UEO SEAQUEST (DSV 4600) SSORM: APPENDIX II

UEO SEAQUEST
DSV 4600
SHIP'S SERVICE AND ORGANIZATION MANUAL
APPENDIX II - IMPORTANT EVENTS

WORLD CHRONOLOGY

1960: NOVEMBER 10. NATHAN BRIDGER BORN

1990: BERLIN WALL FALLS

1991: USSR DISINTEGRATES

1992: WORLD ECOLOGY SUMMIT CONVENES IN RIO SHOWING FIRST SERIOUS SIGNS OF MANKIND'S INTEREST IN EARTH'S SURVIVAL. AT THE SAME TIME, CIS/USA (YELTSIN/BUSH) BEGIN FAR-REACHING MILITARY DISARMAMENT.

1995: MIGUEL ORTIZ IS BORN IN CUBA. TIM O'NEILL IS BORN IN THE MIDWEST.

1996: NEED FOR GLOBAL NUCLEAR WARFARE CAPABILITY AMONG SUPERWERS ALL BUT GONE

WORLDWIDE SEARCH FOR ANSWERS TO ECOLOGICAL SURVIVAL CONTINUES.

REALIZATION BEGINS TO DAWN THAT WORLD'S OCEANS COULD BE SAVING GRACE ENVIRONMENT FOR EARTH ... YIELDING SEEMINGLY LIMITLESS NEW SOURCES OF FOOD, FUEL, LIVING SPACE, ETC.

PROGRAMS ARE BEGUN TO STUDY FEASIBILITY OF DEEP SEA EXPLORATION AND UTILIZATION

1997: THE DARK AGE OF GENETICS BEGINS - HUMAN-LIKE LIFE FORMS ARE ENGINEERED FROM SYNTHETIC GENES.

DAGWOOD IS CREATED.

1999: TECHNOLOGIES ARE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING WHICH MAKE THE SEAS A MUCH LESS FOREBODING ENVIRONMENT. LARGE SCALE DESALINIZATION OF SEA WATER, DEEP SEA OIL DRILLING, ORE MINING, "FARMING" EVEN COLONIZATION -- ARE SUDDENLY VERY POSSIBLE

NATIONS EARMARK LARGE PORTIONS OF THEIR FORMER MILITARY BUDGETS TOWARD SWIFT DEVELOPMENT OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES.

R&D RESOURCES PREVIOUSLY DIRECTED TOWARD OUTER SPACE EXPLORATION ARE NOW AIMED TOWARD PLANET'S OCEANS.

SCIENTIFIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITIES PLEASED BY THESE ADVANCES, ALSO WARN GOVERNMENTS TO PROCEED CAUTIOUSLY.

2001: "SURFSCRAPERS" -- BUILDINGS CONSTRUCTED HALF BELOW WATER, HALF ABOVE -- BEGIN TO APPEAR OFF THE SHORES OF SEVERAL MAJOR COASTAL CITIES.

SUB-SURFACE FREIGHTERS BEGIN SERVICE. BY TRAVELLING JUST BENEATH THE SURFACE, THESE SHIPS ARE NOT AFFECTED BY THE VAGARITIES OF TERRESTRIAL WEATHER, ROUGH SEAS, ETC., ALLOWING SAFER, FASTER, MORE RELIABLE PASSAGE. EARLY SUB-SURFACE SHIPPING LANES ARE ESTABLISHED.

FIRST DEEP OCEAN "ENVIRONMENTS" ARE ESTABLISHED BY VARIOUS INDIVIDUAL NATIONS; SOME ARE OIL DRILLING RIGS, SOME ARE MINING FACILITIES, SOME ARE RUDIMENTARY "FARMS".

THE SEA IS LIVING UP TO ITS POTENTIAL, YIELDING FRESH WATER, FOOD, FUELS, PRECIOUS MINERALS, ETC.

