Timeline

Time period of "A Better World"
"A Better World" takes place in the future, but at the time of writing, does not take place at a specific time or date.

Timeline, 2017 - Date of Start (DoS)
''As of the current time of writing, there is no official established cannonical history of the time between 2017 (date of play) and the date the game began. It remains undecided if this will ever be established. It remains the discretion of the players and MC. None of the below is Canon.''

It has been established, outside of the fiction of the game, that a period of global instability brought on by catastrophic climate change occured at some point in the middle of the 21st century. This period of instability is colloquially reffered to by players both in and out of the fiction as "The Bad Times". The length of this period has not been established either in or out of the fiction, but it has been intimated by the players and MC that it was roughly three decades long.

The events of "A Better World" take place several decades after stability was restored. An exact date does not exist, but outside of the fiction it has been established that it is roughly one hundred years from the date of play (2017), and the game takes place in the early decades of the 22nd century.

Game Date & Format
For narrative purpose, an arbitrary date system is being used in-game. ''Since the actual date as it corresponds to real-life calendar remains ambigous, this date system carries no particular current meaning. This may be established at a later date at the discretion of the players and MC.''

"A Better World" uses its own scheduling system to maintain the narrative timeline, and because the players desire to keep the exact dates ambiguous. The new date system format is year.month.day though the basic Julian calendar remains in use. The official in fiction date the game "began" was 39.1.8.