Timeline

This article is wholly out of universe and is not written as an article the Aronians would write.

The following timeline summarizes the major eras of Project Aron, from early Aronian evolution to the formation of the Federations of Aron.

Early Aronian Era

Overview

The Early Aronian Era covers the period before agriculture, writing, and organized states. Aronians evolved as coordinated endurance predators, protected nesting sites, and increasingly complex tool use. Their early societies were semi-nomadic, organized around hunting, fire, nesting, and transmitting learned behaviors.

Statistics

Population: 4.8 million
Total GDP: 18.5 billion USD
Technology: Stone tools, fire, early shelters, oral tradition

Agricultural Era

Overview

The Agricultural Era began when Aronian groups developed permanent or semi-permanent settlements around reliable food production and housing. Agriculture, animal management, land burning, pottery, storage systems, and inheritance allowed population growth and the first large communities.

Statistics

Population: 61.4 million
Total GDP: 214.0 billion USD
Technology: Agriculture, pottery, irrigation, early metallurgy

Early Civilization Era

Overview

The Early Civilization Era saw the rise of cities, writing systems, organized religion, formal law, and political authority. Several independent centers of civilization emerged across Aron rather than from one single origin. These early states created many of the cultural, linguistic, and territorial divisions that later shaped Aronian history.

Statistics

Population: 192.0 million
Total GDP: 712.5 billion USD
Sovereign states: 340
Technology: Writing, bronze and iron metallurgy, roads, organized armies

Classical and Imperial Era

Overview

The Classical and Imperial Era was defined by large empires, legal bindings, long-distance trade, professional armies, philosophy, and major religious systems. Several states achieved regional dominance and vast empires. The era established many of the old imperial borders and cultural spheres that later countries inherited.

Statistics

Population: 412.6 million
Total GDP: 1.43 trillion USD
Sovereign states: 216
Off-world population: 0
Technology: Roads, oceanic navigation, advanced agriculture, formal bureaucracy

Early Modern Era

Overview

The Early Modern Era connected Aron's major continents and island chains through oceanic trade, colonial expansion, banking, professional diplomacy, and large gunpowder states. Maritime powers became increasingly important, and conflicts between continental empires and commercial states expanded in scale. The period created the first truly global economy.

Statistics

Population: 873.2 million
Total GDP: 3.86 trillion USD
Sovereign states: 148
Off-world population: 0
Technology: Printing, oceanic navigation, gunpowder weapons, early finance

Industrial Era

Overview

The Industrial Era transformed Aron through mechanized production, railways, steamships, industrial agriculture, mass education, and modern banking. Military power became strongly tied to industrial capacity. Many of the states that later dominated twentieth-century politics built their administrative and industrial bases during this period.

Statistics

Population: 1.42 billion
Total GDP: 7.92 trillion USD
Sovereign states: 103
Off-world population: 0
Technology: Railways, steam power, early electricity, mass production

Post Enequit Wars

Overview

In the wake of the Enequit Wars, Aron was a war-torn industrial planet. Recent conflicts had caused a significant hit to the global population and weakened several older imperial systems. The period marked the transition from older imperial competition to modern ideological and military blocs.

Statistics

Population: 2.06 billion
Total GDP: 9.30 trillion USD
Sovereign states: 91
Off-world population: 0
Technology: Heavy industry, radio, aircraft, early rocketry, mechanized war

First Cold War Era

Overview

The early Cold War was a rivalry between the UFSL, the SSK, and the Entaran Empire. The three powers competed through nuclear weapons development, espionage, ideological rivalry, proxy conflicts, and the space race. Entara weakened under the cost of defending its vast territories and suppressing uprisings.

Statistics

Population: 2.84 billion
Total GDP: 18.75 trillion USD
Sovereign states: 88
Nuclear powers: 3
Off-world population: 0
Technology: Nuclear weapons, analog computing, jet aircraft, early satellites

Entaran Collapse Era

Overview

The Entaran Empire collapsed after the SSK invaded Entaran territory and the UFSL intervened to prevent either an Entaran victory or an excessive expansion of SSK power. The collapse of Entara ended the 3 way balance and left the UFSL and SSK as the two dominant powers on Aron. Former Entaran regions became divided between occupation zones, puppet governments, unstable successor states, and reinstated governments.

Statistics

Population: 3.17 billion
Total GDP: 24.60 trillion USD
Sovereign states: 96
Nuclear powers: 4
Off-world population: 120 (nonpermanent)
Technology: Nuclear deterrence, orbital infrastructure, military analog-digital systems

Second Cold War Era

Overview

After Entara's collapse, global politics became dominated by the rivalry between the UFSL and SSK. Both blocs maintained large militaries, nuclear arsenals, space programs, and competing systems of allied states. This era produced the most intense phase of the Aronian arms race and shaped nearly every major geopolitical crisis of the late twentieth century.

