History Leading to the Formation of the Solar League
In 1686, shortly after publishing the Principia, Isaac Newton developed a theory of a class of minerals (which later became known as Trans-Newtonian). These minerals, partly based in his earlier studies in chemistry and alchemy, form the basis for much of the scientific endeavors over the next century.
In 1754, a German by the name of Hans S?ring used a distillate of Newton?s Element Eight to launch a small satellite into orbit. This first satellite orbited the Earth for 3 days before plummeting back to the Earth in a fiery spectacle in the Atlantic Ocean. This distillate became known as sorium. The name sorium also became entrenched as the popular name of Element Eight.
1832, the American adventurer William Carstairs was the first person to orbit the Earth. Launched from what will become the main Earth-based facility of the Solar League. Wm Carstairs orbits for 5 days, to a successful landing in the Gulf of Mexico.
1848, President James Polk, in talks with Lord John Russell, Queen Victoria, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, King Ferdinand I of Austria, Francois Guizot of France, and Abd-ul-Mejid of the Ottoman Empire agree to the formation of a world politic. In preference to no one nation or culture, the new government is named the League of the Solar Nations, and officially shortened to Solar League in 1852. The next 15 years are spent subduing and integrating the remainder of the world under the League banner.
1867, the first manned ship of the League, the SLNS Endeavor, orbits and lands on the moon.
1882, Max Planck, using previously unpublished works of Newton and S?ring, postulates the existence of unstable gravitational phenomenon which might be used by vessels to travel to distant systems.
1888, Present Day.
