Re: Alternate history[Here's my Timeline](long)

2002: China Invades Taiwan while encouraging North Korea to invade the
South. Meanwhile, a new round of violence in Yugoslavia flares up and
Libya
and Egypt go to war. Soon, these conflicts pull in other powers, and a
Third
World War results. It lasts until 2008 and is only ended by the mutual
exhaustion of the combatants.

2010: France moves troops into Belgium and the two nations unify under
the
Treaty of Nancy. However, the Wallonian population doesn't greet this
very
happily. They riot, and the French CRS overreacts. This soon sparks a
nasty
insurgency on the part of the newly formed ALW( Alliance de Liberte
Waloon).

2011: The first of the large superstates form, with the founding of the
Pan-African Union from the ashes of the OAU. 16 Sub-Saharan African
nations
form the new state, with it's capital in Pretoria. Other examples are:
The
Mediterranian  Federation in 2013 (Spain, Portugal and Moracco), the
Central
European Union (Poland, The Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia
and
Austria) in 2016, the Slavic Confederation (Bulgaria, Serbia and
Montenagro,
in 2017, with Bosnia and Macedonia forcebly added in 2019), the
Scandanavian
Federation (Dennmark, Norway, Sweeden, Finland) in 2021, the United Arab
Republic (Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United
Arab
Emeriates, Bahrain, Libya and Algeria) in 2022, the Pan Asian League
(Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philipines, Korea, Laos, Cambodia and
Thailand)
in 2024 and finally, in 2027, the Ocieanic Union (Australia, New
Zealand,
Paupua New Guinea, and several Micronesian states). All of these states
form
to pool scarce post-war resources and to fend off stronger powers.

2014: Qubec votes for independence, and Canada evaporates overnight,
with
the Maratime Provinces joining the US, Newfoundland rejoining the UK,
Ontario calling itself "Canada" and BC, Alberta, Manitoba and the Yukon
forming a "Northwest Alliance".

2016: The Indian government collapses under the strain of post-war
recovery
and religous strife. Soon, India is dominated by sucessor states who
constantly war against each other.

2017: Indonesia invades Brunei.

2020: Pro-Argentinian coup in Uraguay, the new government announces
union
with Argentina. Brazil threatens war, but backs down.

2021: Albucairre FTL principle discovered by joint JPL/Royal Society
project
team.

2022: First FTL probe leaves for Alpha Centauri, it finds a system of 6
planest with a habitable planet and moon.  The planet is named Roanoke
and
the moon, New Plymouth.

2024: Indonesia invades New Guinea with the support of several thousand
Chinese "voulenteers". Three months later, Indonesia attacks the PAL in
Malaysia. The war soon takes on the pattern of an undending
low-intensity
conflict.

2025-2086: First Colonization Wave, or the "colony race" as it is soon
called begins, as nations race each other in a mad scramble for
extra-solar
real estate. Some third world nations, barely able to feed their people,
engage in this costly race for little more than prestige. Many colonies
survive by the barest of threads, but by the end of the first wave, the
human sphere is 40ly wide.

2042: Boer insurgency begins in the PAU between local government and
whites
who remain in the former nation of South Africa. It soon becomes one of
the
nastiest civil wars around.

2073-2076: First Franco-German war is sparked over colony worlds and
mineral
rights on the disputed world of Neu Bayern (or, to quote the French,
Nouveau
Lorraine). The war kills millions, mostly colonists and it's only
tangible
result is it's peace treaty, the Treaty of Nuevo San Paulo, which, other
than ending the conflict, establishes the interstellar legal precedent
of
"first come, first serve".

2077: The Boer insurgency ends with peace talks in Geneva. As part of
the
settlement, the Boers are transported at PAU expense, to 6 close togther
marginal colony worlds, leased a set of barely functioning starshios and
granted immediate independence as the Voortrekker Star Republic.

2081: Israeli and UAR fleets clash in the Chi Draconis system, the
conflict
doesn't spread to earth, but it becomes a series of nasty, brutish and
indecisive fleet battles, colony raids and occasional invasions. The
conflict continiues today.

2088-2120: The second colonization wave, or the "deportee's wave".
Noting
the PAU's solution to the Boer "problem", many nations resort to the use
of
forced colonization, with immediate independance for the colony in
question.
Thus, we see the birth of extra-solar nations such as the Basque Solar
League (2097) and the Kurdish Star Caliphate (2108) among others, as
nations
soon see deportation as a handy way to deal with a lot of societal ills.

