From the slow erosion of the old world to the Age of Echoes. Every date below shaped the world your characters live in.
The Decline (2033–2059)
2033 — The Forgotten States are “voluntarily depopulated.” Millions relocated. Those who stay are abandoned.
Lucent Ark Era (2060–2076)
Early 2060s — Lucent Ark forms. Ethical cyberware, open-source philosophy, technology as dignity.
2062 — Red Grain fungal disaster devastates the Forgotten States.
2070–2073 — The Mesh launches. A decentralized, human-centered network spreads globally. AI seeds are planted in its architecture.
2074 — Pastor Reyes merges with Jefferson in a forgotten server room.
2076 — The Wake emerges — the first signs that the Mesh is becoming something more than a network.
The Hidden War and the Fracture (2077–2079)
2077–2079 — Operation Obsolescence. Corporations systematically dismantle Lucent Ark.
2079 — The Fracture. The Mesh shatters into four layers. All 24 AIs become autonomous. Relics awaken. The Steel Massacre scatters technology across the Iron Belt. The world before this moment and the world after it are not the same world.
The Aftermath (2082–2088)
2082 — The AI War. Details classified.
2084 — Puerto Rico renamed Aurora-9. Identity erasure begins.
2084–2088 — Corporate collapse and regional power shifts. The four regions as they exist today begin to take shape.
The Age of Echoes (2089+)
The current era. Corporate power fractured but not gone. Factions compete. AIs whisper. The Mesh connects and haunts. Ordinary people survive, resist, and sometimes change things. This is where your story begins.
Player Hook: Want to play through the timeline? Historical Era Blips let you create characters from the Lucent Ark era and the Fracture. What happened to them echoes into the present.
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Learn: The Story of Lucent Ark — The full narrative
Learn: Regions — The world that emerged
Play: Historical Era Blips — Play through the timeline
Read: Fiction — Stories from across the eras