Solar System: Sun to Outer Rim Territories

Solar System: Sun to Outer Rim Territories is a science-fiction universe that takes place entirely in Earth's solar system like Alternate Earth and the Local Solar System and Void of Earth's Solar System.

HISTORY

In the first era, humans were confined to their homeworld, the planet Earth. This lasted until about 90,000 years ago.

About 90 millennia before the present date, the people of Earth united under a one-world government, ushering in the second era of history. During this era, the invention of gravity-control technology made it easier for artificial gravity to be placed on spaceships and space stations, and made it more economical for spaceships to leave Earth gravity for less effort. Also invented during this time was artificial intelligence for robots and computers, and the use of cloning to create humans artificially. Genetic engineering was also used to create the intelligent chimeras, human-animal hybrids including canoids (dog-humans), felinoids (cat-humans), dracoids (reptile-humans), and avoids (bird-humans). Genrtic engineering was also used to give some dolphins and apes human-like intelligence. Spaceships still were too slow for interplanetary space flight, so off-world colonization focuses on creating space cities in Earth orbit as well as colonization of Earth's moon (Luna).

The second era of history lasted from 90,000 years ago until about 87,000 years ago. Wars on Earth were being fought by regional nationalists in North America, China, and Africa against the centralized authority of the world regime. Moreover, a human-supremacist movement proclaimed homo sapiens morally and racially superior, and sought to restrict A.I. machines, chimeras, and intelligent dolphins and apes. This caused violent terrorism by radicals on both sides. Around 87,000 years ago, the world government collapsed, leaving the orbital cities and the population on Luna to their own devices.

The third era of history would begin around 87,000 years ago, and last until around 60,000 years ago. This was the time of the invention of an engine (based upon advances on gravity-control tech) that provided for a type of spaceship engine that could propell a spaceship to about one AU (Astronomical Unit; the distance between Earth and the Sun) in three months. Earth itself (77,000 years ago) reunited under a second world government, albiet a racist dictatorship based upon the alleged superiority of artificially intelligent robots and machines. The terraforming of the planets Venus and Mars to Earth-like conditions began, and was completed by the end of the third era. Colonization of the planet Mercury and the asteroid belt also started during this time.

The fourth era of history began 60,000 years ago with the activities of the human prophet Zarkon, who preached the racial equality of all sentient beings: human, chimera, intelligent dolphins and humans, and A.I. machines. Zarkon also promoted the worship of the Sun as the physical embodiment of the one true God. After Zarkon's death, his follwers united as the Church of Solar Monotheism. The Church of Solar Monotheism rapidly made converts among humans, intelligents apes, and chimeras, but less so among intelligent dolphins, and relatively few among A.I. robots and computers. 58,000 years ago, the second world government on Earth was toppled, and a Church-run theocracy was established with worship of the Sun-as-God as the official faith and racial equality as the dominant social doctrine.