Colonizing Sol covers the corporate capture of off-world settlement; From Sol to Elysium covers the collapse that followed.

Era Sequence

• Corporate Exodus (2025-2100): privatized transport and extraction harden into company sovereignty.
• Age of Automation (2100-2250): AGI and industrial genetics transform production and control.
• Identity Crisis (2250-2500): uploading and uplift turn personhood into a commercial and legal dispute.
• Identity Abyss (2500-2750): cognitive exploitation and algorithmic governance become systemic.
• Existential Collapse (2750-3025): scarcity, insurgency, and elite exit politics destabilize Sol.
• FTL Trigger (March 17, 3025): the first FTL experiment triggers Sol’s displacement into Elysium.

See Historical Events for named crises and settlements.