BECAUSE OF THE EXPENSE OF DEVELOPING THE NECESSARY TECHNOLOGIES, SEVERAL SMALLER NATIONS BAND TOGETHER TO FORM ECONOMIC CONFEDERATIONS, SIMILAR TO THE EUROPEAN COMMON MARKET, SO AS NOT TO BE LEFT BEHIND.

2002: MORE UNDERSEA "ENVIRONMENTS" ARE ESTABLISHED. BECAUSE OF THE RICHNESS OF RESOURCES AT THESE CHOSEN SITES, MOST NATIONS IGNORE THE AGE-OLD RULES OF THE OPEN SEA (THE 200 MILE LIMIT), AND BEGIN STAKING CLAIMS TO PARCELS OF THE OCEAN FLOOR -- AND THE REGIONS OF WATER ABOVE THEM.

MORE COUNTRIES BAND TOGETHER INTO CONFEDERATIONS TO BETTER EXPAND THEIR "OWNERSHIP"OF UNDERSEA PROPERTY, AND TO STRENGTHEN THEIR RESISTANCE TO INVADERS.

ENVIRONMENTALISTS WARN THAT THE SEA'S RESOURCES ARE BEING EXPLOITED TOO RAPIDLY. BUT THE ECONOMIC STAKES ARE TOO HIGH NOW; MOST NATIONS AND CONFEDERATIONS IGNORE THESE WARNINGS.

2004: WELL-FINANCED INDUSTRIALISTS, INDEPENDENT OF ANY NATION OR CONFEDERATION, BEGIN THEIR OWN UNREGULATED EXPLOITATION OF THE SEA.

DRUG RUNNERS AND OTHER CONTRABAND TRADERS BEGIN USING SUB-SURFACE VESSELS FOR THEIR SMUGGLING (RENDERING THEM TOTALLY UNDETECTABLE TO SATELLITES, SURFACE SHIPS AND PLANES, ETC.

CREATING HUMAN-LIKE GENETICALLY ENGINEERED LIFE FORMS (GELF) IS OUTLAWED BY U.N. RESOLUTION S-932. THE SEVERAL BATCHES OF DESIGNER SOLDIERS ARE CONFINED IN ISOLATED FARMS OR COLONIES TO GROW TO MATURITY.

THE UNITED STATES JOINS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES TO FORM THE NORTH PACIFIC CONFEDERATION.

WORLD TENSION MOUNTS AS OCEAN TERRITORIALITY ESCALATES.

2006: THE UNITED NATIONS DISSOLVES ... UNABLE TO COPE WITH THE POWER OF THESE NEWLY FORMED CONFEDERATIONS AND THE RAPIDLY RISING ANTAGONISM AMONG THEM.

THE EIGHT WORLD CONFEDERATIONS BEGIN TO RE-ARM THEMSELVES USING 21ST-CENTURY TECHNOLOGY.

2007: PROJECT SEAQUEST BEGINS. THE NORTH PACIFIC CONFEDERATION COMMENCES DESIGN OF THE ULTIMATE SEAGOING WAR VESSEL. THESEAQUEST (DSV-4600) WILL BE THE LARGEST, FASTEST, DEADLIEST MACHNE EVER TO ROAM THE SEVEN SEAS. THE MAXIMUM SECURITY PROJECT IS PLACED UNDER THE DIRECT SUPERVISION OF CAPT. NATHAN HALE BRIDGER.

2008: PROJECT SEAQUEST CONTINUES.
OCEANIC TERRITORIALITY CONTINUES TO ESCALATE AMONG THE CONFEDERATIONS. DEEP SEA PIRACY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RAPE OF THE OCEANS INCREASE UNABATED.

OCT. 19. THE NORTHSEA CONFEDERATION SPACE STATION 'LIBERTE' FALLS OUT OF ORBIT

2010: PROJECT SEAQUEST IS NEARING COMPLETION.

AN OCEANIC BORDER DISPUTE ERUPTS IN THE ARTIC. A NORTH PACIFIC CONFEDERATION EXPLORER SHIP IS SUNK BY ENEMY FIRE. CAPT. BRIDGER'S ONLY SON, ROBERT, IS ON BOARD.

