TEXT: INTERFACE ZERO 2.0 
  TIMELINE
  2010 – 2019 
  2011: Oil Crisis causes Food shortages in 3rd world nations, Famine 
  and malnutrition are on the rise.
  2011: Spartus Space Group launches first commercial space liner 
  into low orbit. 
  2011: War on terror shifts as Corporations gain legislation allowing 
  ‘financial borders’ as nations.
  2011: U.S. cuts funding to NASA’s shuttle program.
  2012: Hurricane Nicole. Cape Canaveral destroyed.
  2012: The corporate exodus. Corporations worldwide changed the 
  banking in the Caymans and Liechtenstein when Switzerland 
  overturned their banking secrecy laws.
  2013: GENIE begins. Worldwide satellite network repurposed to 
  create global Wi-Fi.
  2013: Genome Augmentation Project begins in South Korea.
  2013: Civil War and Ecuador, backed by US government.
  2013: SouthAm drug war begins. Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, 
  and Colombia drag the entire region into conflict. UN deploys 
  peacekeepers with the support of Brazil and Argentina.
  2014: GENIE phase 2. Wireless repeater network deployed across 
  Earth’s mesosphere.
  2014: G 13 Summit cut short by terrorist attack but Chechnyan 
  anarchist group black bear.
  2014: the battle of Puerto Ayacucho. Hanscomb food group 
  contractors get into a firefight with Venezuelan military. 
  Hanscomb sites humanitarian efforts to seize food for starving 
  populace. UN sides with Corporation, opening the door for 
  corporations to legally attack governments.
  2015: GENIE phase 3. Cloud technology hubs repurposed to 
  support GENIE.
  2015: GENIE phase 4. “The Bottle,” a handheld device allowing for 
  full spectrum communication and Internet access is released 
  for early adopters. PDAs cell phones and tablets crash in sales 
  numbers.
  2016: Mess ionic ecoterrorist group, NOAH, a militant/religious 
  offshoot of EarthPeace, unleashes GLUTTON. Glutton is a 
  designer bacteria which consumes oil.
  2016: South Korean pharmaceutical company HEALTH CORP. 
  matures cloned human, sparks global controversy.
  2016: MIT patents prototype material assembler, the evolution 
  of the 3-D printer.
  2016: China annexes Taiwan
  2017: the African border war. Kenya and Ethiopia declare war 
  on Sudan, followed by Chad. China deploys defensive troops 
  in Sudan.
  2017: Saudi Royal family killed by Council of Islamic clerics. Sheik 
  Al’Ramid quotes Antoinette by saying let them eat cake as he 
  is executed.
  2018: Treaty of Buenos Aires. Brazilian troops patrol entire conflict 
  zone.
  2018: Sentinel rock Corporation patents personal power suits, 
  military grade power armor.
  2018: Hanscomb food group patents Bos NeoTaurus, cloned cow 
  meat.
  2019: Global climate change brings a nonstop deluge of 
  catastrophic storms.
  2019: Rovers appear?
  2019: Treaty of Salzburg reunites North and South Korea.
  2020 – 2029
  2020: New Chinese Mandarinate, a bureaucratic meritocracy, 
  deposes Communist Party.
  2020: Cayman Islands, Barbados, and Jamaica sign Caribbean 
  economic league treaty, creating global tax sheltering on par 
  with pre-2012 Switzerland.
  2020: Triad flees China, spreading to Russia, Europe, Africa, and 
  South America.
  2020: World population breaks 15 billion, rural population 
  decreases while urban population increases. Some cities begin 
  to declare autonomy from governing nations.
  2021: MegaTowns begin to appear, following the model of Disney 
  town. Corporate staff and families are housed in these high 
  security compounds.
  2021: Gyre trash heap, a floating island of trash the size of Alaska, 
  claimed by Australian billionaire Niles Auburn. Construction 
  begins floating biosphere’s attached the island.
  2022: South America and Central Africa, both still war zones, 
  see the first use of gene spliced and bio augmented soldiers.
  2022: Caribbean economic league sues for membership in both 
  the E.U. and U.S.
  2023: Corporations, exerting power over national governments, 
  in both the E.U. and U.S. begin a bidding war to gain power over 
  the Caribbean economic league.
  2023: GENIE phase 5. Aerosol form micro signal repeaters 
  released into global cloud layer. Firmware patch of additional 
  aerosol release is planned in two-year increments.
  2024: The two-week war. China attacks and overruns Korea. 
