Event · era
The Solar Diaspora
2060–2300
Climate refuge and the Partition push industry and people off Earth.
Read more in Reaching outward
The Solar Diaspora (2060–2300). Climate refuge and the Partition push industry off-world, and the Great Lift (2180s–2300s) moves almost all of it: by the 2340s about half a billion people live off Earth. Embodied AI crews do the dangerous early work in the Belt; their bodies, shaped for vacuum and microgravity, create the first distinct AI lineages.