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2011

 * The Charles Malcolm Edwards Presidential Library opens to the Public. Former President Edwards is seen for the first time in three years at this event. He is seen speaking in private with his some former members of his cabinet and staff, and later President Obama. He gives a brief speech, and then leaves.
 * Russia and the US disarm the last of the world's nuclear weapons. President Obama proclaims a new era of peace.
 * The UN Global Highway completes the Gibraltar Bridge.
 * The first Joint Mobile Offshore Base or "Battle Island" goes online in the North Pacific as the last foreign US military base in the region closes. It is named US-JMOB-1 "Midway."
 * Former President Edwards becomes a pilot at NASA.
 * US forces withdraw from Burma after the Pro-Democracy forces finish off the last of the former Junta regime.
 * President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela begins a war against neighboring Columbia once US Oil consumption drops to pre 1940s levels, in order to secure the Columbian Drug Markets.
 * After issuing an ultimatum to Chavez to withdraw troops from Colombia, the US deploys manned and unnmaned aicraft to destroy the advancing Venezuelan forces. The US issues a futher ultimatum for the Venezuelans to declare peace or suffer a full US invasion.
 * On the 10 year anneversery of the 9/11 attacks, the 2001 meter tall "Freedom Tower," is completed in New York as the world's tallest building.

2012

 * After repeated attempts at peace, the US, with aide of Brazilian Forces, take the Venezuelan Capitol with little effort due in part to the growing Pro-American Sentiment in South America, as well as the much more more advanced US military.
 * Hugo Chavez is tried for waging aggressive war and drug trafficking (not unlike Noriega before him) in the ICC.
 * Obama wins a second term on his handling of the Latin American war.
 * A second Battle Island, the US-JMOB-2 "Normandy" goes online in the Indian North Atlantic as the last US military Base in Europe is closed.
 * The European Union elects former German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the second President of the EU.
 * President Obama meets with the Chinese president to discuss further arms arms reductions, this time relating to Vacuum Bombs.
 * The Great Lakes Wind Farms (formerly the Lake Michigan Wind Farm) are completed.
 * The Billion Roofs Project is completed, Giving every building in the US a thin film solar power source.
 * The US meets the 100 MPGe standard set by the 2005 Seattle Protocols.

2013

 * The last US coal fire plant is closed.
 * President Obama announces the One World, One Economy Act. The plan would direct all future asteroid revenues following the completion of the State Reorganization Act to the creation of an equal Per Capita GDP for every nation.
 * Battle Islands US-JMOB-3 "Bataan" and US-JMOB-4 "Islamabad" go online in the South West Pacific and Indian Ocean respectively.

2014

 * The Last Battle Islands the US-JMOB-5 "Yorktown" and JMOB-6 "Marne" go online in the South East Pacific and the South Atlantic respectively.
 * The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) goes online in Hanford, Lincoln.

2015

 * Former President Edwards launches for Mars where he will become the second station commander on the red planet. He is to be put in charge of Spirit Base.
 * President Obama meets with the Chinese President to further discuss more open relations with the PRC. China still maintains its cold shoulder treatment to the North.
 * The State Reorganization Act in America is completed.
 * US MagLev Rail Network is completed.
 * The US completes construction of the last pieces of the African Water Infrastructure Projects, completing Project Purity. Clean drinking water is availible for everyone in Africa.

2017

 * Vice President Richardson is elected President of the United States.
 * Tranquility City reaches a population of 10,000.
 * The Trans Global Highway links North Africa, Europe, Russia, and America along a single road.
 * The North African Desalination Facilities are completed, bringing free clean water to the entire Sahara.

2018

 * The New Panama Canal is completed.
 * The Japan-Korea Undersea Tunnel is completed.

2019

 * President Richardson vetoes a bill that would call for the removal of all US bases in North Africa and the Middle East. However, Congress overrides his veto. This causes an imediate shut down of US Bases on North Africa and the Middle East.
 * President Richardson vetoes the Voter Expansion Amendment, a bill that would extend the voting age to people 13 and up.
 * The Barack Obama Presidential Library in Chicago is completed.
 * The Voter Expansion Amendment is enters into national referendum.
 * The Bering Strait Bridge is completed. Effectively completing the Global Highway.

2021

 * President Richardson narrowly looses his re-election to Populist Governor of Quebec Catherine Barret.
 * President Barret sings the Voter Expansion Amendment into Law.
 * President Barret recalls all US troops abroad back to the US, making the Battle Island's the closest thing to foreign military bases.
 * Former President Edwards, now Commander Edwards, reports the discovery of single celled life at the bottom of Valles Marineris.
 * The People's Republic of China lands their first Taikonaut on the Moon.
 * The Russian Federation sends their first astronaut to the Moon's the Sea of Moscow.

