2125
04:38 EST – The Mars Tragedy kills 4,876 workers during the final terraforming stages of Mars. Pepegas Cult is rumoured to have done so in effort to slow the discovery of their headquarters.

2136
June 23 – During one of its live test flights, the hull of an RSI Zeus prototype rips apart upon leaving Earth’s atmosphere, completely destroying the ship and killing its test pilot, Timmy Lazulo, a former Pepegas cultist who had left the organizion.

2232
The cult of Pepegas sabotages humanity’s first interstellar starship, Artemis, which was to be launched towards GJ 667Cc. Captain, crew and thousands of volunteer colonists are placed in stasis for the flight. Abeni Okon is a guest of honor at the launch. Ultimately the ship disappears.

2252
September 12th – Abeni Okon dies aged 95, and is later buried on Mars. Most claim he died of old age, though a suspicous quantity of kambo was found in his bloodstream.

2255
August 10th – RSI Zeus-class ship ‘C-6’ disappears during the test flight of a new type of deep-space communications system capable of transmitting in known dead regions of space. Unbeknownst to RSI that section of space held a secret Pepegas space base.

2380
Croshaw System has been terraformed. The search for new jump points signifies the beginning of Humanity’s expansion to the stars, a period known as the Human Colonial Expansion Era. Earth’s social and political differences are set aside.
April – Humans are united in their desire to strike out into the stars. The World Summit ends with a historic announcement in that creates the United Nations of Earth (UNE).

October 20th – Coaxed into rebellion by cult agitators the crew of the Stanley mutineers, starting the First Unification War.

2381
March 22nd – The First Unification War concludes with the desctruction of the Panjwani.
Mid 2381 – Another uprising leads to the Second Unification War, again due to the influence of cult agitators.

2384
July 29th – The Anti-Unification Alliance (manipulated into action by the cult) assaults New York City. The widespread destructions turns the sentiment against the rebels and ends the Third and last Unification War.

2529
Pepegas cultists spur riots in Jata, Cestulus, lasting for two-weeks, after a feared economic collapse of UEC. Ferron System achieves represented status within the UPE.

2544
September 9, Operation Nemesis – UPE forces attempt to take back Idris IV. The Cult of Pepegas provided groundside intelligence for the attack. This operation goes down in history as the Battle of Idris IV.

Colonel Ivar Messer, having been secretly been funneled exclusive intel by the cult, distinguishes himself in the Battle of Idris IV. He quickly becomes the pride of the military and the face of the War.

2546
Pepegas executes a series of bombings occur within the United Planets of Earth (UPE), which would come to be known as the Atrocity at Jata. Then-High General Ivar Messer uses the attacks to stoke public fervor to support the creation of the office of Prime Citizen, to which he was shortly elected. Messer knew of the attacks beforehand and greenlit the bombings.

2638
Senator Assan Kieren of Terra publicly decries the pro-military agenda of the UEE and its unconditional support of the military-industrial complex. He calls for another vote of sovereignty for Terra and its adjacent systems. Imperator Messer XI wields the UEE’s brutally efficient propaganda machine to discredit and destroy Kieren, who disappears soon after. There are rumors that he was murdered by Pepegas culstists, but nothing can be proven.