A few more entries for the GUT...
May 4, 2008: Warsie Earth-Luna L5 base established. Important Warsie holiday - the first official annual May the Fourth Be With You Day.
Summer 2009: Kaboomite becomes known because of a testing accident at Worldcon Flying Island. (No fatalities, but total property damage runs over $10,000,000.) Those in the know refuse to discuss what kaboomite is; its use within 1000km of any ship or station is outlawed in the Articles of Convention drafted at Worldcon Flying Island.
Summer 2009: After Worldcon Flying Island, a substantial amount of 'Dane/Fen trade moves away from Earth orbit and into Fenspace proper.
July 1, 2011: SC Virgil Samms launched.
December 21, 2012: The Mayan calendar comes to an end. Many "new age mystics" consider this to be an omen of doom. A few Fen expect or hope that Something Important will happen in Fenspace on this date.
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
May 4, 2008: Warsie Earth-Luna L5 base established. Important Warsie holiday - the first official annual May the Fourth Be With You Day.
Summer 2009: Kaboomite becomes known because of a testing accident at Worldcon Flying Island. (No fatalities, but total property damage runs over $10,000,000.) Those in the know refuse to discuss what kaboomite is; its use within 1000km of any ship or station is outlawed in the Articles of Convention drafted at Worldcon Flying Island.
Summer 2009: After Worldcon Flying Island, a substantial amount of 'Dane/Fen trade moves away from Earth orbit and into Fenspace proper.
July 1, 2011: SC Virgil Samms launched.
December 21, 2012: The Mayan calendar comes to an end. Many "new age mystics" consider this to be an omen of doom. A few Fen expect or hope that Something Important will happen in Fenspace on this date.
-Rob Kelk
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012