This timeline follows Sol—the Solar System—from companies taking control of off-world settlements to the experiment that displaced it into Elysium. For the broader history, read Colonizing Sol on how corporations gained that control, then From Sol to Elysium on the collapse that followed.

Era Sequence

• Corporate Exodus (2025-2100): companies that control privatized transport and resource extraction become governing powers in their own right.
• Age of Automation (2100-2250): artificial general intelligence (AGI) and genetics applied on an industrial scale transform how goods are produced and how control is exercised.
• Identity Crisis (2250-2500): mind uploading and uplift make the question of who counts as a person a matter of commercial and legal conflict.
• Identity Abyss (2500-2750): exploiting minds and governing through algorithms become established features of the social order.
• Existential Collapse (2750-3025): scarcity, insurgency, and political struggles over elite plans to leave destabilize Sol.
• FTL Trigger (March 17, 3025): the first faster-than-light (FTL) experiment triggers the Rupture, displacing Sol into Elysium.

For individual crises and settlements within these eras, see Historical Events.