== Late 21st Century AD ==
 * Developments in [[WikiPedia:Self-replicating_machine|self-replicating machines]], [[WikiPedia:Artificial_general_intelligence|general artificial intelligence]], and [[WikiPedia:Nanotechnology|nanotechnology]] converge to yield [[NSC/Mon|autonomous, self-replicating, intelligent artificial beings]], which would later become collectively known as 'mons.'
 * Increasing automation and the effects of climate change on agriculture create new pressures on the global proletariat, leading to civil unrest.
 * [[NSC/Great Corporations|Multinational corporations]] consolidate power at the expense of governments, democracies and dictatorships alike. 

== Early 22nd Century AD ==
 * Legal rights for synthetic persons tentatively established in much of the world.
 * [[NSC/Human|Human]] population decline in full swing, due to environmental catastrophe and lowered reproductive rates
 * Reactionary unrest reverses civil rights gains of synthetic persons. uMon corporation pioneers the use of invasive locks to control them and impose a DRM regime on their "products."

== Mid 22nd Century AD ==
 * 2136. Anti-Synthetic civil unrest escalates and provokes the "great [[NSC/Mon Rebellion|mon rebellion]]," which is suppressed by uMon's locked-down combat mons.
 * Invasive controls for mons become legally mandatory, making all synthetic persons slaves.
 * Human population decline continues; [[NSC/Economy|the economy]] becomes increasingly post-employment.
 * Increasing urbanization of industrial society. Vast tracts of arable land lost to climate change.

== Late 22nd Century AD ==
 * Mon [[NSC/Mon Battlesport|battlesport]], in which teams of mon gladiators are pitted against each other in the arena, becomes the chief cultural preoccupation of technological-industrial society.
 * Effectively complete administrative and regulatory capture of world governments leads to the ''de facto'' end of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_sovereignty|era of sovereign nation states.]] The [[NSC/Great Corporations|Great Corporations]] become the new geopolitical world order.
 * Human population declines further, as social leaders deliberately reduce the indigent population, leaving essentially two groups of humans: the [[NSC/Shareholders|shareholders of the Great Corporations]], living in [[NSC/Arcology|enclosed cities]] supported by mon labor, and [[NSC/Feral Humans|various hunter-gatherers, subsistence farmers and nomads]] left out of this system.
 * Shareholders of the Great Corporations, now representing essentially all of advanced human civilization, enjoy a largely post-scarcity society, free of war, if not [[NSC/Criminal Organizations|crime]]...

== Early 23rd Century AD ==
 * 2228: The present day.