Earth (ISO-1124 Alpha)

Earth is considered, by legend, to be humanity's grand cradle. Along with the Sol System, it was said to once be a beautiful place. But, as has been seen, it was a system filled with war and chaos.

History
[Human development prior to 2020 and beyond has occurred very similarly to reality, excluding the theoretical development of advance AI systems]

2020
In February of 2020, tensions between countries had begun to slowly escalate, and civil unrest in many regions began to develop. Rising resource prices, changes in internet privacy, and the threat of a massive-scale conflict between nations began to dominate headlines. Concerns began to arise of the pseudo-proxy war in the Middle East (which was actually a resource war over oil appropriately masked as a war on terror), and large players such as Russia and the United States started to engage more and more directly. Yet new advances in technology, both civilian and military, would began to slowly make headway.

Private US company SpaceX and competitive Chinese company Yuna Space Corp both had manned missions to Mars slated for the fall of 2020, with Yuna beating SpaceX on arrival by only a few days. Regardless of who landed first, the Martian landings of both corporations were inarguably the most watched and most supported event in the history of human space travel since the space race of the 1960's. The result of this was a renewed interest of the public, and a rapid advancement toward a new human era.

However, the world began to destabilize, and the threat of war became very real.

2024
On January 9th,