The New History
This is a big one.
Using future timeline, necrometrics, this handy graph, the BBC timelines of India,and China,a random number generator, and imagination, I put together a timeline for the world of Raj Station.
Note that the establishment of stations (for a train that travels through time) does not change this “canonical history”
Note also that the timeline was made by the same people who made the trains, so it’s most focused on the 2100s, Indian, and Chinese history, as well as their own self-justification.
So now I’ll open the floodgates: How am I wrong?
Raj Station established early 1907
1907: Knickerbocker Crisis
1914: First World War (15 million dead)
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1918: Spanish Flu (75 million dead)
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Roaring Station established early 1929
1929: Black Tuesday, beginning of Great Depression
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1937: Second Sino-Japanese war (20 million dead)
1939: Second World War (66 million dead)
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1947: Partition of India
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Great Leap Station established 1958
1958: Great Leap Forward (40 million dead)
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1971: Bangladesh secedes from Pakistan
1973: Oil Crisis, Stock Market Crash, beginning of 1970s Recession
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Iron Station established early 1987
1987: Black Monday, beginning of Early 1990s Global recession
1991: Dissolution of Soviet Union
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2007: The Financial Crisis, beginning of the Great Recession
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2014: Proclamation of Caliphate by The Islamic State
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Singularity Station established 2021
2021: Refugee Crisis, Last Crash, beginning of Pivot
2022: Third World War (0.5 million dead)
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2034: Water Crisis
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Jungle Station established 2044
2044: Mumbai Civic AI failure (32,000 dead), Picketty Shock, beginning of Flight Recession
2049: European Turning
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2065: Insurance Crisis
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2070: Hurricane War (400 thousand dead, 1 million virtual)
2075: Pandemic (60 million dead, 0.5 billion virtual)
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Cosmos Station established 2080
2080: The Glitch (6 million virtual)
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2084: Degassing (24 thousand dead)
2085: Orbital war (4 thousand dead, 0.2 billion virtual)
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2096: Istanbul Earthquake (9 thousand dead, 0.8 million virtual)
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Origin Station established 2110
2111: Contact with 2080. First Sustained Terminus. Cosmos Station established.
2113 Delhi Earthquake (6 thousand dead, 600 thousand virtual)
2114: Jungle Station established.
2118: First Time-Bubble Crash
2118: Singularity Station established
2121: Iron Station established
2124: Unwar (3,435 dead, 2 billion virtual)
2126: Great Leap Station established
2127: Second Time-Bubble Crash
2127: Mirror War (62,500 virtual dead)
2130: Roaring Station established
2132: Third Time-Bubble Crash, Islamabad Earthquake, reactor leak (5,545 dead, 4,900 virtual)
2134: Origin Station established
2136: Raj Station established
Tell me how I’m wrong, guys
