Starholder

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In 1999 Starholder is an exact copy of our world, but that will change. It will drift from ours, slowly at first, but picking up speed until our two worlds diverge wildly. Each one pursuing their own destinies as they confront an accelerating networked future on the brink of ecological collapse.


The stories and events of the Starholder timeline are presented below in chronological order.


== And You Don't Know What It Is (1999 - 2016) ==
==== The End of History (1999 - 2016) ====
The timeline begins with the founding of the [[Starholder Institute]] in 1999. Early stories are focused in California, where the divergence begins, and expand outwards to include the larger world. The period ends with the first major break between base reality and Starholder when in 2016 [[Ron Zirpowski]], The Zero Interest Rate President is elected instead of Donald Trump.


The year is 1999, Bob Dylan is still a thing, and so is comedian/vodka entrepreneur Dan Aykroyd. The latter sits in his house listening to the former. As Aykroyd reads a Newsweek report on the potential damage of the Y2K bug, his anxiety mounts until he feels compelled to do something. He takes action, founding the Starholder Institute. Little does he know that this event triggers something much larger, the formation of an alternate timeline named Starholder after the event which created it.
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In 1999 Starholder is an exact copy of our world, but that will change. It will drift from ours, slowly at first, but picking up speed until our two worlds diverge wildly, each pursuing their own destinies as they confront an accelerating networked future on the brink of ecological collapse.
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The first period of the Starholder Timeline is a time of dawning awareness that the strange is taking hold as technology plays an increasingly large role shaping our world.
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==== Starholder's Birth (1999) ====
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The [https://www.starholder.xyz/ Starholder Institute] is formed to investigate low probability, high impact events which have the possibility to reorient humankind. It was originally founded by Dan Aykroyd and other prominent citizens to identify gaps in the Y2K threat assessment matrix, but now conducts research across a wide array of topics. The creation of the institute was the founding fork which launched the [[Starholder|Starholder Timeline]] as a branch of our own reality.
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==== A Most Unusual Election (2016) ====
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Macho Man Randy Savage narrowly defeats Donald Trump to win the Republican nomination. A legion of WWE fans organize online and form the core of his support as he wins a shocking upset of Hillary Clinton to become president of the United States.
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==== [[Freedom Club: The Unabomber Podcast]] (2014) ====  
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Freedom Club is a biweekly podcast series that explores the life and ideology of Ted Kaczynski, also known as the "Unabomber." Created and hosted by Coyote Hill, a researcher at the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan, the show delves into Kaczynski's manifesto and its relevance in today's world of technology and environmental degradation.
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== Networked Life Intensifies (2017 - 2033) ==
== Networked Life Intensifies (2017 - 2033) ==


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A hivemind begins to emerge as all the networks experience major upgrades and then converge into a fully interoperable protocol. Within this soup, the long awaited promise of AI comes to pass, opening humanity's eyes to the possibility of world that exceeds them. We stand on the cusp of transformation, a divided, attention-starved mess of competing interests quite unfit for any notions of a singularity.
 
=== Major Arcs ===
 
==== [[REKT|REKT - A Crypto Hallucination]] (2017)  ====
 
Set in the crypto bubble of 2017, [[REKT]] is a provocative page-turner that warps its characters to the destabilizing logic of life inside cryptomania. A partnership is tested as a trio of founders struggle to make their stablecoin legit, cash in on opportunity, and navigate what they owe to each other.
 
Follow Ryan, Nikola and Andy as white collar cons and a hustle at all costs mentality suck them into a complex game of criminal unreality that tests their love, loyalty and mental health. It’s an opportunity of a lifetime, but the trio find themselves in conflict and cracking up under pressure.
 
==== [[The Last Network]] (2019) ====
 
Technology has a terrible hold on us, and it’s only getting worse. It’s in our homes, it’s in our minds, but it wants more. It always wants more. With each new innovation, Silicon Valley peers deeper into our souls, taking control, and pushing us in ways we never imagined. Amoral and out for revenge, [[Rabbit Wilson]], has created the world’s most powerful social network. The technology is mind blowing, and everyone wants it. The thing is, Rabbit is not the sharing type.


