- The NSA, CIA, FBI, and DEA—collectively known as the Gang of Four—jointly launch a secret takeover of the US government.
- American soldiers are deployed in the First Central American Conflict, and the high numbers of injured veterans it produces drives demand for cybernetic limb and organ replacement.
- Over the next several years, multiple Free States emerge, ignoring federal law. In the Soviet Union, Andrei Gorborev becomes President.
FUTURESHOCK: History of An Alternate Time
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1990
1990
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1991
1991
- An Italian corporation called BioTechnica creates a new chemical fuel, CHOOH2, from its own patented, genetically engineered wheat.
- At the Stanford Research Center artificial muscle fiber is developed.
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1992
1992
- The European Economic Community is established, with a common currency called the Eurodollar whose stability leads to it becoming officially currency in several non-European nations.
- Designer plagues developed by the DEA targeting coca and opium plants are released around the world. The governments of Chile, Ecuador, and Afghanistan collapse.
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1992
Richard Night buys up land in Del Coronado Bay
Entrepreneur Richard Night buys up land in Del Coronado Bay for a utopian urban planning project called Coronado City with heavy corporate investment—the land is cheap due to an infamous boostergang raid called the Morro Bay Massacre earlier in the year. -
1993
1993
15,000 die when a tactical nuke is set off in New York, with blame placed on Colombian drug lords. In Munich, the first TRC Biologic Interface Chips are developed.