Timeline

THE SETTLEMENT OF MARS

2021: Mission to Mars announced

2078: Human terraforming begins

2108: Last mission to Mars

DISASTER

2515: First confirmed case of the mysterious T-virus, and the first survivor becomes the first Martian.

2528: The T-virus has wiped out 30% of the human population.

2529: The Ascension Project launches

2680: Humans are extinct on Mars, leaving only the martians and the Ascended.

2771: The eruption of Olympus Mons.

REGROWTH

4170: Doxerd the sage is born

4190: The first ascended are discovered in a ruined laboratory hidden underneath ash from the Olympus Mons eruption by Doxerd the sage, who then works with Lucien to bring a stronger civilization to the martians.

4200: Doxerd the sage is coronated as the first official monarch of the Martians, and worship of the Ancient Humans becomes the dominant religion.

4224: Other martians begin exploring the rest of the planet in hopes of finding their own ascended to help them form their own country.

Modern year: You, the player character, are coronated.