From 1990 to 2020, the world has been rocked by a series of events. The bombings of the World Trade Center<br/><br/>1990, start of the first Central American War. US in conflict in Panama, Nicaragua, Elsalvador, Honduras. The conflict lasts for many years.  Most of the world is as it is now in that time frame.<br/><br/>1991, The EU Eurospace Agency Hermesspaceplane is launched. Russia organizes. CHOOH2 is developed. It's a biofuel. to replace gasoline.  Archologies are being built.<br/><br/>1992 The EU comes into being.  The ED\B, Eurobuck is established. It becomes the currency most used. The US DEA speads a plant virus that wipes out most of the world coca and opium plants. A drug war betwen the EU backed dealers and the DEA breaks out all over Centra and South America. The governments of Chile and Ecuador collapse. First use of the laser high energy lift is used to propel rockets into space.  Amassdriver is set up on the Canary Islands for nonhuman/delicate cargo.<br/><br/>1993,  First interface chips developed.  The AV-4 aerodyne is developed for use in the US.  Columbian crimelords detonate a nuke in the World Trade Center.<br/><br/>1994, Stock market crashes, driving the economy into ruin. US economy collapses. Millions left destitute and penniless. Nuclear accident in a reactor in Pittsburgh kills 257. Cancer rates soar.<br/><br/>1995, Coinstruction of killamanjaro massdriver starts. EU funded, with approva of the Pan African Alliance.<br/><br/>1996,  Us collapses fro the stock market and other forces. Unemployment, roaving gangs of desperate people raid places for food. Fighting becomes commonplace, and civilization collapses in many places. Martial law is declared by many state governments. Many join into large nomad packs for security anmd to be able to carry thru attacks on places thru sheer numbers.  Boostergangs appear. Lawyers are murdered by the thousands as citizens, outraged by the corrupt juctice system take out their anger on the lawyers and judges that have freed thousands of true criminals by technicalities. US Constitution suspended and martial law declarted in the US.<br/><br/>1997,  Mideast Meltdown. War erupts between Iran, Iraq, Libya, Chad and the Arab Emirates. Nuclear weapons are used. Libya is left a nuclear wasteland. World oil supply takes a huge hit. Oil prices soar until synthetic oil and CHOOH2 can take up the loss in several years. CHOOH2 plantings increase.<br/><br/>1998, Neo-luddites come out. Attacking technology plants and industrial sites. A massive drought worldwide lays waste all over the US.  10.5 quake shatters LA. The Pacific floods 35% of the city. Tens of thousands are killed (65,000+).<br/><br/>1999, Fedreal weapons statue made. Legalizing fulkly weapons(guns) for all. Millenium cults come out. The Tyco colony established.  Massdriver at is sends ores back to Earth and into orbit for processing. Night City construction started.<br/><br/>2000, Millenium cults run amok. Destroying millions of dollars. they are put down with what is caled excesive force by some. . Posergangs appear.  Fires burn most of the US midwest due to the drought.  The Crysta Palace is started at L-5. Wasting plague hits Europe. Kills hundreds of thousands.<br/><br/>2001, The Net comes into being.<br/><br/>2002, Food crash. mutated food virus wipes out a large portion of crops worldwide.  US agriculture survives due to a luccky chance of a vaccine being developed in time. The US is blamed for the virus, but it's never proven and is passed off as a conspiracy theory in time.<br/>2003 2nd Cen Amer. War.  US invades Columbia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuala. Becomes a 2nd Vietnam.  The US refprms internally and the influence of the Intelligence agencies is swept away and brought under control.  The NSA transcripts that show the NSA falsifying information to start the war is leaked to the media, by Telsa Johannason.<br/><br/>2004, Telsa Johannason is assiassinated in Ciaro, Egypt. 1st Corp war. For control of the bankrupt Transworld Air.<br/><br/>2005, Cybermodem invented.  EBM solos attack the the Toyko office of Kenjiri Tech. Killing 18.  End of the 1st Corp War.<br/><br/>2006, First human clone made. Lives a few hours before dying.<br/><br/>2007, 2nd Corp War. Between Petrochem and SovOil. Lays waste to the South China Sea.<br/><br/>2008, US assult on the Russian orbita platform Mir XIII. European Space Agency (ESA) intevienes. The Orbital war breaks out.  between the EU and the US, until a rock is shot from Tycho onto Colorado Springs. A uneasy peace breaks out.<br/><br/>2009, Joint Euro/Russian mission to Mars. Mob rule of night City ended. Abortive takeover attempt of the Crystal Palace by terrorists.. It fails. The Us is blamed. A 12 ton rock is dropped off the coast of Washington DC as a warning.<br/><br/>2010, The 2nd Cen Amer. War ends.  Net 54 controls 62% of all media broadcasting in the US. Anti-trust mutterings is heard. Food riots in Denver kill 52.<br/><br/>2011, Crysta Palace finished. The ESA now has a permant hold on high orbit. ESA/Russian mission reaches Mars.<br/><br/>2012 Bioplague in Chocago kill the city. A total quarentine is set up and deadly force used to contain it. The city is dead within 3 months. Concert in night City kills 18 and the old Arasaka complex is looted and burned to the ground. The US military voluntarily relinquishes control of the government and a civilian government is elected.<br/><br/>2013, Netwarch is establishged. HQed in the EU. The US agrees to it, reluctantly. The first true Is are developed.by Microtech in Sunnyvale, California.<br/><br/>2014, I-G transformation alters the Net.  Gang war in night city betwen the riva boostergangs.<br/><br/>2015, Cyucbernetic mercs are used for the first time in battle.<br/><br/>2016, 3rd Corp War is fought nearly compoletely on the Net.<br/><br/>2017,  First self aware human clones made. Public concern rises.<br/><br/>2018, Small scale strugles erupt in Eastern Europe. Fanned by the EU in order to keep the nations of eastern Europe weak. ESA mission launched to Jupiter.<br/><br/>2019, Orbital colonial revolt in L-3, against the harsh rule of the ESA.<br/><br/>2020,<br/><br/><br/><br/>