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* The [[Centauri Republic]] provides humans with advanced terraforming technology. Serious terraforming of [[Mars]] begins with the melting of the southern polar ice cap and the pumping of CFCs into the atmosphere to retain heat from the sun.<ref>[[Across Time and Space: The Chronologies of Babylon 5]] - Cites: Data from J. Michael Straczynski</ref>
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* The [[Centauri Republic]] provides humans with advanced terraforming technology. Serious terraforming of [[Mars]] begins with the melting of the southern polar ice cap and the pumping of CFCs into the atmosphere to retain heat from the sun.<ref>[[Across Time and Space: The Chronologies of Babylon 5]] - Cites: Data from J. Michael Straczynski</ref><ref name="B5Mag 2-1-25" />
 
* Birth of [[Alisha Ross]].<ref>[[Deadly Relations - Bester Ascendant]] - She was 24 in 2222.</ref>
 
* Birth of [[Alisha Ross]].<ref>[[Deadly Relations - Bester Ascendant]] - She was 24 in 2222.</ref>
   

Revision as of 12:53, 4 May 2010

22nd Century
 2100 - 2124 &#149; 2125 - 2149 &#149; 2150 - 2174 &#149; 2175 - 2199 

This is a list of events that occurred in 22nd Century:

Exact Year Unknown

2101

  • Missions to Mars resume as humans establish a series of small scientific and military bases across the Red Planet.[3]

2109

  • Birth of Kevin Vacit on Earth.[4][5]
  • The Centauri Republic invade the Narn Homeworld. Initially welcomed by the Narns with open arms, the Centauri quickly take advantage of the technological superiority to enslave the population and begin strip mining the planet's resources, which will slowly turn the green and verdant world into a dry, red dust ravaged planet.[6]

2110

2111

2112

2114

2115

2116

  • In Arizona, Earth, the mother of Kevin Vacit is shot and wounded after being identified as a telepath. While hiding in a cave to escape their pursuers, Kevin's mother passes on to him part of the Vorlon consciousness she carried in her mind before she dies. This would later enable him to hide his own ability. [14]
  • Genetic tests on telepaths reveal a marker that indicates that the ability has been artificially engineered. The results are suppressed, known only to a few individuals including Senator Lee Crawford and Dr. Alice Kimbrell who confirmed the results.[14]
  • The DeepProbe Network detects a Tachyon emission, indicating the presence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Earthgov agrees to finance an upgrade to the network with the construction of the Heimdal probe.[14]
  • The Earth Senate sets up the Committee on Metasensory Regulation, headed by Senator Lee Crawford in response to public concern over the growing number of telepaths.[14]

2117

  • Earthgov institute the Metasensory Regulation Authority, an initiative lead by Senator Lee Crawford. The purpose of the MRA is to monitor, track and regulate telepaths for their own protection. The Psi Scale also comes into use to grade the strength of telepath abilities from P1 to P12.[14]
  • Lee Crawford weds Alice Kimbrell.[14]

2118

2120

Circa 2123

2124

2130

2132

Saturday, August 16th, 2132
  • MRA agents Desa Alexander, Teal and Daria Beaudain intercept a group of blips in Prague, consisting of Didier Krijgsman, a former traffic flow analyst, his wife Mary, and their twelve-year-old son Len. They were travelling on train 1116 from Amsterdam to Prague, fleeing to India. Realising they'd been spotted, Didier attempted to run, buying time for his wife and child to get away, but is caught when a local security guard hits him with a neural collapser, causing him to fall and break his neck. An enraged Desa crushes his larynx.[21]

2133

Circa 2146

  • Despite a troubled on again off again relationship, Will and Mariah Cirrus volunteer for a long duration deep space flight in cryonic freeze aboard the USS Copernicus. The ship is programed to home in and revive the crew if any signal of intellegent origin is detected during the course of the mission. [22]

2148

May

Friday, May 3rd
  • At IPX headquarters in San Diego, Dr. Phillip Stoddard working on a hunch that the Syria Planum finds are examples of Organic Technology, has Commercial telepath Mr. Raskov scan them. Raskov confirms Stoddard's hunch but is somehow affected by the scan and becomes obsessed, making drawings of insects. Stoddard contacts a biotech firm to arrange a possible sale.[14]
Sunday, May 5th
  • As Dr. Stoddard negotiates with representatives from a biotech firm, Mr. Raskov asks to touch the artifacts again, but is refused. After lifting the access codes for the vault, Raskov later attempts to break in but trips a security alarm. Fearing for the profits involved, Raskov is murdered and his death made to look like stroke.[14]
Monday, May 6th
  • Kevin Vacit and MRA operative Ninon Davion are called in to investigate the death of Mr. Raskov.[14]
Tuesday, May 7th
  • Deducing what Stoddard had planned for the artifacts, Vacit confronts him with the result of his investigation and secures exclusive MRA access to them.[14]