=== Minor Stories ===
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== The Great Disruption (2034 - 2049) ==


==== [[An Alien Tweets Among Us|The Shocking Truth of Cryptopunk #2890]] (2022) ====
As AI and automation takes a firm grip on the physical world, we are all carried along for the ride whether we like it or not. Humanity is forced to grapple with the great questions as we find ourselves spending more and more time in the world of the machines, a world of our own creation.


Released by the Starholder Institute's Exploration Team, the report makes an astounding claim that the NFT is actually a member of a substrate independent alien species who fled its home planet and took up residence on the Ethereum network. Cryptopunk #2890 verifies the report the following day, but no one in the white hot NFT market pays any attention to it.
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== Headlong into the Hyperreal (2050 - 2069) ==


It is only in 2051, after the Second Moon event is the report rediscovered and acknowledged as the first confirmation of an alien living among us.
As we experience an explosion of worlds, [[Pocket Realities|pocket realities]] and simulations, the nature of reality itself takes on new meaning, calling into question our own identity or rather identities.


==== [[Another Attempt To Bridge]] (2024) ====
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== The Second Moon Event (2070 - 2079) ==


A small meditative story about a father's naive techno-optimism as a form of magical play, offering his Finiliar up as a connection point between the cosmos, himself and his child.
World governments sound the alarm over the sudden presence of a massive alien object dubbed the [[Second Moon]], but is anyone buying it? The effects of hyperreality become apparent as citizens consider it a desperate psyop to regain control over a population now spending all their time in a multitude of alternate realities.  
 
==== [[The Baby Witch Event]] (2029) ====
 
 
The Baby Witch Event was a complex and multifaceted series of occurrences that captured the attention of the public and generated significant curiosity and speculation. At the center of the event was a baby witch, who under the guise of "magic" exploited a major flaw in the security of augmented reality advertising communication channels to manipulate the surroundings and experiences of a [[girl on an errand to get bread]].
 
==== [[Valois|Valois - An Immortality Project]] (2034) ====
 
[[Valois]] introduces the concept of eternal opinionated capital in which wealthy people leave their assets in a trust to be managed by an AI operating in the style and personality of a particular person.
 
== The Great Disruption (2034 - 2051) ==
 
As AI and automation takes a firm grip on the physical world...
 
=== Major Arcs ===
 
==== [[Four Moons Of America|The Four Moons of America]] (2036) ====
 
[[Four Moons Of America|The Four Moons of America]] emerges as both a next generation gaming world and a glimpse into post scarcity society as government programs of UBI and digital speculation attempt to prop late capitalism up by paying people to create, spectate and speculate in the digital realm. With state sponsored play the new norm, humanity embrace their second selves and a migration is underway where people do not live their physical homes but take on new digital ones on top of it.
 
==== [[All Purpose Bees]] (2051) ====
 
The novel focuses on three Central Valley almond producing families who are neighbors, the Nezerjian, Ortega and Wilson clans as they try to manage their operations against a backdrop of climate and generational change. The three neighboring families are among the last of the independent operators in the area, and face an uncertain future as both the supply of pollinating bee colonies dwindles and the current generation of operators approaches retirement age.
 
Only Part One of the novel was produced. The author, Damien Dojoz, was in the act of writing All Purpose Bees when the Second Moon event occurred. Like billions of others, news reports alerted him to the presence of a large dark red second moon looming in the night sky behind our moon. Dojoz looked out his window in awe, realizing that the world had changed forever and no one would have any interest in reading a Steinbeck inspired meditation on change in farming communities.
 
* All Purpose Bees is a lightly fictionalized account of the events in the Nezerjian, Ortega and Wilson families. The Wilson controlled Octus Spacecraft Corporation goes on to be one of the leading producers of private spacecraft which flood the solar system in the 2050s as a response to wormhole energy blasts caused in conjunction with the Second Moon event.
 
