2001: Birth of Gamil DesJardins in Old Beirut (eventual Chairman of Ares Corporation)

mid-21st century - "White War(s)" - some especially ferocious conflicts between the major powerblocs of Earth - WORD formed in a worldwide sense of revulsion against such fighting

31 December 2093: Beginning of Martian Rebellion (Battlefleet: Mars)

3 March 2094: The Battle of Vesta

18 June 2094: Attempted Assassination of Dalia Ashad, high WORD official

2094-2096, Martian Free Traders vs. ARES Corporation (WORD - World Organization for Resource Development represented Planet Earth) The First Battle of Pallas The Battle of Vesta The Raid on L-5 Second Battle of Pallas Battle of Juno Third Battle of Pallas Battle of Mars: Conclusion of Conflict Mars gains independence; ARES Corporation mostly dissolved

2090s: dissolution of World Organization for Resource Development (WORD)

2105: First discovery of fissionable materials on Titan, moon of Saturn.

2117: War on Titan Titan-Prime: Main Chung-kuo/Nippon (in game, Hegemony of East Asia) base New Saar: Main Europa (in came, EEC - European Economic Community) Mining Complex Note: Diverging from the brief background notes for the game, both the USSR and USA are considered to have dissolved by this time.

c. 2200: establishment of Solar Government (also called Solar Hegemony)
Note: A separate article is written on the StarForce background. Some of the additional extrapolative future-history material included in certain issues of MOVES (e.g., no. 21) could probably be seen as non-canonical, relative to information that can be extrapolated from other published games. I have prioritized material appearing in other published games over such ancillary StarForce material. Generally speaking, the Stafforce background combines coherent and incoherent aspects. The background story of a conflict between a more conservative, Earth-based power (the Pan Human Hegemony - PHH), the frontier-oriented Human League - HL, and an "all-lifeforms liberationist" Pan Sentient League (PSL), is sociologically interesting.

2317: Female Cyborg Lauren Silverwolf discovers "discontinuity effect" (later to be called J1)

2322: First Teleship, Argenta Lupa, lost in trans-Plutonian space

2328: (First) Sentience Status Act

2337: 1 st TeleMEG (TeleMapping and Exploration Group) - slow sweeps of trans-Plutonian space to enhance its familiarity to "Telesthetics", 2nd to 7th TeleMEGs quickly formed, beginning of Telesthetic Guild

2341: First Interstellar Expedition (to Alpha Centauri system); the "Outleap" begins

c. 2380: The Alpha Centauri Campaign - the Solar Hegemony quickly reacted to the attempt by Lauren, the main Earth-like planet of the Alpha Centauri system, to declare independence.

INTRA-SPECIFIC WARS OF AUTONOMY

2405: The Epsilon Eridani Campaign Epsilon Eridani revolts against Solar Hegemony, and endeavors to seize Epsilon Indi system. Revolt of Epsilon Eridani successful, but fails to capture Epsilon Incli. The Earth-like planet at the Epsilon Indi system is Epsilon Indi 1. (from StarSoldier)

2415: The Rise of the Human League Frontier-oriented Human League endeavors to seize Epsilon Indi from Pan Human Hegemony.

2430: PHH - HL Showdown Another war between the Pan Human Hegemony and Human League. The Pan Human Hegemony endeavored to strike the planets at Tau Ceti, the most heavily populated of the Human League systems.

2451: L'Chal-Dah Contact First Contact with parahuman L'Chal-Dah, at Eta Cassiopeiae. The PHH and HL join together to defeat the L'Chal-Dah. The Earth-like planet at the Eta Cassiopeiae system is Eta Cassiopeiae II (this was where First Contact between the Humans and the L'Chal-Dah occurred) (from StarSoldier).

2462: Second PHH - HL War Second major conflict between the more conservative and more frontier-oriented human blocs. Ended in an indecisive victory for the PHH. Described as "a brief and inconsequential struggle. The HL did mount one expedition to Alpha Centauri and succeed in gaining control of local space long enough to land troops on Lauren, but they were swiftly repulsed." (StarSoldier rulebook, p. 14) See also MOVES no. 21 ("StarForce as Fiction: An Account of Scenario Six in StarForces", by Neil Shapiro.) This can be accepted as semi-canonical. (The story in fact has several inaccuracies when compared to the actual scenario setup.) Human League systems: Tau Ceti, Epsilon Eridani, 82 Ericlani, Delta Pavonis (9 StarForces); HL StarForces "Wing Toucher": Viola Clearwater PHH systems: Sol, Alpha Centauri, Epsilon Indi StarForces); PHH StarForces "Wing Toucher": Phyllis Webb

As described in the story, the PHH won a decisive victory by bluffing an attack on Delta Pavonis, while actually concentrating to attack Tau Ceti. Perhaps it can be assumed that Alpha Centauri fell to the HL assault, before the PHH victory at Ta Ceti. (So the results of the campaign might be seen as more "inconclusive.")