LOSING HIS TASTE FOR THE ART OF WAR, BRIDGER RESIGNS FROM THE PROJECT - AND FROM THE NAVY. HE AND HIS WIFE TRAVEL TO THE REMOTE CARIBBEAN ISLAND AND BEGIN TO LIVE AN ASCETIC LIFE OF MARINE RESEARCH.

2013: THE SEAQUEST IS COMMISSIONED, AND SAILS UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN MARILYN STARK.

2015: THE SEAQUEST ROAMS THE SEAS, A FOREBODING PRESENCE, FULLY ARMED AND READY TO FIGHT. SHE IS A SYMBOL OFTHE CONSTANT THREAT OF WAR AND WORLD DESTRUCTION. OTHER CONFEDERATIONS RUSH TO DESIGN THEIR OWN VERSIONS OF THE SUB.

ON THEIR REMOTE ISLAND, CAROL BRIDGER CONTRACTS A RESPIRATORY DISEASE AND DIES. BRIDGER VOWS TO CONTINUE THEIR RESEARCH ALONE.

2017: THE LIVINGSTON TRENCH INCIDENT OCCURS WARRIOR SUBMERSIBLES FROM FIVE CONFEDERATIONS CONVERGE ON THE LIVINGSTON TRENCH, EACH DETERMINED TO PROTECT THEIR CONFEDATION'S CLAIM TO THIS UNDERSEA REGION. THE SEAQUEST IS ONE OF THE FIVE. WARHEADS ARE ARMED. WORLD WAR SEEMS INEVITABLE.

THE PRESENT ...
2018: 13 MONTHS AFTER THE LIVINGSTON TRENCH INCIDENT, CAPTAIN BRIDGER IS LURED OUT OF RETIREMENT BY AN OLD FRIEND, ADMIRAL WILLIAM NOYCE, NOW SERVING THE MILITARY BRANCH OF THE UEO.

THE INCIDENT DID NOT LEAD TO WAR. IT LED INSTEAD TO THE FORMATION OF THE UNITED EARTH/OCEANS ORGANIZATION -- A NEW UNITED NATIONS, DEDICATED TO CREATING AND MAINTAINING A NEW AND LASTING WORLD PEACE. ALL EIGHT MAJOR CONFEDERATIONS HAVE WARILY SIGNED ON AS MEMBER STATES -- DISSOLVING ALL UNDERSEABORDERS ESTABLISHED OVER THE PAST EIGHTEEN YEARS.

BEYOND THE RE-ESTABLISHED 200-MILE LIMIT,THE OCEANS WILL BE AN "OPEN FRONTIER" ONCE MORE. CONFEDERATIONS AND INDUSTRIALISTS WILL BE FREE TO MAINTAIN THEIR EXISTING UNDERSEA "ENVIRONMENTS", AND TO ESTABLISH NEW ONES -- BUT THE OCEAN FLOOR AND REGIONS OF WATER SURROUNDING THESE ENVIRONMENTS WILL NOW BE OPEN TERRITORY.

THE NORTH PACIFIC CONFEDERATINO BESTOWS THEIR FLAGSHIP WAR VESSEL, THE SEAQUEST, UPON THE UNITED EARTH/OCEANS ORGANIZATION. SHE IS TO SAIL UNDER THEIR NEW FLAG, WITH A MULTINATIONAL CREW, REFITTED AS A SCIENCE VESSEL, IN THE EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY OF DEEP SEA REGIONS AS YET UNKNOWN.

THE ONLY MAN THEY CAN AGREE TO CAPTAIN HER IS NATHAN BRIDGER. DESPITE HIS CYNICISM, BRIDGER RELUCTANTLY AGREES AND --
THE SEAQUEST, UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPT. NATHAN HALE BRIDGER, SETS SAIL ON HER NEW MISSION.

