2024
The first high-profile record of the artificial control of computer input is certified by Neuralink Systems as a paralyzed test subject submits his first status post to X Social and subsequently goes on to control interactive game programs with only his thought patterns as a guide.
2025
The people of Planet Aerodonia end eighteen centuries of armed conflict between their factions and establishes a global empire. Carlos Sinistro is crowned as the first grand emperor.
2026
Less than a year after the empire’s founding, the Aerodonian species learns of corruption and iron will as reasons for the ignorance of their sacred institutions. However, the attempt to overthrow Carlos is discovered and its planning committee publicly executed on treason charges. A devastating period of repressive governance and restrictions ensues from the resulting crackdown on public dissent.
2030
The People’s Republic of China adopts the first social opportunity mandate for brain/machine interfacing adoption, with full effect to be established after two years’ time.
In a last-ditch effort to empower the Aerodonian species against the Sinistro regime, the sacred forces coalesce into a manipulatable essence; leading researchers analyze and master its use faster than Carlos had anticipated upon learning of its existence, leaving him completely unprepared for the subsequent uprising from within his own inner circle.
2031
Carlos Sinistro is formally stripped of his title as grand emperor; he is succeeded by Heptomen Tutenso. The new imperial administration banishes Carlos and his family to the lands of illegitimate souls and restores order and dignity to the empire.
The United Nations authorizes a feasibility study on global BMI adoption using the first full year of Chinese implementation as a guide.
2035
The United States faces a mass counter-protest of the UN study, leading Congress to pass a ban on technological mandates over perceived influence from Beijing which is promptly signed into law by President Logan Sanderson.
2036
The United States Supreme Court overturns the technological mandate ban; President Sanderson subsequently loses his reelection bid to Democrat Andrew Roberts.
Linda Cummins is born to Christopher and Alicia, only to be diagnosed with spinal defects shortly afterwards. The extent of the paralysis is determined to be medically irreversible.
2038
Emperor Heptomen dies from cranial injuries accrued by consequence of a tragic beast-riding accident; his son Julius ascends to the throne.
2039
Emperor Julius and his wife Angela lay out the Aerodonian social justice framework to coincide with the birth of their daughter Nefersila.
2040
Andrew Roberts secures a second presidential term, defeating Republican challenger Alicia Winters.
Neuralink Systems founder Elon Musk directs the company to fast-track its research into advanced forms of BMI technologies.
2042
The public consensus regarding BMI technology adoption across the United States begins to shift away from mandate bans and toward the context of its establishment as a basic human right.
Neuralink Systems successfully tests the first prototype of a bionic micromotor prosthetic.
2043
The United States Congress officially revisits the subject of technological mandates with the intent to pass a constitutional amendment to guarantee provisional equality for all citizens; the proposal quickly attracts its full bipartisan support.
2044
Democrat Su Li, a fifth-generation Chinese American, defeats Republican challenger Sarah Kardashian in the United States’ first head-to-head battle between female presidential candidates.
2045
Julius and Angela Tutenso are assassinated by rogue agents; Nefersila Tutenso becomes the first Osiran empress.
President Su oversees the unanimous, bipartisan passage of the provisional equality amendment through the United States Congress, which clears the final votes among the individual states just two weeks later to be officially codified into the Constitution.
2047
The United Kingdom of Great Britain adopts the first provisional equality measures of the European region at the recommendation of King Charles II; France, Germany and Italy follow suit within three months.
2048
Su Li, emboldened by mass public support for her work in guiding the passage of the provisional equality amendment, defeats Sarah Kardashian in a heated electoral rematch.
2052
The People’s Republic of China marks the 20th anniversary of its provisional equality mandate.
Japan, Russia, Belarus and the European Union adopt their official guidelines for provisional equality.
Neuralink Systems spins off its motorized prosthetics development unit into Fox Corporation; the Legato Motorsuit – its first full-body prosthetic – gains massive publicity from its use by Republican presidential candidate and third-generation Japanese American Nezuko Furukawa, who was born with severe spinal defects. Nezuko goes on to defeat Democrat Janice Winters by razor-thin percentages.
