Triplanetary: Timeline

Tom Kalbfus

Mongoose
1937 AD/1030 Imperial: Extraterrestrial human secretly lands Ship's boat in Wisconsin, assumes the name Kyle Bronson, Using his engineering expertise, he designs a number of atomic powered spaceships, really crude technology compared to what he's used to, but it gets the job done as far as opening up access to the planets.

1938 AD/1031 Imperial: Third Reich steals the plans to the ships and begins building some of their own, followed shortly by the USA, The British Empire, France, Japan, and the Soviet Union. A six-way space race ensues. Kyle Bronson takes some Scientists from the USA to his ship's boat and flies them back to his ship on the other side of the wormhole, orbiting Kronos, he begins training them to pilot his other two smallcraft, another ship's boat, and a fuel shuttle. The science of the starship is beyond the Earth scientists, they couldn't begin to reverse enginer TL 13 technology, but they could be trained on how to use it. Astronomers photograph the sky in charted space.

1940 AD/1033 Imp: Third Reich launches its first atomic powered spaceships into orbit, followed by the British Empire, and The United States. The computer systems are crude, they are pre-programmed electrical-mechanical devices. Germans arrive first on the Moon, Swastika gets planted in Lunar soil, the Third Reich claims the Moon as its own, the other powers ignore it and make their own landings.

1942 AD/1035 Imp: The British Empire tests its first atomic bomb in the desert of the Australian Outback

1945 AD/1038 Imp: The United States lands its first piloted ship on the beach of an Equatorial Venusian Continent known as Aphrodite Terra, the colony of New Jamestown is founded

1946 AD/1039 Imp: Germans land first astronaut on Mars, make contact with Martians. Hitler boasts of this accomplishment on German Radio

1947 AD/1040 Imp: The Economy fully recovers from the Great Depression, a robust period of growth ensues due to advances in space travel and atomic power generation. The Germans detonate their first atomic bomb. The Russians and Americans later that year also test atomic devices.

1970 AD/1063 Imp: The Soviet Union collapses, the various Soviet Republics break away leaving the Russian Federal Republic. Elections are held.

1983 AD/1076 Imp: A period of economic chaos engulfs the Former Soviet Republics. A New Leader rises to power in the Russian Republic, backed by the Third Reich, he imposes order on Russia, later on Russia signs a nonaggression pact with The Third Reich and the Japanese Empire, the Eastern Alliance is born. The United States joins with The British Empire and France forming the Western Alliance after Russia and Germany invade Poland dividing it up between the two. A Cold War begins
 
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