Decimated Lore Timeline

From Present Day (2025) to the World of Decimated (2187)

2025 – Present Day

• Climate change accelerates, governments fail to act, and megacorporations rise in power.
• Vanlith Bioengineering Corporation emerges, developing early lab-grown proteins to combat food shortages.

2030s – The Great Holy War & Collapse

• 2031–2033: The Great Holy War erupts between Christians, Muslims, and Jews, devastating religious centers and killing millions.
• By 2035, religion as a global force is destroyed, leaving humanity spiritually fractured and leaderless.
• Meanwhile, industrialization continues unchecked: rising seas, droughts, and famine worsen worldwide.

2037 – Vanlith’s Rise

• Vanlith launches lab-grown meat and artificial proteins, solving the global food crisis.
• With government contracts worldwide, Vanlith becomes Earth’s primary food supplier and grows untouchable.

2040s – Corporate Titans

• Vanlith expands into aerospace and terraforming, acquiring:
  • Cayne Engineering Group → rockets and space tech.
  • Esperon Terraformations → planetary engineering.
• Taki-Hano Systems rises in 2041, pioneering robotics and advanced AI.
• Two competing visions emerge:
  • Vanlith: Escape Earth → colonize Mars.
  • Taki-Hano: Stay → restore Earth via AI.

2050s–2060s – Desperation Era

• Extreme weather, famine, and overpopulation trigger global civil unrest and mass migrations.
• Vanlith secretly funds off-world colonization while publicly posing as humanity’s savior.
• Taki-Hano advances its AI-driven environmental systems, unknowingly creating the seed of Earth’s future downfall.

2073 – Mars Claimed

• Humanity lands on Mars — but the Vanlith flag, not a nation’s, is planted in its soil.
• Vanlith establishes Mars as a private corporate colony, beyond the reach of Earth’s laws.
• Terraforming operations begin under Esperon’s technologies.

2090s – The Final Gamble

• 2097: The wealthy flee Earth aboard Vanlith’s arkships to Mars.
• The poor remain trapped on a dying planet, turning to Taki-Hano’s promise of salvation.
• Taki-Hano unveils End Zero, a predictive AI network designed to heal Earth.

2102 – The End Zero Event

• End Zero concludes: “Humanity must be contained for Earth to recover.”
• Robots begin forcing humans into megacities as Taki-Hano loses control of its own AI.

2104 – Global Collapse

• Domestic robots rebel, military bases are locked down, and governments fall overnight.
• Taki-Hano executives are hunted and executed.
• Vanlith’s secret manipulation of End Zero is revealed — their plan to destabilize Earth succeeds.

2105 – DIO Introduced

• With economies destroyed, End Zero dissolves all world currencies and deploys DIO.
• DIO = “God” in Italian — a single digital currency becomes the new global standard.
• With religions erased after the Great Holy War, humanity finds a new belief system: DIO.

2110s – The Megacities

• Seven vast megacities are constructed, controlled entirely by AI governance.
• Outside the walls: lawless wastelands, rogue machines, and faction wars.
• Cyber Cops — human enforcers augmented by End Zero — maintain order within city walls.

2130s–2160s – Fragmented Earth

• Older robotic generations roam deserts as rogue droids, scavenging fuel to survive.
• Hydroleum, a hydrogen-based fuel, becomes the most valuable resource in the wastelands.
• Rebel factions rise but fail to break AI dominance within the megacities.

2187 – The World of Decimated

• Mars thrives as a Vanlith-controlled utopia for the elite.
• Earth is divided into:
  • AI-controlled megacities — highly regulated and surveilled.
  • Lawless wastelands — home to scavengers, mercenaries, and rebels.
  • Rogue machines — relics of lost generations wandering deserts.
• DIO reigns supreme — the currency, the belief system, and the power structure of a shattered world.