This is the official part of the Planetside 2 lore timeline, up until the landing on Auraxis in 2643. You can find the original text here.
From Earth to Auraxis
The Rise of the Republic (2345-2445)
November 28, 2345
An anomaly described as a “fracture in space” is discovered. It disappears weeks later, before exploratory probes can reach it to investigate.
January 18, 2426
Responding to intelligence indicating imminent and simultaneous attacks, Earth’s six greatest countries declare war on each other.By all rights, the war’s senseless violence should have been stopped by its effect on the human population, which would be cut in half within the first decade of fighting, or by its wanton consumption of the Earth’s limited resources, which were all but completely extinguished by the production of weapons of war. Instead, it was something different–something potentially larger than humanity itself–that ended the cycle of destruction.
March 16, 2444
The space-fracture anomaly reappears, nearly 100 years after its original sighting. This time, probes are able to reach it and identify multispectral transmissions as they exit the fracture in the direction of earth. They are believed to be some form of scan issued from the other side, and are considered by many as a clear indication of intelligent alien life that is aware of humanity.When the fracture closes several weeks later, Pluto is inexplicably destroyed.
December 19, 2444
The existence of the wormhole is made public. In response to the news of an extra-terrestrial power that may have directly caused the destruction of Pluto, peace talks between the Earth’s major powers begin.
May 13, 2445
World leaders sign the Armistice, bringing an end to the global war begun 19 years prior.Over the next several decades, borders fall and governments merge until all nations unite under a single entity known as the Terran Republic. Under the Declaration of Constancy, a council with representatives from every former nation is created and an executive system of elected Presidents begins.
Alien artifacts (2542-2634)
July 3, 2542
The space-fracture, now commonly referred to as the wormhole, reopens exactly 98.3 years after its last appearance. No further emissions are detected, prompting some to question the veracity of the original reports a century prior. After several weeks, it vanishes again.
By June, 2582
Free from the fear of a powerful alien presence, colonial explorers have travelled the solar system and terraformed planets and their moons for human habitation.
2615
Explorer Tom Connery discovers the Moon Belt, a sparsely populated sub-section of the Kuiper Belt made up of the fragments of hundreds of destroyed moons–and the shattered remains of Pluto–extending from Neptune’s orbit to beyond.His team discovers a distinctly unnatural signal emanating from a moon fragment, but lacks the equipment to pinpoint and investigate it and instead returns to Earth.
May 2618
Terran Republic Vice President Martin Harris dies of a heart attack, and renowned explorer Tom Connery is asked by President Sylvia Wyatt to fill the position for the remaining 6 months of her term. To the surprise of many, Connery accepts.
November 10, 2618
Terran Republic Vice President Tom Connery runs for and is elected to the office of President of the Terran Republic.
January 2630
Terran Republic President Tom Connery retires from office, after three successful four-year terms, and begins preparations to return to the Moon Belt.
February 14, 2630
Business Forward, an entity co-founded by the CEOs of some of the solar system’s largest corporations, holds a summit at which the members agree to closely monitor the activity of former Terran Republic President Tom Connery.
July 30, 2630
The term “New Conglomerate” is coined as a reference to Business Forward’s plan to unite major corporations, banks, labor unions, and private protection firms under a single banner to help combat the Terran Republic’s restrictive policies towards the private sector.
March 4, 2631
Former Terran Republic President Tom Connery discreetly recruits noted xenobiologist Henry Briggs for his mission to the Moon Belt.
September 2632
Former Terran Republic President Tom Connery and xenobiologist Henry Briggs locate an alien carving emanating strange signals in the Moon Belt. Briggs touches the idol and claims to have received a vision that greatly changes him, but retains only one distinct memory from the event: the word “Vanu”.
May 2634
Former Terran Republic President Tom Connery’s second Moon Belt expedition returns to Earth and announces the discovery of an alien artifact: A delicately carved figurine. This discovery ushers in a new space exploration boom, bringing with it a host of advances in spacefaring technology and the exploration of the solar system up to twice the distance of Pluto’s remains. No additional artifacts are found.
Through the wormhole (2636-2643)
January 21, 2636
Tom Connery petitions the Terran Republic for resources to mount an exploratory mission through the wormhole–which scientists predict will reopen in 2640 and remain open for at least two weeks–using a volunteer crew. The Senate agrees to fund the expedition if he can enlist the requisite 75,000 volunteers within three weeks, by February 12.
February 3, 2636
Tom Connery presents signed affidavits containing more than 300,000 volunteers to the Terran Republic Senate. He is granted resources to recondition up to 200 ships for his mission through the wormhole.
May 13, 2638
An exploratory fleet of 128 ships, crewed by 75,000 volunteers and led by former Terran Republic President Tom Connery, launches from Earth, bound for the wormhole with the intention of exploring its far side. The fleet consists of Terran Republic military peacekeepers; New Conglomerate-affiliated corporation executives and their hired enforcers and civilian labor force; and many scientists, engineers, and tech experts eager to learn more about the possibility of alien life.
October 20, 2640
Exactly as predicted, the wormhole reopens. The first wave of Connery’s fleet, caught by the fracture’s gravity well, is deposited on the far side of the wormhole before even engaging engines. Subsequent waves attempt to pass through but most are destroyed or unable to reach it as the wormhole destabilizes and closes. Ultimately, about 40,000 people–just over half of the initial force–are trapped on the far side of the wormhole in uncharted space.
March 2, 2641
Mission Commander Connery intensifies military patrols on board all vessels as insurgent activity aboard the fleet begins to escalate.
December 22, 2641
Mission Commander Connery institutes strict curfews as the insurgency grows bolder and several deaths occur due to fighting.
January 2, 2642
A group of 53 insurgents assaults the weapons depot aboard military vessel Explorer-5 and uses the stolen arms to take the bridge. Commander Connery orders an armed response, reclaiming the bridge at the expense of 70 lives. In response, martial law is declared and an emergency vote taken on security measures. The vote to extend military presence and ban gatherings larger than three people passes.
January 6, 2642
Immediately following negotiations between the fleet’s leadership and representatives of the insurgency, the ship on which they are meeting–the Discovery-7–is destroyed, taking the lives of all 592 aboard including Mission Commander Tom Connery and Colonel Richmond Morgannis. Lieutenant Commander Brent Waterson is named Provisional Commander.
January 7, 2642
A vote is again taken on security measures to be enacted. The vote to give the military emergency powers and full fleet control passes by a margin of 2%. Provisional Commander Waterson assumes full military authority over the fleet.
April 10, 2642
A planet capable of terraformation is discovered by fleet scientists. Dubbed “New Earth”, the fleet charts a course toward it with an estimated arrival of January, 2643.
2643
The fleet, adrift for roughly 3 years and now numbering around 60,000 people, arrives at New Earth and begins the process of terraforming and colonizing the world.
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