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from seaQuest DSV The Official Publication of the Series by Louis Chunovic
and from episodes of seaQuest, 1993-1995
Edited by K.I. Wolfe, July 2002.

WORLD CHRONOLOGY
1960:	NOVEMBER 10. NATHAN BRIDGER BORN
1990:	BERLIN WALL FALLS
1991:	USSR DISINTEGRATES
1992:	WORLD ECOLOGY SUMMIT CONVENES IN RIO SHOWING FIRST SERIOUS SIGNS OF MANKIND'S INTEREST IN EARTH'S SURVIVAL. AT THE SAME TIME, CIS/USA (YELTSIN/BUSH) BEGIN FAR-REACHING MILITARY DISARMAMENT.
1995:	MIGUEL ORTIZ IS BORN IN CUBA. TIM O'NEILL IS BORN IN THE MIDWEST.
1996:	NEED FOR GLOBAL NUCLEAR WARFARE CAPABILITY AMONG SUPERWERS ALL BUT GONE
	WORLDWIDE SEARCH FOR ANSWERS TO ECOLOGICAL SURVIVAL CONTINUES.
	REALIZATION BEGINS TO DAWN THAT WORLD'S OCEANS COULD BE SAVING GRACE ENVIRONMENT FOR EARTH ... YIELDING SEEMINGLY LIMITLESS NEW SOURCES OF FOOD, FUEL, LIVING SPACE, ETC.
	PROGRAMS ARE BEGUN TO STUDY FEASIBILITY OF DEEP SEA EXPLORATION AND UTILIZATION
1997:	THE DARK AGE OF GENETICS BEGINS - HUMAN-LIKE LIFE FORMS ARE ENGINEERED FROM SYNTHETIC GENES.
1997:	DAGWOOD IS CREATED.
1999:	TECHNOLOGIES ARE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING WHICH MAKE THE SEAS A MUCH LESS FOREBODING ENVIRONMENT. LARGE SCALE DESALINIZATION OF SEA WATER, DEEP SEA OIL DRILLING, ORE MINING, "FARMING" EVEN COLONIZATION -- ARE SUDDENLY VERY POSSIBLE
	NATIONS EARMARK LARGE PORTIONS OF THEIR FORMER MILITARY BUDGETS TOWARD SWIFT DEVELOPMENT OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES.
	R&D RESOURCES PREVIOUSLY DIRECTED TOWARD OUTER SPACE EXPLORATION ARE NOW AIMED TOWARD PLANET'S OCEANS.
	SCIENTIFIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITIES PLEASED BY THESE ADVANCES, ALSO WARN GOVERNMENTS TO PROCEED CAUTIOUSLY.
2001:	"SURFSCRAPERS" -- BUILDINGS CONSTRUCTED HALF BELOW WATER, HALF ABOVE -- BEGIN TO APPEAR OFF THE SHORES OF SEVERAL MAJOR COASTAL CITIES.
	SUB-SURFACE FREIGHTERS BEGIN SERVICE. BY TRAVELLING JUST BENEATH THE SURFACE, THESE SHIPS ARE NOT AFFECTED BY THE VAGARITIES OF TERRESTRIAL WEATHER, ROUGH SEAS, ETC., ALLOWING SAFER, FASTER, MORE RELIABLE PASSAGE. EARLY SUB-SURFACE SHIPPING LANES ARE ESTABLISHED.
	FIRST DEEP OCEAN "ENVIRONMENTS" ARE ESTABLISHED BY VARIOUS INDIVIDUAL NATIONS; SOME ARE OIL DRILLING RIGS, SOME ARE MINING FACILITIES, SOME ARE RUDIMENTARY "FARMS".
	THE SEA IS LIVING UP TO ITS POTENTIAL, YIELDING FRESH WATER, FOOD, FUELS, PRECIOUS MINERALS, ETC.
