< - - Late Modern Period (1946-2099)
2100 | VITARIA | The majority of all jobs are now automated. People are poor, and there is a lot of unrest.
2101 | DAYBREAK | After it's revealed that the PRM's largest trading partner is Vitaria, the PRM's leadership announce that the partnership
is a necessary step towards 'advancing the means of production' before they can transition to socialism successfully.
Additionally, their attacks against the RWP have become more infrequent.
2103 | VITARIA | Allwell mandate that all factory workers at their subsidiary chemical company must get a brain implant to regulates their
mood and give them a compulsion towards good personal hygiene. For about 75% of people, this malfunctions, causing an intense drive towards self- mutilation,
using vats of acid kept in the factory. Allwell face no consequences.
2104 | DAYBREAK | Daybreak City announce that they are now following the 'Vitaria Model', but struggle to attract any megacorporations.
2105 | VITARIA | Due to pollution, River Dawn is declared incapable of sustaining life.
2106 | VITARIA | After a Bepisco executive is brutally murdered in Vitaria's City Center, construction begins on a luxury airship to house the
mega rich, keeping them safe from the increasing squalor of the streets.
2107 | VITARIA | Allwell flatten an entire mountain range with cannons, transforming it into an area known simply as 'The Crater Field'.
The other megacorps are upset by this, and there is almost open fighting between them, but the issue is settled with a secret agreement.
2108 | VITARIA | In east Vitaria, there is the first recorded muta-rat sighting.
2109 | VITARIA | UBI is now in place for all people of Vitaria.
2110 | VITARIA | Vitaria launch the airship. It's equipped with Allwell's news cannons, as well the world's most powerful UltimaShield-
an energy shield capable of providing a brief but total defence in an emergency.
2111 | DAYBREAK | A coup within the PRM cuases a change in leadership. They begin a short campaign against the RWP,
who had believed that the fighting had died down to petty border skirmishes. They manage to take control of RWP territories east of the river.
They soon rename themselves after their largest city, Potentia, with the official ideology of social democracy.
2114 | VITARIA | The Sunkiller superweapon is acquired from the KA by an elite strike force belonging to the Allwell corporation,
who take it to Vitaria and hide it in a safehouse underneath the Science District.
2116 | VITARIA | The first Sanguine Annual Gameshow takes place, shocking the entire world with grotesque displays of violence and cruelty.
2117 | VITARIA | Crime has gotten much worse now that the megarich live on the airship. The Nexro gang begin plaguing the streets of Vitaria,
and security groups only intervene to protect corporate assets.
2119 | VITARIA | The first people are killed in the name of the Cult of the Void. People believe that the killers are from Xhakhoro,
mainly due to the many historical examples of occult murders there, and anti-Xhakhoran sentiment spreads.
2120 | SANGUINE | The Sanguine Association begin constructing an underwater city off the coast of Eitador.
The company are shadowy about their reasons for doing this.
2121 | VITARIA | The Movement For Freedom and Justice begins. It aims for a return of centralized power structures in order to place
regulations on the megacorporations, and start social programs.
2124 | VITARIA | The tribute band known as the 'Red Hot Chilli Beppers' are founded. They exclusively use BepisCo instruments.
2126 | VITARIA | After providing it with a number of very large donations, David Oberon, an Allwell executive,
is made president of the Movement For Freedom and Justice.
2027 | VITARIA | The events of the short story 'Visitors' happen here.
2129 | VITARIA | A new disease is born in the slums, and a large area is put into indefinite quarantine.
2130 | VITARIA | Neuracorp successfully transfer a digitized brain, a victim of the 2020 Cyberfine accident, into a new body.
This is the topic of a lot of media hype, most of it focused on the potential for 'stack' technology. The subject of the experiment
is allowed to leave, and disappears into the Vitarian sprawl. The events of 'NO FUTURE' (Cyberpunk CYOA) happen here.
2137 | VITARIA | A hacker briefly holds the entire city to ransom after gaining control over an abandoned nuclear silo.
He is killed by a Sanguine strike force who appeared to have psychokinetic powers. Sanguine claim that witnesses simply misremembered the event
due to the high adrenaline action.
2140 | SANGUINE | 'Sanguine City', a great underwater metropolis, is finished. Sanguine provide incentives to convince people to move there.
2142 | VITARIA | The Sunkiller superweapon goes missing from the Allwell safehouse.
2150 | GLOBAL | The world population reaches 200 billion.