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2024 - Space Shuttle Clark VII reaches Mars, Commander Francis Jackson is the first man on Mars.

2032 - Mexico becomes a nuclear power.

2043 - A bomb goes off in the Staples Center in Las Angeles, killing two hundred people. A Mexican extremist is held responsible and is killed before a mob of vengeful citizens.

2045 - A nuclear war between Canada, the United States, and Mexico begins. After a few months, North America is deemed uninhabitable.

2066 - The Lifeshell is created as a substitute for the atmosphere, acting as an artificial atmosphere.

2080 - The Atmospheric Generator is constructed, reconstruction of the atmpshere begins.

2154 - The atmosphere is reconstructed, blue skies are seen for the first time in nearly a century.

2239 - James Kowloon and Gavin Harkins develop the Lightdrive I; capable of travelling to Pluto in less than a month.

2243 - The nations of the world unite to form the United Earth Alliance.

2250 - James Kowloon developes the Lightdrive II, which allows travel to Alpha Centauri.

2274 - Jack Harkins, son of Gavin Harkins, developes the Hermes I accelerator, allowing transport to the edges of the Galaxy.

2296 - Contact with a space-travelling species of hive-mind insects occurs. After a war lasting three years, the insects are wiped out. The war is named the Kharikian War.

2308 - UEA Scout Ship Hornet XXVIII recieves a message by radiowave from a nearby ship, it is played in old English, the message is Jonny B. Goode by Chuck Berry. Hornet's last transmission was an array of static before being destroyed by an unknown vessel.

2314 - Current Date

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A small fighter pulled into the hangar at Kowloon Industries, it was an old fighter, a modified Augustus V fighter. The modifications were mostly upgrades to the ships cloaking device and weapons systems, but there was also an added on cargo area large enough to carry a large human. The bottom of the ship opened outwards and a pilot's seat lowered with the pilot sitting in it. He got up and stood waiting. Eventually a man in a brown jumpsuit ran out, the pilot opened the cargo container and inside was a large metal box. The man opened it, laughed, and shut it, he then turned to the pilot.
"Charley, you've done well! Take your money and spend it somewhere nice!" said the man as he handed Charley a small coin, inside the coin were several circuits. Charley got back into his fighter, waited for the man to have the box carried off, started the engine, and flew vertically up. He then turned and flew out of the hangar.

Charley walked towards a large doorway, his pistol at his side. It was a small Falkar Mk. II with laser sighting, it was accurate and had little recoil. The ammunition it used was a clip of iron containing several harium rounds, the energy cell above the trigger energized the rounds before sending them off at high speeds. Charley approached a door and walked through it, inside a rather large man stood talking with a bearded fellow.
"Charley!" yelled the barkeep, "You're not dead!"
"No, I'm not, I just need a drink," said Charley.
Charley sat down and the barkeep poured him a Beffersnor, the drink was good, but nothing could rid him of the strange feeling in his stomach. Suddenly he felt a thin circular object reach his back.
"Greetings Mr. Deallus, I hope that drink was good, come with me," said an unseen man.
Charley reached down to grab his pistol, but it was pointed at him. His shoulder was grabbed and the unseen man threw a card at the barkeep.
"There's a hundred baroons on that, now forget I was here," said the unseen man.
The barkeep picked up the card and smiled while the kidnapper led Charley outside. He was then thrown into a small air-cruiser. Inside another man sat, the unseen man got in with Charley and shut the door. The cruiser then floated off the ground and went off, but Charley wasn't paying attention to where, he was looking at his kidnappers. The man who had taken him had black hair, blue eyes, and a scar running from his left ear up to his nose. His age was anywhere from thirty to thirty-five. The other man was around forty, his hair brown with a few grey hairs. He wore a black business suit.
"Mr. Deallus, I would love to have a small talk, but I fear we must get right to business. What is it that you transported to Kowloon Industries?" asked the man in the suit.
"I have no idea! That's why I was hired, I don't ask questions! Who the hell are you?" asked Charley.
"That's none of your business!" shouted the man who kidnapped Charley, but the man in the suit raised his hand.
"We have taken him against his will, I will answer that question. You may call me Mr. Septim and my friend Mr. Pental...we are both agents of the United Earth Alliance's section seven. It is our highest priority to find what you transported to Kowloon Industries," said the one called Mr. Septim.
"I have no idea!" yelled Charley, "Don't you understand!?"
"Then find out for us, we will pay you," said Septim.
"There's no way I can get in there!?" yelled Charley, "They've probably got it under heavy lock and key!"
"You will get in there, you don't have a choice in the matter," said Septim as the cruiser came to a stop. Charley turned to see that they were in the parking area of Kowloon Industries.
"What'll you do, shoot me?" asked Charley with a snort.
"We'll shoot you, your mother, your brother, and your sister if you don't get us a scan of the box you transported," said Pental.
"Fine, I'll do it," said Charley.
"Good boy, now leave, you can have your gun back," said Septim.
Pental handed Charley his weapon, without the clip, and got out of the cruiser. Charley stepped out and Pental got back in, as they flew away, Pental dropped the clip out the window. Charley picked it up, loaded his pistol, and sighed.