2024

 * President Barret proposes the creation of a central bank of the US, which would nationalize the American banking system.
 * Commander Edwards completes construction of the first vertical farm on Mars.
 * NASA privatizes the shuttle fleet to handle the spending cuts.
 * President Barret makes her most controversial decision ever, and introduces a bill that would nationalize the country's farms.

2025

 * President Barret looses to Aztlan Governor Marisol Rodriguez, or May-Rod as she is more commonly known.
 * President Rodriguez kills the collective farm and central bank proposals.
 * A cure for autism is found, causing group homes to be disbanded and the "formerly autistic" people to enter the workforce in mass numbers.

2027

 * Former President Edwards retires from the job of Martian Station Commander, he leaves to aide in the Terraforming Project.
 * Former President Obama is made Ambassador to the United Nations.
 * The European Union joins the terraforming project.
 * The Global Positioning System is placed under UN Control, and is made free for every person to use.

2029

 * President Rodriguez is reelected.
 * Spirit Base, now far more subterranean, has a population of some 10,000 people.
 * The first space mirrors are placed around Mars to heat the planet for habitability.
 * A clone of Chief Justice Earl Warren is born on Earth.

2030

 * By now, all vehicles in the United States no longer use oil.
 * South America agrees to be annexed by the USA in the "Union of the Americas" act of 2030. President Rodriguez announces the "Great Union Acts," essentially following in the footsteps of the American Economic Growth and Reinvestment Plan, and the State Reorganization Act.
 * The US is reformed into 60 states.

2033

 * The United States elects the first bisexual president. Hawaiian Congressmen Reed Chin.
 * Mars is now a planet of Oceans. Atmospheric levels have risen so far to two thirds that of Earth.
 * The PRC sends a ship directly off the cost of Taipei, the UN holds an emergency meeting to convince the PRC to back down from Taiwan. Former President Obama successfully negotiates a peace, but many wonder for how long.
 * Former President Edwards, now being hounded by what is left of the Media on the Space Mirrors, leaves for the Asteroid belt aboard the Lewis & Clark Asteroid Miner to explore the Belt.

2037

 * President Chin is re-elected.
 * The Northern Defense Coalition meets with the East Asian Co-Prosperity to discuss further prevention of a cold war.
 * When the North/South Talks break down when the Chinese delegate proclaims that they would rather have another cold war than bow to foreign interests, Civil War Erupts in China. With a civilian population in the cities far more open minded than the country cousins, it is no surprise to many that the Chinese people were so devoutly against such a policy.
 * UN Security Counsel agrees to send aide to the Chinese Liberty Guard, the democratic side of the Civil War.

2040

 * The Chinese Civil War Ends. While the communist regime officially dissolves the Chinese people maintain the name "The People's Republic of China," for the belief that it was always the People's republic. Taiwan rejoins the new nation.
 * The EACP and the NDS merge with the UN Security council into a single super entity allowing all nations into the Security Council.
 * Former President Edwards becomes Commander of Ceres Base.
 * Mars now has a stable atmospheric pressure, and the first bushes are now growing in select regions.
 * The first interstellar Probe launches for Alpha Centauri.
 * The Ahmadiyya Caliphate is established throughout the Muslim world, though the much more moderate Indonesians refuse to join, saying, "That entity died a long time ago, it has no relevance in today's world."

2041

 * The US elects New England Governor Jed Westbank as President.
 * The PRC establishes their first martian town.

2045

 * Mars can now support trees in some areas and humans can remove rebreathers while outside in certain areas.
 * Former President Edwards, now realizing that he will be followed to his grave, decides to leave, for good. He commissions a ship to be built, putting all of his money into its construction, and leaving everything else he owns to charity. The ship, the Independence, is seen by only two people other than Edwards; the station chief that launched it and the his long time friend Former Vice President Clark. Edwards then launched towards Jupiter, but much speculation about his whereabouts continued for decades to come.

2103

 * The Charles Malcolm Edward Monument is completed in Washington DC, it depicts President Edwards holding a hand to the stars and looking towards the future. It is the size of the Lincoln Memorial. Some claim that they saw President Edwards after the Coronation, though many have long since begun to think the Former President had died while exploring the deep regions of space.

2104

 * Mankind reaches Alpha Centauri in the first FTL ship. Colonists immediately arrive there.

2105

 * The Antares War breaks out when the USA gets into a struggle with the Kihrana outside of Antares.
 * The battlecruiser USS Edwards fights valiantly in orbit, taking out 3 kihrana Frigates in a total flotilla of 5.
 * When the UN hears of this, President Pulaski of the USA proposes Resolution 3489, creating a space command for fighting the Antares war.