	BECAUSE OF THE EXPENSE OF DEVELOPING THE NECESSARY TECHNOLOGIES, SEVERAL SMALLER NATIONS BAND TOGETHER TO FORM ECONOMIC CONFEDERATIONS, SIMILAR TO THE EUROPEAN COMMON MARKET, SO AS NOT TO BE LEFT BEHIND.
2002:	MORE UNDERSEA "ENVIRONMENTS" ARE ESTABLISHED. BECAUSE OF THE RICHNESS OF RESOURCES AT THESE CHOSEN SITES, MOST NATIONS IGNORE THE AGE-OLD RULES OF THE OPEN SEA (THE 200 MILE LIMIT), AND BEGIN STAKING CLAIMS TO PARCELS OF THE OCEAN FLOOR -- AND THE REGIONS OF WATER ABOVE THEM.
	MORE COUNTRIES BAND TOGETHER INTO CONFEDERATIONS TO BETTER EXPAND THEIR "OWNERSHIP"OF UNDERSEA PROPERTY, AND TO STRENGTHEN THEIR RESISTANCE TO INVADERS.
	ENVIRONMENTALISTS WARN THAT THE SEA'S RESOURCES ARE BEING EXPLOITED TOO RAPIDLY. BUT THE ECONOMIC STAKES ARE TOO HIGH NOW; MOST NATIONS AND CONFEDERATIONS IGNORE THESE WARNINGS.
2004:	WELL-FINANCED INDUSTRIALISTS, INDEPENDENT OF ANY NATION OR CONFEDERATION, BEGIN THEIR OWN UNREGULATED EXPLOITATION OF THE SEA.
	DRUG RUNNERS AND OTHER CONTRABAND TRADERS BEGIN USING SUB-SURFACE VESSELS FOR THEIR SMUGGLING (RENDERING THEM TOTALLY UNDETECTABLE TO SATELLITES, SURFACE SHIPS AND PLANES, ETC.
	CREATING HUMAN-LIKE GENETICALLY ENGINEERED LIFE FORMS (GELF) IS OUTLAWED BY U.N. RESOLUTION S-932. THE SEVERAL BATCHES OF DESIGNER SOLDIERS ARE CONFINED IN ISOLATED FARMS OR COLONIES TO GROW TO MATURITY.
	THE UNITED STATES JOINS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES TO FORM THE NORTH PACIFIC CONFEDERATION.
	WORLD TENSION MOUNTS AS OCEAN TERRITORIALITY ESCALATES.
2006:	THE UNITED NATIONS DISSOLVES ... UNABLE TO COPE WITH THE POWER OF THESE NEWLY FORMED CONFEDERATIONS AND THE RAPIDLY RISING ANTAGONISM AMONG THEM.
2006:	THE EIGHT WORLD CONFEDERATIONS BEGIN TO RE-ARM THEMSELVES USING 21ST-CENTURY TECHNOLOGY.
2007:	PROJECT SEAQUEST BEGINS. THE NORTH PACIFIC CONFEDERATION COMMENCES DESIGN OF THE ULTIMATE SEAGOING WAR VESSEL. THESEAQUEST (DSV-4600) WILL BE THE LARGEST, FASTEST, DEADLIEST MACHNE EVER TO ROAM THE SEVEN SEAS. THE MAXIMUM SECURITY PROJECT IS PLACED UNDER THE DIRECT SUPERVISION OF CAPT. NATHAN HALE BRIDGER.
2008:	PROJECT SEAQUEST CONTINUES.
	OCEANIC TERRITORIALITY CONTINUES TO ESCALATE AMONG THE CONFEDERATIONS. DEEP SEA PIRACY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RAPE OF THE OCEANS INCREASE UNABATED.
	OCT. 19. THE NORTHSEA CONFEDERATION SPACE STATION 'LIBERTE' FALLS OUT OF ORBIT
2010:	PROJECT SEAQUEST IS NEARING COMPLETION.
	AN OCEANIC BORDER DISPUTE ERUPTS IN THE ARTIC. A NORTH PACIFIC CONFEDERATION EXPLORER SHIP IS SUNK BY ENEMY FIRE. CAPT. BRIDGER'S ONLY SON, ROBERT, IS ON BOARD.
