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KLAUS (HISTORY (2027 (A video surfaces from a small group of students at…
KLAUS
HISTORY
2019
Dead Sky Day
One by one, the planes in the sky began to fall. With no warning and no idea of the cause, governments worldwide grounded all air travel indefinitely.
Science
The official terms was "thinning." Scientists from around the world came together to study the earth's atmosphere and came back with that single word. For some unknown reason, the thinning of our atmosphere (already a reality from Greenhouse gasses) had sped up rapidly and the atmosphere was not longer substantial enough for airplanes to travel. It's the equivalent of a plane trying to fly into space – there's not enough air to support the plane's flight.
Airport operations were suspended and many closed, firing the workforce, parking the planes, and locking the doors.
2022
Slow Down
Without travel, cargo shipping, business travel, and tourism all slow down to a glacial pace. The economies of every industrialized nation in the world is hit hard.
Depression
From the economic downturn and the draft, unemployment skyrockets as business downsize or fold. The stock market crashes. The "Dead Sky Depression" ensues.
2027
A video surfaces from a small group of students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. It depicts them in a lab at school, successfully teleporting a blackbird, the national bird of Switzerland.
Being a government funded university, the Swiss Government takes control of the project. Governments and business from all world clamor for the technology - an answer to the world's problems. The Swiss treat it as proprietary and offer to build porting machines to those who can afford it (very few).
One of the Swiss students rebels and releases an incomplete set of instructions for porting. Before it can be pulled off the internet, the world bites. The catalyst for porting chaos.
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2029
The first official port stations are built in wealthy countries. They use existing airport locations. The technology is still new and unstable, but the thirst for travel (especially instantaneous travel) causes the world at large to ignore this fear. These stations quickly earn the name "trappers" because of how often they send cargo or a traveler and it does arrive at its destination. The belief is that it is trapped somewhere, in a void.
2031
The leaked plans for porting have been refined enough for wealthy criminal outfits to build Black Ports. They use these to transport drugs, firearms, and other cargo. They use them to kidnap or murder – getting rid of a body without proof has never been easier.
Official porting is now starting to catch up. Large, safer ports are being built with stringent guidelines and restrictions. They are built outside of cities.
A global currency that will not travel through ports has been developed and adopted by nearly every nation.
Colonization is back in style. In order to pay for ports to be in their countries, smaller nations must rely on larger countries to take them over. The USA becomes the West Americas, now owning Mexico and much of South America.
2034
Porting authorities are now more savvy than ever before. Port tracking gives the port authority the ability to track those who have ported within the last 72 hours.
Criminal organizations are forced to use Black Ports less and less. They start to infiltrate the regulated ports with "Handlers." The Handler will divert or void a traveler by changing the code within the port they are running.
2020
Rail
When the reality becomes clear, there's a race to solve the global movement crisis. Sonic rail wins out. A "rail draft" is issued and young, able hands around the globe are pulled to help. Construction estimate at ten years.
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