Timeline

Void Tone is set in 2043. Nearly halfway through the 21st century now, space travel has been booming for over 20 years, printers have replaced most businesses due to ease of making things from home with bought blueprints, gas has been obsolete and banned in most places since 2030.

2020's: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029

 * August 16th, 2020 - Earthen Planetary Exploration Pact (EPEP) forms.

2030's: 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039

 * January 10th, 2030 - Gas is banned in most of Europe and North America.
 * July 16th, 2030 - A mouse is revived from cyropreservation.
 * August 2nd, 2030 - EPEP becomes II&I.
 * September 28th, 2031 - Wyvern Exoskeleton put into combat use for the first time.
 * January 4th, 2032 - Rangers first deployed.
 * October 4th, 2032 - Fully immersed virtual reality.
 * May 27th, 2033 - First trillionaire.
 * July 5th, 2034 - Global railway established.
 * January 19th, 2038 - Older and unmodified computers experience malfunctions due to issues with their timekeeping.
 * February 20th, 2038 - II&I releases life extending technology, relengthening telomeres.
 * September 6th, 2038 - Far Roamer built by PuzzleTech, in orbit around Earth.
 * March 4th, 2039 - War of Planets begins over II&I's life extending technology and colonization efforts. The New Moon Revolutionary Opposition, NMRO, began

2040's: 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049

 * 2042 - 9 billion people live on Earth.