2106

 * Antares is reported to have fallen. Alpha Centauri is immediately reinforced as well as the Solar system for the inevitable assault.
 * In a Midway-Esque battle, the UN fleet wins a Pyrrhic victory over the Kihrana outside of Alpha Centauri prime.
 * UNIntel concludes that the Kihrana hail from Betelgeuse. It is also learned from prisoners that the Kihrana are feared in the Mutter's Spiral for being a slavery based empire who enslave weak races who they see as "purely animals" and since they base themselves on conquering other races, they had never met another civilization that would refuse to bend to their will. A second wave tries to reach sol, but the UN launch several anti-matter warheads that obliterate the enemy fleet.

2107

 * A UN FTL strike force make it to Betelgeuse and go above their home-world, with the admiral ordering a code Black: Basically, to glass the planet with nuclear weapons. When the destruction of the planet is immanent a single ship comes out of slip space over Betelgeuse. The craft docks with the USS Barret. It is captained by none other than former President Edwards himself, kept alive by genetic cycling. He negotiates a cease fire and leaves in the hands of the ships captain a manuscript with his instructions to publish it at once. The Kihrana Empire is dissolved. The UN admit all the races in the former Empire, and is renamed the Union of Galactic nations. As a result of the Antares war, over 20 billion people and aliens are dead.

2108
Antares begins the colonization process. The UOGN now encompasses 1/3 of Mutter's spiral. Humanity has had a benign influence on the region, especially with high quality goods from Earth and the latest US military ships defending the region.

2109

 * Life as the Independent: An Autobiography by Former President Edwards is a best seller. I was written by the President himself and reveals the most inner secrets of his presidency. Perhaps the most shocking pieces of information were to where the President was actually born. Ironically President Edwards was the only one who ever actually knew. After being confirmed by the Chronoscope, it is realized that President Edwards was actually from a parallel timeline, and had accidentally been carried into this time when the Large Haradon Collider in his time tore itself apart due to a design flaw and transported himself into the past. For unknown reasons he was reduced to an infant, but somehow maintained all of his memories and knowledge. Knowledge of a terrible alternate timeline, where George W. Bush became President and nearly destroyed the United States during his tenure as President. President Edwards is never seen again after saying that he wished to explore the galaxy.

2110

 * The UOGN begins construction of the SHIELD network, putting in place around every planet and moon a series of automated defense platforms capable of defending the world from any hostile species.
 * The first quantum highway is completed, allowing near instantaneous FTL travel between systems.
 * President Edwards' autobiography inspires a new sense of responsibility and tolerance in the UOGN member states. American President Singh proposes that the Peace Corps be made an interstellar entity to prevent any further conflict on less fortunate worlds.

2110

 * The UOGN secretary General Krihan (a Geserian) meets with approval his plans for a network of space highways.

2111

 * The UOGN begin an expedition to the center of the galaxy.

2112

 * Another Empire comes into play. It is called the Muntrana, and they believe that it is their divine destiny to conquer the universe to spread its religion (which worships death and mandates sacrifice, not unlike the Aztecs). When the UOGN opens up negotiations with the Muntrana, the entire diplomatic party is ritualistically sacrificed for their personal theistic or atheistic beliefs. This act ultimately leads to the Muntrana War.

2113

 * The Munatra launch a massive attack against the Sol system. This leads to the battle of Pluto, where the enemy ships are destroyed by the SHIELD network, and the orbiting UOGN Ships.
 * There is an increasing concern that the UOGN defense systems may not be enough to stop the Munatra.

2114

 * The UOGN sends a diplomatic team, escorted by the recommissioned USS Edwards, now the UNSC Edwards. Still very militant, the enemy attacks and the diplomats barely escape with their lives.

2120

 * Vice Admiral Warner glasses every planet in a Munatra controlled system, and though the move is met with some disquiet, Munatra attacks begin to stop.

2130

 * The Munatra home-world, The Grand Temple of the Prime God of Sacrifice, Kizcanacha, is found at the tip of Mutter's spiral. A Quantum Slipstream allows UOGN forces to go there, even after threats and proposals for peace, the Munatra refuse to surrender. Admiral Warner orders the planet to be destroyed via a Vacuum Drive Bomb. Their entire priest hierarchy is wiped out.

2131

 * With the Grand Temple wiped out, and with no more dominating leadership, the Munatra fracture as they begin to lose their faith in Death worship. The Munatra civil war begins, and with it the UOGN withdraw all forces from Munatra space as the they destroy themselves from within.

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See too
 * President Edwards' ship is discovered orbiting just outside of the Andromeda Galaxy. The former President's Body is found in the ship's den. Scans confirmed that he has been dead for close to fifteen hundred years, though decomposition is almost nonexistent due to the fact that the former President had vented all of the oxygen in the den just before dying. In his hands rests a journal with a note on the cover reading, "Thought I should leave a good looking corpse." He is given a burial on Earth, in Mt. Rainier National Park, on the exact spot where he was discovered some twenty six hundred years ago.
 * List of Presidents of the United States of America (An Independent in 2000)