I’m planning an Eclipse Phase / Altered Carbon esque run that is meant to be an evolution of one possible future of the SR world. I’m trying to put together a rough timeline to take us from 2100 to the return of the Horrors/Terrors/Elder Gods but would appreciate any gems of ideas that might help to infill some key events in the intervening years (one current elf PC is likely to have lived through much of it).
So, projecting forward from current SR metaplots, what might happen in the next few hundred years??? What will the dragons do (I am leaning towards disappearing without trace). The corps will move in to space. National governments will become even more irrelevant… what will the Awakened do? I will allow habitats that are sufficiently large to generate their own mana field so magic won’t disappear altogether.
This is what I have so far, broken down by quarter century...
2100
2125
Gregarin base is retaken following the departure of the Monads, additional corporate colonies spring up on the surface
2136 Halley’s Comet returns with a swathe of associated weirdness
2150
CFD nanites are finally reverse engineered to provide a consistent recording of consciousness that allows for effective immortality for those that can afford it.
2175
Increasing geopolitical upheaval results in more off-world colonies being created, space expansion increases massively over the next fifty years to most parts of the solar system
2200
Terraforming begins on Mars, the SINless starving masses on Earth offer themselves in indentured servitude to serve the corps in space.
2211 Halley’s Comet
2225
2250
2275
A violent corp war breaks out over diminishing natural resources on Earth. In the aftermath, for the first time there is an almost equal number of metahumans on space as on Earth
2286 THE FALL
Coinciding with the return of Halley’s Comet and around 2000 years early the Horrors finally return in force. Humanity respond with a barrage of nuclear, chemical and nanological weapons. The Earth is left a devastated wasteland, a patchwork of radiation hotspots, sterile zones, nanoswarm clourds, roaming war machines and other unknown things among the ruins, and that is before the malignant horrors lay waste to whatever is left.
2300
2325 Proposed time of the FutureRun
2350
2375
2400
2425
2450
2475
2500
4574
Peak of the mana cycle
7137
End of the Sixth World
Any help much appreciated!