alliance Faction Timeline ======

=== 2029 ===
Mars One crew settles due to Private Organization. Heavy United States Influence.

=== 2034 ===
Space Elevator construction complete

=== 2050 ===
Mercury Laser Array constructed

=== 2062 ===
Outpost 116 Asteroid Mining begins. (116 million miles from the sun)

=== 2078 ===
Europa settled by a consortium of European, Indian and Gulf Countries

=== 2106 ===
First Higgs Generators developed the technologies is such that Sail type panels are the
optimum arrangement. (The first VHG can only create virtual Higgs less than a meter away from the
device and not strong enough to overcome any significant amount of gravity)

=== 2136 ===
Ring Higgs Generator developed. VHG can create stronger fields and the generators can
now be layered into arrays of generators stacked on top of each other).

=== 2137 ===
It’s discovered that the VHG can manipulate micro worm holes. This allows a ship to grab a
micro wormhole, stabilize it, expand it’s event horizon. Thus allowing the ship to pass through. The
process is called a Higgs Cascade. Early Higgs Cascade Drives could not control the far end exit location. So a lot of time was spent hunting around for a good wormhole. A fair number of ships were lost due
to hasty jumps that took ships hundreds of light-years away where the micro wormhole evaporated and
the ship couldn’t find another wormhole(s) to make the trip back.

=== 2138 ===
Start of the First Age of Expansion

=== 2240 ===
Further development of Higgs Generator Arrays brings on the Plate Design. Further
advancements in field strength and a large boost in energy efficiency allow ships to generate deflector
shields. Virtual Higgs are used to turn away high velocity masses and bend electromagnetic energy.
There is feedback in this process that can cause the shield to overload (Heat Management Problem).

=== 2245 ===
End of the First Age of Expansion as tension increases between Mars, Europa, and Earth.

=== 2247 ===
Declaration of Martian Federation
June 13 Declaration Day
July 6 Destruction of the Mercury Laser Array
July 6 Alliance Declares War

=== 2265 ===
Earth’s Space Elevators destroyed in several punitive raids by Mars’ forces.

=== 2290 ===
December – The Shipyards of Earth, Mars, and Europa are wrecked. Bring an end to major
hostilities.

=== 2291 ===
Ceasefire Declared

=== 2293 ===
Unification Treaty is ratified and a joint governmental body called the Colonial Alliance is
formed.

=== 2295 ===
First Exploration vessels to return after an alien contact is kept secret by the Colonial
Alliance Governing Body.

=== 2301 ===
The latest in VHG allows for the Higgs Plates to be concentrated into Nacelles. Which is a
vast improvement for Engineering Maintenance and Power Distribution and Management.

=== 2313 ===
Horizons Launches on its first mission.