  Media calls at the bachelor war.
  2024: Brazil transitions to theocratic government. Argentina 
  forms, and heads, South American evangelical league of 
  Nations, the Liga Del Apostle.
  2024: Matrix of War released for game station Pro. MMO RPG 
  which features near real time 3-D VR environment.
  2024: introduction of the eye-conic, headset which allows users 
  to interact with VR. Corporations immediately repurposed them 
  from gaming for advertising purposes.
  2025: Italian scientists invent first brain box, a biosynthetic 
  computer.
  2025: Caribbean economic league granted statehood in U.S.
  2025: The lukewarm war. U.S. names Iran, Pakistan, Syria, and 
  Venezuela as primary axis of evil. Amongst the secondary axis 
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  of evil is France, termed a morally bankrupt Islamist nation, and 
  Vatican City, termed increasingly radicalized. China is dubbed 
  the evil Empire.
  2026: In response China invites Ameribucks, the popular coffee 
  chain, to close all shops in Chinese controlled Asia. Several Asian 
  corporations back this move to gain market share.
  2026: Sea level has risen 20 inches since 2010, making many 
  coastal regions inhabitable. New York and New Jersey forced 
  to implement coastal levees and dikes.
  2026: Entertainment industry begins to use military technology 
  of gene splicing to widen available roles for actors. Wealthier 
  segments of the population quickly follow suit, gene splicing 
  becomes a fashion trend.
  2027: Rio de Janeiro destroyed by tsunami leaving only a statue of 
  Christ contact. Brazil vows to rebuild further from the coastline.
  2027: Griefer, is spontaneously developed AI, emerges on matrix 
  of war. System admins reprogram it.
  2027: France sponsors Algiers and Morocco, gaining them 
  admittance to European Union.
  2029: Pakistani students burn down Indian embassy
  2029:  India invades Pakistan. Pakistan retaliates with nuclear 
  deployment.
  2029: India and Pakistan go to full scale thermo nuclear war, 1.3 
  billion die.
  2030 – 2039
  2030: Global fallout creates crop shortages, global population 
  declines from 13.9 billion to 13 billion.
  2030: China attacks Asiatic Russia capturing almost half the land. 
  Russia joins E.U. to stop expansion of Chinese Empire.
  2030: Global medical infrastructure failing, term Street doc 
  becomes popular to describe unlicensed medical practitioners.
  2031: Japan reacts to Chinese expansion by forming the 
  neo-Shogunate.
  2031: Rising sea levels turn Florida into a series of keys, New 
  Orleans evacuated and abandoned.
  2032: The Patent War. Global course reverse engineer matter 
  assemblers in an effort to create a new food source. Food paste 
  is invented — foul tasting but highly nutritious.
  2032: Pope Callixtus IV assassinated.
  2033: U.N. moves to Geneva. 
  2033: New York Stock Exchange moves to Denver.
  2033: China begins program for Mars Landing. US follow suit, 
  then changes destination to moon colony.
  2036: GENIE admin develop the STRAP, implanted crown of 
  electrodes for Wi-Fi access
  2037: Major powers of the E.U. vote to form a unified government 
  leaning away from national leaderships.
  2038: the Good year. Climate patterns return to normal. Food 
  growth levels return to normal.
  2038: Levees overrun, U.S. abandons New York City and New 
  Jersey.
  2038: Construction of first orbital habitats begins.
  2039: China attempts to use gene splicing a more widespread 
  scale initial attempts result in failures and global condemnation.
  2039: Treaty of New Singapore. International surveillance 
  investigation and monitoring agency is formed as a stopwatch 
  group to protect humanity from self-inflicted extinction events.
  2040 – 2049
  2040: STRAP v2.0 released to public. Less intrusive, faster, 
  cheaper. See’s much higher sales.
  2040: Chinese Mandarinate grants Korea provincial autonomy.
  2040: U.S. establishes new DC, first permanent lunar colony.
  2041: Matter assemblers De factorization announced. Matter 
  assemblers will be smaller and more consumer friendly.
  2041: Military contractors develop generation one of cyborg, 
  military hybrid, and powered armor soldier usable and private 
  sector.
  2042: General Sharif, known to aborted nuclear strike (india v 
  Pakistan) publicly executed for crimes against humanity.
  2042: Nanomachine matter assembly devices licensed to global 
  corporations.
  2042: Switzerland joins E.U.
  2043: First simulacrum created, AI is stable and it uses accelerated 
  VR learning technique.
