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Zero One robot community thrives and creates superior vehicles, computers and weaponry to wipe out many human nations - praps. (Middle East - The Matrix Reloaded)
The global human population is 57,388,462,890. (Elysium)
Pluto Nash's bar is blown up by mysterious gangster Rex Crater after a failed takeover. Nash goes to investigate the source of the problem. (Little America, The Moon - The Adventures of Pluto Nash)
Pluto Nash confronts Rex Crater, who turns out to be a clone of himself. The clone is killed at the end of a fight, falling to his death in front of hundreds of casino patrons. (Moon Beach, The Moon - The Adventures of Pluto Nash)
Q2 marks Armadyne's 100th consecutive quarter of profit. (Elysium)
Communication with the Lima Project is lost (Neptune - Ad Astra)
Collapse of several Earth-based national governments spurs creation of CCB. (Elysium)
Weyland Industries stops being Worldwide Olympic Partner and official (Prometheus)
Cooper and Amelia return to the Endurance from Miller’s Planet. Due to relativity Cooper and Amanda had only been on Miller’s Planet for three hours while 23 years had gone by on Earth and the Endurance. Murph is now 35 and works with an aging Professor Brand at NASA working on an equation to harness gravity. Tom, meanwhile, is 40, married, has already lost a child to Earth's increasing dust storms, and is on track to lose another. Cooper, Amelia and Romilly head over to Mann’s Planet and awaken Dr. Mann from cryosleep. Dr. Mann betrays the crew of the Endurance, causes Romilly’s death and tries to hijack the Endurance which leads to his death and the destruction of a portion of the ship. Professor Brand passes away. Murph begins a relationship with NASA coworker Getty (Interstellar)
MedPod 2000 finds cure for cancer. (Elysium)
CCB replaces US as top purchaser of Armadyne security robots. (Elysium)
UN officials refuse to acknowledge robot civilisation Zero One as a sovereign nation, causing a trade blockade and then war - possibly, probably not though. (The Matrix Reloaded)
First citizens emigrate from Earth to Elysium. (Elysium)
Armadyne begins powering Elysium torus. (Elysium)
Zero One robot community survives a nuclear attack, and retaliates against humans - or it doesn't. (The Matrix Reloaded)
First human born on Elysium. (Elysium)
The global human population is 65,775,531,402. (Elysium)
Human military leaders try to block the sun to prevent robots gaining energy; the plan backfires and the atmosphere is destroyed - if it's all happening anyway. (The Matrix Revolutions)
Machines take over human armies and try to harness human bio-electricity to replace the sun's energy - or not. (The Matrix Revolutions)
Machines create the Matrix, a dream-like world set in 1999, to extend the lives of the comatose human batteries - or this happens centuries later. (The Matrix Revolutions)
Armadyne's Moreault invents Applied Matter Transfer Technologies. (Elysium)
3rd May: An energy surge produced by the Lima Project, stationed just outside of Neptune, wreaks havoc on Earth, the Moon and Mars (Solar System - Ad Astra)
29th May: After his briefing and being told he will be sent to the Moon and then onto Mars, Roy McBride boards a rocket to the Moon (Ad Astra)
535,430 crimes are reported on Earth. (Elysium)
The global human population is 7,066,051,818. (Elysium)
Parole Bots interview citizens as part of the Elysium Citizenship Initiative. (Elysium)
'The One' learns he can manipulate the Matrix world through thought, and escapes to the underground human stronghold of Zion - or something else happens. (The Matrix Revolutions)
Captain Reardon becomes captain of the Axiom. (aboard the Axiom, somewhere in space - Wall-E)
The global human population is 74,162,599,914. (Elysium)
A message is sent from the CEO of Buy N Large that the effort to clean up Earth has failed. He issued Directive A 113 to tell Auto Pilot not to return to Earth. (Wall-E)
Elysium awards CCB security contract to Armadyne. (Elysium)
War, disease and famine are all gone by this time. (Star Trek: First Contact)
Carlyle awarded Humanitarian Award for SABRE Cerebral Defense system. (Elysium)
The Nostromo answers a distress call on planet LV-426 to devastating consequences. (Alien)
The global human population is 82,549,668,426. (Elysium)
Pinhead the cenobite is summoned to the space station Minos for a last confrontation with the descendant of the man who created the puzzlebox. (Space Station Minos - Hellraiser: Bloodline)
The starship Avalon, transporting 5,000 colonists and 258 crew members in hibernation pods, leaves Earth for the planet Homestead II (Passengers)
The crew of the space ship Palomino stumbles upon the long, lost ship Cygnus, at the edge of a black hole. (The Black Hole)
Tom dies around this time (Interstellar)
The global human population is 90,936,736,938. (Elysium)
Cooper and Amelia slingshot around Gargantua. Cooper and TARS eject themselves into the black hole. While in the black hole, Cooper and TARS enter a tesseract and interact with the past. The slingshot maneuver costs them 51 years back on Earth, bringing us to this date. In those 51 years, Murph successfully cracks the gravity equation, allowing massive space stations to be constructed on Earth, filled with its remaining population, and easily launched into space. By the end of Cooper and Amelia's slingshot, humanity has become a spacefaring civilization and Murph's central role in their salvation has made her a hero (Interstellar)
18th September: A Fabricant tries to rebel against consumers. (Seoul, South Korea - Cloud Atlas)
Jake Sully's brother starts training to prepare for a mission on Pandora. (Earth - Avatar)
Doom. (Doom)
The global human population is 99,323,805,450. (Elysium)
Jake's brother is murdered. He's asked to take his brother's place on the mission to Pandora since they're so identical. (Earth - Avatar)
28th July: Jake and some marines leave Earth to go to Pandora. (Earth - Avatar)
Doctor Who stops the alien race known as the Daleks from taking over the Earth. (London, England - Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.)
Letsego Dwende becomes Armadyne Chief Financial Officer. (Elysium)
Armadyne profits have increased over the past year. (Elysium)
David awakes from his Lucid Dream after deciding he wanted to live a real life. (Vanilla Sky)
Armadyne profit continues to increase. (Elysium)
Armadyne profit decreases. (Elysium)
Paleo-17 Space Probe lands on planet Tanis. World Population - 24.34 Billion. (Pandorum)
Max Da Costa is exposed to radiation and attempts to get to Elysium. (Los Angeles, California - Elysium)
MedPod 3000 cures last known human disease. (Elysium)
Murph enters cryosleep (Interstellar)
19th May: Jake Sully arrives on Pandora and is shown his avatar for the first time. (Pandora - Avatar)
20th May: Jake meets Neytiri, who takes him to her tribe. (Pandora - Avatar)
21st May: Jake tries to ride Pale. (Pandora - Avatar)