This page lists some of the impor­tant polit­i­cal events dur­ing the past of For­got­ten Chil­dren, show­ing how their soci­ety came about as the result of a chain of events begin­ning with Earth as it is today.

2359
Due to skil­ful polit­i­cal manip­u­la­tion, the UN com­pletes its century-long rise to power by remov­ing indi­vid­ual nations’ rights to declare their own laws or main­tain a stand­ing armed force.

2387
The UN launches an ini­tia­tive to vastly improve the Mars colonies. It is sus­pected that the pop­u­la­tion of Mars will reach a bil­lion by 2400.

2402
Dis­grun­tled with the UN’s lib­er­al­ism and anti-business opin­ions, many of the solar system’s top 50 com­pa­nies join together to found the United Cor­po­rate Initiative.

2412
Lack­ing the unop­posed polit­i­cal and eco­nomic power it had enjoyed for half a cen­tury, the UN is forced to enter talks with the UCI.

2477
With colo­nial opin­ions slowly turn­ing against Earth due to the UN’s poli­cies, the UCI begins con­struc­tion of a giant space sta­tion at Lagrange point L4.

2500
As the new cen­tury dawns, the Free City is unveiled to the Solar Sys­tem. Over the next twenty years, almost all of the UCI’s mem­ber com­pa­nies relo­cate to Free City.

2604
After over a hun­dred years of mount­ing eco­nomic pres­sure, the UN becomes the last power to aban­don its own finan­cial sys­tem in favour of the Free City credit system.

2651
Polit­i­cal ten­sions between the Mar­t­ian Repub­lic and the UN come to a head, and war is declared. With the bias– and conscience-free UCI sell­ing arms and infor­ma­tion to both sides, the war is to last nearly a decade.

2659
Emerg­ing the vic­tors, the Mar­tians set about rebuild­ing their dam­aged econ­omy with gen­er­ous help from the UCI. Faced with a rav­aged planet and a fail­ing ecosys­tem, the rem­nants of the UN take out a huge loan from the UCI to enable the major­ity of Earth’s pop­u­la­tion to evac­u­ate and begin new lives on the Lunar colonies. Crip­pled by debt and the moon’s lack of resources, they never truly recover.

2718
The Europa colony dis­ap­pears, along with Europa itself, in a mys­te­ri­ous accident.

2836
High on the wealth of the Solar Sys­tem, the UCI estab­lishes the Explorer Fed­er­a­tion, an ini­tia­tive to depart the Solar Sys­tem in search of new pas­tures to colonise and exploit.

2891
The Celes­tial Fleet, EFS Sun Dancer, Star Valkyrie and Moon Ser­aph, leave Free City, their inhab­i­tants becom­ing the first extra­so­lar travelers.