2150

Friday, July 17th
  • The city of San Diego is destroyed by an act of nuclear terrorism.[23][24] The weapon used is traced back to the breakup of the Soviet Union in the late 20th Century.[25]

2155

Sunday, June 15th

2156

  • On Earth, in Chiapas, Mexico, one hundred Rogue Telepaths choose to martyr themselves by barricading themselves in a church then setting fire to it, singing all the while as MRA agents stand outside looking on. Labelled as "The Chiapas incident", it becomes a rallying point for EA member states Japan, the Indonesian Consortium, Amazonia, and New Zealand, already dissatisfied enough to threaten to pull out of the Alliance if EA President Robinson continued to push for an independently chartered, universal MRA. By this point it seems as if the Earth Alliance is on the verge of collapse.[26]
Wednesday, April 7th
  • In later decades, scholars would agree that this incident single handedly rescued the Earth Alliance from the brink of collapse, especially after the Centauri inform them that they and other races also posses telepaths. Although the initial reaction is similar to the pogroms of 2115, eventually the MRA finds new support as cooler heads realise that humans will need telepaths if they hope to compete with other races.[28]
  • Initially the Centauri claim they are a "huge empire" claiming they ran the entire galaxy, though this is later found to be a gross exaggeration. They also claim that Earth is a lost Centauri colony, making humanity distant relatives. Later when Human scientists finally gain access to Centauri DNA they find that cosmetic appearances aside, the two species are not even remotely related. The Centauri would later claim they made a clerical error, mistaking Earth for "Beta 9" when in fact it was "Beta 12".[29]
  • The Centauri, having become a declining, decadent culture, find themselves fascinated by the abundance of human art, trinkets and eccentricity and Centauri Prime soon signs a number of trade agreements with Earth that will allow human ships access to hyperspace travel, initially leasing time on alien jumpgates, before purchasing the technology to build their own.[30][31][32]

2160

October

2161

  • The Llort achieve interstellar flight.[8]
Wednesday, February 4th
Sunday, April 12

May

Tuesday, May 19th
  • Crawford is killed by a car bomb planted by the Rogue Telepath Jack O'Hannlon while en-route to the meeting. The Ambassador comes out of the Centauri compound to see what has happened and Kevin Vacit - the Director's assistant - brings the Ambassador to a dying Crawford so that he'll get his wish to see an alien before he passes.[36]
  • Kevin Vacit is appointed the new Director of Psi Corps following Crawford's death.[14]

2163

February 9th, Wednesday

2164

  • The Proxima III colony is established by the Earth Alliance in what was then called the Proxima Centauri system.[8]

2169

2171

2172

2174

2175

2176

2177

Saturday November 15th, 2177

2178

2179

2180

2186

2188

2189

January

  • In the years following on from their visits to the Yucatan and Antarctica, Psi Corps Director Kevin Vacit's study of Natasha Alexander's research on the tales told of a still unknown alien's death leads him to conclude that the other alien may be hiding on or near Venus. Obtaining data from a satellite orbiting the planet he finds a magnetic anomaly at the Venusian south pole almost matching those recorded over Antarctica. Accompanied by Natasha, Vacit travels to Lucifer station in Venus orbit and from there to an orbit over the Venusian south pole.[14]
  • After a few days of sending out messages and probes to the surface, a Vorlon vessel captures their ship. Taken aboard, the Vorlon shows them a glimpse of the coming Shadow War, revealing to Vacit the Vorlon consciousness within his mind and where and how telepaths were created, demonstrating to him the importance of telepaths and the Psi Corps in the coming conflict. A telepathic trigger is planted in Natasha's DNA to compel her or one of her descendants to come to the Vorlon Homeworld when the Shadows come again. Returning to their own vessel the Vorlon ship disappears. Upon his return to Earth, Director Vacit realises that to strengthen Psi Corps he'll have to destroy the resistance he has been secretly supporting for years.[14]
Wednesday, January 21st, 2189

September

2190

2191

  • The Grome first develop interstellar travel.[44]