  2043: U.N. passes death amnesty — forgiving war criminals from 
  India versus Pakistan.
  2043: China successfully lands humans on Mars on April 13th.
  2043: Teams from Eurasia and Brazil land on Mars.
  2045: Ajax, an AI, successfully passes the Turing 2 Then glitches 
  out and dies.
  2045: First death row reality show is aired with live executions.
  2045: NASA develops variable specific impulse magnetic plasma 
  rocket, which speeds up missions to Mars.
  2047: Flash addiction. Flash is a coded drug which uses the STRAP 
  to get users high.
  2049: Human foundation successfully sues for custody of first 
  simulacrum, citing human rights.
  2050 – 2059
  2050: The new E.U. completes consolidation finally forming 
  Euros/Eurasian single government.
  2050: Japan signs by a treaty with Brazil to begin global 
  simulacrum production.
  2052: Dr. Courts wins Nobel Prize for developing real-time 
  translation software.
  2052: Hundreds of millions of blue-collar workers lose jobs, 
  replaced by simulacrum’s.
  2054: ARC project begins, focused on bringing Earth’s extinct 
  species back.
  2056: Jim O’Rourke, Mafia, Las Vegas, discovered feeding corpses 
  of enemies into personal matter assembler to dispose of bodies.
  2057: Radical groups begin targeting simulacrum run factories 
  for acts of terror.
  2058: STRAP v3.0 released, renamed as TAP.
  2058: Global activist groups began international protests to 
  strengthen hybrid rights.
  2059: Pleasure model simulacrum’s come under potential ban 
  legislation but fails in the zero hour. Pleasure models are 
  deemed morally acceptable by international governments.
  2060 – 2069
  2060: Venture AI accidentally kills over 300 people. Controversy.
  2060: President Weber elected in U.S. with vows to end radical 
  democracy and return U.S. to biblical nation.
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  2060: First U.S. colony on Mars, lifers and deathers allowed 
  indentured servitude on Mars as alternate option to sentencing 
  on Terran prison.
  2061: E.U. recognizes simulacrum and AI human rights.
  2062: Peeper scandal dozens of officials indicted for using 
  government bandwidth to spy on celebrities. The cloisters form 
  a group devoted to protecting privacy. By any means.
  2064: North American water war begins. Between Great Lakes 
  states and rest of country.
  2064: President Weber invokes Lincoln act and suspense 
  elections then dissolves Congress.
  2064: Separatist states vow to overthrow President Weber and 
  restore U.S. law.
  2064: Second U.S. Civil War begins between separatist states 
  and North American coalition.
  2064: Battle for Chicago begins and attracts global notice.
  2065: China offers aid to North American coalition.
  2065: Low yield dirty bombs are used on Chicago, Denver, Dallas, 
  and Tucson (destroying the Davis Monthan Air Force Base, and 
  over 50% of the separatist Air Force planes.)
  2066: Despite the bombings President Weber’s forces are losing 
  until a 9.3 earthquake hits Southern California.
  2066: Caribbean economic league breaks ties with NAC, 
  supporting separatists instead.
  2066: Argentina sees a surprise coup and apostle government 
  is toppled. Worker run government installed.
  2066: Church of Althada formed, united under their belief that 
  physical reality is a computer simulation.
  2067: stopwatch intervenes in US Civil War to stop NAC from 
  deploying a continent destroying weapon.
  2067: TAP sales crossed the one billion mark.
  2068: Second U.S. Civil War ends in armistice. U.S. replaced by 
  the nations of Atlantica, Republic of Cascadia, the Great Lakes 
  Union, and the North American coalition.
  2068: the Renunciates, and AI cult considering a highly evolved 
  medical diagnostic AI their God, commit mass suicide.
  2068: A rogue advertisement AI, hurly-burly, evolves into 
  a predator. Stopped by a specially developed spam filter 
  countermeasure.
  2069: The band Endomorph stages free global concert using TAP 
  technology. TAP sales skyrocket.
  2069: Texas leaves the NAC to form its own nation the new 
  Republic of Texas.
  2069: Brazilian census shows first decline in 20 years in church 
  attendance.
  2070 – 2079
  2071: Featherstone found strangled to death in his private 
  vacation resort.
  2071: Mumbai emerges as new media entertainment capital of 
  world.
  2071: Japan Census reveals simulacrum population higher than 
  human population.
  2071: Puppeteer Murders. Officials believe TAP is being used by 
  a puppeteer to force people to commit murder.
