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Milestones in the history of interstellar civilization:
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year spacecraft or colony name: commander, event or milestone
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1957 Sputnik 1: first unmanned satellite launched
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1959 Mechta: first lunar unmanned probe
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1961 Vostok 1: Yuri Gagarin, first man in space
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Vostok 2: Gherman Titov, first man to orbit Earth
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Venera 1: first unmanned interplanetary probe
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1963 Vostok 6: Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space
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1964 Voskhod 1: first multiple person crew spacecraft launched
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1965 Voskhod 2: Alexei Leonov, first EVA
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1967 Soyuz 1: Vladimir Komarov, first astronaut killed (on landing)
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1969 Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5: Boris Volynov, first spacecraft docking
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Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong, first man on the Moon
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1973 Skylab 2: Charles Conrad, Jr., first manned space station
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1981 Columbia: John Young, first reusable manned space vehicle launched
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1983 Pioneer 10: first unmanned probe leaves solar system
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1986 Mir: Vladimir Solovyov, first continuously manned space station
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1997 Freedom: Henry Hartsfield, second manned space station, becomes first real
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community in space
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2001 Eagle: Ronald Grabe, first spaceplane launched
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2002 Hubble Space Telescope: discovers gas giant orbiting Epsilon Eridani
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2009 Heimdalburg: Karl Stenner, first permanent lunar colony
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2011 Bering: Svetlana Marishkova, first manned spacecraft to Mars
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2018 Clarke: Sukhbir Singh, first manned space station in geosynchronous orbit
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2025 Lindberg: Guion Young, first commercial passenger flight to the moon
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2032 Slingshot: lunar magnetic launcher constructed
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2034 Heimdal GmbH: lunar colony corporation reports a profit
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2036 Amaterasu: Takeza Samujuchu, first manned mission to the moons of Jupiter
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2039 Butterfly: Wendy Somoza, first low-gravity spacecraft built in Earth orbit
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2041 Joseph Roberts: John Doe, first space piracy
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2044 Leon Trotsky: Aleksandr Kukerov, first armed manned spacecraft launched
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2049 Showa: Ching Wei-Lin, first manned mission to moons of Saturn
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2050 Meriwether Lewis Depot: Lee Nardelli, first colony in the asteroid belt
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2056 Independence: Andrew O'Brien, first spacecraft built entirely of lunar
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materials launched from Apollo City, Luna
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2057 Bradbury City: Ramon Houston, first permanent Martian colony
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2061 Einstein: robot probe sent towards Alpha Centauri
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2063 Sagan: robot probe sent towards Epsilon Eridani
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2066 Ceres Assembly declares the asteroid colonies an independent sovereign
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entity, equivalent to a terrestrial nation-state in international law
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2068 Asteroid Association admitted as a member of the United Nations
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2073 Beagle: Jean-Louis Leclerc, extraterrestrial life discovered on Titan--
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primitive microorganisms living near volcanic vents
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2075 Lunar Authority of Tranquilitas: Martin Lyman, Tranquilitas declared
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sovereign, does *not* claim to represent all of Luna
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2077 Mondland Gemeindeverwaltung: Wilhelm von Vulte, Mondland declares
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sovereignty
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2081 Five sovereign lunar regions decline invitation to join United Nations,
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deciding instead to form the Lunar Council, asserting it equivalent in
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status to the United Nations of Earth
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2084 Interplanetary Law Discussion Group meets at Clarke Station
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2089 Data coming back from Einstein probe indicates only small distant
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planetoids and gas clouds orbit Alpha Centauri
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2091 FTL experiments successful at Lawrence Livermore Labs
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2093 short-range robot FTL probes using "California drive" tested successfully
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2095 Ganymede: Mohammed Ali Fetashemi, radical colonists declare war on Earth
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over ideological and religious disputes
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2096 Ganymedans drop kinetic energy bomb (big rock) near Bermuda;
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millions killed in devastation of coastal communities in North Atlantic
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2098 Kinetic energy bombs annihilate Ganymede colony
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2099 Santa Maria: Guillermo "Bill" Gonzales, first California-drive manned
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starship goes to Epsilon Eridani, picks up Sagan probe, finds six
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planets orbiting the star, returns to Earth
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2101 Solar Conference becomes arbiter of interplanetary disputes and law;
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founding members are United Nations of Earth, Lunar Council, Asteroid
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Association, and Jovian Alliance
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2106 ITTA, Interplanetary Trade and Traffic Agreement signed, defines
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interplanetary law
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2112 Interstellar Survey Organization formed to explore the stars
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2113 Einstein probe returns from Alpha Centauri
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2115 Nuevo Cadiz: Chretien Hobeika, first permanent community outside the solar
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system, on Espera (Epsilon Eridani II)
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2110-2150 Age of Exploration--Survey and private starships explore nearby stars
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2136 Anatoly Filipchenko: Eliahu Baumstein, Survey and private group dispute
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over ownership of world of Sakang, both claiming discovery first
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(Survey wants world open to research and colonization, while private
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group wants exclusive rights); Interplanetary Court in Apollo City
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decides for Survey (this time)
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2147 Hannibal: Nazir Kanji, Intelligent life discovered at Il-Bihari, planet is
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declared quarantined by Survey; no contact is made, only observation
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from orbit
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2163 Natusame-maru: Arnold Ohara, makes contact with Strobins on Torilbbiban,
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signs exclusive trade treaty with planetary council.