	LOSING HIS TASTE FOR THE ART OF WAR, BRIDGER RESIGNS FROM THE PROJECT - AND FROM THE NAVY. HE AND HIS WIFE TRAVEL TO THE REMOTE CARIBBEAN ISLAND AND BEGIN TO LIVE AN ASCETIC LIFE OF MARINE RESEARCH.
2013:	THE SEAQUEST IS COMMISSIONED, AND SAILS UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN MARILYN STARK.
2015:	THE SEAQUEST ROAMS THE SEAS, A FOREBODING PRESENCE, FULLY ARMED AND READY TO FIGHT. SHE IS A SYMBOL OFTHE CONSTANT THREAT OF WAR AND WORLD DESTRUCTION. OTHER CONFEDERATIONS RUSH TO DESIGN THEIR OWN VERSIONS OF THE SUB.
2015:	ON THEIR REMOTE ISLAND, CAROL BRIDGER CONTRACTS A RESPIRATORY DISEASE AND DIES. BRIDGER VOWS TO CONTINUE THEIR RESEARCH ALONE.
2017:	THE LIVINGSTON TRENCH INCIDENT OCCURS WARRIOR SUBMERSIBLES FROM FIVE CONFEDERATIONS CONVERGE ON THE LIVINGSTON TRENCH, EACH DETERMINED TO PROTECT THEIR CONFEDATION'S CLAIM TO THIS UNDERSEA REGION. THE SEAQUEST IS ONE OF THE FIVE. WARHEADS ARE ARMED. WORLD WAR SEEMS INEVITABLE.
THE PRESENT ...
2018:	13 MONTHS AFTER THE LIVINGSTON TRENCH INCIDENT, CAPTAIN BRIDGER IS LURED OUT OF RETIREMENT BY AN OLD FRIEND, ADMIRAL WILLIAM NOYCE, NOW SERVING THE MILITARY BRANCH OF THE UEO.
	THE INCIDENT DID NOT LEAD TO WAR. IT LED INSTEAD TO THE FORMATION OF THE UNITED EARTH/OCEANS ORGANIZATION -- A NEW UNITED NATIONS, DEDICATED TO CREATING AND MAINTAINING A NEW AND LASTING WORLD PEACE. ALL EIGHT MAJOR CONFEDERATIONS HAVE WARILY SIGNED ON AS MEMBER STATES -- DISSOLVING ALL UNDERSEABORDERS ESTABLISHED OVER THE PAST EIGHTEEN YEARS.
	BEYOND THE RE-ESTABLISHED 200-MILE LIMIT,THE OCEANS WILL BE AN "OPEN FRONTIER" ONCE MORE. CONFEDERATIONS AND INDUSTRIALISTS WILL BE FREE TO MAINTAIN THEIR EXISTING UNDERSEA "ENVIRONMENTS", AND TO ESTABLISH NEW ONES -- BUT THE OCEAN FLOOR AND REGIONS OF WATER SURROUNDING THESE ENVIRONMENTS WILL NOW BE OPEN TERRITORY.
	THE NORTH PACIFIC CONFEDERATINO BESTOWS THEIR FLAGSHIP WAR VESSEL, THE SEAQUEST, UPON THE UNITED EARTH/OCEANS ORGANIZATION. SHE IS TO SAIL UNDER THEIR NEW FLAG, WITH A MULTINATIONAL CREW, REFITTED AS A SCIENCE VESSEL, IN THE EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY OF DEEP SEA REGIONS AS YET UNKNOWN.
	THE ONLY MAN THEY CAN AGREE TO CAPTAIN HER IS NATHAN BRIDGER. DESPITE HIS CYNICISM, BRIDGER RELUCTANTLY AGREES AND -- THE SEAQUEST, UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPT. NATHAN HALE BRIDGER, SETS SAIL ON HER NEW MISSION.

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