2168, Year OTT Union Time Line

2168

2167<<<<<<>>>>>>>>2169 
 * The United Earth Congress considers to open the Vault of Potentials revealed in 2106 by the Guardian and wake / resurrect more historical greats.A night before they decide, an unknown group of Terrorists infiltrated the Vault of Potentials and detonated a nuclear satchel charge in that cave. All machinery needed to make these perfect clone copies and the TL 12 data bank with all the data completely destroyed. United Earth Congress fears a foreign power migh have stolen the equipment and the data. Phil Decker is asked to investigate. The old cop declares after only six days of investigation that he never came across a more perfect crime and it was unsolveable. [1]
 * Three standard Arks leave Earth with 30,000 colonists to Dulce Vita. Officially with mostly Sicilian colonists, but historians believe it was the official move of the Mafia to become humanities first interstellar crime syndicate.
 * More and more humans rely on smaller private Arks and Space ships to leave Earth, often undocumented and unknown to the Bureau of Colonist Affairs. Dozens of "Rouge Colonies" are founded by groups as small as 500 and as big as 60,000 (in the case of the Galactic Babtists)

[1] It was Richard Stahl who detonated the nuclear charge. He admitted to it in 5050 and explained his fear that not only the good would be resurrected but the bad as well. He said humanity had all the potential to bring forth new heroes, inventors, leaders and villians. No need to resurect copies of the old. There was simply to much potential for disaster. Phil Decker called it a perfect crime not because he did not find out who it was (took him 3 days) but he fully agreed with the reasons and that's why it was “perfect”