The work of two obscure, disgraced physicists, in the end, proved to be far more valuable than all other advances in the 21st century. However, the ability to colonize other planets was not fully realized by the leading scientist of the time. Interstellar exploration finally began with the development of Fusion power in 2020 after decades of research, leading to a relatively compact power source capable of providing a virtually limitless supply of energy. The first lunar settlement was established in December 2016, and the first manned mission to Mars launched the following year. The war ended with a Western Alliance victory in 2014.īeginning with the establishment of the Alliance Space Command in 2016, humanity began moving out into the solar system. The republic crumbled in 2011, igniting a civil war that drew in NATO and saw the successful use of the Western Orbital Defense Network (WODeN), successor to the earlier SDI, to intercept a preemptive Russian missile attack against western targets. A 1997 coup d'etat by hard-line communists restored a militant, Soviet-style government in Russia and sparked a "Second Cold War" with NATO that lasted until the start of peaceful reforms under premier Oleg Tikonov in 2005. The United States, Europe and Japan announced in 1994 their intention to jointly construct an orbiting industrial facility named Crippen Station, which was successfully launched eleven years later. The earliest events distinct to the BattleTech universe occur after the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Equally important to BattleTech history are politics and technology. Incessant wars are the backdrop of most BattleTech stories and historical happenings, the majority of which concern individuals in the military rather than civilian sectors. Given its central theme of military conflict, the events of the BattleTech universe can be classed as a military history, albeit a fictional one.
It can also be considered an alternate history distinct from our own, since its point of divergence from the real world occurs in the past this is not the focus of the series, though, and is more the result of real-world history overtaking the early years of the BattleTech timeline. The fictional events of the BattleTech universe constitute a future history that describes the course of humanity from modern times until the mid 32nd century.
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