2051
Merger of transportation giants
The big three automobile companies, General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler, merged to form the Transglobal Automation Corporation (TAC). This largest merger in economic history at that time, was necessitated by increasing competition from South American and Asian automobile producers. Future economic historians identified the TAC merger as a precursor to the rise of Super Corporations.
Human travel surpasses one percent of light speed
The Flyer Series, an advanced aviation program jointly funded by Lockheed and Boeing, was unveiled. Flyer I was the first aircraft to fly faster than one percent of light speed. Boeing and Lockheed merged in 2055 to form Airstar International, the world’s largest aviation corporation.
Cold fusion achieved
Cold fusion was achieved with the assistance of quark catalysts to facilitate nucleon[5] bonding. Scientists fused two nucleons at room temperature, releasing high levels of energy. Cold fusion techniques supplied energy to Earth’s industries, space stations and colonies for much of the late twenty-first and early twenty-second centuries.
2052
The Primax Compactor
The Primax Compactor, an advanced waste disposal unit invented in 2052, reduced the volume of inorganic waste by ninety percent by 2061. The Compactor employed magnetic forces to compress matter, creating significantly less voidage[6] than was previously possible. In addition, the Compactor’s own compact size allowed it to be used in average households.
Scientific food farms expand
By 2052, scientific food farms produced forty percent of the world’s food supply, growing to ninety percent by 2100. Food farms used biotechnology to synthesize food for both Human and animal consumption. As scientific food farms did not require land for food production, eighty percent of the planet’s former agricultural lands were made available for Human settlement by 2100.
Manned mission to Uranus
Latin American astronauts in the spaceship Bolivar-3, became the first Humans to visit Uranus. Twelve later missions to Uranus, from 2055 to 2075 explored its moons―Oberon, Titania, Umbriel, Ariel, Miranda, and Puck―as well as the lesser satellites.
The first Human colony was built on Oberon in 2109. Due to its violent storms, Uranus itself was not settled, even by hover colonies. The Uranian moons, sites of frequent earthquake activity and few mineral resources, also remained sparsely populated. By 2160, there were 3.5 million people living in settlements and space stations in the Uranus system.
2053
EuroTunnel completed
EuroTunnel, a three thousand kilometre tunnel for vehicular and train travel between the Iberian Peninsula and Scandinavia, was completed, after forty years of construction. Links to cities in Britain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands were added by 2056. The Asia Tunnel joined Japan with Mainland China and Korea in 2058.
First Human landing on Neptune
Poseidon XIV, captained by Tamra Shainer, landed on Neptune. Poseidons XV and XVI explored Neptune’s moon, Triton, in 2056 and 2057. The Galle missions, between 2058 and 2062, visited Nereid, Proteus, Larissa, Despoina, Galatea, Thalassa and Naiad, as well as Neptune’s rings.
The first colony in the Neptune system was established on Triton in 2111. Hover colonies across Neptune were built by the mid-twenty-second century. By 2160, there were fifteen independent colonies in the Neptune system, with a combined population of one hundred and seventy million people. The Neptune worlds’ elaborate network of space stations and communication beacons, as well as its strategic location, enabled the system to become an important hub for interplanetary travel in the twenty-second century.
2054
Pope John Paul IV’s Papal Bull
Pope John Paul IV issued a Papal Bull recognizing, for the first time, the rights to abortion and contraception. Church leaders from France, Italy, Spain and Portugal supported the Bull, representing a revival in organized Catholicism in western Europe, which had been seriously weakened by the Duprey crisis of 2045.
However, Eastern European and Filipino Catholics expressed shock and declared an alternative pope, Benedict XVII, the “True guardian of the Papal Throne.” The alternative pope caused the greatest crisis in the Catholic Church since the Great Schism of the Middle Ages.[7]
American Republican Party fragmented
The American political scene was dramatically transformed by the breakup of the Republican Party, into the Nationalists and the Progressive Dynamists. The Nationalists represented patriotic isolationism, deeply influenced by fundamentalist Christian thinking; the Progressive Dynamists remained moderate, favouring Regitonic[8] political and economic policies. Some Democratic supporters were attracted to the Progressive Dynamists, creating a true three party political structure for the first time in American political history.
2055
War in the Middle East
Much to the world’s surprise, Israel, Palestine and Syria-Jordan joined forces, against the threatening advances of Islamic regimes in Iraq and Egypt.[9] This new Moderate Front readily defeated Iraq and Egypt at the Battles of Aleppo Heights and St. Catherines, ending overt violence between fundamentalists and liberal democrats in the Middle East for some time.[10]
First multi-digestives for public consumption
Multi-digestive drugs, which redirected nutrient flow to undernourished cells, became publicly available.. The most popular multi-digestive, hydoramine, targeted the absorption of amino acids. Later multi-digestives focussed on lipid and carbohydrate transfer.
2056
ATP production enhanced
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), an energy rich molecule produced during the body’s respiratory cycles, was generated by a non-respiratory electrochemical technique known as triphosphate generation (TPG). Developed by the biochemist Bittesh Mihava, TPG increased the body’s energy generation, without additional oxygen consumption. The TPG technique proved essential to the colonization of worlds with limited oxygen supplies.
2057
World’s largest democracy becomes benevolent dictatorship
The Indian Path Party (IPP),[11] won an overwhelming majority in the Lok Sabha, campaigning for clean government. The IPP used their majority to grant sweeping powers to the Executive, to address political corruption. The reforms also diminished state power in favour of the Executive. The IPP’s popular success in battling corruption, eventually allowed Shami Tendulkar to emerge as a benevolent dictator with little resistance. Tendulkar ruled India for thirty years, creating political and economic stability.
Death penalty abolished in USA
In the case of Bancroft vs. The State of Texas, the American Supreme Court prohibited capital punishment, paving the way for the abolishment of the death penalty throughout the USA. Several African and Asian countries followed the American example.[12]
The demise of OPEC
As the price of petroleum rapidly fell after the discovery and refinement of porginine, the economic clout of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) also declined, causing its members to disband. The resulting economic depression in the Middle East lasted well into the 2090s.
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