This timeline is a **GM digest** synthesizing *Worlds of Android*, *Shadow of the Beanstalk*, and Android: Netrunner setting materials. Exact calendar years vary by source; relative order is more reliable than absolute dates.

**Late 20th–early 21st century:** Brain-mapping research (Human Brain Project, BRAIN Initiative, etc.) lays groundwork for digital models of minds.

**Mid-21st century rise of corps:** National power erodes as megacorporations—especially what become the "Big Four"—dominate labor, media, construction, and biotech. The Internet suffers the Blackout; SYNC architecture evolves into the modern Network.

**Beanstalk era (~2035 open):** Jack Weyland and the Weyland Consortium complete the New Angeles Space Elevator. Cheap orbital access accelerates Lunar He-3 mining and Martian colonization. New Angeles explodes around the Root.

**Android revolution:** Haas-Bioroid commercializes bioroids via neural channeling of braintapes. Jinteki pivots to mass clones with accelerated in-vitro maturation. Human labor markets fracture; Human First and labor movements surge.

**Lunar boom & sabotage:** Multi-national mining corps on Luna compete to the point of industrial sabotage. The bombing of Melange Mining's Prosperity Mining Depot (hundreds dead when life support fails) outrages Loonies.

**Lunar Insurrection → Worlds War:** Conflict expands from Luna to Mars and threatens Earth. First true multi-world war. Ends with the Treaty of Heinlein, Melange Mining monopoly, Universal Nations, Space Elevator Authority, and Martian Colonial Authority.

**~15 years after the War ("present" of SotB / late Netrunner eras):** Uneasy peace. Martian Colonial/Civil conflict never fully ends. Runners, prisec, and corps fight shadow wars on the Network while New Angeles remains the system's pressure cooker.