2193

2195

  • Birth of Jha'dur on Omelos in the Caliban Sector.[48]
  • After saying goodbye to his grandson, Alfred Bester, Kevin Vacit arranges for the Centauri to transport his one man ship to the nearest jumpgate to Vorlon space. At the secret archive on Ganymede, he places a heavily encrypted file into the system. Time-locked for the next 65 years, the file details Vacit's flight plan and his reason for going. After being dropped off by the Centauri, Vacit pilots his ship at sublight speed, beginning the just over fifty eight light year journey to the Vorlon outpost where telepaths were first engineered.[35][49]

2196

2198

  • The Centauri Republic provides humans with advanced terraforming technology. Serious terraforming of Mars begins with the melting of the southern polar ice cap and the pumping of CFCs into the atmosphere to retain heat from the sun.[51][43]
  • Birth of Alisha Ross.[52]

2199

References

  1. Signs and Portents
  2. The Gathering
  3. Across Time and Space: The Chronologies of Babylon 5 - Cites "Data from JMS"
  4. Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps - Kevin was 24 in 2133
  5. The Nautilus Coil - Vacit reveals he doesn't know his exact birthday
  6. And Now For a Word - G'kar described the history of the occupation which began 150 years ago
  7. Midnight on the Firing Line - the annexation took place over 100 years ago
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 The Official Guide to Babylon 5 (CD ROM)
  9. In the Beginning - Coplann mentioned a dozen had been sent in the last 100 years (See:Minbari Cycles)
  10. The Exercise of Vital Powers
  11. Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps - Crawford said Tom had been with him "for almost 20 years" in 2133.
  12. Across Time and Space: The Chronologies of Babylon 5 - Cites Data from JMS
  13. Z'ha'dum (episode)
  14. 14.00 14.01 14.02 14.03 14.04 14.05 14.06 14.07 14.08 14.09 14.10 14.11 14.12 14.13 14.14 14.15 14.16 14.17 14.18 14.19 14.20 14.21 14.22 14.23 14.24 14.25 14.26 14.27 Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps
  15. Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps - At most, 9 months prior to Brenna Alexander's birth.
  16. Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps - Brenda is 15 in 2133
  17. Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps - Len is 12 in 2132 (NOTE: Senator Lai later states the boy was only 10. Either and error by the author or Lai's simply misinformed)
  18. Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps - Davion is in her "mid-twenties" in 2148.
  19. JMS post on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated - 3/5/1994
  20. Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps - Fiona mentioned the Indonesian Consortium briefly controlled Malaysia "in the 30's"
  21. Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps - Date specified during Senator Lai's questioning of Desa
  22. The Long Dark - The Copernicus was launched over 100 years ago.
  23. The date is given in the Datafiles on disc 6 of the Season # DVD
  24. Across Time and Space: The Chronologies of Babylon 5 gives the date as 2157 and cites "Conjecture, from 'Midnight on the Firing Line'"
  25. The Fall of Centauri Prime
  26. Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps - Incident and fallout took place a short while prior to Centauri First Contact.
  27. Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps - Date specified
  28. Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps - "The Alien Within, the Alien Without: Rethinking the MRA."
  29. Midnight on the Firing Line
  30. In the Beginning
  31. The Long Dark
  32. Thirdspace (movie)
  33. The Long Night of Centauri Prime
  34. The Psi Corps and You! - states Psi Corps was founded 6 months later.
  35. 35.0 35.1 35.2 Deadly Relations - Bester Ascendant
  36. Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps - While discussing the founding of Psi Corps, President Robinson said the Ambassador arrive in a month and that she can arrange a meeting within the first week.
  37. Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps - She said in '61 that this was her "last term".
  38. 38.0 38.1 Across Time and Space: The Chronologies of Babylon 5 - Cites "Data from JMS"
  39. Voices in the Dark
  40. 40.0 40.1 Dining on Babylon 5
  41. Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps - Valerie was 15 in 2189
  42. The Long Road
  43. 43.0 43.1 The Official Babylon 5 Magazine: Volume 2, Issue #1 (July 1998) - Page 25 (Babylon 5's Mars Chronology)
  44. 44.0 44.1 44.2 The Official Guide to Babylon 5 (CD ROM)
  45. Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps - Fiona was 19 and Monkey was over 90 when he died.
  46. Deadly Relations - Bester Ascendant - She was 16 in 2204
  47. Final Reckoning - The Fate of Bester
  48. Deathwalker - From Jha'dur's biographical display.
  49. The Nautilus Coil
  50. Thirdspace - Leo is 65 in 2261.
  51. Across Time and Space: The Chronologies of Babylon 5 - Cites: Data from J. Michael Straczynski
  52. Deadly Relations - Bester Ascendant - She was 24 in 2222.
  53. Casting Shadows - He was 59 in 2258