2013: CCP Games realizes that every piece of advice uttered by player Istvaan Shogaatsu has been worth gold, improved the game, and increased subscriber numbers. Recognizing the divine correctness of his will, CCP hires Shogaatsu as creative czar, a newly created position with oversight into all aspects of Eve Online, and Dust 514.

2014: Following the implementation of Shogaatsu's "Veteran Player Initiative," where Eve's most dedicated and long-term players are awarded with the ability to create powerful vessels befitting their status, subscriber numbers soar to 80,000 concurrent/750,000 subscribed. Many lapsed veterans are drawn back to the game. The sudden spike in population fills CCP's coffers with hitherto-unseen amounts of funds, and under Shogaatsu's blessed advice, 15,000 further star systems are added to 0.0 space in a gradual campaign of exploration, mapping and gate-building which is left entirely up to the players.

2015: CCP Games becomes the largest, wealthiest business in Iceland. Eve Online, now relatively seamlessly integrated into Dust 514, makes the move to the newly launched PlayStation 4. While Eve Online's subscriber numbers are level at 100,000 concurrent/1.5 million, Dust 514 becomes "the reason people buy a PS4" after Shogaatsu's comprehensive re-design of planetary surfaces, and implementation of mass-destruction/tectonic effects, allowing players to bombard a radiant Eden-world until it looks like a ball of fire and challenging Dust mercenaries to fight on a planet as it was unmade around them.

2016: CCP Games completes a hostile acquisition of Sony's Playstation division.

2017: CCP Games completes a hostile acquisition of Sony Corporation.

2018: CCP Games completes takeover of Iceland, with 91.3% of the nation's population employed as GMs to manage the New Eden combined universe population of millions. (The remaining 8.7% are employed in 'shroom farms.) CCP Games renames Iceland to Sexland, tourism economy soars.

2019: Istvaan Shogaatsu, now scientifically proven to never be wrong, assumes command of NATO. All non-compliant nations brought brutally to heel by exoskeleton-armoured orbital drop troops trained on a strict regimen of Dust 514. Military resistance is swept aside.

2020: With mankind united under the golden leadership of Imperator Shogaatsu, and the hopeful vision of the future provided by the New Eden simulation (now subscribed to by 23.873% of humankind) all scientific research turns toward the conquest of space.

2023: The Indonesian betrayal.

2024: The extermination of Indonesia.

2030: Beginning of the first Decade WIthout War in recorded history.

2040: First child born on Mars.

2045: Fusion power.

2050: Peak oil. It comes largely un-noticed.

2075: Global pollution levels reduced to pre-industrial-revolution status.

2100: Establishment of Titan colony. First auto-constructor ships leave for Gliese 581.

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So yeah, basically do what I say or the world ends. Step 1: ships for veterans!