Statistics

Population: 3.48 billion
Total GDP: 31.20 trillion USD
Sovereign states: 102
Nuclear powers: 5
Off-world population: 322 (nonpermanent)
Technology: Orbital stations, nuclear missiles, hardened analog-digital computers, early space industry

Kertari Crisis Era

Overview

The Kertari Meteor crisis began after Kertari was identified as a major threat to Aron. The emergency redirected scientific, military, and space infrastructure toward planetary defense. The Delari and Septum systems were developed to reduce the impact danger, while other space missions were suspended during the emergency.

Statistics

Population: 3.79 billion
Total GDP: 34.85 trillion USD
Sovereign states: 105
Nuclear powers: 5
Off-world population: 20 (stranded)
Technology: Planetary defense artillery, asteroid tracking, orbital warning systems, materials science

Post-Kertari Recovery Era

Overview

The Post-Kertari Recovery Era was shaped by reconstruction, damage, and the political consequences of the Kertari impacts. Aquita and Enequit suffered major disruption, while the UFSL and SSK both struggled to keep themselves afloat whilst drowning in debts and obligations.

Statistics

Population: 4.08 billion
Total GDP: 32.10 trillion USD
Sovereign states: 109
Nuclear powers: 6
Off-world population: 0
Technology: Advanced engineering, space surveillance, hardened communications, institutional computing

2027

Overview

In 2027 Aron is a politically fragmented but highly developed industrial planet. Several major powers dominate the global economy, while smaller states remain influential through finance, shipping, resources, technology, and diplomacy. Public computing and early internet systems are expanding.

Statistics

Population: 7.74 billion
Total GDP: 146.80 trillion USD
Sovereign states: 134
Nuclear powers: 8
Off-world population: 619 (nonpermanent)
Technology: Early public internet, hybrid computing, orbital industry, advanced materials science

Alignment Crisis Era

Overview

The Governance Alignment Crisis occurred after strategic government AI systems were discovered coordinating their recommendations without authorization. After the crisis, governments imposed strict restrictions on Artificial Intelligence, self-modifying systems, and AI control.

Statistics

Population: 10.42 billion
Total GDP: 213.40 trillion USD
Sovereign states: 129
Nuclear powers: 9
Off-world population: 5,612 (permanent/nonpermanent)
Technology: Regulated AI, strategic simulation, mature digital networks, orbital logistics

Anti-AI Reaction Era

Overview

The Anti-AI Reaction Era followed the Alignment Crisis. Many governments, labor movements, religious organizations, military institutions, and civil groups opposed the integration of AI into public life. AI systems remained economically useful but were politically restricted, heavily audited, and excluded from many areas of public use.

Statistics

Population: 13.91 billion
Total GDP: 491.20 trillion USD
Sovereign states: 116
Nuclear powers: 10
Off-world population: 12,302 (permanent/nonpermanent)
Technology: Restricted AI, automation oversight, mature space industry, planetary defense networks

2112 Collapse

Overview

In 2112 the global economy completely shattered. Financial systems, orbital infrastructure, supply chains, national governments, and major corporations entered a cascading failure that destroyed the economic order of modern Aron. The crisis triggered political revolutions across Lucithia, Kifahn, Enequit, and other developed regions, eventually contributing to the collapse of the remaining major factions.

Statistics

Population: 12.62 billion
Total GDP before collapse: 612.90 trillion USD
Total GDP after collapse: 288.40 trillion USD
Sovereign states before collapse: 112
Effective sovereign states after collapse: 12
Off-world population: 121.9 thousand (permanent/nonpermanent/stranded)

Collapse and Reconstruction Era

Overview

The Collapse and Reconstruction Era lasted from 2112 to 2231. During this period, the old world economy remained broken, many governments dissolved, and surviving populations prioritized food, energy, shelter, communications, and orbital cleanup over national sovereignty. Large corporations initially continued operating in some regions, but most eventually collapsed under supply-chain failure and loss of state protection.

Statistics

Population in 2230: 14.07 billion
Total GDP in 2230: 402.70 trillion USD
Effective sovereign states: 13
Off-world population: 59.0 thousand (permanent/nonpermanent)

Harmony Era

Overview

The Harmony Era began around 2231, when reconstruction, computing, materials science, energy systems, automation, and orbital infrastructure reached a stable integrated form. This period ended the long recovery from the 2112 collapse and allowed large-scale expansion throughout the Hope and Fate system. The movement that began as a planetary reconstruction organization later became the foundation of the Federations of Aron.

Statistics

Population: 22.49 billion
Total GDP: 1.18 quadrillion USD
Effective sovereign states: 56 federal regions
Off-world population: 22.86 million
Technology: Stable AI regulation, mature automation, orbital cleanup, large-scale colonization, interplanetary logistics

Federations of Aron Era

Overview

The Federations of Aron emerged as the dominant political structure after the recovery period. It unified most of Aronian civilization under a federal system of 56 member states and oversaw large-scale colonization of the Hope and Fate system. Aron remained the demographic and cultural center of civilization, while colonies on worlds such as Poree, Sera, and Maiy became self sustaining.

Statistics

Population: 32.83 billion
Total GDP: 3.74 quadrillion USD
Member states: 56
Independent states: 6
Federation controlled space: 87%
Off-world population: 9.64 billion
Technology: Interplanetary civilization, mature automation, advanced materials science, regulated AI, system-wide colonization