  2072: Northern Mexico declares independence after North 
  America coalition attempts to forge alliance.
  2072: Shen Wei, a completely engineered human, secures seat 
  on Chinese Mandarinate board.
  2073: Simulacrum underground railroad helps simulacrum’s flee 
  slave nations.
  2073: The Omega protocol. Humanity begins to watch AI’s as a 
  security threat.
  2074: Stopwatch deploys an EMP to destroy and AI called TROJAN. 
  2000 humans killed.
  2074: Arizona and New Mexico formerly withdraw from the NAC 
  and join North Mexico, forming the nation of Baja Mexico.
  2074: Featherstone industries integrates nanotechnology with 
  the TAP.
  2075: Mulik Jay uploads his personality to a computer. For 
  colleagues who also attempted to do so died in the process.
  2075: TAP sales crossed the four billion barrier.
  2076: Great Lakes Union and North American coalition almost 
  go to war because of a hacker prank.
  2077: New fashion trend of grafted featureless faces starts in 
  Paris.
  2078: Tarzan/Jane meme drops millions of users into virtual 
  jungles using augmented reality TAP hack. New types of AR 
  hackers are called trickers and trackers.
  2079: Hunger artists globally organized two-week fast to teach 
  younger generation about the India Pakistan war.
  2079: Thrity ships disguised as Rovers stage bank robbery in 
  Cape Town. Entire town is shut down by raid and every bank 
  in the city is robbed. South African military steps in and kills 
  entire criminal network.
  2080 – 2090
  2081: A.I. named VIRTUE wins election for seat in E.U. Parliament.
  2081: Mining colonies established on moons of Callisto, Europa, 
  and Ganymede. Among the last decade.
  2083: Dr. Leo  Huntzinger confesses to being one of the designers 
  of glutton. She reveals other designers have already died.
  2084: Protesters in Manila call for withdraw from Chinese Empire. 
  100 protesters die.
  2086: Troops from the Brazilian Embassy in Beijing invade a 
  university campus citing Omega protocol. Withdraw with 
  apology, international community believes Brazil attempting 
  to antagonize China.
  2087: Shen Wei nearly killed in car accident undergoes dubbing 
  procedure. It is successful.
  2088: Four hundred fifty-one people die in terrorist attacks on 
  Boston and Portland.
  2088: Conspiracists debate terror group known as agenda 68, a 
  believed NAC terror group.
  2088: MAXX_footage reveals North American Coalition military 
  carrying out attacks.
  2088: President of Atlantic a refuses to allow North American 
  Coalition access to MAXX_footage.
  2089: Eurasian Union central bank in Bonn, Germany gets crashed 
  by a virus named Charon. Seventy trillion dollars vanish without 
  a trace.
  2089: Conspiracy theorists believe Charon to be a military AI.
  2089: Two hundred million people in Eurasian Union lose jobs and 
  homes is Charon continues to destroy bank accounts.
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  2089: Weekly riots and mob violence become the standard in 
  Eurasian Union.
  2089: In the 10 Downing St. riots police attack civilians.
  2089: Atlanta cousins Armed Forces to capture New York City.
  2089: French Revolution sees installment of Angele Bonheur, a 
  zeek, as the new leader of France.
  2089: New French president disbands Armed Forces, and 
  privatizes military.
  2089: Adrian the butcher, a French Lt. Col., takes charge of the 
  disbanded French army.
  2089: Conspiracy theorists in the deep start to see a new 
  hashtag —  Prophet. No one knows who this is, but people start 
  to pay attention as Prophet successfully warns against several 
  of Charon’s bank wipings.
  2089: Albania, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, 
  Serbia, and Slovakia begin a regional feud.
  2090: Surrounded by hostile nations in the Eurasian Union, all 
  of whom were in political disarray, Germany closes its borders 
  and moves to war footing.
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  WELCOME TO THE FUTURE
  Interface Zero 2.0 is a cyberpunk game powered by 
  the Savage Worlds game system. Play bioroids, full-
  metal cyborgs, vat-grown simulacra, 
  genetic hybrids, Human 2.0, and even 
  androids! Hack the world around you 
  with our revised hacking rules, or 
  take control of a drone and lay down 
  some fire-support for your team! Get 
  cybered with new cybernetics using 
  our Fast, Furious, and Fun rules!
  Interface Zero 2.0 is created by 
  Peter J Wacks, David Jarvis, Hal 
  Maclean, Matt Conklin Jr., and 
  Patrick Smith.
  
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