2465: Revolt of Epsilon Indi PHH victory -- L'Chal-Dah intervened on behalf of the PHH (when it became clear that the PHH was winning)

2476: The War with the Rame The Consociation - decided to use this name instead of that given -- "Human League" -- as HL refers to a different body in the future history. The Consociation absorbed the L'Chal-Dah on an Associate basis, and together fought against the far more alien Rame. What had erroneously been called the "Human League" in the War with the Rame, 2476 A.D., and War of the Defense League, 2482 A.D. scenarios in Stafforce, is identified in StarSoldier as the Pan Human Hegemony (PHH); however, perhaps the term "Consociation" (coined by the author) ca be used for the general organization linking the PHH, L'Chal-Dah, and Rame.

2480: L'Chal-Dah Expansion L'Chal-Dah launched an aggressive policy of trying to subordinate the Rame. The Rame were defeated.

2432: War of the Defense League L'Chal-Dah and Rame form Defense League, renouncing their associate status in the Consociation. This is the height of L'Chal-Dah power. War between the Consociation/PHH and the two alien races, who are trying to break away from human tutelage. "The Rame were more or less unenthusiastic partners [of the L'Chale Dah] due more to bad feelings vis a vis the L'Chal-Dah than any love of Humanity and refused to commit troops to the attempt to subjugate PHH planets." (StarSoldier rulebook, p. 15)

The Consociation/PHH was able to capture the L'Chal-Dah StarGate at 61 Cygni. "After capturing the StarGate at 61 Cygni, it was necessary to secure the outer ring of debris which ringed the system to protect it from low-velocity counter-assaults, which could have been staged from any one of the several of the larger pieces of debris." (StarSoldier rulebook, p. 16)

2487: The War for Identity In the wake of the collapse of the Consociation, three-cornered struggle between: Pan Sentient League - "advocating complete freedom for all biologic and cybernetic sentients" - centered on the L'Chal-Dah and Rame systems; Human League - frontier-oriented and more radical human systems; PHH - more conservatively oriented human systems, including Sol. Triumph of PSL.

FIRST INTERSTELLAR PEACE, 2488-2504

2483-2504: First Interstellar Peace, (Second) Sentience Status Act

2505: War for the League Brief resurgence of the PHH at Sol and Epsilon Indi, who fought in a three-cornered war with the Rame and the L'Chal-Dah, who had also pulled out of the PSL. (The human systems in the PSL remained neutral.) It may be assumed that in this scenario, the Delta Pavonis StarGate had been destroyed, e.g., in the preceding War for Identity, 2487 A.D. (The scenario notes in StarForce erroneously point out that Delta Pavonis lacked a StarGate of its own up to that time.)

Note: The Earth-like planet at the Delta Pavonis system, Delta Pavonis II, had a hostile native life form, the Dinkblog, "a carnivorous four-legged creature possessing the ability to teleport itself " (StarSoldier rulebook, p. 16) StarSoldiers were called in to cope with it. There was more than one Dinkblog - i.e., it was a species of creatures (though presumably quite few in number) rather than a unique creature. (For the designers, the idea of the creature or creatures appears to have been partially inspired by the Japanese Godzilla monster - so it might be seen as only semi-canonical for the StarForce background - and it does indeed seem very silly.) Perhaps the Dinkblog should be re-conceptualized as a large, carnivorous, agile, Tyrannosaurus Rex-like creature, but without the rather unlikely seeming teleport ability. So fairly conventionally armed ground forces would probably be able to deal with it. By extension, Delta Pavonis II, or some parts thereof, might be a "lush garden landscape" - in accord with an ecology appropriate for T-Rex-like creatures.

SECOND INTERSTELLAR PEACE, 2506-2774

2506-2774: Second Interstellar Peace

XENOPHOBE INCURSIONS AND THEIR AFTERMATH, 2775-2787

2775: The First Xenophobe Incursion The Xenophobes are a fanatical race that induces novas in stars through "Conversion Triggers" thus destroying their enemies' planets and populations.

2785: The Second Xenophobe Incursion After the First Xenophobe Incursion was beaten back, the inevitable "second try" at conquest took place.

2786-2787: Virtual Destruction of Xenophobes The Xenophobes were beaten back to their own home space, virtually annihilated, and confined to their home planet, under careful watch.

More Future-History of SPI

Introduction
List of Relevant Games
The Time Line
Issues About the Star Force Background

The Near-Future History of SPI After the Holocaust