====== SALVAGE SPACE: TIMELINE =====

Many technological advancements rising from the **Space Age** (TL-1) of the 1960s fueled Human expansion from Earth outward, eventually reaching the [[Niecti]] star system setting for **Salvage Space**.  

This timeline lists a few key advancements for each **Technology Level** milestone:

<dwtimeline>
<milestone>
TL0 Information Age 1970s-2020s
  * The Search for Extra-Terrerestrial Intelligence (SETI)
  * SETI logs the "Wow" Signal
  * The first Low Earth Orbit (LEO) outposts: Salyut, Skylab, Mir, I.S.S.
</milestone>
<milestone>
TL+1 Synthetic Age 2020s-2100s
  * Artificial Intelligence (AI), Androids
  * Synthetic Intelligence (SI), Synthetics, Clones, Replicants
  * First offworld outposts: Moon, Mars, Asteroids
</milestone>
<milestone>
TL+2 Stellar Age 2100+
  * Fusion
  * Fusion-based Span Drive (system drive)
  * First extrasolar survey missions launched
</milestone>
<milestone>
TL+3 STL Interstellar Age
  * First Extrasolar Colony
  * Slow Expansion / Human Colonization Era
  * Human Colonization Expansion / Contraction cycles
</milestone>
<milestone>
TL+4 Massless FTL Age
  * Successful "Zero Time" experiments
  * Successful "Negative Space" experiments
  * First Interstellar Communication / Transmission
</milestone>
<milestone>
TL+5 Mass FTL Age
  * Jump Stations (massive energy requirements)
  * First Jumps (unmanned then manned)
  * Farspan Drive (intersystem drive)
</milestone>
<milestone>
TL+6 FTL Interstellar Age / Present Day
</milestone>
<milestone>
TL+6 FTL / Era 1 Exploration
  * Initial surveys performed by colonization corporation under colonial lease
  * Alien ship graveyard found in BD +40-45
</milestone>
<milestone>
TL+6 FTL / Era 2 Exploitation
  * Colonial corporation fails to keep the discovery secret
  * Frontier "gold rush" for alien artifacts
  * Piracy galore
  * Colonization corporation overrun by competitors before Navy can intervene
</milestone>
<milestone>
TL+6 FTL / Era 3 Extermination
  * Navy finally clamps down but the damage is done
</milestone>
<milestone>
TL+6 FTL / Era 4 Expansion
  * With a semblance of security from the Navy, trade expands
</milestone>
<milestone>
TL+6 FTL / Era 5 Enhancement
  * As the system settles - civilization, sophistication, adventurers, and drifters increase
</milestone>
<milestone>
TL+6 FTL / Present Day
</milestone>
</dwtimeline>

▲ [[:Chronology:]]
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