User:MerchantofDeath/Earth Rising

The Earth Rising universe is concerned with Humanity's early space-colonization history (the present times) to the Insurrections of the 2400's and the 2500's. It was created byMerchantofDeath.

Early Years
The Earth Rising timeline begins in the early 2010's after increased rebellions and revolutions againist oppressive governments gave way to more Demorcratic governments. Dictatorships and One-Party governments fell under the might of more liberal minded revolutionaries. Other problems began to appear in this decade, as natural disasters (such as famine and hurricanes, overpopulation, economic crisis and limited resources began to be noticed by Earth's governments. More and more nations began to work toward cooperation to solve these problems and ensure the survival of Human civilization.

When the 2020's came, the new International Society of Civil Engineers was formed in 2021 to futher the limits and quality of space engineering, including sattelites and spaceships, for possible colonization of the Solar System. During the 2010's, Humanity had reached a low point of space exploration, jumping into what the ISCE called "flea jumps" into space for petty science experiments. With the help of funding from the United Nations, the ISCE began working on better engines (such as Ion engines) to allow spaceships to travel faster than ever before. With these new engines, the time that it too to get to Mars would be dramatically cut in half from eight months to four months.