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2165 World Space Defense Treaty signed, creating the United Nations Space
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Command combining Earth's space military forces; UN Security Council
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expanded and reformed into the Global Senate in San Francisco, given
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responsibility for administration of UNSpaceCom
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2167 Solar Confederation founded, administrative capital located at Gagaringrad
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on Luna
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2170 Espera: planetary terraforming experiments begin
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2206 Epsilon Eridani votes for legal independence; diplomats sent to Solar
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Confederation
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2227 Gglakkru steal four starships and launch interstellar war against nearby
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Timpatara with kinetic energy bombs; SpaceCom intervenes to aid
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Timpatara
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2234 New Oregon conference--Solar Confederation, Epsilon Eridani, and
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representatives of two other human systems and four non-human species
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agree to impose punitive tariffs on Gglakkru to compensate Timpatara;
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first organized multilateral interstellar diplomacy
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2237 Timpatara granted observer status at Interstellar Survey Organization
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2241 United Solar Administration founded, replacing Solar Confederation; new
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constitution assigns powers of taxation, interplanetary and criminal
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civil law to new government
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2247 Zon shipyard built above Ybotria; first FTL technology license to
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non-humans
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2254 "Alpha Draconis" advanced FTL drive invented (TL 10)
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2255 first Periodic Interstellar Conference meets at New Lincoln
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2269 Uzqzloni Alliance forms, demands change in interstellar trade route
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patterns (wanting more from outworld to outworld and fewer in-and-out
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to Earth routes)
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2273 Astral Pacifica: starship hijacked by alien guerrillas sympathetic to
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Uzqzloni and take it out into the void, suspected of becoming the first
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"Free Trader" [stolen starships used for outworld trade]; Uzqzloni
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spokesmen deny responsibility (of course)
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2277 SpaceCom declares trade blockade at Novaya Anadyrskaya, hoping to catch
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Free Trader "pirates"; starport seized and incoming ships boarded and
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in some cases dismantled; some ships seized or destroyed trying to turn
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around back into the void
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2282 Ulysses Grant: Free Trader guerrillas sneak into SpaceCom starbase at
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Gibraltar Station and steal this light cruiser, rechristening it the
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"Loxley", which later becomes a terror to "legitimate" (i.e. approved
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by Earth) trade
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2289 guerrilla leader with the nom de guerre "Obi-Wan Kenobi" writes
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"Sentience, Technology, and Liberty"; becomes Free Trader manifesto
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2292 Periodic Intersteller Conference at Barsoom denounces SpaceCom
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"atrocities", over vehement USA objections
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2299 Rhinestern declares economic sanctions against Sol, quickly imitated by
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Uzqzloni worlds and others
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2301 Glaxxt: Zarquoz (Ybotrian space admiral), destroys Free Trader base at
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Dickson's World with disruptor weapons, causing hundreds of thousands
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of civilian casualties
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2304 Richard Nixon: Delia Standing Rock, destroys "Loxley" in battle in
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Khalimar system
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2308 Free Trader guerrillas drop kinetic energy bomb on Venus, at Venusian
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latitude and longitude 40.7 N 74 W
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2309 Rhinestern Conference: Sol and Free Traders agree to truce
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2318 New Oregon Treaty: USA agrees to 42% value compensation for Solar
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starships hijacked by Free Traders
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2325 Galactic Constituent Assembly meets at Heimdalburg to discuss
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interstellar political organization and dispute-settling mechanisms
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2349 Galactic Federation Treaty negotiated
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2353 Sol ratifies Galactic Federation Treaty
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2357 Galactic Federatio Treaty comes into effect
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2360 first election for Galactic Parliament
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2361 Galaxiya established to house Galactic Parliament
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2366 Starfleet founded, absorbing main elements of USA SpaceCom and other
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star forces
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2373 Federation Survey formed, taking over responsibilities of old Interstellar
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Survey Organization
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2380 Jonas Pierre Ziliquorgn (of Ybotria) awarded Nobel Prize for Physics for
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equivalence theory
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2384 bKorbinin Va'en (of Torilbbiban) becomes first Federation Minister of
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Uplift and Development
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2387 FTL radio transmission successfully tested
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2402 FTL radio station built at Epsilon Eridani
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2407 Tolles: scientists develop Cverakmak FTL drive (TL 11), using equivalence
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technology
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2412 interstellar research project develops Quantum Displacement maneuver
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drive, using equivalence technology
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2421 Citicorp introduces interstellar check-clearing and credit services via
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FTL station network
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2450 FSS Matthew C. Perry: commissioned and sent on mission
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Census of Known Space
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Year Population %Earth %Sol %Human %Fed 99%Sphere#
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2000 7 billion 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0 LY
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2050 13 billion 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0 LY
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2100 18 billion 99.8% 100.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0 LY
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2150 24 billion 99.1% 100.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0 LY
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2200 33 billion 94.8% 99.7% 100.0% 0.0% 0 LY
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2250 53 billion 53.7% 59.0% 60.5% 0.0% 28 LY
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2300 129 billion 29.9% 35.1% 38.0% 45.5%* 137 LY
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2350 411 billion 10.1% 13.7% 19.1% 27.3%* 224 LY
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2400 1,175 billion 3.3% 6.4% 12.0% 18.4% 323 LY
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2450 2,604 billion 1.8% 4.0% 11.3% 23.1% 423 LY
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Population=population of known space
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%Earth=percentage of population of known space living on Earth
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%Sol=percentage of population of known space living in Sol system
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%Human=percentage of population of known space that is human
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%Fed=percentage of population of known space in the Federation
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*=represented at latest Periodic Interstellar Conference
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99%Sphere=99% of population of known space within this many LY of S
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