Solar Century

The Solar Century is a historical period as defined by the Convention on Human Chronology, spanning the 22nd century and characterized by the rapid development of space travel and extra-terrestrial colonization within the Solar System. According to the Convention on Human Chronology, the Solar Century started in November 2102 with the admission of Inspiration into the United Nations General Assembly, and ended in 2197 with the colonization of Catania, the first extrasolar colony.

The start of the Solar Century was marked by the first great reform of the United Nations into the United Worlds in 2108, and the shift from it being a regulatory body peacefully overseeing international law and conflicts of interest to a governing role with the integration of the Office for Outer Space Affairs into the lawmaking and technology regulation processes of the entirety of human space, demonstrating the growing importance of space affairs and a shift away from Earthbound events, Earth being mostly peaceful at this time.

It is considered a period of great peace and technological prowess, as showed by the Unification of Earth, something thought impossible up until the advent of the Solar Century, and the development and use of the first FTL engine, the MP-1, which also foreshadows the end of the Solar Century, and the beginning of a new colonial period in human history: the colonization of extra-solar planets.