2091-2114: The "colonial troubles", many nations, especially those of
Third
World nations, become barely teneable due to lack of support from home,
coupled with neo-mercantilist policies instituted by some Earth
governments.
These colonies, feeling pushed to the wall, rebel. Some colonies suceed,
some do not. Many of the new "deportee nations" lend what little arms
and
expertise they can, for a price, thus giving rise to the first
mercernary
units.

2105-2109: War breaks out between an alliance of Chile, Paraguay and
Bolivia
against Argentina. Inexplicably, the alliance loses. Brazil fails to
intervene due to a nasty Argentine-funded insurgency in the Amazon that
lasts until 2108. The three losing nations are forcibly added to
Argentina.

2110: Britain and Argentina come to blows over the the colony of New
Stanley, or as the Argentines refer to it, Nuevo Malvinas in the Zeta
Reticuli system. It soon becomes yet another "Colonial War".

2113: Columbia, with FARC in control of 2/3rds of the country, now
petitions
to join Argentina, and is quickly accepted.

2114: Peru and Venezuela are conqured by Argentine forces within a year.
Brazil again fails to act, due to a severe recession. Later that year,
Suriname and Guyana join Argentina.

2115: All of the Central American nations petition a reluctant Mexico to
become part of Mexico, Mexico, with the US and Britain footing the bill,
annexes these nations the next year.

2117: A large supply of Tantalum, the material needed for the Albuciarre
Drive, is found off of Mexico's east coast within her territorial
waters,
Mexico soon becomes a First-Tier economic power overnight, and an
important
US ally, with 30% of Mexican tantalum going into US drive cores.

2118: China and Russia go to war over Novy Svedlodsk or New Sianking as
the
Chinese refer to it. Again, the conflict becomes another example of a
"colonial war".

2123-2130: First Japanese-American War breaks out both on earth and
off-world, the conflict kills millions and while the US "wins", she
loses
the cities of San Diego and Seattle to Astaroid bombardment, with Nagoya
and
Kyoto in Japan sharing their fate.

2134-2139: Second Franco-German War breaks out, it kills a billion
people
this time, and other than the ownership of a few colonies changing
hands,
the war settles nothing.

2137-2157: The PAU invades the Voortrekker Republic world or New
Traansvaal,
after the report of a major tantalum find on-planet by a French megacorp
that "dwarfs Veracruz". The PAU's occupation lasts 20 years and is
marked by
a very nasty insurgency. The war finally ends with the help of Freisland
mercs and French "advisers".

2152: Second Japanese-American war begins over alleged Japanese
harassment
of US merchant shipping. The war soon takes on the nature of a typical
"Colonial War".

2160: Iranian backed coup attempt in the UAR capital of Cairo kills the
UAR
president and most of his cabinet, as well as most of the coup plotters
in
the process. The few that remain flee off-world, and the UAR degenrates
into
chaos. Most UAR colonies slide into anarchy, with loyalist and rebel
killing
each other without abandon. Israel takes shameless advantage of the
situation.

2171: A UN sponsored peacekeeping mission on the UAR colony world of New
Adan soon becomes just another faction, and soon, the various national
contingents turn on each other. By 2175, the peacekeepers are pulled out
and
UN hired mercs are sent in, who sucessfully impose some kind of order on
the
troubled world.

2174: Extra-solar Religous strife breaks out between UAR rebels and one
of
the Indian states after the rebels butcher an entire Hindu colony
sponsored
by an Indian megacorp.

2175: The French survey ship, Cousteau, disappears in the disputed Rubis
system, The French immediately blame Germany and go to war, with the
fighting lasting a year until...

2176: The Angorki burst across all along the entire anti-spinward
frontier
of human space, driving all before them. An honor-bound warrior race,
they
have a slight tech advantage over humanity, but they have a huge
advantage
in surprise and they are fanatical in their devotion to winning the war.

2177: The Angorki have driven to within 40ly of Earth, and while Human
fleets have won battles, they have yet to stop the "gorks" because of
constant human infighting. However some minor human counterattacks
manage to
stimie the "gorks".

2179: The Angorki send a major raiding force towards Earth in a bid to
win
the war once and for all. A multi-national force, under the command of
Admiral John Gurtz manages to inflict a crushing defeat in the Alpha
Centauri campaign. By years end, the Angorki are being driven back.

2183: The present: Humanity has retaken much of the territory lost to
the
Angorki and have closed the tech advantage. The trouble is, now that
Humanity is no longer at the brink, many of the old hatreds have
returned.