Timeline Chronology
1999
The 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 Timeline as a branch of our own reality.
2014
Freedom Club: The Unabomber Podcast 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.
- The podcast serves as inspiration for the scarcity horror subculture
- The Attractive Socialite Wife meme comes out of a leaked letter controversy between the show's host (Hill) and financial backer, Viktor Recel
2017
Set in the 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.
- Blockstar one of the largest ICOs in 2017 is launched. Originally a crypto payments network, the Blockstar Gives initiative transforms it into a platform for networked media and culture.
- Vantium believed to be fictitious in the novel enters the Starholder Timeline as a commercially important mineral.
2022
The Shocking Truth of Cryptopunk #2890 was 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.
It is only in 2043, after the Second Moon event is the report rediscovered and acknowledged as the first confirmation of an alien living among us.
2023
The Last Network is a novella by ChrisF exploring VR/AR technology.
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.
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. The baby witch's actions were recorded and analyzed by headphones, which provided a transcript of the event.
The girl's journey was also documented through a diary entry, which provided insight into her thoughts and feelings as she navigated the city and encountered the various elements of the baby witch's spell. The diary entry, along with the transcript of the baby witch's statements, offered a unique and personal perspective on the event.
The Baby Witch Event also attracted the attention of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which intervened in an effort to address any potential threats to financial stability and the broader economy. The FOMC's actions had significant consequences for the nascent augmented reality advertising industry, which was decimated by the intervention.
2034
Valois - An Immortality Project
Words
2042
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.