Timeline

The following is a timeline of important events in the world of High Tech Low Life.

2010s

 * 2016
 * Page Industries is founded.
 * 2017
 * EuroCorp is formed through the merger of Kader Industrieen and Euroline Medical.
 * 2018
 * The Coalescence Corporation is founded.

2030s

 * 2035
 * February 26: The Atlas Corporation is founded.

2040s

 * 2041: Dahl is founded.
 * 2042
 * May: The Atlas Corporation is officially recognized as the largest private military company in the world.
 * 2047
 * April 28: Neo-Luddite terrorists attack several nuclear power plants under the protection of the Atlas Corporation. Atlas CEO Jonathan Irons argues that the attacks could have been prevented had Atlas been allowed to operate without government interference.
 * May 3: In the wake of the terrorist attacks of April 28th, the United Nations passes the Atlas Decision, a resolution granting extraterritorial rights to sufficiently large corporations, affording them many of the same rights and privileges as sovereign nations.

2050s

 * 2054
 * July 10: North Korea invades Seoul, South Korea. The invasion is repelled by a combined effort from South Korean and United States forces. The U.S. Marine Corps suffers over 6,000 casualties during the battle, including Lance Corporal William Irons, son of Atlas CEO Jonathan Irons.
 * December 12: Terrorists plant a bomb on a Coalescence Corporation commuter train in Zurich, Switzerland. The attack kills 221 passengers and destroys an artificial intelligence prototype critical to the Coalescence Corporation's research on integrated cybernetics.

2060s

 * 2060
 * June 2: A massive explosion rocks the Coalescence Corporation Research and Development Facility on the north bank of the Singapore Marina. An unknown toxin is released from the facility, causing massive casualties, estimated at roughly 300,000. The Singaporean government initiates a quarantine zone of roughly 25 square miles, with the Singapore Armed Forces ordered to shoot anyone fleeing from the quarantine zone for fear of further contamination. The event would become known as the Coalescence Disaster.
 * 2063
 * Cayman Global is formed through the merger of several Central American import/export companies with three of Brazil's largest financial institutions.
 * 2067
 * October: The Atlas Corporation moves its official headquarters to the rebuilt city of New Baghdad.

2070s

 * 2070
 * Cayman Global gains megacorporate status and extraterritoriality after taking control of the Atlantic Accelerator research facility.