A History of the Third Millenium AD (Scenario)

''I first thought of this idea as I watched the New Year's fireworks 10 years ago, watching 2999 turn into 3000, the third millenium AD being over. The previous millenium was humanity's rise to power, us humans rising from squabbling nation-states to hegemons of the Milky Way and half of Andromeda in a span of only a thousand years. Humans have done what countless species have failed to do: as far as galactic history is concerned, the Milky Way has not been completely united under one government since the days of the Xathrak'i Hegemony 76 million years ago, during a time when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth. Our legacy is known throughout the Local Group, and every person knows about the Galactic Wars and the Cyborg Uprising, all three major events in humanity's Galactic Age. But, I wanted to know more. I wanted to know how we got from the brink of annihalating ourselves before we even stepped on the Red Planet to galactic hegemon. This mystery lied in the missing hard drives and destroyed files from the 21st and 22nd centuries, but with time, I pieced together the lost knowledge, and now present you the most in-depth history of this period of human history than ever before. This history provides answers to the main questions of this period: how we managed to overcome our narrowmindedness and our biggest flaws and succeed, what events lead us to pursue colonization of other planets, and what lead the nations of the world to unite. With this, I hope to help others better understand what made us what we are today.''

-Dr. John Ingriss, professor at the Elon Musk University of Science and Technology, Putingrad campus

What This Scenario Is About
This scenario tells the story of a hypothetical future scenario, where humanity doesn't wipe itself off the map, actually gets along somewhat, and, in the span of a millenium, becomes the hegemon of a united Milky Way. This scenario will be told from the perspective of a history book printed in the early 3000s. I will also add a few snippets of the state of the universe in 3011, as well as a galactic history of the entire universe. This is expected to be a very ambitious project and I would love a little help from the community if possible. (Yes, this means that you can edit it, as long as I give approval and your ideas aren't completely implausible.)

-Derpmaster