=== Minor Stories ===
 
==== [[Aetheric Ephemera Movement|Aetheric Ephemera Movement]] (2046) ====
 
The [[Aetheric Ephemera Movement|Aetheric Ephemera movement]] focuses on the creation of art that is both ephemeral and enduring, existing in the spaces between the physical and the ethereal. This art is characterized by its use of unconventional materials, techniques, and concepts, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
 
==== [[Chrono Gardner]] (2055) ====
 
The Chrono-Gardening story follows a brilliant scientist, Dr. Aislinn O'Shea, who develops a revolutionary technology that allows her to plant "seeds" of time to restore or alter past events. As the practice of Chrono-Gardening evolves into a movement, known as the Regenerative Time Seeding Movement (RTSM), gardens are sent back in time, inspiring awe, curiosity, and skepticism. The Recursive Chrono-Gardening Subculture (RCGS) emerges as a dedicated group, sending Tiffany Gardens progressively deeper into the past through multi-hop chrono-seeding assist chains, including a quest to replace the biblical Garden of Eden with a Tiffany Garden, recursively hopped back to the moment of human inception.
 
== We Are Not Alone (2052 - 2079) ==
 
The Second Moon event is upon us and we are no longer alone in the solar system. As humanity confronts...
 
=== Major Arcs ===
 
holder...
 
=== Minor Stories ===
 
==== [[Driftwood Composer]] (2057) ====
 
In 2057, a reclusive and eccentric inventor named Felix, living in a remote coastal town, discovers a peculiar phenomenon: driftwood that washes ashore contains unique patterns of microscopic minerals that, when exposed to certain frequencies, emit strange and ethereal sounds.


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== The Impending Collapse (2080 - 2099) ==
== The Impending Collapse (2080 - 2099) ==


The Starholder Timeline is threatened.
The final era in Starholder grapples with its own pending disintegration.  
 
=== Major Arcs ===
 
holder...


=== Minor Stories ===
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Latest revision as of 21:44, 10 November 2023

In 1999 Starholder is an exact copy of our world, but that will change. It will drift from ours, slowly at first, but picking up speed until our two worlds diverge wildly. Each one pursuing their own destinies as they confront an accelerating networked future on the brink of ecological collapse.

The stories and events of the Starholder timeline are presented below in chronological order.

The End of History (1999 - 2016)

The timeline begins with the founding of the Starholder Institute in 1999. Early stories are focused in California, where the divergence begins, and expand outwards to include the larger world. The period ends with the first major break between base reality and Starholder when in 2016 Ron Zirpowski, The Zero Interest Rate President is elected instead of Donald Trump.

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

Networked Life Intensifies (2017 - 2033)

A hivemind begins to emerge as all the networks experience major upgrades and then converge into a fully interoperable protocol. Within this soup, the long awaited promise of AI comes to pass, opening humanity's eyes to the possibility of world that exceeds them. We stand on the cusp of transformation, a divided, attention-starved mess of competing interests quite unfit for any notions of a singularity.

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

2027

2028

2029

2030

2031

2032

2033

The Great Disruption (2034 - 2049)

As AI and automation takes a firm grip on the physical world, we are all carried along for the ride whether we like it or not. Humanity is forced to grapple with the great questions as we find ourselves spending more and more time in the world of the machines, a world of our own creation.

2034

2035

2036

2037

2038

2039

2040

2041

2042

2043

2044

2045

2046

2047

2048

2049

Headlong into the Hyperreal (2050 - 2069)

As we experience an explosion of worlds, pocket realities and simulations, the nature of reality itself takes on new meaning, calling into question our own identity or rather identities.

2050

2051

2052

2053

2054

2055

2056

2057

2058

2059

2060

2061

2062

2063

2064

2065

2066

2067

2068

2069

The Second Moon Event (2070 - 2079)

World governments sound the alarm over the sudden presence of a massive alien object dubbed the Second Moon, but is anyone buying it? The effects of hyperreality become apparent as citizens consider it a desperate psyop to regain control over a population now spending all their time in a multitude of alternate realities.

2070

2071

2072

2073

2074

2075

2076

2077

2078

2079

The Impending Collapse (2080 - 2099)

The final era in Starholder grapples with its own pending disintegration.

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2080

2081

2082

2083

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2086

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