Wellington Industries is founded when archaeologists discover a Pre-Rifts weapons manufacturing complex. Manistique enjoys a boom.
Erin Tarn's book "Traversing Our Modern World" released.
Coalition troops seize Port Horus in Lone Star, exterminating resistance and setting up a base for the forerunner of the CS Navy. The Emperor makes a speech soon afterwards declaring the intention to build the most powerful Navy in the model of the old American Empire.
Most scholars estimate the Xiticix population to be 30,000; the Coalition says 300,000. Show Spoiler