The solar-kinetic induction reactors of the Legato Motorsuit are certified by Amish and Mennonite authorities as a compatible provision respective to their sacred traditions.
2053
Provisional equality becomes universal across the African continent on the anniversary of the African Apartheid Regime’s surrender to Nelson Mandela; Taiwan, Vietnam and the North and South governments of the Korean peninsula are recorded as the final Asian jurisdictions to adopt the respective principles.
2054
Central and South America become the final geopolitical regions to adopt provisional equality.
2056
Fox Corporation pioneers the concept of motorized prosthetic bodywear as a fashion statement, beginning with the launch of the Fortissimo Series.
Nezuko Furukawa wins reelection by a landslide, cementing provisional equality as a mainstay of American society.
2059
The United States achieves full provisional equality with the first successful wave of infant accommodation surgeries, establishing bionic micromotor technology as a first-day requirement for debilitated citizens.
2060
Fox Corporation records its highest day-one sales figure to date with the Overture 1 Series. Overall sales top $10 trillion.
2068
Linda Cummins marries Albert Larson, who relates to her plight with paralysis from experiences with his brother David, whose wife Charlotte also has severe spinal deficiencies.
Fox Corporation launches the Overture 2 series to a new sales record.
2074
Linda and Albert Larson give birth to siblings Alan and Kyla within hours of David and Charlotte’s daughter Genni. All three children are diagnosed with spinal deficiencies and undergo the requisite micromotor prosthetic interface implant procedures to great success.
2078
Nefersila marries Gen. Erin Takumis of the 105th Tail Force into the imperial family as consort emperor. Erin’s cousin James and his wife Carla name their firstborn daughter to honor the empress, who gives birth to Cleopari shortly afterward.
The Overture 3 Series records the fastest-selling prosthetic bodysuit launch to date, cementing Fox Corporation as the market leader in bionic fashion.
2084
The Miami-Dade Department of Police Services and New York City Police Department simultaneously certify the Fox Corporation Peacekeeper prosthetic – the company’s first all-inclusive military motorsuit – for use by active-duty officers.
Linda, Albert, David and Charlotte Larson are killed in a fiery explosion from within their car as an ignition-wired bomb is set off days after reporting a connection between a former business associate and a notorious mob boss. The case remains unsolved, but the aftermath leads to a pact between their children to pursue criminal investigations as a career path.
Nefersila Tutenso abdicates the imperial throne to Cleopari; Nefersila Takumis enters the final stages of her training as a knight within the imperial guard.
2092
Alan, Kyla and Genni Larson graduate from primary education with high honors and subsequently make good on their vows to enter the ranks of law enforcement; Alan and Kyla opt to serve for Miami-Dade while Genni relocates to Manhattan to train among the ranks of the NYPD.
2096
The Larson siblings graduate from their police academy curriculum with high honors.
Emily Sigma is born to parents Alexander and Carli and shows prodigal skill with mana mechanics from an early age.
2098
Alexander and Carli step down from the 105th Tail Force to support Emily’s growing list of mana mechanics projects under the newly formed Sigmatech enterprise; their respective positions of field captain and supervising general are succeeded by Nefersila Takumis and Sandra Mettaton. Tragically, Alexander is assassinated several days later; Carli and Emily dedicate their research projects to his memory.
21XX
Emily’s Sigma’s boldest experiment to date – the Passage Master 1000 – suffers an apparent malfunction, seemingly resulting in the loss of her existence; over the next ten hours, similar occurrences are reported from various factions within the empire. Cleopari assigns the recon and retrieval of the rogue device to the 105th Tail Force as a part of the tribunal proceedings, not yet anticipating that the young inventor has survived unknowingly to her society upon the grounds of planet Earth in the heart of the Miami-Dade civil sector’s historic South Beach district.