- Network 54 controls 62% of all media in the United States.
- Food shortages lead to unrest in Denver, 52 deaths.
- It is now possible to clone people.
- End of the Second Central American War.
- The construction of the O'Neill I habitat begins in the L-zone.
- The Crystal Palace is completed; ESA now has a stable base in the upper orbital zone.
- The Mars expedition organised by ESA and the CIS reaches its destination.
- Construction of the orbital colonies at L-3 and L-4 begins.
- The first usable nanotechnology is developed simultaneously in European and Japanese corporate laboratories.
- 1700 people fall victim to an epidemic in Chicago.
- A decree declares Manhattan Island in New York City, which is plagued by crime, a high-security prison and closes it off from the outside world by the government.
- April 13, 2013: A concert by Johnny Silverhand in Night City gets out of control, there are heavy riots. The rioters kill 18 people and wound 51. The Arasaka complex is destroyed.
- The Soulkiller virus is developed.
- Netwatch, a formerly private organization, is established worldwide thanks to a joint US / Europe agreement.
- In the laboratories of Microtech Sunnyvale, CA, the first real artificial intelligence is developed.
- The Inara-Grubb transformations lead to a complete transformation of the network into a virtual reality. During this time, Rache Bartmoss places the DataKrash virus in the architecture of the network.
- The "heavy metal wars" break out in Night City. Street gangs fight for their territories.
- The rise of cyber mercenaries: Lithuania hires cyber soldiers to repulse the invasion of Latvian nationalists.
- Nanotechnology is used commercially.
- The Third Corporate War is raging in the Matrix. Corporations attack the data fortresses of their competitors and cause billions in losses worldwide.
- The first bioware is developed in European laboratories.
- For the first time he succeeds in breeding a human clone with consciousness. Unfortunately it dies soon.
- L-3 colony "Galileo Zylinder (O'Neill II)" is completed.
- The NASA mission to Mars starts.
- In Eastern Europe, the bushfire war is breaking out.
- Unmanned ESA mission to Jupiter launched
- Second ESA/GUS Mars mission launched.
- L-4 colony "Paradise Station (O'Neill III)" is completed.
- In the orbital colony L-3 there is a rebellion. The Highriders fend off ESA forces and declare their independence.
- NASA mission reaches Mars
- "While her star reporter Edison "Cam" Carter was researching a new braindance technology, he suffered an accident that digitized a damaged copy of his mind. The resulting entity ghosts through the net.
- The Chicago reconstruction project begins. Financed by visionary Dr. Richard Storm of Storm Technologies, the project unites nomadic groups under the banners of the Aldecaldo and Jode families.
- Second ESA/GUS mission reaches Mars
- O'Neill II declares independence.
- The ESA/GUS Mars base Isidis is completed and a colonial government is formally established.
- Market launch of commercial organic products in Europe
- NASA completes Chryse Base on Mars.
- The "O'Neill War" breaks out between ESA and the Highriders. Due to sheer manpower and the cooperation between working groups and space pilots, the war is already over after 7 hours. ESA gives up control over O'Neill II, but keeps the Crystal Palace and L-4 (O'Neill III).
- The "canal wars" around the Suez Canal break out. Several corporations fight for control of the terminal and deploy cyber mercenaries on site.
- Rache Bartmoss, the legendary Netrunner, is killed during a corporate raid. Two weeks later, his Deadman Switch activates the DataKrash virus. It infects 78% of the network at breakneck speed before it can be slowed down by Netwatch.
- The first automatic factories are built in Mars orbit.
- Markets worldwide are in free fall due to the loss of the network.
- The "channel wars" are ended because the costs are no longer affordable for the corporations. The Suez Canal is severely damaged.
- The net and the matrix are encapsulated and access limited. Corporations finalize the complete separation of their servers from the network and form individual, internal, networks.
- Disused national and international communication technologies from the 1990s are reactivated.
- NASA begins regular flights to Mars, initially every 14 months.
- Netwatch declares the matrix a total restricted area. New local networks are created.
- The world markets are recovering from the Data Crash, but world trade and the worldwide exchange of information are still very limited.
- Old communication protocols, which were never ready for the market due to the Inara-Grubb system, are revived by corporations and established in the market as quickly as possible.
- The handheld devices called "agents" are introduced and experience a boom because they allow local, wireless communication and data exchange with local networks at the same time.
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