2030 - 2039
2030: UCAS
* Ghoul nation of Asamando founded in Africa.
* Oct 15: Act of Union signed in Washington D.C., Canada and the US merge into the UCAS.
* Awakened forces in Russia seize Siberia
* Brian O'Malley is shot and killed in his home by Yakuza assassins. A retaliatory hit the next day kills the Yakuza oyabun responsible, along with his lieutenants. Losses on both sides of the Mafia/Yakuza conflict result in a truce. Patrick Finnigan becomes capo of his family and the Don of Seattle.
2031: Euro-War
* Beginning of the Euro-Wars
* Late: Echo Mirage finishes off the virus (7 survivors).
o Second-generation cyberterminals are desk-sized.
* James O'Malley, capo of Milwaukee and Brian's older brother, becomes obsessed with revenge against the Yakuza. He neglects his city's operations so dramatically that the Commissione strips him of his position and forces him to retire.
2033: Nightwraith strikes, Nanosecond Buyout
* Jan 23: Nightwraith airstrike. Fighter-bombers attack key C&C centers on all sides of the Euro-Wars, bringing the fighting to a screeching halt. Whodunit? Swedish air surveillance implies that the aircraft were of UK origin, but this is denied by the government.
* Nanosecond Buyout: Damien Knight takes control of Ares.
* To rebuild gumis nearly crippled in the conflicts with the Mafia, the Japanese Yakuza send a new upper echelon of Koreans to Seattle. These Korean leaders begin aggressively reclaiming lost territory.
2034: Amazonia, CAS, Tir Na nOg, Fuchi rising
* Amazonia founded.
* CAS secede from the UCAS.
* Aztlan withdraws from the STC and the NAN.
* South Florida joins the Caribbean League.
* Richard Villiers becomes one-third of Fuchi Industrial Elec.
o May: Matrix Systems, Boston, releases first gray-market cyberterminal.
o Jun: Matrix Systems suffers a computer crash and its two primary shareholders die in "unrelated accidents".
o Jul: Richard Villiers, the remaining majority shareholder, buys into Fuchi with the Matrix Systems technology.
* Dec 25: Formation of Tir Na nOg announced.
2035: Tir Tairngire
* Mar: Liam O'Connor becomes State President of Tir Na nOg.
* The Ceneste branch of the Sinsearach elves establish the elven nation of Tir Tairngire (TT).
* TT secedes from the NAN.
* Lugh Surehand appointed High Prince of TT.
* Tsimshian secedes from the NAN.
* Aztlan invades Texas, capturing the cities of Austin and San Antonio. The CAS refuses to support Texan resistance, causing Texas to secede (briefly, they were re-admitted 4 months later).
2036: California Free State
* UCAS Pres. McAlister withdraws all federal support from CA after they threaten secession.
* Tir Tairngire invades south to Redding.
* Aztlan invades north to San Diego.
* Japan takes control of San Francisco.
* Alamos 20K claims responsibility for the firebombing of a town in rural Ohio, their first public atrocity. 20 people (mostly metahuman) die.
* 14th Amendment to the UCAS Constitution: SINs.
* Fuchi markets 3rd-generation cyberdeck, desktop CDT-1000.
* Akiko Kano and Arthur White-Eagle earn the Nobel Prize for the "Kano-White Eagle Theory of Metaphysical Phenomena".
* Regeneration and transformation of regional forests begins in Scotland.
2037: Denver Data Haven
* Emotive simsense.
* Denver Data Haven shows up in the shadows. (Physical location: the old USAF Academy in Colorado Springs).
* DocWagon founded.
* Lofwyr announces 63% ownership of Saeder-Krupp, votes himself chairman of the board, president, and CEO.
* Guerilla warfare in northern California pushes Tir Tairngire back north as far as Yreka. The territory between Redding and Yreka becomes neutral ground, claimed by both sides.
* Wolves and bears are restored to the Scottish Wild Lands.
* First North American Urban Brawl championship, "Super Brawl"
2039: Night of Rage
* Feb 7: Thousands of metahumans, as well as their friends and family, die in global riots.
o New York City: 836 dead.
o Seattle: "Hands of Five" terrorist group firebombs the metahuman detention centier on the Tacoma docks.
* Feb 10: Alamos 20K destroys the Sears Tower in Chicago.
* St. Patricks Day: Boston, Knights of the Red Branch bomb an elven restaurant on the parade route, killing 24 and inciting a race riot that claimed hundreds more.
* Nadja Daviar becomes the Dunkelzahn's third interpreter.
* Charleston, South Carolina: Serial killer caught and convicted on evidence obtained from a ghost.
* Fuchi sponsors the Universal Matrix Specifications (UMS) conference, Tokyo.
* A massive chemical spill kills 70,000 people in Teeside, England.